Hello All

So, the party is over but not forgotten. It was really nice to see what the Laserpoint organization had arranged for the night. Of course the lasers were main thing in the visual look but there were also lots of other nice other things in the venue to see. Actually I realised after the evening that i had kind of missed the party and many artist because Jone had tightly cordinated our work. Each of our team member had task list what to follow and we had littele pressure all the time to keep our minds in photographying and follow the schedule.

When I look now the photos that I have taken I can see that they dont't have so much artistic touch. It seems that I have focused mostly to technical side when working. One of the reasons is that I bought new Canon 30D just one day before event and I didn't have time to "test drive" it.

But after all I really enjoyed the night! It was really nice work with our team including our quest members.

So here is what you have waited =)

- Joni/Impezki

Hello everybody!

We know that you're eagerly waiting for our event photos from Laserpoint. All of our photographers are working hard on them at the moment and you can expect to have full galleries from the events shortly.

While you're waiting for those here's a little preview of our photos...

Here are the photos from the Canon photo point - some 300 of them! We were expecting it to be quite popular but still the popularity got us a bit by surprise. Hopefully a fair bunch of the crowd also got their photos as prints. Canon SELPHY ES1 was used to print ~220 photos on the spot.

We would like to thank the members of the audience who had their pictures taken and hope you have fun going through them, which may take a while. The actual photos from the event by our team of 5 photographers will follow in a few days time. :)

With regards,
Jouni Väänänen
Site Manager

SESSIONS2 will host a photo exhibition at Laserpoint. Around 100 photos from Laserpoint '05 & Laserpoint '06 will be on display. The exhibition will be located at the Gatecrasher main arena in Merikaapelihalli.

Check it out and if you see a photo of yourself at the exhibition say hello to the host for a small surprise!

Huhuu 2 vee Happy Birthday to HuHuu!

The club was new to me as I rarely listen to happy carefree nice trance, but It was definately fun for a change. People seemed to have put effort to the dresscode and managed to turn the greek restaurant into ER with attitude! It would seem that I should be around more to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere.

- Tuomas

Congratulations Techmu!

The history is simple. Ten years ago some students of Lappeenranta University Of Technologies put up a new organisation of electronic dance music called TechMu. During the history I had a privilege to be Techmus Chairman for five years. Nowadays techmu is led by miikkag and it was time to celebrate the tenth anniversary.

At the same time upstairs had an easter House event powered by Fiilis and their guest Jake from Lux. Massive experience of deejaying floated all around the building while the party started. Stars below the deck were Andy Braun, Indigo, OlliS and Orion. All of whom has been playing for several and several years entertaining clubbers all over Finland.

Photographing at Fiilis's event was more or less "playing with camera" and downstairs more like "documentary shooting". I hope you get something out of these pictures :)

- Karo

Jepjep!

I had a short visit at Trance Connections pre-easter party. I was there just about two and a half hours and while I visited the place I decided to take few photos "while I am here".

There wasn't much visitors at the early point of the party. I left the building at the moment the partying just started. But here are few photos of the deejays (of course) and couple of leg throwers.

Enjoy while your at it!

- Karo

Gatecrasher and Laserpoint "United as One" event will definitely be visually amazing - as well as the audience. We are extremely pleased to announce that Laserpoint will have a photo point kindly sponsored by Canon where you can have your picture taken by our camera crew. All the photos taken will be published here at SESSIONS2 the following day.

The photo point is likely to be very popular. Therefore, we recommend that you visit us early in the evening to avoid the rush hours. Some of the photos we take will be printed on the spot using the new Canon SELPHY ES1 photo printer. If you find yourself in one of the pictures you can take the photo with you. We are looking forward to see You at Laserpoint!

Quite a list of performers, altogether 16 deejays or artist groups. The music? Well, not to my taste but the clubbers seemed to have a splendid time. Some even danced with fury, to say at least!

But... The Grand Arena... One of the organizers asked "is it hard to photograph?" - oh yes, hard indeed! The problem at Grand Arena (The Venue) is quite unique. The difficulty wasn't in photograping itself, but the place instead. The floor of the venue is quite frankly _more_ or "less" hideous and so are the roof structures. No matter what you did those two elements kept on haunting in the pictures because the place is a bit low. Smoke also made it's own twist to this dance but luckily the floors wasn't smoked all the time.

Here are those carefully hand picked photos for you, enjoy!

- Karo

So How are Ya doing?

After a long perioid of not doing anything it was certainly refreshing to go take up the camera once again and try to capture the look and the feel of the pairings that this party had going all over. Still I think that the long remission had some effect on me as there is only so many of these frames for you. But I hope you like these, I'll be seeing you around :)

- Tuomas

Zzz...

The whole project is amazing. It takes two-three days to put up this event, adjusting lights, PA-system, dj-booth, etc etc. Club Y is an UG-event @ Lappeenranta, which unfortunately wasn't that underground this time. Like one of the "resident clubbers" put it "I didn't know if I were in a Club event, teenage disco, or in a student party"; Club Y also suffered a bit from lack of clubbers.

Deejays put quality sets and the sound system really kicked ass while Nikke (techmu) and later on DJ Poliisi (Housenation) moved the crowd. Other deejays were DJ Flea from Club Lift, JNKs of RAD and Safe Mode, Mick Elsa from B:e:r:u:n:a, and the last was Illustrator of Techmu. The crowd seemed to enjoy the event while other "not-so-clubbers" enjoyed having a Sauna.

Lights were little flashy to be used for the good of photographing but the fog wasn't a problem in this event (which is nice for a change) :)

Here is the gallery of Club Y, enjoy!

- Karo

HARD STYLE!

Hello All! It has been a while since I have taken part to Hard Trance party and I really have to say that i enjoyed the evening. The dance floor was already half full when I arrived and Eewol was playing his set. I liked the Triton set most because it was a little bit lighter that others. ( As you know I am not such a fan of Harder styles). Unfortynately I have no photos of our foreing quest Trance Generators because it was not allowed to take photos of them ( They had their own photographer). After all the evening was great but I really needed to work hard to get pictures because this venue has allways been a hard place for me to take photos.

- Joni

Did you order your wake up call?

In Nightclub Diva @ Lappeenranta has four rooms. Pop-, Lounge-, Rock/Poprock-, and Oldskool-rooms. Techmus Konehuone took place in the Oldskool side, which is normally only in use at saturdays. The main idea of Konehuone-project is to bring electronic music closer to the people who hadn't found clubs or clubevents but like to listen to electronic music. The first night showed a lot of new faces dancing I hadn't seen at Lappeenrantas club events earlier. So the night was a good start for Techmus project.

I counted about 60-70 people at "Oldskool"-side which was pretty good amount of clubbers at "Oldskool". If there had been more people, the place would have been crowded. The music was all techno for the first 3.5hours by Matula & Fokus. The last two hours was trance played by Wegez & Nic.Silver. People enjoyed the night and we all are looking forward to the next Konehuone-event.

- Karo

Now that the party year 2006 is left behind all we have are the memories. My own memories of the past year are quite warm and I want to cherish them with these photos the rest of the SESSIONS2 crew has selected for us all.

The gallery contains photos from at least the following events: Laserpoint 2006, Pacifique Mystère, FINRG Barbwire Tour's main event, Pacifique's afterparty, Konemetsä, Danceteria, MLNM's Love Parade warmup, [reiv:] cruise, Afternoon in the Sun 2006, [reiv:]'s anniversary party, Pussy Club's anniversary party and Club Unity's 10th anniversary party. I know these aren't the precise names of these event and that some events aren't on this list - but it's 03:18 AM and I'm pretty tired, so try to cope with it. ;)

On behalf of our entire crew I would like to thank all the people that visited the site in 2006 and all the organizations we had the pleasure to work with. Especial shoutouts to the following people; Teemu and Petteri of Carbon Based / FINRG, Lauri of Laserpoint / Pacifique, Mr. A of Danceteria, Proteus-Harri, Neon-Tony and Friik-Ville of Säde, Orkidea-Tapsa of Club Unity, Tommi of MLNM, Joonas of Hallmark / Platinum.ac, Anqqa of Klubitus, Taru of Club Pussy and Esa of Sweetspot. Live long and prosper!

My own role as an event photographer will be far less active this year than it has been during the last six years that have passed. Tuomas, Karo and Joni will continue my work with their own ways and styles and for that I'm thankful. It's also possible we'll recruit one more photographer during the year 2007, but we're still thinking about that and it might as well not happen. Anyway, SESSIONS2 will continue the quest for the perfect photo, so remember to check back for updates!

Cheers everyone!

- Jone

Smokey!

Trance lovers had it all in Lappeenranta! DJ Flea, Mick Elsa, DJ Tab and Super8 were the stars of the night banging more trancier tunes one after another. People came a bit late to Cannibals and the floor got filled just after midnight. The lights were (once again) spectacular and there really was enough fog in the air (you can see it in the pics).

People were having good time and lifting their feets at the dancefloor, despite a few "boten anna"-requests pointed to the deejays. Photographing at Cannibals has always had extra-difficulties along the way. The place is quite low and the roof keeps on getting into the pictures no matter what. Cannibals also has one of the most powerful ventilation ever. It sucks the fog out almost immediately - which leads to the point that the LJ keeps his finger on the "smoke it"-button all the time. Anyway I had a good time, once again, watchin vertex's visuals and admiring Huvipaja's lights. Keep up dancing and prancing!

Feel the photos!

- Karo

Hello

This was the first time I went to the Illusion event. It was also the first time for me in this venue called Nosturi. It was also Illusion's 10 year party "Ten years of Illusion" I didn't expect anything special for the event but It totally suprised me. Decorations and lightning were quite nice.

I spent lot of time in downstairs listening different house set's and it was also good place to took photos. But the evening last set was Dj Neon's so I really wanted to check that and that was really what I expected and also the audience seemed to like it wery much.

It was quite a nasty place to take photos. And at first it seemed that I didn't get anything nice ( one of the reasons I didn't have so much interest editing/publishing the photos) but afterall I am really satisfied on the results. So enjoy ;)

- Joni

Foam me up Scotty!

I never thought I would publish these photos.. Two obvious reasons. First of all these photos doesn't make justice to the Spice Beachparty which were phenomenal. And second of all the incredible feeling what the party people had can not be seen from these photos. There are photos from the main event and also from the afterparty we had in the morning with a smaller group at the beach.

We arrived to Restaurant Comeetta with Toukka (of Club Fiilis) at the same time as Klabi (of HUGC). While we were checking out the place DJ Ice, Promoter of Club Spice, told us that it was a Foam party!! To be honest I was little suspicious how clubbers would react with the idea of foaming the dance floor. Knowing what the deejays would propably play, I was also a BIT suspicious would it work on the audience.

More clubbers on the dancefloor - more foam in the air; that seemed to be the main princible at Spice Beachparty! When Klabi started to spin his beats the amount of foam was something incredible, really! I had to find refugee behind the bar with my gear because 2/3 of the club was under a metric foam layer.. and more was yet to come. It was about 3am when I noticed that the foam was up to clubbers neck and there was a foam pyramid up to three meters(!) under the foam machine. I just coudln't see the people, only their hands were waving "up in the air" thru the foam (and they were dancing on a rised platform).

The Party was phenomenal - I've never seen a foam party which REALLY was a foam party.. until now. Unfortunately I coudn't take photos at the end of the night because I was bit afraid how the foam would react with my camera - and believe me, there was foam everywhere except behind the bar.

If these partys occur next year - I just have to be there with my gear and be more prepared!

- Karo

This was the first time ever for me in a RAD-event and to be honest I propably wouldn't have come this time either if it wasn't for Mayah's set and her request to take some photos. Well, it was an interesting experience - I felt like I had been thrown into a whole another realm where the audience consists of hobbits. This group of little people seemed to have fun though and it was nice to see how easily they get excited - Whistling, yelling or clapping your hands was really effective as most of the audience followed the lead.

I didn't take that many photos besides the ones I took of Mayah, but here they are anyway. Special thanks to Manna & Tommi for the pizza and the softdrinks. Also thanks for the RAD-candy even though no sticker came with it.

- Jone

What a feeling...!

Traditional Fiilis Christmas Party took place where it usually does at sunday nights, in Diva (Kouvola). The idea of Fiilis (Engl. Feeling) is very simple. Gather around with your friends to take some relaxing refreshments and listen to a bit more soulfull dance music what you are used to. We call it House <3

This is the thing I love about Fiilis. People laughing, no stress, warm and welcome atmosphere, a lot of places to sit and hang around amongst friends. Some clubbers are playing pool, some are throwing cards.. some eating pizza. The rest are dancing or just hanging around. There's no rush while the deejays spin their records, no fighting, no quarreling. Just gotta love it <99

There wasn't as many people around as there were last year. It might have something to do with the next monday which was a normal weekday. As usual, people were hanging around and getting themselves to the mood for dancing. Klabi(HUGC) was the star who started to bang the people around the dancefloor. Photographing was quite nice and I had enough room to take photos with 70-200mm telezoom which is not possible in every event. Here are the photos for you, enjoy!

Love to all <3

- Karo

Event took place in Club Underground at Porvoo, a small town 40km east from Helsinki. The place was all about UV lights, the dancefloor was quite small and the lounge area was in "play room" filled with different kind of games.

The main area was all about trance and harder edm stuff. The lounge was entirely about House music. The crowd was a bit few in numbers but the party compensated the loss quite well with clubbers dancing like hell.

There was not much fog, so photographing was quite easy. "Unfortunately" half of the time was spent behind decks at lounge, but thats the way I like it ^.^

Hope you enjoy these photos! Until next time.

- Karo