Top albums of 2019

Once again, I decided to do separate lists for foreign and Finnish albums. Here we go (in alphabetical order)!

Top 20 foreign albums:
3rd Ear Experience With Dr. Space ‎– Ear To Space
Acid Rooster ‎– S/T
Altın Gün ‎– Gece
Centrum – För Meditation 
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek ‎– Kar Yağar 
Dreamtime – Tidal Mind

Ecstatic Vision ‎– For The Masses

Gong ‎– The Universe Also Collapses

Hawkestrel – The Future Is Us

Hawkwind ‎– All Aboard The Skylark

Kungens Män ‎– Hårt Som Ben

Magic Shoppe ‎– Circles 

Moon Duo ‎– Stars Are The Light 

Orsak:Oslo ‎– S/T 

Psychic Lemon ‎– Freak Mammal

The Spacelords ‎– On Stage 

Twink – Think Pink IV: Return to Deep Space

Uffe Lorenzen ‎– Triprapport

Weltraum – NYX 

White Manna ‎– Ape On Sunday 

 

Top 10 Finnish albums:
Earthbound Machine – Destined for the Grave
The Fërtility Cült – Kosmodysseia
Hexvessel – All Tree
Jupiter – Iosomnia
Kosmos ‎– Ajan Peili
K-X-P – IV
Oranssi Pazuzu ‎– Live At Roadburn
Pharaoh Overlord – 5
Tähtiportti ‎– Abiristeily 
Waste Of Space Orchestra ‎– Syntheosis

Dj Astro's Desertfest Berlin Spotify playlist

Check out my Spotify playlist for Desertfest Berlin over HERE!

Some superb bands playing in there, can't wait to get there tomorrow!

Dj Astro's Playlist @ UFOP Psychedelic Easter, Bar Lepakkomies, Helsinki, 31.3.2018 (Warp Transmission, Albinö Rhino, Laserdrift & Hadal Sherpa)

Wow, what a night! Great bands, amazing visuals and sound, sold-out and wild going! This is what I spinned:

Aphrodite's Chils - End of the World
The Byrds - She Don't Cre About Time
Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Cream - White Room
The Beatles - Pebby Lane
Blues Magoos - Pipe Dream
Amboy Dukes - You Breath Sunshine, I Breath Fire
The Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke & Sasafrass
Eloy - Time to Turn
3rd Bardo - Five Years Ahead of My Time
The Electric Prunes - I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Thirteenth Floor ELevators - Slip Inside This House
Hawkwind - Hassan I Sahba
Deep Purple - Hush
Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
The First Edition - Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Cosmic Triggers - Homo Fractaliens
The Spacelords - Plasma Thruster
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls
Can - More
Fonex - AX100
Barrows - Entrada
Chemistry Set - Legend of a Mind
Plastic Crimewave Sound - Wasted All the Time
Vibravoid - Om Gang Ganpaye Namah
The Jimi Hendris Experience - Foxey Lady
Nik Turner - Fallen Angel STS-51-L
Hawkwind - Night of the Hawks
Chrome - Firebomb
Helicon - Seraph
The Black Angels- Comanche Moon
Dreamtime - Brujeria

Dj Astro's playlist @ Alakulttuuritalo, Helsinki, 18.11.2017 (Black Lizard, Tombstoned)

It was a long, wonderful night! This is pretty much what I played (I probably forgot a few tunes):

Fifty Foot Hose - Red the Sign Post
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
Goat - Goat Fuzz
The Who - I Can See for Miles
Hawkwind - Motorhead
Dead Skeletons - Om Mani Peme Hung
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Uriah Heep - Easy Living
Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar
The Chemistry Set - Legend of a Mind
Saturnia - Most Beautiful
Aphrodite's Child - Magic Mirror
The Illusion - Did You See Her Eyes
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Minami Deutsch - Futsu Ni Ikirenai
Octopus Syng - Reverberating Garden No. 7
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
The Rolling Stones - Child of the Moon
Lumerians - Dogon Genesis
Polska Radio One - The Fractalized Sky
Kingston Wall - I Feel Love
Dungen - Panda
Temples - Colours to Life
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
Superfjord - A Love Supreme
Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
Ultimate Spinach - Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog
The Third Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time
The Open Mind - Magic Potion
Wooden Shjips - I Hear Vibrations
Hawkwind - Hassan I Sabbah
Baby Woodrose - Right to Get High
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Love - Andmoreagain
Porcupine Tree - Sentimental
Strange Flowers - Of Green and of Milk

Dj Astro's playlist @ Kuudes Linja, 14.11.2017 (Moon Duo etc.)

Wow, what a great night! It was the third time I saw Moon Duo and they totally blew my mind! Loved the lightshow... I had never seen the support bands Ghost World or U.F.Ojala before, but they both had their great moments.

Anyway, here's what I played:

Dungen - Panda
Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar
Cranium Pie - Mothership
Saturnia - Most Beautiful
Baby Woodrose - No Other Girl
Groop - Kosmic Sound
Minami Deutch - Futsu Ni Ikirenai
Pete Bassman - Poison Butterfy
King Black Acid - Caterpillar Blood
Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself
Temples - Colours to Life
Black Lizard - Love Is a Lie
Goat - Goat Fuzz
Dead Skeletons - Om Mani Peme Hung
Kingston Wall - I Feel Love
Cloudland Canyon - Radioaktivität
The Chemistry Set - Legend of a Mind
Lumerians - Burning Mirrors
Polska Radio One - The Fractalized Sky
Morgan Delt - Barbarian Kings
Superfjord - A Love Supreme
Octopus Syng - Flaming
Magic Bus - Eight Miles High
Liquid Visions - Overstellar Interdrive
The Moffs - Another Day in the Sun
Sun Dial - Fireball
Spacemen 3 - That's Just Fine

Dj Astro's playlist 26.10.2017, Tavastia, Helsinki (Magma & Circle)

Amazing gigs by two of the best bands in the world: Magma and Circle! I was honored to be the dj for this sold-out event, and this is (pretty much) what I played and about in this order as well:

Ash Ra Tempel - Jenseits
Steve Hillage - Not Fade Away (Glid Forever)
Morgen - Of Dreams
The Illusion - Did You See Her Eyes
Cream - Swlabr
Atomic Rooster -  The Rock
Can - Spoon
Flowers Must Die - Psykjunta
Hallogalo 2010 - Blinkgürtel
Silver Apples - Lovefingers
Fifty Foot Hose - Red the Sign Post
The Open Mind - Magic Potion
Faust - So Far
Wooden Shjips - Vampire Blues
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Black Tempest - Rubycon Part 1
Aphrodite's Child - Break
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Arzachel - Garden of Earthly Delights
Gong - Flying Teapot
Brainticket - Palace of Light
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meetings of the Spirit
Superfjord - Love Supreme
Silver Apples - Oscillations
Can - Vitamin C
Steve Hillage - Saucer Surfing
The Chemistry Set - Legend of a Mind
Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls
Hawkwind - Hassan I Sahba
Gun - Race with the Devil
Tomorrow - My White Bicycle
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot
Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of Your Mind
The Electric Prunes - I had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Focus - Hocus Pocus
The Who - I Can See for Miles
The Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Good Morning Sunshine

Dj Astro playlist, Tavastia, Helsinki, 9.9.2017 (The Black Angels + A Place to Bury Strangers)

Wow, what a great night! First time I saw both of these great bands. I've been a big fan of The Black Angels for years but A Place to Bury Strangers was a really cool experience as well. This is what I played:

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair)
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of Your Mind
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Cream - White Room
The Doors - Light My Fire
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Aphrodite's Child - Magic Mirror
Hawkwind - Silver Machine
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
Traffic - Hole in My Shoe
The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Can - Spoon
Deep Purple - Listen, Learn, Read On
The Rattles - The Witch
Kaleidoscope - Black Fjord
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
The Seeds - Pushin Too Hard
The Zombies - Time of the Season
Kim Fowley - The Trip
Roky Erickson And The Aliens - Bloody Hammer
Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
HP Lovecraft - The White Ship
3rd Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time
Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy
David Bowie - Heroes
Groop - Voodoo Sitar
Baby Woodrose - Countdown to Breakdown
Dungen - Panda
Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself
Steve Hillage - Saucer Surfing
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Hashish - Outer Spaced
Aphrodite's Child - I Want to Live
The Doors - People Are Strange

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A Place to Bury Strangers (pic by Jari Flink)

A Place to Bury Strangers (pic by Jari Flink)

A Place to Bury Strangers (pic by Jari Flink)

A Place to Bury Strangers (pic by Jari Flink)

A Place to Bury Strangers (pic by Jari Flink)

The Black Angels (pic by Jari Flink)

The Black Angels (pic by Jari Flink)

The Black Angels (pic by Jari Flink)

The Black Angels (pic by Jari Flink)

The Black Angels (pic by Jari Flink)

Dj Astro playlist @ Doomsday for Stoners, Lepakkomies, Helsinki, 16.6.2017

I had a great night, thanks everyone! This is (more or less..) what I played, check out my short videos of the bands below.

John McBain - First Earth Battalion
Grombira - Carpe Noctem
Capra Informis - Tunnels of Qliphoth
Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise
Blue Öyster Cult - Dominance and Submission
Motörhead - On Parole
Reverend Bizarre - The Goddess of Doom
Celtic Frost - Procreation (of the Wicked)
Cobra Family Picnic - Frost
Moon Duo - Sevens
Circle - Rakkautta Al Dente
The Obsessed - Sacred
Brant Bjork - Stackt
Masters of Destiny - The Blue Garden/Gettin' High
Gas Giant - Too Stoned
Monster Magnet - Dinosaur Vacuum
Pentagram - All Your Sins
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
On Trial - Mountain
Fu Manchu - Hell on Wheels
Judas Priest - Sinner
Motörhead -Lost Johnny
Moths & Locusts - Our Dear Leader
Ecstatic Vision - Keep It Loose
Mana Mana - Mikä on sun taivas
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Scorpions - Pictured Life
Judas Priest - Here Comes the Tears

Playlist @ Elmun Baari, Helsinki, 25.5.2017 (Boar, Kaleidobolt & Jupiter)

Wow, what a night, even though I was quite tired. Not that much time to spin records with three great bands on the bill, but here's what I managed to play:

Iron Butterfly -  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Vert:x - Drill
Spirit - Space Child
Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion
Giöbia - This World Was Being Watched Closely
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Earthless - Acid Crusher
Vibravoid - Raga Baya
La Otracina - Mass Meteoric Mind
Ecstatic Vision - You Got It (Or You Don't)
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Chrome - Adminster The Treatment
Wooden Shjips - Contact
Gong - Flying Teapot (A Sacred Extension And Cosmic Overdub)
Loop - Mother Sky
Hawkwind - Lord of Light
Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra
Brainticket - Black Sand

Thanks for everyone!

Playlist @ Lepakkomies, Helsinki, 15.4.2017

What a great night I had yesterday! It was the first time I saw Deep Space Destructors and Multishiva and both were amazing! Old friends Jupiter and Albinö Rhino never let me down either. The event was sold-out so people seem to know what's good.
 
Link to the Facebook event over here.

This is what I played as a dj:

Baby Woodrose - Open Doors
The Bevis Frond - Are We There Yet?
Psychic TV - Silver Sundown Machine
Black Lizard - All Her Time
Sun Dial - Exploding in Your Mind
Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Black Mountain - Floorian Saucer Attack
Pentagram - Broken Vows
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Camera - Sychron
The Cosmic Dead - Easter Faust
Monster Magnet - Pill Shovel
Ecstatic Vision - Don't Kill the Vibe
Christine 23 Onna - Top of the Spot
Wooden Shjips - Contact
Omia Opera - Space Bastard
Farflung - Lupine
Gong - Flying Teapot (A Sacred Rhythm Extension  and Cosmic Overdub)
Electric Moon - Trip Trip Trip
Hawkwind - Psychedelic Warlords
White Hills - A Trick of the Mind
Sendelica - Night Flights
Kikagu Moyo - In a Coil
Blown Out - Thousand Years in the Sunshine
The Janitors - Trojan Horse
Moonwagon - Devil's Labyrinth
Spirit - When I Touch You
Iron Butterfly -  In a Gadda da Vida
Black Sabbath - Snowblind

My short video clips:

Playlist @ Thirsty & Miserable Club's Five-year party, O'Hara's, Tampere!

I had a really good time in Tampere, thanks to Dj's Supervixen! & Lady Summerisle & all the other cool boys and girls! This is what I played on the 7th of January 2017:

Loop - Black Sun
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Wooden Shjips - Contact
Hawkwind - Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)
White Manna - I'm Comin' Home
Sun Dial - Exploding in Your Mind
Spacemen 3 - Big City (Remix)
Uncle feat. The Black Angels - Natural Selection
Moon Duo - Sleepwalker
Gong - Flying Teapot (A Sacred Rhythm Extension and Cosmic Overdub) 
Chrome - Cyberchondria
Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra
Hawkwind- Lord of Light
Spirit - When I Touch You
Giöbia - This World Is Being Watched Closely
Dahga Bloom - I Don't Know
Yuri Gagarin - At the Center of All Infinity
Brainticket - Brainticket (Part II)

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The best albums in 2016

This has been a great year in music... In alphabetic order, just full studio albums, no reissues, live albums, splits or compilations. Check out the videos at the bottom! Have fun & Happy Holydaze.

The best 30 foreign albums in 2016:

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era
Baby Woodrose - Freedom
Blown Out - New Cruiser
The Chemistry Set - The Endless More and More
Camera - Phantom of Liberty
The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead
Dreamtime- Strange Pleasures
Dungen - Häxan
Earthling Society - Sweet Chariot
Electric Orange ‎– Misophonia
Farflung - 5 
Ghost Box Orchestra - High Plaine
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead! 
Hashish - A Product of Hashish
Hawkwind - The Machine Stops
The Honey Pot - Ascending Scales
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Lamp of the Universe - Hidden Knowledge
The Luck of Eden Hall - The Acceleration of Time
Megaritual ‎– Mantra Music
Mugstar – Magnetic Seasons
The Myrrors - Entanced Earth
Psychic Lemon – S/T
Saturnia ‎– The Real High
Sendelica - I Walk with the Stars for You
Sendelica - The Cromlech Chronicles
The Spacelords - Liquid Sun
Sun Dial - Made in the Machine
Our Solar System - In Time
Vibravoid - Wake Up Before You Die


The best 10 Finnish albums in 2016:

Dasputnik - Psykhixplosion 
Jess and the Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
K-X-P - III Part II
Laserdrift - S/T 
Octopus Syng - Hollow Ghost / Rochelle Salt
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Seremonia - Pahuuden äänet
Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One
Throes of Dawn - Our Voices Shall Remain 
Tähtiportti - Eetterimessu

Dj Astro's playlist @ Pentagram/Satan/Spiritus Mortis/The Order of Israfel/Satan's Fall, Nosturi, Helsinki, 12.11.2016

Wow, what an amazing event... I had lots of fun!

This is what I played, more metal than usual of course!

Liquid Sound Company - League for Spiritual Discovery Lives
La Ira De Dios - Perdidos En El Espacio
On Trial - Blinded by the Sun
Josiah - Looking at the Mountain
Exciter - Oblivion/Violence & Force
Mercyful Fate - Satan's Fall
Damien Thorne - The Sign of the Jackal
Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
Hallow's Eve - Hallow's Eve
Manowar - Gloves of Metal
Blessed Death -  Blessed Death
Demon - Don't Break the Circle
Angel Witch - White Witch
Candlemass - Gothic Stone/The Well of Souls
Trouble - Run to the Light
Deep Purple - Burn
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Manowar - Warlord
Obsessed - Tombstone Highway
Saint Vitus - One Mind
Motörhead - The Ace of Spades
Venom - In League with Satan
Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy

Some videos I shot at the event:

Playlist at Blowup II Festival, Korjaamo, Helsinki, 14.10.2016

I had a really great time at the second incarnation of Blowup last weekend! It was so cool to meet so many friends old and new and hear some of the heaviest and best bands ever. I was the dj on Friday and this (I think...) is what I played:

Sleep of Monsters - The Devil and All His Works (thanks again Sami...)
Black Sabbath - Lady Evil
Flowers Must Die - Taskig Stämning Annars
Aluk Tolodo - Burial Ground
The Cult of Dom Keller - Broken Arm of God
Celtic Frost - Procreation of the Wicked
Seremonia - Hasiskultti
The Cosmic Dead - Gustav Björnstrand
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
The Skull - The Skull
Aleister Crowley - Excerpts from the Gnostic Mass
Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar
Minami Deutsch - Futsu Ni Ikirenai
Baby Woodrose - Reality
Coven - White Witch of Rose Hall
Black Widow - Come to the Sabbath
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Mercyful Fate - The Oath
Blood Ceremony - Return to Forever
Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
Mana Mana - Mikä on sun taivas
Earthless - Acid Crusher
Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire
Venom - Manitou
Moon Duo - Sleepwalker

Thanks a lot everyone involved! Again next year?

Dj Astro's playlist 15.8.2016 @ Elmun Baari, Helsinki (Camera & Jupiter)

Dj playlist:

Blue Öyster Cult - This Ain't the Summer of Love
Death Hawks - Dream Machine
Liquid Sound Company - A Splash of Colour
Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye
Acid Mothers Temple - Force in the Third System
Circle - Vaellus
Avaruuskorpraali Paha Hirvi - Avaruus, avaruus
Spacemen 3 - Big City
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Hawkwind - Void of Golden Light / Lives of Great Men
Eat Lights Become Lights - Velocet Vir Nesat
Black Sabbath - Dirty Women
Gong - Flying Teapot (A Sacred Rhythm Extension and Cosmic Overdub)
Arzachel - Garden of Earthly Delights
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Earthless - Acid Crusher
Brainticket - Places of Light
Moon Duo - Seer
Amon Düül II - I Can't Wait (Part 1 + 2)
Goat - Run to Your Mama
(+ more Goat & Spacemen 3!!!)

Astral Visions Podcast #67 now @ Mixcloud!

Astral Visions #67 now online, listen to great tracks by Drakkar Nowhere, Vibravoid Official, Sidewalk Society, Icarus Peel, ADAMA Band, Psychic Lemon, Our Solar System - Vårt Solsystem, Electric Orange, Will Z., Radio Moscow, Woodrue, The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 & Cosmic Ground. Enjoy the summer (or winter...)!

www.mixcloud.com/AstralVisions/astral-visions-067 

Astral Visions Psych Mix #64 online

Astral Visions psych mix #64 online with woodsman, Kosmischer Läufer, Hawkwind, Ecstatic Vision, Brutus, Tombstoned, Bardo Pond, E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr, Black Tempest, Squadra Omega, The Chemistry Set, Dead Sea Apes, Black Mountain, The Myrrors, Causa Sui - band page & cranium pie. Enjoy!!!

Astral Visions #63 online!

Hello folks!

 

Here's Dj Astro's new Astral Visions psych mix with tracks by Nicklas Sørensen, Causa Sui, Doug Tuttle, Stay, Octopus Syng, Crystal Jacqueline, Sounds of New Soma, Ecstatic Vision, Blaak Heat, Telstar Sound Drone, July, Sendelica, White Hills & The Myrrors. Enjoy!

 

www.mixcloud.com/AstralVisions/astral-visions-063

Many more Astral Visions Shows added!

Hello!

I'm now half-way through uploading all my old Astral Visions Internet Radio Shows to Mixloud, so every show up until #30 is now there for your aural pleasure...

www.mixcloud.com/AstralVisions

Dj Astro's Top Ten album list at the moment...

This is what I've been mostly listening to:

Dungen - Allas Sak LP + CD
Monster Magnet  - Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux) 2LP
Jussi Lehtisalo - Maisteri LP
Golden Void - Berkana LP
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 2LP
Giobia - Magnifier LP
Various Artists - Stay Holy! LP
Saturnia - Muzak LP + 7"
The Heads - Time in Space 2LP
Steven Wilson - Transience 2LP