Underworldlive.com has some cool new stuff on Archive, including the Amsterdam gig as mp3 and nice video footage from Cocoon event held earlier this year.
Boy, was it cool…
Even though there’s nothing new in this article, it’s still pretty interesting to read.
The Year the Superstar DJ Died
Ministry of Sound stated some sort of a reaction on this, telling that it couldn’t be less true. If you find the MOS comments somewhere, let me know.
http://www.djonlinestore.co.uk/ sells DJ Equipment with a very cheap price. Way too cheap.
Now, let’s take a closer look.
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
Some profile updates on the Misc Management site.
This year BassoRadio is finally FM, on 102,8mHz. Misc Management show every second Wednesday 20.00-22.00. Tune in.
5,5. 300.
The size of the Unity 10th Anniversary set in hours and megabytes. The Unity posse kindly shared Orkidea’s set from the event – it’s nothing but classics.
Download it here: Unity 10th Anniversary live recording.
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My Wii number. If you happen to have a console, too, feel free to exchange numbers to get the most out of it.
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
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.
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.
Browsing Flickr, I found some very good photosets from various events from “Helppo” – take a look:
Unity 10th Anniversary
Dj Hell @ Kuudes Linja
Ihana 10th Anniversary
http://www.discogs.com/release/25699
And a proper link, too: NY Times: James Brown, the godfather of soul.
Edit at 22:25: James Brown videos on pHinnweb.
Heading tonight to Kuudes Linja to see DJ Hell…
Und unser Motto fuer Heute abend ist – according to Sven Väth –
Gude Launee!
Sain valmiiksi muutamia päiviä sitten jo useamman viikon työn alla olleen projektin: klubi- ja tapahtumakäyttöön soveltuvan valokuva-automaatin.
Idea on yksinkertainen: 2-3 henkilöä asettuu valokuvakoppiin seisomaan rinnakkain. Oikealla seinustalla on nappi, jota yksi kuvattavista painaa. Parin sekunnin jälkeen etuseinällä oleva kamera ottaa kuvan, joka heijastuu kuvattujen nähtäväksi seinälle asennetulle pienelle screenille.
Tämän jälkeen kuva lähetetään automaattisesti nettiin, Flickr-kuvapalveluun. Flickriä apuna käyttäen automaatin viimeisimmät kuvat voidaan lähettää reaaliajassa slideshowna klubin screenille tai pyörittää samaan tapaan klubin nettisivuilla.
Miksi tällainen projekti? Automaatin käyttäminen on halvempaa kuin ammattivalokuvaajan ja vaikkeivat kuvat ammattitasoon takuulla ylläkään, on tunnelma kopissa kavereiden kanssa takuulla rennompi kuin valokuvaajan tähtäillessä kuvattavien edessä.
Lisäksi kuvat saadaan jakoon välittömästi, mikä mahdollistaa niiden hyväksikäytön samassa klubi-illassa tai tarjoamisen niille, jotka eivät tapahtumaan päässeet, mutta ovat kotona verkkoyhteyden päässä. Lisäksi automaatin takaseinään mahdollisesti laitettu klubin logo löytyy parin illan jälkeen kymmenistä tai jopa sadoista kuvista useiden ihmisten tietokoneilta, mikä tuskin on omiaan ainakaan heikentämään klubin brändiä.
Miten tämä sitten toimii? Yhdistelemällä hieman scriptiä ja ohjelmia sain tietokoneen tottelemaan kauko-ohjausta niin, että infrapuna-kaukosäädin käskee yhdellä painalluksella tietokoneeseen yhdistettyä kameraa ottamaan kuvan, lisää kuvaan automaattisesti tarvittavat tagit ja uploadaa kuvan Flickr-palveluun. Koko automaatin toimintaan saattamiseen tarvitaan ainoastaan kamera, riittävän uusi tietokone, pieni feedback-monitori (ei pakollinen) ja verkkoyhteys, joka voidaan toteuttaa myös riittävän uudella kännykällä.
Valokuva-automaatti on näillä näkymin kokeiltavissa Kuudennella Linjalla tulevan kevään aikana (asiasta tarkemmin myöhemmin). Myös muut yhteistyöehdotukset tämän taholta ovat tervetulleita.
My latest epic trance remix/remake of old Stress Records track “Innerself – Gautama” will be aired tomorrow on Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ YleX, the Finnish national radio one. Tune in tomorrow, tuesday 19.12.2006, between 21:00-22:30 (GMT+02).
Here’s a short clip: Innerself – Gautama (Orion’s Freefall remix)
I’ve been thinking of this a lot lately. After reading Moby’s blog I’ve noticed that there are just a huge amount of readers, all around the world. If you still add those who read the same posts from his MySpace blog, the actual amount of readers is vast.
Now, Moby has lots of opinions and he’s not afraid to tell them. Actually, his provocative way of writing makes people both angry and supportive. The blog entries create different emotions which might even cause actions. And if Moby’s writings cause actions, they work.
The more popular electronic music has become, the more I’ve been thinking why don’t clubs, organizations and DJs more openly stand behind certain values such as freedom of speech, environmental issues and anti-war movements? After all, the more popular the club or the DJ is, the more weight their opinions have.
Nowadays saying no to oil industry, being openly interested in climate change or supporting Amnesty, Greenpeace or other similar organizations is simply mediasexy. And I guess less people would dare to ask for a free entry to a club which would give part of their ticket price to support electric cars or prevent climate change – for example.
Ian Ossia visited Finland last weekend. Great gig, great music and I was more than delighted to find a short statement against the oil use from his Myspace-biography. Vast amount of people just simply need role models in order to change their opinions and – as cliché as it is – music can make the world better – why wouldn’t the professionals of music make it happen, too?
No matter if you’re a professional or simply a music lover, you could take the first step and check the Amnesty’s music driven campaign “Make Some Noise” and the barbwire headphone T-shirts, too.
These are small deeds, but in the long run they make the big wheel turn. Let’s push it.
