"Renaissance" - a full-length August 2007 mix now downloadable. For tracklist and further info, check the Mixes site.

There's one loong loong project ahead. Taking each of my vinyls on the turntable set next to my laptop, playing and recording them, normalizing the recording and tagging and archiving the mp3-files. Even if I would just record the most important records, this would take months. I was thinking to make the process a bit shorter, but I ended up having a software question in front of me.

I took the first step today and bought the cartridge which has been told to be the best one available for DJing purposes. No matter to which DJ-needle you compare Grado DJ200, the difference is huge. Check it yourself:

DJ Caro2 tested seven different DJ cartridges and recorded the test. Take a moment and listen the test. The last two loops are recorded with Grado DJ200 - the quality difference is mad. Here are the cartridges used in the test - you can hear each for about 10 sec.

Stanton 500al 1.8g (low weight)
Stanton 500al 3g
Stanton 680Hp 3g
Shure M35X 2g
Shure M44G 1.5g
Ortofon DJ E 3g
Ortofon Elektro 3g
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Technics SL-1200Mk5)
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Stanton STR8-80)

Now as I have the best possible cartridge, I would still need some good software to do as much work for me as possible. Basically the easiest and fastest way to digitalize the vinyls would be to record them to one file without breaks.

So - I need a program which will split this long audio file into separate tracks. Then I need a program which would normalize all these files as a batch.

After this is done, iTunes will take care of the wav-to-mp3 conversion and tagging.

I know there are several DJs and music lovers out there having the same project in their hands. Any software tips, hifi knowledge, experiences or opinions would be very welcome.

edit: Read further notes about the project.

Top Ten 25.07.2007

01. David West - Stuck In Friendsville
02. Danceteria - Passion (HeikkiL & Mr.A remix)
03. Cirez D - Horizons
04. Winkee - 3rd Plane To Ibiza
05. Prime 33 - Burn (16 Bit Lolita's Dub)
06. Joonas Hahmo - Together
07. P Liassi & One - Fool's Paradise (Tyrrell Dub)
08. Slyde - High Rise
09. Jay Lumen pres. Monologue - Midnight Express (Andro dub)
10. Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights
>> http://orion.reaktio.net/bio.php

Back in Finland, fully relaxed - couldn't be better!
Below are three links to Orion's 3,5 hour set in Mango, Kempten, Germany, recorded on 07.07.07 (thanks Alfredo!). Expect large variety of house, less progressive than usual, lots of Finnish tracks, easy and sommerlich. The set will be online for limited time only, be fast.

DOWNLOAD
... not available anymore, sorry.

... and sure, you can get these via the podcast, too.

Tune in to Bassoradio - this Wednesday. DJ Orion live on Misc Management show, 20:00-22:00 (CET+02).

Stream address: http://www.basso.fi/bassostreami.m3u or on FM (Helsinki city area) 102,8mhz (Welho cable network 105,9mhz).

Orion - Silver Lining (Summer 2007 mix)

Silver Lining is the last of the three part progressive house mix series. After "Pace" and "Fusion", Silver Lining is more dancefloor orientated and driving and compiled especially for sunny weather.

Download >> http://klubitus.org/kuuntele.php?id=3789

Download the other parts of the series >
Pace - http://klubitus.org/kuuntele.php?id=3475
Fusion - http://orion.reaktio.net/orion/orionfusion.mp3

Enjoy the summer!

Live recording from Northern e'Motion 2007 event, Oulu, Finland, 11052007. Warmup set for David West (Antiloop, West rec., Sweden)

The first part is mostly moody, chilly, atmospheric progressive house. The second part has already a bit more drive and going slowly into progressive trance for mr. West's start.

Enjoy!

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ORION LIVE @ NE2007, OULU, FINLAND
PART1
PART2

Jasmo had some good questions about the format wars on the comments concerning Orkidea's new website. Aaand here are some answers.

So long, Myspace. Here's the new VIRB profile.

Orion - LCS Featured Artist Mix now downloadable.

One hour of fresh progressive breaks and a couple of classic tracks.

Download here.

Tune in to Bassoradio - this Wednesday. DJ Orion live on Misc Management show, 20:00-22:00 (CET+02).

Stream address: http://www.basso.fi/bassostreami.m3u or on FM (Helsinki city area) 102,8mhz (Welho cable network 105,9mhz).

Orion - Pace

The name says it all. Both in English and Italian.

60 minutes of bittersweet melodies, houseprogressive moody soundscapes.

Download it on the mixes section.

A short video from VisualiSointeja group first performance. Experimenting the combination of electronic music, classical music and interactive visuals.
Expect Youtube sound and picture quality(tm).

This week:

Wednesday: Orion live @ BassoRadio, Misc Management show 20:00-22:00 (CET+02). Tune in at www.basso.fi/radio

Thursday: New podcast on the way. 40min minimix of oldskool progressive/trance from Homegrove. Excellent stuff. Subscribe to the podcast here.

Saturday: Orion's one hour mix on Radio Laserpoint, 21:00-22:00 (CET+02), guest mix on Fresh Waves, a show by Denis Vakulin. Tune in here.

Orion's one hour guest mix on FriskyRadio, on Audio Mediocritas show, hosted by OlliS.
House / progressive.

Thursday, 18.01.2007, 21:00-23:00 (Finnish time, CET+02)
Link to the stream: http://www.friskyradio.com/frisky.m3u

Some profile updates on the Misc Management site.

This year BassoRadio is finally FM, on 102,8mHz. Misc Management show every second Wednesday 20.00-22.00. Tune in.

My latest epic trance remix/remake of old Stress Records track "Innerself - Gautama" will be aired tomorrow on Tiistain Tanssi-ilta @ YleX, the Finnish national radio one. Tune in tomorrow, tuesday 19.12.2006, between 21:00-22:30 (GMT+02).

Here's a short clip: Innerself - Gautama (Orion's Freefall remix)

I've been thinking of this a lot lately. After reading Moby's blog I've noticed that there are just a huge amount of readers, all around the world. If you still add those who read the same posts from his MySpace blog, the actual amount of readers is vast.

Now, Moby has lots of opinions and he's not afraid to tell them. Actually, his provocative way of writing makes people both angry and supportive. The blog entries create different emotions which might even cause actions. And if Moby's writings cause actions, they work.

The more popular electronic music has become, the more I've been thinking why don't clubs, organizations and DJs more openly stand behind certain values such as freedom of speech, environmental issues and anti-war movements? After all, the more popular the club or the DJ is, the more weight their opinions have.

Nowadays saying no to oil industry, being openly interested in climate change or supporting Amnesty, Greenpeace or other similar organizations is simply mediasexy. And I guess less people would dare to ask for a free entry to a club which would give part of their ticket price to support electric cars or prevent climate change - for example.

Ian Ossia visited Finland last weekend. Great gig, great music and I was more than delighted to find a short statement against the oil use from his Myspace-biography. Vast amount of people just simply need role models in order to change their opinions and - as cliché as it is - music can make the world better - why wouldn't the professionals of music make it happen, too?

No matter if you're a professional or simply a music lover, you could take the first step and check the Amnesty's music driven campaign "Make Some Noise" and the barbwire headphone T-shirts, too.

These are small deeds, but in the long run they make the big wheel turn. Let's push it.

The new epic trance mix, Orion - Roots, is now online. Get the mix & full tracklisting on the mixes site.

Enjoy :)

I just finished the last mix for this year. It became the longest - and if not my best mix of this year, it's definitely the most interesting.

I've been thinking of putting together a mix of epic trance for a while now. It's an interesting genre - I accidentally found a good description from Discogs while browsing around:

Epic trance has "musically interesting, constantly changing elements, and building suspense and emotion through means other than twiddling the frequency knob on a filter."

There's so little of this kind of trance released these days. Long tracks with lots of variety, several parts with different musical themes and truly innovative and challenging electronic dance music.

When choosing the tracks, I ended up leaving several nuskool epic tracks aside as well as some too obvious epic classics. And yes - the whole mix could have included only Sunday Club releases and been as epic as it'll ever get, but there wouldn't have been too much point in it.

Now, I'm pretty satisfied with the result. The sound describes very well where my electronic music roots are and also what was the whole idea of trance back in the day: hypnotic yet beautiful and driving.

Next year I'll concentrate more on new music and leave oldskool aside - at least from the mixes. And as the autumn has been pretty trancey, the next mixes will be based more on house. Let that be the first promise for the new year.

Anyway, the new mix, Roots, will be online no later than tomorrow containing music from Sunday Club, Bedrock, Sasha, Gloat, Tenth Chapter, Spooky, Seafield etc.

See you soon.

Six hours timelapse movie from Desperate Housedeejays minitour - Club96, Kajaani, Finland.

I must admit that Kajaani event on the Desperate Housedeejays mini-tour really surprised me. There were about 400 people (which is a lot - we're talking about North-East Finland here) and very enjoyable atmosphere. The night took off after 00:30AM and there was absolutely no need for playing obvious hits - in addition to house it was about breaks, oldskoolish quality trance and techno.

To mention some highlights, especially Brothers in Rhythm remix of Placebo's Every Me Every You, Phunk-A-Delic's Rockin' and Mauro Picotto's Coldfunk made Club96 go crazy.

Met some very nice new friends and generally people seemed just to be happy and smiling. Either it was a successful night in their opinion, too - or they were just drunk enough ;)

And still - this must have been the best b2b gig with Kaasi, the erickmorillo of Northern Finland. It just gets better every time :)

We got a nice amount of footage - a timelapse movie of the whole night, photos and videoclips. Online pretty soon, I hope.

Sibelius-Academy's Development Centre for Artistic Activity has kindly approved our application and given us a grant for producing an audiovisual music production. The production will combine both traditional and electronic music plus visuals and motion tracking in a way which is - at least - new in Sibelius-Academy.

I will provide here a link or two as soon there's more information available.

I've been writing several blog posts about the fight between vinyl and mp3 supporters, archiving digital music and the relationship between a DJ and a music format. I've always tried to point out that there really aren't any universal truths in this fight and that there are some facts you just can't deny. And finally I've gotten to a conclusion:

I've been already thinking for some time what would be my response on the change of the DJ-culture. Follow the flow, sell my vinyl collection, start playing only digital music and make the best out of it? Or make a lonely fight-back, keep supporting vinyl and keep the amount of CDRs in minimum and play only promotional tracks in digi format?

The only what is certain, is that some changes have to be made. I'm happy that I've come to a conclusion which satisfies me both as a vinyl freak and as a music lover: With a "small" amount of work I've listed all the old records I still need in order to call my vinyl collection perfect and complete. In addition to that, I won't leave the collection to the state "2006" but I'll update it constantly with important releases and so-called future old-skool classics. I'll also support certain labels by buying all their new releases in plastic to have a complete catalogue and collection of their music.

OK, that's it about vinyl. What about mp3's then? The amount of music mentioned above would easily fulfill the needs of my upcoming DJ-sets. But buying the music only for keeping the dancefloor pleased doesn't lead anywhere (Miika wrote well about that already earlier). There are SO many better-than-average but far-from-classic tracks in online shops and it would be a pity to leave them there just because they are released only in digital format. And there are even more tracks which aren't meant for dance floor but which you just happen to love. For the sake of keeping your sense of true music alive, it's even necessary to buy tracks which you probably wouldn't end up playing live. I don't mean bad tracks, but tracks which are just interesting, but definitely not danceable. Would there be any better format for that than digital?

Hopefully this sums this up - for now.. :)

I'll be playing on a private event in Sotkamo on Friday and continuing to one of the finest looking clubs in Northern Finland, Club96, on Saturday. Expect a small pause on blogging.

While enjoying the pause, take a look how resonance affects rice. Spooky.

Miika Kuisma has written his best blog post so far. A long mind flow "About creativity and being an artist" is well worth 7-10min which it'll take to read through.

The setup "creativity vs money" which Miika introduces is very very valid in the world of event managers and promoters, too. Even though organizing events can't be categorized as "art" too often, the same series of actions appear there as well: if you organize events in order to make your living and/or to get rich, you'll end up losing the touch to your audience and waste the real fun in it.

If you rank income above creativity or fame above art, take a while and read the post.

If you totally missed the Radio KLF's broadcast two nights ago, go and download the live recording from Supercool club from the mixes section. It's 2,5 hours of electro house, progressive and trance.

Enjoy!

Click.

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)

How about surprising your boy/girlfriend and using the salaries of this month for buying the Technics SL1200 bling edition!

via: Cascadeus

ORION - 10 YEARS IN 1,5 HOURS @ Spinni10, 23.10.2006

01. Aphex Twin - Polynomial C
02. Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless
03. Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Quivver remix)
04. Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp (Jackdaw remix)
05. Musique vs U2 - New Year's Dub (Hybrid remix)
06. Deepsky - Stargazer (Andy Ling remix)
07. Preach - Oxygen (remix)
08. Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon (King Unique remix)
09. Latigidi - It's Time (Antidote's Electrified remix)
10. Unknown - Megaforce
11. Way Out West - Domination
12. Kylie Minoque - Too Far (Brothers in Rhythm remix)
13. Tilt - Rendezvous (Instrumental)
14. X-Cabs - Neuro '99 (John '00' Fleming remix)
15. Max Graham - Airtight
16. Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Paul van Dyk remix)

This Friday & Saturday Spinni-organization's 10th Anniversary Party takes over I-klubi, a legendary club venue nearby the centrum of Tampere. Many of my finest moments in the late 90's techno scene are located there - and I guess many others could agree...

Who still remembers MIR, Taika, Dawn and many, many more...?

I have no idea how the organizers managed to get the authorization for their parties until 07 or 09 at that time - as far as I remember, alcohol was sold until 03:30 and then the party just kept on going. Quite impossible these days.

Spinni's party will be more or less a look back to the past. I'll be warming up Peak Twins' Live set on Saturday and - I have to admit - I've been browsing through my records anxiously to get a bag-full of Tampere-anthems with me. I've been selecting tracks which were BIG 5-10 years ago - not too obvious classics, but records which made it all work at the time when Tampere-fiilis was at its peak.

>>> Spinni10 website.

This Friday & Saturday Spinni-organization's 10th Anniversary Party takes over I-klubi, a legendary club venue nearby the centrum of Tampere. Many of my finest moments in the late 90's techno scene are located there - and I guess many others could agree...

Who still remembers MIR, Taika, Dawn and many, many more...?

I have no idea how the organizers managed to get the authorization for their parties until 07 or 09 at that time - as far as I remember, alcohol was sold until 03:30 and then the party just kept on going. Quite impossible these days.

Spinni's party will be more or less a look back to the past. I'll be warming up Peak Twins' Live set on Saturday and - I have to admit - I've been browsing through my records anxiously to get a bag-full of Tampere-anthems with me. I've been selecting tracks which were BIG 5-10 years ago - not too obvious classics, but records which made it all work at the time when Tampere-fiilis was at its peak.

>>> Spinni10 website.

Feel free to tune in to Bassoradio frequency today at 18-20 Finnish time. Also web stream available.

Records for sale @ Discogs. To buy some, do not contact me but login to Discogs and buy them via the Marketplace.

Records for sale.

A remix of Tilt's "I Dream" got nearly finished last weekend. Here's a short clip of what's coming up next:

Tilt - I Dream (DJ Orion remix)

Snare Rush Collage.
Weird collage of clips and videos from the past...
You got to love this YouTube-quality... :P Here's a link to a better quality mp4-file => download (38mb).

And finally a peek to the iTunes Music Folder.
Quite a nice way to present one's musical taste in a visual way.

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.

As I promised, the collaborative mix with DJ Kaasi was to be brought online before the end of this month. Now here it is - just as promised. Download, sit back and enjoy :)

Orion & Kaasi - Promotional Mix #2

21 tracks in 52 minutes
+ some tricks, acapellas, effects and scratches.
Funky, progressive, breaks, oldskool, melodic, electro. Quality house.

01. Busta Funk - Tribal Scratch
02. Putsch '79 - Cockaine Dub
03. Connected Funk - Sexy Lady
04. Johnny D & Nicky P - Major Sea
05. Sueno Latino - Recycled Loops
06. Chris Lake - Changes (remix)
07. Cirez D - KnockOut (Sebastien Leger remix)
08. Richard Dinsdale - Rescue Me
09. Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives (Quadrant remix)
10. Human Resource - Dominator (remix)
11. Phunk-a-Delic - Rockin'
12. Unknown: Bells of NY (Paavo Thorian remix)
13. Chris Lake: Release
14. Sven Last: Spoon
15. Tom Parris: Mystery Machine
16. Nacka Boys: Our Toys
17. Break and Enter: Breaking For You
18. Neztic: Kickin' Down (Rico Tubbs remix)
19. Sero: Megamaid
20. Joseph Disco vs Micky Monza: Pet Shop Disco Posse
21. DJ Mikropacer vs The Freehander: Monoraver

DOWNLOAD HERE

Tracklist:
Orion @ Sunburn, Kalajoki 29.07.2006

01. Chakra:Blue - Stand Still
02. Graham & Blades - Funky Summa
03. Jose Gonzales - Crosses (Breaks mix)
04. Junkie XL - Mushroom
05. Eve Falcon & Desert Sol - Know It All
06. Deux - Xpand
07. Parallel Sound - Break Loose
08. Morales & Ventura - Iris
09. Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm (Parham & Dominic Plaza remix)
10. Atlantic - Dandelion Crush
11. Kortezman - Rain
12. Phunk-A-Delic - Rockin'
13. Paolo Mojo - 1983
14. Chris Lake - Change

Video:

Photos:

Yhä useampi DJ on viime aikoina siirtynyt tukemaan yhä enemmän MP3-formaattia musiikkia ostaessaan.

Yhtenä argumenttina MP3-formaattiin siirtymiselle on monen DJ:n kohdalla tarjonnan laajuus. MP3 tuo tarjolle valtavan määrän musiikkia ja valinnanmahdollisuudet ovat huomattavasti suuremmat kuin perinteistä levykauppaa plärätessä.

Olen viime aikoina seurannut erityisellä mielenkiinnolla niin kotimaisten kuin ulkomaalaistenkin DJiden chartteja ja keikka-tracklistejä. Vaikka MP3:n pitäisi tuoda DJ:n ulottuville uutta musiikkia kasapäin, jostain syystä chart- ja soittolistat ovat kaventuneet tarjonnaltaan huomattavasti.

Beatportin ja vastaavien kauppojen kampanjat ja mainonta tuntuvat vaikuttavan isoon osaan DJistä hyvinkin radikaalisti. Suurimman mainostilan MP3-kaupassa saavaa kappaletta ostetaan isolla kädellä ja kärjistetysti sanoen kaupan TOP10 myyntilistat siirtyvät monen DJ:n Personal TOP10:een. Samalla tarjonta sekä yleisölle että DJille tasapäistyy. Ilmiö ei ole uusi, mutta elektronisen musiikin ideologiassa todella vieras.

MP3-kaupat ja -labelit ovat saaneet DJ:t uskomaan, että paljon mainostilaa verkossa tarkoittaa isoa hittiraitaa. Samalla korostuu myös mp3-kaupankäyntiin liittyvä laiskuus. Kuten Mr.A Plastic Fantastic -levykaupan sulkemiseen kommentoidessaan kirjoitti, levykauppojen ja -hyllyjen selaaminen on olennainen osa DJ:n ammattia.

MP3-kulttuuri saa musiikin haalisen näyttämään helpolta ja vaivattomalta, mutta kaataa monta DJ:tä juuri siihen helppouden suohon: valituksi tulevat pääasiassa vain raidat, joita MP3-kauppa ja -labelit toivovat menevän eniten kaupaksi. Nettiselailuun verrattuna vanhalta kirpputorilta tai ulkomaisen levykaupan kätköistä tuntien etsinnän jälkeen tehdyt löydöt tuntuvat kullanarvoisilta. Digitaalinen ei vain ole mitään.

Omaperäisen soundin ja yllättävien biisivalintojen aikaansaamiseksi MP3-kaupat eivät ole antaneet allekirjoittaneelle yhtään mitään. Onneksi vielä löytyy NIIN paljon laadukkaita pienen painoksen levyjä, joita ei koskaan julkaista mp3-formaatissa.

Ne biisit minä ostan.

Lisää aiheesta tässä blogissa:
Vinyyli vs. MP3
DJs and Music Marketing
Electronic Music Labels
Teosto & Gramex Suck On This

Updated version of EBTG - Missing (Orion's Lost and Found remix) is now available. The sound should be slightly better and more clear now, some minor changes to guitars and effects done, too.
The previous version was already supposed to be the final, so this one definitely is ;)

Download EBTG - Missing (Orion's Lost and Found remix) here.

Got 25 nice house & trance classics from a retired DJ. Really amazing old tracks, but the condition wasn't too good. Luckily no scratches, just dust and dirt which meant spending some time as a dish jockey.

Here's the 15 year old clip from DMC World DJ Championships, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness performing.

If you distribute this video, please use the URL of this site:
http://orion.reaktio.net/mtarchives/001201.html
or shorter http://tinyurl.com/hahe7. Thanks!

Did you already check the video of the Human Turntable?

OK, this clip is just a teaser. Tomorrow morning I'm going to upload another DMC-clip: 15 years ago, in 1991, Finnish DJ Eliot Ness made it to the third place in DMC World DJ Championships. With some help from DJ Kaasi, I hunted down a clip from his performance. The tricks are quite stunning, I must say.

But before Mr. Eliot's clip, here's the famous Human Turntable trick. Stay tuned.

Denis Vakulin, aka DJ DNA seems to have a new website.

And Tero Civill, aka DJ Coma opened his virtual lounge as well. Mr. Coma also offers two tracks for download:

Tero Civill - The Message
Tero Civill - Watching You

Check Tero's Audio page for full track descriptions.

You're listening to a radio channel, DJ-set or podcast and hear a song which you definitely want to have. What do you do?

Far too many people trust on P2P programs when they want to find a track which is simply just too good. They download it illegally, because it's easy and free - but also because they don't know (or care) how to get it otherwise.

DJs are a part of music marketing, you can't deny that. They know where to buy the best tracks, they know how to find good music legally, they know how to hear about the new music which hasn't even gotten on the charts. So why wouldn't they share this knowledge?

At the moment DJs are just writing their TOP20-charts for two purposes: to show the promoters that they are active and they should be booked AND to show the other DJs that they have tracks which the other DJs do not have. Still - too often I hear on the clubs some clubber asking the question: "This is so cool music - where can you buy this kind of stuff?"

Now - why wouldn't DJs also write their charts for the music freakz who would just die to get to listen the Top20 Chart tracks at home? It would be good promotion for the electronic music, it would keep it alive. And it would be good promotion for the DJ - the more people would come to his website and actually get to HEAR the music alongside all this namedropping, the more discussion there would be around the DJ him/herself. And this discussion (read: publicity) is what all these disc jockeys want, right?

Now how would this happen? Simple. Just by linking the chart tunes to the shops where they are available.
I'll be writing my new Top Choices chart soon here and adding the links where these records are available to buy. Maybe it helps you to find better music and more importantly - better sources of good music.

Oh, quite a nice way to combine effective music promotion, DJ-mixes and podcast is Beatport's podcast. Subscribe and listen, you'll see why.

If you're living in Andorra or Spain, tune your radio to Proxima.fm station on Saturday 10.6. at 01AM local time. The station will air one of my mixes for the South European music freaks. Tune in.

Missing bootleg remix got finished last night. The result is a 8min long rolling and growling breakbeat tune.
Got some priceless help from my friends - big thank-yous to my brother Joonas for the midi-madness and to Jussi for the Bass. And not to forget you who listened and evaluated the preview-versions - thanks for the patience :)

Everything But The Girl - Missing (Orion's Lost & Found remix) (17mb mp3)

Here's the original version in case you haven't heard it for a while:

The story ends here. Women are never happy ;)

UDG serves you well. After one wheel of my UDG Trolley Bag broke, I contacted UDG Customer Service. After sending the receipt, a couple of photos and an explanation, the Customer Service contacted me with a really nice email and promised to send a full repair kit.

This is what I got today. Spare parts more than I needed and indeed a FULL repair kit. The only thing which seems to be missing, is the manual for those (read: "me") who don't have a clue how to remove the broken parts and replace them with those above.