Years before loop-based experimental techno became a stock-in-trade for scores of producers around the world, Finnish producer Kim Rapatti was recording minimal productions for more than a dozen labels worldwide. Based in Turku, he began releasing material on his own Dum Trax label in 1990, utilizing multiple aliases including Mono Junk, Detroit Diesel, Mars 31, Coopers, Unik, Melody Boy 2000, and occasionally his own name. A 1995 Dum Trax compilation was followed by his first full-length, Gloom. By the mid-'90s, Rapatti's rigid, isolationist sound became much-hyped in the techno world, and he recorded for top labels, including Plug Research, Sähkö, 12K, Neuton, Interdimensional Transmissions, Trope, and i220. ~ John Bush, Rovi