DJ Orion @ Fantasia, Tropiclandia, Vaasa – 7.8.2010

01. Inkfish – Early Morning
02. Heikki L & DJ Orion – Playing With Knives (UU Island Mix)
03. Thomas Feijk & Faithless – Roads to Salvation (DJ Orion re-edit)
04. Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)
05. Rank 1, Wippenberg, Nic Chagall – 100 (DJ Orion edit)
06. Bedrock – Heaven Scent (Orion & Flight re-edit)
07. Super8&Tab – Black Is The New Yellow
08. DJ DLG – Everybody’s Free (Lazor mix)
09. WhiteRoom & Coast 2 Coast – The White Home (DJ Orion re-edit)
10. Ali Wilson – Pandora

DJ Orion @ Mixxed Discotheque, Bio Rex, Helsinki – 31.8.2010 – 00:00-end

01. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake remix)
02. Cassius – 99 (Tim Green remix)
03. Joe T. Vannelli – This Is Helsinki, Not Harlem (DJ Orion re-edit)
04. Underworld, Axwell, Mark Knight – Counting Down The Pipes (Orion & Flight re-edit)
05. Sander Kleinenberg – M.A.N.I.A.C.
06. Edwin Oosterwal – Scrub The Tub
07. Iranzo Lasia – Vor Haus
08. Inkfish – Early Morning
09. Playton – Silence (Timo Juuti remix)
10. Dennis Ferrer – Hey Hey (Dim Chris remix)
11. Koen Groeneveld – Air Breaks
12. Crazibiza – Spinnin Around (Tommyboy remix)
13. Butch – Tease Me
14. Hausjacker – Circus Freak
15. Andy Chatterley – Access The Future
16. Heikki L & Houseamigo DJs – God Save The Queer
17. Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)
+ 18. Mori Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor remix)

DJ Orion @ Klubitus 10 Year Anniversary, Tivoli, Helsinki – 30.8.2010 – 02:20-end

01. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake remix)
02. Cassius – 99 (Tim Green remix)
03. Joe T. Vannelli – This Is Helsinki, Not Harlem (DJ Orion re-edit)
04. Sander Kleinenberg – M.A.N.I.A.C.
05. Heikki L & Flight – Amor De La Discoteca
06. Koen Groeneveld – Air Breaks
07. DJ PP – Miami Vice
08. Butch – Tease Me
09. Inkfish – Early Morning
10. Crazibiza – Spinning Around (Tommyboy remix)
11. Monaque – Dos3000
12. Marc Marzenit – Tarzan’s Assignment (Orion & Flight re-edit)
13. Hausjacker – Circus Freak
14. Mark Knight & Wolfgang Gartner – Consciedo
15. Dennis Ferrer – Hey Hey (Dim Chris remix)

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

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)
—
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
—
Mark Knight, Axwell, Underworld – Counting Down The Pipes (Orion & Flight re-edit)
—
Underworld – Two Months Off

Due to some last minute schedule changes, I ended up playing the night starter set as well as warming up ATB. Great party, thanks for being there! :) Here are the tracks.

DJ Orion @ ATB, The Circus, Helsinki, 30.04.2010

01. Hawkshaw & Holden – Fine Day (Jaap Lighart bootleg remix)
02. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (Kamouflage Loves Fred Remix)
03. T.R.O. – Dispersing Sound (Elfsong’s Dispersive mix)
04. Way Out West – The Gift (2010 remix)
05. Bent – Beautiful Otherness (Tom Middleton remix)
06. Way Out West – Surrender (Eelke Kleijn remix)
07. Jacob Henry – Yesterday’s Tears (Shingo Nakamura remix)
08. Deepsky – Talk Like A Stranger (Orion & Flight re-edit)
09. Ticon – Magenta Drive
10. Tom Fall – Cubic
11. Tomcraft – Loneliness (Adam K & Soha’s Shadow remix)
12. Boom Jinx & Jaytech – Milano
13. David West – Gura (Inkfish remix)
14. Underworld, Axwell, Mark Knight – Counting Down The Pipes (Orion & Flight re-edit)
15. Da Fresh, Maverickz – Waterlily (Spartaque remix)
16. Bedrock – Heaven Scent (Orion & Flight re-edit)
17. Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)

Tracklist: Labyrinth // Laserpoint // Whiteout 2010

01. BT – Flaming June (intro edit)
02. Deepsky – Talk Like A Stranger (Orion & Flight re-edit)
03. Underworld & Axwell – Counting Down The Pipes (DJ Orion & Flight re-edit)
04. Miike Snow – Silvia (Sebastian Ingrosso & Dirty South remix)
05. Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)
06. Orion, Flight & K-System vs. Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
07. Portman, Orbital & Way Out West – Belfast Fall (Orion & Flight re-edit)
08. Wink – How’s Tarzan’s Evening So Far? (Orion & Flight re-edit)
09. Cirez D – Feel The On Off (Bootleg)
10. Bedrock – Heaven Scent (Orion & Flight re-edit)
11. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South remix)

+

Labyrinth // Laserpoint allstars track
Devilfish – Man Alive (edit)

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’

—

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!

DJ Orion @ Pacifique Luau, main stage opening 18:30-19:30

01. DJ Orion & J.Shore – Your Highness
02. DJ Orion & J.Shore – When All THe Ships Are Gone
03. DJ Orion – One Sunday
04. DJ Orion & J.Shore – Deep Blue
05. Mango, DJ Orion, J.Shore – Raining In Osaka (DJ Orion & J.Shore remix)
06. DJ Orion & J.Shore – Brotherhood
07. Ralphie B – Massive (DJ Orion & J.Shore remix)
08. Redanka – Waves (DJ Orion re-edit)
09. 29 Palms – Touch The Sky (DJ Orion re-edit)
10. James Bond Theme (remix)

DJ Orion & Flight @ Jack, Redrum, Helsinki – 23:30-01:30

Abe Duque – What Happened (Donk Boys remix)
Samuel Knob – Track 02 (Uner & Edu Imbernon Remix)
Ronan Portela – Beat Up
Alex Kenji, Mark Mendes – Take That Sax
Joey Negro, Akabu – Sax My Bitch Up (Audiojack Remix)
The Junkies – Quattro Uno Sei
Ramon Tapia – Sunka Sanka (Coyu & Edu Imbernon Remix)
Mollan – En Mis Manos
Anthea & Celler – Ceadmon Loop
Pitto – Feelin’ (District One’s Feelin’ Techno remix)
Butch – Joy
Nic Fanciulli – Work The Week
Starkillers, Disco Dollies – Get Up (NiCe7 Remix)
Saeed Younan – Yeah Ha
Paolo Mojo – Alininha (Edu Imbernon Remix)
Butch – Pump Pump, Yeke Yeke (Orion & Flight re-edit)
Matteo DiMarr – Drumbotto
Mowgli – London To Paris
The Prodigy – Narayan (Orion & Flight re-edit)
Christian Smith, Reset Robot – Air Miles (2000 And One & DJ Madskillz)
Cirez D – On Off (bootleg)
Underworld, Axwell, Mark Knight, Sunfreakz & D.Ramirez – Counting Down The Pipes (Orion & Flight re-edit)

Awesome night, great sets, happy people and a sold-out night. It was great to test drive Funktion One soundsystem for the first time, too – no wonder they’re saying Redrum has the best DJ booth and sound in Finland. Thanks to everyone involved, more jackjackjack in March.

Here’s a tracklist of last Sunday’s “Sunday Fun” chill-out event in Tampere, held on our independence day, 06.12. Not the most underground selection, but the atmosphere was cosy and very friendly – big thanks to Ville & Mika for the invitation :) Why aren’t there more chill-out clubs in Finland?

DJ Orion @ Sunday Fun – 6.12.2009 – 21:00-23:30
Check out the links for YouTube trainspotting goodness.

Jean Sibelius – Finlandia-hymni
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (Instrumental)
Mylo – Sunworshipper
Karma – Kon Tiki
Tammetõru – Ajast Ja Arust
Placebo – Pure Morning (Les Rhythmes Digitales remix)
Helios – Velius
All Thieves – Turn And Turn Again
Tepui – Caribu
DJ Orion – One Sunday
Softys – Chordeziks
Aphilas – Blind Matador Techniques
Unknown – James Bond Theme (remix)
Sven Väth – Harlequin Plays Bells (Harlequin Plays Hells-Bells Mix)
FSOL – Translation 2 (Papsico)
Mango, Orion, J.Shore – Raining In Osaka (DJ Orion & J.Shore remix)
The Prodigy – 3 Kilos
Wildach Sonnerkraut – Calypso
Sunscreem – Perfect Motion (remix)
Unknown – Sex and the City Theme (remix)
Ralphie B – Massive (DJ Orion & J.Shore remix)
Jon Hopkins – Light Through The Veins
DJ Orion & J.Shore – Deep Blue
Michael Witness – 18 Days
Flashbaxx – Voodoo Therapy
Nightmares On Wax – You Wish
Feta Kuli – Dusty Road
Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters Theme (instrumental mix)

DJ Orion @ MiscBehaving After-Rave, Playground, 25.10.2009
06:30-08:00

01. Elia – Cats (Kanio’s Novakane mix)
(02. DJ Flight b2b track)
03. Philip Baden, Nicone – Charma Doll (Aka Aka remix)
(04. DJ Flight b2b track)
05. Who’s Who – Klack (Joris Voorn remix)
(06. DJ Flight b2b track)
07. Voorn & Helden – Sweep The Doctor (Orion & Flight re-edit)
08. Catz ‘n Dogz – Me feat Pol_On
09. Mastiksoul – Macaron
10. Alex Kenji – Jack That Body
11. Ronan Portela – Beat Up
12. Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Prok & Fitch remix)
13. Tim Deluxe – Storm In a Teacup
14. Signor Andreoni, Alessio Mereu, Bunkers – Barajas
15. Huggy, Dean Newton – 747
16. Analog People In A Digital World – Circus (Instrumental)
17. Wolfgang Gartner – Latin Fever
18. Human Resource & Portman – Dark Is The Dominator For All (Orion & Flight re-edit)
19. D.Ramirez, Mark Knight & Underworld – Downpipe

One of coolest afterhour experiences in a while, loads of happy people and really moody but uplifting morning atmosphere. Thanks to you & Flight, Casper & Genki for beats & heats.

Nothing can replace the uplifting feeling you get of just being there.
-Jeff Mills

DJ Orion @ Trance Intercontinental podcast 15.06.2009

01. Mango, DJ Orion, J.Shore – Raining In Osaka (Shingo Nakamura remix) (Mango Alley Recordings)
02. DJ Orion – One Sunday (Beetseekers remix) (Solaris)
03. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Flight & Jontey remix) (CDr)
04. DJ Orion – One Sunday (Sami Saari remix) (Solaris)
05. Pryda – AfterFlight (DJ Orion re-edit) (CDr)
06. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Ayleon remix) (CDr)

DJ Orion – One, 30.05.2009, warmup for Niklas Harding

01. Richard Durand – Weep (Sundown remix)
02. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Flight & Jontey remix)
03. Gareth Emery – Metropolis
04. Dennis Sheperd – Black Sun
05. Slusnik Luna – Sun
06. Andrew Bennett – Break Away (Martin Roth NyStyle Dub)
07. Pryda & DJ Tiesto – Afterflight (Orion & Flight edit)
08. Timmy & Tommy – Mixtape (DJ Preach Nu Trance mix)
09. DJ Orion – Brotherhood (Ayleon remix)
10. Aalto – 5

DJ Orion @ YleX Pop, Bar Nolla, Helsinki, 29.05.2009

1,5h of oldskool house/techno classics.

01. Underworld – Tongue
02. Frankie Knuckles – Whistle Song
03. Armand van Helden – Flowerz (Dubstrumental edit)
04. Acid Syndrome – Ecstasy (UK Deep House Dub)
05. The Choice – Acid Eiffel
06. Hypnosis – End Title (Blade Runner)
07. Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
08. D-Mob – We Call It Acieed (Living beat remix)
09. Honesty69 – French Kiss (Diamond mix)
10. Hithouse – Jack To The Sound Of The Underground (Underground mix)
11. MARRS – Pump Up The Volume
12. Underworld – Dark Train (Danny Howells remix)
13. LFO – LFO
14. The Choice – 78
15. Inner City – Big Fun
16. Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (Quadrant mix)
17. Microglobe – High On Hope (Long Hot Summer Mix)
18. Guru Josh – Infinity

Orion & Flight 18.04.2009
LABYRINTH // LASERPOINT
Main Stage / Kaapelitehdas

01. Hybrid & Claes Rosen – Mystified Symphony (Orion & Flight intro edit)
02. Arno Cost – Cyan
03. Planet Funk, Morillo & DLG – Where Are You Sun (Orion & Flight re-edit)
04. DJ Orion – One Sunday (Sami Saari Magic Tuesday remix)
05. Flight & Jontey – Old Cool
06. TV Rock feat. Rudy – Been A Long Time (Axwell remode)
07. Faithless – Salva Mea (Orion & Flight edit)
08. Gai Barone – Lilith (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) (Orion & Flight edit)
09. Justice & Rob Mooney – Feelin’ Your Friends (Orion & Flight re-edit)
10. Pryda & DJ Tiesto – Afterflight (Orion & Flight re-edit)
11. Coldplay – Viva La Vida (Flight & Jontey meet DJ Orion bootleg remix)

Found an old file, which had all my old mix tracklists written down. Still 15 or more mixes from the late 90′s and early 2000 are totally missing a tracklist. If I find them – or will ever find enough time to trainspot the tracks – I’ll post them here.

Here you go, mix tracklists 2001-2007:
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“Tampere-fiilis” was a late 90′s phenomena in Tampere, purely born in local trance events when melodic trance was at its peak and rave culture enjoyed high popularity. I remember events like Taika ’98 in which people were dancing spontaniously hand-in-hand, club Tunnel with Coma and 3.14Sami spinning in an old, small rock club to 200+ clubbers every second Thursday, everybody going mental. I hope I haven’t become cynical when claiming that nearly a decade has passed in Tampere without any similar feeling of regular PLUR ;)

ONE has succeeded in something that felt like an impossible task a couple of years ago. It seemed that you couldn’t attract any audience without bringing bigger and bigger foreign acts even though it was just the fun and good atmosphere people were after. Saturday night at Tanssitalo, with hundreds and hundreds of people going insane and a lineup consisting of only former and current Tampere talents proved that you don’t need any foreign acts to get loose. Just a club full of your best friends and a long lost Tampere-fiilis :)

After a night like that, I can’t wait to get back to Tanssitalo. See you at the next One, on 30.5.2009.

Joni shot some amazing photos, check them all on his Flickr account or click the photos around this post.

Orion @ ONE, 21.03.2009
Hybrid & Claes Rosen – Mystified Symphony (DJ Orion re-edit)
Solarity – Terminal 6
Heikki L – Classic (Michael Cassette remix)
Meet Me In Montauk (Oliver Smith remix)
Tiesto & Pryda – AfterFlight (DJ Orion re-edit)
Richard Durand – Into Something
Ron Van Den Beuken – Faraway (Harry’s Song)
Coast 2 Coast – Home
Andy Moor – Love Story
Mike Koglin – The Silence

You are the One, we are One family.

Orion @ Chooned Afterparty, Klubi, Turku 05:00-06:30

DJ Orion – Brotherhood
Bedrock – Emerald (Grayarea remix)
Bedrock – Forge (Tom Middleton remix)
Claes Rosen – Pondus
DJ Orion – One Sunday (Beetseekers remix)
SignalRunners – Meet Me In Montauk
Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
Jay Kay – Twist
2XLC – Dante’s Peak (Jerome Isma-Ae remix)
Liluca – Clear Senses (Urban Breathe remix)
Saints & Sinners – Pushing Too Hard (Arnim’s Push-Up remix)
Cid Inc & Victor Hugo – Green Valley
Jaytech – Nemesis
Kim Jofferey – Take Me There (Chris Kaeser Dub Mix)
Hard Rock Sofa – Immersing
25st – Seduce Me (Richard Grey remix)

DJ Orion @ One Season Closing, Tampere, 20.12.2008

01. Steve Mill – In The Distance (Dana Bergqvist & Peder G remix)
02. Sultan & Ned Sheperd – Eye Spy (Patch Park & Original – Ricky Ryan edit)
03. Ned Sheperd – Fine Balance (Lützenkirchen Unreleased Mix 2)
04. Mark Knight, Funkagenda, Paul Thomas – Arena
05. Claes Rosen – Prixter
06. Solarity – Essence (Claes Rosen remix)
07. Paul Keeley – Paper Jet
08. Oneworld – Isla Blanca
09. Mooka – Cat In A Strange Barn (P8 Vision Mix)
10. Madoka – Afterburner
11. Signalrunners – Meet Me In Montauk
12. Victor Hugo & Cid Inc – Green Valley (Cid Inc edit)
13. Jaytech – Nemesis
14. Hard Rock Sofa – Immersing
15. Jaytech – Pepe’s Garden (Tritonal Air Up There remix)
16. Timmy/Tommy – Mixtape (DJ Preach mix)
17. Oppanox – Misdonomer (Fletch remix)
18. Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
19. DJ Orion – One Sunday (Sami Saari Magic Tuesday remix)

Orion @ Impulse, Lahti, 15.11.2008, 23:00-00:00

00. Brothers and Sisters intro
01. Wippenberg – Chakalaka
02. Hard Rock Sofa – Immersing
03. Richard Durand – Weep (Sundown remix)
04. KLF – What Time Is Love (remix)
05. Joonas Hahmo – Tampere By Night
06. Andy Moor – Fake Awake (Blizzard remix)
07. Andy Moor – So Much More (Myon & Shane54 remix)
08. Filterheadz – Yimanya
09. Beach X – Sweetest Thing (Jussi Soro remix)

Orion @ Neo w/ Infected Mushroom 25.10.2008

01. Spooky – Candy (James Zabiela remix)
02. C-Jay – Shogun (Dirty Disorder remix)
03. Dibby Doherty – Movement (Jay Lumen remix)
04. Vazik – No Fear
05. Glenn Morrison – Cosmic Flight (Nick Warren remix)
06. Desert Dwellers – Stratosphere (Ecliptic Remix)
07. Paolo Mojo, Jim Rivers – Ron Hardy Said (Eric Prydz remix)
08. Sergio Fernandez – Lost In Rio (D-Formation Remix)
09. Blackout – Behain Your Mind
10. Junkie XL – Cities In Dust (King Unique remix)
11. Cid Inc – The Grill (Lank remix)
12. Sensient – Life Involved
13. Cid Inc – Ghost In The Shell (remake)

The second One event is happily behind. 350 people shared the great atmosphere and the Australian guest seemed to enjoy a lot, despite a bitter defeat against the Finnish national techno bowling team on Sunday afternoon ;)

Aki A. warmed up the floor nicely and got the hands in the air with the last uplifting tracks like OneWorld – Isla Blanca. Jaytech continued with his trademark sound, played a superb set and ended it with Hawk – Out Of Nowhere (Joonas Hahmo remix) and Jaytech & Matt Rowan – Tomorrow, which seemed to be the highlights for the crowd, too. I played the last set on a bit more trancey tip and the Tampere audience was once again truly amazing. Moguai – “U Know Y” (Starecase remix) was one of my own favourites, not least because of the fitting “You Are The Lucky ONEs” lyrics. See the full tracklist below.

Thumbs up for the One promoters Uzu & Flight for keeping the quality high and making fresh and bold decisions concerning the lineups. Actually (and partly sadly, too) I can’t remember when a progressive style foreign artist would have visited Tampere last time. Jaytech proved that you don’t need big-room style trance jocks in order to attract melodic electronic music loving crowds and that energetic and intensive music doesn’t go hand-in-hand with high BPMs.

One takes a break until December and returns with Orkidea and Solar Stone on 20.12.2008. See you!

P.S. Good news concerning the One Sunday track. The remixes are now ready and I received the final version from Toni from Syna trio only a couple of minutes before the start of my set at One. Below is the video of very first play of the track, judge it yourself. My apologies for the kiksusormi ;)

Tracklist – DJ Orion, One 11.10.2008, 02:00-03:30

DJ Orion – One Sunday (Syna remix)
DJ Tatana – Spring Breeze (Martin Roth SummerStyle remix)
Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
Synergy – Hello Strings
Chris Reece – The Fall (Daniel Portman Main Hour Dub)
Proff – My Personal Summer
Myon & Shane 54 – The Beach
Andy Moor – Fake Awake (Ecomix)
Kris Benton – Final Race (Flash Brothers remix)
Moguai – U Know Y (Starecase remix)
Andrew Bennett, DJ Tatana – Closer (Than A Heartbeat) (Gareth Emery remix)
Joonas Hahmo – Cocktail Bar
Super8 & Tab – Elektra
Dennis Sheperd – Run Away
—
Paul van Dyk – For An Angel

The opening night of ONE is happily behind, the only sad thing reminding me from the weekend is this nasty tiredness still following me even after a couple of well slept nights. Am I getting old or what?
Needless to say, I had lots of fun warming up Super8 & Tab who played a superb set with not-too-many techy tracks and more progressive sound what I’ve normally heard from them. The highlight must have been their vocal mash-up of Helsinki Scorchin’ which made the whole Tanssitalo go bonkers.

I was happy to see so many familiar faces there from the good ol’ days and loads of of new people I’ve only recently gotten to know. I really enjoyed chatting with all of you and having a possibility to share the good mood together. There were so many smiles and the original Tampere-fiilis around. Can’t wait for the next event to come.

Here’s the tracklist of the first three hours of the night. Filterheadz’s remix of Massive and a couple of remixes from Fletch kickstarted the party, but the highlight must have been Cocktail Bar from Joonas Hahmo. Joonas really gets the well deserved support from his home town :)

Orion @ ONE Grand Opening, 13.09.2008, 22:00-01:00

Milton Jackson & Sei A – Jinzou (Manuel Tur Remix)
Dana Bergquist & Peder G – Sprint
Slytek – Calyx (Ricky Ryan edit)
Talisman & Hudson – Leaving Planet Earth (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
Chymera – Parelo (Jody Wisternoff Mix)
Blue Room Project – Velo City (Fletch Remix)
Claes Rosen, Add2Basket – Volaris
Yvel & Tristan – Heart & Soul
Sunshine Jones – If You Wouldn’t Mind (Tiger Stripes Remix)
Passenger 10 – Passenger 10
Audionova – Higher (Jay Lumen rmx)
Interplay – Interplay
Jay Lumen – Calypso
Serge Devant – Sweet Harmony (Isma-Ae remix)
Disco Te Que – Everytime My Heart (Heikki L & Mr A Danceteria Mix)
Oppanox – Misdonomer (Fletch remix)
Oceanlab – Miracle (Fletch remix)
Ralphie B – Massive (Filterheadz remix)
Orli & Martie – White Flower (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)
DJ Orion – One Sunday (Beetseekers remix)
Dinka – Out of Bounds
Perry O’Neil – Wave Force
Richard Durand – Weep (Sundown mix)
Joonas Hahmo – Cocktail Bar
Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
Unknown – Untitled
DJ Orkidea – Metaverse (Gareth Emery remix)
Young Parisians – Jump The Next Train (Probspot remix)
Andy Moor – Fake Awake (Ecomix)
Filterheadz – Yimanya

Thank You Turku & Pinky possé! It was again another fantastic Turku experience, this time a bit on a trancey tip. I really appreciated getting to play a three hour warm-up set as these days people tend to arrive rather after midnight than at half past ten. However, the floor was crowded already well before 00:00, people on the party mood and good vibe all over the place. Komytea continued where I left and Joonas Hahmo ended the night with a style. I can’t help hyping the new track from Joonas, “Tampere By Night”, which is an amazing follow-up for Cocktail Bar, possibly even better. Rumours say it might be featured on the upcoming AnjunaBeats Vol.6 compilation before the actual release.

Here’s the tracklist of the night for all you trainspotters. See you in two weeks at One in Tampere!

DJ Orion – Pinky, The Club, Turku 30.08.2008, 22:00-01:00

Milton Jackson – Jinzou (Manuel Tur remix)
Dana Bergquist & Peter G – Sprint
Jay Lumen – Rockin’
Andy King – Amsterdam (By Day Mix)
Audionova – Higher (Jay Lumen remix)
Blue Room Project – Velo City (Fletch remix)
Passenger 10 – Passenger 10
Sunshine Jones – If You Wouldn’t Mind (Tiger Stripes remix)
Chymera – Parelo (Jody Wisternoff remix)
Claes Rosen, Add2Basket – Volaris
Liluca – Naam (Paul Keeley remix)
Slytek – Calyx (Ricky Ryan edit)
Yvel & Tristan – Heart&Soul
Lil Mo Yin Yang – Reach (Mark Knight remix)
Orli & Martie – White Flower (Jerome Isma-Ae remix)
Bas Van Essen – So Sexy
Ralphie B – Massive (Filterheadz remix)
Sebastien Leger, Chris Lake – Ghost
Dinka – Out of Bounds
Kosmas Epsilon, Somnus Corp – Buenos Tiempos
Serge Devant – Sweet Harmony (Jerome Isma-Ae remix)
Perry O’Neil – Wave Force
Richard Durand – Weep (Sundown Mix)
Kris Benton – Final Race (Flash Brothers remix)
Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
Eelke Kleijn, Nick Hogendoorn – Where Are My Goggles (Fine Taste remix)
Gareth Emery – This Is That
Orkidea – Metaverse (Gareth Emery remix)
Envio – For You (Blizzard remix)
Jav D ft. MatZo and Einat – Silver Lining (Myon At Albion Dub)
Super8 & Tab – Elektra
Filterheadz – Yimanya

I Love Kiksu was a very well organized and successful trance event – there aren’t too many of those these days. I was surprised how early the dance floor got crowded – I was expecting people to stay home longer after such a warm day, but it seems you can always trust trance fans ;)
Jokke started the night with 100% vinyl set, plenty of great oldish tracks and fresh releases. A great warmup from the guy who has been keeping the scene warm for god-knows-how-many years. It was great to get to play after him. After a couple of trys with pretty new tunes I decided to count on tracks with were a bit more familiar. Not surprisingly, a bit more technoish tracks like Boogie Nights and Surin remix didn’t go down too well, but I was happy of the reaction to the proggy and even houseish tracks like Mystify remix and Sweet Harmony re-make. It’s good to see that you don’t need 145bpm energy trance anymore in a trance event to push the spirit high and get the hands in the air. 127bpm and well fitting bassline will do just fine (Jaytech/Dinka, anyone? ;). DJ DNA finished the night well with his stage charisma and driving two hour trance set in a true I Love Kiksu stylé :)
Big thanks to Denis for the invitation and to Seppo and the whole crew for the great hosting. Below is the tracklist of the night.

DJ Orion @ I Love Kiksu 4th Birthday
Brothers and Sisters acapella
Oceanlab – Miracle (Fletch remix)
Serge Devant – Sweet Harmony (Jerome Isma-ae remix)
Dinka – Out of Bounds
Meck – So Strong (Dub)
Super8&Tab – Helsinki Scorchin’ (Michael Cassette remix)
Dennis Sheperd – Infinity
Shiloh & Marcus Zuhr – Boogie Nights
Quivver – Surin (Lutzenkirchen remix)
Gareth Emery – This Is That
Claes Rosen – Mystify (Dinka remix)
DJ Orkidea – Metaverse (Gareth Emery remix)
Joonas Hahmo – Cocktail Bar
Menno De Jong – Solid State feat. Re:Locate – Gareth Emery Remix
Kris Benton – Final Race (Flash Brothers remix)
Aalto – 5
Uriel – Horizon (Hydroid remix)
Tiesto – Urban Train
Carrie Skipper – Time Goes By (Super8 Deep mix)
Super8&Tab – Elektra

I survived Konemetsä. Barely. Due to problems with the voice blog, you missed some hilarious moments recorded live, but I try to share the muddy moments by writing.
Konemetsä is a yearly open air festival located in Marttila, Finland. It’s basically in the middle of nothing, nearly a two hour drive from Helsinki and somewhat less from Turku. Getting there was a small logistic challenge and I ended up getting an official artist ride 11 hours before my set.

To make a long story short: I joined picking up from airport an Australian/Indian/English guy, who said Russians are godless, was amazed by GMS’ & Astrix’s excellent psy-trance and the setup of the Konemetsä main stage, got totally wet in the heavy rain during the morning hours, witnessed festival area turning muddy, slept three hours in a random caravan next to two very drunk Swedish guys, woke up to the middle of cocaine snorting merry-go-round, got very muddy and finally played a three hour morning set to the waking festival audience in the Konemetsä chill-out tent. It was the best chill-out gig experience so far for me – perfect weather, the first rays of sun, people getting out from their sleeping bags, eating breakfast and just being comfortable. An uncompromisingly good mood was in the air.
The festival producers Pete & Pete were incredibly nice, feet on the ground, ready to help and very professional guys. It was a pleasure spending some time together. Big thanks also to our driver for a good company and loads of fun all the way from Helsinki to Marttila.

The first 1,5h of my From Rural To Urban themed set the sound was more acoustic related, easier campfire chill-out and grew bigger little by little as the people woke up. The last hour was more urban – more beats, long pads and a bit more complex electronic touch. For a better view, see the full tracklist below:

Orion – From Rural To Urban Live @ Konemetsä 12.07.2008

01. Alcôve – Highways and Skyline
02. Karma – Kon Tiki
03. Phoniclux – Warming
04. Tepui – Caribu
05. Sleepy Town Manufacture – Fortnight
06. Alpaca Heads – Sushi @ Sydney
07. Nightmares On Wax – Night’s Interlude
08. Flashbaxx – Livingroom Adventures
09. Boards Of Canada – Hey Saturday Sun
10. Tripswitch – Roll Your Own
11. The Prodigy – 3 Kilos
12. Thievery Corporation – Holographic Universe
13. Ame – Doldrums
14. DJ Orion – One Sunday
15. Minilogue – Six Arms And One Leg
16. Slowhill – Valo
17. Navarro – Jeudi
18. Koss – Negai
19. Slowhill – Come Back As A Butterfly
20. Tom Middleton – Moonbathing
21. Jonas Bering – Melanie
22. Softys – No More Time For Us
23. Air – Alone In Kyoto
24. The Future Sound oF London – Dead Skin Cells
25. Budai & Vic – Cross The Line
26. Global Communication – 14:31 (+ We Are The Music Makers)
27. Tom Middleton – Yearning
28. Trentemöller – Miss you
29. Global Communication – Maiden Voyage
30. Softys – Neues
31. Placebo – Pure Morning (Les Rhythmes Digitales)

DJ Orion @ Tech This Out, Rose Garden
28.03.2008 – 01:15-02:30

01. Ricardo Villalobos – Chants
02. Stan Kolev – Breakout (James Harcourt remix)
03. Jona – Amon
04. Green Velvet – Destination Unknown
05. Ida Engberg – ID
06. Lush 7 – Unwind (Lutzenkirchen remix)
07. Komytea – Soldiers of Karkadu
08. Leftfield – Melt (Cid Inc remix)
09. Daniel Portman – Essence
10. Dennis Sheperd – Infinity
11. Komytea – Lost In Kioto
12. Kissy Sell Out – Get Busy Tropicana (The Wham remix)
13. Human Resource – Dominator (remix)
14. Jaksaw – Get Some
15. ZZT – Lower State Of Conciousness (Justice remix)
16. Justice – Phantom (Part II Soulwax remix)

When you’re doing club events and clubbing as a lifestyle, hobby and work at some point you just lose big amount of the enthusiasm of going out and to the clubs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still very nice and enjoyable, but you’re lacking the excitingness.

The Tullikamari raves in Tampere in ’94-’96 and Love Parade in ’99 were fantastic experiences for a young teenage boy, but I haven’t had a similar huge emotion rush in a party too many times ever since.

Well, Pacifique had it all. The exciting and nostalgic boom in your chest, anxious waiting to get there and a pure and energetic feeling of happiness. I had heard about the uplifting water splashing at the main arena, but that and several other details are just something you can’t describe if you haven’t been there yourself.
It was a totally unique concept well executed. I’m happy of getting the possibility of being there last night.

Here’s the tracklist of the From Rural To Urban style chill-out set from the sauna area.

Orion @ Pacifique EVO, 08.02.2008

Hybrid – Finished Symphony (Hybrid’s Soundtrack Edit)
Nightmares On Wax – You Wish
Julian Petrin – Embrace
Air – Alone In Kyoto
Ilya Malyuev – Little Sad Smile
Tom Middleton – Yearning
Global Communication – Maiden Voyage
Placebo – Pure Morning (Les Rhythmes Digitales remix)
Doris Days – To Ulrike M (Zero7 remix)
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (instrumental)
Marc Mitchell – Galerie Paris
Sven Väth – L’Esperanza

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update: Facebook has the first photos already!

>> Mikko’s Facebook album

DJ Orion @ Jack Season Opening 12.10.2007
22:00-00:00

Michelangelo – Jambala (Silicone Soul remix)
Razoof – Dub on the Beach (Razoof & Emanuel’s dub mix)
Kerri Chandler – Bar a Thym (Tom Middleton’s Cosmos remix)
Miguel Migs – Don’t Stand There
Skylark – When in Rome
Andy Cato – Cosmic Force (Soul Minority remix)
Paul Woolford – Journey to Java
Scope – Call It Deep
Tigerskin – Push the Patton
DJ Stranger – Requiem (Drive Dealers remix)
Underworld – Crocodile
Petter – Freak’n'love (Dousk Vectored mix)
Erika Jayne – Roller Coaster (Mark Knight’s Toolroom dub)
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (bootleg)
Unknown – Untitled
Booka Shade – Mandarine Girl (bootleg)
Let’s Go To Mexico (Milton Jackson remix)
Paolo Mojo – Jmj
Splitter – All Alone
The Rogue Element – Dead drummers

Orion @ Sunburn, Kalajoki, 11.08.2007

Claes Rosen – Eighties
Brazen – Toto
Sunfreakz – Riding The Waves (Henrik B remix)
ID – ID
Nicole Otero – Sunshine Song (Thomas Gold remix)
Quivver – Dancing in Dark Rooms
VAU! & Heikki L – Loud Music
Cirez D – Horizons
Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness (Marco V remix)

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Hallmark was great, big thanks to Joonas, Lauri & co. for an invitation. Due to “Palms” theme and very nice summer weather, it felt more than appropriate to play more moody progressive house instead of trance.

Orion @ Hallmark 16.06.2007

01. George G, Livio & Roby – Monochrome
02. Roland Klinkenberg, DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait
03. 16 Bit Lolitas – Goodbye Pluto
04. Blue Foundation – Sweep (16 Bit Lolitas Vox)
05. Dousk – Anagram (Chris Nemmo mix)
06. Damien Strong – Love Shop (DJ Orion edit)
07. Pryda – RYMD
08. Quivver – Dancing In Dark Rooms
09. Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Sven Weber remix)
10. Ossie – Holy Land
11. Joonas Hahmo – Together
12. David West – ID
13. Graham & Blades – Argie Bargie
14. Matthew Dekay – Timeless (Digifruitella Dub)
15. The Disco Brothers – Inner Sense (Orion’s Sun & Funk edit)
16. Winkee – Will I (Simon Templar remix)
17. David West – Searching for Substance
18. Cass & Slide – Perception

Download the live recordings here.

PART1
Karren & Porter – Half Light
Alexis Tyrel – Rebecca Loos (Gui Boratto remix)
Silicone Soul – 3AM
Dousk – Caribou
Slytek – Delirious
Antena – Camino Del Sol (Orion re-edit)
Gamma Rox – Magical
Dousk – Anagram (Chris Nemmo remix)
Shlomi Aber – Bagpipe
James Harcourt – Tease
Infinitize – Around Us (Rene Amesz remix)

PART2
Emjae – Vanity
Powerplant – Blame (Luke Chable remix)
Niels Van Gogh – Pulverturm 2.0 (Eric Smax & Thomas Gold remix)
Burufunk – Midnight Run
Orbital – Halcyon & On & On (remix)
Damian Strong – Love Shop
Fine Taste – More Grey Than Blue
Mark Sinclair – Electric Sun (David Forbes 5am Mix)
Chris Nemmo & Andrew Eskay – Affectation (Dousk Dub Electro)
Heikki L – Let The Bass Kick

Despite of everything what I heard about the comfort of playing at Uniq, the sound was pretty good after all. Ok, I have to admit that I had to have the monitors awfully loud to be able to be 100% sure of what I was doing. Better located monitor speakers would do a lot for that place from the DJ’s point of view. Anyway – the place was more crowded than on earlier wednesdays and music wasn’t that trance as I expected. Matthew Heath and Anton Sonin kept playing pretty housey material before me, so I delayed playing the progressive/trance tracks, too and chose a bit more electroish start.

Thanks to Tommi and other Supercool posse.

Orion @ Supercool, Uniq, Helsinki, 18.10.2006

01. Hybrid – If I Survive
02. Unknown – Accelerator feat. Alanis Morrissette
03. Sebastien Leger – Hypnotized (Chris Lake instrumental)
04. Andry Nalin – Pornographic Material
05. Shlomi Aber – Inspiration
06. R-Tem – M.S.F.G (Electro Mix)
07. Seyton vs. Dumb Dan – Buck Futter (Cryo remix)
08. Pryda – Aftermath (Paolo Mojo remix)
09. Jaytech – Starbright (Jaytech’s ´touch your dj´ mix)
10. Sunscreem – Perfect Motion (Unknown remix)
11. Freza & DJ Flash – Ritmix
12. C.M – Dream Universe (Tilt’s Eastern Storm remix)
13. Henrik B – Overrun
14. Syna – Megaforce
15. BT – Godspeed
16. Arksun – Astrodancer (Starecase remix)
17. Redanka – Waves (E-Mission Mix)
18. Jaytech – Genesis (Jimbo’s Afterburner remix)
19. David West – Make U Mine (Mike Shiver Dub)
20. X-Cabs – Neuro ’99 (John ’00′ Fleming remix)
21. Chris Micali – Schipol (Santiago Nino remix)
22. You Know – Roaches
23. Alex Axx Koss – I Hope
24. Perry O’Neil – Bass Society
25. Placebo – Every You Every Me
26. Sebastian Tellier – La Ritournelle

ORION @ Lick!, Rovaniemi, 06.10.2006

Rui Da Silva – Touch Me
Deux – Xpand
Paolo Mojo – 1983
Parallel Sound – Break Loose
Unknown – Untitled
Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm (Martijn Van Velden Remake)
Seyton & Dumb Dan – Buck Futter (Cryo remix)
Picotto & Fergie – FunkyTime
Fonzerelli – Moonlight Party
Leonid Rudenko – Summerfish
Sander Kleinenberg – This Is Miami
KLF – What Time Is Love (K Boy Zee’s 2ci Dub)
Cid Inc & Matthew Bradley – Lost Game
Chris Lake – Underground Changes
Jussi Polet – Positive (SMFP remix)
Phunk-A-Delic – Rockin’
Miika Kuisma & Mr.A – Honey (Heikki Liimatainen remix)