About

Mystery Islands a.k.a. Jani Kervinen, Electronic dance music producer from Finland. Jani Kervinen started making electronic music in 1994. Therefore, you’ve hear some of the productions in all major trance channels across the internet, including: Trance Around The World, A State Of Trance etc etc. Also some commercial radio stations has been spinnin’ out Mystery Islands tunes.

From those early days, there has been a lot stuff that happened: warming up Darude, when he came up with his ‘Sandstorm’ single back in the days, Spinnin’ at Wildchild birthday party at London, UK, Lived in UK by making music only etc etc.

Jani kicked off with his first single ‘Jungle Breeze’ and it got rated with 5/5 starts in DJ MAG! Second single ‘Solace’ was written pretty soon after Jungle Breeze and it got some spice by vocals from a Finnish rock singer, “Keely” aka Juha Kiili. This vocal version didn’t get released as at it’s time, male vocals wasn’t the thing in Trance music.

Also one of the most important break thru was a remix for Afterglow Records: “Arizona & Greg Murray – Daylight (Mystery Islands Remix)” After making music more and more, it was pretty obvious to collaborate with some others and soon Jani met Mika Savela and ‘Dyyni’ & ‘Kaste’ was born. Kaste – Desert Eagle got signed to Anjunabeats, and it was a huge success! Those were the golden trance-times I’d say.

Jani Kervinen and Kai Harmaala also formed an alias “Far From Near”. Mood Swings & Respectah! are the tracks dated so far, while more is brewing up. You can find little previews of those tracks in YouTube and SoundCloud. Jani and Kai released earlier tracks under alias “K-DE” which was signed to Monster Tunes.

Then, some other stuff what is going on.. Jani is also known as a sound designer. He has done a punch of soundsets for different synths, like Access Virus range, Waldorf synths, Roland JP-series and Apple Logic ES2 soundset! These sounds has been a huge success and there will be a follow up for the ES2 soundset anytime soon.

You can find all the tunes from the ‘Discography’ page, where Mystery Islands hand has been involved in a way or another. There a list for you, check that out! SoundDesign is pretty obvious, no need to explain that.

Studio equipment:
Logic Pro
MacPro 2,66 Quad
30″ HP
RME RayDat
UAD-2 Duo Satellite
Novation Nocturn
TC Powercore x8
TC Powercore Unplugged
PCI-chassis
Emagic AMT-8 x2
ADA8000 x4
SRC2496 x2
TC Level Pilot
Mackie BigKnob
Mackie HR824
Audio Pro Addon One
12″ Sub-bass
Ultrasone PROline 2500
AKG K 240
Behringer Condensier Mic
Rode NT1-a Mic
Access Virus Powercore Multi
Access Virus TI|2 Desktop
Roland JP-8000
Roland JD-800
Waldorf microQ
Waldorf blofeld
Roland JP-8080
Clavia Nord Rack 2
Clavia Nord Rack 3
Novation KS-Rack
Novation Supernova 2 Rack
Korg MS2000R
Korg Radias R
Plugins from Sinevibes, Arturia, TC Electronic, Korg, U-he, Lennar Digital, Novation, Universal Audio, FXpansion, DaDa Life, DiscoDSP, FabFilter, SoundTower, Waldorf, G-Media, Kush Audio, Sound Radix, Sonimus, Redmatica, Motu etc etc etc. And the best part: They’re all legal :)