Hallöchen! Jonsson/Alter! Justus Köhnke! Paradis!

Ah ha! Hallo! From us! It has been ages. 7 months by my last estimation.. How are you? Did you have a Merry Christmas? Ho ho ho?

There has been radio silence from our end over the last few months. Entschuldigung. Berlin sure is a busy place. 

As Omar was saying in the last post, we have reunited in Berlin recently. Many hugs have been shared - both on and off the Panorama Bar dance arena.

It was actually over the course of several of these nights out that we high fived and decided to get back to business on Blouse. Things will change a little. But it's alright. Let's go into it later. 

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Adultnapper, Roaming & Unbroken Dub

The month of May is rather in intense in Berlin. Three solid public holidays, a couple of excellent Kreuzberg street parties and an assortment of bullet-proof line-ups assailing the clubs week in, week out has made my weekends seem very short. 

I was almost techno-ed out after a few too many long nights, but I'm happy to report that I am fighting my way back to full health. A few more sunny days spent in the intermittent darkness of Panorama Bar should see me back to 100%.

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Superpitcher, Pulshar... Steve

Between all this noise about Daft Punk's new single 'Get Lucky' (Is it real? Is it fake??), it is sometimes easy to forget that there is plenty of other excellent music about.
As perfectly nice as 'Get Lucky' is, I think that a suitable audible mind-number is necessary after all of it's shrill collateral.

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DJ Sprinkles, Mark Fell & Arnaldo

Monday.. Bah. Today is apparently the start of the Finnish Winter vacation, but I somehow missed the memo.
It is very lucky indeed that I have these next two tracks to keep me occupied throughout this lonely week. *sighs*

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Mood II Swing & Afefe Iku

From what I can tell, my second Winter in Helsinki is slowly starting to come to a close. Temperatures have finally started to rise above 0°, the ice is melting to slush and days are starting to lighten up. Fucking finally.

It has been so horribly dark, cold and depressing of late that I have been forced to turn to house jams to toast my chilly lobes. These two tracks have been doing a particularly good job:

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Steve's Best of 2012

Sorry to be a little late off the mark!

2012 was a pretty decent year in electronic music wasn't it? In it, we saw a modern batch of tech house gain a steady foothold - names like Jamie Jones, Maya Jane Coles, Seth Troxler and Maceo Plex rang out often and all over the world.

But what were the highlights? Below is a wee little list of my picks of the year.

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Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe

If you don't try too hard, you might just be able to enjoy the Macintosh Plus album Floral Shoppe (2011). There aren't reams (read: bytes) of commentary going around on this band - and that's good. It's better to listen to albums before reading/watching blogs/vlogs. They cloud your brainsex; you know, the stuff that makes tunes sound good.

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Kasper Bjørke & Jacob Korn

Hot damn it's getting cold up here. There is talk of snow. Am I feeling a little homesick? "Yes". Looking at the photo above has certainly not done me any good.

I haven't been freezing alone though -German Jacob Korn has been doing his best to ease us into Winter with his new debut album 'You & Me'.

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Videodrome 47: WhoMadeWho & Seekae

When was the last time we did a video post?
One year, one month and approximately one week ago. Been waaaay too long if you ask me.

In order to remedy this situation, here are two fantastic videos that have slid into my periphery over the last few weeks.

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