Desert Planet (band)

Desert Planet is an electronic music band from Lapland, Finland consisting of Jukka Tarkiainen and Jari Mikkola. Your influenced by 8-bit computer games and science fiction films music is often associated with the Bitpop.

History

Desert Planet has been active since 1999. Initially founded as a solo project by Jukka Tarkiainen, 2001 Jari Mikkola went into the project, after he had created a music video for the title track of their first album Asteroid Hopper.

In 2003, the first co-produced album pop joystick on ODOR, a sub- label of Universal Music Group.

In 2004 the band signed a contract with the German label 9pm Records, which allowed them to release their music in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At the same time they signed with Stupido Records in Finland, which took over the distribution of publications in Scandinavia and Finland.

December 2005 the band received the Artist of the Year Award from the Arts Council of Lapland for their innovative music and their creative website.

Style

The musical style of Desert Planet is Electronic Dance Music, respectively Electropop, which is strongly influenced by the aesthetics of old video game music of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga and Commodore 64. Your music videos and live performances are reminiscent of B-movie science fiction. In live performances, the two musicians wearing green helmets and white overalls and are supported by the Finnish VJ Antti Hivola.

Discography

Albums

• Asteroid Hopper ( DESE 001, 2001)
• Joystick Pop ( Odor, 2003)
• Turbo Tellytunes ( DESE 002, 2004)
• Mario Built My Hot Rod ( 9pm-records/Stupido Records, 2005, published in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Finland. )
• Moon Rocks ( 9pm-records/Stupido Records, 2008, published in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Finland. )

More Releases

• Aska -Osaka Virtual Highway ( DESE 003, 2007)