21 October 2006
Event: Helsinki Koneisto Winter festival
Venue: Old Icehall
Helsinki, Finland
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Everything, everything!
Orion’s podcast was updated a moment ago. A 45min guest mix from DJ Thomas should be on the computers of the subscribers pretty soon. Read more about the guest appearance of DJ Thomas (includes the instructions for subscribing, too)
Guest mix: DJ Thomas (Tornio, Finland)
hernan cattaneo & john tonks – sirocco (renaissance)
echomen – spirit (forensic)
4 tune 500 – dancing in the dark (house works)
redanka – out of the dark (whoop!)
nerva – arzamas-16 (whoop!)
josh gabriel – wave 3, charlie may’s undertow mix (nebula promo)
Enjoy :)
Currently making the last plans for collaborative mixtape with DJ Kaasi, I might be able to promise that it will be online by the end of this month.
I’m excited of the result – last time, in March 2005, we mixed 17 tracks together in 60 minutes. Now we might make it still a bit better. The speed is not the reason of excitement, though. Kaasi has a long background in house music – combining his tracks and style with mine produced already last time an interesting wholeness. Let’s see where it gets this time :)
I spent some of the past days photographing around Pyhä-Luosto. Really amazing landscapes and lots of things to see.
Konemetsä Festival took place in Marttila last weekend. I wasn’t able to get there, but here’s a nice 5min video (100mb) from the event. It shows well what the bright Finnish summer nights are made for :) Also a small video documentary from last year’s event is available on YouTube:
First some sad news. I will stop hosting and casting Worldwide Mix Selections podcast.
Worldwide Mix Selections has been quite a successful project. After the 12th of December ’05 we’ve podcasted over 110 different mixes. Each of them has reached 200-400 subscribers. It’s been a nice way to show that there are SO many good deejays around sharing good music of which most of us hasn’t ever heard.
Anyway, I’ll concentrate from now on only on my private podcast on a monthly basis and leave WMS behind. Might be that there is someone who would like to continue the project but if not, the casts will stop in the near future.
Just a note: Mixes are fully functional and online again. Go grab them.
I just received a guest mix for the podcast from DJ Thomas. I have to admit that the quality of all these guest mixes has really surprised me. Most of them have been made by DJs from Northern Finland which just tells about the huge potential of the region. Every guest mix has also its roots in progressive/trance music which would make one to expect cheesy vocal bigroom tracks – but no: every DJ has really shown that progressive/trance music is still vital and so much more to offer than these top XX chart tracks.
DJ Thomas’ mix makes no exception. According to him, it’s a tribute to the older Renaissance sound: a melodic combination of house, progressive and trance. DJ Thomas has gained reputation in the Jyväskylä/Joensuu area but lives nowadays in Tornio, Northern Finland. He really has eye (or ear:) on quality trance and nice collection of sound which you easily could call oldskool these days. His mixes are more or less rare, so it’s more than nice to receive an exclusive one for this podcast.
Now, subscribe to the podcast and sit back. The new guest mix will be casted any day now.
Hienoja kuvia Ylivieska.orgin otsikon nimisistä juhannuskemuista Kalajoelta. Klikkaa kuvaa.
This year’s Time Tunnel serves the northern music lovers with artists like…
Utah Saints (UK) Decks & FX set.
ACCU (FIN) – LIVE
DJ Burdock (betoni, X-Rust. Tku)
DJ Felix Manell (Soul Seed, Tku)
Time Tunnel facts:
– Saturday 9.9.2006 :: 22.00 – 04.00
– Restaurant Foxia, three different party areas.
Main room, b-eat-z club and Funky Café.
More info: www.handprod.com
Nice visuals with VMS-technology. Check the videos.
Thanks, Bee :)
All models want to perform.
Many of them want to sing.
Ninja Sarasalo seems to be no exception.
VIDEO: Ninja Sarasalo – Fashion (mp4-file)
Updated version of EBTG – Missing (Orion’s Lost and Found remix) is now available. The sound should be slightly better and more clear now, some minor changes to guitars and effects done, too.
The previous version was already supposed to be the final, so this one definitely is ;)
Download EBTG – Missing (Orion’s Lost and Found remix) here.
Hevi- ja kitaramusiikin paremmuutta muunmuassa konemusiikkiin nähden painottava Sue-lehti kirjoitti tammikuussa “asiantuntijan ottein” arvion DJ Orkidean uudesta levystä.
Viimeistään Lordin myötä Suomessa överiksi mennyt hevisekoilu saa Aamulehden kolumnistin kyseenalaistamaan tämän paremmuuden. Myös Sue-lehti saa osansa. pHinnweb scannasi artikkelin iloksemme.
I promised earlier to confirm when everything’s set for moving away from Rovaniemi. So this is it, 100% confirmation. I’ll be heading to Helsinki on the first of August. Interesting autumn ahead.
I think now it’s time more or less to look back. These five years have been incredible in many ways. Here’s a Short Story of the Northern Club Life – the electronic music scene in Northern Finland 2001-2005 as I remember it. Thanks to all of you who were involved in a way or another – you know why :)
After the DMC video clip of Eliot Ness, here’s still a rare one.
Finnish DJ Käpä performing at the DMC World DJ Championships in 1989 – 17 years ago. DJ Jay Mellin is standing just behind him.
A 45min excellent trance set mixed by Aki A from Turku is now available via Orion’s Podcast. The mix is made exclusively for this cast and contains some true gems. One of the best trance mixes I’ve heard lately.
Subscribe to the podcast and make your own judgement.
If you don’t know what podcasts are or are just too lazy to use them, check these instructions (“Blogs and casts directly to your email”).
Orion’s Podcast
Guest Mix – Aki A (Turku, Finland)
Angelo D’Onorio: Moving Thoughts [Mid-nite Sessions] Sexual Deviants: Oxygen (Blue Noise Mix) [Slide] B.I.G.: Carpe Diem [Swift] Nalin & Kane: Krazy People [Superfly] Joshua Collins: Navigator [Frik ‘n Frak] David Forbes: Jacksville [68] Niyaz: Dilruba (Andy Gray’s Grayed Out Mix) [Six Degrees]
Every now and then I hear complaints that someone is unable to download the mixes on this site.
The most common problems are:
1) When left clicked, the link does not save but opens a new Firefox window and starts to play.
2) When saved directly (Save Target As), the mix is saved as a kuuntele.php file.
Here are the solutions:
1) Check how your browser handles the mp3-files. You can change the Download Actions in Firefox easily: Preferences => Downloads => Download Actions
1.2) If this does not solve the problem, just left click the link and let it open in a new window. The mix starts to play. Select File => Save Page As. Now you can download the mix and close the window.
2) If you rather right click and save the file as “kuuntele.php”, make sure you rename the file afterwards. Anything with an ending “.mp3” will do. All the mixes on this site have full ID3-tags so they will show up correctly in your iTunes or Winamp, no matter what the file name is.
Live recording from last year’s Unity – The Island event is online and downloadable. Thanks to Ville and Vaavu and to the Unity posse.
Download the DJ-set here.
Photo: Sessions2