As always, we’re happy to announce the next Guest-DJ on Orion’s podcast: Despite being extremely busy with launching the new Danceteria label and making various tracks and remixes, Miika Kuisma somehow still had time to put together a very nice 45min progressive trance guest mix for the podcast.
To get it, make sure you’re subscribed – the instructions are here. The mix will be casted at latest tomorrow evening. Stay tuned…
A remix of Tilt’s “I Dream” got nearly finished last weekend. Here’s a short clip of what’s coming up next:
Tilt – I Dream (DJ Orion remix)
Snare Rush Collage.
Weird collage of clips and videos from the past…
You got to love this YouTube-quality… :P Here’s a link to a better quality mp4-file => download (38mb).
And finally a peek to the iTunes Music Folder.
Quite a nice way to present one’s musical taste in a visual way.
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.
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)
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 :)
First some sad news. I will stop hosting and casting Worldwide Mix Selections podcast.
Worldwide Mix Selections has been quite a successful project. After the 12th of December ’05 we’ve podcasted over 110 different mixes. Each of them has reached 200-400 subscribers. It’s been a nice way to show that there are SO many good deejays around sharing good music of which most of us hasn’t ever heard.
Anyway, I’ll concentrate from now on only on my private podcast on a monthly basis and leave WMS behind. Might be that there is someone who would like to continue the project but if not, the casts will stop in the near future.
Just a note: Mixes are fully functional and online again. Go grab them.
I just received a guest mix for the podcast from DJ Thomas. I have to admit that the quality of all these guest mixes has really surprised me. Most of them have been made by DJs from Northern Finland which just tells about the huge potential of the region. Every guest mix has also its roots in progressive/trance music which would make one to expect cheesy vocal bigroom tracks – but no: every DJ has really shown that progressive/trance music is still vital and so much more to offer than these top XX chart tracks.
DJ Thomas’ mix makes no exception. According to him, it’s a tribute to the older Renaissance sound: a melodic combination of house, progressive and trance. DJ Thomas has gained reputation in the Jyväskylä/Joensuu area but lives nowadays in Tornio, Northern Finland. He really has eye (or ear:) on quality trance and nice collection of sound which you easily could call oldskool these days. His mixes are more or less rare, so it’s more than nice to receive an exclusive one for this podcast.
Now, subscribe to the podcast and sit back. The new guest mix will be casted any day now.
This year’s Time Tunnel serves the northern music lovers with artists like…
Utah Saints (UK) Decks & FX set.
ACCU (FIN) – LIVE
DJ Burdock (betoni, X-Rust. Tku)
DJ Felix Manell (Soul Seed, Tku)
Time Tunnel facts:
– Saturday 9.9.2006 :: 22.00 – 04.00
– Restaurant Foxia, three different party areas.
Main room, b-eat-z club and Funky Café.
More info: www.handprod.com
Updated version of EBTG – Missing (Orion’s Lost and Found remix) is now available. The sound should be slightly better and more clear now, some minor changes to guitars and effects done, too.
The previous version was already supposed to be the final, so this one definitely is ;)
Download EBTG – Missing (Orion’s Lost and Found remix) here.
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.
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)
