Advanced Art

Advanced Art was one of the pioneers of Finnish electronic music founded in 1985 by Pasi Janhunen (a.k.a. Jana), Petri Huttunen (a.k.a. Pete), and Petja Valasvaara (a.k.a. Vince) in Tampere, Finland. The band themselves opened their shows claiming "we play pop", but others described their music as synthpop, EBM and electro-industrial. Advanced Art were one of the very few Finnish bands at the time to appear on MTV Europe. The band never toured extensively but concentrated on one-off performances, sometimes in unusual locations.