Music

Current tracks

1. Enter basher (techno, unreleased)
2. Hot and fearless (rap, unreleased)
3. Fists up (techno, unreleased)
4. Im a gamer(funk, unreleased)

What is this putte kool music

Putte's upcoming debut EP Com Pjotor is a neon-lit collision of geek swagger, bass-heavy beats, and ‘90s techno energy. Think a Soviet synth band playing punk crashing into a New York rap party, mischievous lyrics, and enough geek flava to turn the party into geek compilation. If nerds still exist, this might just be their chance to show those cringe dance moves while bumping to tracks like "Enter basher".

So buckle up, recalibrate your RGB home automation lighting, and prepare for a wild ride.

How did this whole music thing start?

Somewhere in my youth, I accidentally stumbled into the world of beat-making. It started as a side quest—messing around with Fruity Loops, recording questionable guitar riffs, and trying to mix tracks with the skill level of a hallucinating AI. But sports had me in a hold. Still, music never left. Whether it was banging on drums, taking percussion classes, or trying to breakdance, it was always lurking, waiting for the right moment to take over.

So what finally made you go in furhter and release tracks?

Alright, here’s where things get weird.

Around New Year's 2024, I’m out clubbing with friends. Good vibes, good drinks. It’s my friend’s birthday, and the theme? Full ‘90s throwback. So there I am, rocking my old FUBU gear, dripping in vintage swag, reminiscing with my friends about the good old days — feeling like I had just stepped straight out of a 1998 rap video.

Then we spot three guys at the table next to us. I turn to my friend and say, "Let me prove to you that those guys are NOT coders." My friend barely glances over and goes, "They’re 100% coders."

See, I had this theory: nerds, as we knew them, didn’t exist anymore. They had evolved, blended into society. Everyone is a little bit geeky about something these days. I was wrong. So, so wrong.

Turns out, I had just walked into a geek summit. One guy was a Python developer researching something way too complex to explain at 2 AM. The second was a hardcore Rust evangelist who had a Rust logo tatoed on his arm. And the third? When I said I worked with JavaScript, he looked at me like I was a lost child and said, "That’s not a real programming language."

But what really sealed the deal for me?

As the night came to an end, while normal people were making last-minute moves to hook up or organize afterparties, one of the geeks suddenly stood up and declared, "Screw this, let’s go outside and sing the choir."

His friends didn’t even blink.

"Hell yeah," they said.

And just like that, we were outside— four geeks on a freezing night in Helsinki, belting out 16th-century Bach choral music and psalms. Well, attempting to. They sang with the confidence of seasoned tenors but the accuracy of malfunctioning autotune, squinting at ancient lyrics displayed on their glowing mobile screens. Meanwhile, myself, a struggling baritone with tenor ambitions, fought for my life trying to keep up—freezing fingers, questionable pitch, and all. And I stood there, slightly tipsy, watching these guys live their absolute best lives, thinking:

"This. This is what I’ve been missing. This is what a night out should be."

This somehow resonated with me — I probably needed to join a choir or do something about it.

I actually had also been experimenting with some rap tracks that holiday season and had even thrown an idea to one of my singer friends about making some electronic music together but he did not have the time. So basically singing in itself felt like a different challenge on a new level.

And somehow, the absurdity and fun in singing with a gang of geeks, our weak, shivering voices echoing throughout the streets of a cold Helsinki, made singing feel easy to approach—and it woke something in me. It was like a sign to just let go and take a shot at it. To be honest, I had never seriously considered singing before that. In fact, it brought back memories from elementary school — where a music teacher once tried to force me into a singing style I just couldn’t pull off during some kind of singing exam disaster.

Shoutout to the three musketeers who unknowingly inspired me to bring some funkiness to life and bring geek swagger into music. Because if you can end a night singing psalms on the streets, you can do whatever the hell you want.

And that is probably also one message I would like to bring to the table as Putte Kool - the reminder that we need to enjoy life, have the courage to try new things, fight our fears, and ask ourselves:

"What do I want to do today? What do I want to include in my life to bring some joy?"

And then, just go for it.

Because if you don’t, just know — there will always be a geek gang out there doing it.😎