Very self indulgent so beware:
Arrived to Helsinki in the early afternoon still slightly hung over from Tim Davison's brilliant gig in Turku the night before. Quick bite to eat then had two parties to attend before going to Redrum where Nick was playing that night. Felt absolutely rude at both places for staying for so little a time.
When we got to Redrum about an hour after it had opened there was already a short queue to get inside. Everybody was early tonight since there were no advance-tickets and it's a small, intimate basement club which holds about 300 people in my estimate. Could be wrong, I'm usually quite intoxicated there.
Indoors, the first DJ of the night, Coma was on the decks, doing an absolutely brilliant job in delivering the warm up. Like the other two DJs on tonight he's also one of the people I looked up when starting messing with the decks myself, and still do. Josh Wink's Dolphin Smack sounded absolutely amazing.
Which takes us nicely to the sound in Redrum. It's the only club in Finland with a Function One-system and people playing there usually take full advantage of the really beefy sound it provides.
Orkidea came on next at midnight to do an hour. He kicked it up a notch with a bit more German influenced sound and got people nicely prepared for Nick Warren to start at 1 PM. I still think that that For What You Dream Of-remix is a pointless travesty though.
Nick then kicked it off with Cr-78 - 2 Plus 1 Equals 24 and for the next two and half hours I remembered why I love progressive house. Pretty much perfect music, perfect programming and perfect mixing (the Babicz remix of Spaceman into Dundav's Sparkling Stars was especially inspiring). The man could also read a crowd... He seemed to be able to perfectly tune into the dance floor and take it just where it wanted to go.
He finally ended the set with Thin White Duke's remix of the new Depeche Mode-tune, Wrong. I thought the ceiling was going to collapse at that track.
Then naturally an encore was in order and for that he choce Joris Voorn's remix of Robert Babicz's Dark Flower. Tells something of that DM-track that it sounded a bit flat after it.
Then it was a short walk to crash at my friend's apartment which felt long as it was absolutely freezing but I've rarely felt happier after leaving a club.
More spotting from a Finnish-forum: Cr-78: 2 Plus 1 Equals 24 Guy Gerber: Timing Bernie Blackman: Town Of Sorrow (Mic Newman Mix) Hideo Kobyashi: No Nothing Slam: Positive Education Delphic: Counterpoint (The Chain Mix) Way Out West: Spaceman (Robert Babicz Mix) Way Out West: We Love Machine Way Out West: Future Perfect Petar Dundov - Sparkling Stars Gui Boratto - No Turning Back Holden & Thompson: Nothing (Dub) Sabres Of Paradise: Smoke Belch II (? Remix) Depeche Mode: Wrong (Thin White Duke Mix) Robert Babicz: Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Mix) Sono - Take Control Radioslave - RJ
A youtube of the encore: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4IrVpqPiA[/URL]