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Stephen Porter, an Irish DJ who visited Turku a couple of weeks ago starring the second round of Liquid Crustal Sounds has published a live recording from the event.
Stephen Porter – live @ LCS, Turku 12.01.2007 (150mb)

Aki A, a young but talented progressive trance name from Turku published a very nice “Beginner’s guide to progressive trance“.
01 Chakra: Home (Solarstone Mix) [Audiojelly] 02 Tilt: New Day (Subsky Mix) [Lost Language] 03 Fluid In Motion: Barracudda (Winter Mix) [Subtraxx] 04 The Ambush: Everlast [Dance Opera] 05 Dave Swayze: Butterflies [Yeti] 06 Human Movement: Love Has Come Again [Renaissance] 07 Antarctica: Lazarev (Steve’s Mainfloor Mix) [React] 08 Sasha: Xpander [Deconstruction] 09 Sander Kleinenberg: Slipper Sleaze [Combined Forces] 10 Andy Ling: Fixation [Fluid] 11 Libra pres. Taylor: Anomaly – Calling Your Name (Granny’s Epicure mix) [Platipus] Aki A – Planet Moon (Beginner’s Guide to Progressive Trance)

drS from Tampere shares a well named I was a teenage trance worshipper, which contains progressive/trance tracks from the years 1994-2001.
1. opus III: when you made the mountain (the paul gotel club mix)
2. jam & spoon: odyssey to anyoona
3. miro: paradise (miro dub)
4. nalin inc: planet violet
5. disco citizens: nagasaki badger
6. lucid: I can’t help myself (the lucid vocal mix)
7. bt feat. tori amos: blue skies (bt’s liquid oxygen dub)
8. starecase: hopeless
9. joshua ryan: pistolwhip (james holden mix)
10. qattara: qattara (pure mix)
11. airwave: venus of my dreams
12. paul van dyk: forbidden fruit (fruit of love mix)
13. salt tank: dimension (voices of reason mix)
drS – I was a teenage trance worshipper

January 28, 2007

Upcoming podcasts

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We have a very, very nice podcast spring coming up.

In the end of February, I’ll be casting a one hour progressive breaks mix. Early birds can catch a copy of it already on the LCS party in Turku, Finland, 24.02.2007 – the promoters are giving out 50 free CDs at the event.

Also some very good guests coming up. We’ll be having some oldskool progressive/trance on the podcast – as earlier :) But in addition, we’ll be bringing there some variety and sharing some grrreat funky breakbeat and electro house mixes.

In March – if everything goes as planned – we’ll be introducing one of the top DJs of Finland with a very rare live recording.

Check the podcast details or (if you have iTunes) subscribe directly here.

January 26, 2007

Teosto-skenaario

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Apo ruotii näppärästi forumeilla tekijänoikeusjärjestöjen toimintaa.

… kuvio menee aika huvittavaksi jos otetaan skenaario missä dj ostaa verkosta mp3:n ja imuttaa sen kovalevylleen, polttaa sen kaupasta ostetulle cd:lle ja soittaa radio-ohjelmassa jota kuunnellaan takseissa, kahviloissa tai kampaamoissa.

1. Kovalevyistä menee korvaus tekijänoikeusjärjestöille
2. Mp3sesta menee korvaus tekijälle, levymerkille ja verkkokaupalle
3. Kaupasta ostetusta cd:stä menee korvaus tekijänoikeusjärjestöille
4. CD-polttimesta maksetaan korvaus tekijänoikeusjärjestöille
5. CD:lle polttamisesta maksetaan mekanisointimaksu tekijänoikeusjärjestöille
6. Radioasemat maksavat könttäsumman tekijänoikeusjärjestöille
7. Radiolähetystä vastaanottavat ammattinharjoittajat (jonka asiakkaat kuulevat musiikin) maksavat tekijänoikeusjärjestöille

Tekijänoikeusjärjestöt tilittävät rahaa jollain kriteerillä valitsemaansa suuntaan, mutta ottavat sitä ennen hallinnointikulut itselleen.

Onko edellämainitussa oikeasti mitään järkeä?

January 18, 2007

Delivery delayed.

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I ordered my FON 3.12.2006. It arrived yesterday (17.1.2007). That’s a bit more than two weeks they promised…

Also, my latest order from Hard To Find Records took one month until they mailed me yesterday. The package had come back to them. I had asked to deliver the package to the address of my friend, but now it seems, though, they had delivered the package to his address but with my name written on it. Of course it was returned to sender.

They have a “GIVE EXTRA INFORMATION HERE” box on their online order form, but do they really read what you write there…?
Surely they’ll be asking me to pay the delivery costs double now. Surely I won’t.

FON and HTFR could collaborate under the name “Hard To Find Finland“.

January 18, 2007

Last week in America…

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Last week, what did the new democratic congress do?

a-passed legislation forcing the government to negotiate with drug companies in order for medicaire recipients to pay less for prescription drugs.
b-passed legislation limiting the influence of corporate lobbyists in washington.
c-raised the minimum wage.
d-passed legislation lifting the federal ban on stem-cell research(or possibly they’re about to pass this legislation).
e-passed legislation lowering the interest rates that students have to pay on college loans.

And – last week, what did George W. Bush do?

a-put forth a plan to send 21,000 new troops to iraq(without any clear plan for what these new troops will actually DO once they get there).
b-vowed to veto house legislation calling for federal funding for stem-cell research(you need to keep in mind: the embryo’s that they want to use for stem-cell research will be thrown in the garbage if they’re not used for stem-cell research).
c-moved to open up more areas of the gulf coast and the alaskan tundra for oil exploration.
d-vowed to veto house legislation attempting to make drugs more affordable for medicaire recipients.

via: Moby

January 14, 2007

DjOnlineStore.co.uk

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http://www.djonlinestore.co.uk/ sells DJ Equipment with a very cheap price. Way too cheap.

Now, let’s take a closer look.

DjOnlineStore.co.uk

If you’re a foreign customer (so in this case not from UK), the only possibility of buying products is paying via Western Union.

You send money. Bang. The money is gone.

Here some results of small googlework:
http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=11482
http://www.419legal.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7792
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/blog/?p=62

January 8, 2007

Light bulbs

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Global warming seems to be more and more regular topic on the daily news, at least here in Finland. I wonder when the yellow press realizes its commercial potential. Think about it: “Global warming ruined David Beckham’s holiday in Greenland: ‘Where’s the snow?!'”. Top seller! ;)

Seriously speaking – people tend to think that fighting global warming takes a lot of time, money and the deeds of one individual just don’t count on a large scale.
But wrong – you can (and should) just start by changing your light bulbs.

Yes, light bulbs. Replace your old bulbs with CF Bulbs (Energiansäästölamppu, in Finnish). Today.

Changing the bulbs is
1) the easiest way to reduce our dependence on oil.
2) the cheapest way to cut down the amount of greenhouse gases
3) a direct way to prevent new power plants to be built
AND
4) it IS cheap, actually every bulb will cost itself back in less than four years

VIA: 1, 2, 3, 4

P.S. If you’re a blogger or a media person (which anyone can be these days:), consider spreading the word. It’s not only mediasexy, but it makes the world a bit better place, too.

January 4, 2007

2006 look-back.

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To start the double-o-seven properly, I guess it’s time to sum up some of the moments of the past year.

Left Rovaniemi behind and moved to Helsinki. Getting a possibility of being part of Misc Management and working with some of the nicest guys in the southern electronic music scene has been more than delightful. The future looks exciting.

Got a possibility to travel a lot. Loved the Birkweiler wine fields. Saw Belfast, both sides of it.

Graduated. Wrote the Pro Gradu about Flyers in Electronic Music Culture.

After waiting for 11 years, finally saw Underworld live. Also enjoyed the Unity 10th Anniversary, both being the highlights of this year.

Finished remix of EBTG’s “Missing” and a remake of Innerself’s “Gautama”, released seven DJ-mixes and a couple of radio sets. Buried Worldwide Mix Selection podcast project and concentrated on DJ Orion’s podcast with a plenty of hi-quality guest mixes from Finnish artists.

Disliked Teosto and Gramex. Enjoyed some very good movies. Got sentimental while moving away from the north and couldn’t help looking back.

Experienced some very nice gigs such as Spinni in Tampere, Choon! in Turku, Rio88600 in Sotkamo and Sunburn in Kalajoki to mention just a few. Got new friends and got together with the old – humble, simple and honest people, who I – once again – just can’t give enough credit.

Made a new year resolution last year not to involve in any event production or promotion in spring 2006 – and got hands on way too many projects. Expecting the same to happen this year again.

January 2, 2007