Archives from May 2010

Signs of summer in Tampere clubbing scene

During the summer Tampere has a lot of great dj-events that take place outdoors. This year Plauge will continue to chill out at Tempo Terrace, a wonderful latin influenced pub that has been our summertime home for many years now. Jazz, Soul, Funk, Broken Beats etc. will be delivered with style! More information about Tempo [...]

Dance Classics photos from 22.5.

Check all the photos as a slideshow from: HERE!

Drop the bass!

In my previous DC post I promised to present some actual speed garage tunes. This genre was “the next big thing” in the UK after the big beat hype during the late 90′s. Regular elements in speed garage tracks included sped-up garage house rhythms, female vocals/male MC and heavy basslines. The success of this style [...]

Dance Classics: Jocelyn Brown

Jocelyn Brown maybe needs no introduction, but take this as a salute to maybe the best female dance music singer. Her career is truly a link between disco, post-disco era and the development of house music to this day. Brown started in the late seventies singing for studio groups for example Chic, Cerrone, Change and [...]

Samplebusters, episode 4

On this episode of Samplebusters we meet two North-Americans, some British lads and an Italian. We start off with one of the founding fathers of hi-NRG (the old one), Bobby O, producer and solo artist. He had produced, during his still ongoing career, Pet Shop Boys, Divine and The Flirts, among others. Some say he [...]

Guest time! Rewelacyjny Luciano – High5 May 2010

Guest time again on High5 minimix series, special bigband stuff from Poland by Rewelacyjny Luciano! ‘Kicks off with Gustav Brom’s heavy track from the “Polymelomodus” LP (pressed in limited quantity and not made available in stores). After that I’ve put two tracks by a Radio & TV orchestra from Katowice led by my favourite Polish [...]

Go Go

As Åke posted D.C. Scorpio’s “Beam Me Up Scotty” in the previous DC-post, and told nothing about Go Go, I thought that has to be done! So, go go is a sub genre of funk. This Washington D.C.’s signature funk sound has a recognizable syncopated beat influenced by afro caribbian music. The sound was developed [...]

Åke’s picks – One from the late 80′s and one from the late 90′s

Here is two nice tracks to all of you guys! I hope you enjoy! Romanthony is an American DJ, producer and singer. This song is one of my favorites! Romanthony: Hold On:  http://www.mediafire.com/file/mqmztykimn1/Hold On.mp3 D.C. Scorpio is pretty unknown rapper  and if i’m right he has released only three singles. Here is one called Beam [...]

FINN DISCO

Old Finnish dance music is nowadays being rediscovered, so I thought that we should share some of the best Finnish disco gems here as well. These are some rare shit you know… Friends hit us with an email if you want a better quality versions… Dance Classics Finn Disco Set (ZIP, zSHARE) Hei Ota Kiinni [...]

CSI: Järvenpää

Wispy and drS will take over a party called Rikospaikka vol. 3, held by lovely chaps Action Jackson and Janne H. The criminal activities take place in Swengi, Järvenpää on 12th of May. Judging by the urban legends and photos from the previous Rikospaikka parties it looks like we’ll have hard time getting up the [...]