New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Music Finland) The Line of Best Fit has chosen a selection of new Finnish music to be released on a limited 10" vinyl compilation at this year's Record Store Day on the 20th of April. The six Finnish artists on the vinyl can be sampled in a six-part video series that will be published on The Line of Best Fit's webpage.
2 200 copies of the official UK Record Store Day release
Music Finland with The Line of Best Fit, The Limited Record Store Day Edition 2013 will be given out for free to customers at all participating stores across the UK and Ireland. A small edition will also be circulated in France, Germany and Japan.
Curated by The Line of Best Fit,
Music Finland's media partner on this project, the vinyl includes singles from Pitchfork-hyped krautrockers K-X-P, The xx's favourites Phantom as well as Sin Cos Tan, legendary producer Jori Hulkkonen's new group. The compilation also features electro-pop duo LCMDF, played by Huw Stephens on BBC
Radio 1 last year, and Husky Rescue, whose new album The Long Lost Friend will be release in the UK in June. The 10" also presents a track from Millennium, the new band from Ville Haimala of the critically acclaimed Helsinki/Berlin based house group Renaissance Man.
"Through Best Fit's continued obsession with Nordic music and our historical links with the likes of the Ja Ja Ja club night in London, we've always kept a very close eye on the sounds coming out of Finland. In the last three years, the quality of emerging talent has been just incredible and we're seeing some really unique invention and envelope-pushing from all of the bands on this special release", says Deputy Editor and Sessions Producer Paul Bridgewater at The Line of Best Fit.
Leading up to the release of the record,
Music Finland will preview the sounds on the vinyl through a commissioned series of short videos, all to be published on The Line of Best Fit's webpage. The first video can be watched here.
"The Record Store Day release is part of our two-year UK initiative aiming to increase the export and visibility of Finnish
Music in this territory. We are now halfway through the initiative, and this is an outstanding way of celebrating all results we've reached so far", says
Music Finland UK's Project Manager Riku Salomaa.
Music Finland is the new organisation dedicated to promoting the success and awareness of Finnish music at home and abroad. It integrates the operations of Finnish
Music Information Centre Fimic and
Music Export Finland.
Music Finland's UK initiative in 2012-2013 is funded by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and MES, The Finnish
Music Foundation.
