I ordered my FON 3.12.2006. It arrived yesterday (17.1.2007). That's a bit more than two weeks they promised...

Also, my latest order from Hard To Find Records took one month until they mailed me yesterday. The package had come back to them. I had asked to deliver the package to the address of my friend, but now it seems, though, they had delivered the package to his address but with my name written on it. Of course it was returned to sender.

They have a "GIVE EXTRA INFORMATION HERE" box on their online order form, but do they really read what you write there...?
Surely they'll be asking me to pay the delivery costs double now. Surely I won't.

FON and HTFR could collaborate under the name "Hard To Find Finland".

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

Last week, what did the new democratic congress do?

a-passed legislation forcing the government to negotiate with drug companies in order for medicaire recipients to pay less for prescription drugs.
b-passed legislation limiting the influence of corporate lobbyists in washington.
c-raised the minimum wage.
d-passed legislation lifting the federal ban on stem-cell research(or possibly they're about to pass this legislation).
e-passed legislation lowering the interest rates that students have to pay on college loans.

And - last week, what did George W. Bush do?

a-put forth a plan to send 21,000 new troops to iraq(without any clear plan for what these new troops will actually DO once they get there).
b-vowed to veto house legislation calling for federal funding for stem-cell research(you need to keep in mind: the embryo's that they want to use for stem-cell research will be thrown in the garbage if they're not used for stem-cell research).
c-moved to open up more areas of the gulf coast and the alaskan tundra for oil exploration.
d-vowed to veto house legislation attempting to make drugs more affordable for medicaire recipients.

via: Moby

Top 10 things that you can do today to
CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO

See also: www.amnesty.org

Underworldlive.com has some cool new stuff on Archive, including the Amsterdam gig as mp3 and nice video footage from Cocoon event held earlier this year.
Boy, was it cool...

Even though there's nothing new in this article, it's still pretty interesting to read.

The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Ministry of Sound stated some sort of a reaction on this, telling that it couldn't be less true. If you find the MOS comments somewhere, let me know.

5,5. 300.
The size of the Unity 10th Anniversary set in hours and megabytes. The Unity posse kindly shared Orkidea's set from the event - it's nothing but classics.
Download it here: Unity 10th Anniversary live recording.

2957 5754 6205 7230
My Wii number. If you happen to have a console, too, feel free to exchange numbers to get the most out of it.

Global warming seems to be more and more regular topic on the daily news, at least here in Finland. I wonder when the yellow press realizes its commercial potential. Think about it: "Global warming ruined David Beckham's holiday in Greenland: 'Where's the snow?!'". Top seller! ;)

Seriously speaking - people tend to think that fighting global warming takes a lot of time, money and the deeds of one individual just don't count on a large scale.
But wrong - you can (and should) just start by changing your light bulbs.

Yes, light bulbs. Replace your old bulbs with CF Bulbs (Energiansäästölamppu, in Finnish). Today.

Changing the bulbs is
1) the easiest way to reduce our dependence on oil.
2) the cheapest way to cut down the amount of greenhouse gases
3) a direct way to prevent new power plants to be built
AND
4) it IS cheap, actually every bulb will cost itself back in less than four years

VIA: 1, 2, 3, 4

P.S. If you're a blogger or a media person (which anyone can be these days:), consider spreading the word. It's not only mediasexy, but it makes the world a bit better place, too.

To start the double-o-seven properly, I guess it's time to sum up some of the moments of the past year.

Left Rovaniemi behind and moved to Helsinki. Getting a possibility of being part of Misc Management and working with some of the nicest guys in the southern electronic music scene has been more than delightful. The future looks exciting.

Got a possibility to travel a lot. Loved the Birkweiler wine fields. Saw Belfast, both sides of it.

Graduated. Wrote the Pro Gradu about Flyers in Electronic Music Culture.

After waiting for 11 years, finally saw Underworld live. Also enjoyed the Unity 10th Anniversary, both being the highlights of this year.

Finished remix of EBTG's "Missing" and a remake of Innerself's "Gautama", released seven DJ-mixes and a couple of radio sets. Buried Worldwide Mix Selection podcast project and concentrated on DJ Orion's podcast with a plenty of hi-quality guest mixes from Finnish artists.

Disliked Teosto and Gramex. Enjoyed some very good movies. Got sentimental while moving away from the north and couldn't help looking back.

Experienced some very nice gigs such as Spinni in Tampere, Choon! in Turku, Rio88600 in Sotkamo and Sunburn in Kalajoki to mention just a few. Got new friends and got together with the old - humble, simple and honest people, who I - once again - just can't give enough credit.

Made a new year resolution last year not to involve in any event production or promotion in spring 2006 - and got hands on way too many projects. Expecting the same to happen this year again.

The same in Finnish.

A couple of days ago I finally managed to finish a project which had been on a to-do stage for some weeks already: a photobooth usable for clubbing or event purposes.

Continue reading "Project: Photobooth" »

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.

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.

First the Misc news and then the Misc. stuff. Boy, I love these smart word games... :P

Misc Management website has a few minor updates, some new mixes, charts etc.

Our beloved oldskool DJ, the mastermind behind Rose Garden and Kuudes Linja (and various others...), mr. Lil' Tony, has opened a new website called Cosmic City. Cool stuff there, check it out.

Niko recommended Dave's Lounge podcast on his Softys blog. I've subscribed to that as well, but another very good chill-out cast (not independent music, though) is Chill Syndicate. Two hour sets of chill-out - and totally without voice-overs, which is good (as I've mentioned earlier).

New Zealand Herald listed TOP 10 songs played at the funeral. A coffin at the altar and Robbie on the speakers. Some people really know how to go with a style... eeeh...

In the end a small word about my photography project. A bit more than a month ago I started a "Project 365" which is about shooting one photo a day of your life. The main idea is to remember small things which you would have forgotten otherwise after a year. The secondary idea is to prove yourself that no matter how dull and similar basic work days sometimes are, they all have a thing or two worth remembering.
These daily taken photographs are uploaded to the Project 365 Flickr set at least once a week. Take a look.

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.. :)

A new guest mix on the podcast now available. DJ OlliS, a host of Tiistain Tanssi-ilta, an electronic music orientated radio show on Finnish National Radio 1 YleX delivers a very nice 45min session of oldskoolish trance. Just the sound we love to support on this podcast.
To get more information of the guy, see www.djollis.com.

To subscribe to the podcast, check here. If you have iTunes, try clicking here.

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Rumours tell that Laserpoint starts their own 24h web radio on the 18th of November. On the opening day there should be an exclusive progressive house mix from DJ Orion containing tracks from artists like Gabriel & Dresden, Jaytech, PQM, D-Nox & Beckers etc...

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Enough of namedropping. Misc Management sent today their first newsletter in ages. If you didn't receive any and would just love to get the latest news directly from the Misc artist roster, feel free to send your email address to juska *a t* misc *d o t* fi and boom, you've subscribed.

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.

Spinni's 10-year anniversary event was all you could expect from the Tampere-fiilis revival which has been going on for a while now already. The party was well organized and I've never seen I-Klubi so well decorated (except at MIR club in '99 when FuFu organization boys used a hell of amount of black garbage bags to make the club totally black from the floor to the ceiling). Especially the smoke machine was well installed (see the photo below)

The amount of audience really surprised me and the variety of clubbers was the greatest challenge of the night: Basically only few people knew the oldskool "hits" and the most were pretty confused of Aphex Twin's Polynomial C as the set starter. But then again - those who had come to the event to hear the music from the past 10 years didn't expect to hear the latest progressive house/trance tracks. The result was some sort of fusion of those two: old tracks combined to fresh releases. Check the tracklist here.

The afterparty was great, too. It was really refreshing to see a new underground venue in Tampere and jump into an afterparty where the music consisted mostly of techno - especially Hexe blew off the roof with his 3-deck set. Mad. Just like at Pinninkatu back in the day! ;)

See all the photos.

I guess all copyrights that Teosto must respect are somehow related to music. Everything else they can just ignore...

Take a look at this:

Teosto's Favicon:
IBM Lotus logo:

and...

Teosto/NCB -logodownload:

Irfanview favicon:

This just tells so well how different points of view artists and major labels can have towards copyright.

Zero7 just told on their MySpace page that they've registered to YouTube and have some of their music videos online. They are asking people to post their recordings from Zero7's gigs, some covers and maybe cover music videos, too:

"For those of you who might not know, Zero 7 have their own YouTube page.
You can watch the band's videos on there and if you upload your own Zero 7 videos onto YouTube, then it could appear on the page.
They could be videos you've recorded at gigs, or even your own cover versions!"

I wonder what Universal, Sony BMG and other major labels would say about that. At the moment Universal is telling that YouTube owns them millions of dollars due to these kinds of copyright infringements.
I think any artist would consider a possibility to see their music videos on the Internet for free as a very good and very cheap promotion and not as a baad, bääd copyright infringement.

This goes back to Finnish copyright laws, too. As I've earlier told, it's basically illegal to rip your own vinyls to CDRs and play them on gigs. I wonder how many electronic music artists would really deny a possibility to rip their old records which aren't available as MP3s and bring them to life again.

It might be it's because I'm not a recording artist, but I really do not see any good in the way big copyright companies are working - from the marginal music style's point of view, at least.
Killing a possibility to define your own ways of promotion does not do any good for the record and copyright companies - it just harms the artist. And I want to believe they are going to find it out when it's too late. That would do good for them.

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.

If you're into any kind of chill-out/ambient music, I highly recommend you to check out the latest album of General Fuzz, called Messy's Pace.
The album is completely free. >> General Fuzz's website.

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For a flyer freak like me, it was fun to get a copy of Club Unity's latest flyer. The flyer itself is a DVD disk which contains a video of Unity's past - 10 years of parties.

If you can't get a copy of the DVD itself, there's always a possibility to download the video in Quicktime format >> Club Unity 10 Year Anniversary Video.

Oh, it seems to be in YouTube as well. (Thanks, Niko)

As the update of Misc website still takes a while, here are some nice news from theee HeadQuarters ;)

First of all, Misc Management will from now on be taking care of the bookings of David West - a warm welcome to the artist roster :) The guy is simply amazing on- and off-stage - I guess anyone who visited [reiv:] Season Ending last Friday could tell that. David also proved how flexible he is by flying to Finland to replace Jody Wisternoff (who cancelled) with a super short notice of less than four hours.

And then - the main man of Misc, Oded Peled is warming up Underworld on their gigs in Tallinn and Riga. A very nice possibility to promote his excellent upcoming Underwater label releases. And - in case you didn't know - warm-up set for Underworld's gig in Finland will be played by DJ Orkidea.

and still - How Vinyl Records Are Made? >> Video Part1 & Part2

Continue reading "How CDs are made?" »

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.

After criticizing MySpace big time, I decided to give a try (I'm so weak, I know...).

DJ Orion @ MySpace

And after browsing through some profiles I still don't get it: What's the point of adding dozens of contacts to one's friends list if you haven't ever even met or talked to these people? Or is it just so cool of having 50 celebrities as your "friends"?

Well, let's see where this ends up. I can't help being skeptical.

Time Tunnel 13 website is open. Too bad H.A.N.D boys didn't make a video of last year's great event which was held at amazing looking Uusi Seurahuone.
While waiting the Utah Saints music videos to appear to the official website, there's always YouTube for the impatient ones :)

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.

This time the content of the fortune cookie really hit me. More bass? :)

I wonder why Siemens never brought this refrigerator type to Finland...

Not to mention this oven:

Visiting Germany was once again very rewarding. Local record stores didn't fail me - and so didn't Bruce ;) Did you know that the Die Hard hero has released music on Motown? Neither did I.

With Wikimapia it seems to be more than easy to show - for example - where you're located at the moment.
So. Here I am, at the Alps. Zoom out to get a better view.

The week has passed incredibly fast. It's been all about moving, doing the infamous vinyylijumppa to the second floor without any elevator and piecing together new furniture.

I guess carrying the music collection around was some sort of a last temptation to forget the vinyl, convert everything to CD-format and save your back from breaking before your 30th anniversary. I'm sure there was someone whispering to my ear "How much would that weight in mp3-format...?" when I climbed up the stairs with the 40kg vinyl cases.

Now after four full moving days quite much everything is done and we'll be heading to Germany for nine days on Monday. I managed to finish most of the stuff on my todo-list despite the hurry:

First of all, after building up the new DJ-setup (which must be the best I've ever had what comes to sound and comfort) I recorded Spinni's 10 Year Anniversary Mix. Spinni celebrates their ten year old way through the Tampere club history (more info here) and this "official" mix more or less describes the sound of the event's second day. Techy progressive, breaks and trance in spirit of the oldskool, with a couple of fresh exceptions. Those who are subscribed to the podcast should get the mix any time soon, but you'll find the link on the forums and Spinni's website a bit later, too.

I visited Danceteria, DTM last night. Good way to get the first touch to Helsinki clubland - the place was crowded and atmosphere high. I shot restlessly a couple of photos while meeting new people and I have to say I felt pretty welcome - there were really nice people around.

The future looks bright. In October I'll be heading to Northern Ireland for a week and before that I'll hope to have some announcements to be made about some club and music related things. Oh, and nearly forgot - New York City based fitness radio station Exercise Radio starts to air some mixes of mine on their exercise related shows. It seems that vinyylijumppa isn't the only way to get fit with vinyls ;)

And as a postscript: It's never too late to start to love music. Or too early...

Orion's podcast was updated a moment ago. A 45min guest mix from DJ Thomas should be on the computers of the subscribers pretty soon. Read more about the guest appearance of DJ Thomas (includes the instructions for subscribing, too)

Guest mix: DJ Thomas (Tornio, Finland)

hernan cattaneo & john tonks - sirocco (renaissance)
echomen - spirit (forensic)
4 tune 500 - dancing in the dark (house works)
redanka - out of the dark (whoop!)
nerva - arzamas-16 (whoop!)
josh gabriel - wave 3, charlie may's undertow mix (nebula promo)

Enjoy :)

Currently making the last plans for collaborative mixtape with DJ Kaasi, I might be able to promise that it will be online by the end of this month.
I'm excited of the result - last time, in March 2005, we mixed 17 tracks together in 60 minutes. Now we might make it still a bit better. The speed is not the reason of excitement, though. Kaasi has a long background in house music - combining his tracks and style with mine produced already last time an interesting wholeness. Let's see where it gets this time :)

First some sad news. I will stop hosting and casting Worldwide Mix Selections podcast.

Worldwide Mix Selections has been quite a successful project. After the 12th of December '05 we've podcasted over 110 different mixes. Each of them has reached 200-400 subscribers. It's been a nice way to show that there are SO many good deejays around sharing good music of which most of us hasn't ever heard.

Anyway, I'll concentrate from now on only on my private podcast on a monthly basis and leave WMS behind. Might be that there is someone who would like to continue the project but if not, the casts will stop in the near future.

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.

I promised earlier to confirm when everything's set for moving away from Rovaniemi. So this is it, 100% confirmation. I'll be heading to Helsinki on the first of August. Interesting autumn ahead.

I think now it's time more or less to look back. These five years have been incredible in many ways. Here's a Short Story of the Northern Club Life - the electronic music scene in Northern Finland 2001-2005 as I remember it. Thanks to all of you who were involved in a way or another - you know why :)

Every now and then I hear complaints that someone is unable to download the mixes on this site.

The most common problems are:
1) When left clicked, the link does not save but opens a new Firefox window and starts to play.
2) When saved directly (Save Target As), the mix is saved as a kuuntele.php file.

Here are the solutions:
1) Check how your browser handles the mp3-files. You can change the Download Actions in Firefox easily: Preferences => Downloads => Download Actions
1.2) If this does not solve the problem, just left click the link and let it open in a new window. The mix starts to play. Select File => Save Page As. Now you can download the mix and close the window.
2) If you rather right click and save the file as "kuuntele.php", make sure you rename the file afterwards. Anything with an ending ".mp3" will do. All the mixes on this site have full ID3-tags so they will show up correctly in your iTunes or Winamp, no matter what the file name is.

Live recording from last year's Unity - The Island event is online and downloadable. Thanks to Ville and Vaavu and to the Unity posse.

Download the DJ-set here.

Photo: Sessions2

Found a nice way to share the photos I've recently taken. I don't post every single uploaded photo to this blog so if you want to stay updated with my Photo Stream (or Photocast, whatever), now it's easier than ever (requires iPhoto OR any other feedreader).

1) Copy this URL: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37218967@N00&format=rss_200
2) Go to http://phlikr.3xi.org/
3) Paste the URL, click the button of your choice and enjoy the up-to-date photo stream.

Photo: Feedreader at its best.

DJ San Mejor has made a marketing research of Finnish electronic music labels. Even though the research is written in Finnish, there's now also an English version, made with entertaining flash. Sit back and take a look.

Click:

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?

While Flickr Interestingess might be just the playground of the professional photographers on Flickr, the new "The Blink of an Eye" group has a better idea. Each user can present the best photo he/she has ever shot (and uploaded to Flickr). I think this gives a way better view to what Flickr really has to offer than this "Interestingness". Check the slideshow (or view the photos separately).

My contribution:

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.

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