Geeking for once.

I was browsing new stuff on rcrdlbl.com and found new tracks to play at Drag Attack and other future gigs I'm working out. Good remixes of Tahiti 80 track made by John Talabot. My new hero he is. I also fould a great track made by Everything Everything and Canyons and other good stuff.

Last weekend I went out for the first time in ages. I was really into what I was provided with. Justus Könchke (Kompakt) played a magnificent set at YK main stage and got me hyped towards German minimalism again. Just something out of this world he is. There was a great live act called YÖT playing at YK basement. It was 4 guys playing analog reggae/dubstep that was really something for the future I reckon. Don't get me wrong. I deeply despise dubstep but they knew what what they were doing BIG UPS for YÖT! There was the guy from Neon Indian playing records at Nolla. He was a bit lost but the place was very funny because there was a gay guy who looked like Spock and one who looked like John Malkovitch in lederhosen. Can't desribe the sight really.

I had fun. Real Fun. Ought to do it more often.

Here's a few notes for you to listen to right now...

John Talabot from Permanent Vacation seems to be the most interesting cosmic disco guy out there today. He seems to tickle y funny bone time and time again.

Tahiti 80 - Darlin' (John Talabot's Oscuro Baile Remix) by wearetahiti80

I seem to get more into DFA-ish cosmic disco day by day and Canyons from Australia have been one of my favourite finds in ages. They have all the ingredients for good psycho disco.

Canyons - "My Rescue" (Dr Dunks Disco Extension) by modularpeople

There's also one track that is more upbeat I'd like to have here. By Silver Columns remixed by Disco Of Doom. A definite party starter this





Silver Columns - Brow Beaten - Disco Of Doom Remix by discoofdoom



Here's also a little something by Justus who rocked YK mainstage on Saturday. He was really something





Justus Kohncke - Parage by jug razovich

Mixtape for the friday night

It's friday. I'm lying in bed with morphine working through my head blocking the toothache and I'm more than envious to the people taking their first beers soon and getting ready to either go to Nolla with Just Paha night with about 15 differend dj's playing. Or then they're way to YK to see magnificent Barbara Panther (which I truly recommend) and Daniel Haaksman palying at a Top Billin party. They could also be on their way to Hertz Club premiere with superb Tuomas Toivonen, Shine 2009 and Upi & Lzrboy.

Either way. They should open their beers and listen to The Twelves mixtape made live to BBC One last year for Pete Tong. This really makes me bounce. It's amazing what they're able to do with a couple of laptops and midi keyboards. This is a lesson to us all Dj's.

The Twelves BBC by deh_ruffs

BV is back

There has happened a lot after the last post here in BV blog. We had our weekly club called Head Over Heels at YK and on my own Club Rainmaker at Le Bonk. They both seem to be in the past now as we approach winter 2011. Now I've kept a break on Djing and concentrating on work and browsing for new music and inspiration. I start to be hungry for more now and I'll actually be playing in Dragattack at Jenny Woo on 30.12.2010. Welcome.

I want to thank YACHT, Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip, Helsinki 78-82, French Films, Crystal Love, Lil' Tony, The Casbah, Poika & Hirviö, Basse and Emile from Emperatron, Antti Hietala, Zebra and Snake, Juho, Murmansk, Long Sam, Kap Kap, OMSK, The Ran, Sheikki Sheikki DJ's, Manna and many more for helping us the summer and fall happen.

Head Over Heels continues without me at Kuudes Linja in the future and I'm glad it does...

During recent weeks and months I've settled into Punavuori, in an old stone house that used to settle Finnish legends like Runeberg and Cygnaeus. Truly a fine house and I feel cozy here. I've also taken a crash course on deeper house music and djing softwares. Can't wait to get out and play it to you people.

I also took some effort on trying to redo the layout here but can't make up my mind if this works or not. I need your opinion.

I'll also start testing soundcloud etc. here so you'd get to hear whats happening in my ears at the moment.

I bought the Permanent Vacation sampler 2 a month ago and got really into these deep sounds of talented Swede John Talabot. He really has it going on.

Matilda's Dream by John Talabot">

Then there's a great track from Tennishero, fellow swedes called Jens Andersson and Alexander Berg who seem to have a hint of etheric perfection going on. I just love how they do it. Listen to this and smile

Tennishero - Midnight Love by michelledillman

Then there's Shit Robot. An american producer signed on DFA who came out with a killer album which has great guests like fellow DFA-ians such as James Murphy and Juan Maclean but also Alexis Taylor (who dj'd at HOH), legendary Ian Svenonious etc.

This obscure track has James Murphy and Ian Svenonious reminding what's go great about New York.

Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) (feat. Ian Svenonious) [Album Edit] by reachard

Then there's fun and special remix of Smashing Pumpkins 1979 by StardonE here. I just found it somewhere and like the Crystal Castles / Robert Smith track, this has truly the best of both worlds. The indie rock I've love for ages and the geeky electronics. Listen.

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979(StardonE Remix) by StardonE

The Twelves mixtape The Twelth Hour

Unlike blogs usually, I start with stating an obvious. The Twelves are remarkable! They have a technical ability and rhytmic tightness unique in their branch of dj:ing. They prove us wrong in the statement that you have to make compromises because you're playing pop songs on your dj-set. They have a great heap of good pop songs mixed and remixed to a heap of excitement and sense of living. This actual playlist was posted to Big Stereo half a year ago but I found it just now and love every second of it. I can admit that I'm a newbie to this blog world and can't keep up but for a part of you who haven't heard this pearl I can say you're in for a treat.

The tracklisting has some old hits which you thougt could never fit in this mixtape but surprisingly everything just slides in the groove of things.
There's Groove Armada – Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
The Do – On My Shoulders
Zoot Woman – Information First
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Sensual Seduction


etc...

This just works!

listen to it here

http://this.bigstereo.net/2009/09/22/the-twelves-6/

For a peek on what they do live take a look on their remake on M.I.A's Boyz which is ancient but great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUSYHycakE

Photos from The Brooklyn Vegans Club Premiere with OMSK at Korjaamo 19.2.2010

First of all. Thanks to you all for a great premiere yesterday. We both had a blast and we were surprised about the amount of people that came through the blizzard. At its best it was almost impossible to move at the space. I want to thank Korjaamo for giving us the opportunity to fulfill our dream of having our own relular club in Helsinki, I want to thak Omsk for being extra great as always they are something exceptional in finnish music scene, I want to thank Mikko for these photos and I want to thank YOU for coming and supporting the club. We had a blast and we will be posting you for upcoming events when there's a bit more clarity. Subscribe to our blog and keep posted!

Top songs yesterday:

Junior Boys - Double Shadow
The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
Neon Neon - I Lust U
Belle and Sebastian - White Collar Boy
Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Röyksopp - Circuit Breaker
Amadou et Mariam - Sabali
Kleerup featuring Lykke Li - Until We Bleed
The Millioners - Body Into Use
Strokes featuring Eddie Vedder & Joss Homme - Mercy Me

Columbia Records proudly announces the North American release of Congratulations, the keenly awaited new studio album from MGMT, on Tuesday, April 13

"With Congratulations, MGMT unlock a new musical world whirling in its own space/time grid infused with hints of music from the past five decades. Soulful and complex, Congratulations is a surprising and delightful quantum step forward in MGMT's ongoing pop revolution."

I can say I've been waiting for this news quite eagerly for some time now. As we all I've got sick and tired to Electric Feel and especially Kids but the other songs on the record Oracular Spectacular promise there is an avalanche of talent rushing to our veins with the upcoming record. I read through a Steve Lillywhite interview (he is the guy who produced The La's album and scooped MGMT to Columbia). He stated that Oracular Spectacular is the tip of an ice-berg too big for many to understand. That without doubt MGMT is the most spectacular thing happening in pop music by miles. And I think this talk is not just for blowing his own bubble. I've met these guys two years ago on a work occation and got a little peek on what's going to happen to them after this record and the visions blew me away. Their precise description of the bands future had a ton of stuff I haven't heard from other bands included.

They are truly a band that doesn't comfort in sticking to a formula and they are bothered to think outside the box. A fact is also that they are really young and succeeded drasticly with their debut album so I can't imagine what to wait for. The stuff can be anything from a hit parade to a psychedelic avant-garde experience. I hope that they carry on with what the first one offered to us. Maybe without Kids of course. So much for the obvious babble and waste of your time.

In the promotional letter there was also a name put out as the producer. Mark Kember is one founding half of legendary Spaceman 3, which split up and the other hald Jason Pierce started the fabulous Spiritualized. Mark took on group Spectrum. He has also recorded as E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research) - the two projects have existed in parallel, and recordings under both names occasionally only feature Kember. Kember has also played and collaborated with Stereolab and Yo La Tengo. This in consideration of the future of MGMT must mean that Mark might give out expertise in experimental sounds and hopefully that the record focuses on the psychedelia in comparison to straigh out pop hit-parade.

Congratulations is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence: "It's Working," "Song for Dan Treacy," "Someone's Missing," "Flash Delirium," "I Found a Whistle," "Siberian Breaks," "Brian Eno," "Lady Dada's Nightmare," and "Congratulations."

and the record can be pre-ordered at whoismgmt.com