Huoratron is the brainchild of electronic music producer Aku Raski who started it as a musical project in 2003 and then adopted the name himself.

His sinister vision has taken form in just a few releases: Some material for Finnish label New Judas, including the proactively aggressive Prevenge EP, containing angry blip-fest “$$ Troopers” and “Corporate Occult,” a slice of electro-house gone horribly awry. A set of remixes that changed H.I.M.’s “InVenere Veritas” from a jangly bit of radio rock to a doomed ride aboard a haunted 747; and M.I.A.’s “Internet Connection” from her usual minimal-funky hoedown to a sizzling nuclear rain storm. But after signing to Last Gang Records in 2010, Raski hit the studio, emerging a year later with a flintier glint in his eye, and Cryptocracy, his first full-length album.