Avanto Recordings

Avanto Recordings was the label of Avanto Festival (2000-2008) and released CDs coinciding with the festival. The CDs consist of previously unreleased material from artists who performed at the festival. Avanto was Helsinki’s annual festival of experimental music and moving image, which ran between 2000 and 2008. Avanto sought to "highlight the continuities between several generations of experimental art; many of the artists share a common critical attitude towards the prescribed uses of technology. From the minimal sounds of the onkyo school to the recontextualization of mainstream visual culture, Avanto offers hardcore avant-garde art combined with liberating laughter and sub-arctic madness" (quoted from label website).