Vodka, lasers, trance and speed limits in Czech Republic

27 May 2010

Did you know there is Vodka brand called “Helsinki Vodka”? Neither did I, but there is a such brand and it’s made in Czech Republic! I found this out during my debut gig in Czech Republic last weekend. I also found out that Czech people are very very friendly, they love trance music and when they come to club they really like to dance full on, not just hang around and nod their heads a bit. And as often in Eastern Europe the club had a proper laser system which was shooting directly to the people which is something we don’t have here in Finland.

I was playing in the city of Brno (they’ve never been too much into vocals in Eastern Europe;) which seems to have a solid trance scene as Jochen Miller was playing on the same date in Brno. The venue was a nice and comfy 300-400 capacity club located next to the local football stadium. I was wondering if this the closest to stadium gigs I will get? =D One of the promoters Libor was doing the warm up with some nice progressive trance. The track which got the floor properly going was Ali Wilson’s Pandora which currently seems to be THE trance anthem of summer 2010. I played a two hour set of melodic progressive house and progressive trance with lots of finnish and own stuff. I also roadtested the new Andy Moor vs Orkidea and Solarstone vs Orkidea collaborations and the 2010 mixes of Slusnik Luna’s Sun and my Unity. All seemed to do the damage. One local clubber called my style “space trance” which I really liked. Sci-fi films have always been inspiration to me anyway. You can the full tracklist of my set at the Charts & Playlists section of my site: http://www.djorkidea.com/2010/05/dj-orkidea-soulgate-21052010/.

The other main DJ/promoter Mase continued after me with some banging techy sound which seemed to go down well. The only real downside of the trip was that the party ended at 05am and my flight was from Vienna at 10am so no much sleep… Getting to the airport on time required some “relaxed interpretation” of speed limits;) And what about the Helsinki Vodka..? Well it was pretty harsh tasting but seemed to unite the Czech and Finnish trance nations happily:)

6 Responses to “Vodka, lasers, trance and speed limits in Czech Republic”

  1. Jirka P

    27 May 2010

    One local clubber :)) Hello Tapio! It was amazin unforgottable night. We all enjoyed making “an interview” with you - it was nice and really interesting! Hope you enjoyed it as well… I wonder, will you ever release your set from Brno for download? Once again, thank you for what you’re doing!! See you next time anywhere/anytime … ;) J.

  2. Anonymous

    28 May 2010

    your old collaborations with solarstone was fantastic can’t wait for new Solarstone vs Orkidea collaborations.

  3. 28 May 2010

    @Jirka: Yeah it was you who came up with “space trance”. I think I will start using it more from now on:) I definitely enjoyed our chat and overall it was a nice visit. Unfortunately the set won’t be released because it had quite a few unreleased tracks in it. Hope we’ll meet someday again!

    @Anonymous: Glad to hear you enjoyed Slowmotion. I think this collaboration is at least on par with that. It’s more uplifting but still retaining that credible edge in it. It will be included on Solarstone’s forthcoming album so it will be our quite soon…

  4. Janski

    28 May 2010

    Tapsa they’re no vocals, they’re vowels =) Nice to see those stadium gigs are getting closer lol.. just remember what you said 5y ago @Unity.. how was it again.. “Scooter.. so simple stuff, almost anybody can do that, you get stadium gigs with shitty simplistic mixes..” or something to that effect.

  5. Jirka P

    28 May 2010

    I am glad you like it:) It came to my mind during your set and Gareth Emery’s remix of Metaverse. I replayed this remix several times after your gig-it seems to be ageless(ethno sample “Raamaa” is a mark of genius)! Your production+track selection is very special and unique. I think you really created your own style which is in such a competition of tens of producers pretty amazing! — IN DEEP SPACE — ABANDONED — See you:) J.

  6. Prochi

    29 May 2010

    I am glad you finally came to Czech Republic and you liked it, I still remember you from Digital Society in Leeds.I was telling that you should visit this beautiful country with amazing clubbers :-) ….Shame that I could not make it tho’….Seems like I need to have a look on your tourdates your next UK gig close to me :-)

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