Kaninkolo live set

Hi all!
Finally managed to upload the live recording of the set I played at the Kaninkolo party (which I mentioned earlier on). Hopefully you'll like it!

Check it!

Comments are, as always, more than appreciated.

Down the rabbit hole

Saturday night I ventured deep into underground Helsinki to play a set at a warehouse party by the name of Kaninkolo. The party was absolutely awesome and the venue was really something else, I didn't have very high expectations about it but it totally blew me away.
I played the first set of the night, but since this wasn't your run of the mill party at a club, people were dancing pretty early on. I started of with some (modern) house, played some tech house and ended with some straight up techno. The best tune of my set was Umek's rework of Hablando, which I dropped in just when Umek's Work This Data went off, and people really went crazy for it.
Absolutely great party, thanks to everyone who made it happen, and hope people enjoyed the brownies we brought with us.

Umek vs Ramirez - Hablando


Umek - Work This Data


Ramirez - Hablando (the '92 original)

Thrash the disco

Whoa! The E16V party was, as I predicted, really great. We were pretty happy with our set, even though we had some problems with MIDI-syncing and the power went out at a point, luckily we could finish our set after about five minutes of silence. People seemed to like our set, as well as the party overall. The other artists seemed interesting too, but I didn't really spend that much time on the dance floor, so the only set I partially heard was Boxcutter's.
As promised, I'll try to get the recording of our set online later this week, as soon as I get hold of it myself.
Thanks to everyone who showed up!

Parrrrrrrrrtytime!

It's about time to leave for our sound check at the E16V party. Although the venue is pretty small, it's gonna be a absolutely massive party!
I'm really looking forward to our set, did some last minute rehearsal at the studio earlier today and it was awesome. The music is gonna be pretty eclectic, but proper party stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to post a live recording of our set sometime next week.

Drei tage wach everybody!

PS. that bonus track I posted last time should give you a pretty blatant clue to one of the track's that we've been working on

Diesel

Last week I got a phone call from Marika, who's in charge of Diesel's marketing in Finland. She asked me to come and play at their in-store event, and I was happy to say yes. So tonight I'm bringing Upi with me to the Diesel store to play some quality indie-electro/indie-rock/nu-disco kind of sounds.
Thought I'd share some of the tracks I'm gonna play tonight.

The XX - Shelter (Death To The Throne Remix)


Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance (Chromeo Remix)


Bloc Party - Ares (Telemitry Remix)



Plus a really random bonus track, the original version of Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart, made famous (at least in some circles) by Tiga & Zyntherius.

Funkyzeit

The three gigs I had last week were quite good compliments to each other. Wednesday @ Nude was a pretty chilled out affair, and Thursday's live set @ Kuudes Linja was the best of the bunch, it was really nice to get the chance to play our live material at a bigger venue than usual (thanks Samu!), and everyone I talked to seemed to like our set, so perhaps we'll get more chances to play in the future. Friday's Halloween Horror Bash @ Playground was absolutely packed, I think they broke the previous attendance record. We played for about 3,5h with Upi (quite the sight in our Joker + Pikachu outfits, maybe some pictures later on), starting of with minimal and techno, then dropping some dubstep and finishing of with some drum and bass. I particularly enjoyed playing the dnb, and managed to squeeze in some rougher tunes as well.
Three tunes for you today, the first being the reason for this post title. This Dolphins remix of Broombeck's The Clapper is a really funky and grooving tune (perfect summer tune as well). The second track is one of my own, entitled The Howl, quite a bit on the techno side. The third and final tune is Subfocus' Triple X, a track I had heard I while back, but had no idea who's track it was. Now I know.

Clap clap clap


Bloom - The Howl



Ready to pump it up, move it to the beat don't stop

Busy busy

Whoa, it sure is gonna be a busy week gigwise. I'll be playing a short tech house set at INDWT @ Nude this Wednesday, then a live set at Robotnik @ Kuudes Linja on Thursday (my set starts at 22:00, be there!) and finally a b2b all-nighter with Upi at Emperatron's Horror Bash @ Playground on Friday (of course Upi is also playing at both of the aforemention events as well :P).
Looking forward to Friday's gig, gonna have the opportunity to play a longer set and mix up styles and genres a bit. We're planning to play a bit of techno and tech house stuff, some dubstep and we're even gonna be rinsing some proper drum and bass. The main room will be delivering the usual wobble and fidget sounds of Emperatron. The place will most likely get totally packed. I'm also working on a costume for Friday, since after all, it is Halloween (free entry all night long with a costume btw).
Thursday's live gig is also something I've been looking forward too for a while. Nice to get the chance to play at a bit bigger venue than usual, hopefully there will be some people there although we're playing pretty early.

See you around, gonna head to the studio in a bit to work on some stuff for our new live project, more on that later, I'll just mention I personally think it's complete sickness!

Oh, and here's something for your hearing pleasure, you didn't think I'd skip out on audio content now did you?

Mujava - Township Funk (Bloom Remix)

Long time no see

It took some time for me to come back and post a track or two. So much to do in so little time. Some of my club nights are being born or dying for reasons I can't say here. The evil plan of mine is still working: We all (me and my dear DJ fellows) are making it bigger and conquering the Helsinki scene rapidly! I say: "Kings of tomorrow we can be." That is the reason for posting this timeless Ibiza classic:



Whatever happens, the nineties won't ever be out of fashion. This song is a real bomb every time I hear it. It was one of the things that defined the essence of electronic dance music. This was made in 91 when I was just a little boy. I sometimes say that "why couldn't I be born ten years earlier?"

Enjoy!

Doppler delay

Just a quick Friday morning update. Hele has uploaded a re-recording of the set he played at our last Doppler night.
Hope you like it, stay tuned for more Doppler related news and happening. The tracklist (as well as Hele's profile) can be found here.


Enjoy your weekend!

Hele @ Doppler, Bar Loop 8-10-2009 by hele

The French Connection

Whoa, busy busy week for me, with the DJ course going down and all. I've been really pleased with the two sessions we've had so far, everything's running along smoothly.
On another note, the Doppler Duo is taking over INDWT at Nude tonight (although you could argue that it's technically not a takeover since Upi is one of INDWT's resident DJ's). However, the sound is gonna be totally different from the Doppler sound you're used to hearing at Loop. I will mostly be playing some sort of indie electro, and possibly some drum & bass to end my set.
So here's a few tracks to showcase the sound. The first one is a preview of a track I've been working on for a live set we're going to perform in about one month, so bare with me since it's quite unfinished. The second one is a track by Alan Braxe and Kris Menace called Lumberjack, absolute smasher.

Bloom - La Louvre


Alan Braxe & Kris Menace - Lumberjack

New bloods

Entropy has organized several dj courses for future bassheads interested in learning how to mix, and right about now it's time for the next installment. Yesterday was the evening for the participants to come to our clubroom and enroll (as well as get some free skumppa). Our previous courses had been pretty popular, but nothing prepared me for the veritable landslide of people that happened. When I left, 28 people had signed up, breaking our previous numbers by almost threefold.
I really enjoy teaching, so even though I'll have to use most of my spare time the next few weeks to teach the ropes to these future Klocks, High Contrasts and van Buurens, I'm really looking forward to it.
The course is separated into four sessions, the first two discussing vinyl mixing (and Serato as well), the third one discussing CD-mixing and the last one covering Ableton Live as well as some potential other stuff (depending on what the participants want). If you have any thoughts on how a course like this should be run, feel free to leave some comments about it.

On another note, here's a track I might have to play at Doppler tonight, some proper late night party business. Hope to see lots of people there tonight!

Live

I've managed to recover from last week's jungle madness, so it's time for something new. I'm really excited about this new live project I'm involved in with my friend Valtteri (from our Bloom Live act) and Tommi from Kitkaliitto. We're gonna be playing at Entropy's 16th birthday party in approximately one month, can't wait!
I might post some samples of what our sound is like once we get something recorded, but I already have a feeling it's gonna be massive.
On another note, our second installment of Doppler is fast approaching. Come join us at Bar Loop this Thursday (8.10.2009), from 20-02. Joining me and Upi are DJ's Opa and Hele. Looking forward to some quality deep house from Hele and techno from Opa. I will most likely be playing some minimal, but we'll see what I'll come up with.
I'll leave you with a track from Kitkaliitto called Moravia, from their new vinyl release, as well as a track I've been playing over and over and over again. It is, of course, Luciano & Mirko Loco - Mousa Big Band.

Moravia by kitkaliitto

Party update

Damn!
There was some proper party business going down in Dipoli yesterday. Hannu and dduck got the place warmed up with some houseish tracks, and me and Mr. Koolidge continued from there with our liquid selection.
At the start of our set the room was pretty empty, with just a couple of stray people dancing, but when our set was about halfway through the place was absolutely rocking, and we ended our set with Rock It, handing over the decks to Erkko from Misf*ts, who continued to play some quality stuff, and the crowd really seemed to like it.
Dropped a dnb remix of Major Lazer's Pon De Floor that I recently finished, and the reception was great, to say the least. Another tune that also rocked the place was Blame's remix of Show Me Love.

Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Oblivius' Bass De Floor Remix)


Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin S. - Show Me Love (Blame Remix)

And now for something completely different

Long time since the last post, so I thought it was about time to post something. I'll be playing some drum and bass back to back with monsieur Kalvin Koolidge at Entropy's E-Apu room at Dipoli tonight. Proper teekkari throwdown. Other DJs during the night include Proteus, Erkko and dduck b2b hannu.
So here's some of the tracks I most surely will be dropping tonight. Come and check us out if you're up for some midweek madness (I also recommend checking out INDWT at Nude tonight).

Enjoy!

Doppler opening

Whoa!
The opening night of our new club, Doppler, at Bar Loop went really well. Lots of more people than I had hoped for, and people actually stayed quite long considering most of them had to go to work in the morning. A big thanks to all of you who made the effort to come, hopefully you liked the music. A special thanks also go out to our guests of the evening, Teppo and Metsis aka Möjitö Brös.
My computer managed to crash at one point, my MIDI controller stopped responding and I got the dreaded "beachball of death" (probably familiar to all you OS X users). Luckily nobody else noticed, since I was able to mix in a track I happened to have with me on CD (how lucky!). So I'd thought I'd share the track that saved the night, a new track that I've produced called Purple Harlequin.

Bloom - Purple Harlequin by bloomlive


Also, be sure to check out my profile at SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/bloomlive

Enjoy!

Back to the fifties ;)

I lost this tune once already until my friend reminded me about it. It got ppl 2 hours earlier to fill up the dancefloor than they usually do @ Nude (Bassoradio's new venue) a week ago. Oh my god.... This will be played tonight @ Bar Loop, (Fredrikinkatu 42, Helsinki) when we open our blog's first club night, surprisingly named as "Doppler".

We warmly welcome you there!

Check out our event @ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=131609246916&index=1

Walking the pug

Put on my nitkuscarf.
And I boarded a plane.
Touched down in the land of the minimal beats.
In the middle of the sound waves.

Today's update is Mr Pug, an absolutely massive tune (or would the correct term be miniature since we're talking about minimal?) by Gianluca Corvesi, this time with the Mark Ramsey remix. Been playing it quite a lot recently, so enjoy.

Home

A bit of Monday morning deepness this time, in the form of Burial's great remix of Bloc Party - Where Is Home? (the original was quite good as well). I've been playing it together with some tech house/minimal stuff to good effect, so I hope you enjoy it as well.

For whom the bell tolls

Um-um-um-um Um-um-um-um
Din-di-din-din din-di-din-din din-di-din-din din-di-din-din
Thought I'd share are real classic with you to get the morning started. I've had this song playing in my head the whole week, and I believe that statement is true for quite a lot of people as well.
It truly is one of the great classics (quite a bold statement, I know), and a good way to get this blog started (more about what is blog actually is later on).

Have a good weekend, hopefully this song won't be stuck in your head for too many weeks ;)