Name Pekka Airaksinen | Role Composer | |
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Albums Buddahs of Golden Light, One Point Music, Other Power, Inner Galaxies, Madam I'm Adam Similar People Ingram Marshall, Erkki Kurenniemi, Esa Kotilainen, Jukka Ruohomaki, Avarus | ||
Pekka airaksinen one point music 1972 full lp
Pekka Airaksinen is a Finnish composer of electronic music.
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Airaksinen formed his first band, The Sperm, in the 1960s. The Sperm mixed elements of avant-garde music with free jazz and psychedelic pop. Their concerts featured confrontational performance art, which resulted in two members being arrested for simulating sexual intercourse and screening pornographic films.
Following The Sperm's breakup in the early 1970s, Airaksinen turned to Buddhism and ceased making music. He returned to music in the mid 1980s with his album Buddhas of Golden Light, which mixed free jazz with percussion from a Roland 808 drum machine.
In the 1990s, Airaksinen founded the Dharmakustannus label, on which he released numerous CDs and CD-Rs. The music styles of these releases varies considerable, ranging from new age, ambient, house, jazz and improvisation.