After the DMC video clip of Eliot Ness, here’s still a rare one.
Finnish DJ Käpä performing at the DMC World DJ Championships in 1989 – 17 years ago. DJ Jay Mellin is standing just behind him.
A 45min excellent trance set mixed by Aki A from Turku is now available via Orion’s Podcast. The mix is made exclusively for this cast and contains some true gems. One of the best trance mixes I’ve heard lately.
Subscribe to the podcast and make your own judgement.
If you don’t know what podcasts are or are just too lazy to use them, check these instructions (“Blogs and casts directly to your email”).
Orion’s Podcast
Guest Mix – Aki A (Turku, Finland)
Angelo D’Onorio: Moving Thoughts [Mid-nite Sessions] Sexual Deviants: Oxygen (Blue Noise Mix) [Slide] B.I.G.: Carpe Diem [Swift] Nalin & Kane: Krazy People [Superfly] Joshua Collins: Navigator [Frik ‘n Frak] David Forbes: Jacksville [68] Niyaz: Dilruba (Andy Gray’s Grayed Out Mix) [Six Degrees]
Every now and then I hear complaints that someone is unable to download the mixes on this site.
The most common problems are:
1) When left clicked, the link does not save but opens a new Firefox window and starts to play.
2) When saved directly (Save Target As), the mix is saved as a kuuntele.php file.
Here are the solutions:
1) Check how your browser handles the mp3-files. You can change the Download Actions in Firefox easily: Preferences => Downloads => Download Actions
1.2) If this does not solve the problem, just left click the link and let it open in a new window. The mix starts to play. Select File => Save Page As. Now you can download the mix and close the window.
2) If you rather right click and save the file as “kuuntele.php”, make sure you rename the file afterwards. Anything with an ending “.mp3” will do. All the mixes on this site have full ID3-tags so they will show up correctly in your iTunes or Winamp, no matter what the file name is.
Live recording from last year’s Unity – The Island event is online and downloadable. Thanks to Ville and Vaavu and to the Unity posse.
Download the DJ-set here.
Photo: Sessions2
Found a nice way to share the photos I’ve recently taken. I don’t post every single uploaded photo to this blog so if you want to stay updated with my Photo Stream (or Photocast, whatever), now it’s easier than ever (requires iPhoto OR any other feedreader).
1) Copy this URL: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37218967@N00&format=rss_200
2) Go to http://phlikr.3xi.org/
3) Paste the URL, click the button of your choice and enjoy the up-to-date photo stream.
Photo: Feedreader at its best.
This year’s Koneisto will be a lot smaller than in earlier years. It will take place in Helsinki, more accurately in Lasipalatsin Aukio. Also MBar and Stockholm will host some performances.
Koneisto will be held 14.7-15.7. The confirmed artists are:
Legowelt (Bunker Records, NL)
Bangkok Impact (Clone Records, Crème Organization)
Star You Star Me (Stars Music, Mood Music)
Bermuda (Laka-Tosh, Worldless)
djs Stud Mattila & Spitboy
Henri Puolitaival (Edensonic Records, Metrotraks)
Juho Kahilainen (Phonour, Initial Cuts)
Boner M (Pihaus)
hannulelauri
Kalle Karvanen (X0X Records, RBMA, X-Rust)
The GROTH (Frozen North)
Symptom (Symptom Records)
Rasmus Hedlund (Iron Box Music)
Sami Koivikko (Shitkatapult)
Virta (Fak Records)
Samuli Kemppi (Sam & Gigi, Frozen North, Metrotraks)
DJ San Mejor has made a marketing research of Finnish electronic music labels. Even though the research is written in Finnish, there’s now also an English version, made with entertaining flash. Sit back and take a look.
Click:
Here’s the 15 year old clip from DMC World DJ Championships, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness performing.
If you distribute this video, please use the URL of this site:
http://orion.reaktio.net/mtarchives/001201.html
or shorter http://tinyurl.com/hahe7. Thanks!
Did you already check the video of the Human Turntable?
While Flickr Interestingess might be just the playground of the professional photographers on Flickr, the new “The Blink of an Eye” group has a better idea. Each user can present the best photo he/she has ever shot (and uploaded to Flickr). I think this gives a way better view to what Flickr really has to offer than this “Interestingness”. Check the slideshow (or view the photos separately).
My contribution:
OK, this clip is just a teaser. Tomorrow morning I’m going to upload another DMC-clip: 15 years ago, in 1991, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness made it to the third place in DMC World DJ Championships. With some help from DJ Kaasi, I hunted down a clip from his performance. The tricks are quite stunning, I must say.
But before Mr. Eliot’s clip, here’s the famous Human Turntable trick. Stay tuned.
Denis Vakulin, aka DJ DNA seems to have a new website.
And Tero Civill, aka DJ Coma opened his virtual lounge as well. Mr. Coma also offers two tracks for download:
Tero Civill – The Message
Tero Civill – Watching You
Check Tero’s Audio page for full track descriptions.
Defective By Design hit Apple big time.
Raportti Digitodayssa. Kuvia Flickrissä. Stop DRM.
Orion’s Top Summer Choices 12/06/2006
01. Joonas Hahmo – Fusion
02. Chris Lake vs. KOT – Finally Changes
03. Paski – Rain Clouds
04. David West – Suffering Island (Joonas Hahmo remix)
05. Pete Morillo vs Erick Tong – Afterparty At My Villa
06. Cirez D – Mouseville Theme
07. Phunk-a-Delic – Rockin’
08. Underworld – Born Slippy (Spacecab remix)
09. Kyau vs Albert – Kiksu (Boom Jinx remix)
10. Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Martijn Ten Velden remake)
11. Rowan Blades & Chris Lake – Malteaser Geezer
12. Jody Wisternoff – Cold Drink, Hot Girl
13. Marc Mitchell – Paradise (Twotribe Therapy Dub)
14. Nick K – One Of Those Things
15. Everything But The Girl – Missing (Orion’s Lost & Found remix)
HOW TO GET THESE TRACKS:
You’re listening to a radio channel, DJ-set or podcast and hear a song which you definitely want to have. What do you do?
Far too many people trust on P2P programs when they want to find a track which is simply just too good. They download it illegally, because it’s easy and free – but also because they don’t know (or care) how to get it otherwise.
DJs are a part of music marketing, you can’t deny that. They know where to buy the best tracks, they know how to find good music legally, they know how to hear about the new music which hasn’t even gotten on the charts. So why wouldn’t they share this knowledge?
At the moment DJs are just writing their TOP20-charts for two purposes: to show the promoters that they are active and they should be booked AND to show the other DJs that they have tracks which the other DJs do not have. Still – too often I hear on the clubs some clubber asking the question: “This is so cool music – where can you buy this kind of stuff?”
Now – why wouldn’t DJs also write their charts for the music freakz who would just die to get to listen the Top20 Chart tracks at home? It would be good promotion for the electronic music, it would keep it alive. And it would be good promotion for the DJ – the more people would come to his website and actually get to HEAR the music alongside all this namedropping, the more discussion there would be around the DJ him/herself. And this discussion (read: publicity) is what all these disc jockeys want, right?
Now how would this happen? Simple. Just by linking the chart tunes to the shops where they are available.
I’ll be writing my new Top Choices chart soon here and adding the links where these records are available to buy. Maybe it helps you to find better music and more importantly – better sources of good music.
Oh, quite a nice way to combine effective music promotion, DJ-mixes and podcast is Beatport’s podcast. Subscribe and listen, you’ll see why.