Giant Räbät

 

Giant Räbät

When Giant Robot won the Emma award (the Finnish equivalent of a Brit or a Grammy award) for the best hip hop album in 2004, the members of the band were slightly astonished, as they had never known that their music could be described as hip hop. When the odd incident had remained a band-inside joke for long enough, a resolution started to take shape: what the world really needs is a full-blooded, Finnish-sung hip hop album.

These were the peculiar beginnings of the album 1. Erä and, simultaneously, the reincarnation of Giant Robot as Giant Räbät. The record was issued earlier this year, and it sees the members of 'Robot accompanied by a handful of extra musicians and a variety of vocalists interchanging from one song to another. Virtually all the top names of Finnish hip hop scene make an appearance on the album, so we're really keen to see who ends up onstage with the six robots at Ilosaarirock Festival 2008.


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