uncomfortable seating

200ISO, 35mm expired film.

Kuopio, Finland. 03.2011, flickr.

electric night life

dj orkidea @electric night life at red velvet lounge, 17.11.11.

all of scandinavia

by Håkan Dahlström. 2011.

wishful winter

Haluan. I really want.

mut en ole rahaa. need $$$. or actually €€€.

Taivas Varjele!

Taivas varjele mitä sieltä tulee? sieltä tulee MAALI!
For heaven's sake, what is that? It's a GOAL!

Finnish Hockey Mafia feat. Antero Mertaranta - Taivas Varjele!

These dudes made a song from the amazing commentary by Antero, on the more or equally amazing goal by Mikael Granlund (<— watch this first!) in May during the IIHF.

It's not only genius, but danceable as well.

FINLAND 6 - 1 SWEDEN !!!

2011 IIHF World Championship - Finland vs. Sweden final

FINLAND WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP!

vittun jännittävä!!
so f—ing exciting!!

SUOMI 6 – 1 SVERIGE
Finland 6 – 1 Sweden

FYEAH FINLAND!!!

LAOS – Something in the Air / GTGD

L.A.O.S. – Something In The Air / GTGD

(from Finland!!)

label: Spin Recordings

release date: 20.04.2009

genre: drum'n'bass

320kbps/27mb

rating: pretty good

01. L.A.O.S. - Something In The Air
02. L.A.O.S. & Kaleb - GTGD

LAOS – Strong / 1990s

artist: L.A.O.S. (from Finland!)
release date: 04.02.2008
label: Spin Recordings

genre: reggae-ish dnb / drum'n'bass

rating: pretty good.

20mb/vbr

A. L.A.O.S. - Strong
AA. L.A.O.S. - 1990s

Michael Cassette - Ghost in the Machine

artist: Michael Cassette (another Finn!)

track: Ghost In The Machine

label: Anjunadeep

release date: 23.11.10.

genre: progressive

rating: very good.

1. original mix (320kbps/18mb)

2. komytea remix (320kbps/15mb)

home is where you make it

Published monthly, SixDegrees is a free English language magazine in Finland.

SixDegrees provides information on interesting multicultural topics, events and people. SixDegrees is a stimulating meeting point for Finns and foreigners, creating a positive arena for the interaction of different cultures.

to read this Feb. 2011 issue, click on the link “Lue lehteä ilmaiseksi”

messages from God

Beck is wise indeed! Do you know what else is a message from God? Your fingers. Your lover. This column. That Toyota. This bag of frozen peas. Yemen. Cells. Lava. Videoconferencing. Pencils. Yappy little dogs. Quantum mechanics. Dark matter. Lip balm. Finland.

FINLAND. (& lip balm)

mark morford is the man.
Glenn Beck is a message from God. 23.03.11, sfgate.

Contour :: It's You / Somatic

artist: Contour (real name Jussi Leväsalmi), from Finland

ep: It's You / Somatic

label: Media

released: 2003

genre: drum'n'bass —liquid

rating: very good.

1. It's You

2. Somatic

31mb/320kbps

L.A.O.S :: so much to tell you

artist: L.A.O.S. (Large Amount of Soul), from Finland (!)

ep: So Much To Tell You

label: L.A.O.S. Music

release date: 25.03.2009.

genre: drum'n'bass —liquid, with some rockin' guitar riffs, too!

rating: excellent!

320kbps/53mb — purchase

1. So Much To Tell You

2. Back No More

3. Everything

4. Rise

PAWF – Oyster Boy

seeing them tonight at Klubi in Turku, Finland!
PINTANDWEFALL.

PINTANDWEFALL

why are Finns so awesomely fun?
and especially girl indie rock/pop bands.
PAWF.

Helsinki Sunshine

artist(s): various

compilation album: Helsinki Sunshine

label: Pivotal Entertainment

released: 2009

genre: drum'n'bass

rating: oikein hyvää!

90mb

01. Contour - Helsinki Sunshine
02. Contour - Unwind
03. Kaleb - Past The Sun
04. Kaleb - Broken Promises
05. D Bex & Physics - Music Is A Feeling
06. D Bex & Kaleb - Symbolic
07. L.A.O.S. - Name Of The Game
08. L.A.O.S. - Hold On
09. Champagne & Physics - Midnight Soul
10. Champagne - Hear Me Now

All Finnish drum'n'bass DJs!! :))

gyahh I didn't know that dnb was pretty big in Suomi, too!
(or maybe still kinda "underground", but the fact that I found these–and already knew a couple of these artists, and on a Russian dnb forum [Russians are even bigger on dnb—see the Pirate Radio party], says something.)

ah, the fi.wiki page on dnb lists the Finnish examples.

LAOS is playing at this Ilosaarirock festival Joensuusaa Heinäkuussa!!
gawd I swear if I spend a summer in Finland, I'll have dished out so much money to go to music festivals (+Ruisrock festival in Turku). (I mean, not like I don't already for a bunch a shows and raves in California. But this is like weekend festival after weekend festival.)

Summer in Finland sounds so great.
need monehzz.

Contour – Now or Never

artist: Contour, from Finland!

ep: Angels in Shadows / Now or Never

label: Instrinsic Recordings

release date: 2008

genre: drum'n'bass —liquid

rating: very good.

320kbps/25.4mb

01. Angels in Shadows

02. Now or Never

FUUU~ I didn't know that Contour was from Finland, too!
so many talented bomb edm djs and producers outta Finland!

I wanna do a sort of DJ/club tour in Finland.
gotta see Orkidea, Orion, Synthika, Michael Cassette, Darude, and now dnb DJs, too!

(the above mentioned all are trance/progressive)

But I don't it can be planned in my 5day stay in Turku that I'm leaving for tonight.
!!! Finland! :D
Finnish edm tour another time. ;)

mitä sun kädessä on?

Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer

Tavastialla 16.12.2010, by Kalle Björklid

jenni vartiainen

Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer

Tampereen Yo-talon bäkkärillä 26.11.2010, by Kalle Björklid

finnrail'd

28.12.10. my own photos.

from top: helsinki-vantaa airport, my 5day finnrail pass, and my travel itinerary.

The more I think and see pics of Finland—my own past trip there and Finland in general, the more I love the country and wish so bad to be there again.

recap of my trip, 18.–28.12.10.