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Kapasiteettiyksikkö
Kapasiteettiyksikkö ( Finnish for "capacity unit") was a Finnish hip hop group from Helsinki. The group was formed in 1997 by Anders "Andu" Westerholm, Markku "Tasis" Wettenranta and Dan "Uniikki" Tolppanen. Along with Fintelligens, Kapasiteettiyksikkö was one of the first Finnish-language hip hop groups that gained popularity in the country. In 2003, together with Fintelligens members Elastinen and Iso H, Kapasiteettiyksikkö founded the record label Rähinä Records Rähinä Records is the biggest independent Rap music, rap label in Finland. It was founded 1998 by Elastinen, Iso H, Andu, Tasis (rapper), Tasis, and Uniikki, and started actual business in 2003. The name Rähinä Records is a brand name. The comp .... Discography Albums * '' Päivästtoiseen'' (2001) * '' Klassikko'' (2002) * '' Itsenäisyyspäivä'' (2003) * '' Usko parempaan'' (2004) * '' Susijengi'' (2006) * '' I ♥ KY'' (2008) Singles Music videos * "A-ay!" (2001) * "Tää on mun Stadi" (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rähinä Records
Rähinä Records is the biggest independent Rap music, rap label in Finland. It was founded 1998 by Elastinen, Iso H, Andu, Tasis (rapper), Tasis, and Uniikki, and started actual business in 2003. The name Rähinä Records is a brand name. The company also has a sublabel Alarm Entertainment to release artists outside the Rähinä Label. Rähinä Records expanded in 2005, and started producing videos. In charge of Rähinä Films is a young director promise Lauri Aalto. Rähinä Records Oy continues to grow and started a clothing line called "Varuste" in 2006. Artists Rähinä Records * Brandon (hip hop artist), Brandon * Brädi * Cheek (rapper) * Fintelligens (Iso H and Elastinen) * Aleksi Sariola, Illi * Joniveli * Kapasiteettiyksikkö (Uniikki, Tasis (rapper), Tasis and Andu) * Puhuva Kone * Spekti * Timo Pieni Huijaus * Wava Releases RRCD03: Rähinä Records: Pommi 3 – Perhealbumi (2005) *RRCD04: Brandon: The Outcome (2005) *RRCD05: (2005) *RRCD06: (2005) *RRCD07: Kapasiteet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasis (rapper)
Markku Lauri Johannes Wettenranta, better known by his stage name Tasis, is a Finnish rapper. Besides being one of the founders of the record company Rähinä Records, Tasis was also part of the group Kapasiteettiyksikkö Kapasiteettiyksikkö ( Finnish for "capacity unit") was a Finnish hip hop group from Helsinki. The group was formed in 1997 by Anders "Andu" Westerholm, Markku "Tasis" Wettenranta and Dan "Uniikki" Tolppanen. Along with Fintelligens, Kapasitee ... together with Uniikki and Andu. Selected discography As featured artist References Living people Finnish male rappers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Finland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uniikki
Dan Ahti Tolppanen (born 11 June 1981) is a Finnish singer, rapper and record producer, better known by his stage name Uniikki (meaning unique). He is the co-founder in of Rähinä Records (founded in 1998) with Elastinen, Iso H, Andu and Tasis. Uniikki was born to a Jewish mother and Finnish father. He is a nephew of Finnish politician Ben Zyskowicz. He grew up in Malminkartano, Helsinki.Basso: Räppilapsuus: Uniikki'. Youtube. Uniikki gained fame through membership in Finnish band Kapasiteettiyksikkö. For some recordings, he appeared in Rähinä (effectively a duo effort of Elastinen & Uniikki). He works as a solo act, and signed to his own Rähinä Records, but also has a great number of collaborations. Discography Albums Mixtapes *2008: ''Nuor Tolppanen vol. 1'' *2011: ''8190'' (mixtape with MG:n) *2012: ''Nuor Tolppanen vol. 2'' Singles ;Charting ;Others *2005: "En pyydä muuta" (with Illi) *2009: "Myrskyn silmäs" (with Mia) *2009: "Niinku elokuvis" (with Jimi P� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Hip Hop
Finnish hip hop or rap () or (''suomirap, rap'') is a variant of hip hop music from Finland. The rapping (räppääminen) is mainly done in Finnish. Many rappers use Helsinki slang words; general slang and Finnish dialects are used too by some artists. Many early rappers () used English. Some Finnish rap was already recorded in the early 1980s and some popular artists 1990s but it was not until the 2000s that it finally reached mainstream popularity. The first recorded Finnish rap song was "I'm Young, Beautiful and Natural" in English, which was made by an artist called General Njassa in 1983. Rap music in Finnish made its first breakthrough in 1990 when groups Raptori and Pääkköset and artist Nikke T got their records to Finnish charts. Raptori in particular became a nationwide phenomenon. These artists had a style greatly different when compared to American rap music. Their music was highly influenced by the dance-pop of the 1980s and their approach to music was largely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fintelligens
Fintelligens is a hip hop group from Helsinki, Finland. The band is formed of two MCs: Elastinen and Iso H. The band has released three albums and one compilation, all selling more than 150,000 copies. Career In the early 1990s the Finnish hip hop scene was dominated by more humorous acts, such as Raptori. For many years afterwards, Finnish hip hop was strongly seen as some kind of joke. When Fintelligens released their debut album ''Renesanssi'' in 2000, it was the first more serious mainstream record to emerge. ''Renesanssi'' was a success and went gold with hit singles ''Voittamaton'', ''Kellareiden Kasvatit'' and a collaboration with Swedish MC's Petter and Peewee called ''Stockholm-Helsinki''. The album started a boom in Finnish hip hop as record companies endeavored to sign their own rap artists. In 2001 Fintelligens released the albums ''Tän Tahtiin'' and ''Kokemusten Summa'' in 2002, both creating hit singles and certified gold. Fintelligens also made the theme son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipality, with million in the Helsinki capital region, capital region and million in the Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan area. As the most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant History of Helsinki, historical connections with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen—and surrounding commuter towns, including the neighbouring municipality of Sipoo to the east—Helsinki forms a Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I ♥ KY
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Groups Established In 1997
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre, theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, ..., a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality, the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Hip-hop Groups
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. Suomi may also refer to: *Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finla ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector (musician)
Heikki Veikko Harma (born 20 April 1947) is a Finnish singer-songwriter who has also distinguished himself as a translator of song lyrics, but has written popular lyrics of his own too. To the public he is better known by the name Hector, which he has used since the release of his 1965 debut single "Palkkasoturi", a Finnish translation of Buffy Sainte-Marie's " Universal Soldier". His 1974 album ''Hectorock I'' became the fastest-selling record in Finnish history, selling 50,000 units within a few months. Hector was at the height of his popularity in the first half of the 1970s, but his steady string of recordings provided occasional hits well into the 1990s. In the 2000s he made a strong return to popularity with ''Ei selityksiä'', which became one of his most successful albums. In 2007 he made a farewell tour on big arenas, but has performed occasionally after that too. In 2011 he made a massive comeback tour and released a new album ''Hauras'' (Fragile) in 2014, ten years aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
