Happy 808 day

8th of August, so I'll post this.



Ps. Thanks 4 Saturday, it was a blast.

- Peffis

LCD Soundsystem's last gig

Just in case some of you haven't checked it out yet, here's the last LCD Soundsystem gig in all of it's glory:



Needless to say, the band is amazing, James is as charismatic as ever and ALL of the songs are pretty much modern dance classics. Be quick and watch it as soon as you can, it might get taken down because of the right holders.

But hey, here's something extra regarding LCD Soundsystem. Just like R. Kelly would point out, there's there's always an after party after the party, and here's some footage of the last moments of the last after party after the last ever LCD Soundsystem gig.



That's a nice scene when everyone is trying to light the party up by singing the LCD SS tune. Touching. What will live in the history as the last tune of the night... WHAM!

Thanks for the years, LCD Soundsystem. (BTW, I got to review their last album, my review has got some good insights on the band)

- Peffis

Lop U was a great party and WE made it happen

I need to get something of my chest. We had our last warehouse party last Saturday. It was the end scene in a long run of maybe 5 or so parties. Lots of the people involved from the beginning were back doing a gig or organizing and maybe even some of the crowd has been with us from the start. A reunion.

You do these things for many reasons but I think most of revolve around making a party happen for open-minded people who appreciate the freedom and no-rules-on-music approach. We, the organizers, take the risk to have artists who don't necessarily fit in at the music policies of clubs and the risk of trusting that the people we invite behave nicely even when there's no official bouncers around.

It's really a lot about trust. It takes idealism. Are you willing to trust that if you don't have official rules people who come together can have good fun and party their asses of?

That's what we believed.

Didn't exactly turn around that way. There were a small bunch of idiots who tried to ruin the party for everyone by bitching about, trying to pick up a fight, not paying their way in and tagging the walls.

But you know what? Even after this bunch of assholes took their best shot of fucking everyone's mood up, people still managed to have time of their lives. Just take a look of our photos. I see only smiley faces.

And here's something else: after the last live gig, me and dj Johnny D (who is very underrated as a dj) were starting to play some records back 2 back. Just after 4 songs we had to stop and cut the music, because of the aforementioned wankers. It just happened that I was playing bouncey stuff to re-start when I was told to stop. My last song pick - which will live to be the last of the whole Turku U -series - was a Top Billin' remix of Gil-Scott Heron's Willing.



I remember when I played this, Johnny D said he couldn't have picked a better last song. This morning I listened to it again. Just read the lyrics:

We've all come to think ourselves
as links in a chain - so much to gain
We are the ones that tie our fathers to our sons
Don't you know, that's how we grow

What my life really means is that the songs that I sing
Are just pieces in a dream that I've been building
And we can make a stand and hey, I'm reachin' out my hand
'Cause I know damn well we can if we are willing
But we gotta be...
Got to be willing.

You know what I'm after. We were willing and we made it happen. I'm pretty fucking proud about that. And so should you be, if you were one of the organizers, one of the good crowd, one of the performers or one of the good people who helped us along the way.

THANKS!

BTW. Here's a recording of our dj set, right from the start of the night. You can hear the audio engineers talking the whole way through and general noise, but the music comes through pretty clearly.

- Peffis

Time to look back

First of all, thanks for Festorama. Had a very decent fun whole night through. We played a little more indie type of stuff, Glass Candy, Robyn remixes, Lykke Li and - of course - Prince.

After our gig we ended up doing little backstage shenanigans, I snatched the last dj beer from the bridge (sorry gang), tried to play some bangers after the last band (didn't work out) and Ripatti almost took an eyeful of rest at the balcony of Klubi's upper floor. He did wake up in time to try to play the bangers. Good times. Here's a nice photo ooverage of Saturday, go check out.

In more sad news, we've lost so many great musicians in the last week or so: Nate Dogg, Kurt Hauenstein and Loleatta Holloway. Here's a little something to remember their work and inspire you to dig deeper to what they have done:

NATE IN '08 (MIXED BY DJ STEVE1DER) by DJ STEVE1DER

Here's a really, really dope mix of Nate Dogg hooks and songs. And he had so many of them.



Loleatta Holloway, one of the most recognizable voices of disco and house. She does the vocals on one of my most reliable gig favorites - Relight my fire - and on so many other classics. Check this interview with her.



Kurt Hauenstein is the singer on this one. He was a key musician/producer in the euro disco scene. Check out also Ain't gonna feel for that mega-Cosmic vibe.

Nevertheless, have good week,
- Peffis

Tracklist for the last Diskonservatorio show

At least for the moment. I'm moving to Tampere for three months so I won't be around to do my radio show. I'll be here weekends for gigs though, so Disko WTF will keep on keeping on as strong as usual.

Here's the emotionally filled tracklist for the last show:


Whitney Houston - I will always love you 
Prince - Sometimes it snows in April
Savage - Don't cry tonight
Indeep - Last night a dj saved my life 
Charanga 76 - Ain't no stopping us now
Gary's Gang - Keep on dancing 
Universal Robot Band - Barely breaking even
Phreek - I'm a big freak 
Gayle Adams - Your love is a lifesaver
Trammps - What happened to the music (Paul Simpson Dub)
Sterling Void - It's alright (Radio version)
Eddie Kendricks - Thanks for the memories (Lee Douglas edit)
Paul Parker - Time after time 
New York Community Choir - I'll keep a light in my window

Big thanks for everyone who listened or came to do an interview. It was real great meeting a lot of Turku dj's who know their stuff.

- P-Funk

Thanks for yesterday

Our Arthur Russell night was a success. Thanks for coming! It was actually the first time I saw the documentary as well, high quality stuff.

Maybe we should push more of the older leftfield disco stuff into our usual sets as well. You always forget how good and innovative these songs still sound. Here's a few examples we played yesterday:





The last one is one of my all time favorites. Can't get enough of it. I actually have the original pressing OMG. It's a bit of a hard to get, which is a shame.

Have a good weekend, I'll post some more later.
- P-Funk

It's still a disco thing

Wow, I just came back from Helsinki. Me and Ripatti did a gig there, rocking ground floor of Restaurant Nude with some old school disco picks mixed with newer disco-ish stuff. A big shout out to House not House-dudes, who handled the upstairs with a defo selection of vocal house.

I've been feeling a lot of the older disco stuff lately. The more I listen to it, the more I feel it, and feel like understanding it. Coming from a pop/rock listening background, I'm more used to focus on certain elements of songs: narrative lyrics and main melody.

A good disco song kinda plays out differently.

It's more of a continuous movement where different instruments work together to play with the basic foundation of the rhythm. You know that feeling when you feel like the song/night should never stop? Like there's constantly new details adding and substracting to the beat, and it all feels so good.

I mean, listen to this song with good headphones. Check how many uplifting details there are. How can you not feel like "keeping on jumping / till you see the sun in the sky"?



Simply one of the best dance songs ever.

- P-Funk

Anniversary nostalgia

It has been a full year since my first gig w/ Ripatti. We actually had a lunch together yesterday and we reminisced a little about the how things have changed. I can't really complain about the situation we find ourselves now, a year later that magical night at Bar Kuka.

So, a big thanks to everyone who has been nice enuff to support us, book us or come to our partys. As long as there are people listening and getting down to our wild-styles, so long we'll keep on pumping 'em.

Here's the trip to the memory lane, the very first songs I played as a dj. Before these two, I used an intro of a Huge L skit.





BTW, the vocal part is a sampled from this. Just wait to 2:30...

- P-Funk