I heard this track for the first time on a mixtape of a Finnish DJ Kenjido Okiru back in 2004 or 2005. Kenjido was at that time one of the brightest rising stars in the Finnish prog scene and I – like many others – enjoyed his mixes & sets a lot.
It took me quite some time to get the name and artist right and hunt down the record (late thank yous to Kenjido for some trainspotting help:) at Juno, where I got the last copy.
The track itself is amazingly beautiful – really a big room prog track with literally massive vocals. I still love the moment when the chorus hits in.
This is one of those underrated gems at my collection and also one of those which still is digitally unavailable. I couldn’t even find a Youtube clip of this one – let me know if you did.
While waiting for a proper clip, here’s a Discogs link to the release.
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
