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Desert Planet
Desert Planet is a band from Lapland, northern Finland consisting of Jukka Tarkiainen, Jari Mikkola and Antti Hovila. They perform electronic music influenced by 8-bit video games, coin operated games and science fiction movies, generally characterised as bitpop or micromusic. They have released five albums and continue to perform live.
== Career ==
Both Mikkola and Tarkianen were members of rock bands, before embarking on Desert Planet. It began as solo project by Jukka Tarkiainen (ex Jalla Jalla) who 'wanted to do something that rocks with computers'.〔 Jari Mikkola (ex Greenhouse AC) joined the group in 2001 after directing a music video for the title song of the first album ''Asteroid Hopper''.〔(Listing ) of the ''Asteroid Hopper'' album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 29, 2014).〕 In 2003 Desert Planet released an album ''Joystick Pop'' through a label called ODOR, a sub-label of the Universal Music Group.〔(Listing ) of the ''Joystick Pop'' album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 29, 2014).〕 A third album, ''Turbo Tellytunes'' was released in 2004.〔(Listing ) of the ''Turbo Tellytunes'' album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 29, 2014).〕 By the end of that year, the band signed a recording deal with a German label 9pm-records, to distribute their releases in Germany, Austria and Switzerland,〔(Press release ) from 9PM Records, 2005 (accessed December 29, 2014)〕 Stupido Records (Finland) did the same in Scandinavia.〔(Listing ) on the Stupido Records website, (accessed December 28, 2014).〕 It was followed by the album ''Mario Built My Hot Rod'', which featured Aleksi Eeben and Eläkeläiset.〔(Listing ) of the ''Mario Built My Hot Rod'' album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 28, 2014).〕 In December 2005 the band was given the "Artist of the year" award by the Arts Council of Lapland because of their innovative music, creative web appearance and do-it-yourself music exporting.〔Staff biography for Jari Mikkola on the University of Lapland website, (accessed December 28, 2014).〕
In May 2007 Desert Planet released a USB memory stick called "Aska-Osaka Virtual Highway" packed with multimedia and music. In 2008, they released the album ''Moonrocks'',〔(Listing ) of the ''Moonrocks'' album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 28, 2014).〕 followed two years later by a collection ''Extra Ball''.〔(Listing ) of the ''Extra Ball'' collection on Discogs.com, (accessed December 28, 2014).〕
Desert Planet create electronic dance music or electropop with influences from 1980s game consoles and computers like Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga and Commodore 64.〔 Their music videos and live performances present the band through b-class science fiction aesthetics, aided by pixellated video projections created by VJ Antti Hovila. Besides being a member of Desert Planet, Jari Mikkola teaches multimedia at the Art Department of the University of Lapland.〔
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