On tour

Hello World! Should have posted this earlier, but the last week or two have been maaad hectic with the magazine I’m working on… All work and no play etc. But! Not to worry, there’s gonna be plenty of play when Anonymous and I travel to Canada next week. Last time was so good, we just … Continue Reading »

Updating from the boat, on our way to Tallinn, the great neighbouring city. Sharkslayer will slay it tonite at Mutant Disco, a club arranged by Chris the Rhythm Doctor and Raul Saaremets. Mutant Disco has been running since for ever, over 10 years what I can remember. Check the awesome pics of Chris & Raul, … Continue Reading »

Mark your calendars as we will return to Paris with our French allies, the Bootycall crew. Last time at the Social Club was great with Teki and Boy 8-Bit in the house as well, this time we take over Nouveau Casino. And Paris is great during November, romantic and all, but we’ll be there with … Continue Reading »

One of my favourite Belgian dishes, made correctly with white wine and other ingredients, it’s a gift from heaven… Here’s some pics from our last gig in Brussels and a free tune (file under rapdance) from the local dj/promoter/kool guy, Dave Luxe. Shouts to Parisian hero Kesmo and Brussels bad boy Kwistax who played at … Continue Reading »

Crazy night, SEE A KOOL SET OF PICS HERE by Kevin Muenkel.

Cruising today to Sweden with Flipper, to Stockholm first and then to Luleå for some Top Billin rape & pillage (how do you get that trademark sign on the keyboard?) I could list so many great things about Sweden, but if you’ve been there you know… I’m just happy to see the gents of WTF … Continue Reading »

Brussels that is. Top Billin @ Regulate tonight in Brussels. I took off from Hannover in the morning with 2 hours of sleep, somehow managed to end up in Amsterdam and now finally got to Brussels. Left headphones to the train. Will so bang it out tonite to get rid of the disappointment in myself. … Continue Reading »

Hand Clap Low Conga this Saturday at Kudues Linja, J-Laini taking the controls while I’ll be at… Brussels with Top Billin on Saturday and before that we’ll be in.. Hannover as Sharkslayer with Pushups. GET DOWN

That’s what’s up.

My last night in L.A., come say what’s up. Shout outs to everybody at Dance Right and Bar Lubitsch last week and naturally to everyone at Do-Over on Sunday. Good times indeed. Tomorrow I’m off to SF, then to NY. You can catch me at the following parties before it’s time to fly back home. … Continue Reading »

This weekend me, Nenis and J-Laini are going to Oulu. We’re playing at the Time Tunnel party which is one of the oldest annual electronic music happenings in Finland (can you feel the old school techno vibe in the name “Time Tunnel”?) and part of the Oulu Music Video Festival. The venue is the Oulu … Continue Reading »

Here are few more shots from our trip to Australia couple of weeks ago. Met some great peoples and had some big bunch of fun. I was amazed that they don’t seem to have much of a black music scene down there, but then again when it came to what we ve used to file … Continue Reading »

So after 40h trip with a pitstop in Frankfurt, we made it down here in one piece. Had a gig at Late Notice in Sydney the first night, made a quick stop in Melbourne’s Wow Club the next day and met some very nice people on the way (how come the only one who didn’t … Continue Reading »

Right now we’re at the Riga airport fighting boredom while waiting for our flight that’s delayed for 3 hours. As we’re on our way back from Amsterdam, we would have preferred the delay to be there (more things to do). Wednesday gig at Studio 80 was great with a full house and some techier sounds … Continue Reading »

Starts next friday. We’re off tomorrow.

Sharkslayer is off to Berlin, the fashion week is on, lot of things going on. Looking forward to party with Jörg from Brlln blog and hopefully cathing up with Wool. DB boys are in town too so hopefully there will be big dinners. I’m hungry and all I got is this chopping mall sandwich. Amp … Continue Reading »

From last weekend in Warsaw, Poland. Once again a great trip, got also asked many times what we think of Polish girls. What kind of question is that? And were told that dubstep doesn’t work in Warsaw, which is completely untrue. Big up our guys Jick Magger & DJ Invent.

Jussi and I visited Southampton and Manchester last weekend, just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone we met, you the best… Of course first and foremost to Stephen who made it happen and gave me a roof over my head when we fucked up my flight. Iso moro our finnish clique Tommi, … Continue Reading »

Here s a little flashback from our trip to China a week ago with me, Sampo, Ville and Teemu from New Judas and Eero Johannes. As I mentioned my previous post, things work a lil bit different down there. Only thing I really felt familiar with was the right hand traffic. Never the less, we had … Continue Reading »

Greeting from Shanghai… the wildest place in the world – things just seem to be in the whole different order down here. Great food, maddest traffic, highest, biggest and the crazyest places – everything just has to be no 1 here, while you re totally on your own…. Thats why this is the moment to … Continue Reading »

Greetings from Oukki aka our old safehouse in Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Our destination: Shanghai & Beijing. We’ll keep ya’ll updated don’t worry about it.

After the Top Billin party with Eli last Friday we headed to Moscow on Saturday morning. Catching only a couple of hours of sleep, Eli was pretty exhausted, but didn’t let that bother him. Our man Oleg (who was organiser for this whole thing and a great man) picked us up and first we went … Continue Reading »

My favorite part is the end where Pataässä trips and falls over the monitor… Thanks again to everyone who came out, super intense night!

See you in da cluuub.

TOP BILLIN On Tour With M.I.A. from Top Billin on Vimeo. Here’s the video from the tour we did last summer. This was a long time coming, we’ve been busy (right). Oh the memories.

So, Jussi and I are doing a little excursion to our beloved neighbour this weekend… Tonight we play in Stockholm (thanks Danass, happy birthday!!), tomorrow in Luleå with the Tigerboys. Nice, though I feel like I may be getting the same flu Nenis is having (no homo)… Anyways, come say hi if you’re in the … Continue Reading »

We had a crazy weekend in Turku, partied for 2 days, met amazing guys & girls, met a friend of Pete and Mike of the Smalltown fame and generally enjoyed ourselves at the Hitto 2 Years celebration. First up on Friday we went hard as Sharkslayer with Pushups and on Saturday, Flipper joined us to … Continue Reading »

Tiäksää, tyle sinäkin.

Just came back from a week long trip to the States. First we enjoyed some election mayhem in Delaware with my girl, then represented Top Billin at the Famous Friends party in New York with J-Laini, which was off the hizzle!! Huge thanks to Brad, Clarissa, Damon, Beth, Ruth, Aaron, Kurt (see you in January!), … Continue Reading »

Howdy ho! If you missed the Finnish Music Export photos from our last trip to germany, here s our late report.

Brooklyn, get ready this saturday as we land to New York for the Famous Friends party. Will be much fun. Info at the XLR8R …or if that’s not your thing you can catch DJ Anonymous at Yum Yum in Moscow.

We’re doing a small German tour this week, first hitting Berlin for a Popkomm party and then playing at Cookies. After that Munchen and Frankfurt will be on fire. Join the party if you’re around!

So, swedish people knows how to party too. Here’s a little something from the Helsinki & Malmö gigs… The Rumble rules, thanks Sweet Fred for having us, jättekiva meisseli!!

It must have been horrible pain for editor to go through all that scheisse we managed to get on tape on our trip to Canada. There were lot of good moments too. Some of them we even didn’t remember ourselves. See the 25 min cut HERE including the famous Red’s bbq at Hatchmatik’s rooftop, 3 … Continue Reading »

Paris is definitely one of our favourite cities. The 4th of July party was hosted by the great Bootycall boys, who know how to put up a party We had a great time and the Social Club is rockin. Thanks to Marvy, Tarko, Freeze, Captain Cadillac, Cozmo & Feadz who all played too at the party. And big ups to Teki, Boy 8-Bit and Les Gillettes who came to party with us. Vive la France! Two thumbs up!

It seems to be a tradition to go to Sonar every year, only this year we didn’t even attend the festival itself (!), but played at a side party while to whole festival was going on. Much fun as Barcelona always is, although the setup for the party was really strange: we played at on … Continue Reading »

Some things just dont happen until the time is right…. here s the rest of our memorys from Canada tour. Our time in Montreal was the shit. We hang out with Hatchmatik, Merk Meny, Mike, Aaron & Raphael of Team Canada (and played at their club Blue Dog Motel, great joint!), John, many nice girls, … Continue Reading »

We actually missed our transport in the morning and had to take the 3pm train to Montreal, barely making it on time to the M.I.A. show that was at the Metropolis in Montreal. The show was great and Holy Fuck was also there again as the opening act. This was the last day together with … Continue Reading »

After a relaxing day off, it was time get busy again (we even had time to do some great record shopping). The M.I.A. show was the the Sound Academy in the dock of Toronto and the crowd there was one of the best. They we’re really into club tunes as well as some classic hip … Continue Reading »

Put your hands up for Toronto, a LOVELY city.