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'Led by Jan Andersen, Kemialliset Ystavat are the most visible of Finland's sub-operatives and the most rewarding. They work in short, spooling instrumentals, building layers of simple repetitive riffs into laminal mudcakes and weaving ghosts of folk song into huge tunnels of drone' (Wire 2004). Alkuharka sees their sound slightly rewired to bolster the electronic element, with several tracks evoking the cracked neon skies of David Bowie's Berlin trilogy as well as the early synth experiments of Asmus Tietchen's. Fonal Records.