BBoy Laos in interview

I was looking my footage from IBE 09 and I found an interview with Laos. It was recorded after afterparty so maybe that's the reason it was forgotten there. Respect to Laos, the OG. He was ripping the same cyphers with us.

Anyway, here it is:




On Friday we're going to UK Bboy Championships 2009, london. I'm looking forward to it, it has been a fun event every year. Flow-Mo takes part in the crews, Hatsolo in solos.

Septemberish Sweden (circle prinz, funktastic & challenge of the masters)

Back on practising after the trip!!


- Dope funk band
- Too many beers
- 5 days
- lots of friends
- breaking was hard


Special thanks to Marre for getting us there and Jacob for hosting!
Ghost crew had 5 years anniversary so congratulations!!

I uploaded judge showcases from yukari & gucchon, check it out:

IBE 09 -> Funktastic, Circle Prinz Scandinavia

Last weeked in IBE was great. So much happening in one weekend that it's impossible to check even a fifth of what's happening. I judged the octagon battle with hatsolo & Poe-1, but it was funny since I didnt have to point winner a single time, since everybody crashed :)

Winner was Basil





I peeped at Kite's workshop for a minute.. here's a lil clip from there:



I recorded the whole Popping showcase battle, which was very nice.. Kite's second run was crazy. I liked slim boogie alot too. I only name them now since everybody in the battle are legendary and dope anyway. Maybe i upload it later, tho you can find it from youtube already.


We arrived sweden today.... by boat.. so i'm not feeling too well right now as you can imagine. Today there's workshops from Gucchon & Focus. Tomorrow Circle Prinz Scandinavia and on sunday there's bboy crew battles and locking & popping 1 on 1. Check it ooooooudi.

Gucchon interview

Oh and fast post about Gucchon's interview. It's just uploaded so check it out:




http://www.taukojalka.com/en

IBE 2009 Holland

I got good feeling about going to IBE 2009 today. The flight leaves in about two hours.. so I got to start packing soon.

The event is massive big. Circle prinz, UK bboy championship eliminations, footwork, all vs all, 7 to smoke, longest powermove, funk bands, popping, locking... man just everything & everyone. And in holland :). BOOM.

Bboy scene is going to be what expected but I'm interested what's happening popping wise.
Kite, J-smooth, bionic, salah, bruce ykanji, mike, slim boogie etc etc.
+From lockers Lock'n'Lol gonna perform from korea.

See you there!

http://www.thenotoriousibe.com/

Kei's Judge Showcase & New Olli Album in October

Sade festival was great this year. Venue was bigger and better, as it was in Freda 51.
All the guests were great.. Marjory was super nice person. She has seen some years already so that it seems like she can think everything on positive way. It inspired me a lot.


I'm uploading Kei's judge showcase on my new beat here
: ( & Stay tuned for new Olli Album, coming out in October 2009!!!) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGD2XDOOPdc

SADE Festival 2009 MIXTAPE!!

SADE Festival 2009 is going down tomorrow in Freda 51, Helsinki Finland.

JUDGES/GUESTS:

HIPHOP: CLARA & LOOSE JOINT (FRANCE+USA)
HOUSE: MARJORY & SEKOU (USA)
POPPING: GUCCHON & KEI (JAPAN)
LOCKING: GEMINI & ROB-ONE (FRANCE+SWEDEN)
DJ's: MERCY-1 (hiphop / locking / popping), 3rrd (house)


My newest mixtape provides banging heat for hiphop & popping styles...
Check it, cause it's worth it!!!!!
I was in time like always, I took the covers & cds for pressing today.. so there was plenty of time =), Last time I burned them myself home night before the jam.

Mixtape cover:



Tomorrow's gonna be Boom!

Next weekend after SADE festival there will be IBE 2009 at holland where i'll be at, so catch up the rest of you there!

Circle Prinz, UK CHAMPS solo's & Finnish championships 2009

In Finland it a buzy times.

Yesterday we had Circle Prinz Finland

Winners were Ukraine's Ruffneck bboys.
Second place was taken by Deep Bangers.

Nice party & competition, great cyphers! Only minus was that people didn't drink enough (bad for organizers moneywise, good for humans healthywise)


Timo / deep bangers:



Today was UK bboy championships 2009 Finland & Finnish championships in same contest.

Winner was Flow-Mo's own Hatsolo.
Bgirl category for finnish championships was also for Flow-Mo, this time Bgirl A.T.
under 16 years was taken by Bboy Toast.
In bboy category it was 70 participants from all over the world.
It would have been 71, but I was late for signing =)


Hatsolo & A.T.



Tomorrow it's UK champs crew eliminations... but now it's a party time -->.

Peace

Flow-Mo 'Response' theatre piece

Flow-Mo has come out with new theatre piece called Response.

Premier is tonight in URB-Festival. Check it if you have a chance!
Recognize Crew from Serbia will be doing a piece too at the same night. It's always nice to hang with them guys (they smuggle RAKIA booze over the borders :D).

Response

RESPONSE looks at the possibilities of combining the movement of dance with moving image. The work's final form is achieved as the result of an open process where each member of the artist group has an equal chance of affecting the end product.

Growing side by side with URB, Flow-Mo approaches breakdance from a new perspective. The interplay between dancers in terms of improvisation, the mood of a certain moment, and the reactions of the audience are explored. Equilibrium between peace and chaos, between the purity and impurity of movement is something the dance considers.

Video designer Petri Ruikka approaches breakdance through moving image. He explores the real-time merging of image with movement, and the whole that this creates. At what point are dialogue and a common space between the two created? Contributing to creating this space are light designer Jani-Matti Salo and sound designer Taneli Bruun.

Dance: Flow-Mo
Light design: Jani-Matti Salo
Video design: Petri Ruikka
Sound design: Taneli Bruun
Duration: 30 min

More INFO : www.urb.fi



And be sure to visit my fellow crewmates blogsites (today is bloggin day, 1st for all of us actually for a month haha) :

Focus
www.taukojalka.com/focus
Hatsolo
www.taukojalka.com/hatsolo

www.taukojalka.com is a a site worth to check anyways too!! It's mostly in finnish tho.

boat trips + shows + summer jams = random stuff

This is how to put boat back in to water for summer...


Getting to a new dock..



Chillinn, in Helsinki centrum with topi & markku.


Yesterday I was on the sea with my girlfriend... engine crashed, so we had to try to dock with natural forces only wind with us! We almost made it back before we got stuck to the seafloor haha. With no engines and nothing it was impossible to get the boat move again. Until I saw some waves coming so as a wise & very experienced captain I lifted up the sails and when the waves hit the boat, we got moving after couple of touchdowns. When we got away from there the docking was surprisingly even easier than with motor.. luck? who knows.


Flow-Mo was having a show at Mbar, it was Funky Elephant festival's opening. Our show was craazy to be honest.

Check some pics.. that's me:



A.T.


Focus


and Flow-Mo's graff artist Tolin's graff from the night


Evening got heated on the "dancefloor" too..

Ohyeah, Jeniwai's birthday was also 2 days ago..
things got interesting at times..

Hotpanties performing :)

Next weekend to wednesday i'll be at Kuopio tanssii ja soi (Kuopio) with antopio & dance.fi. Theatre shows and i'll be spinning @Intro on monday.

Jams's in Finland this summer:

1. Mid Summer fest.get driuuuuaank 19-21.6.2009
2. Oulun Katutanssit (Oulu) (3vs3 bboys & showcase competition) 4.7.2009
3. Payback (Jyväskylä) (2vs2 hiphop, 2vs2 bboys) 10-11.7.2009
4. Trevenge (Tampere) date ????
5. Pori Jazz (Erykah Badu, Raphael Saadiq etc) 16.-18.7.2009
6. Taukojam, circle prinz, UK champ eliminations, etc. 21.-22.8.2009
7. SADE -festival (Helsinki)(popping, locking, house, hiphop 1vs1 battles) 4.-6.9.2009


See you in most of them, I HOPE.