http://www.megamind.se Your Guide to Nordic Clubbing and DJ Culture in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Megamind Magazine Copyright 2002-2010 Megamind Magazine info@megamind.se (Megamind Magazine) megamind@megamind.se (Megamind Magazine) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:47:59 +0200 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:47:59 +0200 60 en-us Your Guide to Nordic Clubbing and DJ Culture in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. http://www.megamind.se/megamind_rss.png 64 64 http://www.megamind.se As many of our visitors have seen over the past few weeks, that we have a little web toolbar from company called Wibiya. This toolbar has all the social media interfaces that one could ask for as well as other stuff.

Today we added a new application to our Wibiya toolbar that will automatically identify your social networks and will display them, allowing our users to choose which networks to connect to.

About the application
The Social Connect web app will make it very easy for our users to use their favorite social networks, connecting to multiple networks (such as facebook, Twitter and others) simultaneously.

Once connected, our users will be able to perform various actions directly from your site, without leaving the web page. The actions depend on the network of their choice, but include status updates in Facebook, adding friends, following and tweeting on twitter, updating MySpace and much more.

The great thing is that thanks to this social platform, users at our website will be able to update their status on multiple social networks simultaneously. The status includes the page title and an automatically shortened link too. Once a user is connected he/she can share any page with many different networks with just a single click.]]> music Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:36:00 +0200
Megamind will as of today, the 19th of June 2010, change it's name to Megamind Magazine. The reason being that the website is turning more and more into a magazine rather then a web portal for music enthusiasts and DJ's.

Over the course of the summer of 2010 the website itself will get a facelift and also a new logo. All of which will be announced in late August 2010.

Let's continue under the new name in the same style that we set off, some 8 years ago. Viva Megamind! Viva Megamind Magazine!]]> music Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:16:11 +0200
The new Megamind Festival Guide is built using the same mechanics as for the Event Calendar that we've all come to love over the years. We hope that we will be able to fill our Festival Guide with all those festivals, that we all love.

To start things off we've added a few from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Malta & United Kingdom. Take a look here at the new Festival Guide]]> music Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:16:00 +0200 Facebook with Megamind. So we decided that we should add a "Like" button to every page that we have here on our website. The Facebook integration is just one of many steps we are going to take.

This is a short description on how it works
- You visit a page, for an example, a biography
- You like the biography for some reason
- You see a "Like" button and click on it
- On your Facebook profile you will see it appear as follows: Megamind likes Spotify Tech-House Playlist on Megamind.
- Done, you just "Liked" the biography you are reading

These sections have not been integrated yet:
- Event Calendar
- Tags
- Search

More fun new things will be added later.

Update June
All the Like buttons have been removed and is now available in the below Web Toolbar]]> music Tue, 18 May 2010 20:17:00 +0200
Are you a DJ, Producer or Artist?
Become a member and share your music. It's 100% Free! You could reach out to some 600.000 visitors/month on Megamind.

Are you a Music Fan?
Become a member and discuss, get inside information and much more completely free.

Let us become your guide to the best Nordic Clubbing you'll ever have and help you find out more about the DJ Culture.

Become a member]]> music Sun, 09 May 2010 14:18:00 +0200 music Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:36:25 +0200 No Updates will be posted from the 1st of March 2010 until termination day of the 31st of August 2010.

The founder and webmaster Mathias Haegglund says:
"Over the past 8 years we have built this website from scratch with now intention of it being a "non-profit" informative website for all those who enjoy music and especially Electronic Dance Music in all it's forms and expressions. We think that we've succeeded in doing that and also to help upcoming artists as well as established ones to reach out. We've crowned the Most Popular Nordic DJ seven times over the years. We've have featured over 5000 events and festivals on our website. We've gathered thousands of DJ Charts, Lyrics and Biographies from all over the world, from the bedroom bedlams to the superstars of the industry. All have gotten their fair share of the space in the limelight. We've served over 260.730.458 Kb of data. We've serviced 23.865.923 visitors with the information stored in our databases, But it's time to move on and since we haven't found anyone interested in carry on the legacy, we are forced to shut it down."

"It is painful to see something that you've created out of love for music and the passion for helping others achieve their dreams, vanish. But we've had a good run and in some respect, we think that we made a little impact on all doubters dooming it to fail. Eight (8) years of nearly daily updates and countless hours spent on refining and polishing has finally come to an end. We bid you farewell and send you all on your way to find new watering holes and favorite spots to hang out and listen to that music that you've all love. Keep creativity flowing and let yourself experience and discover new music every day."

History of Megamind
The website was started in June 2002 by Mathias Haegglund as a spin-off from Lushbeats Magazine, which was the proving ground for this new project called Megamind. After leaving Lushbeats Magazine to focus solely on Megamind it quickly grew and attracted attention for being the first website focusing on Nordic Clubbing and DJ Culture in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Now eight years later and having outlived most other websites started around the same time. Megamind is considered to be a stable and well looked after cornerstone of the industry. As always and as it's written "Megamind is always new, always informative, always insightful, always fun and always for you, the clubbers."

Most Popular Nordic DJ - The divider
Most Popular Nordic DJ is a voting process developed and run by Megamind, a website focusing on Nordic clubbing and DJ culture in the following countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The voting process is a way to determine who is the most popular Nordic DJ. Eligible recipients are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish DJs, producers or artists who use DJing as a way of performance. Live acts are also counted if they include at least one person who DJs.

The vote started in 2003 and is still today the only true vote for whom is the most popular DJ in the region. The voting takes place between September 1 of each year until January 31 of the following year, making it the longest running vote in the world of its kind.

The Manifesto
Welcome to the playground of clubbers and DJ's, Welcome to the site for news and reviews, Welcome to the land of DJ's and decks, Welcome to the world of Megamind!

Megamind is a place where YOU, a fan of music and clubbing, can come to hear the latest news, read interviews with the world's best DJ's, find out about upcoming events, scan reviews on the latest events, parties and music releases from around the globe and join in discussions with like-minded people on endless topics.

Megamind is more then a website - we are a community, one amongst many in this great global community called clubbing. A place to meet and talk, to review and debate, to read and discuss, to make new friends and maintain contact with old friends. A place for you!!

We at Megamind will do our utmost in order to get you the latest news and to introduce you to the best DJ's from around the globe. Our aim is to connect the clubbing masses of the world, to create a clubbing nation, where all the peoples of the world, where all men and women, can come together and share in the common love of the thing that connects us all - Megamind !!

We are clubbers and we know what you want to hear, and so that is why only we can give you what we want - the true clubbers perspective. As surely as our music evolves, so will we, as will we grow, thanks to you.

Megamind is always new, always informative, always insightful, always fun and always for you, the clubbers. Megamind - Your Guide to Nordic Clubbing and DJ Culture in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Megamind - http://www.megamind.se]]> music Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:26:00 +0100
Marcus Schossow claims the title yet again and becomes historic by doing so, he is the only one who has kept the title from the previous year and also the second one to win the title more then once. Previously Orkidea have won the title 3 times, but never held the title the following year. The three time winner Orkidea stayed in 4th place this year, giving way for fellow countrymen, Maku L (Markus Lasanen) and Sasha F yet again. Proteus gained one place and moved up to the 5th position.

This is also the last year that the Most Popular Nordic DJ vote will be in effect to give room for other measuring of popularity among the Nordic countries.

Without further a due, here is the top 5 Most Popular Nordic DJ's 2009.
1. Marcus Schossow - 725
2. Sasha F - 472
3. Maku L - 404
4. Orkidea - 360
5. Proteus - 229

Rest of the final positions will be available later on this month.

Megamind would like to thank all participating voters and congratulate the winner Marcus Schossow to earning the title.

Voting Website : http://vote.megamind.se]]> music Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:09:00 +0100
Will the Finnish dominance reign once again this year or will we have a new dominance from another Nordic country ? Will it be Denmark or Norway or Sweden ?

Remember that it is your vote that decides the winner of who becomes the 2009 Most Popular Nordic DJ, so get your vote in today !

Voting ends on the 31st of January 2010 @ 23.59 CET.

Vote for your favourite Nordic DJ]]> music Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:06:31 +0100
May 2010 bring us more hedonism, music and above all prosperity. May it also bring us together and may it also be a year where we see even more new music and constellations emerge. May it also be the year where the artists and DJs are at the forefront and gives us all new favourites which we'll cherish. May it be all it can be and all that we want it to be!

From us all at Megamind, we wish you a really Happy New Year!]]> music Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:59:00 +0100 Tours as a part of giving more to touring DJ's all over the world. The idea behind tours is to bring the news from touring DJ's and Producers across the globe into one section and one category.

As the first step is being taken, we start of with a 3 month following of DJ Widenski from Estonia, who will be tour Asia, Australia and Europe starting New Years Eve back in Tallinn.

Also to commemorate this launch we will be sponsoring the tour and our aim is to be part of more DJ Tours during 2010. So, if you see a flyer with the text Megamind - Nordic Clubbing and DJ Culture on it, you can always read more about it on Megamind.

If you are interested in having your own tour on display, just contact us and we'll help you.]]> music Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:07:00 +0100 As off today, the 25th of November 2009, Megamind is using Google Wave as a step in connecting to members, visitors and friends. We will develop our own Wave Extension for Google Wave in a near future, for those using Google Wave, which was released to the public just a few days ago.

Join the Megamind Wave!]]> music Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:14:00 +0100 IE 8, Firefox 3.5, and Safari 4 provide significantly better online experiences. Since IE 6 usage has finally dipped below a small minority threshold of our guests, it's time to finally move beyond IE 6.

So, as of this morning, Megamind will not support Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) any more.

Why are we making this change?
IE 6 is a last-generation browser. This means that IE 6 can't provide the same web experience that modern browsers can. Continued support of IE 6 means that we can't optimize our interfaces or provide an enhanced guest experience on our website. Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress. We want to make sure the experience is the best it can be for the vast majority of our guests, and continuing to support IE 6 holds everyone back.

Thanks again
Thanks again for your continued support. We look forward to dropping the rusty weight of IE 6 and improving the overall guest experience moving forward.

This is why you should upgrade - Save the Developers]]> music Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:53:00 +0100 Collaborative Playlist for Electronic Dance Music only. The playlist is held by us, but all basically anyone can add their favourite Electronic Dance Music tracks into the playlist. The aim is to gather as much Electronic Dance Music as possible in one single playlist.

There is only one rule : No deletions

To be able to listen to the Playlist as well as to contribute to it you first need to install Spotify on your computer. Spotify is free, but there is also a Premium package available for those who want to listen uninterrupted (no commercials) as well. Download Spotify]]> music Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0200 As of this evening, we are now allowing comments on all pages on the website from non-members. We highly believe in security as well as an open and free website, that is why we use reCAPTCHA as a way of preventing spam and various other malicious comments on our website.

This means that any visitor, using the website, which is not a member of the website, can post comments on all pages (Charts, Festivals, News, Competitions, Lyrics, Biographies, Mixes, Spotify Playlists, Interviews and many more).

However, all visitors will need to add their "name" and answer the reCAPTCHA question first.

All registered members, however, will not be needed to answer a reCAPTCHA question, since they will be logged in. And the best part is that all visitors that use the new commenting system and the reCAPTCHA also contributes in the process of digitizing books. Read more about that on the reCAPTCHA website.]]> music Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:01:00 +0200 Megamind Mixes in the Svenska Podradiopriset ( Swedish Podradio Awards ).

Megamind was nominated in the category Bästa mp3-blogg (The Best MP3-blog), and now when the voting is over we settle firmly on the 4th spot in the category. Be sure that we will be at the number 1 spot next year, if we are going to be nominated again, that is.

Thanks again for all the support !

Final results in the Swedish Podradio Awards 2009]]> music Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:40:08 +0200 Apple and now available for download into any iPhone, iPod Touch and Android platform based mobile devices.

What does this have to do with Megamind ?
This means that all Megamind Playlists will be available in your cellphone or mobile devices. So if you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or a Android driven mobile device, you can basically listen to our playlists anywhere, all that is required is a Premium Spotify account and the App from Spotify.

Links :
- Megamind Playlists
- Apple App Store
- Android Market
- Spotify

Ps. Spotify is also working on applications for other platforms such as S60.]]> music Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:01:00 +0200
Will the Finnish dominance reign once again this year or will we have a new dominance from another Nordic country ? Will it be Denmark or Norway or Sweden ?

Remember that it is your vote that decides the winner of who becomes the 2009 Most Popular Nordic DJ, so get your vote in today !

Voting starts 1st of September 2009 and closes on the 31st of January 2010.

Vote for your favourite Nordic DJ]]> music Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:13:34 +0200 Soul to Unite Radio Hour on our website. The show is produced by a team of DJ's from Estonia and the show brings you tracks where each one better is then the previous one.

The show regularly airs on SS Radio UK and we give you the chance to download the entire show directly on to your hard drive.

Megamind welcomes Soul to Unite Radio Hour on board !]]> music Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:59:59 +0200 Megamind Mixes in the Svenska Podradiopriset ( Swedish Podradio Awards ).

Megamind has been nominated in the category Bästa mp3-blogg (The Best MP3-blog), so support us with a vote. Please note that the website is only in Swedish.

Vote by clicking here]]> music Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:50:25 +0200 Twitter, where we add a daily Track of the Day and also a Track of the Night, as well as some news on what is going on with the website and much more.

Everyone can follow us on Twitter @megaminds.]]> music Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:28:00 +0200
EVENTS
As of today, there will be no more adding of events into the Events Calendar, due to updates and improvements. We hopefully will be able to finish work with a week or two. In the meantime you can view all added events.

RATING
Rating (members only) has been disabled until further notice.

FASTER BROWSING
Our new cache system allows you to browse the site even faster then before and even more performance is coming later on.

BETTER SEARCH
The new search allows everyone to search even more specific and find exactly what you are looking for. We are during the day enhancing and refining the search page, but you can always try to search anyway.]]> music Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:35:00 +0200 Megamind Playlists will be available to all Spotify users using Premium and have a iPhone. The application will only work with a Premium subscription, but we think that soon it will be working with a standard Free subscription.

Here is a demo video off the iPhone Application :

Information from Spotify.com :
Late last week we put the finishing touches to a very special project we’ve been wanting to share with you for a while now. After many weeks of burning the midnight oil at Spotify HQ in an effort to squeeze into it every drop of musical goodness, we’ve finally completed work on the Spotify app for the iPhone and sent it over to the nice people at Apple.

Our iPhone version is very similar to the Spotify you’re already familiar with and will allow you to listen to your music even when you’re not connected to a network. The application should be available in a few weeks for Premium subscribers - we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as it’s in AppStore.]]> music Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:20:00 +0200
Take a closer look]]> music Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:49:00 +0200
This is just to give all an idea on Artists available in each genre/playlist.

Coming up next week (29) will be a Ambient Playlist aswell, for those loving a slower and more serene sound. We have gathered around 6 hours, as of today, but we will be upto atleast 10-15 hours before launch.

Link to : Megamind Spotify Playlists]]> music Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:31:00 +0200 Spotify playlists. The playlists are located in the DJ Culture section of our website.

Feel free to add them to your Spotify client and enjoy !]]> music Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0200 Spotify Playlists on our website. They will be a general look into Techno, House, Trance and Tech-House and as always, completely free of charge ! In the future we hope that we can provide even more nice features linked to Spotify.

We will also create a section on the website for all users to add their own Spotify Playlist and share it with all users and visitors on the website. A sort of publicly available archive of Spotify Playlists.

For those unfamiliar with Spotify (copied directly from their website) :
Free : Financed by advertising, the free version of Spotify is the place where most people start. Simple to download and install, in no time at all you’ll enjoy having all the music in the world at your fingertips, instant access to whatever song you want with no restrictions, and the ability to create and share playlists with friends.

Day pass : No recurring fees. No advertising. Just you and your favourite music. You might be planning a romantic dinner for two, or partying with friends into the early hours of the morning. A day pass is ideal for the casual Spotify user who decides that all they want right now is music.

Premium : Spotify in its purest form. Our premium members get unlimited music access without advertising. As a monthly premium subscriber you not only jump the queue to get Spotify but you will also get two extra invites each month, however by signing up for 12 months in advance you will get 30 invites to share with your friends!

More information on Spotify]]> music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:56:00 +0200
We have also added some colours elsewhere, but that is for you to find out ! We hope that everyone likes this splash of colour.]]> music Sat, 23 May 2009 11:32:09 +0200 DJ Mixes to a wider audience.

What we've done is to add Fairtilizer support on all our pages, but primarily in the DJ Mixes section our website. As you may know, we already have support for SoundCloud embedding, but as of now we also offer Fairtilizer support.

Tutorials are available for all members and we also added a mix from Alf Tumble of S.U.M.O & Bangana.]]> music Sat, 16 May 2009 21:59:00 +0200
The Tags System is a advanced version of a simple Tag Cloud that is very common on Blogs and especially on Wordpress blogging software. However, this is something similar, but yet so very different.

On every page that is on-line on this website there is something we call "See Also This" which is a system of tagging/adding keywords that is used to link two different pages together through a common keyword. Our "See Also This" and our new Tags System uses the same keywords and it enables the user to either search on a keyword in our regular search or click on a keyword in the Tag Cloud and go straight to the results, where the specific Keyword is displayed along with other keywords that a specific page has. Sounds a little bit complex ? It is, but very useful.

All our members can add keywords to all pages & forum topics that they, themselves, create.

Try it out and see what you can find on this website. We are far from finished tagging all pages on the website, but we are getting closer each hour.]]> music Fri, 01 May 2009 21:50:00 +0200
We've added these features to the new website :
- Embedding videos from CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, GameSpot, GameTrailers, Google Video, Metacafe, Veoh, Yahoo! Video and YouTube on all pages, forums and events on the website.
- Embedding sound from SoundCloud in the DJ Mixes section and added Tracklist option
- RSS feeds for all categories and forums on the website, so that users can subscribe to a specific category if they want.
- Added a new Members forum
- Added a new in-site Search engine
- Tutorials for Members
- Question-based CAPTCHA when you register as a member

Changes that were made :
- New layout on Event Calendar
- New layout off the DJ Mixes
- New Layout on the Festival Guide
- Minor changes on pages
- Less banners and advertisements

Changes in the Members Only area :
- Members Shoutbox has been removed
- Members Journals has been removed
- Members Groups has been removed
- Members Topitems has been removed
- Members Galleries (a new version is being built)

Upcoming new features (During May/June 2009) :
- Tags system
- Shop system]]> music Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:29:00 +0200
We will move back to the megamind.se server on the 26th of April due to server upgrades that are required for us to run the new website on that server. We were told that these changes would have been completed today, but it wasn't until the 25th they really were to be finished. Sorry everyone !

We hope you like the new look and feel of the new website, a little pre-mature, but anyway !]]> music Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:47:00 +0200
We've added these features to the new website :
- Embedding videos from CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, GameSpot, GameTrailers, Google Video, Metacafe, Veoh, Yahoo! Video and YouTube on all pages, forums and events on the website.
- Embedding sound from SoundCloud in the DJ Mixes section and added Tracklist option
- RSS feeds for all categories and forums on the website, so that users can subscribe to a specific category if the want.
- Added a new Members forum
- Added a new in-site Search engine
- Tags system

Changes that were made :
- New layout on Event Calendar
- New layout off the DJ Mixes
- New Layout on the Festival Guide

Things that has been deleted in the Members area :
- Members Shoutbox
- Members Journals
- Members Groups
- Members Topitems
- Members Galleries (a new version is being built)

Another sad thing we had to do in order to be able to upgrade or website was to have all members re-register on the website. This is because we've totally changed the backbone of the website and not all things worked out as planned.

So, if you were a members before the Easter rebuild, please re-register and we'll promise you that the new features we've added will keep you busy !

Full release of the new website will be Tuesday the 14th of April.]]> music Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:00:00 +0200
The biggest climber is the winner of the overall title, Marcus Schossow who previous years managed the top 50 at best, but this year he is the overall winner of the title : Most Popular Nordic DJ 2008. He is also the first Swedish DJ to win the title, which has been dominated by Finland's DJ Orkidea the past few years.

The three time winner Orkidea moved down to 4th place this year, giving way for fellow countrymen, Maku L (Markus Lasanen) and Sasha F. Another big drop in the standings is Tim Andresen who was 5th last year, but this year only 69th. A big drop for the former winner from Denmark.

Eric Prydz enters the Top 10 for the first time ever in the election and many others fail to enter the top 100. Such artists are Joel Mull, Bastards of Funk, Miss Dilemma, Nils Noa, Ned Flanders, Roland Lifjell, Dana Bergqvist, Dumb Dan, Alex Moreno, Alaa & DJ La Fleur.

The 2008 Results]]> music Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:00:00 +0100
Due to the large amounts of votes and office relocations, we've had to postpone the announcement until this weekend. We hope all participating voters and anxious DJ's in the Nordic region will be satisfied this upcoming Saturday the 7th of February.]]> music Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:45:00 +0100