Friday night was dedicated to easy house music. I was invited to a local club Helmi to play the last set. Helmi’s target group are more mainstream chart lovers than electronic music freaks so I ended up leaving my TOP20 records at home and chose something totally different. Before my slot, DJ Hesher played quality breaks, funk and disco spiced with määäd scratching and really had the dancefloor under control. When starting, I have to admit, I wasn’t the most confident person on that club but the end of the night ended up to be really enjoyable and refreshing. No matter what they say about street credibility, but it really makes you see DJing from a new point of view when you’re playing something completely different every once in a while.
Tracklist – Helmi 19.5.2006
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Something
M.A.R.R.S – Pump Up The Volume
M.& H. Band – Popcorn
Black Box – Ride On Time
New Order – Blue Monday
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (Sex mix)
Mighty Dub Katz – Magic Carpet Ride
The Original – I Love You Baby (Swing Mix)
Unknown – My bootleg
Unknown – Hitting The Jack
KLF – What Time Is Love (remix)
Unknown – Untitled
Prodigy – Narayan (original) + (Alex Stealthy remix)
Junkie XL – Today
Axwell – Feel the Vibe
Unknown – No Sleep
Felix – Don’t You Want Me
2 Unlimited – Get Ready For This (Instrumental)
Mori Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor mix)
Prodigy – Voodoo People
Taotao theme (U&K mix)
Saturday in Oulu was more an ordinary club night. I warmed up Magellan Project/Alt-F4/Avanto -boys on a local Illumination club. Even though quality electronic music nights are getting more and more famous in (Northern) Finland, the nature of Finns still stays the same – a suddenly crazy going bar tells that heavy metal band Lordi winning the Eurovision Song Contest is definitely more interesting than a new remix of Union Jack’s Two Full Moons And A Trout ;)
Another enjoyable night – these houseprogressive gems tend to work well in Oulu, time after time.
Tracklist – Illumination 20.5.2006
Dave Gahan – Dirty Sticky Floors (Lexicon Avenue remix)
Wally Lopez – Seven Days and One Week
New Order – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call (Planet Funk remix)
Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy (M&M remix)
Antarctica – Antarctica (Sun Version)
Kortezman – Rain
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Palladium
Rowan Blades & Chris Lake – Malteaser Geezer
Unknown – Untitled
Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Martijn Ten Velden remake)
Atlantic – Dandelion Crush (Bush II Bush remix)
Three Drives – Greece 2000
Junkie XL – Today
Filterheadz – Endless Summer
Gouryella – Walhalla (Hybrid’s Echoplex remix)
BT – Flaming June
Sven Väth – L’Esperanza (Paul Van Dyk remix)
Union Jack – Two Full Moons And A Trout (Tektonik^ remix)
Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest
Super8 & DJ Tab – Helsinki Scorchin’
Unknown – Untitled
Lately there has been some sort of a mania of doing oldskool trance mixes. Several DJs have browsed through their oldest records (or bought the backcatalogue as MP3s – who knows these days anymore…) and selected tracks which suit to their image of oldskool. The result is a lot of excellent music, different styles and good memories.
pHaze – …For old times sake
Damien – I Hate Modern Trance
Aki A. – Lonely Traveller
Gateway – My Tranceclassics
Timmo – Ransu
And the tracklists are here:
UDG serves you well. After one wheel of my UDG Trolley Bag broke, I contacted UDG Customer Service. After sending the receipt, a couple of photos and an explanation, the Customer Service contacted me with a really nice email and promised to send a full repair kit.
This is what I got today. Spare parts more than I needed and indeed a FULL repair kit. The only thing which seems to be missing, is the manual for those (read: “me”) who don’t have a clue how to remove the broken parts and replace them with those above.
James Zabiela demonstrates the DJM-800 mixer… in an aquarium.
Was this supposed to be a good advertisement?
MacBook julkaistu. What a beauty.
Hello trainspotters! :)
Much asked Agave tracklist is now available in the mixes section. There’s a tracklist for the podcast mix Agave (postlude) as well.
High above
Photographed a bit in Helsinki. Play Tourist – see the photos!. Oh, and some Rovaniemi-photos behind the same link, too.
Snow and sunbathing
A new two-part mix named Agave is ready.
Agave is a plant, also known as Century Plant. Its common name derives from its habit of only occasionally flowering, but when it does, the spike with a cyme of big yellow flowers, may reach up to 8 meters in height. The plant dies after flowering.
Blossom once, then die – fascinating.
Now what does this plant have to do with this mix? You don’t have to be too smart to figure that out ;)
Brand new progressive trance, classic trance tracks, breaks and hypnotic drives. Holden, Way Out West, Shiloh, Max Graham, Andy Moor, Hybrid etc etc…
Download Agave (99mb).
Did you like this mix? Agave has also part 2 – Agave (postlude), available only via Orion’s podcast. To get that as well, go and subscribe to podcast.
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