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The band called it quits in 2008 and concluded their 20 year career with a US tour. The last two shows were played at The Continental Club in Austin, Texas.  The band called it quits in 2008 and concluded their 20 year career with a US tour. The last two shows were played at The Continental Club in Austin, Texas.
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 * C'mon Do the Laika, 1988  * C'mon Do The Laika, 1988
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 * Surfs You Right / C'mon Do The Laika (a compilation of the first two albums), Castle Finland Oy Ltd., 1990
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 * The Amazing Colossal Band, 1995  * The Amazing Colossal Band, Upstart Records, 1995
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 * Absurdistan, 1997
 * Laika Sex Machine (live), 2000
 * Local Warming, 2004
 * Cosmopolis 2008 (Compilation)		  * Absurdistan, Yep Roc Records, 1997

   1. Disconnected
   1. Turquoise
   1. Look! No Head!
   1. The Hypno-Wheel
   1. Boris The Conductor
   1. Lands End
   1. Circumstantial Evidence
   1. The Freefaller
   1. Syncophant
   1. Silenzio
   1. Hi & Lo
   1. Nanaki
   1. Rough Ground
   1. Silenzio in Dubsurdistan
   1. Rough Evidence on Circumstantial Ground
   1. Re-Inventing the Hypno-Wheel

 * Laika Sex Machine (live), Yep Roc Records, 2000

   1. The Hypno-Wheel
   1. Disconnected
   1. Syncophant
   1. Tantrum
   1. Floating
   1. Turquoise
   1. Boris The Conductor
   1. Look! No Head!
   1. Experiment In Terror
   1. The Avengers
   1. Circumstantial Evidence
   1. Hi & Lo
   1. Café Equator
   1. Lands End
   1. Psyko (Themes from "Psycho" and "Vertigo")
   1. Mission Impossible
   1. Get Carter
   1. Global Village
   1. Enchanted Rock
   1. C'mon Do The Laika!
   1. Fugitive
   1. Ba-Ha-Ree-Bah!
   1. Fadeaway
   1. Sauna-Soul (Ode to Billy Joe)
   1. Telstar

 * Local Warming, Yep Roc Records, 2004
 * Cosmopolis, Yep Roc Records, 2008 (Compilation)

Laika & The Cosmonauts

Laika & The Cosmonauts

Years active: 1987 - 2008
Location: Finland

Biography

Laika & The Cosmonauts started out as a very traditional surf sounding band, with touches of the native Finnish Rautalanka sound. Over the course of their career they formed their own unique movie-soundtrack type style, exemplified by the 2004 release Local Warming. The band appeared on European television a dozen times and toured the United States six times, including an opening slot for Ministry.

The band called it quits in 2008 and concluded their 20 year career with a US tour. The last two shows were played at The Continental Club in Austin, Texas.

Band Members

  • Mikko Lankinen, guitar
  • Janne Haavisto, drums
  • Matti Pitsinki, organ and guitar
  • Tom Nyman, bass guitar

Releases

  • C'mon Do The Laika, 1988
  • Surfs You Right, 1990
  • Surfs You Right / C'mon Do The Laika (a compilation of the first two albums), Castle Finland Oy Ltd., 1990
  • Instruments of Terror, Upstart Records, 1992
    1. Mission Impossible
    2. Note Crisis
    3. Piedras Negras
    4. PYSKO (Themes from Psycho and Vertigo)
    5. Magic Bullet
    6. Enchanged Rock
    7. Baha-ree-bah!
    8. S.P.Y.D.A.'s Web
    9. Space Base
    10. Experiment in Terror
    11. Six Seconds in Dallas
    12. Vendetta
    13. Kiiriminna (Oi Dai) (US only)
    14. Marilaulu (US only)
    15. Theme from "Endless Summer" (US only)
  • The Amazing Colossal Band, Upstart Records, 1995
    1. Delayrium
    2. Floating
    3. Tantrum
    4. The A-Treatment
    5. The Ipcress File
    6. Global Village
    7. The Avengers
    8. Exposé
    9. Aztec Two-Step
    10. The Downwinders
    11. Café Equator
    12. O.C.C.C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center)
    13. Get Carter
    14. The Man from H.U.A.C.
    15. Azure Blue
    16. Intro (Bonus track from the movie Iron Horse Men)
    17. Skater Dater (Bonus track from the movie Iron Horse Men)
  • Zero Gravity (US compilation of the first two albums), 1996
  • Absurdistan, Yep Roc Records, 1997
    1. Disconnected
    2. Turquoise
    3. Look! No Head!
    4. The Hypno-Wheel
    5. Boris The Conductor
    6. Lands End
    7. Circumstantial Evidence
    8. The Freefaller
    9. Syncophant
    10. Silenzio

    11. Hi & Lo

    12. Nanaki
    13. Rough Ground
    14. Silenzio in Dubsurdistan
    15. Rough Evidence on Circumstantial Ground
    16. Re-Inventing the Hypno-Wheel
  • Laika Sex Machine (live), Yep Roc Records, 2000
    1. The Hypno-Wheel
    2. Disconnected
    3. Syncophant
    4. Tantrum
    5. Floating
    6. Turquoise
    7. Boris The Conductor
    8. Look! No Head!
    9. Experiment In Terror
    10. The Avengers
    11. Circumstantial Evidence

    12. Hi & Lo

    13. Café Equator
    14. Lands End
    15. Psyko (Themes from "Psycho" and "Vertigo")
    16. Mission Impossible
    17. Get Carter
    18. Global Village
    19. Enchanted Rock
    20. C'mon Do The Laika!
    21. Fugitive
    22. Ba-Ha-Ree-Bah!
    23. Fadeaway
    24. Sauna-Soul (Ode to Billy Joe)
    25. Telstar
  • Local Warming, Yep Roc Records, 2004
  • Cosmopolis, Yep Roc Records, 2008 (Compilation)

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