SPLASH!!!

I finally outdid myself :) Pictures were done on sunday evening. Then just the waiting of aproval from organization. But here they are!

Pacifique is kinda strange place to shoot due to moisture and water. Just sand shot of beach in the tropic. Hard work as pulse shot trough the roof when simple things became taxing, but rewarding as the conditions and settings were so different from anything else.

Here's my contribution to Pacifique Lumíere hope you like the pictures, I certaily liked taking them.

- Tuomas

Click on the thumbnail on the left for further details.

Back in 2004 our new site was published and just before the first Pacifique-event we released the first SESSIONS2-promomix. Today we're re-releasing it for a week or so to get all of you ready for Pacifique 2009. I'm currently listening to the mix myself and even after 5 years it just makes me want to go all bananas in our office, throw my hands in the air for the DJ and dance my ass off. Oh, sweet memories are flooding back to me!

Friday the 13th! Wickeeed..!

There are days when you just should stay in bed - this was one of them. When you are too tired to take photos - don't take them or expect that you're going to be fucked from the behind and front ways.

The party was interesting. Massive PA-system in enviroment too small, live set and three DJ's giving really ass kicking ear candy to clubbers and regular nightclubbers. Lights were made by Judge Silto and they once again rocked even considering that the roof was really low.

Well. Here are the photos which in my standards are not so good. Technique doesn't save poor content and the content doesn't save poor technique. But this is how it sometimes goes.

- Karo

We at SESSIONS2 are proud to present a clubbing photo exhibition at Spacehouse-event to be held this friday (13.2.2009) in BePop, Kotka.

We are aiming this photo exhibition for regular people who spend their weekends in ordinary nightclub surroundings with minimal knowledge of finnish club culture. This way we are hoping to do a small bit of our mission by showing people what clubbing is all about: Peace, Love, Unity, Respect and Harmony. Kind regards to Spacehouse promoters for making this exhibition possible!

Maestros of the night are nothing less than Joonas Hahmo, Beach X -live (Finity Recordings), Individual and Turbulenc.

- Karo

Bring out your dead!

This kind of party is right up my alley! Metal and harder part of electronics. I mean, how can you NOT like this? Then again, it's funny to see how different the long haired crowd is when compared to the ones with shining pants and metro-looks.

Lighting conditions were kinda hard as I'm pretty used to the lights that they usually put up so that meant a lot of work on correcting configurations, but so far I think I pulled this one trough quite well. Some pictures turned out with more noise than I would have liked, so I'll accept donations while wanting to buy newer camera body :)

Thanks to the people who made this a possibility! I'm sure I'll come again next year to bang my head!

- Tuomas

Hello!

"The City Cancún - The Best Nightclub in Cancun, Mexico and Latin America". The capacity over 5000 people. Three floors, 9 bars, over 60m²'s of videoscreen, and over 1.000.000 wats of PA-system(!!1). The City Cancún is the most important entertainment center in Latin America. All this info can be found from their homepage.

I got this photo-report from my older brother Karri as he visited Mexico last spring. With his permission, I decided to publish these few photos of the place, just to give a glance to Finnish Clubbers of a club in Mexico. I was told, that the roof was filled with lights and the PA-system _really_ kicked in with every single bassdrum that was given to people. And that is a considerable statement from a guy who has worked, designed, and built professional audio systems for over 10 years.

But anyway, here you are! A peak to Mexico and The City Cancún! The pictures were taken with Fuji FinePix 30 -camera :)

- Karo

Ping!

The Best Event 2008 @ Tampere!

Rest of the text will be added later

- Jukka

SESSIONS2-photo crew wants just to wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

This year was a pretty good year for us. We signed three more photographers in our team: Tuula Ylikorpi, Mikko Bäck and Jukka Aro. Jouni photographed SESSIONS2's 250th gallery and we passed a magnificient marker "1.000.000 individual visits @ SESSIONS2.com". We also managed to publish over 50 club event galleries!

For the next year we don't have any concrete "christmas present" to give except to inform you that at this moment SESSIONS2 is going thru some re-designing & planning. Some day (hopefully next year) we will get a better and more versatile web-site to serve clubbers better!

Remember to take it easy! Happy Holidays for everyone!

With <3,
Karo Holmberg
Site Manager 2008 ->
SESSIONS2.com

We Love Fiilis!

Fiilis-crew organized their 6th annual pre christmas event at Kouvola. The venue was the same, and the DJ's were most of the Fiilis's residents (Anselmi Kuusisto, Toukka, OC, Caro², Pelle D & Niki Suhonen) and as a guest, House Amigos! This time the music wasn't so "classic" house what I think people were expecting, but it still was House :) People were a bit passive all the night - sitting amongst friends, drinking and having a good time - but not really dancing (outcluding the last half an hour). But Fiilis is all about relaxing, this time the relaxing was in the form of sitting and listening to good music :)

Photographing at Fiilis was all about just documenting the event, not trying to do anything special. As I was one of the DJ's and organizers I wanted to be in the mood of relaxing, chatting with friends & listening to music, not to achieve a load of extra fine photos. I also got a change to check out Peleng's 8mm fully manual objective and there is couple of test photos to be seen in the gallery.

Here are the documentary gallery of Fiilis : We Love Joulu. Just to throw in a little bonus: We at Fiilis are happy to announce, that starting from january we will be playing quality house two times in a month, sundays as before :) read more from: www.fiilis.org !

- Karo

Boom-bastic!

This was my second trip to Jyväskylä. Last time it was a DJ-gig, this time it was "teen-rave" at Aalto-Sali. The venue was new to me (obviously), but I really liked it. It was simple with desing and the arena worked very well in this kinf of event. I didn't hear any resonance sounds from the structure and the PA sounded clear and powerfull.

I thought JKL's teens and party people would rush in by the hundreds but I was wrong, the place was not crowded - but still there was a desend party from the begining. I was pleased to see so many minor ravers having fun with this kind of harder electronic music - it's good to see the "next generation is out there" :)

Photographing was more or less the basic frame shooting, nothing special from that direction. Here are the photos, hope you like them :)

- Karo

Happy happy birthday MLNM!

Since a single photo says more than a thousand words I'll let my photos do the speaking for me. Enjoy.

- Mikko

I is for independence

A huge party to celebrate five years of Finnish freeform! So what if I wasn't invited to the castle to dine on caviar. I'd take this on any day with mindset to stom until my feel were numb!

Having these elaborate stages seems to be trendy now but they really are a pain to take pictures in. I squeezed trough small gaps a few times and ran contorted to strange angles to get to different side of the stage.

- Tuomas

Happy Birthday Millennium!

This was the second day of my three day clubbing experience. I felt a bit tired after the night not so well slept and I actually fell asleep at the backstage during the party - but what the heck.. Altho there was some problems with the fluent use of the bar, the event itself was magnificient. Just to give the hype final and a realistic touch, I'd have to play dic'trance - and that is something I don't want to do :]

Millennium 10th anniversary took clubbers back to Turku where the concept originates. The venue, Åbo Diskotek, was actually allready closed up and millennium was the ultimate burial event for the whole two floor disco (which closed down for good at the next sunday). As I wrote earlier. I wasn't feeling as energetic as I would have wanted and you can see that in some of the photos. But after all, I really enjoyed the event and the DJ's spinning rockin' house, trance, and something harder which doesn't make that much sense to me ^.^ Åbo Diskotek was packed from the door to the top and people crowded the dancefloor pretty much all the night. Which was a nice thing to watch :)

This time I decided not to strike out too many photos, and the gallery really is big to watch thru. I hope you're up to it! Some of the persons appear a lot in the photos (f.ex Millennium-crew), but what the hell - I just didn't want to give you any less to watch :) In-Joy!

- Karo

BOOYAH!!!

Having Guld over here is a bit like remembering why I liked stomping in the first place! Sure this was one night you all wished you were here. Thanks to all of you who really made my evening. I absolutely positively love you all.

Peace, love, unity respect and all that, but you are here for the pictures aren't you? Go on, take a peak then. LEave a comment or two, I'd appreciate it.

- Tuomas

Lahti.. .. :D

First of all, I have to defend myself by telling you that this was the last day of my three day clubbing trip from Kotka to Helsinki to Turku to Lahti (650km overall). I had slept three hours in my car somewhere near Loppi (between Turku and Lahti). Luckily i got 6 hours of sleep on a real mattress @ L'Kays house when I reached Lahti.

Chicago Lounge, as the name says, is one of the "chilling out with friends"-type of events. And that really was what we were doing. It had been a while since I visited Lahti and had the opportunity to chill out with friends. Luckily quite many old faces visited Chicago Lounge, some of whom I hadn't seen for about four years.

First of all, the pre-christmas party night started with dinner at Amarillo (<3) - then couple of basic event photos. It was my turn to spin the records and I turned the camera over to couple of "not so sober" friends. I think this is the first gallery @ SESSIONS2 that have been photographed mainly by someone else than SESSIONS2-photographer (alltho I took 10 frames of 19, they photographed a whole lot more than I. I just striked out frames of same individuals from the final punch of released photos). It was so fun to watch the frames thru, that I decided to publish them - This is all what Lahti is about. Having fun with friends <3

- Karo

I had so much fun that I forgot to write this, I'll do it later! Meanwhile, enjoy!

- Tuula

fi-EeeNööööörZiiii!!!!

This event was supposed to be held at Diva / Lahti. But as the venue closed down (and opened as Love Hotel) the event was moved to Gloria / Helsinki. The venue is well known amongst clubbers as the venue of Säde, Rush, and various other clubbing events. This time the event was all about FINRG's 5th anniversary. Couple of foreign stars, two live-sets (using the term "Live PA" which I just don't get) and couple of DJ-sets. People seemed to be really exited and hands raised up quite a lot of the party time.

Photographing at Gloria didn't give any suprises: basic lightning was dark, as always. Couple of times strobes and blinders took me by suprise and I managed to get some fucked up frames (read: artistic photos = not published) - but after all, it was really interesting and fun to shoot all over the stage while "da boys" were having their show <3 Hope you enjoy the pics!

- Karo

...and the FINRG interview continues just in time. Today's episode contains information about a special live PA and in case you don't want to miss it in real life you should start heading to Gloria immediately after you're done reading.

SESSIONS2 congratulates FINRG for the first five years. May there be many more successful ones in the future!

Really, run to Gloria already. It's going to be one kick ass bday party. Totally approved, supported and loved by our little event photography community.

- Jone

Little less than a month ago I did something we haven't done in quite a while; made an interview. Taking the train to Lahti and meeting up with the friendly geezers of FINRG recordings was a whole load of fun and we ended up talking quite a bit. Even a bit too much, maybe. The whole interview is around 8 A4's and since I know our visitors have the attention span of baboons it probably makes sense to publish it in four parts.

Unfortunately we don't currently have the resources to translate the interview. My apologies to our foreign visitors.

- Jone