Pekka Airaksinen

Pekka Airaksinen (b. 1945) is a Finnish composer of electronic music.

In late 1960s, Airaksinen formed his first band The Sperm, with the other young protagonists in the Helsinki underground scene of the time. The Sperm pioneered Finnish avant-garde music by mixed elements of free jazz, psychedelic rock, and confrontational performance art. their highly controversial public performances resulted in two members being arrested.

Shortly after The Sperm's breakup in the early 1970s, Airaksinen turned to Buddhism and ceased making music. He returned to music in the mid 1980s with the album Buddhas of Golden Light, which considered by many as a masterpiece of pioneering mutant fusion in his ever extending catalogue - the genre bending record demonstrating his idiosyncratic style at its best, mixing free jazz idiom, Yamaha DX-7 midi-synth, and Roland 808 drum machine, with the leads of deep mystical feel.

In early 1990s, Airaksinen founded his own Dharmakustannus label, on which he released numerous CDs & CD-Rs since then. The music styles of these releases are extremely varied. ranging from new age, ambient, house, jazz and improvisation. each releases showcasing his unique aesthetics, reflecting both spiritual and mathematical approaches he'd explored and developed through his nearly a-half-century-long caree