Chilly, sunny sundays are worth taking a couple of photographs. This sunday Kemijoki looked really cool – partly open and the black water seemed to boil. Check the video, too – it’s quite hypnotic :)
Black water.
Kemijoki boiling. See it big (click).
Back home again. A round of Carcassonne.
The best and the most addictive game ever.
More Rovaniemi-photos.
Yes, quite true, it’s not Sunday yet, but there is still a couple of hours time to read this and download the recommended music to reach the high level of Sunday Chill-out Feeling(tm) in time.
While writing my thesis (already 50 pages, hooray!:) I’ve been listening quite an amount of music. I happened to find some really nice free downloads, which definitely are worth recommending. Check:
Turnus – Valedictions EP
Brilliant and simply beautiful chill-out tunes. TJEU: Pale Paper Horse.
Xerxes – The Mirror Formula
Norwegian chill-out. “Silky textures, hypnotizing grooves, rich production…“. TJEU: Christmas Layers
The other releases on the netlabel Hellven seem to be quite hi-quality, too. So, go and download them :)
The last recommendation comes from Niko Nyman’s weblog. He recommended Dark Farmer’s ambient album which has been in a heavy rotation (somehow this expression doesn’t fit so well to mp3s as vinyls ;) so far. Check Niko’s blog entry for more info about the artist.
First of all I have to admit that I’m quite surprised. Worldwide Music Selections (WMS) podcast started as a small project, which was supposed just to gather good music into one place and share it automatically to all those who are interested. We thought that there wouldn’t be so many people willing to download podcasted music recommended by someone who they don’t even know.
Well, we were wrong. Despite the xmas holiday and two-week update break we got over 100 subscribers in the first 2,5 weeks and the amount is rising.
We are also getting really good recommendations from you for mixes to podcast – keep on sending them :) And thanks to all of you who are listening to WMS – we will work hard to find you more exclusive and hi-quality stuff to listen. Many times a week :)
Alongside WMS, also Orion’s podcast is now updated. What is available, is a trance mix from last spring, previously unreleased and full of melodic tracks with quite a big variety of trance’s sub-genres.
Subscribe to Orion’s podcast HERE.
Subscribe to Worldwide Mix Selections HERE.
This must have been one of the longest breaks with writing this blog, happy to be online again – there are lots of things to share.
Once again, the 10-day trip to Germany was more than successful. When it’s about record stores, Germany seems to be THE promised land for finding hard-to-find rarities and oldskool classics. After browsing through three of my favourite stores in Augsburg, I was sure to have problems with bringing all the vinyls back to Finland. Nevertheless – they never check the weight of your hand luggage and that’s usually the only way to smuggle 20 extra kilos of records to Finland.
This time I found some old Hooj Choons and Zyx classics, a couple of old Perfecto promos, old Sasha, some new remixes of Guru Josh’s Infinity, Bizarre Inc, Grace, Mandala, Joey Negro, BT, Program 2 Beltram and really huge amount of old Tilt/Quivver/John Graham productions and remixes.
One of the funniest of these remixes is Mozaic’s The Hallelujah Song, which samples – surpriseee!! – Dr. Alban’s Sing Hallelujah. Quivver’s Dirty Dub is really entertaining, but can’t definitely be played on any serious taken club night :) Was this stuff really played in 1995? :D
Better John Graham productions include for example remix of Lazonby’s Sacred Cycles and h-u-g-e co-production Funky Summa. Great records.
Just when leaving the last store, I decided still to listen the long player of Mylo – Destroy Rock ‘n Roll. I was aware of the hits (who wouldn’t?) Drop The Pressure, In My Arms and Destroy Rock n’ Roll so I skipped them and listened shortly to the other tracks on the LP. I really have to recommend this album – all these “hits” are definitely the least interesting tracks on the record. It includes great funky tracks such as “Rikki” (“Broken” in Finnish, funny co-incident), melodic yet electronic house tunes and really atmospheric chill/deep-house tunes such as the last three tracks. Check it out – I should have found the album earlier – I seemed to judge the whole album by just hearing the Chart tunes. Anyway, I’m happy to get it now.
In case you didn’t know, I’m a huge fan of Underworld. There couldn’t have been better a better homecoming gift than hearing that they’ve released a new album. Underworld’s live recordings have always been great (Everything, Everything and incredible online unofficial double CD-release Bootleg Babies, which seems to be offline at the moment – make sure to download it if you’ll find it. The original version was available in dirty.org but I didn’t find it there anymore.)
But back to the subject – also the new Underworld-album is an online release. Or can you even call it an album – it’s a series of two mixed releases, both including 6-7 tracks.
“the idea is to give us the chance to stretch out into areas we have only been able to touch on with traditional album releases, and give you the listener an underworld experience over the time it takes to listen to one side of an old vinyl album.”
-rick and karl
Underworld’s “lovely broken thing” and “pizza for eggs” are available at http://www.underworldlive.com/index/shop.html. The price includes the music, covers and hundreds of photographs shot by Karl. Previews available.
Aaaand – last but not least. I found an interesting podcast – Beatfreakx.nl podcasts many of their radio shows. Finally a podcast which releases new music often and with big variety of genres. To subscribe, copy this feed to your player: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Beatcast
If you own iTunes, just click here.
Here’s all for now, catch you later :)
Worldwide Mix Selections Podcast is now available also in iTunes Music Store. So – if you happen to have iTunes, just click here and see the details of the podcast and – of course – free. Also subscribing is way too easy.
Feel free to spread the link.
And hey – if you happen to have any good recommendations for WMS, just send them to us via the shoutbox on our page. And if you feel like joining the team and choosing the mixes to podcast, just mail us.
I just realized what an amount of different applications I’m using in the net. In a way it’s easy – as my email is forwarded through Gmail and my bookmarks are in del.icio.us, I’m not tied at all to a certain computer while using the net.
Alongside those two (which seem to be the most important), I’ve gotten addicted to some other services too. If you are not so familiar with some of these, try them out if you’re bored during the xmas holiday. Easy way to kill a lot of time :)
Flickr – I ordered the Pro-account to be able to upload there all the photos which I have and which I shoot. Great service with quite good usability too. Check the interesting photos from the past 7 days.
Blogilista – The list of Finnish blogs. This is what I use to read the really important news of the Finnish Blogland ;)
Movielens – You rate the movies which you’ve seen and movielens recommends you more by your taste. I’ve never been disappointed with the top 10 recommendations.
Platinum, Klubitus, NTF – And this is what they call the scene of Finland…;)
Inselkampf – A browser-based online game. Easy, simple, slow – and addictive. A friend of mine just recommended me Travian – I have to check that out soon too.
Then of course writing this blog and hosting two podcasts – DJ Orion’s Podcast and brand new Worldwide Mix Selections.
And then they wonder why I don’t have so much time for nearly anything. I’m just lying that I’m working for my thesis… ;)
As this blog and the main page is getting more and more visitors from abroad (Spain, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, US, UK, Russia etc…), I started to think it would be a good idea to share some thoughts also in English.
I spent the Sunday afternoon in Flickr making it easier to browse the online flyer collection which I have there. First I uploaded over 50 new flyers and then tagged most of the flyers and sorted them by the city.
It means that now you can easily see some Finnish flyer art and compare the art of clubbing in different cities.
Try it: Flyers from Rovaniemi, Oulu, Haapavesi, Helsinki, Tampere, Turku , Kalajoki and Raahe. Or just see Flyers from Northern Finland or All Flyers. And my favourite: Oldskool flyers.
While searching for the new flyers to add, I found some nice pieces of art. Take a look:
Katharsis-event in Helsinki – really simple and quite unusual style. Only two colours on the front side and three on the back. If I remember right, their club Rauta had more or less the same style. I wish I’d see more of these.
Discomob in Helsinki. I’m always wondering is club Miau! really the only club in Finland brave enough to use humour on their flyers. This one is a good try – makes you at least read the flyer :) I can’t say whether all this “application”-stuff takes the focus away from the real content – the event information – but at least it’s different.
Aeroloft, Helsinki. This “arrival”/”departure” idea has been used a million times but somehow I like the simplicity of this. Mixing Finnish and English isn’t probably the best idea and this air hostess / nurse mixture is quite confusing, but still… OK, this might still need some improvement, but it succeeds to be relaxing. The logo reminds me of the Russian flag, though. Weird, eh?
We just finished the new music project, Worldwide Mix Selections -Podcast.
Have you ever been frustrated that there are so few sites which offer hi-quality DJ mixes? Would you like getting good music to your computer daily – without a single click? Do you enjoy finding new tracks, new DJs and just new music which you didn’t know before?
Quality Mix Selections is – just as you wish – a website, rss-feed or a podcast. You can download the latest mixes directly from our website – or let them be downloaded automatically to your computer and your portable mp3-player. It doesn’t get any better than this :)
Visit the site and learn more.
