#198 Tartu Scene

Dedicated to all of you who have made the new year awesome

Welcome back to Fluon,

It has been a while, as I have been occupied with other endeavors. Truth be told regular Fluon is OVER soon. If this is your first time here then you can read about why I made fluon in this post. There will be another post about why I am not continuing with regular Fluon anymore, at some point. It has been a fun SIX years. I will continue to include SPECIAL POSTs about the best events I have been to.

Tartu is a blooming scene at the moment and it got me taking photos again. I want to share them with all of you. Enjoy and I'll see you out there. Oh and leave a like!

Arhiiv backstage dish washing lessons.

New place Brooklyn and the man behind it.

Tsikipäo at 6am

#justdancefloorthings - what can be found under the Dj table

Art school graduation at Arhiiv

Still Out moment

Still Out, Dj Siim2000

Still Out prison break

Still out romance

Kiwa X Henry

 

Playing at Sünk

On the backstage door

Riding the cow at Sünk

Major Liiv on the decks

Photo of the photographer

The colorful mess

Sünk power duo

The yellow couch girls who are nurses

Meeting the cow

The end of Sünk

Afterparty at Arhiiv with Dj Phil Good

Sünk

Partying under the stage

Ready to go to Rütmika

See you,
Barthol

Black nights of Tartu

This post is dedicated to Peeter, a good friend who is moving to Berlin

I was challenged to do a black and white post. It's a new one for me, but I thought it would go well with the photos of dark streets of Tartu with everything and everyone there. It's September again, so the streets are filled with 1st year students who know no boundaries.

A girl kissing a passed out girlfriend

Listen to Deluxe to get that "driving to Berlin" feel going.


I'm taking part in the Art Ist Kuku Nu Ut festival so one of the next posts will probably be about that. It was one of the highlights of last year. You can read about it here. Sadly I'm not that sure about attending the Eclectica festival this year as I might have to be in Tallinn instead.

Enjoying a cigarette in one of many Tartu's hidden spots

I happened to visit the simultaneous Drama festival yesterday as well. The funnest part was using the director's badge to get into his play. Otherwise I still prefer contemporary dance to theatre, like the Burroughs dance act I wrote about.

Passing by Zavood can be hard if you are recognized.

The so called summer has ended and I'm working on my next release which probably will be on a CD(!). It will be a conceptual one and it should be lots of fun with all the extra's that are included.

Sudden enlightenment in front of Möku.

Let me know what you think of this black and white post in the comments. Do you want to see more of this or should I switch back to colors? Also enjoy the summer's tail and the back-to-school vibe. See you really soon!
Barthol

Revealing the secret>

Congratulations on the house concert, it was well executed and interesting!

Welcome back!
I played a secret house concert to 20 of close friends and fans in my studio. It was a great show and a change from the usual format. It was more intimate and more for listening than dancing, which was an opportunity to play the calmer tracks. An hour long set with Badass Yuki remix, Deluxe and other unheard tracks. I hadn't played in Tartu for over a year.

Redlip shooting and the regular Fluon girl dancing.

Almost everyone invited came, plus 4 foreigners extra. They couldn't take it for too long, but it's their loss. No cops or neighbors showed up. Otherwise everyone was more or less on time, a great change from the usual "2 hours later" approach.

Playing the concert. The speakers and other equipment remain out of sight.

I want to thank everyone who came and made it possible. It was loads of fun and I plan to organize something similar again asap. Possibly for the EP release and then in Tallinn. Stay tuned not to miss it.

Zuks found the acoustic sweet spot under the table.

Thanks to Badonka Don King and Redlip for lending me the big ass speakers. Redlip also brought her boxer who contributed to the mood and whipped people with his tail. My cat wasn't a fan. We also got some footage from the concert and we'll use it in our next clip, immortalizing the participants.

Kaarel from Popop and his girl reading the Hobbit.

Join us on Facebook to know about the next [secret] show and other action. Watch Estonian Top7 on Tuesday as my video will be shown there and I need your help to help to win it.

Before I went to Paris in 2008 we had a house concert at Kiwas studio,
but it ended with the cops crashing it.

We're going to see real soon as Errorfest is already this weekend and I'm premiering my Frank call video there on saturday. I'll be playing a short and intense live with some fresh bangers. Take a sneak peek at the video>



See you there!
Barthol

Delayed! Broken! Canceled!

Your computer output is broken, no soundcheck and your live is an hour later than planned. Does this sound like the start of the best party?

Well it was.

I used the Lexicon soundcard of the Krahl sound guy (thx). After Zebra and Snake I threw on the Tallinn Daggers remix and we went crazy. Even though the tempo and feel of my song was twice as ecstatic. You were crazy on the floor and I was crazy on the stage. For that half an hour we were unified in the beats. Dj Vattu came to give me a hand on knob twiddling and also a very refreshing zip of rum (various animals had drunk all the alcohol in the backstage).

not a photo of the best party

Hundreds of people at the party. The stairs too crowded to go downstairs to smoke or to listen to the reggae party below. Lots of cool artists in the backstage and among them Mia the superstar organizer who only ate caffeine and peach cigarettes and didn't allow her best friends backstage not to mention the groupies or the spaced out dancer-promoter guy. She was strict and it was cool like that. The act that cancelled was Henry, a good friend of mine from the Dance marathon (the blog post for that), but luckily he got to play the outro for the party. His ambient sweeping the room as the Mc rhymed and beatboxed and I was embracing my fans while Emer the star Vj accused me of being a rockstar. Which as you know I am not, but to be sure come and see next time as I bang my cowbell, the sister of all instruments. More on that next time.

A special thanks to all the friends that were ravin away. We will go crazy again soon and people who missed Tallinn, we'll meet in Tartu on the 10th in Plink plonk.

Can you rest in summertime?

Lovely 30 degree weather outside as I'm sipping on a cold drink and making plans for summer. It's the time to swim, tan, visit people in the countryside and to have parties. We just spent 3 days in a friends summerhouse and It's really the best place with the sauna and the pool. Most of the time I'm working on my tan and backstroke cause that's what summer is all about for me. Resting from the hard winter. Also there are some parties taking place . On Friday I organized my first event. It was a party called Beatwave with me and three friends spinning records. It was a close call as I found out about my duties just an hour before the party. Everything was okay in the end.

It's been confirmed that my track Don't buy fun was released on the Europavox compilation in may. You can try to locate a copy. 1000 CDs were given to the press members at the festival. Also I'm remixing a couple of songs. There is a remix that is finished but hasn't been released yet but hopefully will be released on a disc if not then it will be available online. Another remix is soon to be finished and will most likely be released. Already the tempo is coming down in my music, for some of the remixes I should go as slow as 107(unimaginable).

The new live show will be mostly new songs and remixes but will feature the old classics as well. I'm also looking for a female vocalist as I would like most of the tracks to have some vocals.

I'm going to spend what's left of summer going to festivals and spending time with friends. Also I will work on tracks for the new album. Take Care!

If you have any questions, leave them in the comments.