Incoming party in two weeks !!!

With the Just Paha dj's from Bassoradio.

HERE'S THE FB! Invite yourselves.

- Peffis

Next week's Wednesday: Joulusydän

Probably this year's last DWTF evening is filled with only Finnish sounds. We present to you the Joulusydän.

I'll play obscure and not-so-obscure Finnish stuff with dj's Urho Tulitukka and Ollimaine Jäbä. We'll post Top tens here later.

Facebook info here.

- Peffis

Next Saturday the Rhytm Egg will be the LAW

Next Saturday we'll be playing in the upstairs of Dynamo with none other than Herman Prime of Plauge that is one the central movers in Tampere Nightlife. Our honored quest has played for years and in places like Flow Festival and Pori Jazz, so we're more than anxious to hear him spin.

Come early and reserve your places in FB.

Here's Herman Prime's top 10:

Paul Simon - Late In The Evening
Kenlou - Hillbilly Song
TeeRoy Morris - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Fleshtones - Hall Of Fame
Panic - Move Your Body
Rip Rig + Panic - You're My Kind Of Climate
The Tom Tom Club - Elephant
Funkapolitan - Run Run Run
Candido - Dancin' & Prancin'

I'll drop somewhere a list of hot records I might play, too. See ya come Saturday.

- Peffis

Bar Kuka tomorrow

Tomorrow we play tasty records at Kuka again. It's Wednesday night so the emphasis will be on moody, atmospheric records. No disco or house on board, but loads of interesting records nevertheless. Indie, electronic, pop, guitar stuff, Finnish versions - you name it. I'll take the famed dj phone with me, too.

Here's a quick top 10 of what I've been feeling lately:
Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
Todd Rundgren - Be Nice To Me
G.A.N.G. - Incantations
Mike Simonetti - Third Of The Storms [feat. Sam Sparro]
Double - Woman Of The World
John Legend Vs Adele - Rolling In The Deep (DJ Moodz Booty)
Clubfeet - Count Your Lovers (Eli Escobar Mix)
Geoff Bastow - Communique (Arsenii Edit)
The Cure - Lullaby
Lambchop - Paperback Bible

Hope to see you tomorrow,
- Peffis

A quick buzzing electro top 10 for tonight

We are playing records tonight at the cozy Kolo, and we decided to do a more electronic focused set tonight. I know Risto is anxious to play his cutting edge post-dubstep and whatnot records. We'll mix them all up nicely with older and newer favorites. Here's a top 10 of electro stuff I'll bring with me:

Pawel - Crillon
Todd Terje - Ragysh
Discodeine - Synchronize
Soulwax - Another Excuse (DFA Remix)
Virgo Four - It's A Crime (Caribou Remix)
The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me
Murphy Jax Featuring Mike Dunn - It's The Music (Alden Tyrell Remix)
Matthew Dear - It's over now (Peter Grummich Remix)
Egyptian Lover - Freak-A-Holic (12" Dub Mix)
Lifelike - Adventure

Come and say hi, if you're around. Or even better, come and get freaky on the floor.
- Peffis

Party triathlon

Still recovering from last weekend at Flow (and from a nasty flu). Let's hope for a speedy recovery since we have a three days of DWTF activity ahead. Party triathlon if you will.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we have U-lympialaiset, a completely new set of outdoor activity near Kioski. Come there and listen to the music and try to top the scores in 6 games.

Here's the facebook for that. Completely free, loads of good artists/djs and funny games.

Then Friday we have the more pop-oriented gig at Bar Kuka where Yellowbrenda will charm us with their live set. We've had a good run of poppy easylistening nights there, so I'm expecting it'll work like jam on toast.

Facebook yourself here.

Then to top it all of on Saturday, we have our own night at Dynamo. Disko goodness all night long. Reserve places for yourselves here. I'll definitely play this Danny Krivit edit there:



If I see someone doing the full routine from Thursday to Saturday with us, I'll offer him/her a beer or something nice. We have much <3 for our hardcore fans. - Peffis

King of music videos

One of those songs I never really remember to put in my record bag when I'm going dj'ing. A shame and a pity.

We're playing tomorrow in comfy Kolo. Last Saturday there was a blast, loads of people and dj's Goatboy & Flipper playing. Let's see if we can cook up as good as night as that was.

And when the weekend comes we'll join in on the fun at Turku Non Jazz, one of the most imaginative festivals around. We'll hit the Dynamo downstairs Saturday and warm up for San Soda. Trust me, if you give us a dancefloor and a soundsystem like that + free hands to play disco and house it'll be amazing. Of course San Soda will probably do an even better job, so checking out his set is really recommended as well.

Here's one of my favorite house tunes of the last few years, from San Soda:



See you around!
- Peffis

Top 10 for our first foreign dj, Johan Agebjorn of Sally Shapiro

Hooray, we have landed our first foreign dj visit; Johan Agebjörn of Sally Shapiro fame is going to come here later this month when we're having our Finnish-Swedish-Disco-Battle. So check your calendars for 23rd of his month. I've created a FB event, so you can check Finnish info there. To complete the lineup, we chose Disco Urse - one of the best collectors of Finnish Disco music - who rocked memorably the Dynamo upstairs when we last had him here. Check his cult Synteettinen Suomi for evidence if don't know him yet.

I'm very excited about this already. You don't get too often a chance to get that many heroes you've liked to perform in your town. Now we are making it happen, partly thanks to Heineken and Turku Modern.

To celebrate the forthcoming visit, here's my top 10 Johan Agebjörn related songs:

1. The Chameleon (Johan Agebjörn Remix) - Glass Candy
2. Friday Bridge - This Case is Closed (Johan Agebjörn Remix)
3. Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (Junior Boys remix)
4. Sally Shapiro - Moonlight Dance
5. Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
6. Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas
7. Sally Shapiro - Miracle (Bogdan Irkuk Remix)
8. Johan Agebjörn featuring Nintendo - Mega Man II
9. Sally Shapiro - Dying in Africa
10. Johan Agebjorn & Ercola ft Queen of Hearts - The Last Day Of Summer

I'll post some other Disco Urse & Johan Agebjörn related material before the night to get the hype up. Oh did I mention it is going to be FREE entrance? And we are going to have a superspecial surprise coming up for Johan...

Have a good week,
- Peffis

Top 10's for next Wednesday

We'll be playing next Wednesday at the lovely and cozy atmosphere of Bar Kuka. You know the deal: good beer, kicker/fussball matches, great decoration, nice people and decent music, provided by us.

Here's an extra little sumthing sumthing. Last time we played there together I heard that half a dozen people where Shazaming what we we're playing. Nothing wrong with that, quite the opposite. After all, that's what we are there for; to bring unknown good music to new ears.

So, to encourage music discoveries, we are giving away beer/cider tickets to those who recognize first songs from our top 10's. Just come and say hi to the dj booth when you hear one of these ones and you've earned yourself a free beer/cider. Just one ticket per song and until they last, so better be quick.

Top 10's

Ripatti TOP 10:

Autolux – Transit Transit
The Walkmen – Blue as Your Blood
Deerhoof – The Merry Barracks
Wire – Please Take
bob hund – Tvångstankar
Destroyer - Chinatown
Matthew Dear – Little People (Black City)
Ilija Rudman – Prisoner of Passion
Bot’Ox – Slow Burn
Isolée – Journey’s End

Peffis TOP 10:

Paul Martin - Le troublant témoignage de Paul Martin
The The - Giant
Seija Simola - Juna Turkuun
Sam Amidon - Relief
Hird - Getting Closer
Meanderthals - Bugges room
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Junior Boys - ep
Odyssey - Who
The Pool - Jamaica Running

Have a good midsummer's eve, keep safe.

- Peffis

Around the world with 10 songs I'll have in my record bag this Saturday

Here's 10 songs from around the globe I'll have with me Saturday at Dynamo Upstairs. I put myself the rule not to pick from a same country twice.

Alhaji K.Frimpong- KyenKyen Bi Adi Mawu (Ghana)
Sapho - Carmel (France)
Group Bombino - Tenere (Joystick Jay Edit) (Niger)
Mungolian Jetset - Moon Jocks n Prog Rocks - Montezuma`s Revenge Version (Norway)
Esa Saarinen - Poikarakkaus (Finland)
Revanche - You Get High In N.Y.C. (Italy)
Prince - Raspberry Beret (12" mix) (Usa)
Junior Boys - Banana Ripple (Canada)
Robyn - Hang With Me (Drop Out Orchestra Remix) (Sweden)
Risqué - Starlight (Netherlands)

This was surprisingly hard to do! Kinda shows how much of our music comes from USA and England.

I'll see you Saturday. And fingers crossed, soon we'll have our first foreign artist visiting next month.

- Peffis

Next Saturday: Diskotusneuvottelut + loads of shoutouts!

Man, how amazing was last Friday? I've never had so much positive feedback as I got from Diskoluistel-U. Just random people, joggers and such, came up and said we should do it every Friday. It's a surprising reaction to people just putting up a soundsystem next to a roller skate park and blasting away pretty rare-ish disco, house and chiptune.

I just wanna say I'm very happy that we did it, now I can cross that off my personal "to do list for life".

Here's one photo of the event. Check the FB page or here for more good photos of happy people. We even got on the news:

This week we have something good for store also. We are going back to Dynamo upstairs after a long while. No guests, just me and Ripatti going deep with our selections. We've dubbed the night as Diskotusneuvottelut, after the political farce we are just going through. FB is also up and top 10's from both of us are coming up soon. I think we'll lean on our disco records and spice it up with newer favorites.

If you'd rather listen to best house available on Saturday, I heartily recommend Sheikki Sheikki's party. The boys have an anniversary coming up and they have done an excellent job with their club for three years.

And if rap selection is you thing, go ahead to So Damn Tuff Open mic. Very recommended. They have become quickly one of the best rap clubs around.

At least three excellent clubs on one night, that's Turku nightlife nowadays.


And also big thanks for Heikki Sillanpää aka DKSTR for updating our old discus thrower logo to space age. It's soooo cooooll :D

Ps. Here's a new house remix of a Classixx track for everyone who read all the way here. 320, so it's ready to go.

- Peffis

Get your skates on

If you didn't know this, now you know: we are hosting & djing in this Diskoluistel-U rollerskating event this Friday. It's free, fun and for the whole family. People seem to very excited about the idea. And believe me, so am I. It's a bit of a dream come true for me if we can pull this off nicely - I've wanted for a few years to do this kind of thing, you know, see how it would work just to bring people together in the sunshine and play them disco outside of the clubs.

Let's just hope it won't rain Friday after all this work to get it done. Here's three related videos to get you in skating mood:







(This last one is like a theme song, I usually hear it in my head when I think of roller skating discos. Written by the great Roy Ayers)

See you Friday at Kupittaa and bring your skates with you,
- Peffis

Thursday: Gift of Music - the sequel at Kolo

This week's Thursday it's Kolo time again. Last one was pretty cool, and I was very pleasantly surprised we got a little dance floor going for about an hour on a weekday. This time we'll do it even better.

We are gonna stick to the same game plan this time too: lesser known gems from music's history and easy going stuff for the first couple of hours and later we try if we can get a dance on with better known, danceable selections. If anyone has requests, hit us at comments.

Here's top 5's from us again:

Dj Peffis Top 5:

Alicia Myers - I want to thank you
Risque - Starlight
Fleet Foxes - Grown ocean
Doves - Kingdom of rust (Prins Thomas diskomiks)
Serge Gainsbourg - Ballade de Melody Nelson

Ripatti Top 5:

Raphael Saadiq: Radio
Busy Signals: Plastic Girl
Bibio: Excuses
Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
Justine & the Victorian Punks: Beautiful Dreamer

Hopefully see you Thursday. Have a nice week,
- Peffis

TONIGHT: The Gift of Music at Kolo

The Gift of Music will be served and received tonight at Turun Klubi's Kolo from 22 to 04. Not just good, but great music all around the genres at the venue that's been voted the best of the city for two years running. We are very happy to get to contribute to that history NOW.

Here's Top 5's from both of us.

Peffis top 5

cults - go outside
chad valley - portuguese solid summer
regina - näinä mustina iltoina (schmamix)
todd terje - snooze 4 love
a tribe called quest - bonita applebum (why mix)

Ripatti top 5

tame impala - solitude is bliss (midnight juggernauts remix)
the go! team - voice yr choice
toro y moi - new beat
cut copy - need you now
crystal fighters - in the summer (brookes brothers remix)

If you want to request something, hit us at the comments.

- Peffis

Friday's Memory Lane: The Unforgettable Summer of '10

Last bit of Memory Lane to walk. I know I've mostly shared some unfortunate gigs and bad stuff, but this last post is dedicated to the good things we've been through. Most of the them happened during last summer.

The Unforgettable Summer of '10

Last summer wasn't just good it was pretty awesome. We had been struggling with some stuff earlier that year, with me and Risto mostly left running the DWTF. Just before the summer we got some really good news: we got booked to Turku Modern and Ilmiö-festival. It was a great honor for a dj group that wasn't that well known, even in Turku.

Dj-wise that week or two was the top time of my life. Both events happened a week apart from each other. I remember how we sat down with Risto to plan almost every track we would play on our Turku Modern gig. We even got rhythmic instruments that we wanted to give the crowd so they could jam with our records. And Lauri Hannus took some promo photos of us that we still use.

I was really really nervous when we started our gig. We had just heard from dj Anonymous that we had to re-schedule our gig with the other artists that played the same venue: Lauri Soini and Roberto Rodriguez. We had to go first, and had to try to get that info to our followers as quickly as possible. That re-arranging also wrecked our game plan: We ended up playing to a room where people where still finishing their dinners. We had a plan to start with dark house but changed it so that we opened with melodic disco. I remember being nervous as hell through the whole gig.



(We started with this)

Just when we where ending our set the other dj's took over. The first thing Lauri did was to dim the lights down and up the volume of the soundsystem. The whole atmosphere changed to a much more suitable for dancing and his selection of house started working on a whole new level. Me and Risto were pretty bummed that we hadn't understood to do the same thing. It was supposed to be our best gig ever and we didn't get even that right!

But the best experience came afterwards. I got really drunk for the remaining three days of Turku Modern on free artist beer. I actually remember having a weird constant taste on my mouth on Sunday. I met a bunch of new and old friends and checked out some amazing dj's. It felt great to be a part of the festival, even if our contribution had been quite minimal.

Of course I ended up on the bridge Saturday night where all the organizers and artist like to hang. The sun came up and people where still very happy about the earlier night. I think I saw a rainbow too.

Even if we had somewhat flopped our gig at Modern we more than covered up for it later in the Ilmiö festival. We were booked to play in the boat that carries passengers to the festival and back.

I remember it well. The forecast had been awful. Load of rain and thunder were supposed to come. But when we got our records to the ship, it was all sunshine and a light breeze. Eventually we didn't catch any of the rain. First we actually tried to play on the deck but had to move to the cabin. Just when it dripped a little bit in the day, I played this:



It was good fun to play through the day, but the real experience was the night shift, when people where heading back to city. The night had settled in, it was cool and calm. The boat went gently towards to the city lights.

And we had just the right records to fit that mood. Dark and easy music, Italians do it better records, Bruce Springsteen, maybe also Arthur Russell. People were giving thumbs up and I remember Heikki from Videovalvontaa talking very kindly about us to a French artist he was hosting. Last boatride we did we upped the tempo a bit since people were feeling like dancing.



(I played this at the night, worked wonders)

It was really fulfilling to feel like I was contributing with my music selection to that mood we all had: feeling grateful that the festival was over, feeling a bit sentimental with the ocean and night sky, feeling very easy. Won't forget that moment.

Funny detail after the boat had docked for the last time. Me and Risto were waiting for someone to pick up the loudspeakers and mixer at the dock, when we heard some noise from the top of the roof. A while later someone woke up from there, his jacket was soaked from the other side from sleeping on the wet roof. He jumped down from there, looked at us and started walking towards the town.

Such a great summer. I feel like I achieved everything I wanted, everything else is just bonus. Hopefully this one will be even better. At least we got something very special planned.

So this is the last story for now. Hear me do an interview in a few hours on Rytmikoppi at Zoom FM and play later tonight at Bar Kuka.

- Peffis

Get deep with Turku Underground

Like Roland Clark here does:



Have you ever been to a warehouse party around here? You should.

I like downtown clubbing and everything, but there's something about people putting a lot of effort to make a private party happen, then playing music/perform they want to play with no excuses and witnessing bunch of people you probably don't know digging it all. I might be sentimental fool but it does give some hope that people just coming together can have a good time without tight rules, no business aspects, probably no dickheads around, no ending times when the party is at it's best - just pure fun, together.

Later this month we are throwing our last private party at our current venue. So, last chance saloon to experience the thrill of partying all night long in definite DIY-spirit. Only invites and over 18 get in, so get in touch with us.

Here's a photo of me playing in our last Halloween underground rave. The party got a lot wilder a few hours from this moment...

Trust me, these parties are the ones we'll all look back when we're older.

And yeah, bring your own booze.

Here's by the way WAV-file of the Roland Clarke a cappella with some Leo Zero magic. And here's a throughout article I wrote about the history of Turku underground raves. It's a good read.

- Peffis

Introducing our Friday guests: Gayborhood girls

Today we are continuing with the selections of our honored guest for tomorrow. Let me introduce to you, Gayborhood dj's KI KI and Masculina. I met both the girls when I made a small interview with them last summer. They've always had a certain style about their music, a mix of classy newer stuff with the turn of the 90's house sounds, that I really dig and that hardly no one else spins around here. I have much love for the vocals in their sets. The girls spend a lot of time practicing, so they mix good. Check their stylish website here: http://gborhood.com/ and their Top 10 below!

(dj KI KI)
Richard X vs. Liberty X - Being Nobody
Adeva - Don't Let It Show On Your Face (Perfecto mix)
Novika feat. Kasia Kurzawska & Iza Kurzawska - Daily Routines
Munk feat. Asia Argento - Live Fast! Die Old!
Nicole - Don't You Want My Love
(dj Masculina)
Fox the Fox - Precious Little Diamond
Ali Love - Love harder
Aeroplane - Without Lies (Black Van remix)
Appaloosa - Intimate (Glass Candy remix)
Iamamiwhoami - Y

Very nice selection. More top 10's soon to come!
- Peffis

Introducing our Friday guests: DJ Goatboy

So, just a quick recap: We are having our first DWTF club night this Friday at Dynamo downstairs. Better sound than before, bigger dance floor and dark lighting - we are already superexcited about it.

We wanted to celebrate the occasion by bringing some Turku actives to accompany us on Friday. The first one I'm gonna introduce is dj Goatboy. He is one half of the Sheikki Sheikki club, which is highly recommended, and has a deft sense for the best new records. We asked him to contribute a Top 10, here it is with links!

Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - I'm An Indian Too
Sinnamon - I Need You Know
Kristol - After The Dance
Geraldine Hunt - Can't fake the feeling
Imagination - Music And lights
Azoto - Any Time Or Place
Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug
Kinky Foxx - So Different
Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine
Cheri - Murphy's Law

Now, gotta admit loving that selection. Very disco, very much fun. I'll get a Top 10 from other guests and Risto in the next few days.

- Peffis

200 blog posts & The NEW AGE

"UUSI AIKA KOITTAA" - IT'S THE NEW AGE

[For our English Frieds: It's the new age for us, we're more back in business than ever: this blog, radio show, new & better gig venues and other goodies are rolling again. Use the Google translate, LOL]

DWTF:n talvi on ehkä mennyt horroksessa ja "oikeissa töissä", mutta kevät se kaiken eloon saattaa.

Facebookissa siirryttiin Fan page -aikaan, mikä tarkoittaa sitä että liittymällä TIIMIIN saat tiedot mm. blogipostauksista suoraan suone- eiku feediisi. Tykkää siis facebookissa, niin pysyt parhaiten kärryillä.

Muutaman päivän sisään julkaistaan myös upouusi Maxinheittäjä-logo, ja paljastetaan kuka turkulainen artisti on sen meille duunannut. Ollaan nähty ekat versiot, luvassa on HUMORISTINEN & VÄRILLINEN upea kuva.

Jotkut ehkä jo huomasikin, että duunattiin tämän blogin ulkoasua vähän uusiksi. Tärkein uudistus sen suhteen on kuitenkin vasta tuloillaan: Disko-Risto nimittäin alkaa myös kirjoittelemaan sinne, joten jengi saa selkeästi aiempaa paremman kuvan meidän musavalinnoista.

Diskonservatorio-radio-ohjelmani painui tauolle viime syksyllä, kun meikä lähti tekemään tiedekirjallisuutta Tampereelle. Viikko sitten Zoom FM sai paikalliset luvat, ja meikä on takaisin Turussa, joten yhtälössä alkaa toivottavasti pian porista.

Yli parinsadan laatutietoisen musafanin seuraama Spotify-soittis päivittyy taas kohta. Tällä hetkellä sieltä voi vielä tsekkailla viime vuoden parhaat biisit meidän molempien valkkaamina.

Hiljaisella keikkarintamalla on tulossa muutoksia parempaan. Jo ensi perjantaina vallataan Dynamon ALAKERTA, jossa äänentoisto toimii ja jossa tanssilattia on aistikkaan pimeä. Odotetaan todella tätä mahdollisuutta, tullut vietettyä sillä tanssilattialla monta tärkeää iltaa nuorena jannuna. Lisäksi on tulossa keikkoja mm. Klubille ja Bar Kukaan.

PS. Miksausta ja Top-10:jä ennen perjantain keikkaa vieras-dj:ltä sekä meiltä.

Tervetuloa siis mukaan uudelle ajalle,
Peffis ja Ripatti

We're back

Next Saturday we take the hold of the home base again at Dynamo upstairs. No visiting dj's this time, just me and Ripatti with a new arsenal of new tracks, styles and combinations. I'm feeling pretty good about it already, don't know exactly why. Here's the poster:

And here's the facebook event. I guess it'd be fair to say we are in a bit of transition when it comes to our dj style, so we'll try to get a new mix online before Saturday.

Everybody is more than welcome. Holla at comments for requests, would love to hear what you guys and girls dig at the moment.

- P-Funk