when GAD met ANOEBIS at Strummer Radio

𝐆𝐀𝐃 is 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 (aka 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚) and 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 (aka 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐳𝐦𝐨) from 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖/𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, who had their studio at 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑢 3 in 𝑇𝑜̈𝑜̈𝑙𝑜̈. 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 is a DJ, musician and party organizer, and was involved in the Finnish Goa Trance forest and free-party scene from early on through the '90s. 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 frequently visited London, Berlin, Stockholm and Copenhagen in search of new EDM sounds, even up to two times per month. He started going to Goa in the winters and then to Britain and Central Europe in the summers, starting to collect and trade Goa-music in the 90's, first on C-cassettes, then on DAT-tapes.

𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 copied and played tracks from friends and other travellers. He especially mentions Japan and California as a source for early “special” material. Later, the focus of his inspiration started to shift to Australia, to where also 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 considered there was a special bond of kindred spirits from Finland like many other Finnish sources did. For his gigs as a DJ, he often favored French and Italian material, which he thought was good for the masses and easier to dance to. He was less interested in German, British and Israeli: “mainstream underground” sounds.

𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 and 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 started producing music in 1992. They based their music on existing EDM, being fans of that kind of sound in general. It took 3 to 4 years for their productions to mature to the level of commercial recordings. At first, they spent a considerable amount of time just trying out different things on synthesizers and samplers, with an 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐼𝐼 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 as their sequencer. Before releasing anything though, they had already moved to a 𝐿𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 running on 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑠ℎ-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑝. Tracker-based music on Amiga and Atari was not their thing, but rather something for the younger generation in 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚's opinion.

The duo started performing their first live gigs, and also had publishing agreement with the 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟-𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙 recording company's German division, but no recording would ever be published from it. The company was not interested in publishing the kind of sound 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 and 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 were creating, but rather were actively trying to encourage them to change their style into something more marketable by them, namely house-music.

𝐆𝐀𝐃's first album '𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝟑𝐃' was released by the newly-formed Finnish 𝐸𝑥𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 in very late 1996, just two weeks after the 𝐹𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛' 𝐵𝑖𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑠 album '𝑆𝑜̈𝑟𝑘��𝑎̈ 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐' had come out. According to 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖 𝐾𝑜𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛, the album's name has a special etymology, which is that 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑢 3 𝐷 had been the address of the recently deceased Finnish musician 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖's office, upstairs from their studio. 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖 had gone to Goa and was a known follower of 𝐼𝑜𝑟 𝐵𝑜𝑐𝑘'𝑠 𝑆𝑎𝑔𝑎, and had gotten to know 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 well after returning to Finland in 1995, before his death. The album title was a sort of secret homage to his personality and career in music. After the album release, some European promotion companies got interested in the duo, and they started playing on festivals in 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒. 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 considers the album release to be a watershed-event in the landscape of Finnish EDM, as it opened the road for live trance music also in Finland. He stated that it changed the scene and live-gigs of trance would start get arranged frequently after their break.

On 𝐆𝐀𝐃's tour of 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡��𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒, and 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 considers their best gig ever be the one that they played at “𝐴𝑙𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠” in 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦, which was a midsummer party of 2000-3000 people. They played the Sunday morning 6 am -set there, right after 𝑇𝑠𝑢𝑦𝑜𝑠ℎ𝑖 𝑆𝑢𝑧𝑢𝑘𝑖, who was the most famous DJ in Goa and Psychedelic Trance at the time. This time-slot is one of the best times to play, and as it was after the biggest name in the scene it can be both rewarding and difficult, and they enjoyed it like no other.

After the Central European tour, the duo had had enough and effectively stopped producing any more music. A second album was never released, although some of their later tracks were still featured on 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑚 and 𝐸𝑥𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 compilations.

It was just a few months ago (on October 2021) when 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠' sub-label 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝐺𝑜𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑥 released 𝐆𝐀𝐃's album '𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭 & 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝' with 12 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛��𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 total experimental, out of the box suomi influenced, old school trance tracks by the two Finnish pioneers.

𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 was also one of the earliest participants in the Finnish EDM label 𝐸𝑥𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠, and a central member of 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑅𝑌 which had a strong presence in Punavuori and the Helsinki EDM scene. His influence on the DJ-circuit, the DAT trading scene and party organizing as well as a scene-activist in Helsinki is of considerable importance.

𝐌𝐢𝐤�� 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 was also member of the hard rock band 𝐸𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ, playing drums and percussion. He also collaborated with the German musician 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝐾𝑜ℎ𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 under the alias 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜 3𝐷 for only one track titled '𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢��𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑔' in 1997, which was released on 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑠 compilation '𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑂𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ'.

𝔻𝕀𝕊ℂ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸ℙℍ𝕐

𝐆𝐀𝐃: https://www.discogs.com/artist/5323-GAD

𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚: https://www.discogs.com/artist/496060-Kalle-Pakkala

𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1090203-Shanti-Baba

𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3439896-Mika-Kallio-2

𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐳𝐦𝐨: https://www.discogs.com/artist/602714-Captain-Cozmo

𝕆𝕋ℍ𝔼ℝ 𝕃𝕀ℕ𝕂𝕊

𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 '𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭 & 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝' 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦: https://classicgoatrax.bandcamp.com/album/lost-found

𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚: https://www.mixcloud.com/swaba/

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚: https://soundcloud.com/swaba