TOP LIST: Dance Música España

Since I can't think clearly because of the heat wave (constantly +36C!), I cannot also write anything reasonable. Therefore I'm going to present you some dance, electro and house music that they play here in Spain. As you can imagine, when it comes playing quality electonic music, Finland is FAR behind. That's why you guys can now find something nice and different music for parties etc.!

Before I start my view of the top 15, I just wanna say, that you're allowed to disagree and comment! One more thing! All the songs and the ones that didn't fit in the top15 can be found HERE !

Dance Música España - Top 15

#15 Sak Noel - Loca people
Well everybody knows this song and I'm actually pretty fed up with it... But since I've had to notice SEVERAL times that the lyrics are totally correct (in good and bad) I just have to include this track to the top15...!

#14 Inna - Sun Is Up
Not exactly my type of music, but I kind of like it for some reason. I think it's her voice..? And then again, 11 million views, so she can't be that bad! :P

#13 Martin Solveig & Dragonette feat Idoling! - Big In Japan
This duo makes pretty cheerful songs! Cheerful songs - if they're any good - usually make you cheerful! So this song earns it's place since it's... Cheerful! "S-T-A-R - that's what you are!"

#12 David Guetta feat Sia - Titanium
David Guetta is the number one DJ in the world according to the British DJ Magazine. Well, I have to say he might be a cocky French, but when it comes to producing music, he wrote the book!

#11 Christian Marchi feat Dr. Feelx - Love Sex American Express
This song is of course maybe a bit rude and senseless for some people... but I just love it! Very good house music with some funny lyrics will place it number 11.

#10 Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Reaaally nice song from few years back. I didn't even remember song before I "reheard" it hear on the radio. No wonder this guy was popular years back: the melody just rocks all the way to the top 10!


#9 David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On (Michael Calfan Remix)
David Guetta and Nicki Minaj are pretty good already, but the original song would not have made it to my list. This remix by Michael Calfan is not so good known.. but IT IS DIAMOND!

#8 Tiësto feat Kay - Work Hard, Play Hard
Everybody knows Tiësto! The guy was ranked the world #1 DJ for 3 times in a row! He's a legend. I think there's enough reasons in addition to the fact that it's an awesome song.


#7 Swedish House Mafia - Greyhound (Radio Edit) 
Pretty new one, just came out! I have to say that the Swedish are ahead of us again... Avicii, these guys... They know just how to make good house music..!


#6 The Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky
Veeery good one! I've come to discover in here that American house DJ's are actually pretty damn good! This is just another example of that!

#5 Avicii - Levels
For the whole time I have been here, they've played this song over and over on the radio. It was the most popular song for at least 4 months! And... it's hard to disagree! That's why top 5!

#4 Mike Candys Evelyn Feat. Patrick Miller - One Night In Ibiza
This Austrian DJ has just his breakthrough to the top - at least if they ask me! Ibiza.. it's my dream about to come true in less than week, so how can I NOT place this in the top 5? ;)

#3 Basto - Again and again
I know this might not be the favourite song for many. When I hear this song, I just want to enjoy the moment, the feeling, the sounds! It is a perfect summer song! Just forget everything else.

#2 Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji - Pressure
The melody, the lyrics, the synhts, the rhytm, the structure... This song is one of the best I've heard for a long long while... Especially this particular remix. Nothing else to say really!


#1 Armin van Buuren ft. Sharon den Adel - In and Out of Love
Definate number one, numero uno, numero yksi! Not so new anymore, but then again what does it matter when it's ageless, beautiful - perfect! This is the song that I'll remember from here to the rest of my life!

Falling in & out of love
in love, in love
Falling in & out of love
your love, your love 
in love; in love; in love

Why can't you see it?
 Why can't you feel?
In & out of love each time.
 

Unexpected meetings, Part dos!

Ok guys, you have to get used to the fact that my posts are a little bit late. There is in fact quite a lot to do here. So I don’t have so much time to write all these things after all. Quite controversial really: When nothing happens, there’s time to write, but nothing to write about. When there’s a lot happening, there’s no time to write about it! :D But yeah, let’s cut to the point, shall we..

 Couple of different ways to travel around the city centre ;)

My second week here in Sevilla was still pretty cool! I got a better hang of my work assignments and started to realize what it is all about. Besides that, I finally started to know the city a bit better. Yes it’s already my second week, but you see: I work every day with 9 to 5 basis. In addition, travelling to work takes about an hour one-way so when I get back home, there’s not much time or energy to go touring.

                

The week went by pretty fast but then on Friday I was just walking in this Plaza del Duque trying to find myself some roller skates and suddenly somebody shouts my name! I turn around and see this girl from Austria who I met the week before at Malaga (and who I told you about)! I mean, what the f*ck? What are the odds? :D Anyway, I had promised her to show around the city and so I did! We went together on this city tour that my work mate was arranging the same evening and we got to see the most famous places here in city centre!

Sevilla at nighttime, pretty nice-looking place!

The next day, on Saturday, we decided to go out to party a little bit! Some other people I got to know earlier had the same idea so we had a little party at our appartment. In the end there were a bunch of Finnish, couple of Dutch, couple of Slovenians and an Austrian so pretty international again! During the first two weeks I’ve met so many new people that I’m not even sure if I can remember them all! :D Well, at least these two Slovenian girls are worth of mentioning, they were so great! I even invited them to Finland :D And did you know that Finland leads the suicide rates in Europe, Hungary is the second and the third in this questionable race is Slovenia. Well, neither did I!

Oh, sometimes
I get a good feeling, yeah
Get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before, no no
I get a good feeling, yeah
Avicii - Levels

Unexpected meetings… Part uno.

Allright people! I'm sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while, but I’ve been busy (yeah right!) doing things… :D Anyways, two weeks have passed here in Spain and I guess it’s time to take a little peak what's exactly been going on here, aye? Lot of this is all actually quite unbelievable, but read it yourself!

Let’s start with last weeks weekend which I already mentioned you. Just why did I end up some 200 km away from Sevilla in Malaga for just one day visit only? Well here’s what happened: a good old childhood-friend of mine from Joensuu called me during the week. I was just at work at the moment and couldn’t answer it right then. I thought: “Okay, he’s in Finland so I’ll have to get back to him when or IF I remember.” But here’s the scary part: Just the night before I had had a dream where this same friend of mine appeared! And in the dream I was supposed to meet him, but I didn’t, and he was angry for me because of that – in the dream I mean.

      The first impression of Malaga, Andalucia.           Estacion de Malaga María Zambrano

Well… after that I totally forgot about the whole episode (naturally :D). I didn’t remember it until on Friday night when I was enjoying this marvelous cerveza grande on this nice little street bar in Sevilla. I thought I could give my friend a call and ask what was he calling about. So I called him:
-“Hi, what’s up? You called me earlier this week. You know, I’m here in Spain now so...”
- “Yeah I know. I’m in Malaga.”
- “WHAT? Whatta hell? What are you there for?”
- “Well, I’ve been traveling around Spain for 3 weeks now. Right now I’m in here and it’s my last weekend.”
- “I’m so there!”
And the next morning I was sitting on a train to Malaga! It’s about 200km to the southeast. Takes about 2 hours 45 minutes and 19,85€ to get there by train. So not so bad really!

Some dudes sk8boardin'...

...at the flood water canal! :)

Already on the way there I realized the difference in this country as the level and country-like views of Sevilla changed to these "kinda-like-mountain" hills as I was watching the view on my way to the coast. When I got to Malaga, it felt great! Why? Well because of the coastal climate: Warm but not hot, moisture but not pressuring, just great. As I walked out of the station, I immediately rated Malaga not as close as classy as Sevilla. Malaga is more like a tourist city and obviously a harbour city. But all in all, it felt great!

My friend was living at this nice, clean and laid-back hostel almost in the city centre. One night cost 10 Euros so it wasn’t too expensive either! At the hostel we met this nice girl from Austria who's going to appear in the story later! Basically, what we did the rest of the night, was partying our reunion in Spain by visiting all kinds of bars and clubs in the city. I felt a bit tired somewhere around 4 am so I left back to the hostel. My friend, he still stayed, although he had a flight back to Finland 11.30 am the next day…

They sure got some big churches in Spain!

The city at night time.

The next day I awoke at 10 am… aand saw my friend still sleeping in his bunk! I woke him up and said: “If you catch the taxi right now, in 5 minutes, you just might make it!” :D He had been partying until 7 o’clock in the morning and then slept about 2-3 hours! Obviously “Johnny, la gente esta muy loca” is not very far from the truth! :D I went to have a long shower and my friend had gone by the time I got back. Did he make it? Well make a guess in the comment box I'll tell you guys... ;) Anyway, I took the next train to back to Sevilla and kissed Malaga goodbye… At least for a while!

Soundtrack: Sak Noel - Paso (Nini anthem)
I'm telling to you mama, there is no need for a drama,
but I don't wanna study, I just wanna party.
I'm a nini ma', you know what a nini is? 
Don't wait for me awake, I'lI come at home late. 
Maybe at five, maybe at six,
look at me mum, I'm dressing like a... bitch.

The ”Culture-shock”

First of all I’d like everyone to know that I hate the tourists whining about how “Everything is better back home and this and this is so different than in Finland...” Hey: if you’re going abroad, you should know that it is NOT Finland, that's why it's called ABROAD. But still I got a little “culture-shock” myself on the first night here in Sevilla. The shock was caused by my apartment - my home for the next 5 months. It’s pretty crappy actually :D I kind of  knew that this was coming before I got here, because the housing isn’t as high-quality in here than it is in Finland, but still I got surprised about crappiness.

It was shocking to realize that the temperature inside is 15 degrees, there’s no hot water, the toilet is not flushing and the electricity works from one plug only… I mean PLEASE, is that the description of “crappy living” or not? What is this, a third-world country? Geez… Luckily I’ll get used to it… eventually... right? I also got to learn that there is actually hot water (for about 10 minutes) if you put on the water boiler. But you must not use the microwave at the same time, ‘cause otherwise it’ll take all the electricity from the boiler… CRAPPY! :D

 

Well, at least I got a porny red lamp in my room ;)

In the next post I’m gonna tell you about my first day at work and possibly my first night out here in Sevilla! Stay tuned! 

Aaand here’s some crappy music for you…

Soundtrack: BritneySpears – Till the world ends

Keep On Dancing Till The World Ends
Keep On Dancing Till The World Ends
Keep On Dancing Till The World Ends

WOAH OH OH OH OH OH WOAH OH OH OH...

All systems go!

Today it started, it finally started! The moment and the journey I’ve been waiting for and been thrilled about for 5 months. Today I stepped onto the train to Helsinki at Joensuu train station and kissed goodbye to my dear hometown for the next 5 to 6 months. My travel plan for the next few days ahead is to travel to Helsinki and Turku by train and meet some good friends of mine for the last time before my departure. After Helsinki and Turku I’ll travel to Tampere and fly off to Spain for the next 5 months!

Why I'm so anxious about this moment is because for the last five months I’ve done tons of preparations and arranged my life in every aspect so that this could be possible. And I’m now finally starting my journey to Spain. My name’s Aaron Ilmakari and I am 23-year-old BBA student from Joensuu, Eastern Finland. I study in North-Karelia University of applied sciences and am majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship. Now I’m off to complete my practical training as a marketing assistant in a small international office in Sevilla, Spain. Now, how cool is that? ;)

Feelings that are going through my head right now are most controversial. In the other hand I’m thrilled as hell because I get to see a whole new country, new culture and a whole bunch of new people. Also, I’ll surely get some very useful professional knowledge and experience. But in the other hand I’m also a little bit afraid or should I say reserved about the fact that I’m leaving virtually everything behind me and from now on I'm on my own and nearly everything will be new to me. But I think it's just healthy: people do tend to get stressed about lesser things, right?

As I started travelling, I started wondering what I will miss from Finland. The first thing that comes in mind is of course friends and relatives. But I can’t start whining about that, because it was me who chose to leave and they’ll be here when I get back – if I get back. Another thing I’ll most likely miss will be food. It’ll definitely take a while to get accustomed with only white bread and so on... But they’ll probably have kebab in Spain as well? ;D

“All systems go”

The thing is that this very moment I’m feeling that there aren’t so many things I will miss from Finland. I’m somehow so full of all the serious, dark-minded and arrogant people in there. It's no offense to anyone, but Finns tend to be a little bit like that. I’ve also had so many bitter disappointments in my human relationships past year or two so I’ll feel incredibly relieved to leave it all behind me and get a new start from “a clean table”. There’s nothing that holds me back or gives me second thoughts about leaving – nothing – de nada! Instead, there are rather things that are pushing me to leave. I’m at “all systems go” –mode at the moment!

Another thing is that I really can’t say what to expect from the time in Spain – besides the fact that it isn’t dark all the time and it isn't raining water filled snow all the time. The weather in general is a bit more humane :D But the big question is whether the grass is greener on the other side or not? You see, this journey, it isn’t just a “great experience” or a “possibility to improve my professional skills”. It’s more to me. It is an end to one section in my life and a beginning of another. It is a chance for me to rethink my life and the direction I will head.

Well, maybe I’m now getting a little too serious about all this. I really should consider my energy on how to adapt to Spain and my soon-to-come working assignment. I don’t really know much about it yet, but I’m pretty confident about it. I’m a fast learner and relatively good with people so I don’t believe there will be any objects that I will not eventually overcome. Although I maybe should feel a little skeptic about how do I go along with people and how do I manage my tasks, I am determined that I will not stress about it! This journey, it’s not about performing; it’s about having the time of my life! Period.

Soundtrack: Metallica – Turn The Page

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
There I go, turn the page...