Sometimes writing these news feels too much like Me, Myself and I. While actually it’s far from that. There’s so many people working on all these projects without whom they wouldn’t be possible and to whom I’m honestly very thankful. Here are the people who made Metaverse album and the tour possible:

• Alex aka San Mejor: Keeping up the scene in Rovaniemi.
• Andy Moor & Chris @ AVA Recordings: Believing in the album and giving it the honour to be AVA’s first ever longplayer. My favourite label really pushing the musical boundaries or trance and prog.
• Anu: Supporting throughout the whole album creation process and tour project. All you need is love.
• Asaf: Tour managing done well. Our financial brain.
• Beliar: Promotion in Tampere and getting the hands in the air with your latenight set.
• David West: Super funny moments in the studio with God’s Garden.
• Diesel: Support, clothes and feelgood vibes the store.
• Etana: Promotion in Lahti. It was packed!
• Everybody who has sent their support and greets through my site, Facebook and MySpace: Massive thanks for the support. Very much appreciated and heartwarming!
• Exxa & DJ Shop.fi crew: Great tech in Tampere and Joensuu events. Your PA rocks and whole attitude is super-pro.
• Flight: Most promising fresh DJ in Finland. Keep up the good work.
• Frezza: Keeping tour group awake and fresh.
• Gareth Emery: Massive remix of ’Metaverse’. It will be big this summer I think.
• Gatecrasher posse: One of my alltime fave gigs. So professionaly done all the way through. 14 years of experience shines through.
• Heikki L: Kick ass gig in Kuopio and fun moments when remixing Killa.
• Indigo: Finland’s #1 chill-out DJ.
• Infekto: Man is a legend! Rocking the place big time in Lahti.
• Jani Isoranta @ Zebracolor: Metaverse artwork and animations. Best 3D graphics you can get in Finland.
• Janne @ Kaivohuone: Yet another smooth co-operation at Kaivohuone. Extra thanks for flexibility and quick reaction times.
• Jay Mellin @ MTV: Support, excitement & old school vibes.
• Jody Wisternoff: Honour to have you remixing ’Metaverse’. Thanks for the Global Underground connection too.
• Jones: Great lights and tech at Kaivohuone.
• Joonas Hahmo: Great music and perfect support in Seinäjoki. Superb talent.
• Journalists who reviewed the album: Massive thanks for the support.
• JS16: The Don. So many hands in the air whenever you’re playing. Lights went wild.
• Juska: YouTube videos, Facebook invitations, warm-up sets, tourmanaging, friendship and whatnot.
• JussiS: Main man in the Turku scene.
• Jykä & Miska: Everything went perfectly. Kuopio always rocks.
• Kaasi: Erick Morillo of North Finland. Groove is in the heart for sure.
• Kalle at Vuokatti: Second to none production values. Something unique in Vuokatti.
• Katri @ Miller: Our main supporting sponsor who made so many things possible.
• Kimik: One of the best in Finland. With a twisteeeed sense of humor…
• Lauri, Haba, Francis, Esa and whole Laserpoint Crew: Perfect ending for the tour and one of the best big raves ever in Finland.
• Lowland: Countless hours with the finetuning the album. Without you it would have been lot worse record! Good luck with the baby!
• Marc Mitchell: Legend and my long time hero. I learned so much during creating Eternal Love.
• Markus Friskberg: Decoration and vibes. You’re sooo pro nowadays!
• Matti Pyykkö: Streets are your studio. What a great talent you are.
• Milla Lehto: Bringing back ”kyytanssi” and great company in our Lapland excursion.
• Minerva Pappi @ Finnvox: Mastering the album. If you want to make your music sound good contact her. She is good, fast and inexpensive. That’s a rare combo for sure!
• MoS TV: Documenting the Kaivohuone vibes and spreading the Helsinki message of PLUR around the world.
• Mr.A: Master of the groove, superb DJ and good friend. Honour to have you with us.
• Neon: Perfect ending for the Seinäjoki event. Music from the heart clearly. And THE moves of course!
• Niko Nyman: I don’t know how I could thank you enough. Countless hours with the web and way too many versions of the covers.
• Oded Peled: Big up the Peled massive! Keeping up the craziness and relaxed vibe throughout the tour. And the flyer design rocked.
• Pete @ Korg: Best mixer there is for laptop sets. If it’s ok with Sasha it’s ok with me too;)
• Seb @ Klubi: Best venue there is in Turku. Respect for taking the chances and just doing it!
• Solarstone: Producing Slowmotion was such a great experience. All the best with your album mate!
• Super8 & Tab: I can see you coming even better if you keep up the great work.
• Syna posse: Great remix of Stretching Time, support with Seinäjoki event and backstage slowmotion madness.
• Tea & Severi: My favourite light jockeys. Always on the same level. Welcome back to Finland.
• Teemu, Jaffa, Aino, Antti @ IRC-Galleria: Biggest web media there is in Finland.
• Ton-E: Warming up the floor in Lahti and help with promotion. It was packed!
• Unity Collective: Friendship, family vibes and support.
• Universal Music: Five years of supporting finnish, instrumental, electronic music. You’re crazy!

I’ve mentioned this few times in the past but in case you’ve missed it: I’m on a gig break until October this year. This is because we’re having a baby anyday now with my beloved partner Anu. It’s been fifteen years since I was without DJing for over couple months so let’s see how it goes;) Past six or seven years it’s been well over 100 gigs per year so it’s actually nice to chill out for a while. Only exception will be Unity The Island on August 2nd here in Helsinki. If you’re a foreign promoter and interested in booking me you can find my booking details on the Contact page of my site. There might be couple remixes coming out meanwhile so keep checking for news…

The success of Metaverse exceeded all my and AVA Recordings’ expectations. Five tracks went into Beatport trance top 100, God’s Garden into top 10, album cracked into the official finnish top 20, moved into Juno Records Top 25 and even found it’s way to Billboard Top 100! And with support coming from Armin van Buuren, Marcus Schulz, Above & Beyond and Paul Oakenfold I couldn’t be happier!

Now that the madness of release tour starts to fade away it’s for some remixes of album tracks. AVA is releasing total of three EPs during the coming months. First lined up is Gareth Emery’s remix of ‘Metaverse’ which in my humble opinion is one of his best ones till date and just perfect for summer months. Expect progressive beats and trancey atmospherics mixed with a massive rave riff coming in the breakdown. Already supported by all the big names.

Second coming up is my long time hero Jody Wisternoff (of Way Out West fame) with a summery & progressive remix of ‘Metaverse’. Beautiful strings with bubbling analogue sequences make it one his trancier works. This has already been licensed to Global Underground for their future compilation.

Third EP will feature some finnish remixes which we haven’t yet decided fully but my guess is that Allende’s prog trance and Syna’s more uplifting mixes will be there. All three EPs should be released during mid May and late June. Available exclusive for couple weeks at Beatport and after that in all good digi and record shops.

Laughter and smiles, funniest moments, biggest crowds, pretty girls & muscular boys, DJs, dancers, promoters and hangarounds. All this and much more in Metaverse Tour - The Movie. Now in the YouTheater near you. To view this two minute epic blockbuster click here.

Some of you may know that I love lists, charts, figures and numbers. Here are some funny and hard facts about the past Metaverse Tour.

• 10 Events
• 11 050 party People
• 822 guestlisted names
• 2311 Albums sold
• 127 signed autographs
• 1 autograph signed on a mans butt cheek

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• 66 hours of music
• 10 live sets
• 50 DJ sets
• 530 640 kick drum beats

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• 9987 travelled kilometers
• 1296 euros worth of train tickets
• 1 tour group lost in Lapland

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• 19 Hotel Rooms
• 1 Pay TV bill

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• 4980 metaverse emails

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• 12 117 visitors on www.djorkidea.com
• 99 918 page views

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• 3450 recorded video clips
• 36 uploaded Youtube videos
• 39 317 Youtube views times and growing
• 234 photos uploaded to flickr.com

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• DJ Orkidea Facebook group 1199 members and growing
• DJ Orkidea Irc galleria group 1462 members and growing
• 3 571 Event Invitations sent in Facebook

And here some new and old medias that covered the album or tour:Basso, City, Aamulehti, Metro Live, Rumba, Treffi, Aamuset, Hämeen Sanomat, Etelä Suomen Sanomat, Iso L, Metropoli, Uusi Rovaniemi, Laplands University Paper, Kaupunkilehti, Viikkosavo, Tracklists.ca, Trance.nu, Findance.com, Facebook.com, Myspace.com, V2.fi, Musictelevision.fi, Klubitus.org, Stara.fi, IRC-Galleria.net, Voice.fi, Kajak.fi, Easyzone.fi, NRJ.fi, Platinum.org, Trombit.net, Mikseri.net, Vanilja.net, Sessions2.com, Plaza.fi, Noise.fi, Mesta.net, Vuokatti.fi, Ava Recordings, Piraattiliitto, National Finnish Radio, Bassoradio, Pop-tehdas, Radio Moreeni, Music Television, DJ Tiesto’s ‘Club Life’, Armin Van Buuren’s ‘A State of Trance’, Above&Beyond’s - ‘Trance Around The World’ …

Thanks to everybody for the support! One year in the making but now it’s all over. Still couple posts coming soon about this all. All I can say (once again) that it was soooo much more fun and heartwarming than any of these figures say!