Sunburn, Kalajoki

The atmosphere at Sunburn, Dyyni, Kalajoki was awesome. They say Kalajoki is the Ibiza of Finland (I kinda get the “Markku From Finland” feeling after sentences like that…), but I never got to experience the real warm summer weather there. The same happened now – Helsinki & Tampere were boiling hot and I landed to Oulu to chilly 11C. After a bungee jump from 65m (*brrrrr*…), some sightseeing and a small get-together with a couple of Oulu promoters, the party broke loose right after midnight.

I don’t know about a perfectly structured set, but the night was full of twists and turns. I had prepared to play a bit more trancey stuff to the end, but despite a couple of classics (“Hale Bopp” & “Greece 2000”) (prog)trance really didn’t seem to find it’s place on the dancefloor. While the new Anjunabeats’ “Zeppelin” was a total turn-off, tracks like “JS16 – My Rosegarden”, “Sebastian – Ross Ross Ross” and “Mark Knight – Columbian Soul” made the downstairs of Dyyni go mental.

Getting stuck into progressive and electro house for the full three hours was nothing but pleasing. I think there is much more original trance feeling in several progressive house tracks these days than what you can find when browsing through the labels dedicated purely to (prog)trance.

Big thanks to open and crrrazy Kalajoki crowd, the superb nice staff of Dyyni – and Kaasi, who keeps on doing one of the most remarkable club series in the north. A couple of photos available here, videos available soon on the media page.