F/X - FIKSAATIO. 8.9.2007 @ Seinäjoki

At the tender age of 27 the old 'new talent' has dj'ed only for 4 years, covering the main musical directions from House to Breakbeat and Electro; performing with a progressive edge alongside Ian Ossia, John '00' Fleming, John 'Quivver' Graham, Pole Folder, Ian Pooley, Orkidea and Jori Hulkkonen at various events. His selection of strong melodies, groovy basslines, breakbeats and trance elements can now be heard weekly on Finnish national radio YleX 91.9FM.

Growing in a very musical family and being predisposed to various kind of music since a little kid has probably been the key factor of what OlliS is today. Over ten years of playing the piano and studying the theory of music has educated him an ability to create something memorable and musically touching when performing as a DJ. “Music is everything and everything is music”, as he likes to put it.

Taking influences from classical music to heavy rock, carefully following the electronic music scene from the beginning of the 90s and growing into the trance scene from the mid 90´s he moved to progressive house music. Since then his all time favourites and the most influental DJ’s have been Sasha & Digweed, Chris Fortier, Anthony Pappa, Ian Ossia, Desyn Masiello and Paul Oakenfold to name a few.

Today OlliS has stabilized his place in the Finnish clubbing scene as the leading progressive house DJ and a rising star in the Baltic and Eastern European countries. Having a weekly radio show at Finnish national radio and a monthly residency at Frisky Radio with a success show ‘Aurea Mediocritas’ is keeping him very busy alongside dj´ing.

Miika Kuisma & OlliS have been producing together now for almost a year and their first single "Awakening" is out on Baroque Recordings 03/2007. Awakening has already been supported by Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Noel Sanger and Solar Stone to name a few. Their new single "Take Another Look" is 99% finished and just waiting for the final touch!

OlliS represents a new generation of progressive house music, a style that is built on strong basslines, epic melodies and groovy rhythm. His DJ sets are ecclective journeys of electronic music combining old and new stuff, always giving the crowd an unforgettable musical journey.

Syna a.k.a Deck Jagger is a relatively young Finnish club music trio formed in 2004 by three well talented producers Toni Kurkimäki, Timo Juuti and Mika Vuorela (pictured above from left to right). Regardless of the adolescent age of their liaise with each other, their producing history goes way beyond the new millennia. Their debut single 'Face Of God' was released by Finity Recordings with a warm reception. Despite of its fairly serene touch, 'Face Of God' made its way to playlists of well known DJ's around the globe. Previously, Syna had already attracted some attention by remixing Orkidea's club hit 'Beautiful'. The remix ranked number 1 at Finnish Single Chart in December 2005 as a part of a single released by Sential Records. 'Face Of God' also featured on the massive 2CD compilation FINITY ESSENCE Vol. 2.

The trademark sound of Syna is a confection of deep progressive basslines, breakbeats and emotional melodies which can be melancholy and uplifting at the same time. Whereas Deck Jagger replaces the deep atmosphere with a funkier twist, spices it up with driving bassline and goes haywire. Such blend can only be crafted by a very talented producers with diverse musical backgrounds and producing styles, which presumably creates the cutting edge of Syna & Deck Jagger and assures the sustainable progress of their sound.

In April '07, the trio delivered their third and biggest release so far as Deck Jagger. Monstrous electrohouse and trance blending 'Megaforce' was released by Rococo recordings, a sublabel of the revered Baroque Recordings. Immediately after its release on vinyl, cd-single and mp3, 'Megaforce' rustled up great reviews, airplay and support from top notch DJ's such as Paul Van Dyk, Deep Dish, Andy Moor, Shiloh, Nick Warren, King Unique, Dave Seaman, Jon O'Bir, Noel Sanger and many more.

Meanwhile, in addition to crafting new floorfillers, the bright trio is well occupied with few upcoming remixes that should both see the daylight during this summer. Added to that, the next Syna single 'Do You Feel?' will be released in July '07, followed possibly by the next Deck Jagger track. So stay tuned, it's going to be an eventful summer!

It’s been amazing fifteen years since me and my friends started organizing illegal raves in the squat houses of Helsinki in early 90s. Most bizarre experience must have been DJing for Jean-Paul Galtier and Helena Christensen at a Berlin fetish club Kit Kat after their first ever Berlin show. Most flashy ones have been entertaining the rich & famous of Hong Kong or Russia while warming up Chemical Brothers, Paul van Dyk or Underworld was something I’ll never forget. From the venues I’ve DJed Tresor in Berlin, Pacha in Ibiza, Panama in Amsterdam and CODE in Tokyo were special places to play.

My recording career started in 1998 with Slusnik Luna’s Nicklas Renqvist. ‘Unity’ was signed to british Steelfish label and found it’s way to Gatecrasher and Renaissance compilations. Sasha and Oakenfold opened their Essential Mixes with it and Pete Tong played it on BBC Radio 1. Gigs with DJ Tiesto lead into signing to his Black Hole label while other releases include ‘Embrace’ on Five AM, ‘Beautiful’ on Sential (finnish national singles chart #1) and the Andy Moor collab ‘YearZero’ on Andy’s AVA label. My remixes include Aalto’s ‘Rush’ made together with Super8, Stage One remix made for Hooj Choons and more recently Way Out West’s Killa which started out as a bootleg.

As promoters we have come a very long way from the days of illegal warehouse raves. Together with my friends, we have run Club Unity for over ten years, promoted Renaissance’s events in Helsinki and organized events called “Pacifique” for almost 3000 people in a water park. We have had fun at 16 hour Sunday clubbing sessions at DTM and have brought Jose Padilla to Finland. We have organised events on boats, in parks, on ice-skating rinks and have also gone on a worldwide tour of Finland using a Helsinki city municipal bus. To me electronic music and club culture has always been about open-mindness, unity amongst people and pushing the musical boundaries forward, whether it’s ambient concert in a park or full on rave in warehouse. Uniting the sounds, the minds, the people…

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