The Finnish disco chart team aka Discopress held the annual DJ-votings and the results were
astounding for both DCX as a band and also for me and Ari as producers! The results in different series are :
DOMESTIC - ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Elastinen
2. Darude 3. DCX
4. Antti Tuisku
5. Ari Koivunen
DOMESTIC - SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Tytöt tykkää - Tea 2. Don’t break my heart - DCX
3, My game - Darude
4, Ovet paukkuu - Elastinen
5. Tuhlaajapoika - Cheek feat. Tasis 6. Knowing me, knowing you - DCX
7. My Rosegarden - JS16
DOMESTIC - PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
1. Joonas Hahmo (Joonas Hahmo, Antti Tuisku, Darude) 2. Joel Kalsi & Ari Myllymäki (DCX)
3. Kimmo Kauppinen (K-System, Boozebangers, Alex Kunnari)
4. Heikki Liimatainen (Heikki L, Cristal Snow, Darude)
5. Jaakko Salovaara (JS16, K-System, Pandora)
6. Illusion Rake/ Rauli Eskolin
- 19/11/07 NEW RELEASE and CHART SUCCESS
DCX - DON'T BREAK MY HEART
Check out the new video of "Don't break my heart" - available in Full HD for a limited time only!
If you think your computer cuts the mustard, you may want to check the Full HD edition of the video! Check below for your preferred version :
Thanks to Bluemedia for the concert video production, Dimedia for tape format transfer, Tabu for providing us with the club and Citysound for the extra light at the club!
- 19/11/07 NEW RELEASE and CHART SUCCESS
The new DCX single "Don't break my heart" is coming out to stores in Finland this Wednesday 21.11.07!
The song has already charted at Finnish Disco Chart at #16 on it's first week, being the highest new entry
for the week!
- 04/09/07 NEW BOOKINGS
DCX will play at NRJ in the park at Elysee Arena in Turku on this up-coming friday, 7th of September.
The concert is coming out on TV at channel Nelonen 15.9. 13:00 and re-broadcasted 20.9. at 13:00!
Other new DCX bookings are 24.9. at syysGOOM party on Silja Europa (Turku) and 6.10. at X-treme Car Show
in Jäähalli / Ice Hall in Helsinki!
- 29/08/07 NEW RELEASE
The new DCX release is "Don't break my heart" and it is already available on
Radio KLF compilation, released today! You can order this compilation from
http://www.radioklf.fi
and prelisten to it at our
DCX player!
- 14/08/07 BOOKINGS
We are performing with DCX on next Friday at Club Mixei and Saturday at Nitetrain in Tampere at D-Fest festival!
Other performers include Culture Beat, Pandora, Tina Cousins, Basic Element, Vinyl Shakerz, Sunblock, Chorale and Dacia!
We have also been booked to play at NRJ in the park at Elysee Arena in Turku on 7th of September!
- 09/08/07 NEW GRAPHICS
Finally it's time to finish some graphics stuff too :) Started on this work back in school
in January 2005 and finished it now finally in August 2007. The work was once again drawn with
mouse, but this time switching sometimes between a normal mouse and a trackball mouse. Software
used was Paint Shop Pro 5 and Photoshop. Open the image here! See also the phase-by-phase video of the work at YouTube!
- 22/07/07 CHART SUCCESS
Just got back from Alastaro, thanks everyone who stayed there checking our set!
DCX - Knowing me, knowing you climbs in the States with the Northeast Record Pool's
Top50 DANCE/CROSSOVER chart at place #31! Meanwhile we also got an entry for my favourite local
club Nitetrain at place #22 :)
- 13/07/07 MUSIC UPDATE and CHART SUCCESS
I got a query about my old project Metroid One - It's so good (in love) lately, and discovered
it's being used in a Metroid related video at Youtube with some nearly 70,000 watches already,
so the MUSIC page needed to get fixed. Now many other old titles are back online as well,
so check out the updated MUSIC directory!
DCX - Knowing me, knowing you climbs the Finnish Disco Chart at place #5!
A clip of DCX - Fortune & Fate played live at Kalajoen Juhannus 2007 is now online!
The clip is available as : MPEG-2 MPEG-4 YouTube Stream
DCX - Knowing me, knowing you enters the Findance Top 30 at place #6!
- 01/07/07 NEW RELEASE
X-PERIENCE - I FEEL LIKE YOU (DCX REMIX)
X-Perience - I feel like you single is coming out in Europe on 6th of July and is loaded with
DCX radio club mix! It is available for preordering at ie.
Music Nonstop (UK)
- 27/06/07 NEW RELEASE and CHART SUCCESS
X-Mix Dance Series #96
DCX - Knowing me, knowing you has been released on X-Mix Dance Series #96 Dj-compilation!
DCX - Knowing me, knowing you has also hit the charts
#5 - The official Finnish single sales chart
#10 - Finnish Disco Chart
#20 - Danish Hitsurf Chart
Today we enjoy the release date of the 4th DCX single, which is the already so much hyped up
cover version of ABBA's "Knowing me, knowing you" song! The single comes with four tracks including
our Finnish fellow band Dacia's remix and bonus track Flying High (Smashup)... BUT it also includes
the music video in supreme HD quality!
The tracklist is as follows :
01. DCX - Knowing me, knowing you (radio edit)
02. DCX - Knowing me, knowing you (extended)
03. DCX - Knowing me, knowing you (Dacia remix)
04. DCX - Flying High (Smashup)
+ DATA (video in WMV and HD formats!)
You can prelisten to the single at the PLAYER on DCX website WWW.DCXMUSIC.COM.
Check out our partner store www.dancewindow.com for the single orders,
and visit the website of the acredited remixers of this single www.daciamusic.com
Fix for last time news; Finnish band Poets Of The Fall have actually released some of their music video material in HD
format already, so it didn't make us the very first ones to do it, but only one of the first. Duh :)
DCX has released the first true HD music video in Finland at 720p and 1080p formats,
which is a cover version of "Knowing me, knowing you", approved by ABBA! Earlier bands have
done their videos on film, but the end result has been printed for public in DVD resolution only.
The video was shot not only in Finland, but also in Latvia on eastern Europe's biggest club La Rocca,
Berlin Potzdam Platz, London city center, Montserrat and Barcelona city center. The single is scheduled
for release at 13th of June.
The latest single "DCX - Poor Romeo" has opened at #4 on the official Finnish single chart! Thanks everyone for supporting us!
Meanwhile we are awaiting for the fabulous ABBA cover, the next single "Knowing me, knowing you" coming packed with a music video of the same title... Which was actually finished just the other day!! Stay tuned!
- 11/05/07 NEW RELEASE
DCX - POOR ROMEO
The new DCX single is "Poor Romeo", a follow up to the previous two singles "Hold Me" (#5 single chart)
and "Flying High" (#1 disco chart + #1 club chart) and the expectations are getting higher! You can judge for
yourself by listening to the different versions of the song at the DCX website
or opening the player directly from www.dcxmusic.com/player
- 10/05/07 NEW RELEASE
GIGA HITS WIOSNA 2007
If I'm not mistaking this is the 12th release of "DCX - Flying High" in Poland by now! Anyways I just
heard about it and it's been out since January already by Hit'n'Hot Music and EMI Poland!
Single includes radio, extended and Chorale -mixes and also D-Tune remix of first single "Flying High"!
Also, we are proud to announce new DCX licensing deal to USA with Marian Records.
In North America the first single release is legendary ABBA cover "Knowing Me Knowing You". http://www.marianrecords.com
The band is also finishing video for "Knowing Me Knowing You", shot in various locations e.g.
Riga, Barcelona, Berlin and London.
- 17/04/07 BOOKINGS
Time table for the Linnan Juhannus festivals at Svartholm castle in Loviisa on Friday 22.06.2007
have been announced! TEHO Stage
19:00 G-Powered
20:00 Dacia
21:00 DCX
22:00 ACCU
23:00 Vinyl Shakerz feat Kemi (GER)
24:00 Mighty 44
Mixxed club deejays
Miika Kuisma
Olli S.
D.N.A.
- 12/04/07 BOOKINGS
DCX has been booked for another gig in midsummer festivals! Check www.linnanjuhannus.com
22.07.2007 - DCX live - Linnan Juhannus, Svartholm castle, Loviisa
- 04/04/07 BOOKINGS
DCX will be performing at Kalajoen Juhannus on 23rd of June!
The dance artist settlement performing at the Summer Heat Stage this year is as follows :
N-Euro (Estonia)
Tine Cousins (GBR)
Sylver (HOL)
Basshunter (SWE)
Martina Aitolehti (FIN)
Basic Element (SWE)
X-Perience (GER)
Danzel (BE)
Chorale (FIN)
Dacia (FIN)
Verona (SE)
Ian van Dahl (BE)
DCX (FIN)
- 04/04/07 BOOKINGS
There was a change in the booking schedule and new bookings have been added!
Due to party change at clubs the 12th of April was cancelled and Tina Cousins is
performing in Onnela at Seinäjoki instead and we'll be having a free day *g*
Booking dates for May have been given out now as well as a new date for August
when we'll be performing during "school's in!" evening at Närpes.
New bookings have been revealed for following dates!
12.04.2007 - CANCELLED
13.04.2007 - DCX live (+Tina Cousins) - Fever, Helsinki
14.04.2007 - DCX live (+Tina Cousins) - Onnela, Turku
21.04.2007 - Joel Kalsi / DCX dj-set - Hot Rod Show, Tampere
09.05.2007 - DCX live - Summer Heat 2007 / Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour / Diva, Lahti
11.05.2007 - DCX live - Summer Heat 2007 / Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour / Diva, LPR
12.05.2007 - DCX live - Summer Heat 2007 / Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour / Diva, Kouvola
25.05.2007 - DCX live - Summer Heat 2007 / Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour / Åbo Diskotek
26.05.2007 - DCX live - Summer Heat 2007 / Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour / Diva, Kuopio
02.06.2007 - DCX live - Kantakievari / Haapajärvi, Finland
11.08.2007 - DCX live - Fagero Folkpark, Närpes, Finland
- 20/03/07 NEW RELEASE and BOOKINGS
DCX has remixed the new single "I Feel Like You" for one of the 90'ies dance legends X-Perience,
which is currently climbing the Finnish Disco Chart at #25. Keeping it true to the original song,
the remix reflects the lighter side of DCX, yet keeping it catchy and dance oriented!
New bookings revealed for following dates!
12.04.2007 - DCX live (+Tina Cousins) - Onnela, Tampere
13.04.2007 - DCX live (+Tina Cousins) - Fever, Helsinki
14.04.2007 - DCX live (+Tina Cousins) - Onnela, Turku
20.04.2007 - Joel Kalsi dj-set - Hot Rod Show / Tampere, Finland
02.06.2007 - DCX live - Kantakievari / Haapajärvi, Finland
- 23/02/07 BOOKINGS
New bookings revealed for following dates!
28.02.2007 - DCX live (+Basic Element, Antiloop, Chorale) - Club Fever / Helsinki, FIN
02.03.2007 - Joel Kalsi / Donnell & Douglas dj-set - La Rocca / Riga, Latvia
11.03.2007 - DCX live (+Chorale, Dacia) - Tabu / Tampere, Finland
- 16/02/07 DCX COVERS ABBA and MAKES A MUSIC VIDEO
DCX has got license to cover classic disco hit Knowing Me, Knowing You by ABBA!
Music video of the track will be shot in Berlin, Riga, London, Barcelona and several locations in Finland. More info about the video and release dates coming soon!
- 03/02/07 NEW RECORD DEAL and PHOTOS
DCX - Hold Me has been signed to Warner Singapore and the deal covers Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines!
The local producers are doing their relevant remixes, so expect some more releases to come in that area! :)
Photos from our DCX gig at Radio NRJ Awards Tour at Ilves Nightclub on 10th of January are now online!
Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 100107_DCX_NRJ_Awards_tour_Ilves_Nightclub
DCX was also chosen as 5th best national artist of 2006 by Discopress!
We are performing with DCX and the guy behind megahit "Boten Anna", who is also known as Basshunter, again on
23rd of February in Teatria Oulu at Findance.com party!
- 08/01/07 GIG SCHEDULE
Been a bit busy from updating lately, but here's the DCX gig schedule so far for January!
05.01.2007 - DCX live - NRJ Radio Awards Pretour - Nightlife / Lahti, Finland
12.01.2007 - DCX live - NRJ Radio Awards Pretour - Ilves Night Club / Tampere, Finland
19.01.2007 - DCX live (+Basshunter) - Himos Arena / Jämsä, Finland
20.01.2007 - DCX live (+Basshunter) - Mietaan NS / Kurikka, Finland
21.01.2007 - DCX live (+Basic Element) - Private gig / Helsinki, Finland
DCX has won the NRJ Hit or Miss voting contest with the new song Hold Me, against Lordi's new song It snows in Hell! We owe a big thank yous to all who vote for us!
You can help us to continue on the contest against new competitors by voting for us at the Radio NRJ website!
- 15/12/06 NEW RELEASE
Finnish people can now support our music by getting the new release DCX - Hold Me from one of the download stores or ordering the real tone for their mobile phones!
Further instructions are here below :
Voit tukea suomalaista musiikkia tilaamalla tästä "Hold Me"
kappaleen aitona soittoäänenä (3e).
Lähetä viesti NAITO 289109 numeroon 173175
1, Saat paluuviestinä palveluviestin
2, Avaa viesti ja musiikkitiedosto valitsemalla linkki
3, Puhelin avaa musiikkitiedoston
4, Muista tallentaa musiikkitiedosto
DCX - Flying High has another release by Warner Singapore on this dance music compilation!
- 12/12/06 NEW RELEASE
DCX - Hold Me
DCX - Hold Me is the new single from our number one dance project! You can listen to this release with new "vocal mix" at the DCX website : www.dcxmusic.com
- 11/12/06 MISC
There's also a TV commercial about the hottest Asian dance compilation; Best 2006 Vol 2. - Check video here!
You can order the compilation from www.americandisco.com
- 17/10/06 MISC
The front page now has a popup player for listening to some of my work throughout the years
You can also open the player by clicking here!
- 09/10/06 NEW RELEASE
BEST 2006 Vol.2 + BEST 2006 Vol.2 Extended Remix Pack
DCX - Flying High has been released in Singapore on Best 2006 Vol 2 and Best 2006 Vol 2 - The Extended Remix Pack compilations by Playdance / Warner Music Singapore in form of a remix by the local fame; "DCX - Flying High 2006 (D-Tune Remix)" !
- 08/10/06 NEW RELEASE
Hit Rotacja 2
DCX - Flying High has been released in Poland on Hit Rotacja 2 compilation making it the 9th compilation release for "Flying High" in Poland!
- 26/09/06 MISC
Tori 17.08.2006
There was also another feature lately on a magazine in Finnish area (pressing around 145,000 copies)
- 23/09/06 MISC
Helsingin Sanomat 23.09.2006
Finland's biggest news paper Helsingin Sanomat (pressing 430,785 (2005) and over 1 million readers daily)
wrote today about Finnish business at Popkomm Messe in Berlin. The main photo sitates
"A german punk approaching the Finnish stand at Popkomm"
- 19/08/06 TRACK ROTATION
DCX - Flying High has found it's way also to Mike Dierickx's (aka. M.I.K.E., Push, Plastic Boy etc.)
playlist on his DI.FM Nocturnal guestmix 03.06.06
1. Omaha-People Get Lost - Cyber
2. The Ledge - Falling - Cosheen
3. Sunlounger - White Sands - Armarda
4. Leama & Moor - Everything Matters (Matt Deekay) Lost Language
5. Yoshimoto - Du What You Du (Markus Shultz)
6. DCX - Flying High
7. Tall Paul - Other Side
8. Paul Harris - Find Yourself a Friend (Haji) Toolroom
9. My Digital Enemy - Runaway (Flash Bro)
10. Body Rox - Yeah Yeah
Our team DCX has released a music video, which was shot during the gig at Kalajoen Juhannus this summer!
The video is made of song DCX - Flying High is available for free download at www.dcxmusic.com! DOWNLOAD HERE [42MB] PLAY STREAM [YouTube]
- 13/08/06 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Flying High placed #8. on the overall year 2005 Top 50 Finnish Disco Chart, leaving behind ie. Rihanna - Pon De Replay and Eric Prydz - Call on me!
- 12/08/06 MISC
The DCX gig last night went well, even the cops showed up ;)
We are heading to Popkomm in Berlin this year as well, so if you're attending come and meet us at the Finnish stand!
Check out a news item from year 2004 of us at Popkomm as seen on channel MTV3 here :
Popkomm Messe / MTV3 (Windows WMV)
- 28/07/06 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Hold Me rises up on it's second week at place #15 on the Finnish Disco Chart!
- 24/07/06 NEW RELEASE
Bodywork VIII
DCX - Flying High has been released in Denmark on Bodywork VIII compilation!
- 20/07/06 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Hold Me opens it's first week at place #33 on the Finnish Disco Chart!
- 12/07/06 NEW PHOTOS
WHERE HARD DANCE MEETS HARD ROCK!
Photos from our DCX Summertour 2006 are now online! Check out the links below :
WWW.DCXMUSIC.COM has been published! Along the release of
the website the band also releases a new song "DCX - Hold Me" and a Chorale remix, for free online! Check the website
for downloads!
- 02/06/06 NEW RELEASE
Summer Heat 2006
DCX - Flying High has been released in Finland on Summer Heat 2006 compilation by Edel Records!
- 28/06/06 NEW RELEASE
Hity na Lato 2006
DCX - Flying High has been released in Poland on Hity na Lato 2006 compilation by Hit'n'Hot Music!
On week 22 DCX - Flying High went #20 on Danish Hype Chart!
- 20/06/06 UPDATE
We are now coming to the end of the DCX Summertour 2006 by finalizing the tour at Kalajoen Juhannus
with 30,000 festival people! Parts of our Summertour have been the Summer Heat Tour and the Kalajoen Juhannus Pretour
and we have had the joy to perform at different events aside artists like Akcent, Vinyl Shakerz, Natural Ex and such!
A1 Music has done a great deal on expanding it's services forwards booking agency side by booking these acts plus
Las Ketchup, Gibson Brothers and so on for the past events during the on-going month. Most of the dance stage
acts at Kalajoen Juhannus have also been booked by A1 Music and we are glad to go perform along with the other
A1 booked acts, which include :
Some of the photos from the second week of our DCX tour are now also online!
The photos include gigs in Raatikellari at Jyväskylä, Baseball Stadium at Oulu and Vanha YO at Helsinki.
Just got the time schedual for the midsummer festivals and we are performing at very midnight
in the middle of the midsummer at Kalajoen Juhannus, so it couldn't be any lighter midnight moment
at any time of the year than this one... in the very midst of the midsummer!
Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : DCX_Summertour_2006
- 11/06/06 NEW PHOTOS
Part of the photos from the first week of our DCX tour are now online! The photos include gigs in
Kaivohuone at Helsinki, Las Vegas at Oulu, Club Fontana at Vaasa and Socis at Kokkola. On the first
week of the Summertour we drove over 1600km and on the second week over 1400km. Third and fourth
weeks will be shorter but I'll try to update photos here when possible :)
Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : DCX_Summertour_2006
- 27/05/06 NEW RELEASE
Clubland Vol 1
DCX - Flying High has been released in Singapore and Malaysia on Clubland Vol 1 compilation by Clubland Records and Warner Music!
- 19/05/06 BOOKINGS
Another new booking for DCX came for 16th of June at NRJ Cool Party
in Amarillo at Tampere. This is part of the Kalajoki PRETOUR and
is also part of the summer going Summer Heat Club!
16.06.2006 - DCX live - Amarillo, Tampere
- 18/05/06 BOOKINGS
I'm glad to announce a couple more bookings for DCX! We will play at
Seurahuone in Kokkola on 8th of June in fame of
Kalajoen Juhannus PRETOUR.
17th of June we are performing at Ferrari Challenge
in Alastaro, a big motor sport event held by Radalle.com,
aside bands like the German Groove Coverage, Swedish Natural Ex, and Finnish LOVEX,
who are enjoying huge fame in Finland currently being one of the biggest local rock bands. I heard the
event will have a unique Ferrari, which is the only piece of this specific model ever made ;)
On 28th of July we'll be playing at a local club Mixei in Tampere, which will probably open the
gig schedule for the end of the summer. 8th and 24th days' reservatios are to-be-announced.
We will start the summer tour by end of May at NRJ Pool Party
together with Vinyl Shakerz, who are known from their hit song "One night in Bangkok" and the previous project 666!
DCX's current gig schedule :
31.05.2006 - DCX live (+Vinyl Shakerz) - NRJ Pool Party - Kaivohuone / Helsinki
01.06.2006 - DCX live (+Vinyl Shakerz) - Kalajoki PRETOUR - Las Vegas / Oulu
02.06.2006 - DCX live (+Vinyl Shakerz) - Kalajoki PRETOUR - Club Fontana / Vaasa
03.06.2006 - DCX live - Kalajoki PRETOUR - Seurahuone / Kokkola
08.06.2006 - DCX live (TBA)
09.06.2006 - DCX live (+Akcent, PMMP, Las Ketchup..) - Lippo / Baseball Stadium / Oulu
10.06.2006 - DCX live (+Akcent) - Summer Heat Club, Vanha YO / Helsinki
17.06.2006 - DCX live (+Natural Ex, LOVEX..) - Ferrari Challenge - Alastaro
23.06.2006 - DCX live (+Akcent, Natural Ex) / NRJ Stage, Kalajoen Juhannus festivals
24.06.2006 - DCX live (TBA)
28.07.2006 - DCX live - Mixei / Tampere
- 09/05/06 NEW RELEASE
Hit Mix Rotation Vol 4
DCX - Flying High faces it's 6th Polish compilation release on radio powered Hit Mix Rotation Vol 4 by Hit'n'Hot Music!
- 06/05/06 BOOKINGS
Another new booking! If you can make it to the NRJ Pool Party at Kaivohuone in Helsinki
on 31st of this month, come check us play DCX gig aside Vinyl Shakerz! Also the 23rd of
June has been reserved, but the gig is to-be-announced later on! Here is the current gig
schedual for DCX :
31.05.2006 - DCX (+Vinyl Shakerz) - NRJ Pool Party - Kaivohuone - Helsinki, Finland
01.06.2006 - DCX (+Vinyl Shakerz) - Las Vegas / Oulu, Finland
02.06.2006 - DCX (+Vinyl Shakerz) - Club Fontana / Vaasa, Finland
09.06.2006 - DCX (+Akcent, Natural Ex, Las Ketchup) - Oulu Stadium, Finland
10.06.2006 - DCX (+Akcent) - Helsinki, Finland
23.06.2006 - DCX (TBA)
- 04/05/06 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Flying High has peaked at #4 on hitsurf.dk chart
and has been the hit tip for week 51 / 2005 on the chart!
I fixed some minor bugs and "Donnell & Douglas - The club is open" video is now available as a stream too.
You can watch it here : Low quality stream [YouTube]
DCX - Flying High has been released in Poland on Klubowe Hity compilation!
- 20/04/06 LICENSINGS & NEW BOOKINGS
DCX - Flying High has been signed to TMC Nordic and the contract covers Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania! The single is currently signed to 13 countries :
Finland (A1 Music)
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (TMC Nordic)
Singapore, Thailand, Malesia, Filippines (Music Street Pte Ltd / Warner)
South Africa (DVE Music)
Poland (Hit'n'Hot Music / EMI)
We have been booked to play two gigs with Vinyl Shakerz (known from their hit tunes like "One night in Bangkok"
on 1st of June in Las Vegas / Oulu and 2nd of June in Club Fontana / Vaasa. On 9th of June we'll be hitting
Oulu again to play on the same stadium stage for the audience of 15,000-20,000 people with ie. Akcent, Swedish
popstars fame Natural Ex and the millions records world widely sold Las Ketchup. On 10th of June we'll travel
back to southern Finland to play with Akcent in opening party of a new club (to be announced)!
The last two of our gigs in Ylläs / Lappland on upcoming weekend will be streamed online on the website of one
of the biggest Finnish magazines Katso. The gigs will start at 24:00 on both Saturday and Sunday
nights. You can watch the stream at the Katso.fi website!
- 19/04/06 NEW BOOKINGS
LIPPO FESTIVAL 2006 OULU STADIUM : AKCENT, NATURAL EX, DCX, LAS KETCHUP..
A1 Music has booked the following bands for the Lippo Summer Party 2006 megaevent :
AKCENT (Romania)
DANI EVERMORE (Sweden)
NATURAL EX (Sweden)
DCX (Finland)
REFLEXION (Finland)
THE GIBSON BROTHERS (Germany)
LAS KETCHUP (Spain)
Lippo Summer Party at Oulu Baseball Stadium 9.-10.6.2006!
Oulu's Lippo has held the casual summer opening concert already since 1998
and during the years there have been seen many top bands on the stage
both from Finland and abroad. The stage has carried through with ie.
Bryan Adams, Scorpions, Billy Idol, Eppu Normaali, Leningrad Cowboys
and Mestarit Lavalla -artists, who begun their success story at
the Lippo megaconcert.
On Friday we'll be partying for good with the repertoire of international
bands: we have AKCENT (Romania), DANI EVERMORE (Sweden), NATURAL EX (Sweden)
and DCX (Finland), who are all reckognized from dance/disco charts
throughout the world. Along these bands the stage will have the local
rock-world shattering band REFLEXION, reckless partygroup BEATS AND STYLES
and also EMMA-awarded PMMP.
On Saturday the baseball stadion turns in to huge outdoor happening,
where the first band to be seen will be one of the most successful
Finnish bands ever, DINGO. Next we'll be having the legendary 70'ies
group THE GIBSON BROTHERS with their hit "Cuba". And the heat goes
even higher when four sisters from Cordoba / Spain climb on the stage
who have sold 12 million albums world wide with their debut album;
they are LAS KETCHUP! As the sugar in the bottom there will be
England's tabloid-press' 3rd page girl SAMANTHA FOX whose debut
single "Touch me" threw her in to megasuccess!
I've added a couple of photos from me and a couple of friends also counting in my dutch vriend Anneke's visit
to Dallas Superstars album release party on 17.3.06 in Studio 51, Helsinki. Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 170306_Dallas_Superstars_album_reveal_party_Studio51_Helsinki
On forthcoming friday we are heading to Ylläs in Lappland with powers of DCX for a few days and if you're around
come check our four gigs on the 22nd and 23rd evenings at Hotel Saaga!
- 04/04/06 NEW PHOTOS
We arranged a party together with A1 Music, Koetinkivi and Radio NRJ in Tampere on 04.03.06
and the guest star we brought in was the superstar phenomenon Akcent from Romania! There's also a party memo
about this on the DIARY. Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 040306_Akcent_Nitetrain_Tampere
- 03/04/06 NEW GRAPHICS
Finally after a long time I grabbed a pencil in my hand and went on to draw a picture.
The model was a cover photo of the lead vocalist (?) of a band called The Sounds.
Being disconnected from internet for a couple of weeks makes some people do weird things
- 01/04/06 NEW RELEASE
THE BEST TECHNO HITZ EVER VOL 2
DC-10 - Flying High has now finally got it's first official release
thanks to Music Street Pte Ltd and Warner Music Singapore for releasing
it on this compilation! The compilation comes double disced and the second disc
features remixes of the songs on the first disc (Flying High comes with
the -99 radio edit and original mix). This makes it my oldest released
production being our only 90'ies track released and it's found it's righteous
place on the release aside other bands like Corona, Melodie Mc, E-Type,
Gala, Ice Mc, Solid Base, Dj Miko and alikes
And this is no april fools prank
- 31/03/06 NEW PHOTOS
The photos from our DCX gig in Vaasa on 10.03.06 are now online. I also wrote few lines
about it on the DIARY. Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 100306_DCX_NRJ_Night_Royal_SAS_Vaasa
Last night we enjoyed our latest external booking Akcent from Romania with their hit single Kylie
rocking the house at out-sold club Nitetrain in Tampere! Photos of the event coming up afterwards and
I may write a short story about this on the DIARY as well (and in case
some haven't noticed, I've finally done a couple of updates on the diary lately ).
Our group DCX has been booked to play at Royal SAS in Vaasa on 10th of March and at Hot Rod carshow
in Pirkkahalli / Tampere on 8th of April, so if you're around be sure to not miss these gigs! ;)
- 21/02/06 NEW PHOTOS
DCX & Natural Ex on NRJ Sugartour 17.-18.2.2006
Photos from our DCX on NRJ Sugartour are now online! We had a gig at Club Sokeri in Turku
on 17th and Club Sokeri in Tampere on 18th, both of the gigs went splendid and we had a
lot of fun!
Thanks to everyone who made it a weekend to remember, including those lucious fans on
the front row (you know who you are ;)) and also our accompanying Swedish group Natural Ex,
who made sure the roof came down for sure on both evenings! Also thanks to our dancers
Gätlin, who could join us again on the gig at Tampere, and our new dancer Jada for the
debut appearance in our crew. The gigs might have been cheese but it was sheer fun!
Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 170206_DCX_NRJ_Sugartour_Sokeri_Turku 180206_DCX_NRJ_Sugartour_Sokeri_Tampere 180206_Natural_Ex_NRJ_Sugartour_Sokeri_Tampere
- 10/02/06 NEW WEBSITE
The new website has been launched! The page has gone through a face uplift and it also has a couple of new add-ons;
The BARKBOX for leaving comments and greetings, and the DIARY section, where you can follow up
with some of my more personal news!
- 01/02/06 BOOKINGS
DCX joins forces with Swedish Popstars group Natural Ex to hit the NRJ Sugartour in Finland on 17th and 18th of
February. The places are Club Sokeri Turku (17.2.) and Club Sokeri Tampere (18.2.). The original intended gig-dates
had to be delayed by a week to fit the gig scheduals.
- 31/01/06 NEW PHOTOS
Some mobile phone photos are now online from our last saturday's DCX gig at NRJ Ski & Night in Ellivuori.
Proceed to the Photo Gallery and directory : 280106_DCX_NRJ_Ski_and_Night
- 16/01/06 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Flying High strikes Finnish Club Charts - Prime Cuts at place #1 on it's first week!
The track also makes it's first entries at place #28 on the Scandinavian Dance Chart
and at place #37 on the Norwegian Dance Chart, while
sharing place #15 with two other tracks this week on the official Finnish Dance Chart!
Meanwhile we have started renovating our studio by tearing down a couple of walls and throwing some new paint in. Photos will come online after the mess has been fixed
- 13/01/06 NEW RELEASE
Quake Records releases their third compilation with Donnell & Douglas - The club is open in Japan on Quake Trance Presents Forth World compilation!
- 04/01/06 NEW RELEASES
One of Poland's hottest labels Hit'n'hot Music has released the DCX - Flying High single!
EMI Music Poland has also released the track on another compilation called Planeta Hits Vol.2!
Also the polish radios have found the tune, and it's been rotated by ie. Muzyczne Radio 105.8FM, Media FM and
Radio Rekord, which recently picked it on their listener chart at place #3.
- 26/12/05 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Flying High rises up on place #14 this week on the official Finnish Dance Chart!
- 19/12/05 CHART SUCCESS
DCX - Flying High enters the official Finnish Dance Chart as the highest new-comer, the highest riser and the HIT PICK of week 51 at place #20!
DCX recently won Radio NRJ's Hit or Miss votings for 1,5 weeks in a row by
ruling with more than 90 percent of the votes to it's account. DCX held a surprise gig at NRJ on Tour party at
Nightclub Ilves in Tampere / Finland on 30th of November and photos of the gig are now online. Thanks to everyone who
voted for "Flying High" and also big thanks to Radio NRJ for the massive support!
The DCX - Flying High single has hit the stores and is available also at online stores in Finland at
Airon Musiikki
and Dance Window.
EMI Poland has also now released the track on their Giga Hits Zima 2006
compilation!
DCX - Flying High is now also on a run at Radio NRJ's Hit or Miss voting list, so all the Finnish
fellows be sure to go give your support for the track by clicking here!
- 07/11/05 SINGLE RELEASE PARTY AND BOOKINGS
Finnish dance duo DCX releases their single Flying High on 17th of November through A1 Music.
Promo version was already 4 weeks at number 1 on Finnish Disco Chart and gathered wide interest all
over the world. The single has already been licensed to Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia,
Russia, Ukrain, Poland, and South-Africa.
Single includes 4 mixes, where one of the tracks is titled as DRD Dub Edit, which is arranged
by the Finnish trance superstar Darude.
Due to the release of the single, we will have a single release party on the 17th day at nightclub Onnela in Tampere.
Here are the first scheduled gigs after the single release :
17.11.2005 - DCX live - single release party - Club Onnela / Tampere, Finland
28.01.2006 - DCX live - Ellivuori Ski Center - Vammala, Finland
09.02.2006 - DCX live - Tallinn, Estonia
- 03/11/05 PHOTOS
Photos from our Popkomm '05 journey to Berlin are now online at PHOTOGRAPHY gallery.
- 27/10/05 NEW RELEASE
SUPER TRANCE 2005
Edel Finland released their new compilation Super Trance 2005, which includes my past trance track
production Joel Kalsi - Soaring (the break)!
- 26/10/05 PLAYLISTS
Trance phenomenon Perry O'Neil has playlisted the Cid Inc remix of DCX - Flying High
on his Electronic Elements Radio show (www.electronicelements.nl).
Earlier the Cid Inc remix has been notified ie. by Darude, who made his own arranged DRD Dub Edit out of the remix!
Episode: Electronic Elements 027 (19-10-2005) : Perry O'Neil -www.perryoneil.com
01. Depeche Mode - Precious
02. Prawler - Maracash
03. DCX - Flying High (Cid Inc. RMX DRD Dub Edit)
04. Native Featuring Ani - Believe In Me (V-Sag Vocal Remix)
05. Snake Cedric & Khans - Circular (Cassino & Laben Hurry Mix)
06. Jaytech - Music 101 (Flash Brothers Remix)
07. Tilt - New Day (Perry O'Neil Remix)
08. Inkfish Vs David West - Rejections
09. Perry O'Neil - Recharged
The DCX press photos are now available online. Click on the thumbnails to view the full resolution versions.
- 17/09/05 HOME SWEET HOME
Finally home from Popkomm '05 in Berlin after 3 exhausting days and 3 sleepless nights of tens and hundreds of meetings
and partying at over one dozen clubs. Time will show what's the final result of the messe but all in all it was again a
very good journey.
Now there's also a video available of Reflexion playing at the Oulu Stadion
A1 Metal's latest signing Reflexion threw a massive gig at Oulu 400 years festival. I had the privilege of
shooting photos on both sides of the stage and the photos are now online. Check out the photo gallery
and directory 030905_Reflexion_at_Oulu400_festival for the photos.
Darude has playlisted 'DCX - Flying High' by playing the Cid Inc remix in his
Salmiakki Sessions show on ETN.fm yesterday!
- 18/08/05 PHOTO UPDATE
Video stills of the DCX gig and interview are now available online. Check out the photo gallery
and directory 280705_DCX_Hartwall_Arena_Assembly05_HTV_Digital for the full update.
'DCX - Flying High' keeps it's place at position #3. on the Finnish Disco Chart this week. It was also reviewed by Finnish
music e-magazine Findance.com, and you can read the review here (FIN)!
- 29/07/05 NEW RELEASE
Assembly - Box of music
The world's greatest computer event to count Assembly releases a compilation, which along the greatest hacker hits
also includes tunes by selected bands, who have been performing at the event in the past couple of years. The compilation
includes our productions 'DCX - Flying High (Cid Inc remix)' and 'Quincy - X-Dance', but also A1 Music's
two other releases 'Chorale - Lähdit Luotani (video mix)' and 'Acardipane vs. Balloon - Whoopie whoopie'.
The compilation will soon be available for ordering at www.assembly.org.
Check out the video footer for the compilation below!
DOWNLOAD : Quicktime (3.0MB)
DOWNLOAD : MPEG-1 (2.8MB) A couple of photos of the DCX gig and interview are already available online. Check out the photo gallery
and directory 280705_DCX_Hartwall_Arena_Assembly05_HTV_Digital, which will be updated with more photos in the next few days.
- 29/07/05 RECORD REVIEW
The DCX promo release "Flying High" was also lately reviewed by Stara.fi and
you can read the review here (FIN)!
- 28/07/05 NEWS UPDATE
The first DCX live went all great despite some technical problems we faced in the very last minute
The show was broadcasted live on HTV's digital channel (correction to the earlier news post) and also
as online stream at www.assemblytv.net. The gig will
be replayed on the broadcast several times during the on-going Assembly '05 event this weekend. Photos and videomaterial are to follow in the future, stay chooned!
- 25/07/05 GIG BOOKINGS
DCX is throwing it's first live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki / Finland on 28.7. (on thursday)
and the show will be broadcasted on AsmTV in co-operation with Channel 5 in Finland
- 19/07/05 NEW RELEASE
Dance Summer Edition 2005
Belgian label Penny Lane / IP-Comm bvba releases a compilation in co-operation with Dance Industries.
The compilation presents artists of www.dance-industries.com
and it includes 'Jole & Dex800 feat Tune! - Place to hide' -track (unfortunately the artist name on the compilation has mistakenly been named as Joel Kalsi only though).
'DCX - Flying High' rises up on place #2. on the official Finnish Disco Chart
leaving ie. 'Vinyl Shakerz - One night in Bangkok' and local cheesy dancefloor smash hit 'London MC - What is my name' behind!
- 04/07/05 TOP10 CHART SUCCESS
'DCX - Flying High' rises up on it's second week from place #35 to place #6 on the official Finnish Disco Chart,
being week's highest rising tune, leaving ie. highest new entry 'Crazy Frog - Axel F' far behind. Now we're back on the trax!
A1 Music's latest production and also latest signing 'DCX - Flying High' opened it's first chart week at #35
on the official Finnish Disco Chart. Last week the latest licensing 'Phobos & Deimos - The key, the secret' debuted
on the same chart at #23. A1 Music's next licensing 'Caba Kroll - Que sera mi vida' will be brought out within the next weeks!
So I'm happy to announce the new project DCX, which at the moment is produced by me but is also backed by Ari Myllymäki
and our new featuring singer Janette. The debut release "Flying High" is a remake of an old classic eurodance track
formerly released under DC-10 project, and it's now totally remade in current mainstream dance format. The track has
already been licensed in Finland and South Africa and it is coming in full promotion in Finland within next two weeks.
The official single hits stores in August.
- 01/06/05 NEW RELEASE
Club Beats S6 Vol 12
I recently found out "Donnell & Douglas - The club is open" was also included on another CD Pool's
compilation called Club Beats Series 6 Volume 12 in December 2003
- 28/05/05 NEWS
Our Donnell & Douglas gig today was already once cancelled before but has now been reassigned, so there'll
be a foamparty to go in Tampere's Nightclub Diva tonight. I'll also be celebrating both my birthday and
today's graduation from school at the same time at the party!
- 25/05/05 NEW GRAPHICS
MISSY
Graphics page has been updated with a new item; MISSY.
I got inspirated by this Mariah Carey look-alike photo that I came across at finnish irc user community irc-galleria.net
and I thought it'd be a nice digital painting to work on with the warm metal colors and all. Turned out pretty okay though
the hair was a devil to draw with my trackball mouse
- 15/05/05 SUCCÉ
"Jole & Dex800 feat Tune! - Place to hide" was voted the second best tune of the week on Ylex Rytmibarometri with 77% of the voters giving positive feedback.
The second studio just got updated with a brand new Mac Dual 1.8GHz G5 with 1.25Gb ram
- 30/03/05 NEW SONG RELEASE
Some of you may remember my only trance production dating back to 1999, and this is a totally new epic trance remake of the same track.
The song is dedicated to my mother who suddendly slept away in August 2004. Play it loud. DOWNLOAD (8,79MB 160kbps MP3)
Some guy wearing a DC-10 shirt was spotted in Germany at Dance Music Awards!
Donnell & Douglas has been booked for new gigs in Finland. The schedule goes as;
13.04.2005 - Karhu / Virrat, Finland
27.05.2005 - Helsinki, Finland (TBC)
28.05.2005 - Partyhouse Kiva / Tampere, Finland
- 14/03/05 DIARY
Thought about writing some update for a change.. We are currently building our second studio,
Studio B (or A in the future? ) and it's scheduled to be finished during this month.
There are new tunes on the production line, some finished, some almost done and some heavily under construction,
but it all looks nice and I'll get back to the upcoming material afterwards, stay tooned!
- 01/03/05 NEW RELEASE
Quake Trance Annual Spring 2005 (2xCD)
Quake Records released it's collection of best 'trance' anthems for spring 2005 in Japan on 23rd of February.
Special thing here once again; The collection includes "Donnell & Douglas - The club is open"!
Here is a list of online webstores selling the compilation, and luckily we have Juno Records again distributing it for the European area : Indiesmusic.com (Japan) Cisco Records (Japan) Tsutaya (Japan) HMV (Japan) Juno Records (UK)
- 01/03/05 NEW PHOTOS & ALBUM CHARTS
New photos from our visit to Popkomm are now online. Check the Photography gallery and directory "Popkomm 2004 Berlin".
Photos from the Chorale album reveal party are now online. Check out PHOTOGRAPHY page
and the directories starting with date 120205!
- 09/02/05 NEW RELEASE
A1 MUSIC RELEASES CHORALE'S DEBUT ALBUM "UNIMAAILMA"
"Finland's own Scooter" - Chorale releases their debut album "Unimaailma" on 9th of February. The previous single cuts from the album have already gained nice chart success on both single and disco charts. Also over 30,000 downloaded ringtones so far guarantee this record will make people dance throughout this spring!
What makes this a bit more special for me, is that the album includes tracks "Univiidakko" and "Sade", which were mixed by me and Ari.
Check out also the TV commercial of the album :
DOWNLOAD : MPEG-1 (2.7MB)
CHORALE ALBUM REVEAL PARTY
The Chorale album reveal party will be held at Partyhouse Kiva, Tampere / Finland on the next saturday, 12th of February
during 22-04. VIPs have their own special treatment before the party starting at 21:00. Chorale will have a gig around
midnight and other performers of the night are me and Ari as Donnell & Douglas with a dj-set and also local deejay Dj Meke
will be spinning throughout the evening.
A1 Studio got updated with a Pioneer CMX 3000 today. Now there's another thrilling thing dragging us out from the control room for spinning tunes
- 31/01/05 BUG FIXES
Some invisible administrative options and bug fixes have been done concerning photo galleries and it's all now finally working 100% (of course, there can be bugs so let me know if you encounter some, and I'll call in the ex-terminator)
- 18/01/05 WEBSITE UPDATED
The website has been refreshed with a new look and lots of new coding has been done as well! Some bugs still remain
that are to be fixed but you can take a look ie. on the revised photogallery
- 14/01/05 NEWS
The website is back online again and is now settled on a new server. Many links are still
broken but hopefully we'll get to see some changes on the site in overall during the next week
- 07/01/05 NEWS
The old domain will be closed on 10.1. and this will probably cause the website to disappear for
some time (will work at address www.sci.fi/~jolex for the time being). I've fixed some MP3 download links but ie.
photos and some videos are still unavailable and I'm looking forwards in to fixing this problem also after the new
domain is settled.
The gig-video from Liquid Black live at Lappi-Arena / Rovaniemi is now
online!
DOWNLOAD : MPEG [26MB]
"Chorale - Sade" single climbs up on the Finnish Disco Chart at place #14 on it's first week!
- 16/11/04 NEW RELEASE
"Donnell & Douglas - The club is open" has been released once again in Germany on Vollgas Wörthersee 2004 - Club Edition compilation in this month. Nice to see the evergreen track still kicking!
- 11/11/04 GIG BOOKINGS
We will be performing under Quincy project on MTV3 in Finland on both 17.11. and 19.11.
Check the BOOKINGS -page for the list of bookings for Quincy.
- 08/11/04 NEW RELEASE!
CHORALE - SADE
A new single from A1 Music that was mixed by Ari and me. What's special about the single, is that it includes nice alternative remixes in trance, rock and ballad styles. The single is currently rising the official Finnish Single Chart at place #6!
The single was already released on 25.10.04 but I seem to be lacking the time to get everything updated in time!
Due to all the rush I've been through the last weeks, I forgot to mention about this new release, which came out on 27th of September from A1 Music / Edel Finland! This stormer combination of 70'ies and 80'ies disco together with modern beats has already been on the official Finnish Dance Chart at place #28 and is currently rising on the Finnish Disco Chart at place #18!
A1 Music proudly presents the first music video in the world that is especially designed for mobile phones. The song is Platinum selling Don Johnson Big Band’s 'One MC, One delay'. The mobile video works at Series 60 platform mobilephones: Nokia 3650, 3660, 6600, 7610, 7650, N-Gage, N-Gage QD and Siemens SX1.
Mobile music video is a realtime animation and it differs from the original music video by content, structure and implementation. In the production there has been used a whole new technology which allows the size of the music video file to be only 300 kilobytes including music. Duration of the song and the music video is two minutes.
You can download the video free of charge during the festival from TeliaSonera´s iJack stands located in the festival area and from this site (August 27 - September 2).
Don Johnson Big Band was awarded for the BEST SONG ("One MC, One Delay") and the BEST HIPHOP / DANCE ALBUM ("Breaking Daylight") in the Finnish Music Awards 2004 and is one of the most succesfull bands in Finland at the moment.
Download the press release and the video from www.a1music.net (NOTE : The video is available only during 27.8. - 2.9.) - 27/08/04GIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Donnell & Douglas has been booked for a gig to La Rocca in Riga / Latvia, the biggest club in the Baltic countries! - 23/08/04 The funeral of my mother was held on saturday and it was one of the hardest days in my life so far. Today is her 50th birthday. Most of the paper work is done but there is still a lot of things to take care of. I'm getting back to normal every day life again and I thought about updating the site with things that did not have time for being done and announced during the last two weeks.
NEWS : MP3 FILES ONLINE & GIG PHOTOS! For a long time request, the MUSIC page has been updated and now finally most of the old tracks are back online again!
I'm glad to announce our latest signing on A1 Music called Quincy, which represents groovy and stomping dance music with falset vocals in a disco flavour! Actually the first single Quincy - X-Dance is coming out to stores soon and the promo copies have already been given to the deejays in Finland. This resulted the debut single to rise on place #28. on the official Finnish Dance Chart! (check the chart in PDF format)
- 16/08/04 My mother slept away on saturday morning 7th of August and due to this I haven't been online ie. updating the website and replying e-mails for a while and I will still be absent for this week. - 04/08/04 An mpeg version of the Warp Brothers gig at Australia has been uploaded. DOWNLOAD [44.9MB MPEG] - 03/08/04Gig announcement I'll be deejaying on Quincy (our latest signing for A1 Music) live-act at Assembly '04 parties at Hartwall Arena on this week's friday (06.08.04). The gig will be broadcasted via webstream (last year the stream gathered 200,000 watchers) and cable-tv on a dedicated channel! - 29/07/04www.donnellanddouglas.com published a video of the German hard dance phenomenon Warp Brothers playing 'The club is open' at Chemistry, Australia! Download the video here [29.4MB, DivX 5.11, MP3 encoded] - 18/07/04 Midsummer photos from RMJ fests are now online - Heli and I on the floor - Guys thought our crew is insane; My ex-girlfriend Katri, me and my girlfriend Heli came to RMJ to party together - "Mecano Beach winner of the coolest hairstyle contest" - 16/07/04 Links have been fixed on the photography page. - 13/07/04 Huh been absent for two weeks now. Had a nice shipcruise with my girl friend and step daughter last week and we visited places where I had spent a lot of time when I was little. It seemed places had shrinked 50% from the way I remember them ;) The new studio is hopefully in action after this week and we'll get to continue the productions. Things look good already by now :) - 30/06/04 The Ice Cube is melting! Finally at home updating the site after the mid-summer parties ie. at RMJ festivals. We have now finally got a place for a studio and we'll be moving in during the couple next days. Yesterday we tore apart the equipment at Studio Ice Cube and carried most of the wiring to the new place. More specs coming up after we're settled ;) - 18/06/04 NEW RELEASE
FinMix 2004
This compilation of revised old hit tunes includes three productions from our workshop; 'R.A.K.A.S.', 'Rasputin' and 'Ihanaa elämää'! - 16/06/04 Chorale is back on the single chart at place #13! - 14/06/04 New images
A couple of new photos from my birthday parties are now online