Josu Mämmi

Josu Mämmi is a Finland-based composer and a musician with influences from micro house, minimal techno, jazz, funk, modern contemporary art music and ambient with hints of pop aesthetics and idm. Blessed with a wide taste in music and culture, his artistic output blends and distills material from wide sources resulting in often surprising and colourful pieces of sound. His releases have spread across globe reaching audiences through the sets of A-Trak, Laurent Garnier, Jori Hulkkonen, Sam Feldt, Honey Dijon, Maceo Plex and Radio Slave just to name a few.

Josu views music as a powerful recreational tool to nurse both the physical and the spiritual parts of humanity. Rhythms have been a basis of human communication for hundreds of thousands of years and ought to be strong and danceable while simultaneously inspiring and adventurous. Harmonies and melodies evoke calmness of mind but at the same time revives the listener to observe the moment. Using nature as a direct source for sounds and visuals is inherent working method for him. A strong pull towards minimalism binds these tendencies together while the constant search for new experiences keeps things interesting in Josu's music. Nordic melancholy is rarely avoided, since it is many times found unparalleled in depicting the soul landscape of the nordic artist.