Visit to North of Finland is always one of the highlights of every summer. I’m doing two gigs there with my good friend DJ Kaasi, friday in Oulu and saturday in Kalajoki.
In Oulu we’ll enter the renovated club HTC, one of the most active electronic music venues in the city. The best place to get more details must be the Facebook event site which also provides a couple of mixes, photos and videos. The last visit to HTC while visiting Club Therapy last November proved the place to be totally rocking, luckily I had the tracklist and some memories still online.
Friday, 18.7.2008
Orion & Kaasi @ HTC
22 – 04, K18, 5€ @ HTC, Oulu
The legendary Dyyni in Kalajoki will host the Saturday’s event. It’s already the fifth Sunburn event for this summer and the videos and photos from the previous nights have been stunning. I’m really looking forward to this year’s visit – it really feels Sunburn has gotten better every year. If you’re interested in looking back, I found the tracklists of 2006 and 2007 visits and some feelings of 2007 event.
This year’s videos and photos are available on the Sunburn Facebook Group.
Saturday 19.7.2008
Sunburn, Kalajoki
23 – 04, K18 @ Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa
Despite the nasty comments I had heard of HTC where Therapy event is being held, I was positively surprised. The sound was very bassheavy, venue bigger than I expected and all-in-all pretty cosy for electronic music events. It’s not too fancy for a bit more rough sound or too warehouse-like for basic house tracks. If one could re-decorate it, I think it would be near-to-perfect venue.
If I really need to find some negative things from a superb Saturday night, they must be technical: I really hate CDJ-200s. They’re far too sensitive for club use – especially if you’re used to the touch of CDJ-800/1000. I ended up using the jog wheel from the very middle to avoid too strong touch, but still it felt very uncertain.
But yes, the Saturday night must have been one of my alltime favourites in Oulu. Therapy was nicely packed, they nearly broke their alltime record. The audience was as good as it gets, very open to different kinds of sound – from minimal and tech influenced house to progressive, electro, breaks and oldskool. Big thanks to Gateway for an invitation and top-notch warm-up set, Kosmo&Reea for lovely hosting & big laughs and Oulu crowd for making such a good party!
Orion @ Club Therapy, Oulu, 17.11.2007, 01:00-03:30
01. Jody Wisternoff – Starstrings (Vocal version)
02. Claes Rosen, Add2Basket – Volaris
03. Tracey Thorn – Grand Canyon (King Unique Come Home Vocal)
04. Shlomi Aber – Moods Feat. Lemon – Valentino Kanzyani Remix
05. Quench – Dreams (Sebastien Leger rmx)
06. Christian Smith, John Selway – High Season
07. Damien Strong – Love Shop
08. Nikitas – Liquid World (Liquid edit)
09. Redroche – No More Sunrise
10. Freza & DJ Flash – Cosmo Girl – Ricky Ryan Edit
11. Electrobios, Audionova – Pacific
12. Damien Strong – Flashback
13. Tasadi, Mike Mikhjian – Zeus (Jay Lumen remix)
14. Eelke Kleijn, Nick Hogendoorn – Where Are My Goggles – Fine Taste Remix
15. Junkie XL – More feat. Lauren Rocket – Matthew Dekay Remix
16. Splittr – All Alone (Original Mix)
17. Human Resource – Dominator (remix)
18. Freeflow 45 – Peaktime
19. The Rogue Element – Dead Drummers
20. House Of Pain – Jump Around (Micky Slim remix)
21. Eric Prydz – Good Life (Eric Prydz Summer 2006 Edit)
22. Resoul – Lets Go To Mexico – Milton Jackson Remix
23. Eddie Thoneick ft. Bonse – Together As One (Klaas Club Mix)
24. ZZT – Lower State Of Consciousness – Justice Remix
25. Patric Alavi – Hell Yeah – Jaimie Fanatic Bad Boy Remix
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26. U96 – Das Boot
Thanks to Gateway for shooting the video.