12 days to go - Johan Agebjörn interviews and a mix

Less than two weeks to go to our Suomi-Ruotsi-Disko-Ottelu. Here's a little recap of recent interviews and mixes Johan has made. We'll have something extra special from Disco Urse too in the following week or so, so hold on for Finnish disco goodness.

Johan Agebjorn interview 1 with Resident advisor

Johan Agebjorn interview 2 - with Tracasseur (there's a link to free tune at the end, too)

Johan Agebjorn interview 3 - with It's a Trap

And to have some good music to accompany your reading, here's a recent mix Johan made for URB.com.

Tracklist:

1. Johan Agebjörn: Spacer Woman From Mars (Ambient Instrumental)
2. Walter Jones: Hot Contact
3. Camaro’s Gang: Fuerza Major (Tensnake Remix)
4. Georges Vert: Garden Of Lies
5. Johan Agebjörn & Ercola feat. Queen Of Hearts: The Last Day Of Summer
6. The Whitest Boy Alive: Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
7. Sally Shapiro: Looking At The Stars (FM Attack Remix)
8. Johan Agebjörn & Le Prix feat. Lake Heartbeat: Watch The World Go By (Skatebård Remix)
9. Brain Machine: Alpha Beta Gamma (Johan Agebjörn Remix)

Very good. I'll post more mixes from him and from Disco Urse too to warm up before the main event.

Have a nice week,
- Peffis

"Ain't a problem I can't fix, cuz I can do it in the mix"

If you're a dj, online mixes are like your calling cards. It's pretty much consensus of everyone in the dj community these are the best way to show your talent in picking awesome tunes and putting them together so they make more sense together than apart. They're also a great justification to the claim that dj's do their best to present music you wouldn't hear on radio or tv.

They also provide a pretty good learning experience, when you have to go through your records and try them together. After a while you can look back and proudly listen what moved you then when you had made a mix.



Here's THREE masterpieces of a mix. All of them have spent weeks and months in my mp3 player. All of them are also downloadable, so you can have fun with them while biking or doing some other summer outdoor activity.

DJ Anonymous: Disco #5 (2010) by DJ Anonymous

Everyone in Finnish dj scene knows dj Anonymous. He's a dj legend, great blogger and the go to guy of Helsinki when you need wisdom on good music and it's history. Here's my absolute favorite mix from him. It's generally a bit difficult to mix disco smoothly together, but this mix draws the lines from different records out of different eras and countries. Some of these records are so rare I'll probably never hear them in a different context, but they work so well here I don't mind that much.

LEXX - Live-DJ-Set@BoutiqueHostalSalinasIbiza by Zukunft

The second one comes from Swiss dj and producer called Lexx. You can take and learn so much from this balearic and sunny mix. It's not really beatmixed together at all, but still it's seamless in atmosphere and feeling. After I heard this mix I rushed to cop at least five of these tracks.

MIKE SIMONETTI & JOHNNY JEWEL / ALBUTEROL by JOHNNY JEWEL

The last one is a bit of a contrary to the sunny and beachy atmosphere Lexx's mix. It's Johnny Jewel and Mike Simonetti of Italians do it better fame. This one's really classy affair too. Not so much obscure findings, but household records just played a bit slower or edited a little. These records make so much sense together, they paint a whole stylistic picture of nightlife in town.

So whats your favorite mixes?

- P-Funk

New mix: "Eteenpäin on menty / We have gone to the next level"

A new mix from me is up. Took it pretty close to the deadline, but it's done now. Pretty indie-ish selection, which I wanted to emphasize since we are playing in Dynamo downstairs which was THE PLACE where I heard lots of these tunes for the first time. And yeah, that's me and Ripatti on the cover of the mix, LOL

Eteenpain On Menty -mix by Peflettofunk (Disko WTF)

Tracklist:


The Cults - Go outside
Eddy Grant - California Style (Classixx dub mix)
Cut Copy - Take me over
Lindsay Buckingham - On the double (edit dePrince Language)
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you (Todd Terje edit)
ESG - Dance
Clash - Mustapha dance
The Smiths - Barbarism begins at home
Talking Heads - I zimbra
ABC - Tears are not enough (12" mix)
Vampire Weekend - Ottoman (Bass Ill Euro remix)
Chrystal Fighters - Champion sound (Coyote edit)
Jack Penate - Tonight's today (Leo Zero remix)
Senor Coconut - Around the world (intro)
Octet - Euro vs. Dollar (Pilooski edit)
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Prins Thomas diskomiks)
Sacha Distel - Le bateau blanc (Cosmo Vitelli edit)
Mungolian Jetset - Moon jocks n prog rocks (Todd Terje´s schlong tong vocal version)
Boxsaga - Zen & The art of deadlines
Fela Kuti - No possible (Joystick Jays vulgar distractions edit)
Jackie Beavers - Somebody help the beggar man - Mr. Bump man (J-ski Pts. 1+2 Edit)

See you in a few hours.
- 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

Well hello, a new mix is up

Thanks for last night! Great night, goes to my top 5. We did also a new mix which is below. You can listen/download it from the player, the tracklist is there as well. I'm off to Tampere, have a good week everyone.

  DWTF Mixtape November 2010 by DWTF Mixtape Project

Tracklist:

New Mjondalen Diskoklubb - Eurodans
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Disco edit)
Busta - Get Down With Breakdown (DJ S-Man remix)
Magazine 60 - Don Quixote (Pete Herbert edit)
Konk - Your Life
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone remix)
Ichisan - Magnetic Field
James Chance & The Contortions - Incorrigible (Liv Spencer & DJ Spun remix)
Monarchy - Love Get Out Of My Way (Holy Ghost feat. Dixon remix)
Grum - Through The Night (Swiss Menargy remix)
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
In Flagranti - Louvre For Yo
El Perro Del Mar - Heavenly Arms (Bandjo edit)

- P-Funk

NEW MIX UP !!!

Here we go, new mix. Let's see if you get the hang of the atmoshpere I tried to convey.

Djpeffis-Imanindieantoo by Peffis on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

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Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper (Chill mix)
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotised (Zambon edit)
Chris Isaak - Mr. Chicago did a bad bad dub
Bebel Gilberto - August day song (Social Disco Club Remix)
CFCF - You hear colours
Yonderboi - Riders on the storm
Vangelis - Let it happen
Fleetwood Mac - Brown eyes (Maulongated disco version)
Doves - Kingdom of rust (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
A Mountain of One - Bones (Thomas' Way of the Ancients mix)
K-X-P - Aibal dub
Pollyester - The Indian (Mock & Toof mix)
Pilooski - AAA
Gotye - Heart's a mess (Supermayer's remix)

- P-Funk

Special Spotify playlist

This time we both had a say on the playlist: Ripatti picked his top 25 tracks to accompany my 15 new tracks and some old favorites I didn't feel like replacing just yet.

I also promised to make a mix a week or to back. It's a bit tricky to pull off at the moment, but I'm on it. I'm been to Tampere for the past few weeks and I've been feeling the place I'm staying there. I think I'm trying to filter a bit of the atmosphere of that house to my mix. It's going to be real good and loaded with autumn vibes, I promise.

Oh yeah, me and Risto are working on a new mix to give out too. Might take a while, though...

In the meantime, have a listen of our joint playlist HERE.

- P-Funk

Lifestyle lessons

I'm knee deep in work and studying, so just a quick blog post: I did get to see DJ Harvey - one of the legendary dj's still around and top of their game - do his balearic thing on Flow Festival, and this was one of the songs he played. A good lesson in lifestyle if you listen closely to the words... well, maybe not!

I think Ripatti has been playing this one for a while, I remember him doubting about dropping it on a rock bar where we were dj'ing, way back when we we're starting this whole thing out.



If you can see DJ Harvey, do it. He's not too keen to do mixes or anything, so live dj sets is the thing. For the Finnish readers, there's already some talk of bringing him back here, so keep your fingers crossed... Anyways, if you want to chill it out with cool balearic mix, check out Daniele Baldelli's mixes. He was the one of the guys behind the whole cosmic disco thing. Check a good in-depth interview with the Italian legend here and an inspiring mix down below:

  (baia sound) Afro Baia Degli Angeli (Remember 77'78)Mix By Baldelli Mozart by astamblan

And yeah, DWTF gig coming up next Friday - more info soon come. I've been listening to a few dope Finnish dj's mixes, so I'll put a link to those as well.
- P-Funk

Promo mix out + Info on our festival gigs

At last.

So, we are heading to two festival gigs in the next two weekends. The first is Turku Modern - highly anticipated dj-based festival we are extremely happy to play in - and the second will be Ilmiö where we will be playing at a boat that takes the festival goers to the event place. Very cool place to play indeed and the actual festival is packed with amazing list of artists for a very low price. Very recommended.

Next Friday's Turku Modern schedules are already out and our gig can be experienced between Finnish legends Lauri Soini and Roberto Rodriguez at Bar Blanko. We start at 00.15 and go on for an hour and 15 minutes. We are looking forward to this more than anything and it does feel like a huge recognition for the effort we've put into this whole thing. We will be bringing our best and classic songs with something special on the side. So hope you can come to celebrate this milestone with us.

I did a promo mix for the Ilmiö festival. I've talked about this mix for a while, and I finally got around to do it and now the sound quality isn't always the best. It's not the files that are bad, but my dj software couldn't handle the mixing :(. Anyways, good tracks and some nice switches. Two Chris Rea tracks for a finish!

  Disko WTF promo mix for Ilmiö 2010 by Peflettofunk (Disko WTF)


Tracklist for the mix:

Studio - Life's a beach!
Regina - Näinä mustina iltoina (Schmamix)
Cole Medina - Love You Inside Out (The Pinches Mix)
No Requests - Be Thankful for my Gangsta Lean
CFCF - Invitation to Love
The Orb - Fluffy Clouds (ByDesign edit)
Mungolian Jetset - Glitches N Bugs (Awaiian Spaces Version)
The Bangles - Dub Like an Egyptian (Todd Terje version)
10cc - Dreadlock Holiday (Arsenii edit)
No Requests - When the Suon shouts
Studio - Life's a beach! (Prins Thomas remix)
Junior Boys - Under the Sun
Chris Rea - Josephine (Nick Thayer Edit)
Chris Rea - On the Beach (Todd Terje Remix)

- P-Funk

So let it be house

(That's Obama chillin' with house music hero Frankie Knuckles.)
This Sunday's house is on the house. I found not one but two good house mixes to share this time. The first one comes from the Holy Moly DJ's, and it's all Mike Dunn. (Great concept for a mix!). Some of you might know Mike from Phreaky MF (which samples this classic). So on that Soundcloud player is a good introduction to his other work in form a smooth mix. Lots of my dj friends have been quite enthusiastic about that mix, so I thought you should get a share of it as well. If you want to educate yourself further on the legendary producer/dj, check out these interviews: in print and on radio.


  I Walks With God - special Mike Dunn mix by Holy Moly DJs


The other house mix comes from Pepeto, who I already featured on this blog. His latest mix is good selection of classic 89-90 (acid) house tunes, with excellent hip house vibes. Kudos!


Pepeto - Chicago House Music 
01. Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - I Need A Friend 
02. Pleasure Zone - Fantasy 
03. Curtis Mc Claine & On The House - Let's Get Busy (Dub) 
04. Suburban Boyz - Insane 
05. Mike Dunn f/ Gershon Jackson - Born 2 B Houze 
06. Kool Rock Steady - Dance Or Die 
07. Ben Mays - Rated X (BamBam's Club Mix) 
08. Pierre's Phantasy Club - 20 Below 
09. Maurice Joshua - I Gotta Big Dick 
10. DJ Pierre - Box Energy 
11. Debrice King - The House Controls My Body 
12. Armando - 151 
13. Bam Bam - Where's Your Child? 
14. James "Jack Rabbit" Martin - Rabbit Trax 
15. Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - Bass Lives On


We are also planning a house documentary night here in Turku, so keep a lookout for that. Hopefully we can fit it in somewhere this summer. 

- P-Funk 

Tracklist for yesterday's show

Here's the tracklist for Diskonservatorio 6.4.2010. The first hour:

Low Motion Disco - Things are gonna get easier
Caribou - Leave House
Sally Shapiro - Jackie Jackie (Junior Boys Vocal House version)
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Prins Thomas Remix)
Azoto - San Salvador
Serge Gainsbourg - Sea, sex & sun (English Version)
Kemmuru - Pittää se
Hannibal feat. Stepa, Tykopaatti, Edorf - Puuratti

In the second hour I ran a mix of mine. It's tracklist is here:

Studio - Life's a beach!
Regina - Näinä mustina iltoina (Schmamix)
Fever Ray - When I grow up (D. Lissvik version)
Cole Medina - Love You Inside Out (The Pinches Mix)
No Requests - Be Thankful for my Gangsta Lean
Steve Perry - She's Mine (Red Ken's Resuscitated Edit)
CFCF - Invitation to Love
The Bangles - Dub Like an Egyptian (Todd Terje version)
Mungolian Jetset - Glitches N Bugs (Awaiian Spaces Version)
Coyote - Too Hard (Aeroplane remix)
No Requests - When the Suon shouts
Studio - Life's a beach! (Prins Thomas remix)
Junior Boys - Under the Sun
Chris Rea - Josephine (Nick Thayer Edit)
Chris Rea - On the Beach (Todd Terje Remix)

- P-Funk

A couple good Madchester documentaries

Manchester was the British mecca for good dance music in the late 80's with bands like New Order, Guy Called Gerard and Happy Mondays. Here's double pack of documentaries that talk about that scene. The first one is from the late 80's, the second one was made a few years back.

Madchester - The Sound of the North

Joy Division BBC Factory Records

If you really want to dig deep on the Hacienda scene, here's a good hour or two of actual live mix that was played there. Amazing stuff, would have danced my ass off:

Mike Pickering & Graeme Park – Nude @ The Haçienda - 26.02.1989 by djmixes

I'm hoping to do something about the visual side of this blog. Let's see what I can come up with.

- P-Funk