As a technical sidenote: As you might have noticed, my website domain has changed to www.djorion.fi. Everything still works if you use the old url orion.reaktio.net, but I strongly recommend updating your bookmarks to the new one.
RSS-feed and podcast addresses remain the same as before.
Some of you might have noticed the new link in the website main navigation. The new Photo Gallery was opened yesterday including tons of photos from the past years, from different events, cities, projects and tours.
Feel free to browse through – and it you feel like contributing, you can always add new photos by uploading them to Flickr and tagging them with “djorionweb_gigs”.
Here are a couple of Finnish Radio 1 aka YleX Tiistain Tanssi-ilta updates for the rest of the year.
Remaining featured artists aka Biisivieraat include Ville Lope 25.11. and DJ Orkidea 9.12, both playing their soon-to-be-released new material and sharing the hottest rumours ;) Highly recommended.
My last Tiistain Tanssi-ilta of the year, 23.12. is all about Trance Chronology 1991-2003. 13 selected trancey tracks from the past 13 years, one track per year, in one hour. The tracks are already chosen and it’s truly a journey through different trends of electronic music in all its good and… ummh… not-so-good :)
If you feel like, drop a line to the comments and tell which one track would you choose to represent the sound of 2001? Or 1993? Or any year. It’s not easy, yet fun to think about.
My first Tanssi-ilta of 2009 will be traditional “Best of 2008”. ( Jaytech and Dinka for one hour ;) Tune in after the xmas holidays 6.1.2009 and listen what was hot in 2008.
Here’s the preview to the brand new Misc Management website. It will be online any day now (most likely on Friday / Saturday). Above is the main page and below you see how the artist pages are going to look like.
Let’s take a closer look at the features.
1) If you don’t like the background colour, come back later. Misc website has a built-in emotion detector which changes the background colour to match the current feeling of the user. It’s not a perfect detector, but expect the colour change at least once in an hour ;)
2) As you see below, all the artist pages are powered with YouTube and Flickr. Flickr integration allows Flickr users add photos to the galleries and on the artist pages (kind of similar thing what you already saw on the Metaverse Tour) and simplifies sharing the latest artist promo pictures.
YouTube enables us to add fan videos and tracks directly from YouTube to our site. This is pretty simple 2.0. stuff, but after browsing through many agency website I couldn’t find any which would actively use similar features.
3) On Events and Collaborations section you can find bigger Flickr galleries going back to the early years of Misc (We are already 8 years old in July :) and detailed information of the past partnerships with different companies. Also the DJ list is finally up-to-date.
4) Many thanks to Tuomo and Niko for great and professional php help and tips during the project. Huge thank-yous go to Viljami who designed and put the site together and put his time and heart on the code. Viljami is a very professional and nice guy – keep your eye on him for the future for any 3D, Flash, CSS or webdesign tasks. Thanks to all the friends who tested the site and gave your improvement comments, we are working on them.
See www.misc.fi on Friday/Saturday this week to give a test drive to the new site.
This blog went through one of the biggest changes in years when I updated everything below the surface from Movable Type 4 to WordPress. Until version 4 came out I was very happy what I could do with Movable Type, but the user experience of the latest version was incredibly bad. I decided to give a try and install WordPress and I have to say I’ve been very happy with it. Very easy to install, edit and use. I’m sure you can still find lots of things which don’t work as well they used to, but everything should be running perfectly before the weekend. There will be some “new” features available as soon as tomorrow, check back.
I’m troubleshooting like there’s no tomorrow, but if you find any problems or get any errors, please let me know. Geeky geek.
Hello music lovers!
After these years of fine casts, rare and perfect guest mixes and nearly 15.000 downloads, Orion’s podcast is about to change. It’s not a matter of quitting but more like a change of the concept. I hope the upcoming changes are going to serve us all better, share the idea of high-quality electronic music and bring up new artists and new music for us all to support.
We still have two or three excellent guest mixes in the pipeline before the change, so stay tuned. I will announce more of the exciting news in the beginning of 2008. And most importantly – the change does not require any action from anyone who is already subscribed. And for those who aren’t, more podcast details can be found here.
Shortly in English:
Huge amount of Finnish flyers now online, nearly 2 gigabytes of new material. See them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/sets/807684/
Ja sitten suomeksi:
Uploadasin loput DJ Orkidean flyerikokoelmasta skannatuista flyereistä myös omalle Flickr-tililleni. Yhteensä Flickrissä on edellämainituista ja omista flyereistä skannattuna reilut 1600 flyeriä eri vuosilta.
Kaikki flyerit ovat nähtävissä osoitteessa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/sets/807684/
Flickr toimii loistavana hakukoneena eri vuosien, bileorganisaatioiden tai tapahtumien flaikkuja etsittäessä. Kokeile vaikka:
Flyereitä vuodelta 1997
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=flyer%201997&w=37218967%40N00
Pussy Clubin flyereitä
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=37218967%40N00&q=flyer+pussy&m=text
Flyereitä Rovaniemeltä
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=37218967%40N00&q=flyer+rovaniemi&m=text
Hakuja pystyy yhdistelemään mitä erilaisimmilla tavoilla, muista vain liittää aina hakuun sana “flyer”.
Jotta hausta saataisiin vielä tehokkaampi, pyydän kaikkia teitä Flickrin käyttäjiä taggaamaan muutama flyeri aina niitä katsellessanne. Tagit löytyvät flyerisivun oikeasta laidasta ja niihin voi lisätä muunmuassa tapahtuman nimen, paikkakunnan, vuoden, tekijän, materiaalin tai muuta tietoa bileistä. Mitä useampi flyeri on tagatty hyvin, sitä enemmän hyötyä online-kokoelmasta on kaikille.
DJ Orkidean kokoelma on nähtävissä myös hänen saitillaan osoitteessa: http://www.djorkidea.com/gallery/flyers/
BIO UPDATE
First of all, there are two updates of the website. Biography is again back up-to-date and a bit wider than the former version.
DOWNLOAD MIX
Then, Spinni 10 year anniversary mix is now available for downloading on the mixes site. It was podcasted already some time ago, but if you’re not into any casts, now is a good chance to download it. The mix includes music from artists like Junkie XL, Starecase, Hybrid, David Forbes, Transa etc. Full length mix with old and new tracks included.
ORION JOINS MISC MANAGEMENT
Orion joined Misc Management DJ booking agency earlier this week. Misc Management is the first truly professional, dance music oriented dj booking agency – management located in Helsinki, Finland. As well as being part of Misc’s Artist Roster, Orion also works as part of the Misc Management staff from now on. More news concerning the subject should be available pretty soon.