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Sin Cos Tan is a collaboration between Juho Paalosmaa and Jori Hulkkonen, who have worked together previously, namely on Juho's other band, Villa Nah's debut album Origin, which Jori produced, and in return Juho made a guest appearance on Jori's album Man From Earth of the same year. Sin Cos Tan debuted their live set at 2012 Flow Festival in Helsinki, and have since picked up a host of online support, ranging from Noisey. Sin Cos Tan are designed exclusively for a digital interface; that’s not to mention trigonomic functions on a graphing calculator, but rather the Finnish synthpop duo consisting of Jori Hulkkonen and Juho Paalosmaa, who are well-suited to these MIDI-val times of artificially-inseminated sound. Having been raised on music of such an idiom – i.e. eighties new wave full of affected beats and racks of synthesizer keyboards – Sin Cos Tan estimate that it’s only a matter of time before crossfades and software effects are regarded with the same integrity as any given shredding guitar solo. And their music is their virtual guarantee. Emphasis on the virtual. As they boot up their CPUs for their upcoming Ja Ja Ja performance (29 November at London’s The Lexington), we catch up with Sin Cos Tan to find out what operating system they run on. Can you tell us about how the two of you met, and when you decided to form Sin Cos Tan? How did you choose the name? Jori Hulkkonen: A few years ago I came across Villa Nah‘s Myspace-page and was immediately convinced that they’re the next big thing, and booked them to play at a club in Helsinki where I did a small weekend festival. Their live show further enhanced my initial notion and also got them a record deal with the legendary Finnish label Sahko，Keys Of Life. I was the obvious choice to produce the first EP and their subsequent debut album, Origin. The idea for Sin Cos Tan came about a year ago as we both had musical ambitions we felt we shared and wanted to pursue. Coming up with a name is always so hard, we had dozens of candidates, but it was Juho who suggested SCT, and we were instantly amazed that a band named Sin Cos Tan didn’t exist What kind of records did you guys surround yourselves with prior to forming Sin Cos Tan? With this project (and Villa Nah before it), I’m sensing a lot of new wave，synthpop influences along the lines of Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, New Order… Jori: I guess if you make electronic pop music with a bit of depth, strong vocals and nice production people will always compare it to the pioneers, and in a way it’s a compliment. People making rock have it easier as the audience and the journalists who were there on the first wave in the 50′s for most people rock has always existed and hence new rock bands don’t really need to justify or explain that guitars and drums sound like guitars and drums. I guess in 20-30 years from now synth pop will have the same status; synths do sound like synths and drum machines sound like drum machines. Naturally the sonic palette is a lot broader with electronics, but if you want to make music that’s approachable you don’t want to get too experimental. Trust me, I’ve been there too. Anyhow, obviously Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and New Order have been huge influences for me in terms of even starting to make music in the first place. While making this album though, we were listening to a lot of very cool contemporary electronic stuff, such as New Look and Chairlift. Not sure they influenced the album directly, but these albums had some sort of freshness that I wanted our record to have, too. Can each of you tell us about your musical backgrounds and the other projects that you are，were involved with? Jori: Are you sure? It might take a while as next year it will be the 20th anniversary of my first release, so I’ll just tell what’s happening now. Now in September I released my 13th album, Negative Time, on the Canadian label My Favorite Robot. Also collaborated with the Italo legend Fred Ventura to cover Jens Lekman’s ‘Pocketful Of Money‘ as Stop Modernists. On the previous Stop Modernists single I had Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys on vocals. I also have a concept EP coming up with John Foxx, and we already have one of the songs remixed by David Lynch. Coming up next year, there’s a lot of music coming out, both solo efforts and collaborations, including new stuff with Tiga. And then there’s the DJing.

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