Wow!

Just like Joni, this was also my first time at the Pacifique. Joni has already described most of the feelings about this great event, so it's quite hard to tell anything new to you all people.

I enjoyed photographing this event so much, that I took many times more pictures than I promised. People who knows my normal methods might be surprised of seeing this much pictures in my gallery.

However, I have nothing else to say anymore that this massive pool party was definately worth of 42 euros, so hopefully we will see many friends, friends of friends and any other people at next year having fun. Now, enjoy my pictures and let them speak their own language.

Mikko Bäck

Hello Everyone!

This was the first time for me at the Pacifique event, and hopefully not the last. Even though the atmosphere was pretty hot and humid, which caused me and my equipment to get a bit wet, I lasted through the night.

I can't actually describe the environment and feeling in there, so the ones who weren't there, need to check the pics. If I had to say something negative it would have been the music. I expected more "summer sounds". But after all, the whole night was perfect :)

Photographing was at a totally different level than in any other events so far. Venue was quite large and there was many stages, artists, show dancers, and details, so it was not possible to capture everything... But hey, that's the reason for teamwork ;)

OK, that's enough small talk, let's see the photos.

Joni / Impezki
SESSIONS2

Harder, Faster, Proteus!

It has been a real eye & ear candy for clubbers @ Kotka. A punch of quality club nights in a short row. This time clubnight was specially ment for the lovers of Hard club music. Psy-stuff, hard-nrg and the last but not the least, Mr. Proteus - he is always a DJ to be seen dancing behind decks. Clubbers seemed to be thrilled about what Club -tf- and the deejays delivered.

Here you have it! I'm in a bit hurry to pack up my gear and "fly" to the next event - but see you soon!

- Karo

Today is the day many clubbers have been waiting for anxiously – Pacifique is here again and 1500 of us get to enjoy a touch of summer in the middle of winter. Serena should be prettier than ever before and the whole event is going to be a spectacle that is pretty hard to forget. Personally the thing I’m looking forward to the most is the Lowland piano concert in the beginning. I’m expecting it to be serene, calm and beautiful.

SESSIONS2 is on the spot once again. In 2004 and 2005 I was photographing the event alone and in 2006 there were four of us ([1] [2] [3] [4]) working as a team. Since there’s more to see every time and we’d like to make sure as much as possible of it is captured by our cameras in 2008 our team is bigger than ever before – 5 photographers and an assistant. We’re going to be doing our best to get a load of quality photos and will publish them as soon as possible.

It’s possible that we’ll already have something to publish on Sunday but please be patient. Photographers need to sleep too and for an example I’m travelling abroad only a few hours after the event so it’s impossible for me to publish my photos right away.

Have fun today. I know we will.

With regards,
Jouni Väänänen
Team leader / Pacifique
SESSIONS2.com

*pif*

If Next time I'm having anykind of organizing job, I will definitely NOT be photographing. All the time my thoughts were on the event and checking out different stuff. I just couldn't focus on taking photos at all.

The event was pretty amazing. 100% summer party inside a glass house, about 28°C mediterranean athmosphere and great DJ's banging quality House. Roof filled with moving heads and pure sounding & kicking PA-system. What more could you need? There was even a little Icecream bar at the end of the party arena!

Hopefully you'll get some kind of idea about Inspirations Summer event. We will be seeing each other at Pacifique in couple of days!

- Karo

Since nobody reads these anyway it doesn't probably matter too much if the text comes a bit later. Also a couple of photos still to come. Enjoy. ;)

I had so much fun! It took me a long time to realize just what the thing that was tingling on my face was, but then it hit me: Smile. The whole event felt like PLUR all over!

I was quite uncertain of how would I do this evening as for some reason I was a bit uneasy to start with. But then the events atmosphere grabbed a hold of me too and the camera felt just right in my hand. Here are the results on how the night went. Post comments so that I know where to put more attention the next tim!

-Tuomas

Happy New Year!

New Year 2008 celebrations went by at DTM's & Danceterias 'Black party' surrounded by all the colors of the rainbow. The first sight was amazing while arriving at the venue. There was a line about 50m long and 2m wide from the main door and it kept on growing for the next hour reaching the street of Frederik. As always, Danceteria filled DTM with a nice mix of people and made them dance the whole night. Despite the fact that I didn't have the best evening of the year (stress and stuff) I really loved watching shiny happy people jumping on the floor.

Hopefully everyone had a nice last year! If you didn't - things will hopefully get better! Happy new year 2008 to everyone and we'll be seeing each other at numerous events this year!

- Karo

Hello everyone

First of all, I want to apologise the fact that it has been a while since I published any new photos. There were many reasons to that. Anyway here's something to make it up for everyone.

Lets get back to the "KLF 2 years" -party's feelings. Cosmo and Alex Kunnari started the night with their sets. The BIG thing was Chicane and their first, and maybe last, visit to Finland. The "show" was a little bit different that I expected, because it was a live performance and because they had some different instruments that included acoustic and electro acoustic instruments. The sound was more like a "rock band" - but in a good way. They played some new material with the known classics like Saltwater. In one of the pictures, as you can see, they had also taken care of the sound quality - that mixing table was the same one that was used in the concert of the Rolling Stones in Finland. ( I didn't dare to ask the price of that :).

After Chicane, JS16 finished the night and played an unusual live set (Nope - you don't see him behind the deck on club nights too often!). WCDJ played with happy smiles on their faces in the entrance hall :D Tommi Savolainen played some fine quality tracks for a while too(Yes, just look at the photos.)

Well, for the conclusion, here's some words of photoraphing: I actually focused on Chicane's show. It was quite challenging for 2 reasons. First, there were some limitations with the use of flash and second, was the stage and the crowd; It was hard to move around the stage and to not disturb the audience. But after all, I am satisfied of the overall results (Exluding some details ;)

-Joni

All the colors made me feel like I could see forever...

Thanks again to J-Rock Suomi for organising an event so fun. I still think that Suomi lacks events of this category a lot. More Industrial I say. I'm glad that some deliver!

-Tuomas

Lahti spoils the mood!

Who ever said that propably meant it as a joke, as the place was crowded with people who were totally in the mood. Music was hard and banging. Dancefloor was packed and taking pictures without bumping into people was difficult, sorry for that.

I just love events like this due to the sheer energy of the people I tent to siphon in me also. This was one of the best possible ways to start the Yule festivities

-Tuomas

First of all, sorry for the long wait. Things have not turned out always as I would have them, but sometimes it's just better to keep hoping for things to get better.

Events like these are better! Definately! Hardcore will never die

-Tuomas

Merry Christmas everyone!

We’ve got a little improvement to announce as a “Christmas present.” From now on the photos presented here at SESSIONS2 will be 57% bigger! The old size is 400 x 600 pixels and today we’ll publish our first gallery that uses the new 500 x 750 size. Hopefully this is something that you’ll like. From our own point of view it definitely makes a difference; bigger size means more details.

I’ve also got something else to announce; in the beginning of this year I retired as an event photographer and ever since then Tuomas, Karo and Joni have been pushing the site to their own direction. In july I gave the site to them – I’m keeping the ownership of the domain but otherwise the guys can do whatever they want with the site. I’m sure they’ll use that right in a good way. So, from this point on I’m even more retired. I still plan to guide my team through a couple of big events next spring but that’s about it.

Eat ham, turkey or whatever the traditional Christmas dish is in your home country and take it easy. :)

Kind regards,
Jouni Väänänen
Site Manager 2001-2007
SESSIONS2.com

Chilling..!

Wednesday? is a little mid-week event held in a nice cafe section of Bar Stella @ Kotka. I have been visiting wednesday?-events for the last two months and picking up some photos to make a compilation which would show the feeling of wednesday?

Here you have it. There are a lot of DJ photos (almost every DJ who has been spinning at wednesday?) and pictures of people playing games and hanging around - that is all what wednesday? is about. Friends, music, games and chilling. Sometimes people have even started dancing :) Couple of photos are taken by the wednesday?-crew. I have added them to this gallery with the tag: "wednesday?".

We will be seeing each other more often next year when wednesday? starts it's 2008-season with good music and quality time!

- Karo

Jack to the sound of the underground!

The venue was an old one, but new for me. A bit small club filled with good vibes and celebrating clubbers. JACK gathered a great deal of well known clubbers and the feeling of the party itself blew the roof away!

The lights were extremely minimal - and LJ built up the lights like never ending progressive tune. The whole DJ Orions set was lighten up with PAR-lights(!) and for the next DJ (which happend to be nothing less than Renaissance resident Ian Ossia) the LJ gave a bit more lights. The screen colored by Portugese VJ Video Jack was amazing and the minimal lights gave enough room for the screen art - I really enjoyed watching it!

Here are the photos, hopefully you enjoy watching them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

- Karo

Goddamn!

It's not every day that you get a chance to photograph a pure UG event at a venue that is as much UG as the event! Deserted industrial installation, massive sound system, and lights mounted all over the underground party arena! Nnnice!

Unfortunately I only had a short period of time to photograp the venue (about 1 hour). I decided to take as wide and revealing photos of the low party arena as I could. That ment long exposure times, camera on a stand and a lot of motion blur.

If this event ever takes place again, you should definitely be there!

- Karo

FINRG : Hakkapeliitta Tour Main Event

Hard stuff with hard attitude!

Nice stage with nice colors and lights. As it should be in an event like this, the lights were fast and blinking like hell. The artists really had attitude especially RX & Proteus and people were having a great time hopping at the dancefloor.

This time I wanted to take more pictures of the faces on the dancefloor and more pics that would show the feeling what the party people had.

Hope you enjoyed the event - hope you enjoy these photos!

C U somewhere, sometime!

-Karo

Hello there!

It had been a long long time since Lighthouse was last visited by clubbers - almost 7 years. Today it has been re-opened and many of the old timers were found from the scene. Originally Lighthouse was introduced to local clubbers over 13 years ago at spring time 1994. This re-start was a good one. Some of the old lighthouse-dj's spinned their up-to-date records and really kicked ass! In the last hour we heard a good deal of old classics which really made the evening <3

From my point of view (behind the camera) there has been some develompent in Kotkas local events. Years before it was extremely difficult to take photos because of the minimal lights - today photographing is much more enjoyable. The events look, sound and feels good - that is all that matters!

C U at the next Lighthouse! (Better be there!)

-Karo

Other peoples holliday photos just are the bestest

I just cant get enough from Tokyo. The city with the neon lights and silent cars. Lucky for me every time I have been there Dj Guld has thrown a party. This time it was their groups third aniversary with Adam and Proteus. Music was mad and the people loved every minute of it. Playing stopped around five or six and it was full on beats until that.

Big thanks go to Guld and his posse. And special thanks to Cogi for the bootleg!

-Tuomas

Hellfish was here!!1

I was in Amsterdam in 2003 and missed his gig by few days and now I know I had a reason to feel depressed. I have never seen such work with the decks. Too bad I didn't get too many pictures from the night. But better this than none, eh?

-Tuomas