Underworldlive.com screenshot. Check the picture in the middle.
Photo: Antimega
Some videos from the gig. (Thanks, Pasi!)
Still looking forward to the hi-quality content.
Helsingin Sanomat
‘Underworld tarjoili tuhdin rytmipaketin
Julkaistu: 19:42
Koneisto Liven tähdeksi saadun brittiläisen Underworld-yhtyeen keikka jouduttiin siirtämään odotettua heikomman lipunmyynnin takia Jäähallista pienempään Koiton saliin, mutta järjestäjien tappio oli itse konsertin voitto.
Yhtyettä ennakoitua pienempi estradi ei näyttänyt haittaavan. Kolmimiehisenä kiertävä Underworld tarjoili kahden ja puolen tunnin mittaisen rytmipaketin, joka sai saliin ahtautuneen ihmismassan hyvin liikkeeseen, Juha Merimaa kirjoittaa arviossaan.
“Musiikillisesti yhtye korosti kappaleiden tanssittavuutta antamalla biiteille kosolti aikaa kehittyä. Esimerkiksi yhtyeen suurimman hitin Born Slippyn biitti paisutettiin salia vavistavaksi jo ennen kuin Hyde aloitti kappaleen maanisen julistuksen.”‘
You brought light in.
Spinni’s 10-year anniversary event was all you could expect from the Tampere-fiilis revival which has been going on for a while now already. The party was well organized and I’ve never seen I-Klubi so well decorated (except at MIR club in ’99 when FuFu organization boys used a hell of amount of black garbage bags to make the club totally black from the floor to the ceiling). Especially the smoke machine was well installed (see the photo below)
The amount of audience really surprised me and the variety of clubbers was the greatest challenge of the night: Basically only few people knew the oldskool “hits” and the most were pretty confused of Aphex Twin’s Polynomial C as the set starter. But then again – those who had come to the event to hear the music from the past 10 years didn’t expect to hear the latest progressive house/trance tracks. The result was some sort of fusion of those two: old tracks combined to fresh releases. Check the tracklist here.
The afterparty was great, too. It was really refreshing to see a new underground venue in Tampere and jump into an afterparty where the music consisted mostly of techno – especially Hexe blew off the roof with his 3-deck set. Mad. Just like at Pinninkatu back in the day! ;)
Trust no copies. This is the real thing.
Let’s post these when we still can. Universal and other major labels are planning to sue YouTube due to spreading copyrighted material. That’s just like… shooting yourself to foot.
(via Niko’s blog)
If you’re into any kind of chill-out/ambient music, I highly recommend you to check out the latest album of General Fuzz, called Messy’s Pace.
The album is completely free. >> General Fuzz’s website.
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For a flyer freak like me, it was fun to get a copy of Club Unity’s latest flyer. The flyer itself is a DVD disk which contains a video of Unity’s past – 10 years of parties.
If you can’t get a copy of the DVD itself, there’s always a possibility to download the video in Quicktime format >> Club Unity 10 Year Anniversary Video.
Oh, it seems to be in YouTube as well. (Thanks, Niko)
Flickr finally started to support geotagging in an easy way. Also users seem to be quite happy about it – during the first 24 hours 1,234,384 photos were geotagged according to Flickr blog.
But (There’s always a “but”).
We’re not living in America and Flickr doesn’t use Google Maps but Yahoo Maps instead. This combination is not too good if you’re willing to geotag your photos manually to a certain street in Helsinki – or any other city in Finland. You just can’t zoom in, there’s no information available. Yahoo Maps is too far behind if you compare it to the Google Maps.
But still – despite the inaccuracy – it’s quite fascinating to browse through the photos on the map. Take a look:
Geotagged Flickr photos in Helsinki or in Oulu or how about southern New Zealand..
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.
This time the content of the fortune cookie really hit me. More bass? :)
I wonder why Siemens never brought this refrigerator type to Finland…
Not to mention this oven:
Visiting Germany was once again very rewarding. Local record stores didn’t fail me – and so didn’t Bruce ;) Did you know that the Die Hard hero has released music on Motown? Neither did I.
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…
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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