Life of a Bicycle Seat

Happy happy Halloween...

The time of the year, huh? To celebrate the horror, i made this Spotify playlist for ya'll. It's all about horror disco, haunting electro, trashy gore scores & eerie crunk beats for your Halloween pleasure. Enjoy!

Hallows Eve playlist by Fiilinc

Big Coast

The summer's gone (around 10 C° this morning in HKI, plus windy as hell... hrrr), but this tune is sure to bring back them vibes. Liking the video a lot too!

Cocomotion goes Spotify!

Mixtapes are, like, the past, right? Spotify is, like, today, right? Naah, just kidding.. But since mixtapes can be a pain in the ass to make, I decided to go halfway and make a Spotify playlist for Cocomotion club. Here it is, fulla balearic goodness, dance jams and pop gems. Next time, I promise to make a mix.

http://sharemyplaylists.com/cocomotion-mix-2010/

Bubble Bath

Bubble baths are fun! So is this song! Hooray! Out now on the mighty Modular label!

Happy 2010!

And what better way to begin the year, than with some Kano. A true italian classic from 1983.

edit: i felt kinda bad to post the short edit of this song that i found on Youtube. So check out the comments to dl the bonafied extended 12" mix...!

Cocomotion back in town!

The mighty Cocomotion club is back this week at Nolla Bar! And with yet another guest from Helsinki's dj elite. Fummer, that is!

Fummer's been the number one combatant for nu/space/beard disco and balearic sweetness in Helsinki for ages. He's been playing that stuff for years at club nites such as Workout, Low Phantasy, Family Man, Gods of Eden, doing mixes and blogging with his Music Must Go Beyond Itself crew. So the dude knows his stuff!

Come by on saturday, will you! I've even got a brand new edit done for the occasion, a little extended mix of a late 1980's post-new wave/pre-alt rock/AOR classic...

Eli's Glass House

Eli Escobar is a way good dj and a friend of Finland who remembers to visit Helsinki often enough. He's also got the coolest music blog and he's a sought-after remixer, putting out official remixes as well as nice bootles (like this one on a Top Billin EP, for example). But the man is a renaissance hero: he's even done some tracks of his own. Like this new one called Glass House. And it has a really nice throwback video.

Cocomotion promo mix is here! 2 Balearic 4U!

The Cocomotion club (at Bar Nolla, Helsinki) is tomorrow for the fourth time now, with the almighty Flipperi from Top Billin crew / Nightrunners / Helsinki 78-82 (a brand new hella good project!) as a guest DJ!

so i thought what better way to celebrate it than to to make a promo mix! The first Cocomotion mix evah!

Here it is: a massive hour plus mix of some balearic pop, electronic, disco and whatnot, including your favorites like The Art Of Noise, The Police, hannulelauri, Hercules And Love Affair, Desire, Helen, Studio, Pineapples, Holy Ghost! etc... (see track list on the comments!)

And make sure to come to the club tomorrow!!

Get it on ZShare! mp3, 82 minutes, 113 mb

Do the COCOMOTION!

Brand new summer, brand new club. Yours truly, Fiil Inc will be starting a monthly Balearic/pop/disco club night with Lauri Soini a.k.a. 80's Cop at Nolla Baari. So if youre in town (Helsinki that is) next friday (22nd May) be sure to come and say hi. And enjoy the raw power of really smooth music. Maybe something on the lines of this:

It's all Tres Bien

I almost forgot to remind you of this: Yours truly, along with Top Billin' dudes Nenis & Fiskars, plus boogie and disco connoisseurs Pablo and Kalle will be deejaying in this fresh new club nite called Tres Bien. It's in Kuudes Linja, Hki on saturday 28th March.

Mixing it all together: the chocolate (boogie & disco) with the mayonaise (AOR & new wave), myself providing more of the latter. See you there!

Prins Thomas and the t-shirt of the year

Norwegians do it better!
(btw this dude is coming to Helsinki in a few weeks)

Disco music will save your life, Heavy Metal kills!

They have studied this, and it's a fact:

The University of Illinois medical school studied the effect the song had on keeping time during CPR. Five weeks after practicing CPR with the song playing on an iPod, doctors at the medical school were able to hum along without the music and keep time just a little bit faster than 100 per minute, which is perfectly fine when we're talking about chest compressions.

Stayin' alive,
Stayin' alive,
Ha...ah...ah...ah
(this part is exactly 100 beats per minute)
Stayin' a-li-ive
This tip helps rescuers keep the proper rate while doing CPR. Going too slow doesn't generate enough blood flow, and going too fast doesn't allow the heart to fill properly between compressions. Humming along with the Bee Gees is one way to stay on track.
For those of you less optimistic folks, Queen's classic, Another One Bites the Dust, also has the proper beat.

Well, I lied a bit in the headline, they had no hard evidence against metal music, but I guess good black metal could be used to bring someone back to life? From the other side.. :-)

Shit is robotic

Simian Mobile Disco's massive dance hit "It's The Beat" still pops up and starts playing in my head ever so often. What a great tune.

Check out this nice remix by DFA's Shit Robot (who BTW played at the UMF festival in Turku in july - for about 10 enthusiastic listeners...). It's eight minutes long and it even has the signature DFA congas! From SMD's new remix album "Sample & Hold", this is disco dance madness.

Simian Mobile Disco: It's The Beat (Shit Robot Remix) (zshare) (mp3 320kbs)

Swedish Disco Love. From Me 2 You.

New weeks, new tricks. And I'm not meaning those freestyle bike tricks Kanye is probably right now working hard to perfect on his Vigorelli track bike for his next video.

Anyhow, for some strange reason I'm really feeling THIS SONG right now: 
The Sounds - Tony the Beat (Rex the Dog Remix)

Of course it's good only because Rex The Dog remixed the original boring-ish power pop fake punk track into nice bouncy electro disco version.

And yeah, the singer chick sounds pretty hot too, in that special nasty way, with the heavy swedish accent, dirty voice, provocative lyrics and all. 

'Uuuuh baby, ja, ja, hej vill du festa med mig, vad, eller hur?'. She sounds like the type of chick you'd like to meet, yet be scared of meeting, in trendy bar at Södermalm when you're already drunk on mellan öl and in high on party mood. Don't even try to deny you wouldn't...

(FYI: Maybe I need to point out here that the singer is actually -unfortunately- neither of the girls on the cover of The Sounds' album  above. In fact, I remember reading somewhere that those lovely ladies on the cover shot are some fab real-life NYC scenesters...)