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RMJ – Mecano Beach & Dance Factory

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A couple of videos and photos from this year’s RMJ Festival, Kirjurinluoto, Pori. The content is from Thursday, the first day of festival, with JS16, Heikki L, Lank, Vertigo, Mio and me. Thanks for the nice company and the first RMJ gig experience :)

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Heikki L Tanssi-illan biisivieraana

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DJ Orion @ YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 24.06.2008
“In summer, the song sings itself.” -William Carlos Williams

Ensi Tiistain Tanssi-illan biisivieraana 24.06.2008 Dallas Superstarsin myötä julkisuuteen noussut ja nykyisin sooloprojekteillaan huomiota herättävä Heikki L, joka vaikuttaa myös muunmuassa Cristal Snow:n tuottajajoukossa. Kesäkuulumisten lisäksi Heikiltä kuullaan viimeisintä housetuotantoa Pitäjänmäen studioilta.

Biisivieras Tiistain Tanssi-illassa joka toinen viikko. DJ Orionin tunnilla klo 21-22 esittäytyvät vieraat kuuluvat Suomen elektronisen musiikin artistien kärkikaartiin ja tuovat ohjelmaan oman musiikillisen antinsa esittelemällä valitsemansa biisin.

24.6. Tanssi-illassa tarjolla biisivieraan lisäksi aimo annos kesähousea. Asialla muunmuassa Axwell, Guru Josh, Jerome Isma-Ae, Flight & Jontey sekä Robert Miles pienen bootlegin muodossa. Tanssi-illan ekan tunnin päätteeksi vielä pienet rytmit tämän päivän Hollanti-trancea.

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RMJ @ Pori

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RMJ

One of the biggest midsummer festivals in Finland, RMJ Festival, moves this year from Rauma to Kirjurinluoto, Pori. The festival starts this Thursday, 19.6. and ends two days later.

I’ll be playing on the Dance Factory stage the last set of Thursday, apprx. 00:00-01:30 (TBC). I’m very excited of the possibility of being there, I think it’s going to be a night to remember.

Full festival information is available at www.rmj.fi. See also the Festival Artist List.

… and Justice for all

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Waiting for Justice

The wait is over. Provinssi Rock 2008 offered Finland Justice’s first live set. Justice had gotten a gig offer for the same date from the States, but they refuse playing in the daylight. Because the gig before Radiohead would have been open air, they rather came to Finland where X-Stage tent granted enough darkness for the show.

I was nearly as excited of seeing Justice live as I was when waiting Underworld to appear on stage in Helsinki a year (or two?) ago.
It was awesome. I had seen a couple of videos of their performances, but I had never realized that those Marshall amplifiers are actually light effects and don’t contain any sound components. Very cool effect when they turned them on.

Justice started with Genesis, played the through the obvious hits (DVNO, D.A.N.C.E, We Are Your Friends), introduced two or three new, very strong tracks, played AUTO remix of Stress, mashed-up version of Phantom and finished the 1h 15min set with their version of Metallica’s Master of Puppets including samples from “The Party“.

The sound was very clear and even pretty low in the beginning. But even the sound pressure was low there was definitely a nice amount pressure on the audience, especially on the first rows. Young people totally drunk and with “rock attitude” made sure there were enough elbows to dodge. You could clearly feel you were on a festival and not on a 22-years-and-up club. Maybe I’m just getting old (or never quite gotten the rock festival glamour thing), but I enjoy more concentrating on the music than trying to stay on my feet when the band is on the stage.

However, Justice played a very charismatic live set and being there was a truly cool experience. If you have a possibility of seeing Justice live, just go for it – they are even better than what you have heard.
P.S. If you’re interested, here are a couple of ProvinssiRock cameraphone photos

Oh, of course YouTube had a video of the Master of Puppets remix:
 

Finnish music on Pete Tong’s Fast Trax

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Pete Tong’s Fast Trax show has Bedroom Bedlam Chart section which introduces three tracks from bedroom producers. The biggest tracks can be signed to Bedroom Bedlam label. This week Bedroom Bedlam Chart includes a summer filter house track from Tampere, Finland: Flight & Jontey – Sangria. Support the Finnish talents and give your vote. No registration needed for voting.

Funny coindidence: While I’m writing this I end up reading that Peter Gabriel thinks internet has a bad influence on music (article in Finnish). Right…

Anyway, congratulations to Flight & Jontey – No doubt you’ll hear Sangria on the next (24.6.) Tiistain Tanssi-ilta, too.

JS16 Ylen Fläshbäkissä

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Ylen Fläshbäkissä kerrataan arkistomateriaalin voimin Jaakko Salovaaran uraa. Mieheltä ilmestyi hiljattain uusi single JS16-nimellä kymmenen vuotta esikoislevyn julkaisun jälkeen. Salovaaran ja Heikki Liimataisen duo Dallas Superstarsin biisi päätyi jalkapalloilun EM-kisojen tunnusmusiikiksi.

Haastiksen parhainta antia on ehdottomasti JS16:n puheet “eräästä Darudesta”, jolta löytyi yksi kiinnostava biisi, joka nyt julkaistaan… :)

Kuuntele haastattelu (MP3) kesto: 1.53 

via Yle web 

Promot ja niiden levittäminen

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Promolevyjen myynnistä väännetään kättä maailmalla

Levy-yhtiöiden markkinointitarkoituksessa lähettämien promootiolevyjen omistusoikeutta ratkotaan oikeusteitse Britanniassa ja Yhdysvalloissa.
Levy-yhtiöiden markkinointitarkoituksessa lähettämien promootiolevyjen omistusoikeutta ratkotaan oikeusteitse Britanniassa ja Yhdysvalloissa. Toimittajille, radioille ja tiskijukille lähetettävissä levyissä kielletään erikseen niiden jälleenmyynti tai levittäminen. Levyjä päätyy kuitenkin myyntiin ja internet-jakeluun, välillä myös ennen albumin julkaisua.

Mielenkiintoinen uutinen. Yhdysvalloissa päästiin jo ratkaisuun, joka jätti promojensaajat rankaisematta. Tämän mukaan promolistalla olevat saavat tehdä saamallaan musiikilla mitä haluavat.

Elektronisen musiikin puolella hämmentävää on, että monet vertaisverkoissa levitettävät kopiot lähtevät liikkeelle nimenomaa DJiden saamista mp3-promoista. Promopooleihin ei kokemukseni mukaan ole suunnattoman helppoa päästä, joten täytyy kysyä mikä motiivi sinne päässeillä on laittaa saamansa musiikki julkiseen levitykseen?

Misc. Management website preview

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Misc website, front page

Here’s the preview to the brand new Misc Management website. It will be online any day now (most likely on Friday / Saturday). Above is the main page and below you see how the artist pages are going to look like.

Let’s take a closer look at the features.

1) If you don’t like the background colour, come back later. Misc website has a built-in emotion detector which changes the background colour to match the current feeling of the user. It’s not a perfect detector, but expect the colour change at least once in an hour ;)

2) As you see below, all the artist pages are powered with YouTube and Flickr. Flickr integration allows Flickr users add photos to the galleries and on the artist pages (kind of similar thing what you already saw on the Metaverse Tour) and simplifies sharing the latest artist promo pictures.
YouTube enables us to add fan videos and tracks directly from YouTube to our site. This is pretty simple 2.0. stuff, but after browsing through many agency website I couldn’t find any which would actively use similar features.

3) On Events and Collaborations section you can find bigger Flickr galleries going back to the early years of Misc (We are already 8 years old in July :) and detailed information of the past partnerships with different companies. Also the DJ list is finally up-to-date.

4) Many thanks to Tuomo and Niko for great and professional php help and tips during the project. Huge thank-yous go to Viljami who designed and put the site together and put his time and heart on the code. Viljami is a very professional and nice guy – keep your eye on him for the future for any 3D, Flash, CSS or webdesign tasks. Thanks to all the friends who tested the site and gave your improvement comments, we are working on them.

See www.misc.fi on Friday/Saturday this week to give a test drive to the new site.

Misc website, artist page

YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 10.06.2008

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DJ Orion @ YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 10.06.2008
“Enter night.”

Tiistain Tanssi-ilta tracklist 10.06.2008
01. Tiger Stripes – Beach Buggy (Motorcitysoul Ambient mix) (Urbantorque)
02. Booka Shade – Outskirts (Babelsberg mix) (Get Physical)
03. Elastic Sound – Moscow After Autumn Rain (Ricky Ryan Edit) (Sick Watona)
04. Mango – Friday Coffee (Paul Keeley remix) (Add2Basket)
05. Heikki L & Mr.A – Viola (CDr) *** VIIKON BIISIVIERAS
06. Junkie XL – Cities In Dust (King Unique remix) (Artwerk)
07. Sultan & Ned Shepard – Jeopardy (16 Bit Lolitas remix) (Shinichi)
08. Dinka – Ordinary People (Unreleased Digital)
09. Jaytech – Groove Nova (AnjunaDeep)
10. Inkfish, Synergy, Davester – Rejections (Inkfish Rec.)
11. Robimon feat. Tiff Lacey – Goodbye (Cressida remix) (MPFS)
12. Meck – So Strong (Frenetic)

Tiistain Tanssi-ilta links 10.06.2008
Universal Music Group spent $180K lobbying in 1Q 
Dubfire’s roots return 

Viikon suosituimmat musiikkisivustot 
Basso ja Ben&Jerry’s siivoustalkoissa

Listen Tiistain Tanssi-ilta again on YleX Areena (works in Finland only):
http://areena.yle.fi/hae?pid=195876

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Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 10.06.2008 preview

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YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 10.06.2008
“Enter night.”

Tiistain Tanssi-illan ekan tunnin artisteina tällä viikolla David West, Booka Shade, Mango, Junkie XL, Jaytech, Dinka ja Robimon ja labelipuolella uutta matskua mm. AnjunaDeepiltä, Add2Basketilta ja Sick Watonalta.

Tanssi-illan biisivieraana tällä viikolla pitkän linjan DJ-veteraani ja Danceteria-brändin isä, Mr.A uunituoreen oman raidan kera.
Ekan tunnin tracklist, biisiäänestys ja linkit heti klo 22:00 saitilla: 
http://orion.reaktio.net

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Changed to WordPress

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This blog went through one of the biggest changes in years when I updated everything below the surface from Movable Type 4 to WordPress. Until version 4 came out I was very happy what I could do with Movable Type, but the user experience of the latest version was incredibly bad. I decided to give a try and install WordPress and I have to say I’ve been very happy with it. Very easy to install, edit and use. I’m sure you can still find lots of things which don’t work as well they used to, but everything should be running perfectly before the weekend. There will be some “new” features available as soon as tomorrow, check back.
I’m troubleshooting like there’s no tomorrow, but if you find any problems or get any errors, please let me know. Geeky geek.

YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 27.5.2008

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YleX – Tiistain Tanssi-ilta 27.05.2008
“Yes We Can to justice and equality.”

01. House Music United – Yes We Can (Reinvent Music)
02. Claes Rosen – I Want (Paul Keeley Mix / Ricky Ryan edit) (Brown Eyed Boyz)
03. Jay Lumen – Calypso (Anjunadeep)
04. The Jay Lumen Vibe – Siren (Electronic Elements)
05. Michael Cassette – Shadows Movement (Komytea remix) (Anjunadeep)
06. Ørjan Nielsen – La Guitarra (Armind)
07. Agent K, Bella – Sierra Leone (The Phat Riderz remix) (Digital Records)
08. Heikki L – Classic (Fektive)
09. Flight & Jontey – Dirtyback (CDr) ** VIIKON BIISIVIERAS
10. Maurice – Feline (Original Union Mix) (Distinct’ive)
11. Mike Foyle – Pandora (The Blizzard remix) (Armind)
12. Nitrous Oxide – Cornflake (Anjunabeats)

Tiistain Tanssi-ilta links 27.05.2008
Music’s Goth Phase
Way Out West 1995 set
Hybrid’s YouTube channel
ISOS 7 tracklist revealed
Mixmag 25th Anniversary poll results
Quivver’s artist album out soon

Listen Tiistain Tanssi-ilta again on YleX Areena (works in Finland only):
http://areena.yle.fi/hae?pid=195876

Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ KLUBITUS
Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ IRC-GALLERIA
Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ FACEBOOK
Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ YLEX