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drS 90’s guestmix on the podcast

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Amazing (and exclusive:) 40min GuestCast from drS, Tampere, Finland. drS sends a nostalgic 90’s mix full of classics and brilliant long-lost gems. If you like this, make sure to grab some of his other mixes, too.

Tracklist:
1. spooky feat. billie ray martin: persuasion (chameleon dub) [guerilla records] 2. grace: not over yet (perfecto mix) [perfecto] 3. o.t. quartet: hold that sucker down (happy daze) [cheeky] 4. livin’ joy: dreamer (rollo’s big mix) [mca] 5. dj’s rule: get into the music (hybrid mix) [distinctive] 6. hyper go-go feat. adeva: do whatcha do (hybrid mix) [awex uk] 7. hondy: hondy (no access) (nip & tuck mix) [bustin’ loose records]

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February 27, 2007

Netvibes to support podcasts

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Netvibes podcast feature

Netvibes offers a very nice user interface for listening new podcasts. All subscribed podcasts appear in a basic rss-feed form, but there are two buttons for each entry: “listen” and “download”.

Basically you can stream every podcast which sounds interesting before downloading it. As I’ve subscribed to nearly 30 different podcasts, it took all my bandwidth to download all the new casts everytime I opened iTunes. I’m more than happy to select the best mixes using this interface and leaving iTunes just for my music library.

February 14, 2007

Homegrove’s guest mix on the podcast

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Homegrove (Further, Rauma), the king of progressive house from da west coast of Finland delivers a fine selection of oldskool. 40min of progressive bliss.

Tracklist:
1. Spooky – Schmoo (Underworld Mix) [Guerilla] 2. Shakespeare’s Sister – Black Sky (Dub Extravaganza Part Two) [London] 3. Humate – 3.2 [Platipus] 4. Breeder – Sputnik [Rhytm Syndicate] 5. Horse – Careful (Sasha vs Brothers in Rhytm Remix) [Stress]

>> Orion’s podcast

February 1, 2007

Upcoming podcasts

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We have a very, very nice podcast spring coming up.

In the end of February, I’ll be casting a one hour progressive breaks mix. Early birds can catch a copy of it already on the LCS party in Turku, Finland, 24.02.2007 – the promoters are giving out 50 free CDs at the event.

Also some very good guests coming up. We’ll be having some oldskool progressive/trance on the podcast – as earlier :) But in addition, we’ll be bringing there some variety and sharing some grrreat funky breakbeat and electro house mixes.

In March – if everything goes as planned – we’ll be introducing one of the top DJs of Finland with a very rare live recording.

Check the podcast details or (if you have iTunes) subscribe directly here.

January 26, 2007

2006 look-back.

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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.

January 2, 2007

Let’s make more noise.

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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.

December 17, 2006

Best of 2006.

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Not in any particular order.

House:
Kortezman – Rain
Miika Kuisma & Mr.A – Honey (Heikki Liimatainen remix)
Lifelike – Adventure
Chris Lake vs. KOT – Finally Changes
Deux – Xpand
Seyton & Dumb Dan – Buck Futter (Cryo remix)
Antarctica – Antarctica (Sun Version)
Rowan Blades & Chris Lake – Malteaser Geezer
Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Martijn Ten Velden remake)
RTem – MSFG

Trance/progressive:
Jody Wisternoff – Cold Drink, Hot Girl
Atlantic – Dandelion Crush (Bush II Bush remix)
Shlomi Aber – Inspiration
Syna – Megaforce
Orkidea vs Andy Moor – YearZero
Jody Wisternoff – Nostalgia
Matt Rowan & Jaytech – Tomorrow
Junkie XL – Today
Nalin & Kane – Open Your Eyes (MS remix)
Shiloh – Dream On (Luke Chable remix)
Latigidi – It’s Time
Filterheadz – Endless Summer
David West – Make You Mine (Mike Shiver dub)
Christian Smith & John Selway – Bahamas
Orkidea vs Andy Moor – YearZero
Super8 & DJTab – Helsinki Scorchin’

Plus:
Sebastian Tellier – La Ritournelle
Jose Gonzalez – Crosses (remix)

Albums:
Junkie XL – Today
GU10 -kokoelma
Leama & Moor – Common Ground

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Check also Chart 2005, Chart 2004 and All Time Tip 10

December 16, 2006

Epic coming up

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I just finished the last mix for this year. It became the longest – and if not my best mix of this year, it’s definitely the most interesting.

I’ve been thinking of putting together a mix of epic trance for a while now. It’s an interesting genre – I accidentally found a good description from Discogs while browsing around:

Epic trance has “musically interesting, constantly changing elements, and building suspense and emotion through means other than twiddling the frequency knob on a filter.”

There’s so little of this kind of trance released these days. Long tracks with lots of variety, several parts with different musical themes and truly innovative and challenging electronic dance music.

When choosing the tracks, I ended up leaving several nuskool epic tracks aside as well as some too obvious epic classics. And yes – the whole mix could have included only Sunday Club releases and been as epic as it’ll ever get, but there wouldn’t have been too much point in it.

Now, I’m pretty satisfied with the result. The sound describes very well where my electronic music roots are and also what was the whole idea of trance back in the day: hypnotic yet beautiful and driving.

Next year I’ll concentrate more on new music and leave oldskool aside – at least from the mixes. And as the autumn has been pretty trancey, the next mixes will be based more on house. Let that be the first promise for the new year.

Anyway, the new mix, Roots, will be online no later than tomorrow containing music from Sunday Club, Bedrock, Sasha, Gloat, Tenth Chapter, Spooky, Seafield etc.

See you soon.

December 10, 2006