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Dyzphazia & Cuedy – Complexity of Dreams

Posted by PlasmaDancer on January 9, 2012
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Finnish, Mixes, UK. 2 comments

Dyzphazia & Cuedy – Complexity Of Dreams by Cuedy

Sorry for the brief absence, I went into stasis over the weekend to try and be productive, DJ and production-wise. Sadly it didn’t work at all, so now it’s about time to catch up on the massive crop of mixes that have appeared recently.

First up we have Dyzphazia and Cuedy’s excellent Complexity of Dreams, a really nice mix of freeform and breakbeat hardcore. One of the reasons I stopped bothering too much with BBHC is that most of it seems to sound like modern drum & bass with a few trancier melodies (rather than oldskool hardcore with nice production/a focus on the breakbeats, which is what I hoped it would become). Anyway, Dyzphazia and Cuedy have done a great job of sticking with the style, showing what the newer tunes can sound like when mixed intelligently with some nice freeform selections.

That opening half from Mood Music to Concorde flows especially nicely, but the whole set is a top quality listen and in terms of mixing/selection has to be one of the best I’ve heard for a long while. It’s great to hear a few tracks from Ponder, Reese and Strifell, three of my favourite producers in this genre – one of my resolutions this year is to start mixing intelligent drum & bass again, but maybe I should take another look at BBHC, too.

  1. Devastate – Mood Music (Oli G Remix)
  2. Alek Szahala – Mermaid
  3. Ponder – Calling (See The Light) (Click Remix)
  4. Uplift & Stargazer vs. Reese & Cloudskipper – Substance
  5. Lukozade – Concorde
  6. Creative Synergy – Beware Of My Trance (Ponder Remix)
  7. StrifeII – Enough
  8. Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (High Contrast Remix)
  9. XampaNoid – Blue Tripper
  10. StrifeII – Petrichor
  11. Gammer – Unforgettable Hope (Douglas Remix)
  12. Exia – Devils Contract

Nrgray – 5 Trax 2011

Posted by PlasmaDancer on January 5, 2012
Posted in: Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, Top Tens, UK. Leave a Comment

5trax2011 by Nrgray

Bit of a transition week so far – I’ve upgraded a lot of my gear, and so there’s a lot of new stuff to learn at TYFTH Towers. That includes a brand new Mac, so bear with me while I work out how to use everything.

Anyway, here’s another mini-mix from Nrgray, this time serving as a nice preview to the annual Top 3 post (which will be on the way asap). Here Nrgray has picked his top 5 tunes from the past year and mixed them into a nice little set. The opening The Brain Controls Pain into Aphrodite is a particularly nice connection…one of those times when intentionally limiting your track choice makes you come up with some interesting ideas. Actually the whole set flows well, with some very solid mixing.

  1. Cyrez – The Brain Controls Pain
  2. Substanced – Aphrodite
  3. Alchemiist – Radiation
  4. Proteus & Kevin Energy – London Helsinki Underground (Proteus ‘Warcry’ remix)
  5. Alek Szahala – Ziggurat

Substanced – When The World Collapses (Tracklist)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on January 3, 2012
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Finnish, Releases, UK. 10 comments

Only a few weeks to go until the launch of Substanced’s solo album, and what a project it’s turning out to be. With the mix of genres and artists there really is something for everyone, as a look at the just-released tracklist shows:


CD1: ORIGINAL SIDE

01. Subi – When The World Collapses Intro
02. Substanced – Geneva Part II
03. Subi – Antidote
04. Substanced – Exploder
05. Substanced – Reptile Zoo
06. Substanced & J-Mx – Flawless Victory
07. Substanced – Shadows of Tomorrow
08. Substanced – Evolution
09. Substanced – There Are No Happy Endings
10. Substanced – The End of All Things
11. Substanced & Alchemiist – Skullcrush
12. Subi – Futu-Drum-A

CD2: REMIX SIDE

01. Substanced & Grimsoul – System Failure (Carbon Based Remix)
02. Substanced – Shadows of Tomorrow (Grimsoul Remix)
03. Substanced – Aquarius (Amini Remix)
04. Substanced & Grimsoul – Signal Lost (Endemic Remix)
05. Substanced – Apocalypse (Cyrez Remix)
06. Substanced – Geneva Part II (Proteus Remix)
07. Substanced – The Infection (RAF Remix)
08. Substanced – Crank Cleopatra (Epyx Remix)
09. Substanced – Geneva Part II (Alchemiist Remix)
10. Substanced & Jnks – Seismic Activity (Transcend Remix)
11. Sam One & Substanced vs. Horzi – Lionheart (A.B’s Varaslähtö Remix)
12. Substanced – Shadows of Tomorrow (D.A.T Remix)
13. Substanced – The End Of All Things (Aryx Remix)
14. Substanced – Evolution (Douglas Remix)

First Previews here:

http://soundcloud.com/finrg-recordings/sets/when-the-world-collapses/

Substanced on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Substanced/61186347220

TYFTH Tracks reuploaded

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 31, 2011
Posted in: Canadian, Finnish, Japanese, Releases, Swedish. 3 comments

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, but now there are links for just about all the tracks from the TYFTH SoundCloud that have reached the download limit. Hopefully the Rob.O.T.T tunes will be reupped before long, too. It’s a long and frustrating tale as to why that account is still on pause, but who knows, things might change early next year…

For the time being, be sure to grab any tunes you missed first time around!

Eternally: http://www.mediafire.com/?1dyowj0wolz

Glacial: http://www.mediafire.com/?clij1lmmyyt

Phaedra: http://www.mediafire.com/?tw2j0lmwity

Genshi Kurage: http://www.mediafire.com/?tqzmmjagdeo

Suicide Club: http://www.mediafire.com/?kkmndyblwej

Colombia: http://www.mediafire.com/?mwczeywkjmj

Digital Destruction: http://www.mediafire.com/?30ien0yminz

Technological Terror: http://www.mediafire.com/?ntmjmntgjym

Killer Loop: http://www.mediafire.com/?brz7zeaqwq6vv9d

Untitled 4 Evah: http://www.mediafire.com/?h7eqdrt3td2s2d8

Finally, here’s the much-delayed Hell’s Gate remix – it’s the 2011 version, with the ‘coward’s way out’ easy-to-mix outro: http://www.mediafire.com/?334dbvbxlwvq4p0

DJ AT @Dark Dimension, 2nd November

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 29, 2011
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Japanese. Leave a Comment

It’s fair to say that the freeform scene in Tokyo has been on life support during 2011, but one of the bright points has been the chance for both me and AT to introduce the sound to some darker, very open-minded crowds. Here’s a short clip from AT’s set at November’s Dark Dimension, an awesome event that I hope grows as time goes on. Dancing to Nomic’s Black Lotus are three ravers in full Takuya Angel gear – Takuya himself also played a set during the event.

Freeformaniacs Christmas Special

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 28, 2011
Posted in: Australia, Drum & Bass, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 8 comments

A real treat for those who haven’t been following the Freeform Forum, the Freeformaniacs Christmas Special is now online and is an excellent way to spend a couple of hours. The concept was for 12 DJs to mix for 10 minutes each, creating one mammoth set that covers just about every angle of the freeform scene. It’s actually a brilliant way to hear a few different styles of tune, as even if they’re not your thing, just hang in there for 10 minutes and there’ll be a different flavour of freeform to check out.

All in all, a really great project and clearly very well coordinated – massive congratulations to Stray and everyone else involved.

Download here

(Shameless copy/paste from the forum follows)

Tracklist:
Triex
Qygen- Dough Djinn Corps [F/C RuffBeatz]
Qygen – 721 [F/C RuffBeatz]
Qygen – Vast [F/C RuffBeatz]
DJ Triex – Shinsengumi [RuffBeatz]

Stray
Transcend – Carol of the bells
Lost Soul – Dungeon
Spiritual Tazer – Brain Slushie
RAF – Eviloution

Pulse
Firefly – Equinox “Pulse Remix” [Audio Weaponry 010B]
Denile vs Pulse – Twisted Minds [Vacuum Music 027]
Jerv and Hoj – Funky Shit “Pulse Remix”[Vacuum Music 011B]

Midas
peaks & pinnacle vs douglas – Gliese beat
andy dee – solas en lae (douglas remix)
transcend – mind glow

Dyzphazia
Blokhe4d feat Dieselboy – Get Back
Luna-C – The War (Sc@r Remix)
Betwixt & Between – Zusammengehorigkeit

J-MX
1. 月夢 ~ Tsuku-Yume (M-Project Mix)
2. Substanced & J-Mx – Flawless Victory (Radio edit)
3. Norther – Nothing (Horzi remix)

Red Heaven
Freestyle – Replicant
Orifice – I’m Broken

Olly Addictive
Kaos & Ethos – Technorocker
Olly Addictive & TTE – Dogs of War

J-Kub
Mr Manni – Bow For The Master (J-Kub Remix) // (Medley: Paocala – Sunfire)
J-Kub – Helios // (Medley: Impact & Nomad – Utopia)

Endemic
Endemic – Hurricane
Endemic – My Immortal – Free download – http://watchtowerrecords.co.uk/
Transcend – Zero-G Fire – Free download – http://watchtowerrecords.co.uk/

Aryx
Carbon Based – Cyclone
Aryx – Solar Flare [Watchtower Records]
Aryx – Nephila [ReBuild Music]

Beezee
Substanced & Horzi – Superior Pressure
RAF – Evilution
Pants and Corset – Malice In Wonderland (Eufion Remix)

RAF World (Journey to Silius – Stage 3 Disorder remix)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 25, 2011
Posted in: Finnish, Releases. 4 comments

RAF World (Journey to Silius – Stage 3 Disorder remix) by _Disorder_

Everyone should be familiar with excellent schranz/NRG duo RAF, but many thanks once again to Meke for pointing me in the direction of offshoot project Disorder. There’s some amazing stuff there, ranging from chiptune to freeform, but it was this fantastic Journey to Silius – Stage 3 remix that caught my eye. Nasty synths and chiptune melodies together? That’s essentially my idea of heaven, so after Alek Szahala and Byproduct’s past sets, it’s great to hear such a full-on freeform version here.

PlasmaDancer – Munted! Monthly! Episode 1, 17th December

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 25, 2011
Posted in: Canadian, Events, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 68 comments

PlasmaDancer – Munted! Monthly! Episode 1, 17th December 2011 by FINRG Recordings

It seems as though a few people have been good enough to check out this set already, which went online a day or so ago. I genuinely couldn’t have wished for a better reaction from the Krafty chatroom crew on the night, and since then there’s been some really nice feedback from those who missed it first time around. I’ve actually had a couple of questions in the past from Horsers who wanted to know how I construct my sets, so permit me if I may to talk a little a lot about the thinking behind this one.

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Watchtower Records launched

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 23, 2011
Posted in: Finnish, Releases, UK. 1 comment

Yesterday saw the launch of Watchtower, a brand new label with a philosophy on the scene that almost exactly matches TYFTH. Run by Endemic, the label will be aiming to bring deeper, darker, more melancholy freeform to a wider audience, and the upcoming first release is a promising step in that direction.

As well as tunes from UK stalwarts like Lost Soul and Douglas, there are excellent tracks from Aryx (Solar Flare) and Proteus (Get Fire!), while it’s awesome to see Qygen finally recognised by a label. Some of the tunes this time around are heavier on the wobbly basses than I like to play, but overall there’s some really high quality material here and it should prove to be a nice gateway into the deeper sound for some freeform listeners.

Keep an eye on the Watchtower site for more info – preorders are already available for the first release.