Avaruusromua

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SPACE JUNK - Musical visions beyond time and space, exploring the the strange horizons of music and sound. Space Junk (in Finnish it is Avaruusromua) is a weekly radio show presenting electronic and experimental music from the early electronic heroes to ambient and contemporary works.

The show has been going on since 1990, it is broadcasted on the YLE Radio 1 channel of The Finnish Broadcasting Company and it runs uninterrupted for one hour - 60 minutes - every Sunday evening at 22.05-23.05 Finnish time.

There is lots of interesting music made, so much great music made but left aside because it doesn't run in a normal manner and can not easily be labeled. That's why Space Junk is playing this all and much more:

- the early electronic heroes of rock and other ground breaking experimental artists: Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Wendy Carlos, Cluster, Kraftwerk, The Residents, Isao Tomita, Kitaro, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, Mark Shreeve, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Serge Blenner, Software, Michael Stearns...

- rock musicians sometimes experimenting with new areas: David Bowie, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, Art Of Noise, Holger Czukay, Popol Vuh, Can, Bill Laswell, Robert Fripp, Glenn Branca, Fred Frith...

- some old and new artists, breaking the limits: Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Simon Fisher Turner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hector Zazou, Paul Horn, Yas-Kaz, Urban Sax, Uakti, Vox, Tony Scott...

- the modern sound, ambient and electro: Airsculpture, RMI, Redshift, Ian Boddy, Markus Reuter, Andy Pickford, Rogue Element, Aphex Twin, The Orb, Orbital, Skylab, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, John Came, William Orbit, System 7, Biosphere, Lightwave, Suspended Memories, The Future Sound of London, Global Communication, Sven Väth, Stevie B-Zet, Kenneth Newby, Baked Beans, Laszlo Hortobagyi...

- some contemporary things, minimalists etc: Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Michael Torke, Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman, John Adams, John Tavener...

- the old serious works by: György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Henry Cowell, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Johann Pachelbel, Olivier Messiaen, Ciacinto Scelsi, Edgar Varese, Anton Webern, J.S.Bach...

- and of course all the best Finnish music in style: Nemesis, Siniaalto, Rinneradio, China Swallow, Dystopia, Project JPO, Corporate 09, Aural Expansion, Pan Sonic, Jimi Tenor, Pekka Airaksinen, Jasse Kesti, CNCD, Wimme, Koneveljet...

Jukka Mikkola
Avaruusromua/Space Junk
PL 58
00024 YLEISRADIO
FINLAND