I think many of us could agree that we had one of the best ONE events last night (Facebook event). With the most probability it was also the last event at Pellava which is really a shame as the place was now really showing what it’s capable of.
It was so great to see loads of oldskool faces – not only from Tampere but all the way from Helsinki, Kouvola, Lahti etc. – coming to rave in the spirit of classic tunes from the past years. Okiru warmed up the floor with superb progressive classics (tracklist, anyone?:) and showed the mad mixing skills have definitely not corroded during the years.
Coma & KimiK followed with 100% vinyl set containing really bassheavy, driving proggy Tampere classics from Miau! and Tunnel era, ending their set to Bedrock’s Heaven Scent and Deepsky’s Stargazer with proper 138bpm.
As said to KimiK in the booth – no matter what you play after those tunes – it just sounds worse :)
I had a very intense 45min set (all-in-all the set lengths were very short due to closing time at 03:00), playing ONE classics – the tracks which have been particularly memorable during the ONE years and tracks which have become classics at Tanssitalo or Pellava. The full tracklist is below.
Finally, Cosmicman took the last hour to early 2000 style trancey direction which seemed to go down very well and ended his set with legendary twothousand-something kixu classic I Love You, which summed up the night nicely.
But the artists didn’t make the night – it was the fantastic crowd. They don’t talk about Tampere-fiilis in vain. It was the most open-minded, happily careless and most intense audience I’ve experienced in Tampere in many, many, many years. Right people in the right place. One family :)
The ONE afterparty couldn’t have been better either. Starting at 03:00 in the very centrum of Tampere, afterhour maestros Flight and Paul Easy dropped quality tech-house and techno choons to nearly 250 party people. Instead of a “morning of the living dead” the atmosphere was high and dancefloor full of energetic, smiling people enjoying to get down. Tampere at its best :)
Another great summer starter behind. Massive thanks to Flight & Uzu + co. for making this happen.
DJ Orion @ ONE Classics, 5.6.2010
01. Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
02. DJ Orkidea – Metaverse (Gareth Emery remix)
03. Mother’s Pride – Floribunda (Big C remix)
04. Joonas Hahmo – Tampere By Night
05. Coast 2 Coast – Home
06. Ali Wilson – Pandora
07. Super8&Tab – Elektra
Kehto Magazine interviewed me shortly (in Finnish) about the upcoming ONE event. Check the article on Kehto Mag or read it below.
Iltamien nimi jo kertookin, että kyseessä on klassikoille pyhitetty tapahtuma. Millaisia arkiston helmiä on mahdollisesti luvassa?
Alunperin One Classics -tapahtumaa lähdettiin kasaamaan Tampere Classics -työnimellä, koska haluttiin nimenomaa fiilistellä Tampereella vuosien varrella isoiksi muodostuneita biisejä – ja vielä niin, että soittamassa olisivat tyypit, jotka ovat olleet tekemässä näistä biiseistä aikoinaan hittejä.
Oon erittäin fiiliksissä, että saatiin matkaan sekä Coma että KimiK erittäin harvinaisella kimppasetillä. Coman 90-luvun lopun Tunnel-klubi ja Kimin Miau! ovat olleet monelle vielä tänäkin päivänä Tampere-skenessä pyörivälle todella iso juttu.
Samaan tapaan Kenjido Okirun edustama Iglu oli 2000-luvun alkupuolella erittäin merkittävä klubikonsepti Tampereella – erittäin upeaa että Okiru pääsee tarjoilemaan tätä klassikko-osastoa heti ovien avaamisesta lähtien.
Mutta vaikka klassikkotapahtumasta puhutaankin, niin juttu ei ole suunnattu todellakaan vain yli 10 vuotta skenessä viihtyneille vaan musalinjaus pidetään myös tässä päivässä. Mä soitan ennen Cosmicmania selektion ONE-klassikoita – biisejä, jotka on näiden parin vuoden aikana nousseet isoiksi nimenomaa ONEssa ja joissa olisi potentiaalia myös tulevaisuuden Tampere-klassikoiksi.
Arkiston helmiä on kuitenkin luvassa meiltä kaikilta. ONEn Klubitus-topicissa julkaistaan vielä ennen tapahtumaa kolme klassikkomiksausta Comalta, Kimiltä ja multa.
Varsinaisen päätapahtuman jälkeen on myös luvassa viralliset afterpartyt. Onko juhlakansalle luvassa jotain yllätystä kenties?
ONEn tapaan jatkoille on varmistettu uusi, aiemmin käyttämätön venue aivan ydinkeskustassa.
Tampereella on ollut tilausta kunnon jatkoille – täällä aamubilekulttuuri ei ole samaan tapaan säännöllistä kuin vaikkapa Helsingissä, mutta kysyntää on. Lineupissa on Suomen paras aamubile-DJ Paul Easy / Poliisi sekä Tamperetta viime vuosina vahvasti Suomen klubikartalla pitänyt Flight.
Kannattaa kysellä jatkojen tarkkaa sijaintia ja muita infoja päätapahtumassa.
Millaiset ovat omat odotuksesi illan suhteen, kun Cosmicman tekee comebackin pitkän tauon jälkeen?
Illan teeman mukaisesti Cosmicmanilta on pyydetty 2000-luvun parhaimmistoa sisältävä tranceklassikkosetti. Miehellä on varmasti näkemystä etenkin tälle aikakaudelle ja paluu takaisin deckkien äärelle monen vuoden jälkeen on varmasti kokemisen arvoinen juttu.
Miten määrittelisit käsitteen ”Tampere-fiilis”?
Hoh, nyt pistit pahan. Tampere-fiiliksestä taidettiin puhua ensimmäisiä kertoja 90-luvun lopussa, kun Tampereen klubiskene oli todella aktiivinen, tapahtumia vähintään pari joka viikonlopulle ja kävijöitä runsaasti. Etenkin trancepuolen jutuissa oli silloin korostuneen yhteisöllinen fiilis, joka sitten vain kulminoitui tuohon “Tampere-fiilis”-kuvaukseen. Klubeistä erityisesti Taika, Tunnel ja MIR edustivat itselleni kunnon Tampere-fiilistä.
Mutta vaikka kaupunki, klubit, tarjonta ja ihmiset ovatkin muuttuneet paljon niistä ajoista niin en sanoisi että se Tampere-fiilis on kadonnut yhtään mihinkään. Viimeisten parin vuoden aikana kun olen saanut olla mukana tekemässä ONEa yhdessä UzUn ja Flightin kanssa, on Tampereen tapahtumissa edelleenkin törmännyt uskomattoman lämpimään, avarakatseiseen ja yhteisölliseen fiilikseen, joka ei jää jälkeen siitä alkuperäisestä Tampere-fiiliksestä.
Mutta niin – kokeahan se pitää.
ONE Classics @ Facebook
via: Kehto Mag.
DJ Orion @ Jack Classics, Closing Event @ Redrum 15.5.2010
22:00-01:30 Orion & Peled Bros. My tracks below. It was a very good ending for Jack nights at Redrum, thanks to all of you for making all this happen :)
4Tune500 – Dancing In The Dark
Tapesh – Chacago groove
Evans & Waterfall – Cafe Loco (Mendo remix)
Scott Grooves, Parliament Funkadelic – Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk remix)
Eddie Amador – House Music (Filterheadz remix)
New Order – Crystal (Lee Coombs remix)
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P.Diddy – Let’s Get Ill (Deep Dish remix)
Justice – Phantom pt. 2 (Freemasons remix)
Alter Ego – Rocker
Voorn & Helden – Sweep The Doctor (Orion & Flight re-edit)
LFO – LFO (Less Is More remix)
Cosmos – Take Me With You
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Mark Knight, Axwell, Underworld – Counting Down The Pipes (Orion & Flight re-edit)
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Underworld – Two Months Off
DJ Orion – Jack Classics TOP 10
Making a Jack Classics chart definitely wasn’t a simple task. I didn’t know whether to stay oldskool, pick up my favs from the past 8 years or pull out the forgotten gems. in the end, I guess this chart is a combo of all those three. Not only my favorite tracks, but these are also my favorite moments I’ve experienced at Jack – whether on the dancefloor or in the booth.
01. Cosmos – Take Me With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXG2PJeocWA
02. Underworld – Dark Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeN56g2U3k
03. New Order – Crystal (Lee Coombs remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYY8ZzPF8Y
04. LFO vs. Plump DJs – Low Frequency Bootilator (Less is More mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOYE2jgS6Q
05. Joe Smooth – Promised Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3w4HIMHpY
06. Ame – Rej
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgBLAA7eCC0
07. P.Diddy – Let’s Get Ill (Nellee main)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQfrS4czUvA
08. Green Velvet – Answering Machine (X-Press 2 Remix)
http://www.discogs.com/Green-Velvet-Answering-Machine-Remixes/release/43758
09. Alter Ego – Rocker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZKllOr5l-o
10. Eric Prydz vs. Inner City – Good Life (Summer Edit 2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbAIPVQWghE
(My favourite oldskool moment (and a mullet to remember…;) – playing with Altern8)
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!
[flickr-gallery mode=”search” tags=”djorionweb_gigs, one” tag_mode=”all” ]I’m returning to Turku this Friday to celebrate the local Liquid Crystal Sounds club promoter’s – DJ Progression’s 30th birthday. He is throwing a party at Klubi with Joonas Hahmo, himself and me sharing the sounds.
Funny coincidence – we almost have the same birthdate, I’m having my own 30th anniversary today so it feels great to join the birthday vibes on Friday. In addition to the latest proggy/trance tunes, I’ll be grabbing some old classics with me – just to remind myself that it’s just us getting old, not the good music ;)
I’ll be behind the decks on Friday at Klubi, Turku at 01:30-03:30. See you there :)
Check the Facebook event for further details.
To sum it up, here are two great quotes, which you might have already spotted in my Twitter, but nevertheless they fit perfectly to my thirty-year-old-state-of-mind :)
“The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.” -Jerry M. Wright
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” -Author Unknown
YleX:n Tiistain Tanssi-illan ekalla tunnilla jouluaatonaattona 23.12. otetaan katsaus trancen historiaan vuodesta 1991 vuoteen 2003. Kutakin vuotta edustamaan on valittu yksi kappale, joka heijastelee trance-soundin muutoksia 90-luvun alusta tähän päivään. Tunnin aikana kurkataan 90-luvun alun hypnoottiseen ja hitaaseen trance-soundiin, rave-ajan BPM-rajoja rikkoneeseen tiukempaan poljentoon, progehousen läpilyöntiin ja tietysti trancen kulta-ajaksikin kutsuttuun vuosituhannen vaihteeseen.
23.12.2008 lähetyksessä ei biisivierasta.
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