biograffaa:
Mesak / Tatu Metsätähti Bio

1977
Born in Turku/Finnland.

- 1989
Introduction to music instruments and singing in school and at home with his musical family. Big brothers listen various synth music and other non-pop. Gets to know hiphop through a friend in school.

1990 - 1992
First experiments with music production. Tape loop edits, dubbing with open reel tape recorder and turntable. Later PC tracker programs combined with tascam 4 tracker, roland SH7 and simple effect units.

1992 - 1996
Teams up with classmate Tatu Peltonen for making music with Atari ST1024 and various gear. While 90's techno and "idm" being a big influence the boys make a lot of music toghether in Peltonen's father's music recording studio in Muurame, mid Finland.

1997
Peltonen & Metsätähti forms their electro band Mr Velcro Fastener. First release is recorded during the hot summer of 1997, "Wad EP" oldschool electro gets good reviews all around. Metsätähti keeps on with his own music experiments at the same time.

1998
Making two more Mr Velcro releases and a track called "Totani" - the first released solo track under pseudonyme Mesak. The solo project is more deep and experimental in comparison to old-school electro of Mr Velcro Fastener.

1999
Mr Velcro Fastener releases their first album "Lucky Bastards Living Up North" and tours in Germany & Italy. First remixing case is for legendary Hardfloor band.

2000 - 2001
More Mr Velcro productions and touring in USA. Working with Erlend Øye on his solo album and remixes. Recording and mixing solo material in Frankfurt, and eventually those recordings get released as Gadgets "On Earth" album & "Sky" EP.

2002 - 2003
More touring with Mr Velcro while also producing their second album. First two Mesak 12"s get released on Rikos Records & Klakson Records. Co-operation with Jani Lehto begins: Star You Star Me debut release "Antidis" on Moodmusic records. Producing an album for finnish hiphop group Ronskibiitti.

2004 - 2006
Metsätähti & co keeps making remixes for artists such as Marco Carola, Machinedrum and Transparent Sound. He puts out more vinyl releases under his Mesak pseudonym, and plays various solo gigs both in clubs and arty spaces. Collaborates with various VJ's and visual projects. Same time Mr Velcro Fastener is busy with international touring and their third album. Same time Star You Star Me produces also more 12"s and an full lenght album. Runs "Huge Bass" club in Turku and produces another Ronskibiitti rap album.

2007 - present
Later works infclude Mr Velcro 10th year anniversary compilation, soundtracks for two finnish science fiction books and Mesak starting a new label: Harmönia label is run together with Randy Barracuda (known also of his electro act Imatran Voima). Harmönia's scandinavian funk "skweee" climbs up underground playlists and heard on sets of DJ's such as Hudson Mohawke. Summer of 2008 brings pale producers to present their Skweee showcase in Sónar festival. Mr Velcro starts recording new music while Mesak puts out two albums in 2010 - School of Mesak on his own Harmönia imprint and Dadawheel on Klakson. The latter is being also remixed by Marcel Dettman...