A Shiny Diamond
Shine 2009 makes dance pop with emotion and logic.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kaarle Hurtig
Thicker than water
More and more 20-to-30-year-olds spend Christmas Eve at a bar. Inviting friends over to spend the holidays is a new phenomenon in Finland. In spite of all this, traditions seem to be far more important now than for previous generations.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Miika Saksi
A bazaar Christmas
At We Got Beef’s Christmas bazaar, designers sell their own products, customers can try haggling and santa hats may end up on the catwalk.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mr. Unknown
”I have hundreds of songs in the drawer, but right now I have at least three or four really good tracks that I want to publish post haste. The new material will be deeper and more techno than my previous club tracks”, says music producer Ercola.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Mikko Ryhänen
Media play
Media art festival Media Façades, coming to Finland for the first time, plays with media interfaces. Among other things, the festival will bring interactive media pieces and projections to Helsinki nights.
Text Petteri Kainulainen
Images Media Façades / m-cult
King of clubs
Toni Rantanen a.k.a. Lil’Tony has started quite a few of the most popular clubs in Helsinki over the past 15 years. This nightlife guru keeps roping international DJs into Finland and believes in good music and high quality audio.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Illustration Santtu Mustonen
Drag was here
DJ and club host Tatu Vuolteenaho is back in Helsinki after touring clubs in London and New York. He likes to challenge prevailing beauty ideals by spinning records dressed in complete drag.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Aino Huovio
DJ by the grace of music
Besides spinning at Helsinki clubs for seventeen years, DJ Anonymous is known for running a record store, hosting radio shows and countless club nights, publishing a blog, planning festivals and touring the world playing records. What next?
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Miika Saksi & Kai Kuusisto
Club or an event?
Ping pong, ballroom dancing, bicycle-fixing, spoken word poetry, stand up comedy, politics… What more could you wish for in Helsinki’s nightlife?
Text Teemu Fiilin
Girls just want to deejay
The most famous DJs in Helsinki’s nightlife are, quite naturally, men. The traditionally male-dominated job does, however, have some talented ladies behind the wheels of steel as well. Here are four of them.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
Heartfelt techno
Running an indie record company with its own terms and own policy might seem like an easy job to an outsider. It’s not, however – ask the founders of New Judas, a Helsinki-based label that focuses on electronic club music.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
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