Years ago, when the clubbing culture was fresh and still mainly
underground, certain music styles were developing amongst the more 
energetic subcultures. U.K. was the main source for several ground breaking steps
forward such as Drum & Bass. And at the while house was getting more
recognition in the mainstream, new, or should we say nu, more aggressive
styles were embraced by the more underground ravers.

Gathering its inspiration largely from the continental rave, techno
and hardtrance and fusing it to british garage and house (not
forgetting the local acidtechno influence), DJ´s like Tony de Vit, Blu Peter
and Mrs.Wood were amongst the pioneers to create the sounds of Hardbag 
and Nu-NRG in clubs such as Trade, Fish, Heaven and Torture Garden.
These clubs were the absolute apex of hedonism and debauchery 
at the time and were filled with fetishes and sexual minorities.

Doom was the equivalent in Finland. Everything at Doom reeked of
leather, latex and bodily fluids. From the infamous flyers to the
legendary decorations and ubiqitous DJ mixes their aural and visual

presentation was so invasive that it overwhelmed everyone who attended
their parties. As Wayne G declared in his legendary collaboration with

Stewart Who? :

"Excuse me, do you fuck as well as you dance? Are you as hot in the
bedroom as you are on the dancefloor?"

Doom was the dystopian cyberphunk fantasy and Mr.A and Pietari were the
ceremonial high priests punishing the weekday ravers (yes, it was a
Wednesday club at Nylon) to ever harder frenzy of adoring sin and 
let them infuse into the abyss of sexual side of dancing. Their sound
pioneered the hard dance scene in Finland years before there even were such
monikers. Like many other genres in the beginning, it was more of a mixture
of different styles: techno, house, trance, even some rave and acid, but always
containing the funky edge. It had the soul and it had the character. It wasn´t
about the fast bpm:s or the ruff hoovers but total indulgence to represent
the culture it was about to create!

In the end, it appeared real, not just an Illusion. And when the night
was over, you always felt that something remarkable had changed.