Ural 13 Diktators

Both born in 1979, Helsinki, Finland based Style In (Lauri Kasti) and Dynamov (Lupu Pitkänen) formed a music group called Ural 13 on Friday the 13th of October 1995. During the following couple of years members of the group released over one hundred techno and house tracks. This computer based tracker music was published as open source in BBS-systems using modems, before the wide usage of Internet.European techno movement of the 1990s and Chicago house music were the main influences for the computer music of the Ural 13 group. But in 1997 Style In and Dynamov found some old Hi-NRG disco records and were impressed by the futuristic soundscapes. They realized that the roots of techno music were not in Detroit but it had been developed much earlier in the