influence on the band's sound? It's really almost impossible to name any single artist that has had most influence. Our different musical backgrounds just influence the music we're doing and blend with the "phantomisation" process into something that's called the sound of Phantom. Do you feel that the burgeoning Nordic music scene is given enough credit? People seem very bogged down with the American and British scene and do you feel Ja Ja Ja has helped shine a light on what's going on over there? We think there's a rise of the Scandinavian music wave coming soon. A lot of interesting material is coming out from the region these days so it will definitely get the attention eventually. In the end, the region where the music comes from doesn't matter that much. The culture of the region obviously has some influence to the sound, but it all eventually comes down to just individually good songs and artists. It might be also a cultural difference here, but in Finland for example the producers don't come as easily out of their bedrooms to broadcast their creative work out to the world. They need a little bit of push for that and websites like Ja Ja Ja can really help them to get their music out there. We don't know for sure, but it was probably the Ja Ja Ja blog post about Phantom that triggered The xx to notice us. Photo by Pyry Antero To inform us a little, who is your