Still strongly "in the mix" ... and keeping it spinning!
While I was still approximately the size of a rather large foam extinguisher, I used to go to every last one of discos/parties for my age group that were arranged in my neck of the woods. Finally, when I was on the 6th grade, our class were allowed to organise such an event (on February 21st, 1990 to be exact - which, yes, was indeed a wednesday evening - instead of friday/saturday that such events are held these days … times were a-different back then, you might say). We had Lasse Aro as a DJ and with his approval I was - for the first time - introduced to what the life "behind the decks" is like. I started spinning the decks a lot more frequently during junior highschool and by the time I was 16, I was playing music for living in bars (in Finland, 16 is the age when you can start working in bars under adult supervision) as well as still finding the time to spin music at parties for younger audiences.
In 1996 I started a company, Disco-Nova, which was - originally - intended to be solely a show service. The company still exists even though the curriculum of activities it executes quickly broadened "a bit" for a while. For example, I created MP-3000F, a software that was quite literally one of the first MP3-players targeted for DJ use (which I had planned for years at that point - just waiting for the computers to catch up with the necessary power to achieve what I had in mind). Unfortunately, that project was discontinued in the early 2000s when "the big players" such as Serato and Native Instruments Traktor entered the arena.
In the late 2000s + early 2010s, I spent most of my DJing career with the so-called "Karhukopla" - a group of DJs playing at various "Onnela"- / "SK-ravintolat" -venues around Finland, as well as multiple variations of the original "Armas"-concept, etc. … and - I was also spending a lot of my time in e.g. South-East Asian countries (Indonesia,Malaysia and Thailand mostly) doing random gigs on more or less random venues - some noteworthy common names being "Den Glade Viking" and "Grabbarna Grus" -clubs in Phuket, Thailand as well as the rare "warm up DJ" -appearance in the chillout-section of "Seduction" at Phuket, Thailand as well as other appearances on various venues like "Kangaroo Bar" in and around Bangla Road, Phuket, Thailand.
Excepting for a very few short breaks since then, at the time of (re-)writing this I've been deejaying for over 30 years professionally and - while I choose to no longer do it constantly - there seems to be no end in sight; these days I can pretty much "pick my own adventures" - and I still very much consider myself as being "in the mix".
Contact information
| Phone | +358 - (0)45 - 123 1615 |
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| markku.post-uttula@djutu.fi |
Note: The look and feel of the site was updated in April 2026 … mainly because the old content had not been updated in over 15 years according to the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine … This was mainly a facelift of the original site; nothing too fancy. :)