ADVANCED ART

Advanced Art was one of the pioneers of Finnish electronic music. Started by Jana, Pete and Vince in Tampere, Finland, the band was active from 1985 to 1995. The band themselves opened their shows claiming "We play pop", others described their music as synthpop, EBM and electro-industrial. The creative core of Advanced Art consisted of Jana (lyrics) and Vince (music).

After the band's demo and indie vinyl stage Poko Rekords signed Advanced Art in 1991. The collaboration resulted in two maxi singles and two albums. Advanced Art were also one of the very few Finnish bands at the time to appear on MTV Europe.
The band never toured extensively but concentrated on one-off performances, sometimes in unusual locations. Visual elements were an integral part of Advanced Art live shows.

Personnel

 

• Jana - voice, lyrics
• Vince - machines, music

and

• Pete - machines, live percussion
• Auten (aka Otto A) - machines, live sound engineering
• Reeta - machines, voice
• Factor - machines, live percussion
• P.W. - live percussion

Pete later worked with Shade Factory and Active Media Disease. Jarkko Tuohimaa aka Factor continued as the prime mover of Finnish electronic band Neuroactive.

Discography

• 1987 demo Abstract
• 1987 demo Act now Abstr later
• 1988 demo Advanced Art
• 1988 7" Black roses / No answers no solutions (Darklands)
• 1989 7" From nothing to nothing / Steel (Darklands)
• 1990 demo Clandestine
• 1991 demo Clandestine (mis)take two
• 1991 12" Scar (Poko)
• 1992 cdm Time (Poko)
• 1993 cd Product (Poko)
• 1994 cd Force (Poko)
• 1996 cd Into the Darklands - Early years 1987-89 (VUZ / Germany)