CORPORATE 09 Pertti Grönholm Turku Corporate 09 - A Short Biography The history of techno house, acid house and electro in Finland began in the early 1990's. One of the first pioneers of the Finnish scene were Corporate 09. The group took shape in early 1991 when Turku-based Pertti Grönholm and Mika Vainio produced several EBM, industrial and house influenced techno tracks for warehouse parties and clubs that were organized by Hyperdelic Housers party collective. A vinyl EP In Joy We Trust was the first recording by Corporate 09. The EP was released in summer 1991 by Castle Communications. Some tracks, such as The Beast and Almighty Me were frequently played in local warehouse parties. The first Corporate 09 album saw daylight in autumn 1991. The CD Mindprobe was also issued by Castle Communications. These two releases are considered to be the first EP and album recordings in Finnish techno / house scene. Tracks such as Almighty Me and Acidosis became punchy floorfillers in the undergound dance parties and some of the tracks were even aired in Finnish radio and TV programs. However, Corporate 09 did not mark a breakthrough of electronic dance music in Finland. Techno and house gained more ground a couple of years later. Since 1992, after Vainio pursued to his own career as a solo artist and later as a member of Pan Sonic, Corporate 09 has been more or less a solo project of Grönholm. The musical style of Corporate 09 has varied from EBM driven techno towards wider soundscapes of ambient and IDM. Occasionally Corporate 09 has had excursions to electro and acid house. However, Corporate 09 has never followed the hippy trends of the electronic dance scene. In the latter half of the 1990s individual tracks were released in compilations by Unitunes (a joint label of Dum Records and Sähkö Recordings) and Sauna Connections. In the early 2000s Valimo Productions issued one CDR album containing remixes and another album, a double CDR compilation. Corporate 09 is currently released by Valimo Productions. The newly remastered downloadable albums (Hypnologique, Drifting in O-Zone and Flow) will be soon available at BandCamp site of Valimo Productions. Remastered album The Egotrip - Remixes (Valimo Productions 2001) is already available there. Grönholm's music in other projects such as E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr, Dystopia, Winterplanet, Kytkös, Kernel, Artatak and Project JPO has been released on several labels which include Svart Records (FIN), Valimo Productions (FIN), Cyberware Productions (FIN), Origo Sound / Planet Origo (NO), Sea State (GER), and Antler-Subway / Barramundi (BE). In addition, Grönholm has produced music and sound environments for television and radio programs, documentary films and art exhibitions. CORPORATE 09’s tracks Acidtron II (Demo 1991) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2018/11/25 14:35:13 +0000 Synthetic Soundscape (Artatak Remix 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2018/11/21 18:25:17 +0000 Psychedelicious (Demo 1991) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2017/12/18 18:32:24 +0000 Electric Mantra (Original 1991) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2017/08/03 12:29:45 +0000 Brainwashed (Artatak Remix 1993) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2016/02/06 13:44:28 +0000 Electric Mantra (Alternate Version 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2015/08/27 08:57:28 +0000 Drifting In O-Zone (Early Version 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2015/08/27 08:38:40 +0000 Hypnologique (Electribal Mix 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2014/12/12 14:24:42 +0000 Telekinesis (Alternate version 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2014/10/01 19:03:31 +0000 Acidosis (Remix 1992) by CORPORATE 09 published on 2013/09/21 13:14:09 +0000
