Archives from March 2010

The World Wide TB-303 Appreciation Day (30.3.)

Today is a good day to celebrate acid house music and the bass synthetisizer TB303 The geekery around this vintage synth is phenomenal. Those who don’t know the story, in the eighties, this machine was a cheap rehearsal type of thing. Early house producing amateur trio, Dj Pierre, Spanky and Herby J together known as [...]

Bus trip to Hellsinki!

Want to join our bus trip to Helsinki to have fun? Only first 40 gets on board! Click attend at our facebook bus trip event: HERE! Party Champions League event is here: HERE!

Plauge 8 years and Off the Hook 2 years party pics!

Check rest of the photos as a slide show from HERE!

House, Ibiza

It’s not summer and we’re not in Ibiza ’89 but this  tune, my first entry in the Dance Classics series, might evoke an image of sunrise (or sunset) on the magical island. At least it does to me. Band probably nicked their name from one of the oldest and most well known clubs on the [...]

Jukola – High5 March 2010

Greetings from Krakow, Poland! Had a really nice trip to there and back. Met some very nice local dj’s and shop owners over there. Got most of my records from Rezerwat Winyli and High Fidelity. Those are the places to visit for some good Polish records! Anyways, I’ll cut the crap here so you may [...]

OFF THE HOOK 2 YEARS, PLAUGE 8 YEARS – CELEBRATION

This Saturday it’s a double birthday party what’s up. Two stages (also “Pankki Dance Classics stage” included) and almost all our dj:s on the decks and Michael Black Electro on the microphone. He’ll propably do some of his own material as well! I’ve also heard that there’s some toga thing going on, sounds like a [...]

The Roxy (part 1)

Nightclub Roxy in Chelsea, New York City, was one of the most important places to dance music. In the early eighties, hip hop was starting to spread around the world and it was becoming a popular phenomenon regardless of race. Roxy was the stage for this to happen. It was the melting pot of hip [...]

Samplebusters, episode 1

In this very first episode of Samplebusters we follow a path of samples and cover versions not always straight. First we head to France, which some consider the spiritual home of modern usage of sampling in house music. And I bet there were no-one who just didn’t thought of Daft Punk. You were on the [...]

Make your transitions

Underground Resistance (often abbreviated UR) is a Detroit-based artist/dj-collective and an influential label, famous for combining detroit techno and house with soul and jazz elements. The group was founded by “Mad” Mike Banks together with Jeff Mills in the late 80′s. The main gang also tours under the name Galaxy 2 Galaxy in a true [...]

Dance Classics Blog: D.Train

CLASSICSDANCECLASSICSDANCECLASSICSDANCECLASSICSDANCECLASSICS Okay now. When talkin’ about classics, you must mention James “D. Train” Williams and Hubert Eaves III who formed a band by the same name Williams was called in High School, “D.Train” (some might spell that D-Train or “D” Train or even just ‘D Train’ but it’s all the same). Followed by the huge success [...]