Haltya
Haltya was originally a joint venture of Pelinpala (Tommi Sirkiä) and Outolintu (Jürgen Sachau). The duo started making music together in 1996 although it was about three years later when project Haltya was released. Haltya isn´t a collaboration in the traditional meaning of the word. Most of the Haltya tunes are composed and produced by either one of the members of the duo and also features many other artists such as Loopus in Fabula, Timo Laukkanen aka Datafile, Kiwa and Baabelin Torvet. The new upcoming album Book of Nature will be on the whole Tommi´s solo production.
Pelinpala and Outolintu connected in a musical way as they both had a habit of experimenting with electronic music equipment. When they got the synths to sing the weirdest tones they both knew that only a couple of those sounds would just not be enough for one tune! This was the way how they created the original sound of Haltya, which is always recognizable on the dance floor with it´s seriously booty shaking forest trance, the trademark of Haltya. Haltya´s style takes influences from jazz, funk, trance, house, drum n´ bass and all sorts of other musical directions. Some call it acid disco, acid funk or psy-funk.
Haltya released their first record on Exogenic Records in 1999 in the form of Project Haltya EP. Their debut album Forest Flavor, which came out in 2000 was highly acclaimed by the psychedelic trance music lovers around the world. In late 2003
they released the single Hero, which made way for the following album Electric Help Elves, released 2004. Today Haltya is considered to be one of the leading originals in psychedelic music and the Suomi sound.
In the year 2005 Outolintu started to concentrate on his solo project. Project Haltya anyway continues in the hands of Tommi and a full-length album Book of Nature is due to come out February 2008. Later in the future Jürgen will join the forces again in the album after the Book of Nature.
Haltya websites
Wikipedia entry for Haltya:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltya
Haltya at Konemetsä 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5N91hkdyc&mode=related&search=
Haltya interview at Finndance.com (in Finnish):
http://www.findance.com/haastattelut.php?id=96
www.myspace.com/haltya
www.myspace.com/outolintu
Electric Help Elves review at trance.net
www.trance.net
Interview with Haltya at isratrance.com
www.isratrance.com