I’m sure most people will have noticed this already, but I thought it’s worth drawing attention to what I think is one of the most exciting mix compilation-type things to have been released for an age.
Actually, shame on me – I should have mentioned volume 2 of Crush on Hardcore some time ago, but completely forgot, to be honest. Volume 2 is particularly notable for anyone who actually reads TYFTH regularly (well, that’s me, at least), as it includes two tracks by Buzzmasta, Lenny (quite a favourite of mine) and Shoreline – albeit the Orbit1 remix. Excitingly, I’m downloading the first of the four CDs as we speak, so I’ll give them all a listen before too long.
On to the actual topic in hand, volume 3 – and, well…the focus has obviously shifted towards freeform this time around, with four CDs mixed by Shanty, Invader, Addictive DJs and a timely mix from that man Entity. All four sets look great, but Shanty’s in particular has me salivating embarrassingly every time I look at the tracklist – not only for the remix of Cyrez & Annti S’s Never, but also the use of some old classics among the brand new tunes. It’s something I think DJs should do much more often (I know, I know, I didn’t last time, but it was my intention, honestly), and here Shanty uses perennial set-opener Tigris somewhere in the middle, as well as Cyclone at the end.
The mixes won’t be released until the 24th March, but all four will be free to download. As you’ve probably noticed from the photo up there, a physical version also exists, in very limited numbers. The design has quite a no-frills appeal, I reckon, and although the postage might be fairly hefty from the UK to Japan, I’m more than happy to be supporting this kind of ambitious project. I’ll do a bit of lazy copy/pasting of tracklists next, but click the ‘Read the rest of this entry’ down below, will you? This post is going to swamp the whole site otherwise.
Here’s a new release that I’ve been looking forward to for a while – the next installment of Munetica’s Energetic Trance series. The tracklist is fairly tasty by anyone’s standards, with a raft of Japanese tunes including Munetica and Buzzmasta’s Cross Water and a Nish & Rayieza Blassty remix of Munetica’s Ultimate Seduction. I’m sure you can guess what caught my eye – the original mix (rather than Arkitech’s somehow disturbingly bouncy remix) of Alek Szahala’s Alanamra, but the entire set looks very nice indeed. It’s out on Friday, for 2,200 yen, and – what’s this? – it can even be purchased without a trek to Shibuya’s Guhroovy, if you can navigate the 
What with a trip to Tokyo, the completion of NRG Monogatari 2, and that pesky ’employment’ thing, the last couple of weeks have been verging on the chaotic. Anyway, I’m back again, and I now know why Alek Szahala’s 
久しぶり日本語で書きますね！先月コギさんに５の２００７でNRGシーンについての質問を聞きまして、おもろしろい答えてくれました。コギさん、ありがとうございました！
So, Arkitech’s jaunt around Tokyo with the Full Circle crew is not very far away after all. First up is the ‘Daytime Edition’ of X-Treme Hard, this time at Shibuya’s AMATERAXI on the 2nd March, where Arkitech will be playing back-to-back with DJ Yousuke. Now that does sound pretty appealing – I might have moved away from Happy Hardcore/the merrier side of things these days, but Yousuke’s sets are quite possibly the best that you’ll find anywhere, and his effort at Run-Run vs 4Real was about the most original HappyCore/other stuff set I’ve heard for a long time.