What an utterly awesome tune from Alchemiist and Decion – a Hard NRG stormer with some of the roughest synths I’ve heard for a long time. The occasional psy-like sounds are a nice touch, and it does pretty much everything you could ask from a darker track. Definitely one to look out for, it’ll surely be released somewhere soon.
Finnish
Midas was quick off the mark with this one – a set of tunes from Substanced’s fantastic new album. This set covers a lot in 45 minutes, from the Subi DnB to UK freeform remixes, via the nastier Finnish tracks in the middle and a nice nod to the opening sequence with Skullcrush and its ferocious breakbeats. Credit to Midas though, the set’s very nicely mixed even with all that variety, and as the tunes are still very fresh it’s a very nice listen, even if you grabbed the album on release.
- Subi – Intro
- Subi – Antidote
- Subi – Futu-Drum-A
- Substanced – Reptile Zoo
- Substanced & J-Mx – Flawless Victory
- Substanced – Geneva part II (Alchemiist remix)
- Substanced & Grimsoul – Signal Lost (Endemic remix)
- Substanced – Seismic Activity (Transcend remix)
- Substanced – Shadows of Tomorrow (DAT remix)
- Sam one, Substanced & Horzi – Lionheart (A.B’s varaslahto remix)
- Substanced – Evolution (Douglas remix)
- Substanced & Alchemiist – Skullcrush
I’m a bit late with the news of Decion’s latest NRG set, a ferocious hour of some of the best tracks (in this genre, at least) I’ve heard for a long time. This kind of NRG often seems to have all the right dark sounds, but melodies that don’t really do them justice, sometimes sounding a bit too light/catchy. No such trouble here though, maybe thanks in part to the number of Alchemiist tracks – as we all know, he really knows how to create a dark atmosphere, and there are some excellent, aggressive synths in tunes like No God and Head Trauma.
There’s a nice progression to the tunes here too, so for a nasty 160bpm interlude this is definitely the set to go for.
1 Matt R – Phased Array [Piston Records]
2 Matt R – Subatomic [Piston Records]
3 Anna K & Zoe Holborn – Nipple Twister [CD-R]
4 Grady G – Turn The Bass Up [Slingshot Recordings]
5 Defective Audio – Body Warmer [Deprivation]
6 Alchemiist & Decion – Code Red (2012 Remix) [CD-R]
7 Dr Tre & Disturbed – Imposters [Oktane Records]
8 Alchemiist – Locked Up [CD-R]
9 Random But Raw & Sinobe – I Am Cockney [Digital Damage Recordings]
10 Alchemiist – No God [CD-R]
11 Alchemiist – Head Trauma [CD-R]
12 Random But Raw & Rob Brown – You Can’t Hide [Boxed Digital]
13 Ben Townsend & NooNoo – Till Death Do Us Party (Grady G Remix) [Small Town Records]
Substanced – The End of All Things (Aryx Remix) by FINRG Recordings
There’s obviously only one event to be talking about this weekend, the long-awaited arrival of Substanced’s massive album and 25 brand-new tracks. What a monumental effort by Substanced, both for coming up with such consistently high quality tunes and for all the work to organise the remixes. It was worth it though, and has definitely set the standard for any future artist albums.
Standout tracks for me are Skullcrush and Reptile Zoo, but once again it’s Aryx bringing the deepest sounds and some wonderful atmosphere with his remix of The End of All Things. Whatever flavour of freeform you’re into, there should be something for you – download all the tracks (though you probably already have) via FINRG’s SoundCloud.
Congratulations to everyone involved with last weekend’s Munted! Monthly!, another great event with some quality tunes and a nice group of freeform fans in the chatroom. Sadly I couldn’t wake up in time to hear Aryx’s set (I’m already looking forward to it going online), but Substanced, Midas and Dyzphazia all played some really nice stuff.
While we wait for the recordings, here are the four sets from Episode 1. I’m biased of course, but I thought the timetabling worked almost perfectly, what with Douglas starting off with some brand new UK freeform, Midas opening with more of the same but then adding some Aryx and Alabaster towards the end, and Chip setting me up perfectly with a lovely set of UK, Finnish and Japanese tunes.
Check them all out here (complete with tracklists), but if you haven’t downloaded mine yet, please head over to the FINRG SoundCloud instead.
Just in time to spread the word re. tonight’s (or tomorrow morning’s, this side of the world) Munted! Monthly! After the massive success of the first installment, let’s hope that Episode 2 does even better, and with Aryx and Substanced guesting there’s every chance of that happening.
It all starts from 10pm UK time on Krafty Radio – best of luck to everyone involved. All being well I should be around to make an appearance in the chatroom this time, too.
22:00 – 23:00 – Aryx
23:00 – 00:00 – Substanced
00:00 – 01:00 – Midas
01:00 – 02:00 – Dyzphazia
BEEZEE – ‘HANIVER’ (FREEFORMANIACS RADIO 12/01/2012) by BEEZEE
It’s already that time again for another BEEZEE Freeformaniacs set, and he hasn’t let us down this time with some interesting UK, Finnish and Japanese selections. The man himself has admitted that this one is pretty improvised, but even so it’s a really nice journey through some different styles and less-played classics, flowing nicely right up until the end.
The Ephexis psy-style opening is great, while there’s a nice piano and filters theme to the finale of Gravity’s Rainbow and The Brain Controls Pain. Excellent to hear Fury Theme in there, without doubt one of my tunes of last year, as well as some more support for the up-and-coming Le Dos-on.
1. Ephexis and Oli G – Spatial Inversion
2. Lost Soul – Warlock
3. Solution and Ephexis – Requiem
4. Carbon Based – Tuonela
5. Grimsoul and Pain On Creation – Fury Theme
6. Le Dos-on – Insane
7. DJ Rx – My Serenity (Endemic remix)
8. Alek Szahala – Ngarnuuk
9. Betwixt and Between – Gravity’s Rainbow
10. Cyrez – The Brain Controls Pain
[111216] raq’s_mix_vol13 “Freeform_Universe” by raqhow
Many will have already checked this interesting set from raqhow, but for anyone who hasn’t it’s another nice example of limiting yourself to certain tracks and coming up with some good ways to connect everything together. Going for a spacey, universe theme, it works far better than you’d imagine, and there’s quite a nice consistent sound to the whole set. For my money, the excellent connection from Starfall to Ghost of Jupiter alone makes the set worth a listen – Starfall is notoriously hard to mix well, so kudos to raqhow for coming up with the best attempt I’ve heard so far.
1. Paocala – Sunfire
2. Odyssey, Obie & Macca – Black Hole
3. Nightforce & Substanced – Operation Stardust
4. Lostsoul – Darkside Of The Moon
5. Synthwulf – Full Moon Freeform
6. Endemic & Lostsoul – Voice Of The Eclipse
7. Aryx – Aurora
8. Paocala – Starfall
9. Twisted Freq Presents Nightforce – The Ghost Of Jupiter
10. Substanced – Freeform Mercury
11. Lostsoul feat. Dark Angel – Deep Space
12. Epyx & Cyrez vs Mary K – Nebula
Huge congratulations to Proteus on another anniversary, complete with the traditional marathon 6 hour set. You’d imagine that we’ll be seeing more footage from there in the future, but for now here’s an excellent (though sadly very short) ‘documentary’ style sequence that captures the event atmosphere nicely.
John Williams – Duel of the Fates (remixed by DJ RX).mp3 by elbereth
A real unreleased classic here, from way back when the FINRG sound was properly establishing itself. Proper old-school Rx from around 2005-2006, I’ve loved Duel of the Fates ever since I heard it in an old Kuruption promo set and couldn’t resist posting this set-rip.
Unfortunately it’s another of those tracks that has completely disappeared, so we’ll just have to hope that someone in the scene will come forward with a copy at some stage.