Haltya are Jürgen Sachau and Tommi Sirkiä, a psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It appeared in the mainstream in 1995 as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance. The genre offers variety...

 project from Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, founded in the mid-nineties. Jurgen has also released under the project name Outolintu, while Tommi has released under the project name Pelinpala. They have also been active under the pseudonyms Justin Space and Frank Further in the more mainstream psytrance project Highpersonic Whomen. Aside from Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, they have played live gigs in Israel

Israel

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, Austria

Austria

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, Turkey

Turkey

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, Russia

Russia

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Romania

Romania

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, Denmark

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, Australia

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, Cuba

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  amongst other countries in the world. The music is groovy, blends in unconventional psytrance instruments like guitars & horns and is best described as Funky Forest Trance. Haltya are considered to be one of the few psychedelic originals in the world, and mainstays of the Finnish Suomisaundi

Suomisaundi

Suomisaundi, also known as suomisoundi, suomistyge or spugedelic trance, is a style of freestyle psychedelic trance that originated in Finland around the mid 1990s. "Suomisaundi" literally means "Finnish sound" in Finnish; music that features many of the characteristics of suomisaundi has gained...

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The name Haltya comes from the Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 word haltija

Haltija

Haltija is a spirit, gnome or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology, that guards, helps or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic *haltijar, and referred to the original settler of a homestead — although this is not the only possible etymology.In common...

, which is for elf, or female spirit with wings. It is basically a faerie spirit, although in the old Finnish mythology haltija can be almost anything. It was believed that a person consists of many spirits, haltijas.

Discography

• Project Haltya EP (Exogenic Records 2000)
• Forest Flavour (Exogenic Records 2001)
• Hero EP (Exogenic Records 2003)
• Electric Help Elves (Exogenic Records 2004)
• Book Of Nature
  Book of Nature
  Frequently deployed by philosophers, theologians, and scholars, the “Book of Nature” is a metaphorical device derived from the Latin Middle Ages that provides form, order, and intelligibility to the study of nature...
  
  (Exogenic Records 2008)