We’re organizing an all-day festival-like cultural event in the atmospheric and traditional venue of TVO  (Turku). The event has been organized by the same group in 2002 and 2003 and now it’s time to get up to date with the 2016 version. There has been a tradition of all-around hip hop happenings going on in the city of Turku since Mok Jamz Hopstravaganza in 1993 – and yes, part of the Freshcode team was involved back then.

The event will be focusing on hip hop culture and there will be music (live/dj/mc), graffiti/street-art (live), workshops (graffiti, rap, electric boogie/popping) and an art-exhibition showcasing the works and life of the passed away Turku based graffiti-artist known by the name UGH. The event is divided into two sections: Daytime event (Free entry, no age limit, 14-19 hours) and Night event (entry fee, age limit:18,  only 100 tickets available, 21-02 hours)

We’d like to highlight the event as positive happening with good vibes, positivity and working together. The aim is to bring people from different backgrounds and ages together and increase unity and interaction between people who are interested in hip hop culture.

The performing artist are some of the best in the country – some have gained international recognition. We’ll be showcasing both older, experienced talents as well as fresh new artist in all areas. The workshops will be open for the audience to participate.

The Association in the works

The aim of the Freshcode Unity Jam -event is to raise funds to build a non-profit association. The association is going to support cultural activities and share information

focusing mainly on hip hop culture (in all it’s forms) in the city of Turku.

We’re aiming to cherish the traditions and roots  of hip hop culture – as well as develop it further. We want to increase unity among people interested in hip hop culture, support and motivate artists and organize more events.

Members of the association will have the ability to help planning future events and take part in other actions of the association. Members also will have a fair discount to all future events organized by the association.

Here are some of the things that we apply funding for:

Founding and registering the association 150€

Materials for the workshops in the event 200€

Travel & food costs for the artist 350€

Materials for the UGH 1975-2013 -exhibition 200€

Materials to build a wall for graffiti 300€

Art supplies for the performing artists 300€

The effect of Mesenaatti.me funding campaign to our plans:

Minimum goal: We’ll be able to organize the event and get the association up and running / registered

Full goal: The association can start planning future events and actions right away

Both the event and the association are organized by Mikko Lehtonen (DJ Low De Rok) and Juho Toiskallio – both have been active in Turku hip hop scene for a long time.

We’re hoping that everyone interested will support us to achieve these goals and join in to work together for the culture!

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Heartwards is the debut album of the progressive rock band Order of the Living. The album was produced for many years and now it is finally ready. Jyväskylä-based independent record label Luova Records took the album under their wing and pressed a cd for promotion.

Our dream is to release Heartwards as a high-quality 12” vinyl LP. This campaign is built to support that aim. Also this campaign helps Luova Records to access their potential through financial support.

Heartwards is composed for the the vinyl format. Composer Jari-Matti Nurminen began the work for the album in December 2010. The album was given it’s final touches in the summer of 2015.

The vinyl format has been brought into the actual structure of the music. The first two tracks form the first half of the album. The second track “Heartwards” ends harmonically to the opening bass line of the first track “Language Hive”. The opening song of the secong half “Transformation” begins with a guitar line that takes it’s rhythm from the final passages of “Heartwards”, but the harmony is now transformed. This planned detail in the musical structure is in deep connection to the general concept of the album. The album projects a process of transformation; a change of state toward a more conscious way of being a human being.

Order of the Living is about to activate as a live group as well. Tickets to the concert are sold exclusively in this campaign. The concert will be held at the Pekka Ervast -temple in Jyväskylä. Few songs from the debut will be heard in the concert but the direction is towards new musical dimensions.

Order of the Living has been previously performing the classic minimalistic piece “In C” (1964) by Terry Riley. New material combines influences from this experience with elements from 80’s progressive rock, kosmische music and from more recent waves. The concert will be a fresh combination of meditativity, top-notch musicianship and catchy pop elements.

Support our journey and help us make this dream come true!

There are many interesting possibilities in the rewards section, through which you can find yourself delving into unique musical experiences. By supporting this campaign you support a generation of new artists who take their work kindly serious.

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Tomi Salesvuo is a musician from Helsinki Finland. Originally born and raised in the eastern part of Finland – Lappeenranta. An avid student of the drums since his early childhood, Tomi Salesvuo has mastered his studies at the jazz department of the Sibelius Academy. International collaborations with the likes of Wayne Krantz, Jim Beard, Nils Landgren and Inãki Sandoval have also played an important role in Tomi’s development. Locally Salesvuo has played in the groups like XL, Bitter Sweet, How Many Sisters & Kirmo Lintinen trio and the Umo Jazz Orchestra. Tomi has performed and/or recorded with the top Finnish artists like Pekka Pohjola, Sami Saari, Severi Pyysalo, Jonna Tervomaa and Osmo Ikonen. Tomi Salesvuo has also been very active as pedagogy. Internationally he has been visiting professional institutions – Academies and Concervatoires in Spain, Holland, Switzerland and Denmark. At the moment he works as an Assistant Professor in Helsinki – Metropolia University.

Tomi Salesvuo East Funk Attack is a line up founded in 2013. Tomi has proudly introduced a funk collection of new youngsters together with monster musicians like Marzi Nyman and Roope Löflund. Their first record EFA was released in 2014 with the help of crowdfunding project. The ongoing process of recording new music aims for publishing the new album ”Rhythm is Da Thing” in October 2016.

WHY CROWDFUNDING?

Crowdfunding is a great opportunity to actualize and influence for the listeners what kind of music is published. My own personal experiences of the last crowdfunding project for our EFA album were extremely positive. Not only did we get important fundung through the presale of the record, we got new friends and fans for Tomi Salesvuo East Funk Attack band. I hope that you are taking part in our project also this time.

The purpose of this crowdfunding project is to:

• pay salaries for the musicians for their work in the studio
• buy time for the post production
• buy time for several extra mixing days
• pay for the production of our music video
• fund small PR-campaing for the record release

Funk with full Power!

TOMI SALESVUO EAST FUNK ATTACK

Anniina Karjalainen, vocals
Kasperi Kallio, rhodes & keyboards
Roope Löflund, saxophone
Mari Talala, trumpet
Marzi Nyman, guitar
Matias Kiiveri, rhythm guitar
Jarkkis Toivanen, bass
Joonas Kaikko, percussion
Tomi Salesvuo, drums

www.eastfunkattack.com
www.facebook.com/eastfunkattack
www.youtube.com/satomusicvid
www.musiikkisato.fi

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PRIME MATE is introducing the PRIME aluminum thumbsticks that are specifically designed to endure the hardest gaming sessions by the most demanding players in the world. They are unbreakable, highly accurate and designed to fit every player needs.

PRIME MATE Oy is a soon to be established company in Finland. We are manufacturing high end custom controllers for the Microsoft Xbox and Sony PS4 consoles.

PRIME MATE custom controller designs are unique, and each controller is hand made. Due to the high quality water transfer printing the each design is unique, even if the coloring pattern is the same the result is always unique for every controller.

How are we going to use your investment:

In case we raise the minimum amount of 1000€ it will be invested in the startup capital. Once we have achieved the 12000€ we will invest the money in acquiring the necessary equipment for the manufacturing process:

– Workshop water transfer printing tank
– Ultra Sound paint remover tool
– Indoor Spray booth

We are looking for investors that have knowledge of the gaming industry which is rapidly growing on a global scale.

Feel free to visit our online store for a quick tour on the products which are also visible on our Facebook page.

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Around 2010 many skaters dream became reality when the city of Helsinki granted a 900m2 space for them to build a skatepark on their own terms. Construction started in spring 2011 right after the snow melted.

During these 5 years we have poured about 60 cubic meters of concrete. Many have learnt how to work with concrete within these thousands of hours and today some of us do skateparks around the world as their profession.

SuvilahtiDIY have hosted many international events and gained a lot of positive coverage on around different medias.

Non of the workers get paid so every dime goes to the construction materials like concrete, rebars, bricks and fillers. Please help us make this already wonderful park even better!

As a reward for your support we offer few different things like patches, scarfs and t-shirt (which last two are only sent to Finnish addresses, sorry). There is also possibility to get your name on our wall (graffiti) or on a skateable Tombstone which will be mounted ceremonially on our skatepark!

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We are Yasmin, Hanan, Wesam and Issam. We were forced to leave our homes in Syria because of the extreme dangerous living conditions in our hometowns Sweida and Aleppo. We have been in Helsinki for a few months now and are trying to rebuild our lives here.

We will rent a space from Made in Kallio in Vaasankatu, Helsinki, for two weeks in April 2016. The space is suitable for a small coffee house. We will serve coffee, arabic coffee, tea, cold non-alcoholic drinks and warm soups, salads, sandwiches, Syrian specialities, desserts and sweets throughout the whole day. We will also arrange special events with Arabic music and entertainment.

Coffee, arabic coffee, tea, cold non-alcoholic drinks…

…and delicious food…

The funding will be used to the rent of Made in Kallio and to buy some utensils and materials for cooking (ingredients).

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Yasmin and Hanan studied Business Administration in Damascus University for 2 years before fleeing Syria. Wesam did Engineering and completed his degree in 2012. Issam is a fashion designer with a degree from Aleppo University. He has a great passion for cooking and he wants to study to become a chef in Finland. He will be in charge of the menú and head of kitchen in Café Damascus.

…prepared with love, attention and fresh ingredients.

Yasmin and Hanan have both been working as waitresses while studying. Apart from serving food and helping with cooking, they will also be responsible of PR and marketing of Café Damascus. Wesam will be doing a bit of everything in the café and he also designed our great logo. (Aija Kuparinen and Janne Salovaara will help with translations and contacts in Helsinki.)

All the food will be prepared with love, attention and fresh ingredients. It will be served to you with the greatest care in fluent English, Spanish, intermediate French or very basic Finnish. Come and meet us, get to know our culture and enjoy a moment with us!

Tervetuloa!

Café Damascus
1. – 15. of April 2016
Made in Kallio, Vaasankatu 14, 00500 Helsinki
Café Damascus in Facebook

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Turbojugend chapters spread across the globe – all the way from Hawaii to Tokyo – and there are over 1700 chapters now. ‘We just want have a good time all the time’ is a documentary of the Finnish chapters and members. Still, this isn’t merely a story for Turbojugend members. It’s a story for everyone who are interested in alternative music and culture and about the fact how these things bring together people around the world. That is we’ll include also a short segment of Turbonegro’s and Turbojugend’s history – told by the band itself and the jugends concerned.

Turbojugend members will obviously be the main stars of this documentary, but it will also include interviews of well known Finnish musicians like Ville Valo from HIM and Tomi Joutsen from Amorphis. Because we also want to have a scandinavian point of view to this story and some of it takes place at least in Oslo, Stockholm and Hamburg, there will also be some interviews with foreign jugends and musicians. Turbojugend activities and events are a major part of the phenomenon and the documentary will be following mostly Finnish events – including various sport tournaments, boat cruises, chapter anniversaries, etc. Every year the main event globally for Turbojugends is hosted by Turbojugend St. Paul in Hamburg during the summer. It is called Weltturbojugendtage and it gathers members around the world together to party for this week long period. The essence of Turbojugend can be found in the title of this documentary. Turbojugend brings together different kind of people who share the love for music and urge to enjoy life.

Filming of the documentary started in November 2015 and will continue until the end of 2016. The production crew is as follows: Jukka Pihlajaniemi (director/producer/editor), Jyrki Rahkola (co-producer), Tiina Hasa & EP Mäkinen (videography) and Jussi Kraft (sound editor). Everyone in the crew are either Turbojugend members or musicians. Pihlajaniemi has directed a lot of music videos and commercials. Rahkola is also the AmbASSador of Turbojugend Finland. So besides the vision this crew also has the contacts needed to give the documentary the depth and perspective it deserves.

The nature of the documentary demands a lot of travelling around Finland, Scandinavia and Germany. This is where your help comes crucial! This crowdfunding is essential for us to cover the travel and possibly some of the post-production expenses also. Your support will define the size of the crew and destinations we can include on the documentary. This an opportunity to help us create something that will last for generations and something that can entertain and serve as a positive example to people around the world!

This approx. 50 minutes long documentary will be finished and hopefully released on Q2 of 2017. Follow the progress of the documentary on Facebook and Instagram.

Instagram: @DeathPunkFinland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deathpunkfinland/

Contact:
jukka@yellowbucketproductions.com / jurgen@turbojugend.org

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Hello!

My name is Teho Majamäki. I’m a musician, a multi-instrumentalist and a craftsman of music.

The years of hard work have brought me here, where I have finally released my first album for the world to hear. And the great journey continues.

The Background

When I was seven years old, I gave my friend’s new drums a try. Ever since that moment, I’ve found myself constantly connected to music. I’m addicted to the sounds of any given physical object when touched by the musician. Throughout my career, I have had the priviledge of working together with talented and highly creative musicians. During the past 15 years, I have travelled across the world gathering sounds for my fisrt solo release.

My recordings aroused the interest of several music industry professionals and as a musician I was trusted enough to be signed for a record deal in 2013. It seemed as if my dream of releasing a solo album was finally coming together. Then something surprising suddenly happened. My record label, the highly-regarded Exogenic Records, active since 1996, announced that they would cease all of their music releasing and publishing activities in 2015. This happened just as we had agreed upon the schedule for the release of my upcoming album. After discussing the situation with various music industry professionals, I decided to stick to the original schedule, and to try and fund the project with a crowdfunding campaign via Mesenaatti.

My travels in sound began in 2000 and took me through Australia, Tansania, Japan, India, Spain, and back to Finland again. This project, which started taking shape in my mind already during the 1990’s, is deeply characterised by my gratitude to all old and new friends who have given their best in helping me to put this album together. Dear friends, now it’s your time to help us take the next step.

Click here to watch the first video “One Thousand Names of God”

One approaches making music in the same way I approach life: A musician is an explorer on a quest across unknown territory in order to find something new, which hasn’t been heard before. I seek to express the constant state of flux so evident in life. The perfect moment appears and then quickly disappears. But the music captured in the moment remains.

The Group

I have played all of the instruments on this album myself, excluding the following:

Verneri Pohjola, trumpet (track 2, 3, 6), Ilmari Pohjola, trombone (2, 3, 6), Kari Hulkkonen, bass (1), Linda Fredriksson, saxophone (4), Jukka Orma, guitar (5).

I am honoured to have the following vocalists on board on the album:

Ismo Alanko, Ville Valo, Johanna Kurkela, Karri Miettinen, Hossni Boudali, Stina Koistinen, Linda Fredriksson, Jenia Lubich, Salla Luhtala, Kanata Okijima, Antonio “El Fofo” Salazar Heredia, Niillas Holmberg and Ulla Pirttijärvi.

Also including the following irreplaceable group of professional talent:

Editing: Tuomas Norvio

Co-writing: Samuli Laiho

Arranging: Okke Komulainen and Verneri Pohjola

Post-production: Samuli Kosminen

Mixing: Riku Mattila, Tuomas Norvio and Samuli Kosminen

Graphic design: Jussi Karjalainen

The stories heard in this music are a result of the various spontaneous encounters during my travels. They are love letters to the places, people and moments I have been lucky enough to meet. I think the most important thing in encounters between people is not its longevity but rather the sincerity and the genuine nature of the situation in that precise moment. It all comes down to the willingness to share something. I have a strong feeling that music is all around us, all the time. We can hear it if we only stop and listen. There has never been a need for a shared verbal language in these moments of creating music. Music is the very language understood and shared by all.

I very much wish that this music filled with the talent of many musicians dear to me would be made available for you and everybody else willing to listen. By listening my Travelogue album, you too can join me on a journey into a clay hut in a small village called Ifakara in Tanzania, onto a wooden pier in Lapland to heir the Sami art of “joiku”, into the Japanese suburb echoing the bright and joyous shouts of small children, into a temple filled with sacred mantras in India, and into the subtropic rainforests of Australia.

Every one of you can be part of this journey.

THANK YOU

Teho Majamäki

ps. You can follow the rest of the journey through my Facebook page and on the internet.

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“2.000 euros Audience Award is internationally a remarkable encouragement in the field of dance film festivals. That sum allows you to do a lot! It could be start for the next short film production. It would be wonderful to be able to concentrate just on filmmaking for a whole month and not to worry about other things.”

(A filmmaker, Loikka Dance Film Festival 2016)

Loikka Audience Award

Loikka festival program’s over 50 dance films consist different dance styles from breakdance to ballet from all over the world. Audience Award is an important encouragement for the filmmaker both financially and as recognition. The award shows the appreciation of the audience can help to get international attention for the film. A Successful crowdfunding campaign would prove that dance film has a dedicated international audience who wants to show their support for the art form.

More information: http://www.loikka.fi/loikka-audience-award.html

Join the movement and take a leap for dance filmmakers!

We hope that this campaign brings joy for you as much as it brings it to us and the dance filmmakers! You can support the cause by entering the mesenaatti campaign page and choose your favourite from our rewards. Is it the ticket package for the festival or perhaps a private dance film screening in your living room curated especially for you? What ever suits you the best. For the very first time we also offer a possibility to pre-vote your favourite dance film online! This works if you can’t visit the festival or if you just want to give an extra vote for your favorite film or filmmaker.

The actual voting takes place on Loikka festival in April. The winner of Loikka Audience Award will be announced on 10th of April at Loikka Awards.

Loikka Audience Award, collected by crowdfunding campaign, is a remarkable acknowledgement for the filmmaker directly from the audience

Our campaign’s minimum target is 1000€ and the maximum is 2000€. All the income will be directed to the monetary award. To be so lucky to exceed the target, all the money over 2.000 euros will be transferred to Loikka 2017’s Audience Award.

Please feel free to spread the word! Tell your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. It means a lot to us. Thank you for your support.

To keep up with all the news and turns of the campaign check out Loikka on Facebook and Instagram @loikkadance.

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Ränginäk is a traditional Iranian delicacy that originally comes from the south of Iran where the date palms grow. The word Ränginäk means a tiny, colourful piece in Persian.

The magical combination of fresh Iranian dates, walnuts, butter and wheat flour topped off with pistachio, cinnamon and cardamom create these mouth-watering delicacies.

Three years ago when I baked Ränginäk for the first time for my Finnish colleagues, I couldn’t imagine it would become a turning point in my life. It has been by far the most popular product of our company and we have sold thousands of Ränginäks in different occasions in Finland.

“Iran keittiössäni – Tuhtia juhlaruokaa taatelista”
Helsingin Sanomat, Ruoka, 9.1.2014

The Dream

My dream is to make Persian cuisine globally well-known. It is a rich but little-known cuisine, which is full of tasty and nutritious delicacies. Ränginäk is the first step in this journey.

We are going to bring Ränginäk to the market as a regular product in the stores. In this stage our target is the Finnish market. As soon as Ränginäk lands safely on the shelves in Finland, we will start to distribute it in other countries in the EU. The third and fourth destinations of Ränginäk are North America and Australia.

For making this happen we need your support, wherever you are (but this time we will deliver Ränginäks only inside the EU).

You don’t have to wait to try Ränginäk, because we will send you a box of them as a gift once we start our production in Finland.

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