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DJ Orion @ Facebook
> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6941924055
![[reiv:] 24.11.2007 Rose Garden, Helsinki, front](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/1815309147_e4b86b0777_m.jpg)
[reiv:] – It Began In Africa
Rose Garden, Helsinki
Saturday 24.11. | 22-04 | K20 | Tickets 9 €
http://www.reiv.fi & Klubitus event info
Due to some cancellations the schedule is:
Main floor:
22:00-23:30 Orion
23:30-end Mr.A
Micro floor:
22:00-01:15 Soma
01:15-end Orion
Despite the nasty comments I had heard of HTC where Therapy event is being held, I was positively surprised. The sound was very bassheavy, venue bigger than I expected and all-in-all pretty cosy for electronic music events. It’s not too fancy for a bit more rough sound or too warehouse-like for basic house tracks. If one could re-decorate it, I think it would be near-to-perfect venue.
If I really need to find some negative things from a superb Saturday night, they must be technical: I really hate CDJ-200s. They’re far too sensitive for club use – especially if you’re used to the touch of CDJ-800/1000. I ended up using the jog wheel from the very middle to avoid too strong touch, but still it felt very uncertain.
But yes, the Saturday night must have been one of my alltime favourites in Oulu. Therapy was nicely packed, they nearly broke their alltime record. The audience was as good as it gets, very open to different kinds of sound – from minimal and tech influenced house to progressive, electro, breaks and oldskool. Big thanks to Gateway for an invitation and top-notch warm-up set, Kosmo&Reea for lovely hosting & big laughs and Oulu crowd for making such a good party!
Orion @ Club Therapy, Oulu, 17.11.2007, 01:00-03:30
01. Jody Wisternoff – Starstrings (Vocal version)
02. Claes Rosen, Add2Basket – Volaris
03. Tracey Thorn – Grand Canyon (King Unique Come Home Vocal)
04. Shlomi Aber – Moods Feat. Lemon – Valentino Kanzyani Remix
05. Quench – Dreams (Sebastien Leger rmx)
06. Christian Smith, John Selway – High Season
07. Damien Strong – Love Shop
08. Nikitas – Liquid World (Liquid edit)
09. Redroche – No More Sunrise
10. Freza & DJ Flash – Cosmo Girl – Ricky Ryan Edit
11. Electrobios, Audionova – Pacific
12. Damien Strong – Flashback
13. Tasadi, Mike Mikhjian – Zeus (Jay Lumen remix)
14. Eelke Kleijn, Nick Hogendoorn – Where Are My Goggles – Fine Taste Remix
15. Junkie XL – More feat. Lauren Rocket – Matthew Dekay Remix
16. Splittr – All Alone (Original Mix)
17. Human Resource – Dominator (remix)
18. Freeflow 45 – Peaktime
19. The Rogue Element – Dead Drummers
20. House Of Pain – Jump Around (Micky Slim remix)
21. Eric Prydz – Good Life (Eric Prydz Summer 2006 Edit)
22. Resoul – Lets Go To Mexico – Milton Jackson Remix
23. Eddie Thoneick ft. Bonse – Together As One (Klaas Club Mix)
24. ZZT – Lower State Of Consciousness – Justice Remix
25. Patric Alavi – Hell Yeah – Jaimie Fanatic Bad Boy Remix
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26. U96 – Das Boot
Thanks to Gateway for shooting the video.
After a one year break it was nice to return to Kajaani’s Club96 with Kaasi. This must have been the third or fourth six hour backtoback session with him, so things went as smoothly as expected. During the years we’ve gotten lots of musical influences from each other and even though the variety of sounds in our sets has remained the same, at the same time it has gotten easier and more relaxed and natural to play together. Kaasi must be one of the very few DJs I really enjoy playing b2b with – normally b2b sets are just full of compromises, but with him things really seem to evolve further.
It was funny to notice that one year ago we both carried full vinyl crates with us and now the amount of vinyls had reduced to ten or less. If we’ll return again in one year – or even earlier, I hope – we might only have USB-sticks with us, who knows.
Kajaani audience was once again very welcoming, it was very nice to meet all the old fellows and some new faces, too. Progressive house spiced with some bootlegs turned out to be an enjoyable mixture for the night. Really looking forward to go back there again.
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Autumn 2007 Dance Tools mix tracklist is now available on the mixes site.
This week:
SUNSHINE
Wednesday 14.11.2007, 22-04, Age:18, Free Entry. Nightclub Diva / Lahti
Orion, Blender, Niklas N, Mania, Kriss G
TOGETHER
Friday 16.11.2007, 22-04, Age:18, 5€. Club 96 / Kajaani
Orion, Kaasi
THERAPY
Saturday 17.11.2007, 22-04, Age:18, 5€. Club HTC / Oulu
Orion, Gateway
> Club Therapy website
DJ Orion – From Rural To Urban #3 (chill-out)
Tracklist:
01. Rolfe Kent – Walk To Hitching Post
02. Dream Catcher – High Spirits
03. Flashbaxx – Livingroom Adventures
04. Alpaca Heads – Sushi @ Sydney
05. BT – 1.618
06. Sleepy Town Manufacture – Let A
07. Harold Budd – Flowered Knife Shadows
08. Thomas Newman – Any Other Time
09. Sleepy Town Manufacture – Not A Big Deal
10. Nest – Cad Goddeu
11. Navarro – Future Nature
12. Ulrich Schnauss – Monday – Paracetamol
13. + Bonus Track
Previous parts available on the Downloads site.
Today’s featured guest mix on the podcast comes from nrvnet from The Hydrogen Cafe. He sends a very original and beautiful chill-out mix, perfect music for the dark autumn evenings.
Read more about nrvnet and download more mixes:
http://hydrogencafe.blogspot.com/
nrvnet – Orion’s Podcast Guest Mix
Tracklist:
A new chill-out mix, From Rural To Urban #2, now available and downloadable.
Orion – From Rural To Urban #2
01. BT – Childhood Montage
02. Aphilas – Blind Matador Techniques
03. Digital Midgets – We Always Have Been
04. Motionfield – More Like Friends
05. Phil Mison – Rain
06. Tom Middleton – Yearning
07. Dale Anderson, Anil Chawla – Pimento Grove
08. Trentemoller – While The Cold Winter Waiting
09. Diatonis – Io Anfos
10. Global Communication – 8 07 (Maiden Voyage)
11. Talisman & Hudson – Leaving Planet Earth
12. Groove Armada – Paris
13. + Bonus Track
>> Download!
Orion’s Top Choices 17/10/2007
01. Splitter – All Alone
02. Hybrid – Finished Symphony (Deadmau5 remix)
03. David West – Good Cause
04. DJ Stranger – Requiem (Drive Dealers remix)
05. Josef Plante – Get Me Thru (Burufunk remix)
06. Freeflow 45 – Peaktime
07. Bart Van Wissen – Concentrate
08. Dana Bergqvist – Pole Vault (Add2Basket remix)
09. Paul Keeley – Tokyo Midnight
10. Underworld – Crocodile
DJ Orion @ Jack Season Opening 12.10.2007
22:00-00:00
Michelangelo – Jambala (Silicone Soul remix)
Razoof – Dub on the Beach (Razoof & Emanuel’s dub mix)
Kerri Chandler – Bar a Thym (Tom Middleton’s Cosmos remix)
Miguel Migs – Don’t Stand There
Skylark – When in Rome
Andy Cato – Cosmic Force (Soul Minority remix)
Paul Woolford – Journey to Java
Scope – Call It Deep
Tigerskin – Push the Patton
DJ Stranger – Requiem (Drive Dealers remix)
Underworld – Crocodile
Petter – Freak’n’love (Dousk Vectored mix)
Erika Jayne – Roller Coaster (Mark Knight’s Toolroom dub)
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (bootleg)
Unknown – Untitled
Booka Shade – Mandarine Girl (bootleg)
Let’s Go To Mexico (Milton Jackson remix)
Paolo Mojo – Jmj
Splitter – All Alone
The Rogue Element – Dead drummers
I couldn’t expect anything from the Inspiration event in Kotka beforehand. The party was supposed to take place in an underground parking hall but due to permission and licence problems the concept and venue had to be changed in a very short notice.
I was expecting the new venue to be an ordinary club, but when I got there I was happy I had that one wrong. The place was a palace, with a theatre-style rising dance floor, huge terrace, ceiling and walls made out of glass and mad sound system & lights. With a Finnish autumn weather it was a bit chilly at first, but I could imagine the venue to be even more amazing for a proper midsummer night’s party.
And did I mention the audience was great? It was fantastic. Big thanks to the organizers for an invitation and the audience for making a great party.
See some more footage after the jump.
Now on the podcast: “Orion – Autumn 2007 Dance Tools”
Breaks, house & progressive of Autumn 2007.
David West, Aphex Twin, Kris B, Mauro Picotto, Slyde etc…
For more, see http://orion.reaktio.net/media.php
I just realized it’s been one year since I joined Misc. Management team. It’s been an incredible year with Peled brothers and the artists we support (and who support us :). Even though the year has passed unbelievably fast, it’s been full of good moments – and hard work. Big thanks for everyone making this possible.
At the moment we are working on DJ Orkidea’s album release tour, starting early next year. I’s going to be a tour to remember, loads of new add-ons, fresh, trendy & cool supporters, interesting artists and venues. In addition to the tour, I’m also looking forward to Misc revealing the new foreign artist on the roster. He’s cool, classic and very oldskool. For the upcoming updates, see www.misc.fi – and while waiting, download a couple of mixes, there are some new ones around.
The flyer scanning project is over and it was time to grab some new stuff to scan. Not that I particularly love scanning, but it’s more or less cool to digitalize part of the electronic music history in Finland. I got Orkidea’s techno article collection and scanned over 150 news articles and old magazine advertisements starting from 1993. They are just awesome – the grand old men of techno looking like school boys, talking very serious about this new thing called techno music and guys like Sam Inkinen ranting about machines and techno philosophy. They’ll be published on Orkidea’s site first and then right here. While waiting, check the online Flyer Collection which just got bigger and exceeded the limit of 1600 flyers.
P.S. The article up there is a story of Grandmaster Flash visiting Finland back in 1985. The original story was released in Suosikki magazine. Mad, isn’t it? :) Found the article from DJ Anonymous’ blog.
Shortly in English:
Huge amount of Finnish flyers now online, nearly 2 gigabytes of new material. See them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/sets/807684/
Ja sitten suomeksi:
Uploadasin loput DJ Orkidean flyerikokoelmasta skannatuista flyereistä myös omalle Flickr-tililleni. Yhteensä Flickrissä on edellämainituista ja omista flyereistä skannattuna reilut 1600 flyeriä eri vuosilta.
Kaikki flyerit ovat nähtävissä osoitteessa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/sets/807684/
Flickr toimii loistavana hakukoneena eri vuosien, bileorganisaatioiden tai tapahtumien flaikkuja etsittäessä. Kokeile vaikka:
Flyereitä vuodelta 1997
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=flyer%201997&w=37218967%40N00
Pussy Clubin flyereitä
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=37218967%40N00&q=flyer+pussy&m=text
Flyereitä Rovaniemeltä
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=37218967%40N00&q=flyer+rovaniemi&m=text
Hakuja pystyy yhdistelemään mitä erilaisimmilla tavoilla, muista vain liittää aina hakuun sana “flyer”.
Jotta hausta saataisiin vielä tehokkaampi, pyydän kaikkia teitä Flickrin käyttäjiä taggaamaan muutama flyeri aina niitä katsellessanne. Tagit löytyvät flyerisivun oikeasta laidasta ja niihin voi lisätä muunmuassa tapahtuman nimen, paikkakunnan, vuoden, tekijän, materiaalin tai muuta tietoa bileistä. Mitä useampi flyeri on tagatty hyvin, sitä enemmän hyötyä online-kokoelmasta on kaikille.
DJ Orkidean kokoelma on nähtävissä myös hänen saitillaan osoitteessa: http://www.djorkidea.com/gallery/flyers/
Shortly before releasing their new album, “Sturm & Drang” , Robosonic hits the podcast with a full-on guest mix. Full of twists and turns, from rocking electro to chilly electronica and grooving minimal, the mix also features rappers Panik Panzer & Kotti Kot and makes it rather a compilation of mash-ups than an ordinary mix. To get more information about Robosonic and the upcoming album, please visit www.robosonic.cc or their MySpace at www.myspace.com/robosonic.
More info about the podcast => http://orion.reaktio.net/media.php
Videos from the Madwave weekend in Tampere & Turku are available on the media page. Some photos available here.
Orion’s Podcast group is now also on Facebook. If you have a profile there, feel free to join.
Link: (needs Facebook registration)
Orion’s Podcast on Facebook
Here’s my profile, too.
Just as a note, Facebook finally managed to make a clean, goodlooking online community and fix all the problems MySpace had. Compared to MySpace, I really enjoy exploring Facebook and trying out new features. I have no problems saying goodbye to MySpace after using Facebook for a couple of weeks.