I’m heading today to Tampere to attend Madwave weekend. Madwave events will take place both in Tampere and Turku, Friday and Saturday, David West headlining both nights.
I’m very excited – playing at the same event with David in Oulu’s “Northern e’Motion ’07” was just amazing not to mention the last trip to Tampere’s “Romance” event some months ago. It’s been a while that I’ve been playing in Turku, but the last experiences at “LCS” and “Choon!” were simply great.
All in all, I think the combination of David West, Tampere and Turku is a rare enough to force all the progheads out to party. The lineup also includes very strong domestic spinners – Romance’s head honcho DJ Flight; Joonas Hahmo, one of the most interesting producers at the moment and the Sergei Shkuroff’s & D.N.A‘s full-on back2back.
After the Turku event – on Sunday morning – I’ll be travelling with David West back to Helsinki. David’s spinning at Pussy Club afterparty in Rose Garden with Mr.A.
Here are the full weekend details:
The atmosphere at Sunburn, Dyyni, Kalajoki was awesome. They say Kalajoki is the Ibiza of Finland (I kinda get the “Markku From Finland” feeling after sentences like that…), but I never got to experience the real warm summer weather there. The same happened now – Helsinki & Tampere were boiling hot and I landed to Oulu to chilly 11C. After a bungee jump from 65m (*brrrrr*…), some sightseeing and a small get-together with a couple of Oulu promoters, the party broke loose right after midnight.
I don’t know about a perfectly structured set, but the night was full of twists and turns. I had prepared to play a bit more trancey stuff to the end, but despite a couple of classics (“Hale Bopp” & “Greece 2000”) (prog)trance really didn’t seem to find it’s place on the dancefloor. While the new Anjunabeats’ “Zeppelin” was a total turn-off, tracks like “JS16 – My Rosegarden”, “Sebastian – Ross Ross Ross” and “Mark Knight – Columbian Soul” made the downstairs of Dyyni go mental.
Getting stuck into progressive and electro house for the full three hours was nothing but pleasing. I think there is much more original trance feeling in several progressive house tracks these days than what you can find when browsing through the labels dedicated purely to (prog)trance.
Big thanks to open and crrrazy Kalajoki crowd, the superb nice staff of Dyyni – and Kaasi, who keeps on doing one of the most remarkable club series in the north. A couple of photos available here, videos available soon on the media page.
WEDNESDAY
8.8.2007, 22 – 04, K18, 3€ @ Rose Garden / Helsinki
CLUB ELITE – High quality summer clubbing every Wednesday.
ROSE GARDEN, Iso Roobertinkatu 10 HELSINKI.
08.08.2007 | 22.00 – 04.00 | Tickets 3 eur | Age Limit 18.
· MEKE (DI.fm, Flux, Resurrection, RAD)
· ORION (Misc Management)
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SATURDAY
11.8.2007, 23 – 04, K18 @ Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa / Kalajoki
:: DJ ORION
:: DJ KAASI
:: VENUE
Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa
Tuomipakkaintie 59, 85100 Kalajoki (Hiekkasärkät)
Tel. 08- 466 710 | >>www
:: DATE & TIME
Every Summer Saturday 2007. Open 23.00 – 04.00
:: WWW
myspace.com/sunburntheclub
Info, photos, links and charts.
Last night’s gig in Mango, Kempten, Germany was very, very nice. The people were extremely friendly and the atmosphere was very cosy. I truly enjoy playing in these 200+ clubs instead of big 1000+ halls. There’s so much more intimacy and interaction in the small ones.
What comes to music, the night proved (once again) the international potential of Danceteria label and Finnish (electro) house production scene. Tracks like My Rosegarden and a bit older Heikki L’s remix of Honey and Jussi Polet’s Positive etc were the tracks of the night, no question.
Big thanks to Alfredo & co. for all the promotion and work and the super nice staff of Mango for uncompromised hosting. Big up!
Hallmark was great, big thanks to Joonas, Lauri & co. for an invitation. Due to “Palms” theme and very nice summer weather, it felt more than appropriate to play more moody progressive house instead of trance.
Orion @ Hallmark 16.06.2007
01. George G, Livio & Roby – Monochrome
02. Roland Klinkenberg, DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait
03. 16 Bit Lolitas – Goodbye Pluto
04. Blue Foundation – Sweep (16 Bit Lolitas Vox)
05. Dousk – Anagram (Chris Nemmo mix)
06. Damien Strong – Love Shop (DJ Orion edit)
07. Pryda – RYMD
08. Quivver – Dancing In Dark Rooms
09. Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Sven Weber remix)
10. Ossie – Holy Land
11. Joonas Hahmo – Together
12. David West – ID
13. Graham & Blades – Argie Bargie
14. Matthew Dekay – Timeless (Digifruitella Dub)
15. The Disco Brothers – Inner Sense (Orion’s Sun & Funk edit)
16. Winkee – Will I (Simon Templar remix)
17. David West – Searching for Substance
18. Cass & Slide – Perception
Romance was awesome, big thanks to Flight & Link for making such an effort. It really seems Tampere is raising its head as a quality clubbing city after several year of just (semi-)successful one-offs. After Miau! quitted, Tampere has lacked a regular, well advertised and hi-quality club – until now.
Romance seemed to bring back tiny fraction of the original Tampere-fiilis and showed that organizing a club isn’t just printing flyers and booking a venue & deejays.
Roses, heart-shaped pieces of chocolate, cake, candles, “Afterdate” afterparty and this whole wordplay around “Commence your Romance” really worked. People were excited :)
Some videos below.
Saturday 2.6.2007, 22 – 04, K18, 7e @ Laterna / Tampere
Heikki Liimatainen [dallas superstars]
Orion [misc management]
Flight [resident]
Åke Kanaria [plauge] Jukster [plauge] drS [plauge]
more info: http://klubitus.org/tapahtuma.php?id=10871
Download the live recordings here.
PART1
Karren & Porter – Half Light
Alexis Tyrel – Rebecca Loos (Gui Boratto remix)
Silicone Soul – 3AM
Dousk – Caribou
Slytek – Delirious
Antena – Camino Del Sol (Orion re-edit)
Gamma Rox – Magical
Dousk – Anagram (Chris Nemmo remix)
Shlomi Aber – Bagpipe
James Harcourt – Tease
Infinitize – Around Us (Rene Amesz remix)
PART2
Emjae – Vanity
Powerplant – Blame (Luke Chable remix)
Niels Van Gogh – Pulverturm 2.0 (Eric Smax & Thomas Gold remix)
Burufunk – Midnight Run
Orbital – Halcyon & On & On (remix)
Damian Strong – Love Shop
Fine Taste – More Grey Than Blue
Mark Sinclair – Electric Sun (David Forbes 5am Mix)
Chris Nemmo & Andrew Eskay – Affectation (Dousk Dub Electro)
Heikki L – Let The Bass Kick
Tonight. Orion’s 3 hour warm-up set for David West (Go West, Antiloop, Sweden).
Read the event details.
Experimenting with Jackbooth for the second time was once again nice. Building the booth took less time and everything worked well. We got better colors to the photos, but the pictures still remained a bit unsharp. I guess it’s the matter of shooting through the glass.
Nearly 170 photos were shot which was a bit less than last time, but I had to delete only a few. So, after all, the final number of photos from both nights remained around 160 which means one photo every two minutes.
The photos can be seen at www.jackthehouse.org. I’m currently uploading some material to Flickr and Youtube, check the Jaiku stream to stay completely updated.
Kiksukissa:
Kouvola rocked. Call me an old fart, but I just love these 10 year anniversaries. It was a good excuse to pack in all the old trance and techno classics. Not only the obvious ones, but the tracks which you’ve loved for a decade already.
I hadn’t planned to play these 2000+ tracks that many, but I was surprised that for example U Know Y worked much better than Lost Soul Society. Maybe the majority of the audience hadn’t been there for ten years yet.
However, the end of the night proved (once again) that techno is still timeless. Period. Great party, very good feeling and nice people. Here’s the tracklist:
Orion @ Ten Years of Techmu 02:00-03:30
Faithless – Salva Mea (Sister Bliss remix)
Ambassador – The Fade (Fade mix)
Armin – Lost Soul Society
PvD vs BT – Namastai
Moguai – U Know Y (Starecase remix)
Tilt – Children
Kayashi – Furyo (Tevendales Tunnel Mix)
Midway – Monkey Forest
Olive – You’re Not Alone (Oakenfold & Osbourne remix)
Tiesto & Junkie XL – Obsession (Frank Biazzi remix)
Bryan Zentz – D-Clash
Jeff Mills – The Bells
Dave Clarke pres. Red Three – Storm
Thomas Krome – Woodcarver’s Nightmare
Hertz – Recreate (Montana re-edit)
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Mauro Picotto – Hong Kong
A short video from VisualiSointeja group first performance. Experimenting the combination of electronic music, classical music and interactive visuals.
Expect Youtube sound and picture quality(tm).
