A Strangely Isolated Place, a website, label and online community of ambient, chill-out and downtempo music, asked us (Orion & J.Shore) to make a mix for their Isolatedmix series. Isolatedmix is like Global Underground of the chill-out scene: artists like Ulrich Schnauss, Nick Warren, Carbon Based Lifeforms and Helios have contributed their own Isolatedmixes.
The mix is now online and streamable/downloadable on Soundcloud. It includes 18 tracks – mostly Scandinavian chill-out, some unreleased tracks and some tunes made exclusively for this mix only. I’m very happy of the result. I hope you enjoy it too.
Ryan from ASIP wrote a really nice introduction for the mix. You might want to check that out, too:
Like the massive spectrum of music in my head, Finnish brothers Orion and J.Shore usually sit at opposite ends on the music production front. Juska (Orion), grew up on the early 90′s hypnotic trance sound such as Cygnus X’s album “Hypermetrical” and Sven Väth’s “The Harlequin – The Robot And The Ballet-Dancer” and for the past five years has hosted a variety of electronic music on his National Finnish Radio show. In a vein I can very much relate to, these early 90′s records…
Happy New Year!
During the past weeks, there’s been several great downtempo/chill-out mixes from excellent DJs which have included our music, too. Here’s a short list. Happy listening!
Just before Xmas, Jaytech published a wonderful Winter Ambient mix which includes “The Night After”.
DJ Orkidea’s Christmas Piano mix is a great journey to some classic chill-out piano tracks and includes our “Sun” remix, too.
Another amazing mix from Jaytech with “White Birds” as the closing track.
Brilliant Spacemusic Podcast included “Architect’s Dream” on their Xmas episode.
And finally, Glass Coffee included “One Sunday” on his latest mix.
Slow-liness (Dancing with Death) by Glass Coffee on Mixcloud
Album preview 7/11 – Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & J.Shore remix) (Brotherhood album OUT NOW) by Orion & J.Shore
ALBUM PREVIEW 7/11
Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & J.Shore remix)
J.Shore: The original chords were already so massive that we decided not to reinvent the wheel but just to make a loooong buildup for the existing theme. When recording live strings for the track, some electric guitars parts were also recorded (hello kitschy 1980’s!). They didn’t end up to the final version, but I wonder what Slusnik boys would have said about them… Listen to the clip of Sun (electric guitar edit).
Orion: We were super excited to make a remix of “Sun” and slightly disappointed when it then finally seemed that it would not end up to the official Anjunabeats release. I kept telling myself it’s no wonder – why would a trance label a release a 10 minute chill-out remix next to banging club versions of the track. Not Anjuna style at all. Therefore it was a big surprise when Allan from Anjunabeats mailed me after two weeks and asked to finish the remix asap. We got the live strings recorded über quick and thanks to very flexible and friendly attitude from both Niko from Slusnik Luna and Allan from Anjunathe track was finally added to our album, too.
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Here’s a preview of our upcoming Orion & J.Shore debut album. Short clips of all the tracks + some extra info on Soundcloud page. We sincerely hope you like it.
P.S. You can check Orion & J.Shore on Facebook, too.
Orion & J.Shore – Brotherhood – The Album Preview by Orion & J.Shore
Dj Orion & J. Shore – Architect’s Dream (EA2 Dub) by solarstone
Two years ago this month Solarstone released the compilation album ‘Electronic Architecture’. It was nominated for Best Compilation at the 2010 IDMAs and won press plaudits for its imaginative concept, with Tilllate hailing it as “a magical blend of music, art and design” and DJ Mag calling it “a genuine gem”.
Now the follow up to the boundary breaking compilation adventure is near. “Electronic Architecture²” captures the essence of what we all love about trance” says MIXMAG. The compilation will be released on 25.4.2011.
DJ Orion & J.Shore – Architect’s Dream will be a closing track of the whole compilation. Naturally, we are incredibly happy and proud to be part of one of the most unique and original electronic music compilations of today.
You can check the compilation trailer on Youtube and listen to a clip of Architect’s Dream on Soundcloud.
These are just way too good.
If you can’t see the two tracks above, try here.
Here’s a 3min clip including some very early previews of our upcoming tracks and remixes.
DJ Orion & J.Shore – Very early preview of late 2010 tunes. by DJ Orion & J.Shore
Ankkakastike – Paula Koivuniemi (Finn Diva Mix) by Joe Malenda
Barbra Streisand goes Finnish. Bonkers! Download here.
DJ Orion & J.Shore press pic, 2010. And yesyesyes, we have now a Soundcloud account, too.
A full length sample (as well as the original) of DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Flight & Jontey remix) is now available for listening. Go drag your ears here.
DJ Orion – One Sunday was released on Solarstone’s label Solaris Recordings on 30.3.2009 and is now available on iTunes Music Store, Beatport and Amazon.
Listen through all the remixes on the player above (full length, 128kbps) or directly at SoundCloud site and feel free to drop your comments below.
See the One Sunday feedback from Markus Schulz, Ronski Speed, Above&Beyond etc.
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