Business City, which skyrocketed to fame with their recent track Seppo Räty Berghainissa, is unapologetic in its approach, combining a Lahti-style “fuck the world” attitude with intense techno beats. Occasionally, they flirt with 1980s Finnish schlager, exemplified by their rendition of Nisa Soraya’s song Anna rakas raju hetki, which was also covered by Kikka.
Business City’s essence includes high energy, pyrotechnics, meat mugs, Berlin’s techno caves, early Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, an industrial attitude, and distinctive Finnish urban humor. The band has played numerous sold-out clubs, accumulated hundreds of thousands of streams, won the Audience Award at the Oulu Music Video Festival, and delivered one of the most talked-about performances at the 2023 Flow Festival. Their uncompromising style is further showcased by their practice of hiding album releases as geocaches for fans around the Helsinki metropolitan area.
The success of Business City might be difficult to explain to anyone outside Finland; they are in the same vein as Notkea Rotta, Sleepy Sleepers, and even Juice Leskinen. It is challenging to be both street credible and humorously entertaining, but Business City effortlessly manages both. Even fans of heavier rock have come to appreciate the band’s brilliance, partly due to their cover of the industrial band Itä-Saksan’s song Viva Las Palmas.