Tanssitauti is an EP

Extended play

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 by CMX

CMX (band)

CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, are a Finnish rock band. They originally played hardcore punk, but soon expanded to play a wide variety of rock formats, including progressive rock, heavy metal, and mainstream rock n roll. Throughout their career, they have been influenced by progressive rock bands...

 released in 1990. The band had released their debut album Kolmikärki

Kolmikärki

Kolmikärki is CMX's 1990 debut album. Despite the punk roots of the early CMX, the musical style of the album varies greatly. There's hardcore, heavy metal, acid rock, some jazz, ballads and even a waltz. A. W. Yrjänä's lyrics on the album contain a lot of religious imagery the band is still known...

earlier the same year with a different lineup. Tanssitauti is the first CMX recording to feature guitarist Janne Halmkrona

Janne Halmkrona

Janne Halmkrona is a Finnish musician. He is best known for playing in CMX, a band he joined in 1990, replacing Kimmo Suomalainen. He has also released two albums with Sapattivuosi, a Black Sabbath tribute band. Halmkrona also works as a production manager for Sony BMG Finland.Halmkrona holds a...

, who appears on all of the band's albums from this point on. The album's 27-second, originally unnamed opening track "Matti" has become a fan favourite and is sometimes loudly requested on CMX concerts. A live version of "Pimeä maa" appears on the 1997 compilation album

Compilation album

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 Cloaca Maxima

Cloaca Maxima (album)

Cloaca Maxima is the first compilation album by the Finnish rock group CMX. The name Cloaca Maxima means "Great Sewer" in Latin, and was also an early name of the band before it was shortened to CMX. The compilation contains three CDs named Physis, Aetheris and Astralis respectively...

. "Tanssitauti", literally "Dance Disease", is 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...

 and is used to refer to Huntington's disease

Huntington's disease

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Track listing

All tracks written by A. W. Yrjänä.

1. "Matti" -- 0:27
2. "Tanssin jumala" -- 2:31
3. "Hän on tullut" -- 0:55
4. "Pimeä maa" -- 3:41
5. "Pornogeneraattori" -- 2:13

Personnel

• A. W. Yrjänä
  A. W. Yrjänä
  Aki Ville Yrjänä , better known by the stage name, A. W. Yrjänä , is a poet and the singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the Finnish rock band CMX. In addition to his musical work he has published four collections of poems.- Music :Yrjänä has studied theology and comparative religion,...
  
   -- vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
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• Janne Halmkrona
  Janne Halmkrona
  Janne Halmkrona is a Finnish musician. He is best known for playing in CMX, a band he joined in 1990, replacing Kimmo Suomalainen. He has also released two albums with Sapattivuosi, a Black Sabbath tribute band. Halmkrona also works as a production manager for Sony BMG Finland.Halmkrona holds a...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Pasi Isometsä -- guitar
• Pekka Kanniainen -- drums
  Drum kit
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