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Tracklist and look-back: ONE Classics, Pellava, Tampere 5.6.2010

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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

ONE Classics, 05.06.2010, Pellava, Tampere

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

Choon!

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Viime sunnuntain keikka Choon!-klubilla ylitti kaikki odotukset. Vaikka tiedossa oli, että klubia järjestetään erittäin ammattitaitoisesti, oli todellisuus kuulopuheita parempaa. Loistavasti suunniteltu valot ja ääni, screenin toteutus sekä erinomainen monitorointi takasivat upean soittoympäristön. Lisäksi yleisö oli erinomaista ja otti vastaan soundia laidasta laitaan – lautasille etsiytyi progemman soundin ja perusleppoisan trancen lisäksi vähän teknompaa ja junnaavampaakin pyörittelyä.

Omaa settiä ennen KimiK rakenteli erittäin monimuotoisen kokonaisuuden omaa härömpää soundiaan ja kaunista progetrancea. Viimeinen, miehen oma remiksi Perwertin Pianosta ei jättänyt kylmäksi – kunpa aina saisi jatkaa soittoaan noin täydellisesti kasatun warmupin perään.

Turun omat pojat Josh ja Jussi Soro yllättivät myös positiivisesti. Josh räjäytti potin tutummilla ja soundiltaan tuoreemmilla raidoilla oman vanhempaan tranceen kääntyneen loppusettini perään ja vakuutti myös teknisellä osaamisellaan. Residentti puolestaan osoitti taas kotikenttäetunsa ja hallitsi varmoin elein lattiaa hyvillä biisivalinnoilla ja alun progressiivisemmalla aloituksella. Ja kävihän Darudekin lavalla pyöräyttämässä hieman musiikkia vappujuhlijoille.

Kaikenkaikkiaan Choon vaikuttaa yhdestä tämänhetken parhaimmin järjestetystä ja hoidetusta tranceklubista, toivomme projektille pitkää ikää :)

Linkit:

Tracklist – Orion @ Choon

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