This is my first post in “Picks from the crate” series. I’m picking up meaningful, old, rare, fresh and interesting CDs, mixtapes and vinyls from my record collection and ranting about them. Unlike in today’s digital music collection, I feel like there are 1000 stories in my record shelf, waiting to be told. Let this be the first one.
I bought this double mixCD while visiting some club event held in Tampere-Talo in 2001. I had just moved to Rovaniemi and thought a piece of my previous hometown in a form of two CDs wouldn’t do any harm. What I got, is pure awesomeness still today.
I guess everyone remembers Kim (or KimiK) as a house jock, but in the around the beginning of the new millennium many DJs in Tampere had sort of a identity crisis. Infekto tried a new alias “Rec”, many techno DJs went into hard house, trance DJs got bored and started playing “more interesting” progressive music (Stephanie K & Creamer, anyone? ;) and also KimiK went into new grounds – towards more melodic and trancey sound.
Nevertheless, this must be his best mixtape, including the most amazing progressive and trancey house tunes of the early 00’s. There’s Starecase, Hybrid, BT, Ashtrax, Cass&Slide, Maurice’s Feline, Stakker’s Humanoid, Max Graham’s Airtight etc etc… I guess anyone who lived through the 1999-2001 electronic music hype in Tampere shouldn’t miss this. Anyone else still having this in the shelf?
(A cool detail – in the inner sleeve there’s a note “Mixed live at the Kaleva Cathouse with Tamperefiilis(tm)” ;)
Check the full tracklist below.
Ah yes, still have it! These mixes introduced so many important tracks to me, such as Feline, Airtight, Perception, Drum Parade and also the two best WOW remixes ever for Roni Size and X-Press 2! (I already had the B.B.E. remix :)
To me this double cd represents the best days of both Kim and Miau! club. Legendary moments in the mix include the switches from Orbital to Pascal FEOS and from Persuasion to Running Down The Way Up. <3
Yes, still have this.. I’m remembering that around those times the whole mixtape thing was getting a bit overkill, at least here in Finland, with factory pressed CD:s and professionally printed out sleeves etc. Besides the effort and talent, you now had to invest money to make a mixtape.
What i mean is, it surely wasn’t your average bad quality C-cassette or home burnt CD’s with photocopied sleeves passing hands in the afterhours anymore, no sir, these were pretty close to professional compilation CD:s you could almost mistake for a record bought from a record shop. Just minus the royalties to artists & record companies.
So it’s no wonder then that If i remember correctly, even TEOSTO was getting interested with “mixtapes” spreading out in the scene. I think some dj (not Kim) was in trouble with these later on? True or not, it would have made sense. Well, we all know this was to change, as TEOSTO soon got way more bigger problems (namely the mp3’s) in their hands ;)
Nevertheless, still nice to have this CD, part of the finnish clubbing history for sure.
Awsome looking tracklist so I had to get one for me. Got mine for huuto.net for a bargain (1.40€ + postages). I just added it as a release to Discogs (http://www.discogs.com/release/2259965).