BRING IN THE MUTHAF*CKING BASS!

I lost my virginity to the drum & bass parties yesterday. I never could have thought that the bass is still buzzing in the head today. "The bass was so deep that you could feel the vibration in Jamaica." I bet the front row guys & girls must have a tiny headache today, lol.

I enter the Circus about 10pm and Dj SS was just about to Start. Even though the d&b and dubstep isn't my favorite genre it was fun to see the "outside world" out of the Trance and house events that I've been the last 10 years. Pendulum took the audience as you can imagine but still I was so amazed about the Finnish skills who was by the absolutely the best performance of the night, Rico Tubbs!!! MäädProps! Truly one of the best in Finland. Well back to photos.. Pretty standard night. :)

See you next time!

- Timo

15 minutes of fame transformed to 15 years!

When the party started 15 years ago it might as well be the time when dinosaurs roamed the dance floor. This party night however, the only thing roaming the dance floor was the feeling of pure undiluted pleasure. Massive sounds, smiling people and the reminder of what things were back then.

How I missed some of the tunes that were played, I really need to find where I put all this old mix tapes. Thank you Illusions Crew!

PLUR - Tuomas

LOVE forever.

Sorry for the massive delay yet again. I feel terrible for letting you guys down like this! I've just had too much of everything lately − in a work related positive way thankfully − but unfortunately for you, the situation is not likely to change anytime soon.

As a result I will no longer be able to publish gallerys in a reasonable timeframe and therefore I see no other option than to step down from the active S2 crew.

I'm sure the rest of the active crew will keep on publishing madskillz sickaaawesome galleries at the same pace as before, so no worries there. I'll be back when the time is right. Enjoy the pics.

Peace and LOVE, Fredi

The Wait Is Over!

After the massive SummerSound Festival last night was the night I've been waiting for a long time. Ferry is finally back in Helsinki!! Last time the night club Tiger was a bit too small for this kind of big name like Ferry Corsten. Nevertheless, what could you expect.. Circus was full too :) It was nice! (Borat accent)

Despite of all the people in the place I managed to get a descent gallery with more pics than usually. I hope all the great moment can been replayed thru these pics from yesterday. Colors, You Really Can!!

See you next time!

- Timo

It's time for season 7!

"Season 7" started yesterday with who else than Steve Mac. It seems that this season will be quite interesting already after the first event :) Once again DTM showed that it is one of the best night clubs in Helsinki.

I had a pretty standard night. I tried to catch of course the best moments of the night and when I took a quick scan it seems that a couple of shots were getting so hot that I had to put them in "too hot" archive. :D sorry!

Nevertheless enjoy the pics.

- Timo

Push up! Stay up!

Once again in Hämeenlinna.. Every time it has been cool to go there. This time the Push up party was held in Sirkus. I like the venue and the way it was build and decorated.

Wicked and groovy beats from Mio, Tom Fall, K-System and of course the head of the line up, 4Strings.

Enjoy the pics!

- Timo

Tsädäm!

Another guest-gallery from Riku Heininen who attended La Beauty with me (yours truly - Karo Holmberg) at DTM. While editing Rikus photos it came clear that once a powerfull camera 5D (mark1) really is oldskool in this kind of enviroment - the body just does gives up in so many situations; not enough ISOs, not enough speed, too much noise, not enough dynamics, slow with focusing - despite of all this, here is the grunchy gallery from Riku, Enjoy :)

- Karo

La Beautefyl!

Haven't had the chance to do event photographing this summer at all (outcluding few shots), it was interesting to get back into the business at DTM which has always been a challenging place to take event photos. This time it was time for La Beaute and massive house beats! Ppl came in bit late (near midnight) but after that it was a real celbration generation!

Riku Heininen also attended this event just for the kicks of doing something else than work at saturday night - his gallery will be added as soon as I have editet it (while Riku is working). C U Next time & enjoy the shots!

- Karo

LOVE!

Just in time for tomorrow's LOVE event, I finally managed to finish the pics from the last event. Enjoy!

Hopefully this bad habit of being late with the pics will take a turn for the better asap.

- Fredi

Hi all!

I think I'm still sweating because of yesterday! The party really lived up to my expectations! It had it all - great artists, superb people and a weather as perfect as we all could have imagined it to be!

My feet are still killing me and I can hardly hold a mug in the hand that I held camera with, but my heart is still beating to the rhythms of yesterday and I have a smile that is as wide as the Gulf of Finland.

Thank you again you all! See you next time.

- Tero

SUMMER SOUND MÄSSIVE!!!

The long awaited day is HERE! In my opinion the most interesting event in a whole year, Summer sound festival. The first time ever held house and trance festival in Suvilahti gathered together at least 3000 happy dancing people all around the Finland and also abroad. The line up was unbelievable, just to name a few Above & Beyond, Judge Jules, Roger Sanchez etc etc..

Every muscle of my body (also the ones I didn't know they existed) hurt like hell. My body is totally dry. It really doesn't matter. What a great night yesterday was. SUMMERSOUNDFESTIVAL is very welcome also next year. See you there!

Oh yeah the pics.. There you go! We are also glad to present the new guest gallery from Tero Heino in a few moments.

- Timo

Miau :3

Nice feeling, music rocked, food was tasty and company was great - what else do you need from a sunday evening at Fiilis <3 Of course the gallery is spiced with necessary engineer-porn-shots while there wasn't anything else to be photographed ^.^

Ps. There is couple of extra photos from Karo who was spinning records at this event and lack the time to photograph :) Photos edited by Karo.

- Riku

Tampere by Night

Hola! After a wicked cruise I drove like a mad man to Tampere. First time in Pyynikin Pallohalli, also first Tampere Rave City party, at least for me. :) Unfortunately because of two parties at the same day I just couldn't make it to the beginning. I bet Orion, Joonas and Tr3mont rockers the house but you won't see them in these pics.

The headliner was also something or some one I've never heard play live. The man who's shining like a sun and made the Rainbow country.. Well somebody's gonna kill me if I don't correct that he made the dance version of it.. Funkstar De Luxe. Btw, Alex Kunnari rocked the floor and kicked the asses on the dance floor. PARTY ON!

enjoy the pics while I go to sleep :)

- Timo

Push the feeling on!!

Hämeenlinna! First ever PUSH UP party cruise. The feeling was just amazing! This kind of things are the ones that should keep going on and on and on...

WOW!

Enjoy the pics!

- Timo

Wroom!

Bujashakas summertime happenings: People coming to chill around, getting some refreshments and listening to good tunes - atleast if you ask from them :] Bujashaka is a cross-genre event and to be honest, I really would love to hear more electronic stuff instead of reaggae, funk, ug-artistic-real-instruments-flavoured-crap, hiphop, räppp... But atleast the athmosphere is really laid back, so I am really enjoying myself despite the music :)

Once again I was accompanied by Riku Heininen, who have been borrowing my old EOS 30D. The cam really has a back focus issue - but Riku still managed to get some pics done :)

- Karo

The one and only!

Once in a summer it is definitely time to travel to Oulu.. Why? Not because of the sex exhibition, not because of the awakening festival of a religious group but the RaveIsland. This year the event was shortened to last only one day. Last year it was two days. This year there was 50 djs around the Finland and not any bigger names than Orkidea, Proteus, Carbon based, etc.. 4 stages with massive variation of different styles of electronic music.

This year I also had a chance to play in Sweat chamber arena. Thank you for all the guys and girls who were dancing at least partially during my set :) Long day, few pics ;)

See you next year! Over and out!

- Timo

Fiilis

Just some shots while hanging out at Fiilis :) Nothing fancy :)

- Karo

Yo!

This is just a little documentary gallery from an ug event held in a forest near Kotka :) Nothing fancy, nothing special :) Couple of shots by my friend Riku included in this gallery :)

Enjoy :)

- Karo

Late but not least.

Sorry guys, we moved house and our office at the same time so needless to say it has been a nightmare timewise lately.

That's why this text is so short too, but hope you still like the pics. :)

Happy 6th anniversary Danceteria!

- Fredi

Whoa, here they are finally - my share of the event photos from Pussy eau de Club's 13th Anniversary party. It took ages to get them online and I'm so sorry about that. There's never a convenient time for a computer to have a total meltdown and that's just what happened with mine a couple of days after the party. It took more than a while to resque a couple of terabytes worth of data.

I haven't been to many parties lately but visiting Pussy was as refreshing as ever. It was great to see familiar faces behind the decks and to my positive surprise also on the dancefloor. I had a brief chat with Aleksi about how we'd go about photographing the event and it was decided that I'd mainly concentrate on getting decent shots of the artists and he'd mostly concentrate on the audience. He's like a fish in the water with party people and his photos should be published shortly.

- Jone