Dotcoma Recordings has moved and changed name...

All the great albums previously available at Dotcoma can now be ordered from Kaiku Records

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F.A.Q.

Why has this happened?
Because Dotcoma is no longer active, it made more sense to transfer the store to the online shop of the Kaiku Festival.

What has the Kaiku Festival got to do with Dotcoma?
One of the Dotcoma organsisers, Mark Roberts, is now running the Kaiku Festival in Rovaniemi.

Why the hell would anyone want to live in Rovaniemi?
Well, its actually very nice. You should visit sometime. Helsinki isn't the center of the world after all.

But its so dark up there!
Yeah right...and there are only reindeer and mosquitoes. Fact number 1: It's way darker in Helsinki becaue you don't have the snow and it fucking rains all the time there.. Fact number 2: It's a city, not a swamp. Mosquitoes live in the swamp. Cool trendy cats live in the city.

But nothing happens there!
Are you for real? Get a life! It's the capital of Lapland for fuck's sake! Do you seriously think everyone up there is a reindeer herder? Oh, hang on, you do seriously think that don't you. And you think everything is related to nature, and everything is made by amateurs. Well, of course there is some truth in every stereotype. People in Rovaniemi think people in Helsinki are stupid and arrogant. So like I say, truth in every stereotype... But of course not everyone in Helsini is stupid, and some are even open-minded...

Who upset you? You were never this angry before...
Nobody upset me, I've just got a few minutes spare so I thought I'd take the chance to offload.

So anyway, what happened to that other guy - you know, the one with the funny accent?
Oh, you mean Antoine? Well he's still around in Helsinki.

Do you guys still do stuff together?
Well, sometimes yes. But you know how these things go... and as they say here, its much further from Helsinki to Rovaniemi, than from Rovaniemi to Helsinki.

So what else is new?
There's the Avanto Festival again this year. I see Blixa Bargeld is in it which is cool. But every year I can't help asking: where are the female artists? And why are Gustav Deutsch and Ian Helliwell in it every. fucking. year. And what is this obsession with the avant-garde anyway? Isn't the avant-garde a little old fashioned? I'm curious as to what Avanto's relationship is with the historical avant-guard. It seems like a peculiarly Finnish obsession, but then again, I suppose 'avant-garde' is as good a term to use as any. But how do you define what is avant-guard, and for whom? Can Blixa Bargeld, whose been around for decades, still be avant-garde? Is a Finnish group that reforms after 25 years avant-garde? Is noise avant-garde? Or is silence more avant-garde than noise? All these questions and more usually leave me feeling somewhat anticlimactic.

God you're pompous!
Just trying to be provocative.

Anything else?
Well, there's this new podcast from Kaiku. You could download it and listen. Here's the link: http://www.magneetti.org/kaiku/podcast

I listened to it. You have a really boring voice!
I know. I'm thining of having it amputated.

Good idea. Then we wouldn't have to listen to your stupid opinions and over-inflated ego.
It won't make any difference. I'll just go online and start writing to myself. Like this.

Oh, you're so fucking post-modern aren't you?
Post-modern? Post-postmodern I'd say...

Oh, one more thing before I throw up and choke on my own vomit - there used to be some mp3s here... where are they?
They're still here. Use the drop down menu at the top of the page. I'll probably remove them at some point though. Do you need a handkerchief?

Why would you remove them?
Well they're so old now. Half of the people don't exist anymore. Some of them never existed in the first place. And the rest aren't talking to me. And anyway, let's face it, nobody ever comes here to look at this site. Plus I can't be bothered keeping all the HTML for disndat on my computer all the time.

How can I get in touch with you?
My preferred method of contact is via the international language of public goat fornication. It's like Batman, but with goats. I'll be watching for you. Bye.