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Picks from the crate #5 – Atlantis – Fiji

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Atlantis - Fiji

It was early internet era (at least for the Finnish techno scene) as I found this record. DJ Coma is Tampere had his official website on legendary spacecafe.fi domain (R.I.P.) and had listed his TOP 10 tracks there. Of course there was no way of listening those tracks, the golden era of mp3s was still ahead, but I remember spotting his #1 track, Atlantis – Fiji.
It was a weekend or two later when I heard him playing the tune and recognized it by the vocal. It took me around two months to hunt down a vinyl copy of it (boy, have we gotten impatient during the internet era – what was the last tune you tried to find for two months?) and it’s still one of my personal gems in the vinyl collection. And it still has the late 90’s Tampere-vibe in it :)

Funny detail – 1-2 years earlier Paul Oakenfold was hammering a tune called “Kelly & Lee – Only You“, which samples the same tune as Atlantis track and was a big big Oakie-hit. I can’t find that on Discogs neither for sale anywhere – let me know if you find/have it – I would definitely be interesting in buying one copy.
Anyway, it would be nice to know if that Atlantis track was made on purpose using “that Oakie-sample” knowing it could be an instant hit…

Also – do not mix this up with later rip-off “Atlantis vs. Avatar – Fiji” or especially Lange remix, which did the same to Fiji as Tiesto did to Delerium’s Silence. *brrrr*
Below is a Youtube link to original version.

Any thoughts of this record? Share them in the comments. See also the previous posts in “Picks from the crate” series.

YouTube video.

April 22, 2010

Tracklist: ONE Reunited, 27.03.2010, Pellava, Tampere

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ONE, Pellava, Tampere, 27.3.2010

DJ Orion @ ONE Reunited, 27.03.2010, Pellava, Tampere – 00:30-01:30

01. Deepsky – Talk Like A Stranger (Orion & Flight re-edit)
02. Bent – As You Fall (Kyau & Albert remix)
03. Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)
04. BBE – Seven Days & One Week (Myon & Shane 54 remix – edit)
05. Rank 1, Jochen Miller – The Great Escape
06. Bedrock – Heaven Scent (Orion & Flight re-edit)
07. Thomas Feijk – Imaginary Friend
08. Super & Tab feat. Anton Sonin – Black Is The New Yellow (Solar Movement remix)
09. David West – True Love
10. Super8 & Tab – Helsinki Scorchin’

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It’s been over four months since Uzu phoned me they’ve found a proper venue for upcoming One events. After two successful years in Tanssitalo, we were sad to leave the old venue behind but clearly this seemed like a proper replacement for a well served humppa-venue. Now, after four months of preparing to get reunited, I think we had a pretty good start last night at Pellava, the new home of One.

It was nice to see drS warming up the floor and filling it in less than an hour with great oldskoolish, proggy vibes (I’m really looking forward to see his full tracklist..), Something Good delivered something good with their new tunes and more housey & bassheavy approach which worked really well and Jussi Soro ended the night with his trademark trancey tunes (including Atlantis Ita’s I See You In The Next Life as encore).

I was happy to see our new re-edits going down really well – the brand new edit of Slusnik Luna’s Sun had its premiere last night and it was nice to see crowd recognizing the Heaven Scent re-edit already long before the main riff hit in. The full tracklist is listed above.

Funktion One & Battery Sound System did their thing, too. It’s been a while when you’ve really felt the music in your chest like that. The stone walls gave an extra *ooomph* to the bass, but also a nasty echo to the DJ-booth, which seemed to bother all the DJs a bit. I heard the same sound system will be used next time at Laterna when Romance enters the venue on 8.5. I can imagine due to smaller venue it’ll be even more intensive sound experience and definitely worth a check.

Battery Sound System also included CDJ-2000s, so this was the first time for me to test them on a gig. I took the most out of it and also used USB sticks instead of CDs. It was reliable, fast and very convinient, but it’ll definitely take a while to get used to browse the music collection on a small screen instead of a CD-case – I still like the physical format. Despite that, I’m really looking forward to CDJ-2000s becoming club standard players – they feel good :)

Anyway, I was happy to see so many people smiling, partying carelessly and getting into Tampere-fiilis. One got a good start at Pellava – sure there were some things which will be done better in the future (and we’re more than happy to hear any suggestions from you) – but nevertheless, we’re now looking forward to early June. On 5.6. Pellava will host another One-event with “Tampere Classics” theme. Big tunes all night long :) To get the info first, you can follow One at Twitter or keep refreshing www.one-event.info every 30seconds or so ;)

Thanks again for the great, great night & vibes. See you in June!

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March 28, 2010

DJ Orion’s podcast #110 – ONE – Sound of Spring 2010

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DJ Orion's podcast

http://www.djorion.fi // DJ Orions podcast is a one hour show, hosted by DJ Orion (Radio 1 Finland, Radio NRJ, Lost Language, Solaris) and casted twice a month from Helsinki, Finland. For tracklists and more info, see http://www.djorion.fi

DJ Orion’s podcast #110 – ONE – Sound of Spring 2010

[podcast]http://www.djorion.fi/orion/orion110.mp3[/podcast]

Tracklist not available.
For more information about ONE, see www.one-event.info

Orion’s podcast on iTunes:
http://bit.ly/orionpodcast
Feed address:
http://bit.ly/orionpodfeed
MP3 Download

March 22, 2010

ONE Love -liput myynnissä nyt.

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ONE Love -liput myynnissä.

Kuluvalla viikolla on myynnissä erittäin rajoitettu erä ONE Love-lippuja, jotka takaavat sisäänpääsyn molempiin tämän kevään ONE-tapahtumiin (27.3. ja 5.6.).

Lippua vastaan saa lisäksi 27.3. -tapahtumassa ilmaiseksi ONE-CD:n, joka sisältää musiikkia ONEn vakioartisteilta sekä ensimmäisen tapahtuman vieras-DJiltä.

Rajoitettu määrä ONE Love -lippuja on myynnissä Tampereen Studio 25:ssä vain viikon ajan 8.2.-15.2.

ONE Love -lipun hinta on 10e (sis. sisäänpääsyn molempiin tapahtumiin sekä ONE-CD:n).

Ensimmäisen tapahtuman lineup sekä ONEn uusi venue julkaistaan 15.2.2010

We Are One Family.


Youtube: Moments in One, 21.03.2009

February 8, 2010

ONE, Spring 2010

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ONE – Reunited.

Welcome Back Together. As One.

New haven. For you and 400 of your friends.
Venue used for the very first time.

New sound. Funktion One. Uncompromised.
Battery Sound System.

New, fresh artists. Strong, approved talents.
This is One in Spring 2010.

27.03.2010
05.06.2010

Be the One.

A very, very limited amount of “One Love” tickets will be out soon – giving a queue free entry to both events + exclusive music goodies. Follow the updates @ Klubitus.

January 25, 2010

Fiksaatio in Seinäjoki & Sunday Fun in Tampere

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This weekend sees another set of quality events, this time in Seinäjoki & Tampere. On Friday I’ll be heading to the clubbing capital of Pohjanmaa, where grand old Fiksaatio possé have been influencing the local scene for already some time and I was really happy of being invited to their last winter event for this year. Held at Karma, the event also presents Infekto, Syna, Flight, Andy K, Ville Lope and Echostep. I’ll be playing the last slot, starting at 01:30.
Fiksaatio Facebook event.

On Sunday I’ll be joining Tabu’s Sunday Fun chill-out event in Tampere. Getting behind decks to play chill-out is a rare sight, but I’m really looking forward to this one. Sunday Fun concept sounds very promising – cheap booze, huge sofas, board games, comics and Tampere-fiilis(tm) can never go wrong. It’s our independence day, too, so there might be an extra amount of domestic quality chill-out, classics and some new DJ Orion & J.Shore productions in the air. The set should start between 21:00 & 22:00 and last around 2,5h.
Sunday Fun Facebook event & official website

And yeah, if you don’t have anything to do on Saturday, join us at Romance in Laterna, Tampere. Manly love behind the decks as Mr.A & Flight will rock the place. House hasn’t been this good in Tampere after the Good Miau! Days :)

FRIDAY:
F/X – Fiksaatio
Friday, 04 December 2009 at 22:00
Karma, Kauppatori 3, 60100 Seinäjoki
Infekto, Orion, Syna, Flight, Andy K, Ville Lope, Echostep, Hosted by Cristal Snow

SUNDAY:
Sunday Fun
Sunday, 06 December 2009 at 20:00
Tabu, Hämeenkatu 10, Tampere, Finland
DJ Orion, Ville Lope, Blastic

December 3, 2009

Picks from the crate #1 – DJ Kim

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This is my first post in “Picks from the crate” series. I’m picking up meaningful, old, rare, fresh and interesting CDs, mixtapes and vinyls from my record collection and ranting about them. Unlike in today’s digital music collection, I feel like there are 1000 stories in my record shelf, waiting to be told. Let this be the first one.

DJ Kim - The Beauty & The Beast - mixtape 2001. Picks from the crate - www.djorion.fi

I bought this double mixCD while visiting some club event held in Tampere-Talo in 2001. I had just moved to Rovaniemi and thought a piece of my previous hometown in a form of two CDs wouldn’t do any harm. What I got, is pure awesomeness still today.

I guess everyone remembers Kim (or KimiK) as a house jock, but in the around the beginning of the new millennium many DJs in Tampere had sort of a identity crisis. Infekto tried a new alias “Rec”, many techno DJs went into hard house, trance DJs got bored and started playing “more interesting” progressive music (Stephanie K & Creamer, anyone? ;) and also KimiK went into new grounds – towards more melodic and trancey sound.

Nevertheless, this must be his best mixtape, including the most amazing progressive and trancey house tunes of the early 00’s. There’s Starecase, Hybrid, BT, Ashtrax, Cass&Slide, Maurice’s Feline, Stakker’s Humanoid, Max Graham’s Airtight etc etc… I guess anyone who lived through the 1999-2001 electronic music hype in Tampere shouldn’t miss this. Anyone else still having this in the shelf?

(A cool detail – in the inner sleeve there’s a note “Mixed live at the Kaleva Cathouse with Tamperefiilis(tm)” ;)

Check the full tracklist below.

DJ Kim - The Beauty & The Beast - mixtape 2001. Picks from the crate - www.djorion.fi

November 27, 2009

Winter’s here. Remembering the warm days.

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The first snow in Helsinki

After monday’s first snow the warm days of the year are now officially behind. I just can’t believe it’s already over four months ago when we celebrated the first days of the summer (holiday) in Tampere, had an awesome One event and a weekend to remember. Nah, only 8 months of darkness to go and we’re there again :)

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October 15, 2009

ONE returns this Saturday

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Already One year old, but still fresh concept “One” returns from the long summer break on Saturday at Tampere’s Tanssitalo. This is the first time I can’t attend One due to my happily changed family situation, but if you happen to be nearby, I strongly recommend to check out one of the coolest atmospheres and venues Tampere has seen in a while.

The lineup is short but superb: DJ Orkidea will be playing his only gig in Tampere in 2009 at One and spending full six hours behind the decks. I still remember Metaverse-tour visiting Tampere as one of the highlights of the Orkidea’s album release tour and the latest visit at One with Solarstone didn’t lack any superlatives :)

Joili did an awesome trailer for the event, check it out here or below.

September 3, 2009

Weekend in Tampere & Kalajoki

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On the upcoming weekend I’m playing my last gigs before a short paternity leave. On Friday I’ll be heading to Tampere to Club Play, a summer club running at Apollo. It’s been a while that I’ve played a house set in Tampere and I’m really looking forward to this. My slot should be starting around midnight.

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On Saturday I’ll fly to Kalajoki to headline the local Sunburn event, one of the longest running summer club concepts in Northern Finland. I’ve lost my count if this is already the 6th or 7th year in a row I’m visiting Kalajoki in the summer, but it definitely hasn’t lost its vibe. Kalajoki – as mentioned numerous times before – is the “Ibiza of Finland” and the venue, Dyyni, is easily among the coolest clubs in the north with a panorama view to the sea and the whole building standing on a huge sand dune. The house music maestro of the north, DJ Kaasi will be doing the warm-up and I’ll be playing a 2-2,5h set in the end of the night. See the video from last year’s party below or check some photos from the past years.

July 29, 2009

Tracklist: One, 30.05.2009

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DJ Orion – One, 30.05.2009, warmup for Niklas Harding

01. Richard Durand – Weep (Sundown remix)
02. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Flight & Jontey remix)
03. Gareth Emery – Metropolis
04. Dennis Sheperd – Black Sun
05. Slusnik Luna – Sun
06. Andrew Bennett – Break Away (Martin Roth NyStyle Dub)
07. Pryda & DJ Tiesto – Afterflight (Orion & Flight edit)
08. Timmy & Tommy – Mixtape (DJ Preach Nu Trance mix)
09. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Ayleon remix)
10. Aalto – 5

June 1, 2009

One Summer Starter this Saturday

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This Saturday One returns to Tanssitalo to start the summer. For me this also means a short break with One – unfortunately I can’t be present at the first One of the upcoming autumn (for the reasons I will tell later), so I will definitely make the most out of this experience. Check the One trailer above (fantastic work by joili) and the details below.

ONE Summer Starter

Saturday 30.5.2009, 22 – 04, K18, 10€ @ Tanssitalo / Tampere

NIKLAS HARDING [Armada, Denmark] OLLIS [YleX] ORION [Misc, YleX]

I’m really excited of hearing Niklas’s set again – the last time must have been on Iglu tour years ago and it was just brilliant. Niklas’s career has been very very successful in the past years and I’m assuming this will a One to remember… :)

For more, check One Facebook event or visit One website

May 27, 2009

Photos & tracklist: One, Tampere 21.3.2009

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“Tampere-fiilis” was a late 90’s phenomena in Tampere, purely born in local trance events when melodic trance was at its peak and rave culture enjoyed high popularity. I remember events like Taika ’98 in which people were dancing spontaniously hand-in-hand, club Tunnel with Coma and 3.14Sami spinning in an old, small rock club to 200+ clubbers every second Thursday, everybody going mental. I hope I haven’t become cynical when claiming that nearly a decade has passed in Tampere without any similar feeling of regular PLUR ;)

ONE has succeeded in something that felt like an impossible task a couple of years ago. It seemed that you couldn’t attract any audience without bringing bigger and bigger foreign acts even though it was just the fun and good atmosphere people were after. Saturday night at Tanssitalo, with hundreds and hundreds of people going insane and a lineup consisting of only former and current Tampere talents proved that you don’t need any foreign acts to get loose. Just a club full of your best friends and a long lost Tampere-fiilis :)

After a night like that, I can’t wait to get back to Tanssitalo. See you at the next One, on 30.5.2009.

Joni shot some amazing photos, check them all on his Flickr account or click the photos around this post.

Orion @ ONE, 21.03.2009
Hybrid & Claes Rosen – Mystified Symphony (DJ Orion re-edit)
Solarity – Terminal 6
Heikki L – Classic (Michael Cassette remix)
Meet Me In Montauk (Oliver Smith remix)
Tiesto & Pryda – AfterFlight (DJ Orion re-edit)
Richard Durand – Into Something
Ron Van Den Beuken – Faraway (Harry’s Song)
Coast 2 Coast – Home
Andy Moor – Love Story
Mike Koglin – The Silence

You are the One, we are One family.

March 23, 2009