On My Way

Picture: LastFM.


I've been so busy lately that I hardly have time for My Daily Beat!

My appartment in Tampere is now almost ready after the great water damage and a three month renovation.. AT LAST! Now I just have to figure out where to put all my clothes and all the small stuff I had to take with me from Hyvinkää... Like two year's issues of IMAGE magazine :D

The sun is shining again and I should be outside longboarding but now I just have to settle for doing my laundry.. At least Cocoon cheers me up! :)

They are a French duo playing simple folk-pop with all heart. The male-female duet sounds awesome but it goes without saying that Mark Daumail's voice is soooo charismatic..

I have been playing guitar so much lately that I must love the acoustic sounds in Cocoon's music.. 'On My Way' makes you forget all the hurry...and propably make you feel a bit better if you're hungover :D

Sit back, relax, and enjoy!

The Presets

This australian electro synth-pop duo just became one of my favourite australian bands with Miami Horror and Grafton Primary. Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes have been producing music since 2003 and they've really done a good job. For example in 2007 they toured Australia with the all known French house duo Daft Punk and in 2008's ARIA Music Avards they won in six categories - Producers of the Year, Best Artwork (Artwork by Jonathan Zawada), Best Video (My People, Directed by Kris Moyes), Best Dance Release, Best Group and Album of the Year. Impressive?

What's funny about these guys is that they both have a background of classical music. Julian and Kiberley studied both at Sydney's Conservatorium Of Music as they met in the early '90s and later got to form the band called 'Prop'.

But because I also value French DJ's pretty much I will give you the Lifelike remix of the song 'This boy's in love'.

..As a photographer I love the visuality of this video.. like the slow motion frames of waterdrops and blue shimmering lights.

What do you think?

Summer Breeze

Hiya!


I was recently in Helsinki shooting photos for my friends Marimekko project. I think that shoot went quite well and I lovelovelove the summer night feel in the pictures. Isn't a midsummer night the most beautiful and most finnish thing you can imagine?

I'm leaving to Milan in five days so we'll see how's the italian summer night like compared to ours, haha.

And now for a summery road trip with Kings of Convenience! ;)

Hot sand, cool beats

Ok. First of all I have to admit my trip to Jyväskylä and Neste Oil Rally took longer than I expected - and I didn't get to watch any of the rally. Well, at least we had fun. After these kinds of trips I always start to think why don't we have proper bars in Finland. Why isn't there bars with DIFFERENT music.. At least not anywhere else than in Helsinki. There has to be lots of demand for some Hipster bars in the bigger cities like Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä.

Well. I'm glad we have Monsters Of Pop festival in Tampere(2.-4.9.10). A festival with a small but exclusive selection of indie bands playing inKlubi and Telakka. One of the greatest bands to me is I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper. The band was actually formed in Tampere in 2004.

Join me then at 'MOP' and enjoy the music!