BASSO MEDIA

Basso is the major urban music, culture and lifestyle media force in Finland. Bas­so includes Bassoradio 102,8 Mhz, Basso Magazine, Basso.fi and Basso Events.

BASSO MAGAZINE

Basso Magazine started in 2001 as Posse Mag. It was the first hip hop magazine ev­er published in Finland. It fronted imme­diately such heavy problems that the Na­tional Railways demanded that Posse be pulled out of stores. The reason was the graffiti pictures that Posse published on its pages. Ironically this gave the maga­zine free publicity and Posse gained recon­naissance. In the year 2006, Posse united with Bassoradio and changed its name to Basso. It has expanded to become lifestyle magazine covering urban music, culture and phenomenons.

BASSORADIO

Bassoradio started in 2004 as an Internet radio station. The best and most respect­ed deejays in Finland were asked to play online. Bassoradio presented black rhyth­mic and electronic music in a way that oth­er radio stations didn’t. After a few three-month periods on FM, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications grant­ed Basso with a permanent FM frequency in 2006. Basso started permanently online in 2007 at 102,8 Mhz at the capital area in Finland. Basso also made an agreement with Welho to broadcast through cable net at 105,9 Mhz. Bassoradio naturally contin­ues worldwide on the Internet.

BASSO.FI

The website Basso.fi started it all in 1997 under the name The Fam. In the year 2000, it changed its name to suomi­hiphop.com and quickly became the big­gest hip hop site in Finland. In the year 2004, Posse Magazine and suomihiphop.com united as one, and suomihiphop.com changed its name to posse.fi. In the year 2006, Posse united with Bassoradio and posse.fi was changed to basso.fi. Today, Basso.fi is the biggest urban culture web­site in Finland.

BASSO EVENTS

Basso Events started organising legal and illegal parties and clubs in 1995. Artists like Goldie, Scratch Perverts, London Ele­ktricity, Blu Mar Ten, Diplo vs. A-Trak, Dom & Roland, DJ Assault and many local and international artists have played at Bas­so Events. This year, Basso will launch a summer club at Helsinki’s best summer restaurant, Kaivohuone.

BONER Collective (BASSO, FIN) (Wiljam, Genki, LBJ, Holetsek)

The “Dream Team of Finnish Breakbeat,” Boner Collective, includes four Finnish breakbeat pioneers: DJ Wiljam, DJ Genki, LBJ and DJ Holetsek. They are responsible for the legendary Finnish breaks clubs like Foundation, Motion, Re:Motion, Laidback, Rinse, Basso and 2 Strong. The mem­bers of the collective have also released records under high-profile electronic mu­sic labels like Ministry Of Sound, Exogen­ic Breaks, Botchit Breaks, Next Big Thing and Heavy Disco. They have been invited to DJ around the world in places like Lon­don, Brisbane, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg and Bangkok.DJ Wiljam and Genki will be representing Boner Collective at the “Nordic VJ Meeting with Hexstatic” 31.3.2007

DJ Wiljam (Boner Breaks, BASSO)

Ville Tikkanen has been DJing and pro­moting electronic music events since 1995. He started out DJing and promot­ing in the legendary Smooth Underground warehouse parties in the mid-90’s. One of his early career highlights was in ‘97 when Sven Väth warmed up the 10,000-person dancefloor for Wiljam in St. Petersburg.Today he is a well known person in the Finnish club scene and has also been in­vited several times to play abroad in St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Bristol, Ton­ton, Vibourg and Tallin. He is involved with breakbeat clubs and is one of the people who brought nu school breaks in to Finland. He is also the founder/head of the only Finnish urban music radio sta­tion, Bassoradio.

DJ Genki (Boner Breaks, BASSO)

An integral part of the Stealth Unit crew in Finland, as well as an A&R person for a Finnish label Exogenic Records, Gen­ki has had his hands in many soups that have been brewing in this deep, cold land in northern Scandinavia. Based in Helsin­ki, he’s been playing music in parties for about 10 years now. He started at the ten­der age of 17 in warehouse parties play­ing hard trance and early forms of psy-sounds, pioneering the scene with crews like Smooth Underground and many for­est party organizers.The main club event of Pixelache on Sat­urday is organised in collaboration with Basso. The event features Hexstatic and 4youreye & M-FX (Austria) AV set as well as an eclectic mix of Nordic VJs and Finn­ish electronic music acts and DJs.