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Munted! Monthly! Episode 7

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 22, 2012
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Events, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 1 comment

For one reason or another this post was interrupted last week, so before I get completely left behind here’s a brief-ish roundup of Munted! Monthly! Episode 7.

Le Dos-on started things off with an excellent set of his own productions. As is common with one-artist-only mixes, the focus was on the selection rather than transitions, but this was the perfect showcase of Le Dos-on’s style for those who might not be too familiar with his newer tunes.

With influences ranging from Alek Szahala to Hybridize via UK and Japanese freeform, he’s successfully forging a very distinctive sound – starting this time with one of my tunes of the year, the fabulous Intro (epatoivo). The second half of the set leans towards the lighter side of things (the wonderful Le and Sena aside), but his melancholy/darker tracks are just about a match for anything you’ll hear these days.

  1. Intro(epatoivo)
  2. Stance-Another Story-
  3. Aurora
  4. yksisarvinen
  5. toivomus
  6. Mental Madness
  7. TRANSFORMER
  8. Silver Rain
  9. Sky
  10. Le
  11. Sena

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Alek Szahala – Mageslayer

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 15, 2012
Posted in: Finnish, Releases. 3 comments

There’ll be a few more more posts this evening, but for now here’s Alek Szahala’s latest upload, Mageslayer. This sounds vaguely familiar from 10 Years of FINRG (the post of which is finally under construction, incidentally), a relentless track with a real Hard NRG feel to it. Hang in there until the second half, as the atmosphere deepens nicely and those synths really come into their own.

BEEZEE – TENGU

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 13, 2012
Posted in: Canadian, Finnish, Mixes, UK. 2 comments

BEEZEE made another appearance on the Freeformaniacs show this week, with yet another trademark set of filtered madness. This time he’s dropping a few promos, including plenty of new Smiling Corpse material, but the flow is as good as ever. My personal favourite is the Morokai – Prelude connection, an awesome combination that really makes the finale of the set.

  1. Substanced – The End Of All Things (Aryx mix)
  2. Wyrm – Tendrils Of Reality
  3. Penguin Conspiracy – Tripswitch
  4. Micken – Portal
  5. Nomic – Chaos Maker
  6. Pain On Cration – Lush
  7. Transcend – Upwards
  8. Heliakon Vs Ephexis – Exploder
  9. Aryx – Morokai
  10. Epyx and Cyrez – Prelude (Penguin Conspiracy mix)
  11. Alchemist – Anthrax Injection

DJ Yediah – Finergized Hybridized

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 8, 2012
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This set from DJ Yediah is a very welcome return by him to freeform mixing, and is one I missed from a month or so back. If you haven’t checked it out already it’s an excellent mix of old and new, with a really pleasing flow from start to finish.

  1. Digital Anarchy vs Skampy & Mayhem – Illusions Of Sound (Horzi & Meke Remix)
  2. Grimsoul – Kadotettu Todellisuus 2009
  3. Substanced – The Grim Reaper
  4. Alek Szahala – Dryad Machine
  5. Horzi – Human Hater
  6. Substanced & Alchemiist – Skullcrush
  7. Alek Szahala – Maruuk
  8. Grimsoul – Badboy
  9. Substanced – Shadows of Tomorrow
  10. Nick 235 & Solution – Vampires

FINRG Fans

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 8, 2012
Posted in: Finnish. 7 comments

Thanks to Suncore for letting me know about his FINRG fan group, which can be found here. Russian-reading Horsers might not be too numerous, but the group is more of a collection of links and video than a message board, and could be well worth keeping an eye on for anything you might have missed.

Substanced – Munted! Monthly! Episode 7

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 28, 2012
Posted in: Finnish, Mixes, UK. 3 comments

The other sets will be appearing soon, but Substanced is first on the upload with his mix of promos and classic anthems. By all accounts this one went down well on the night, soon settling nicely into FINRG territory with quality selections that include some of Substanced’s brand new material.

  1. Transcend & Greg Peaks – Distant Shores
  2. Aryx – Sylph
  3. Substanced – Ghost of the Future
  4. Pain On Creation & Nomic – Chameleon
  5. Eryk Orpheus – PVC (Lost Soul Remix)
  6. Substanced – Stockholm Syndrome
  7. Substanced – The End of All Things (Aryx Remix)
  8. DJ RX – Frozen Flame
  9. Endemic & Lost Soul – Voice of the Eclipse
  10. Substanced & Alchemiist – Skullcrush
  11. Ephexis & Seventy 7 – Quantum Fury
  12. Alek Szahala – Barber’s Adagio For Strings
  13. A.B – Relax

Munted! Monthly!, 23rd June @kraftyradio.com

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 12, 2012
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 9 comments

Brilliantly I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even had a chance to give a shout for the event I’m playing at! Most will have seen the news already, but Chip, Midas and the Munted! crew have gone beyond the call of duty with a massive event on Krafty Radio this month. First of all I’m very grateful to all the Freeform Forum folk who voted for my return this time around (alongside Substanced), making it a real Japanese takeover with Le Dos-on and Betwixt & Between. Three hours of Tokyo/Nagoya freeform, that’s even more than you’d hear at a Japanese event these days (!).

It looks like I’ll once again be going without sleep to somehow rustle something up before a week Saturday, but what an opportunity for the Japan crew. Stay tuned for set times!

Proteus – Freedom

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 12, 2012
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Finnish, Releases, UK. 1 comment

Proteus has just uploaded the opening track for his upcoming ErilaZ live spectacular with Adam Lab 4 on drums, and what a monster it is. Showing Proteus’ understanding of how to get a crowd going, this is another genre-crossing effort with industrial, hardcore and even some golden-era drum and bass breaks. Quality stuff, I’d love to see some more from the set as and when.