See them styles de? Cyaan find now a days, classic!

Apps for DJ's

I've been thinking about getting an Ipad as a UI for my soundsystem, but this might be a bit too digital still. ipadmxr.com

Big Spliff // Ebovy & Ivory // 1%

Cocoa Tea and Riker's Island

History lesson #1. Cocoa Tea's been around since the 80's and he's one of the abc's of reggae, dancehall an DJ culture, so know you know.

History lesson #2. Riker's island is the classic from Cocoa Tea, and it tells a story of an NYC prison where Tupac and Lil Wayne have served some time. Crime doesn't pay, so you know now.



History lesson #3. The segregated unit at Rikers for LGBT prisoners was closed down in 2005. I guess Cocoa Tea was not singing about this unit..

The Most Badass Alphabet Ever

There's no way my lazy ass can be bothered to post them all but this honestly must be the the most awesome alphabet ever!

New rules!

SHINE 2009 - NEW RULES from SHINE 2009 on Vimeo.

A great new song and video from a great new finnish outfit, Shine 2009. Shine 2009 is a duo consisting of Schmami, a way nice producer and DJ in his own right and Mikko from Regina. A lot of 1990's stuff has been circulating in the Kriton blog lately, and this is is mos def 1990's influenced. Be sure to also check out their first video Higher.

The Last Supper 01.04.2010 @ AHJO

THE LAST SUPPER from Jebus Christ on Vimeo.

THE LAST SUPPER
01.04.2010 @ AHJO
BULEVARDI 2-3, HELSINKI

20-04

HENRI SEGER (LIVE)
ANDONOV vs. FILOSOF (THE SCHOOL OF LIFE)

SKUMPPABOOLIA + SUKLAAMUNIA + TEQUILAA!!

STRONGNESS!!!

Huoratron - Corporate Occult Live @ Flow Festival 09 from XPLOITEC on Vimeo.

Sunny side up, please

I know (or i think) Hennyman blogged about this track a while ago already, but i had to come up here with the video too. It's a seriously nice one. And makes you CRAVE for a nice breakfast, don't it.

Is it the time already...

... to go back there?

What I Be On

Screw Lady Gaga, this is the best video out there right now. And maybe even BEST EVER. All my smokers know what i'm talkin bout. Devin IS the dude.

I.IV.MMX.I.VII.X.XV

I.IV.MMX.I.VII.X.XV from Jebus Christ on Vimeo.

XII.I.XIX.XX XIX.XXI.XVI.XVI.V.XVIII from Jebus Christ on Vimeo.

We be movin' on...

And then, finally the motherfucking EPIC!!!

Jellybass sound for Sunday pleasure

For breakfast

For brunch

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/

Billy Rode Bikes Too!

Believe it or not, ZZ Top has always been a great source of inspiration for us Kriton Boys, and as we're pretty hardcore into riding bicycles too, this picture really warms our hearts.

The Electro Wars

Hrmmm.. a new documentary about the rise of electro, bloghause and the noughties club scene? Why not. Might seem a little bit outdated at some parts already, but still looks quite interesting.

Thank you Alex

R.I.P. Alex Chilton

New Boyz In Tight Jeans Vol III

Yepp,

Here we go again, rappers in tight jeans. Oh ma oh ma god, why their jeans so tight!

And the albums called "Skinny Jeans And a Mic"

But why does this sound so much like the Cool Kids?

Teh Funneh Immortal

All right, in case this is too blasphemous for you, you could also check this out with the proper soundtrack. Gotta love that wizard hat AKA 'velhon hiippalakki'!

'Hey, is that the Flaming Lips?'

Flaming Lips: She Don't Use Jelly on Beverly Hills 90210 from Chris Buly on Vimeo.

Bubble Bath

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

Is This What I Think It Is?

Cocomotion meets Fiskars

This goes down next weekend. Cocomotion with da main man DJ Fiskars from the mighty Top Billin crew! Welcome ya'll!

PS. join the Cocomotion forces at facebook

Manhooker

Here it is - the new Azari & III single. And what a great title it has: "Manhooker". In finnish we have the expression "mihu", which pretty much describes a manhooker. So this goes out to all them mihus all around the the globe!

BTW: this song is so much darker and moodier stuff than what the previous Azari singles Reckless (For Your Love) and Hungry For The Power led us to expect from them. Awesome, claustrophobic stuff for the darkroom parties, full of mihus.

Love You Down x 3

I came across Meshell's brand new cover version of my absolute favorite 80's slow r&b jam, Ready For The World's Love You Down.

So i had to give you three versions: Meshell goes really deep, heavy and artistic with her vision of this, while INOJ gave you the Miami Bass-influenced, dancefloor-happy treatment (1997, check out the cool campus video with the sistas with them awesome sorority t-shirts... AND a up-and-coming Lil Jon deejaying at 2:50). And of course the classic original from 1986.

It's a shame they didn't have DJ Technics' way cool b-more remix (called "Girlfriend") on YouTube though.

A Day Day (I Have A.D.D.)

So Smooth, So Deep

I Wish I Was There

Freeride skiing in Lauttasaari

Snow is fun and this year we got a lot of it. Here's a short vid from today's session in Lauttasaari. It's Ile here choosing the white lines.

And here's VP posing in the pic below.

Gotta go

This sooo reminds me of the Realest Song but it's still a banger. And those synth arpeggios... Nice. I guess Sean Kingston hasn't got that much to add to this riddim though.

Konshens really has had a lot of killer tunes lately, Good Girl Gone Bad, Winner, Realest Song... He's mos def an artist to follow.

One more sleeper hit

At first this seemed like an ok song, but it really grows after time. Kinda cool mixture of one drop / lovers chorus and Busy's more hectic vocals. Luv it.

Freestyle Track of the Day // Bettina: Destiny

Like whoa!

From the comments section:

"I love how you put together these videos. I wrote, arranged & produced "Destiny" I'm also the "Ah Shut Up" voice in the Loqueria mix, my friend does the Fix The House voice. We were actually fixing a house before we got to the studio. LOL That's how we came up with that."

Warrant issued for former Warrant singer

More info here
Although crimes or accidents are no fun, I couldn't help myself picturing these headlines:

"Former Poison singer sentenced to death by poison"
"White snake attacked former singer of Whitesnake"
"A giant ratt bit former singer of Ratt"
"Scorpions surrounded the former singer of Scorpions"

Bigga Choon Alert: K-OS: I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman

Featuring Saukrates(!) & Nelly Furtado. Gonna be BIG. Noddin' my head to this on repeat already. Also, waiting for Jamaica to discover this and hit us up with nice versions, just saying...

Todo El Mundo Bailar! // EL BAILE DEL GUERRILLERO

This is some real serious political shit right here. But the whole world parties to this!

Dance Wid Me

Drop The Pressure by Mylo is one of my all time favourite electro bangers, check the vid below.

Now to make this year pretty nice, The South Rakkas Crew have done a remake on that riddim with Serocee. The songs called "Dance Wid Me" and you can download it and actually the whole album "Stimulus Package" from Mad Decent for free, in 320 kbps and it's all friggin legal as s**t and all. That's mad and decent.

Viikon luontoääni

Little birds go post-punk!

Destination.... Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend seems to ubertrendy at the moment, and I dig those guys as well.

But what do you think of this: Vampire Weekend - Ruby Soho. A Rancid cover? A bold move, and I'm having a hard time to figure out whether this is LOL, WTF, Fail or brilliant.

AOR My Love Returns!

AOR My Love - the club is back here! Join us in facebook or just come by on feb 19th at Siltanen!

M&M: Don't Stand In My Way

And while I'm still in the 1990s zone I need to drop another absolutely uplifting piano house classic. Enjoy!

At 1.13: 'Everybody in the house...'

After Alppila's 1980s Classic of the Day it's my turn.

The 1990s House Classic of the day: The Tinmen: 18 Strings. THE ORIGINAL VERSION, not the later official single version which had the guitar chords altered, mind you. This was the track to rip your shirt off, jump on to the podium stage thingy and Party Like a Rockstar at Botta in 1994, yeah I know... LOL!

80's pop classic of the day

Yes. Never mind the odd accordion-like sound or the geeky colorful outfits in the pic above, this still rocks. Or should I say pops.

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

Hypnotic Tram Jam

Whoaah. I could spend hours looking at this. There those little buses and trams go.

Hypnotic Tram Jam

Apple tablet soon out of the closet

No one knows really what it's gonna look like, but here's one version, hoax or not.

I know some peeps are really into Kindle,but I guess Apple's gonna set a new standard for these kind of tablets. Well maybe they don't compete even in the same category, but the comparisons between these two are likely to be made.

So let's stay tuned, the latest rumours say that tomorrow on the 27th on January Apple will release this new shiny toy. And toys we love, right?

**EDIT**
Yes, it's cool looking and it's called iPad.

Free Gucci!

That's right!

ps. Danger's Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix) - pretty awesome.

Dubstep Snowman

All kids remember this great animation & original tune from their childhood.

This is a dubstep remake, you could get in hi-quality mp3 from here

Come saturday!

There were plants and birds and rocks and things...

Such a classic song. Remember to come to Cocomotion on saturday (at Bar Nolla, Helsinki). We'll play this for sure, or at least the Todd Terje edit version.

Wicked! Free Dubstep tracks!

Download Twenty dubstep mp3 tracks fo free, courtesy of NME.

Appreciate!

Helsinki 78-82: Cruising

HELSINKI 78-82 - CRUISING from Top Billin on Vimeo.

The long wait is over. The video is finally online. Enjoy!

Cruisin'

It ain't easy being a punk

This must be one reason why (poser)punks don't work 9 to 5. They'd have to wake up really early to avoid bad hair days.

You Know What I Mean

The best and most slept-on rapper of the 2000's. New Freeway & Jake One album out 16th february!

'Hoodilammas'

For the most part I haven't been giving a sh*t about the so-called Suomi Räp for a long time now but some of the new stuff from 2009 is not bad at all. And that other one I posted a while ago was hot too.

'You should call me uncle...'

Amidst all this Italo and/or Lectro' disco music and whatnot it's still good to see some peeps keepin' it real on them streets. Plaid shirts and ironic 'taches have made it all the way to the hood fo'sho but not all niggas are rocking those skinny ass white boy jeans. I gots lotta love for this right now. Beats & piano loops, rhymes and good ol' greasy fried chicken yo'all.

The KKK is watching me

I moved to a new office space in Sörnäinen today, not far from the famous Kurvi, that is one of the most lively places in Helsinki so to say.

So what you do on the first day? You go check out the places to eat. It wasn't too cold out, so we decided to take a little stroll and ended up in this joint on the Viides Linja -street. Let's not mention the name here, 'cos we don't wanna ruin honest peoples' business, right?

The place was a mixture of americana (western/southern-style saloon, bull skulls and motorcycles and lots signs about drinking..) and chinese food alongside cheap beer (but obviously...).

The food was ok I guess, although no one else was eating there at the time. What gave an everlasting impression was these little salt shakers. At first they appeared to be friendly ghosts, like Casper. But after further inspection I realized that they we're actually little hooded men, kinda like.... in the KKK? Nice touch.

Skip to ma lou

Now it's time to get fit and dancing is the way to bun dem calories, aigght? These steps are easy to learn (at least more safe to rehearse than this).

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...!

In the year 2009 - teh bestest

I had to make these "best of 2009" lists for this rock mag that i frequently contribute to, already a couple weeks ago. So i thought, why not post them here too (as a slightly edited version). Since our dudes at Top Billin just made their annual lists full of goodness.

So here goes, if any of ya'll are interested. And to be supa clear, this list was made in, like, 20 minutes and especially for a pop/rock mag. So it kinda leans toward quite poppy stuff, indie and hit singles. Not much rap/reggae/dancefloor shite/remixes/bloghouse craziness in here, sorry dudes. If not a lot of stuff i would play at clubs so much, here's some good pop shit, nevertheless. AND I also will retain the right to change my mind about any of these songs/albums, since tomorrow i will disagree with all of my dumb last minute picks.


International albums

1. Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
2. JJ: N°2
3. Passion Pit: Manners
4. Desire: II
5. The XX: XX
6. The Juan Maclean: The Future Will Come
7. Yacht: See Mystery Lights
8. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
9. Annie: Don’t Stop
10. Handsome Furs: Face Control


International tracks:


1. Bat For Lashes: Daniel
2. Desire: Don’t Call
3. Beyoncé: Halo (not quite 2009, though, i know...)
4. The Juan MacLean: One Day
5. Basement Jaxx: Raindrops
6. Gossip: Heavy Cross
7. Shakira: She Wolf
8. The Big Pink: Dominos
9. Passion Pit: The Reeling
10. Phoenix: Lisztomania

suomihitit

1. hannulelauri: Metropolis
2. Villa Nah: Ways To Be
3. Helsinki 78-82: Cruisin’
4. Randy Barracuda: Ketamine Strut
5. Helsinki 78-82: So Lifelike feat. Villa Nah
6. Ruudolf: Tööttää
7. Bääbs: Kun nainen lyö
8. Shine 2009: Higher
9. Regina: Tapaa minut aamulla
10. Top Billin: Playboy Anthem feat. So Hot It Hurts

Suomialbumit

1. Randy Barracuda: Randy Barracuda
2. Sister Flo: Au
3. Vuk: The Plains
4. Chisu: Vapaa ja yksin
5. Cats on Fire: Our Temperance Movement
6. Saurus: Neon Saurus
7. PMMP: Veden varaan
8. Manna: Songs of Hope and Desire
9. Michael Black Electro: Stripped Anatomy of
10. Jori Hulkkonen: Man From Earth


ps. Songs i forgot: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Whitney: Million Dollar Bill, Kelly Clarkson: My Life Would Suck Without You. Songs i found after making the list, that would have mos def made the list: Azari & III: Reckless For Your Love, Jackpot: Greased Lightning, House Of House: Rushing To Paradise...

pps. Also check out Hennyman's bestest reggae choices inna 2009 > here

Cat Found

When I was a yout...

I used to bun Cali weed inna Rizzla. Nuff said.

Blakkamoore, seen!

This is top notch stuff originating from Brooklyn,
Like we've heard with Major Lazer as well.

This may not be the new year party anthem, but works on many levels still, if you'ree feelin dubby.

Or try this for more dubsteppy version.

'This is Rock'n'Roll'

Yeah, but watch it until the end...

SMC Hoodrats // Helsinki North Side Nuggetit

This is north Helsinki in 2009 but how come it reminds me so much of La Haine?

Gaza Shop –mixtape out now!

The year's coming to an end so I put together those reggae songs that touched me in 2009. They also happen to be the ones that I’ve been spinning a lot on my dj sets this year as well.

Ok – you reggae nerds might point out that some of these song didn’t actually come out in 2009, but like I said, these are the ones that did the trick for me this year.

We have some banging dancehall tunes, nice rootsy lovers stuff, tasty one drop, fresh tunes & chart toppers, classic riddims recycled, odd choices, hip hop flavoured tunes, funny lyrics & dutty lyrics, newcomers & old timers, but it’s all good. So it’s 100 % Kriton Bangers style mixtape once again.

Download ”Gaza Shop” now for free (69 mins/159 Mb/320 kbps)

Here’s the tracklist :

Tarrus Riley ft. Konshens: Good Girl Gone Bad
Unicorn & Macka Diamon: Think Bout Mi
Estelle & Joni Rewind: Uptown Top Rankin
Konshens: The Realest Song
Demarco: True Friend (Buss A Shot)
G Whizz: Life
Ding Dong ft. Chevaughn: Holiday
Mr Vegas: Gallis
Busy Signal: Some Man A Pussy Face
Demarco: Keep The Lights On
Vybz Kartel ft. Spice: Ramping Shop
Major Lazer ft. Mr. Vegas & Jovi Rockwell: Can't Stop Now
Burro Banton: Nah Drop Di Ting
Perfect: 10 Pound Of Ganja
Buju Banton: Girlfriend
Prince Fatty: Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Mavado: Neva Believe U
Vybz Kartel: Go Go Club
Bruckup ft. Shaggy: Sunglasses (Keep Ya Shades On)
Mr Vegas & D’Angel: Good Life
Major Lazer ft. Mr Lexx & Santogold: Hold The Line
Vybz Kartel: Genie Wine
Mavado: Sweetest Time
Beenie Man: Bubble Gyal A Bubble
Vybz Kartel: Gaza Christmas
Munga: Doubble Troubble
Aidonia: When We Buss It

Enjoy & play it loud!

We ain't taking orders from snakes no more

I have always thought that Enter Shikari is at least interesting.

The first song that I heard from these guys was a weird combo of hardcore emo and trance synths... They we're like Arctic Monkeys' younger skateboarding cousins on speed.



And now I find these guys have gone dubstep. Or is this just just a remix?

Dub Fiya !!! // Aswad: Dub Fire

Free mp3's and apps from Apple

I guess Jobs is feeling the x-mas vibe and so Apple is giving away free mp3's and apps for 12 days starting from 26th of December.

That a nice gesture and a sneaky way to get peeps filling their new iPods and Macbooks with free / not so free stuff.

Hope they got their servers in order, I recall that a few years back their websites crashed at x-mas 'cos so many started trying their new iPods / Itunes at the same time

12 Days OF Christmas

Buju got caught

Like Mr Vegas informed us yesterday, Buju Banton has been in custody since Thursday and will soon be transferred to Tampa, where the U.S. Attorney is charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilos of cocaine.
Read more here

BIG TUNE // Major Lazer: Can't Stop

Loving this now big time! And featuring none other than Mr. Vegas.

Man marries a videogame character

Basically superdupernerdy, but fascinating. I hope that Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki will have a long and a happy life together.

Auto tune ads

Wow. I thought Jay Z announced the death of autotune, but it's alive.

There's even a facebook app that allows you to sing your status updates via autotune.

This is cool advertising imho.

Social Media Counter

This is pretty cool.

Cocomotion hits town before Santa!

Yay! It's Cocomotion time again, just to get it out of the way before christmas - 19th december at Nolla BAr. This time i'll have the mighty Ais-T (from the Music People radio show & blog, Bassoradio etc) joining me behind the decks, providing you with all things smooth - be it old or new disco, balearic pop gems, blissed out epic house music or the always so popular AOR evergreens. Come ya'll!

K-Pop

J-Pop

Funky Flag of the Day; Mozambique

Simply the coolest flag: Mozambique.

WTF Collective is here, bi*******ch!

I'm a huge fan Jon Lajoie as you might have realized before. This is the same stuff he's done before but still he does is so well that it makes me laugh.

Heads High - A Kriton Selection Of Mr Vegas

To celebrate the upcoming Mr Vegas show on Sunday I made a short selection of the hottest gallis anthems by Mr Vegas.

This time they're no mixed together or anything, just a simple Spotify playlist.

Enjoy.

Heads High - A Kriton Selection Of Mr Vegas

The Ambien Walrus

THIS IS NOT NORMAL ...

More BMX Radness // Brad Simms

Warming Up In NYC from Hoffman Bikes on Vimeo.

This is for our very own Alppila, old man riding around on a kids' bike... ;)

And them have anthems

These guys aren't not like Jimi Hendrix, but this will fit the independence day theme for today. They could have ripped a bit more though. Why so serious and straightforward?

Freefalling into a good morning

Once again the classic Tom Petty song sampled. I still think that Pimp C made better use of that riff.

Gringos were locos back in '88

Well, I was there.

I have later realized that Gringos Locos could have been a pretty good AOR band, if they didn't have so many bluesy riffs. And if they had dropped that weird cowboy-look. I mean, it never was cool to wear cowboy boots with your jeans tucked into them, and those belts with bullets - don't get me started.

The Home Town Anthem: Helsinkii

Old but still so good. For Friday!

Randy's Ketamine Strut

Who's Your Daddy

This song has been haunting me for weeks, but today I found out whut it was. Pretty uplifting hip hop with classic samples.

True Black Death Metal From 1977

Richard Pryor from 1977.

Pre-Spinal Tap Mystical Hobbit Rockers? Check.
Druidic cloaks? Check.
Smoke machines? Check.
Pryor throwing giant bags of drugs and pills into his all-white teenage audience? Check.
Pryor using a gas gun to kill the first few rows? Check.

And finally, Richard Pryor taking a machine gun to his fans, killing every white teenager in the place? Double-check.

Artbreak Motel presents: Juha Fiilin Wallride

'If not for art, at least come for the beer' ...

edit: Fiil Inc will be spinning them records on the opening night party (thu 3.12.)! Come y'all, Kriton in the building!

Ebay find of the day: Green Protective face shape Mask+multicolored Goggles

necessary equipment of plays WARGAMEif you buy,you will get this above picture two item in onetime,donot misswear it will

made you like a chivalrous man,very cool

when you see the below picture,are you feel the look are very funny?are you want to try it yourself?

Perfect for Shooting Skirmash, Skiing, Riding, Outdoor Activity, Hunting & Military Purpose Use

We <3 Azari & III

Holy goodness, this Azari & III single "Reckless With Your Love" is so GOOD! All I know about these dudes is that they are from Canada and theyre putting out an album next year. The first single Hungry For The Power was really good, but this one is just absurdly great. On Permanent Vacation records

This Youtube comment: "I just orgasmed all over my living room" justabout sums it up for me.

A Grim Unholy GIF

Happy Cat

Flip Clips Vol.1

push it a stop - flip clips vol. 1 from scott marceau on Vimeo.

Diggin' this for the vibes, sounds, slams & the NYC.