11/02 -11: No more eMusic for me, it seems
I've been an fan and a subscriber for eMusic from 2004 on, during which time I had about a year when I put my subscription on hold. I've paid 12-14 € to them every month, which initially ment 30 tracks and later 40 tracks to download each month. Late last year they moved from per track pricing to "music balance", which shows your current balance in "eMusic money", for me that is shown in euros.
I almost said basically that means, but there is nothing basic about this new system. Right now I pay them 13,99 € per month and receive 13,99 + 5,61 bonus, which sums up to € 19,60 in music balance. A basic track costs from 0.42 € to 0.49 €, sometimes they're more, sometimes they're free. Logic on the pricing, which there might be, is lost with me. Probably due to major labels asking different sums for different artists.
What this means is I should start counting what I can and can not buy at certain times, depending on what I want at that particular time and if I have stuff saved for later.
Save for later was the most useful part of the service, as you could save stuff there and leave private comments on individual albums. I used this to save music when I had time to look around, but no credits to buy them and buy them later when I had the credits but not the time to look around. Very time and cost effective.
Earlier I bought my latest montly batch of music (Lo Pan: Sasquanaut, Tame Impala: InnerSpeaker, Fistula: Goat and Fatso Jetson: Cruel & Delicious) and was left with € 2+ in my music balance, which I decided I would use to get few more tracks off the excellent The Zombies album Odessey and Oracle from 1968 (everyone knows the track Time of the Season. Right?), so that I would get all of the tracks on it bought off next month and could download it in full finally. Only since the change, the shop doesn't remember the previously bought tracks anymore, but has a "intelligent download detection", which has now decided I've already downloaded the first four tracks and should pay for them again if I want them.
Also, I was left with € 0.53 in music balance, which I can't really use like I've previously done, since "buy now & download later" is not an option anymore. To add insult to injury, since the service is "monthly subscription only", the leftover balance does not carry over to following months and is instead lost forever.
So I'm getting a degraded service, which requires me to use math to decide what I can and can not buy, which ends up costing me more money and doesn't do the things I signed up for originally. It is really sad actually, because I liked the service a lot. I've put something like a 1000 € in to the store and now they've lost me.
Once again, major labels fucked up another really good music service for me. Fuck you, fuck you very much.
I almost said basically that means, but there is nothing basic about this new system. Right now I pay them 13,99 € per month and receive 13,99 + 5,61 bonus, which sums up to € 19,60 in music balance. A basic track costs from 0.42 € to 0.49 €, sometimes they're more, sometimes they're free. Logic on the pricing, which there might be, is lost with me. Probably due to major labels asking different sums for different artists.
What this means is I should start counting what I can and can not buy at certain times, depending on what I want at that particular time and if I have stuff saved for later.
Save for later was the most useful part of the service, as you could save stuff there and leave private comments on individual albums. I used this to save music when I had time to look around, but no credits to buy them and buy them later when I had the credits but not the time to look around. Very time and cost effective.
Earlier I bought my latest montly batch of music (Lo Pan: Sasquanaut, Tame Impala: InnerSpeaker, Fistula: Goat and Fatso Jetson: Cruel & Delicious) and was left with € 2+ in my music balance, which I decided I would use to get few more tracks off the excellent The Zombies album Odessey and Oracle from 1968 (everyone knows the track Time of the Season. Right?), so that I would get all of the tracks on it bought off next month and could download it in full finally. Only since the change, the shop doesn't remember the previously bought tracks anymore, but has a "intelligent download detection", which has now decided I've already downloaded the first four tracks and should pay for them again if I want them.
Also, I was left with € 0.53 in music balance, which I can't really use like I've previously done, since "buy now & download later" is not an option anymore. To add insult to injury, since the service is "monthly subscription only", the leftover balance does not carry over to following months and is instead lost forever.
So I'm getting a degraded service, which requires me to use math to decide what I can and can not buy, which ends up costing me more money and doesn't do the things I signed up for originally. It is really sad actually, because I liked the service a lot. I've put something like a 1000 € in to the store and now they've lost me.
Once again, major labels fucked up another really good music service for me. Fuck you, fuck you very much.
09/03 -10: Roadburn - running order for bands is online
The running order for Roadburn 2010 is on line!
But it looks rather damn depressing on several occasions, from personal perspective here are the lowlights.
Thursday:
Yob (plays another set on SAT) - Earthless
Eyehategod - Sons of Otis (plays another set on SAT)
Saturday:
Candlemass - Astra
Fatso Jetson - Sons of Otis (plays another set on THU, argh)
Moss - Brant Bjork - Shrinebuilder
The Gates of Slumber - Yob (splays another set on THU, argh) - Garcia plays Kyuss
There are a lot of other gigs going on top of another interesting ones, obviously, but most of the time one _can_ if one _feels inclined_ to run from stage to another until worn out after few hours and see atleast something of the gigs. These are the ones that I would really like to see full shows or atleast most of it.
I do have to stress that it is such a great feeling to go to a festival where you _KNOW_ you will catch a good band no matter where you go, more or less anyway.
I'll be making a Spotify playlist of the bands at the festival later on, so stay tuned for that.
But it looks rather damn depressing on several occasions, from personal perspective here are the lowlights.
Thursday:
Yob (plays another set on SAT) - Earthless
Eyehategod - Sons of Otis (plays another set on SAT)
Saturday:
Candlemass - Astra
Fatso Jetson - Sons of Otis (plays another set on THU, argh)
Moss - Brant Bjork - Shrinebuilder
The Gates of Slumber - Yob (splays another set on THU, argh) - Garcia plays Kyuss
There are a lot of other gigs going on top of another interesting ones, obviously, but most of the time one _can_ if one _feels inclined_ to run from stage to another until worn out after few hours and see atleast something of the gigs. These are the ones that I would really like to see full shows or atleast most of it.
I do have to stress that it is such a great feeling to go to a festival where you _KNOW_ you will catch a good band no matter where you go, more or less anyway.
I'll be making a Spotify playlist of the bands at the festival later on, so stay tuned for that.
04/05 -09: Roadburn 2009 - Teh Festival HUHU
It was really something and I'm now kicking myself in the ass for not doing everything so I could've gone on previous years aswell. I've been meaning to for something like 10 years now, so its not just one or two I missed.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about it, we wrote a festival report to meteli.net in finnish, which interested parties can go and check out. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and extremely draining to boot. 4 days of stoner rock, doom and metal is a lot, plus one has to stand and walk a lot so the legs were pretty shattered as well. Not to mention the booze et cetera that goes with festivals.
Flying back was a stinky, fearsome and painful event, which was the only negative I can think up or the whole ordeal.
Viikonloppu, jonka stoner- ja doom-fanit muistavat @ Meteli.netin Roadburn 2009 raportti
Images:
Roadburn 2009 by Juh0
Roadburn 2009 by Jugh
More stuff when they start popping online.
Music:
Roadburn 2009 playlist @ Spotify (music from artists on Roadburn 2009 festival, no more than 2 albums per band)
Roadburn 2009 first audio streams on line @ Roadburn blog
Videos:
Youtube search for Roadburn 2009, resulting in lots of videos.
EDIT: Added a link to the audio streams with live performances off the festival. More to come, I'm sure.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about it, we wrote a festival report to meteli.net in finnish, which interested parties can go and check out. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and extremely draining to boot. 4 days of stoner rock, doom and metal is a lot, plus one has to stand and walk a lot so the legs were pretty shattered as well. Not to mention the booze et cetera that goes with festivals.
Flying back was a stinky, fearsome and painful event, which was the only negative I can think up or the whole ordeal.
Viikonloppu, jonka stoner- ja doom-fanit muistavat @ Meteli.netin Roadburn 2009 raportti
Images:
Roadburn 2009 by Juh0
Roadburn 2009 by Jugh
More stuff when they start popping online.
Music:
Roadburn 2009 playlist @ Spotify (music from artists on Roadburn 2009 festival, no more than 2 albums per band)
Roadburn 2009 first audio streams on line @ Roadburn blog
Videos:
Youtube search for Roadburn 2009, resulting in lots of videos.
EDIT: Added a link to the audio streams with live performances off the festival. More to come, I'm sure.
I just realized that we have live material from all of the bands online for those that want to take a look. Some of the material is really good and sounds pretty decent, so you should get some of the vibes that we manages to create (with a little help from the bands, of course).
Psychotropic Caravan Festival channel at YouTube
Psychotropic Caravan Festival channel at YouTube
01/04 -09: Of Art and why it sometimes makes me sad...
One of my favourite bands, Ufomammut, is yet again at it. This time its a re-release of their album Snailking as a limited edition vinyl version. Whats typical for this band is that they are doing the artwork for the album themselves and it is looking really, REALLY, good. Now what you should know is that when I say "artwork themselves" I really mean that; They are creating the design, drawing and painting it, then transferring it to the printing screens and hand printing it on the sleeves and covers.
I dare you to look at the order page for the Snailking vinyl edition and scroll down to the pictures of them printing it.
Now, why this makes me sad is the fact that I don't have the money to order all of the great music + artwork packages I'd like. When they released the Idolum limited edition package, I just had to get it and good this that I did. But that one I could justify, since I didn't have the CD before hand (and the package had the double vinyl as well as the CD).
I dare you to look at the order page for the Snailking vinyl edition and scroll down to the pictures of them printing it.
Now, why this makes me sad is the fact that I don't have the money to order all of the great music + artwork packages I'd like. When they released the Idolum limited edition package, I just had to get it and good this that I did. But that one I could justify, since I didn't have the CD before hand (and the package had the double vinyl as well as the CD).
14/05 -08: Club Planet Caravan III
From organizers point of view, this was a major clusterfuck. Almost everything that could go wrong, did good very much so and the turn out was really poor.
From a fans point of view it was really awesome, fun filled night with lots of good music and vibes.
We had a lot of troubles before the doors opened and the bands didn't get to do practically any sound checks, it being a friday and all.
The visual department was a nightmare, we got the gear working around 10 minutes before the doors opened, after fucking about with them for over 3 hours.
When the doors opened, it took over 30 minutes before our first customer arrived and most of the paying ones came around half way through Mr. Peter Hayden set, which was really good. Galacticka was also superb as always.
I blame it all on good weather, finland's hockey match and Mustasch gig at Tavastia Club.
Other than that, we and the bands had a blast as did most of the crowd as well.
So hello's, thanks' and pats on the back all around.
Originally posted to Last.fm "Club Planet Caravan III" -journal by me.
From a fans point of view it was really awesome, fun filled night with lots of good music and vibes.
We had a lot of troubles before the doors opened and the bands didn't get to do practically any sound checks, it being a friday and all.
The visual department was a nightmare, we got the gear working around 10 minutes before the doors opened, after fucking about with them for over 3 hours.
When the doors opened, it took over 30 minutes before our first customer arrived and most of the paying ones came around half way through Mr. Peter Hayden set, which was really good. Galacticka was also superb as always.
I blame it all on good weather, finland's hockey match and Mustasch gig at Tavastia Club.
Other than that, we and the bands had a blast as did most of the crowd as well.
So hello's, thanks' and pats on the back all around.
Originally posted to Last.fm "Club Planet Caravan III" -journal by me.
04/05 -08: Galacticka tour documetary
Go and grab yourself a nice tour documentary by this amazing finnish psychedelic band.
You can find it from this address.
You can find it from this address.
24/09 -07: More DJ action
Yet again another devastating DJ night, especially so, since I got up about 6:30 in the morning and when I was supposed to take a nap, it turned out my grandmother was celebrating her 94th birthday. So obviously I needed to drink the coffee, eat the cake and talk with her.
About 30 minutes before I was fixing to go to the spot, I got a call about me possibly forgetting that I had to play that night. Well, the person calling had forgot to let me know it was a band night and that they'd be opening an hour sooner. The bands playing were not advertised anywhere, not even on the clubs own site, which is why I never knew about it.
Rest of the night was okay, ex-girlfriends popped up to say hi and talk me up a bit. I filled up on energy drinks and later in the night a couple of beers so I would get atleast some sleep the next night.
The bands were okay, especially United Underworld did a decent show and had a pretty good turnout, which would have been probably double if the advertizing would've been decent.
Suprisingly, only one drunken asshole, but since he was a jolly chap, I didn't mind his rambling too much. I did get a bit of an unnerving situation going on, when a totally drunk guy, filled with prison tats and 4 similar friend in his table came demanding that I play something. Later he apologized and asked for something else, saying he has "just gotten out today".
About 30 minutes before I was fixing to go to the spot, I got a call about me possibly forgetting that I had to play that night. Well, the person calling had forgot to let me know it was a band night and that they'd be opening an hour sooner. The bands playing were not advertised anywhere, not even on the clubs own site, which is why I never knew about it.
Rest of the night was okay, ex-girlfriends popped up to say hi and talk me up a bit. I filled up on energy drinks and later in the night a couple of beers so I would get atleast some sleep the next night.
The bands were okay, especially United Underworld did a decent show and had a pretty good turnout, which would have been probably double if the advertizing would've been decent.
Suprisingly, only one drunken asshole, but since he was a jolly chap, I didn't mind his rambling too much. I did get a bit of an unnerving situation going on, when a totally drunk guy, filled with prison tats and 4 similar friend in his table came demanding that I play something. Later he apologized and asked for something else, saying he has "just gotten out today".
08/09 -07: Nitelife
Was "spinnin' records" yesterday and while they failed to inform me that they started opening at 23.00 on wednesdays and thursdays that exact week. So I was there banging on the door and calling people around 21.00. After not sleeping the previous night and only getting half an hours worth nap, I really didn't appreciate this thing. Good thing a mate lives right next door, so we went, grabbed few beers and talked a lot of shit for few hours. Good times.
To add insult to injury and pouring salt on top, the club was totally dead. I've not seen this dead clubs ever before. The whole night saw 25 customers walking in. We had a small bet going, my guess was 22 customers while the lowest was 12, for the whole night.
The pouring salt part is the fact that in that 25 people to the club (which pulls around 400 customers on fridays and saturdays, each), one total dick, or a biatch in this case, managed to squeeze herself in. Her mission for the night was "be pissed at the DJ who does not have the mysic I want to hear, until 5 minutes after last call and all sound is powered down, I'll remember something he has for sure and call him names when he doesn't power up and play it".
GOOD TIMES.
To add insult to injury and pouring salt on top, the club was totally dead. I've not seen this dead clubs ever before. The whole night saw 25 customers walking in. We had a small bet going, my guess was 22 customers while the lowest was 12, for the whole night.
The pouring salt part is the fact that in that 25 people to the club (which pulls around 400 customers on fridays and saturdays, each), one total dick, or a biatch in this case, managed to squeeze herself in. Her mission for the night was "be pissed at the DJ who does not have the mysic I want to hear, until 5 minutes after last call and all sound is powered down, I'll remember something he has for sure and call him names when he doesn't power up and play it".
GOOD TIMES.
