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!

Sergiu aka DJ D-Flux from Romania has made a “Tribute Mix to DJ Orkidea” mixing 20 of my tracks and remixes (and one Unity Records release) into a Transverse Mix. Tracklist is below and you can download it here. Thanks for the tribute Sergiu and hope you enjoy this!DJ D-Flux: Transverse (134-140 bpm)—01. Orkidea - Metaverse02. Solarstone - The Calling (Orkidea’s Piano Mix)03. Andy Moor Vs. Orkidea - YearZero (Original Mix)04. Orkidea - Free Dreams05. Solarstone & Orkidea - Slow Motion06. David West & Orkidea - God’s Garden07. Opus III - Fine Day (DJ Orkidea Remix)08. Orkidea - Stretching Time09. Sasha vs Underworld - Xpanding Girl (Orkidea Remix)10. Tiesto - Flight 643 (Orkidea Remix)12. Tilt - Twelve (DJ Orkidea Remix)11. Orkidea - Beautiful (Alt+F4 Remix)14. Avanto - The Flute (Orkidea Remix)13. Space Manouvers - Stage One (Orkidea Remix)15. Beatpusher - RHT (Dallas Superstars Remix)16. Dallas Superstars vs Orkidea - Revolution17. Lowland & Orkidea - Masochrist18. Orkidea - Embrace (Orkidea Vs Super8 Remix)19. Way Out West - Killa (Orkidea Vs. Dallas Superstars Remix)20. Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful (Orkidea Remix)PS. If any of the artists or labels don’t want me to share this just let me know and I’ll ask him to take it offline. I’m all ok with this kind of promotion:) If you want to support me, the other artists and labels, you can find almost all of these at Beatport as MP3 for a reasonable price.

Most of you who were at Laserpoint event last Saturday in Helsinki can probably share my feeling of positive surprise. I had high expectations as LP has been #1 “rave” event in Finland for many years but2008 was great in many ways.First thing that I noticed when arriving to the venue at 18:00 was super calm and professional vibe. Everything was in perfect shape and crew in a great mood. It’s been a long road since bringing Armin first time to Finland in 2000 (btw also one of his first foreign gigs!) and the early days of Mr.A and Pietari playing hard house in Hima&Sali at Kaapeli. This year sound system, lights, videos, lasers and everything else seemed to be in pretty much perfect shape. Iceing on the cake was pyrotechnics (by Pyroman of Eurovision ‘07 fame) during my set which lifted the vibe on totally new level at least for me. And temperature too! Big respect and thanks to Lauri, Haba, Francis, Esa, Parker, Anna, Tumpsi, Efo, Joonas, Jape and everybody else who made Saturday possible and smooth!

Musically John ‘00 Fleming deliver what I hoped meaning a kick ass big room psy trance set. His opening intro, remix of Junkie XL’s ‘Beauty Never Fades’, some great full on psy and closing with Tilt remix of Robert Miles’ ‘Children’ fit perfectly the main room vibe. I played a slightly more banging and “greatest hits” type of set as it was the closing set of the event. Highlights were Metaverse [Gareth Emery remix], Flight 643 remix, my YearZero remix and Unity as closing track seemed to go down well. Big thanks also to Nexus girls for performances during the set..

It’s always nice to dig lights, pyros or lasers but Saturday proved once again that it’s the people who make the party. Event was sold out with 3000+ people in total during the night. It was also great to see such a positive, good looking and enthusiastic crowd. Already up for it early on and lots of good old proper rave outfits everywhere. So let’s stop being sentimental with Labyrinth raves and the nineties. This is 2008. This is Now. And we’re loving it!

Ministry of Sound TV was filming the Metaverse release party at Kaivohuone in March and the three minute result is now online. Nice Helsinki vibes all around with YearZero, Requiem and Masochrist as soundtrack and JS16 and some random Helsinki faces being interviewd. Thanks for Misc Management and MoS people who made it happen! Check out the result at the MOSTV website.

Laserpoint advertising promised “the most beautiful day of this spring” and what a beautiful day it is! Sun is shining in Helsinki and the event itself looks very promising. It might even be that this 3000 capacity event will be sold out so if you don’t have ticket I recommend arriving early. I’m playing the last hour in the main room and will probably play a slightly more banging set than on the other Metaverse Tour gigs. There will be some special FX and performances too during my set. Musically I’m curious to hear what John ‘00” Fleming (who’s playing before me) will play. Last time I’ve heard him play he played superb big room psy set which would surely fit Merikaapelitehdas industrial surrounding well. And of course it’s nice to see whole finnish  trance mafia (Super8, Tab, Darude, Anton Soinin etc…) there together. After tonight it’s 5-6 month break from DJing so it’s a special night for me and a great ending to the two month album release tour. Hope to see you on the dancefloor! There will be a video report here early next week…