The new Faithless single Bombs. MTV refused to broadcast this clip.
Director Howard Greenhalgh said “I didn’t see the video as particularly political, pro war, or anti war. It’s actually a representation of where we are all at right now. War infects all our lives; recently it feels that this has increasingly become ‘our way of life’”
Thanks for the link, Thomas!
I must admit that Kajaani event on the Desperate Housedeejays mini-tour really surprised me. There were about 400 people (which is a lot – we’re talking about North-East Finland here) and very enjoyable atmosphere. The night took off after 00:30AM and there was absolutely no need for playing obvious hits – in addition to house it was about breaks, oldskoolish quality trance and techno.
To mention some highlights, especially Brothers in Rhythm remix of Placebo’s Every Me Every You, Phunk-A-Delic’s Rockin’ and Mauro Picotto’s Coldfunk made Club96 go crazy.
Met some very nice new friends and generally people seemed just to be happy and smiling. Either it was a successful night in their opinion, too – or they were just drunk enough ;)
And still – this must have been the best b2b gig with Kaasi, the erickmorillo of Northern Finland. It just gets better every time :)
We got a nice amount of footage – a timelapse movie of the whole night, photos and videoclips. Online pretty soon, I hope.
Sibelius-Academy’s Development Centre for Artistic Activity has kindly approved our application and given us a grant for producing an audiovisual music production. The production will combine both traditional and electronic music plus visuals and motion tracking in a way which is – at least – new in Sibelius-Academy.
I will provide here a link or two as soon there’s more information available.
First the Misc news and then the Misc. stuff. Boy, I love these smart word games… :P
Misc Management website has a few minor updates, some new mixes, charts etc.
Our beloved oldskool DJ, the mastermind behind Rose Garden and Kuudes Linja (and various others…), mr. Lil’ Tony, has opened a new website called Cosmic City. Cool stuff there, check it out.
Niko recommended Dave’s Lounge podcast on his Softys blog. I’ve subscribed to that as well, but another very good chill-out cast (not independent music, though) is Chill Syndicate. Two hour sets of chill-out – and totally without voice-overs, which is good (as I’ve mentioned earlier).
New Zealand Herald listed TOP 10 songs played at the funeral. A coffin at the altar and Robbie on the speakers. Some people really know how to go with a style… eeeh…
In the end a small word about my photography project. A bit more than a month ago I started a “Project 365” which is about shooting one photo a day of your life. The main idea is to remember small things which you would have forgotten otherwise after a year. The secondary idea is to prove yourself that no matter how dull and similar basic work days sometimes are, they all have a thing or two worth remembering.
These daily taken photographs are uploaded to the Project 365 Flickr set at least once a week. Take a look.
Tired of your Teknari SL-1200?
Get yourself a the Transrotor Artus, only 118000e.
The most expensive record player in the world.
I’ve been writing several blog posts about the fight between vinyl and mp3 supporters, archiving digital music and the relationship between a DJ and a music format. I’ve always tried to point out that there really aren’t any universal truths in this fight and that there are some facts you just can’t deny. And finally I’ve gotten to a conclusion:
I’ve been already thinking for some time what would be my response on the change of the DJ-culture. Follow the flow, sell my vinyl collection, start playing only digital music and make the best out of it? Or make a lonely fight-back, keep supporting vinyl and keep the amount of CDRs in minimum and play only promotional tracks in digi format?
The only what is certain, is that some changes have to be made. I’m happy that I’ve come to a conclusion which satisfies me both as a vinyl freak and as a music lover: With a “small” amount of work I’ve listed all the old records I still need in order to call my vinyl collection perfect and complete. In addition to that, I won’t leave the collection to the state “2006” but I’ll update it constantly with important releases and so-called future old-skool classics. I’ll also support certain labels by buying all their new releases in plastic to have a complete catalogue and collection of their music.
OK, that’s it about vinyl. What about mp3’s then? The amount of music mentioned above would easily fulfill the needs of my upcoming DJ-sets. But buying the music only for keeping the dancefloor pleased doesn’t lead anywhere (Miika wrote well about that already earlier). There are SO many better-than-average but far-from-classic tracks in online shops and it would be a pity to leave them there just because they are released only in digital format. And there are even more tracks which aren’t meant for dance floor but which you just happen to love. For the sake of keeping your sense of true music alive, it’s even necessary to buy tracks which you probably wouldn’t end up playing live. I don’t mean bad tracks, but tracks which are just interesting, but definitely not danceable. Would there be any better format for that than digital?
Hopefully this sums this up – for now.. :)
01. Orkidea vs Andy Moor – YearZero
02. Hailey – Flowers (Sheep remix)
03. Jody Wisternoff – Nostalgia
04. Gabriel & Dresden – Dangerous Power (Cicada dub)
05. Liquid Soul – 6:16AM
06. PQM Project – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Schulz Pass)
07. You Know – Roaches
08. Mashtronic – Earthquake (Jaytech remix)
09. Alex Axx Koss – I Hope
10. Gui Boratto – Atol
11. Sebastien Leger – Cosmonite
12. Miika Kuisma & Mr.A – Honey (Heikki Liimatainen remix)
13. David West – Make You Mine (Dub)
14. Freza & DJ Flash – Ritmix
15. Jaytech – Manipulator
16. Seyton & Dumb Dan – Buck Futter (Cryo remix)
17. Andry Nalin – Pornographic Material
18. Jaytech – Genesis (Jimbo’s Afterburner remix)
19. DK8 – Murder Was The Bass (Move Ya! & Steve Lavers remix)
20. Greed – Promises (D Nox & Beckers remix)
21. Pryda – Aftermath (Paolo Mojo remix)
22. Shlomi Aber – Inspiration
23. CiD Inc & Matthew Bradley – Lost Game
24. Chris Micali – Schipol (Santiago Nino remix)
25. Sebastien Leger – Hypnotized (Chris Lake Instrumental Mix)
A new guest mix on the podcast now available. DJ OlliS, a host of Tiistain Tanssi-ilta, an electronic music orientated radio show on Finnish National Radio 1 YleX delivers a very nice 45min session of oldskoolish trance. Just the sound we love to support on this podcast.
To get more information of the guy, see www.djollis.com.
To subscribe to the podcast, check here. If you have iTunes, try clicking here.
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Rumours tell that Laserpoint starts their own 24h web radio on the 18th of November. On the opening day there should be an exclusive progressive house mix from DJ Orion containing tracks from artists like Gabriel & Dresden, Jaytech, PQM, D-Nox & Beckers etc…
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Enough of namedropping. Misc Management sent today their first newsletter in ages. If you didn’t receive any and would just love to get the latest news directly from the Misc artist roster, feel free to send your email address to juska *a t* misc *d o t* fi and boom, you’ve subscribed.
Miika Kuisma has written his best blog post so far. A long mind flow “About creativity and being an artist” is well worth 7-10min which it’ll take to read through.
The setup “creativity vs money” which Miika introduces is very very valid in the world of event managers and promoters, too. Even though organizing events can’t be categorized as “art” too often, the same series of actions appear there as well: if you organize events in order to make your living and/or to get rich, you’ll end up losing the touch to your audience and waste the real fun in it.
If you rank income above creativity or fame above art, take a while and read the post.
Legendaarisen “Tekno”-kirjan takana oleva Sam Inkinen on kirjoittanut Planet of Love -tapahtuman festivaalilehtiseen kolumnin “Minne matka, elektroninen musiikki”.
Lue täältä – kolumni sivuilla 16-17.
A couple of weeks ago, on Unity’s 10th Anniversary Party, Mr. Lowland aka Petri Alanko entertained the clubbers for the first hour by playing new versions of well known trance classics on piano.
The generous posse of Unity kindly shared these tracks as mp3’s earlier this week.
Take a look:
Robert Miles – Children (Lowland’s Unity 10th Anniversary mix)
Underworldlive.com screenshot. Check the picture in the middle.
Photo: Antimega
Some videos from the gig. (Thanks, Pasi!)
Still looking forward to the hi-quality content.
Helsingin Sanomat
‘Underworld tarjoili tuhdin rytmipaketin
Julkaistu: 19:42
Koneisto Liven tähdeksi saadun brittiläisen Underworld-yhtyeen keikka jouduttiin siirtämään odotettua heikomman lipunmyynnin takia Jäähallista pienempään Koiton saliin, mutta järjestäjien tappio oli itse konsertin voitto.
Yhtyettä ennakoitua pienempi estradi ei näyttänyt haittaavan. Kolmimiehisenä kiertävä Underworld tarjoili kahden ja puolen tunnin mittaisen rytmipaketin, joka sai saliin ahtautuneen ihmismassan hyvin liikkeeseen, Juha Merimaa kirjoittaa arviossaan.
“Musiikillisesti yhtye korosti kappaleiden tanssittavuutta antamalla biiteille kosolti aikaa kehittyä. Esimerkiksi yhtyeen suurimman hitin Born Slippyn biitti paisutettiin salia vavistavaksi jo ennen kuin Hyde aloitti kappaleen maanisen julistuksen.”‘
You brought light in.
If you totally missed the Radio KLF’s broadcast two nights ago, go and download the live recording from Supercool club from the mixes section. It’s 2,5 hours of electro house, progressive and trance.
Enjoy!
