After criticizing MySpace big time, I decided to give a try (I’m so weak, I know…).
And after browsing through some profiles I still don’t get it: What’s the point of adding dozens of contacts to one’s friends list if you haven’t ever even met or talked to these people? Or is it just so cool of having 50 celebrities as your “friends”?
Well, let’s see where this ends up. I can’t help being skeptical.
Time Tunnel 13 website is open. Too bad H.A.N.D boys didn’t make a video of last year’s great event which was held at amazing looking Uusi Seurahuone.
While waiting the Utah Saints music videos to appear to the official website, there’s always YouTube for the impatient ones :)
BIO UPDATE
First of all, there are two updates of the website. Biography is again back up-to-date and a bit wider than the former version.
DOWNLOAD MIX
Then, Spinni 10 year anniversary mix is now available for downloading on the mixes site. It was podcasted already some time ago, but if you’re not into any casts, now is a good chance to download it. The mix includes music from artists like Junkie XL, Starecase, Hybrid, David Forbes, Transa etc. Full length mix with old and new tracks included.
ORION JOINS MISC MANAGEMENT
Orion joined Misc Management DJ booking agency earlier this week. Misc Management is the first truly professional, dance music oriented dj booking agency – management located in Helsinki, Finland. As well as being part of Misc’s Artist Roster, Orion also works as part of the Misc Management staff from now on. More news concerning the subject should be available pretty soon.
This time the content of the fortune cookie really hit me. More bass? :)
I wonder why Siemens never brought this refrigerator type to Finland…
Not to mention this oven:
Visiting Germany was once again very rewarding. Local record stores didn’t fail me – and so didn’t Bruce ;) Did you know that the Die Hard hero has released music on Motown? Neither did I.
With Wikimapia it seems to be more than easy to show – for example – where you’re located at the moment.
So. Here I am, at the Alps. Zoom out to get a better view.
The week has passed incredibly fast. It’s been all about moving, doing the infamous vinyylijumppa to the second floor without any elevator and piecing together new furniture.
I guess carrying the music collection around was some sort of a last temptation to forget the vinyl, convert everything to CD-format and save your back from breaking before your 30th anniversary. I’m sure there was someone whispering to my ear “How much would that weight in mp3-format…?” when I climbed up the stairs with the 40kg vinyl cases.
Now after four full moving days quite much everything is done and we’ll be heading to Germany for nine days on Monday. I managed to finish most of the stuff on my todo-list despite the hurry:
First of all, after building up the new DJ-setup (which must be the best I’ve ever had what comes to sound and comfort) I recorded Spinni’s 10 Year Anniversary Mix. Spinni celebrates their ten year old way through the Tampere club history (more info here) and this “official” mix more or less describes the sound of the event’s second day. Techy progressive, breaks and trance in spirit of the oldskool, with a couple of fresh exceptions. Those who are subscribed to the podcast should get the mix any time soon, but you’ll find the link on the forums and Spinni’s website a bit later, too.
I visited Danceteria, DTM last night. Good way to get the first touch to Helsinki clubland – the place was crowded and atmosphere high. I shot restlessly a couple of photos while meeting new people and I have to say I felt pretty welcome – there were really nice people around.
The future looks bright. In October I’ll be heading to Northern Ireland for a week and before that I’ll hope to have some announcements to be made about some club and music related things. Oh, and nearly forgot – New York City based fitness radio station Exercise Radio starts to air some mixes of mine on their exercise related shows. It seems that vinyylijumppa isn’t the only way to get fit with vinyls ;)
And as a postscript: It’s never too late to start to love music. Or too early…
As I promised, the collaborative mix with DJ Kaasi was to be brought online before the end of this month. Now here it is – just as promised. Download, sit back and enjoy :)
Orion & Kaasi – Promotional Mix #2
21 tracks in 52 minutes
+ some tricks, acapellas, effects and scratches.
Funky, progressive, breaks, oldskool, melodic, electro. Quality house.
01. Busta Funk – Tribal Scratch
02. Putsch ’79 – Cockaine Dub
03. Connected Funk – Sexy Lady
04. Johnny D & Nicky P – Major Sea
05. Sueno Latino – Recycled Loops
06. Chris Lake – Changes (remix)
07. Cirez D – KnockOut (Sebastien Leger remix)
08. Richard Dinsdale – Rescue Me
09. Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (Quadrant remix)
10. Human Resource – Dominator (remix)
11. Phunk-a-Delic – Rockin’
12. Unknown: Bells of NY (Paavo Thorian remix)
13. Chris Lake: Release
14. Sven Last: Spoon
15. Tom Parris: Mystery Machine
16. Nacka Boys: Our Toys
17. Break and Enter: Breaking For You
18. Neztic: Kickin’ Down (Rico Tubbs remix)
19. Sero: Megamaid
20. Joseph Disco vs Micky Monza: Pet Shop Disco Posse
21. DJ Mikropacer vs The Freehander: Monoraver
Tracklist:
Orion @ Sunburn, Kalajoki 29.07.2006
01. Chakra:Blue – Stand Still
02. Graham & Blades – Funky Summa
03. Jose Gonzales – Crosses (Breaks mix)
04. Junkie XL – Mushroom
05. Eve Falcon & Desert Sol – Know It All
06. Deux – Xpand
07. Parallel Sound – Break Loose
08. Morales & Ventura – Iris
09. Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Parham & Dominic Plaza remix)
10. Atlantic – Dandelion Crush
11. Kortezman – Rain
12. Phunk-A-Delic – Rockin’
13. Paolo Mojo – 1983
14. Chris Lake – Change
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Yhä useampi DJ on viime aikoina siirtynyt tukemaan yhä enemmän MP3-formaattia musiikkia ostaessaan.
Yhtenä argumenttina MP3-formaattiin siirtymiselle on monen DJ:n kohdalla tarjonnan laajuus. MP3 tuo tarjolle valtavan määrän musiikkia ja valinnanmahdollisuudet ovat huomattavasti suuremmat kuin perinteistä levykauppaa plärätessä.
Olen viime aikoina seurannut erityisellä mielenkiinnolla niin kotimaisten kuin ulkomaalaistenkin DJiden chartteja ja keikka-tracklistejä. Vaikka MP3:n pitäisi tuoda DJ:n ulottuville uutta musiikkia kasapäin, jostain syystä chart- ja soittolistat ovat kaventuneet tarjonnaltaan huomattavasti.
Beatportin ja vastaavien kauppojen kampanjat ja mainonta tuntuvat vaikuttavan isoon osaan DJistä hyvinkin radikaalisti. Suurimman mainostilan MP3-kaupassa saavaa kappaletta ostetaan isolla kädellä ja kärjistetysti sanoen kaupan TOP10 myyntilistat siirtyvät monen DJ:n Personal TOP10:een. Samalla tarjonta sekä yleisölle että DJille tasapäistyy. Ilmiö ei ole uusi, mutta elektronisen musiikin ideologiassa todella vieras.
MP3-kaupat ja -labelit ovat saaneet DJ:t uskomaan, että paljon mainostilaa verkossa tarkoittaa isoa hittiraitaa. Samalla korostuu myös mp3-kaupankäyntiin liittyvä laiskuus. Kuten Mr.A Plastic Fantastic -levykaupan sulkemiseen kommentoidessaan kirjoitti, levykauppojen ja -hyllyjen selaaminen on olennainen osa DJ:n ammattia.
MP3-kulttuuri saa musiikin haalisen näyttämään helpolta ja vaivattomalta, mutta kaataa monta DJ:tä juuri siihen helppouden suohon: valituksi tulevat pääasiassa vain raidat, joita MP3-kauppa ja -labelit toivovat menevän eniten kaupaksi. Nettiselailuun verrattuna vanhalta kirpputorilta tai ulkomaisen levykaupan kätköistä tuntien etsinnän jälkeen tehdyt löydöt tuntuvat kullanarvoisilta. Digitaalinen ei vain ole mitään.
Omaperäisen soundin ja yllättävien biisivalintojen aikaansaamiseksi MP3-kaupat eivät ole antaneet allekirjoittaneelle yhtään mitään. Onneksi vielä löytyy NIIN paljon laadukkaita pienen painoksen levyjä, joita ei koskaan julkaista mp3-formaatissa.
Ne biisit minä ostan.
Lisää aiheesta tässä blogissa:
Vinyyli vs. MP3
DJs and Music Marketing
Electronic Music Labels
Teosto & Gramex Suck On This
Kahdeksan otosta viime viikonlopun Summer House -risteilyltä Rovaniemeltä. Risteilyt ovat selvästi tämän kesän juttu näissä piireissä – Rovaniemen cruisen lisäksi aalloille lasketaan tänä kesänä muunmuassa Unityn, Reivin, Efektin, Hand Productionsin ja Hallmarkin laivat. Kuten kuvista näkyy, tunnelmaa kyllä löytyy :)
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Käväisin viime viikonlopun Tampereen visiitilläni Vapriikin Levynkansinäyttelyssä. MP3-aikakaudella moinen vanhaa pop-kulttuuria esittelevä pläjäys oli vähintäänkin mielenkiintoinen. Kansia on esillä reilusti ja esittelytekstit antavat hyvän kuvan levynkansitaiteen matkasta viime vuosisadan puolenvälin tuolta puolen aina nykypäivään saakka. Erityisesti psykedelia-kannet vetivät suuta hymyyn. Kieroa kamaa :)
Opiskelijat maksavat 2e, muut muutaman euron enemmän. Suosittelen.
Orion’s Top Choices
25/07/2006
Sunny HouseProgressive Beach Gems
01. Chakra Blue – Stand Still (Chris Domingo remix)
02. Eve Falcon & Desert Eagle – Know It All
03. Jose Gonzalez – Crosses
04. Parallel Sound – Break Loose
05. Sheridan – Flycker
06. Bioground – Gawd
07. Latigidi – It’s Time
08. Deux – Xpand
09. Morales & Ventura – Iris
10. Chris Lake – Changes
+
Jussi Polet – Positive (Supermodels from Paris remix)
DJ Zzompp’s excellent chill-out mixes and live recordings are again online. You might have heard some of them in the early WMS podcasts but here’s a possibility to grab them all.
I would recommend Live @ Eden and Live @ Kosmos mixes, both recorded live in 2001.
All the mixes available here: http://media.piste.org/audio/
21 October 2006
Event: Helsinki Koneisto Winter festival
Venue: Old Icehall
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.underworldlive.com/index/live-events.html
http://www.underworldanthology.com/
Everything, everything!
Orion’s podcast was updated a moment ago. A 45min guest mix from DJ Thomas should be on the computers of the subscribers pretty soon. Read more about the guest appearance of DJ Thomas (includes the instructions for subscribing, too)
Guest mix: DJ Thomas (Tornio, Finland)
hernan cattaneo & john tonks – sirocco (renaissance)
echomen – spirit (forensic)
4 tune 500 – dancing in the dark (house works)
redanka – out of the dark (whoop!)
nerva – arzamas-16 (whoop!)
josh gabriel – wave 3, charlie may’s undertow mix (nebula promo)
Enjoy :)
Currently making the last plans for collaborative mixtape with DJ Kaasi, I might be able to promise that it will be online by the end of this month.
I’m excited of the result – last time, in March 2005, we mixed 17 tracks together in 60 minutes. Now we might make it still a bit better. The speed is not the reason of excitement, though. Kaasi has a long background in house music – combining his tracks and style with mine produced already last time an interesting wholeness. Let’s see where it gets this time :)
I spent some of the past days photographing around Pyhä-Luosto. Really amazing landscapes and lots of things to see.
Konemetsä Festival took place in Marttila last weekend. I wasn’t able to get there, but here’s a nice 5min video (100mb) from the event. It shows well what the bright Finnish summer nights are made for :) Also a small video documentary from last year’s event is available on YouTube:
