Slusnik Luna

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Slusnik Luna are a Finnish electronic music duo formed in 1994 and comprising of Niko Nyman and Nicklas Renqvist. The pair play and produce trance and house tracks. They also produced soundtracks for the Amiga CD32 version of the game Super Stardust[1] (1995) published by Team 17 and developed by Bloodhouse. Their debut single Sun was initially released in October 2000 on Unity Records, a label newly founded by the people behind the Helsinki club night Club Unity[2] (headlined by DJ Orkidea). Sun was originally made as a theme for a yearly Sunday club night of the same name, also run by the Club Unity crew. Soon after the original Unity Records release ended in the hands of Pete Tong, in 2001 Sun was released throughout Europe on the UK label Incentive Music[3], in US on Ultra Records[4] and on various other labels around the world. The single was a big success in clubs and reached No.40 in the UK Singles Chart in September 2001.[5] It took them another three years to release their second double-A-sided single Sinner/Magic Kingdom[6] and their chillout album Aamukaste 5AM[7]. The latter of these two releases won Best Album of 2004 award at the 2005 Finnish Club Awards getting more than three times the votes of it's nearest contender and following in the steps of Finnish music legend Darude[8]. The pair have also enjoyed success remixing other artists' tracks, including those of artists on Unity Records. Their most notable remix was the unofficial The KLF's "Last Train To Trancentral" in 2006.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Super Stardust at Hall of Light
  2. ^ Club Unity official website
  3. ^ Incentive Music official website
  4. ^ Ultra Records official website
  5. ^ Search for Slusnik Luna on everyhit.com
  6. ^ A review of Sinner/Magic Kingdom Note the reviewer has the track names mixed: review for Sinner is actually for Magic Kingdom and vice versa. This was due a mishap at the pressing plant where they placed the labels on wrong sides of the vinyl.
  7. ^ Aamukaste 5AM on Last.fm (most tracks have full length preview)
  8. ^ Full results list

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