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
Found a nice way to share the photos I’ve recently taken. I don’t post every single uploaded photo to this blog so if you want to stay updated with my Photo Stream (or Photocast, whatever), now it’s easier than ever (requires iPhoto OR any other feedreader).
1) Copy this URL: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37218967@N00&format=rss_200
2) Go to http://phlikr.3xi.org/
3) Paste the URL, click the button of your choice and enjoy the up-to-date photo stream.
Photo: Feedreader at its best.
This year’s Koneisto will be a lot smaller than in earlier years. It will take place in Helsinki, more accurately in Lasipalatsin Aukio. Also MBar and Stockholm will host some performances.
Koneisto will be held 14.7-15.7. The confirmed artists are:
Legowelt (Bunker Records, NL)
Bangkok Impact (Clone Records, Crème Organization)
Star You Star Me (Stars Music, Mood Music)
Bermuda (Laka-Tosh, Worldless)
djs Stud Mattila & Spitboy
Henri Puolitaival (Edensonic Records, Metrotraks)
Juho Kahilainen (Phonour, Initial Cuts)
Boner M (Pihaus)
hannulelauri
Kalle Karvanen (X0X Records, RBMA, X-Rust)
The GROTH (Frozen North)
Symptom (Symptom Records)
Rasmus Hedlund (Iron Box Music)
Sami Koivikko (Shitkatapult)
Virta (Fak Records)
Samuli Kemppi (Sam & Gigi, Frozen North, Metrotraks)
DJ San Mejor has made a marketing research of Finnish electronic music labels. Even though the research is written in Finnish, there’s now also an English version, made with entertaining flash. Sit back and take a look.
Click:
Here’s the 15 year old clip from DMC World DJ Championships, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness performing.
If you distribute this video, please use the URL of this site:
http://orion.reaktio.net/mtarchives/001201.html
or shorter http://tinyurl.com/hahe7. Thanks!
Did you already check the video of the Human Turntable?
While Flickr Interestingess might be just the playground of the professional photographers on Flickr, the new “The Blink of an Eye” group has a better idea. Each user can present the best photo he/she has ever shot (and uploaded to Flickr). I think this gives a way better view to what Flickr really has to offer than this “Interestingness”. Check the slideshow (or view the photos separately).
My contribution:
OK, this clip is just a teaser. Tomorrow morning I’m going to upload another DMC-clip: 15 years ago, in 1991, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness made it to the third place in DMC World DJ Championships. With some help from DJ Kaasi, I hunted down a clip from his performance. The tricks are quite stunning, I must say.
But before Mr. Eliot’s clip, here’s the famous Human Turntable trick. Stay tuned.
Denis Vakulin, aka DJ DNA seems to have a new website.
And Tero Civill, aka DJ Coma opened his virtual lounge as well. Mr. Coma also offers two tracks for download:
Tero Civill – The Message
Tero Civill – Watching You
Check Tero’s Audio page for full track descriptions.
Defective By Design hit Apple big time.
Raportti Digitodayssa. Kuvia Flickrissä. Stop DRM.
Orion’s Top Summer Choices 12/06/2006
01. Joonas Hahmo – Fusion
02. Chris Lake vs. KOT – Finally Changes
03. Paski – Rain Clouds
04. David West – Suffering Island (Joonas Hahmo remix)
05. Pete Morillo vs Erick Tong – Afterparty At My Villa
06. Cirez D – Mouseville Theme
07. Phunk-a-Delic – Rockin’
08. Underworld – Born Slippy (Spacecab remix)
09. Kyau vs Albert – Kiksu (Boom Jinx remix)
10. Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Martijn Ten Velden remake)
11. Rowan Blades & Chris Lake – Malteaser Geezer
12. Jody Wisternoff – Cold Drink, Hot Girl
13. Marc Mitchell – Paradise (Twotribe Therapy Dub)
14. Nick K – One Of Those Things
15. Everything But The Girl – Missing (Orion’s Lost & Found remix)
HOW TO GET THESE TRACKS:
You’re listening to a radio channel, DJ-set or podcast and hear a song which you definitely want to have. What do you do?
Far too many people trust on P2P programs when they want to find a track which is simply just too good. They download it illegally, because it’s easy and free – but also because they don’t know (or care) how to get it otherwise.
DJs are a part of music marketing, you can’t deny that. They know where to buy the best tracks, they know how to find good music legally, they know how to hear about the new music which hasn’t even gotten on the charts. So why wouldn’t they share this knowledge?
At the moment DJs are just writing their TOP20-charts for two purposes: to show the promoters that they are active and they should be booked AND to show the other DJs that they have tracks which the other DJs do not have. Still – too often I hear on the clubs some clubber asking the question: “This is so cool music – where can you buy this kind of stuff?”
Now – why wouldn’t DJs also write their charts for the music freakz who would just die to get to listen the Top20 Chart tracks at home? It would be good promotion for the electronic music, it would keep it alive. And it would be good promotion for the DJ – the more people would come to his website and actually get to HEAR the music alongside all this namedropping, the more discussion there would be around the DJ him/herself. And this discussion (read: publicity) is what all these disc jockeys want, right?
Now how would this happen? Simple. Just by linking the chart tunes to the shops where they are available.
I’ll be writing my new Top Choices chart soon here and adding the links where these records are available to buy. Maybe it helps you to find better music and more importantly – better sources of good music.
Oh, quite a nice way to combine effective music promotion, DJ-mixes and podcast is Beatport’s podcast. Subscribe and listen, you’ll see why.
Despite the fact that Club Unity is throwing only one party this summer in Uunisaari, their Future looks bright and interesting…
Media. It’s a powerful thing. I can’t help admiring those, who have succeeded in turning the media against those who thought they can control it.
Even though it’s hard to make a truly objective one-and-a-half-hour-movie on global warming, war in Iraq or oil business, I think it’s just about bringing the people a new point of view, not an objective opinion.
One day these efforts make the big wheel turn.
Who Killed The Electric Car?
An Incovenient Truth
Fahrenheit 911
Vanhoja Mind Records -levykaupan listoja skannattuna. Etenkin levyjen kuvaukset ovat jääneet elämään klassikoina. “HOT! TIP! GET THIS!”
