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From Our Hoodz to Yourz

The vinyl compilation "From Our Hoodz to Yourz" on
Angelmaker Records is finally official after circulating as white label. The idea behind the record is that artists produce a track which reminds them of their hometown.

The titles Cleveland, Den Haag, New Orleans and Utrecht are well known cities or at least does ring a bell. Vallhamra is situated in Sweden, but the last track "Hmainham" by the Finnish Lackluster is kind of a mysterious city.
Even Google did not find the way to "Hmainham"...

Lackluster aka Esa Juhani Ruoho explains in his email to us:


"Hey,
I was contacted a day before the vinyl went to pressing, was told, give us less than 3 minute long song (someone had a song - but pulled out at the last days - so I was asked to replace the tune with something else) - I finished some new-ish song (May/June/July 2005 around that timeperiod) - and it came out. Yours is the first feedback on the track on the 12" - I have seen it listed up - but they only talk about the other techno/electro tracks without even a sentence or a word about my track - which is a bit of a black sheep compared to the other tracks.

Hmainham - when you have it backwards, its mah niamh -> my niamh, Niamh is my girlfriend, I lived in Kilmainham when I made the track - but didn't want that to be bvious - so I called it Hmainham. I did it with her in mind - in Kilmainham, so it akes sense."


The track is a great electronic composition and sounds fresh between the other quality tracks by Dan Curtin, Syncom Data, Sir Stephan, Funckarma (as Cane & Polycorn) and Inkinen.