Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen - Liekinheitin (Orchestral Version)**** As usual acoustic version, remixed versions and all that jazz is being released of the Eurovision songs also this year. Here are some or most of them worth mentioning. Enjoy! Delta Goodrem - Eclipse (Steve Anderson Remix)*** Akylas - Super Ferto *** JONAS LOVV - YA YA YA (with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra) *** Alis - Nân (Piano Version)**** Monroe - Regarde ! (Piano Version) *** JIVA - Just Go (Rock Version)*** (... but what an earth is that styling??!!) Satoshi - Viva Moldova! (Hardstyle Remix)** SENHIT - Superstar (Acoustic Version)** Atvara - Ēnā (Acoustic Version)**** Tamara Živković - Nova Zora (orchestral version) **  LELEK - Andromeda (Choral Version) Eva Marija - Mother Nature (Folk Version)** LELÉKA - Ridnym (Live with Strings & Bandura)*** FELICIA - My System (Acoustic Version)**** ESSYLA - Dancing on the Ice (Piano Version)* LAVINA - Kraj Mene (English Version) **  Bandidos do Cante...

As every year some EuroviSIon entries have their remixes out, dance or other versions and 2025 is no exception. One of those really blew me away: Germany. I haven't been a big fan of Baller but this remix hit me in the right mood - love the old school piano! Wow what an improvement! If this was the Eurovision version Germany would be high on my scoreboard! Finland's Erika offers a ROOS+BERG Club mix that is fine, somehow I wish it had more of the original song in it being more sing-a-longable.  Estonia's Tommy Cash offers not one two remixes already. The second one just was released featuring extra rapping by Italian heavyweight (and Sanremo 2025 participant) Roman rapper Tony Effe. Here .  Azerbaijan's Mamagama delivers Deep House version of their entry and actually I just love it, it might be even better than the actual entry. Such a lovely groove and vibes. Luxemburg's puppet gets electrified in its remix Poupée èletrique but I very much prefer the original silly...

Oh what a time to be alive: I can't remember a Finnish Eurovision entry would have been covered before Eurovision final or/and in Finnish. Ever. Now the German entrant Lord of the lost have done it in. I repeat: In Finnish. And very well, too, I might add. But this may not become as such a surprise as they have done acoustic covers all spring of their fellow competitors, and they have a lot of links to Finland from recording studios to producers and generally hanging out in Finland a lot. And of course their entry could very well be a Finnish entry, no one would wonder or blink an eye. The second Cha cha cha comes from Käärijä himself with YES YES. A more lounge like version missing the dance part completely but still quite enjoyable late night version when you don't have so much energy left anymore and want just to chill out a bit. 

Yes, the hype is real when the cover versions come out left and right in various versions and languages. Enjoy! Käärijä, YES YES - Cha cha cha (YES YES Remix) Lord of the lost - Cha cha cha (Käärijä cover)   Käärijä - Cha cha cha (Reggae version) Rike - Cha cha cha (Acoustic piano version) DJVI - Cha cha cha (Dance remix) Jyrise - Cha cha cha (Estonian version) itsMarkMatt - Cha cha cha (Spanish version) Barking Mad - Cha cha cha (English version) Piano with Pano - Cha cha cha (piano version)

Käärijä, known for his fluent beautiful English, has recorded an English version of his Eurovision banger Cha cha cha. The crazy party mix comes out midnight tonight on all streaming platforms in various versions and remixes: Radio Mix, Dance Mix, Crazy Party Mix and multilingual Fools of April mix.  Listen them here and   here . 

Now this is quite amazing. PÆNDA's Limits have been growing on me lately and I've started thinking if I have totally underestimated it. And here comes Darude's remix of it and it's fantastic! Honest 90's sounds and beat and I'm in love. And original Limits finally all of sudden makes sense. One word: LOVE .

Mahmood's Sanremo 2019 winner and Italy's Eurovision entry Soldi has got its already third remix, this time from Vigiland . Enjoy! (The previous ones are from Benny Benassi and Denis First . 

After the Benny Benassi remix here comes another one by Denis First. Enjoy!

Benny Benassi remix. Run time 3'00

The Finnish Eurovision song conteest 2018 entry Monsters has got some cool remixes: very 80's sounding Initial Talk remix , club anthemic Cutmore remix , Cutmore radio edit and Extended version . Listen to them on Spotify for example.  In an interview her ex-hubby Teemu Roivainen said Domino was his favorite of her three entries because it has such cool remixes. Now when can we hear those?!

Eurovision and remixes. Every year there are a few more or less interesting official ones, and many, many unofficial ones. Here you have some official ones out so far. And something else.... Ieva Zasimauskaité's When we're old has got a Jovani Remix. One of the most underrated entries this year if you ask this blogger works nicely even as a sort of dance mix,  Just like the Lithuanian language version Kol myliu it adds another dimension to this little pearl. The video itself follows her journey through the neverending selection process until her victory. Nice job! The favorite extraordinaire this year has got a remix, too, Sagi Kariv's remix of Netta's Toy doesn't bring much to the mix, just more and longer beats to make this work even better at the dance floor. For more adventurous remixes Youtube is full of unofficial ones.... SuRie's got Storm remixed by 7th Heaven making it sound like... err... any 7th Heaven remix since years but hey, if it...

It's Friday and what's better to get into the weekend mood but Netta's Toy remix? Enjoy!

Blackbird remix was born during a sleepless night in Kyiv. Spotify

Today's Gabbani daily: Ten top deejays have remixed Francesco Gabbani's Occidentali's Karma and those official remixes have been distributed to the radios last week. One can only hope the remixes will be also available for us common morals at some point. The remixes are by  Benny Benassi & Mazz, Marc Benjamin & DNMKG, Addal, Dj Ross & Savietto, Molella & Valentini, Tyro Maniac, Simon from Deep Divas, Ken Holland vs Mess and Wlady as well as Gabry Ponte that you can hear below. Meanwhile his new album Magellan o will be released this Friday!

Another remixes are coming this way and Azerbaijan's own Samra has released two one, one by Danish Eurovision veteran Thomas N'evergreen, the other by Kamil Moombah. Which one do you prefer?

Let's kick off this sunny Saturday with Hovi Star's official remix for Made of stars. It's remixed by Sagi Kariv seGGa, one of the leading DJs in Israel. Well done! (But where are all the dance remixes of Eurovision season 2016?)

Marco Mengoni is already hard at work with second album of his work Parole in circolo, but after his sold out tour he keeps selling. The album or first part has sold 3xplatinum and the first single Guerriero even 4xplatinum. Second and third singles  Essere umani  and   Io ti aspetto have also reached platinum status. The latest one has also been remixed by various DJs and an EP with 12 versions has been released for the summer parties. Can't wait for the second part of this work.... later this year. 

Serbian Bojana Stamenov hasn't been having beauty sleeps while prepairing for Vienna. She has just released a new proper video replacing the previous fans featuring beauty video , right after she has given us Spanish ( El mundo bajo mis pies ) and French ( Le monde est à moi ) versions of the song! And an Autobahn remix that is kinda fabulous! Busy girl! PS. I still think the original Ceo svet je moj takes the prize! Oh WAIT! There's yet another version: Die ganze Welt is mein ! And that's something else ....

Today's Video of the day (right on top of the page) is Kaliopi's Crno i belo and with a twist of fate a dance mix of the song emerged on Youtube and it is fa-bu-lous! I must have played it a dozen of times in repeat. Here .