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OKA

Electro-dance-slide-didg-slide guitar-flute-drums. I just heard these guys live at the Newtown Festival, Sydney, for the first time ever this weekend. They came down from the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane, where the tropical heat has obviously had a good influence on them. Sometimes dreamy and slow, sometimes upfront crowdpleasing pumpers - these guys rock! With four studio albums, OKA shows a wide variety in their music. Absolutely mind blowing. OKA is also a pop group from Finland.

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DJ Tab

Janne Mansnerus, aka DJ Tab, began his DJ-ing career in 1992 and has gradually evolved his style into what he now describes as "progressive and melodic trance". Tab holds residencies at two of Helsinki's biggest club nights: Illusions and Hallmark, where he is responsible for the club's music direction. He also hosts a monthly radio show called 'Radio Extreme'. Tab's success in the Finnish club scene has helped further his international exposure, and he has DJ'ed as far afield as Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Holland and the UK.

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Ensiferum

Ensiferum is a Viking / Folk Metal band from Helsinki, Finland. Story of Ensiferum 1995
Markus Toivonen played guitar with some friends in a band called ”Dark Reflections” which played mainly covers of certain heavy metal bands including Megadeth, Pantera and many others. Later on Markus felt that the band in which he was playing offered him very little inspiration and wanted to play something different.

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Kalmah

Kalmah is a band from Pudasjärvi, Finland. They are influenced by a high velocity brand of European Melodic Death Metal similar to that of metal bands like Children Of Bodom and Norther. The quintet formed in the autumn of 1999 following the demise of its first incarnation, Ancestor. In less than a year after its birth, Kalmah was signed by Spikefarm Records, a division of the Finnish label Spinefarm.

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Vanguard

1) Vanguard was born in 1999, when four musicians came together and set out to create something new and powerful. Something living and organic, but still hard and heavy. Vanguard quickly incorporated a cello, a piano and two very different vocalists to bring some fresh air into the digital sea that was the growing metal genre.
The official web site of Vanguard http://www.vanguard.fi/ There is more than one artist with this name:

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Dumb

There are multiple artists that go under the name Dumb. 1) Dumb has been involved with the Finnish underground hiphop scene since the very early days. Two cassettes, "Dumb Shit!" and "Shotgun Karaoke EP", have been released on Anti-Party Music and the first proper album "Paperwrists" was released in December 2010. In addition to his solo efforts, Dumb has featured on the Blue Phantoms Network collective releases.

Read more about Dumb on Last.fm.

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Blake

1) math rock band ofthe late 90s from canada. their sound was intricate, noisy and ahead of its time. 2) stoner metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2001.
Current band members are:
Aaro Seppovaara (vocals/guitar)
Sami Hassinen (guitar)
Ville Siuruainen (drums)
Antero Aunesluoma (bass) They've released 4 full-length albums and 4 singles:
Fireroot in 2002
Starbringer in 2004
Planetizer in 2005
Sa7urnus in 2008 Their official site is www.blake.fi.

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