Substanced & Jnks – Seismic Activity (Transcend Remix) by FINRG Recordings
Transcend’s upcoming remix of Seismic Activity is actually the first in a series of remixes for Substanced’s album, When the World Collapses. This is a perfect choice for a UK-style remix, and Transcend has done a great job making the most of that catchy main melody.
Stay alert for more previews – there are some potentially amazing tracks under construction.
Time for another chiptune-styled interlude from Byproduct, with more of the excellent melodies that we’ve come to expect. Cybersynthesis is an original track, but well up to the standards of his past OST remixes. Nice to hear the guitar being integrated so smoothly into the tune, too.
Alchemiist – Mechanical Mayhem 2012 (clip) by Alchemiist
I didn’t have time to post about Alchemiist’s newest freeform track at the start of the week, but here it is for anyone who missed it. Stunning stuff this time, building on the excellent original with some properly dark leads and a very original structure. Still under construction, this is really a tune to be on the lookout for…
Well well…you can imagine how hard it’s been for me not to mention this until Rx’s announcement last night, but the lineups/venue for March’s 10 Years of FINRG are now decided! The main floor is looking utterly fantastic, and although there are three huge absences in Nomic, Re-Form and Epyx & Cyrez, that’s countered by E-NRG, Pain on Creation’s Live PA (!) and a potentially brutal B2B between Heathen and BRK.
I’ll be there too…and not only that, but I’ll be playing a solo set in the second ‘Urban’ room! I’m genuinely honoured to be taking part in such a huge event, and rest assured that I’ll be doing my very best to represent both Hybridize and Romancer.
This could be the event to end all events, and it’s also going to be awesome to finally meet all the wonderful folk I’ve come to know through FINRG and TYFTH. There’s still plenty of planning to be done, but I’ll obviously be in Helsinki, Lahti and possibly elsewhere if time/money allows. Oh, a bit of practical advice for any Horsers planning to attend – apparently there’s a ski event of some kind on at the same time as the event, so despite it still being some way off, most/all of the hotels in Lahti are already fully booked.
Anyway, the countdown begins now – for the time being, massive thanks to DJ Rx, Drumhead (Carbon Based) and the rest of the FINRG crew!
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Venue: Senssi Lahti
Main stage:
FINRG Allstars 10th anniversary set
Proteus
E-NRG (Special Appearance!)
DJ RX
Carbon Based Deejays
Djane J7
Swoosh
Jayvee
JNKS
Grimsoul
Sam One
Horzi
Yaya
FINRG live PAs:
Pain On Creation LIVE (Special Appearance!)
Substanced LIVE
Alek Száhala LIVE
Foreign guests:
Solution b2b Thumpa (UK)
Heathen (SWE) b2b B.R.K (ITA)
Urban room:
PlasmaDancer (JP) Hybridize set!
Tyranoid / Strongstream (Techno set)
Big Mistake
Business City Deejays
Substanced – Reptile Zoo by FINRG Recordings
Substanced has released some promising previews of his upcoming album recently, including Reptile Zoo, a nice blend of Finnish nastiness and the more UK-style melodies he sometimes uses these days. Once again the production is already first class, with some awesome sounding synths in that filtered midsection.
Early warning, but this is one event that just might be worth selling a limb to get to. Hard to believe, but next year will mark the 10th anniversary of FINRG as a label/organisation, and happily (after the recent fairly quiet spell) there’s something huge under preparation as we speak. DJ Rx will be appearing on DJ Orion’s Finnish radio show this Friday (from 10pm Finnish time?), where he’ll be playing a set and announcing the full lineup for the anniversary event.
[111113] raq’s mix11 “All_of_Kreatrix_Evilution “ by raqhow
Japanese scene regular raqhow is back again with another mix, this time a Kreatrix-only set full of real classics. I haven’t heard a few of these for a long, long time, but they all have that much-missed Kreatrix atmosphere. Once again, the mixing’s fine, and the opening connection between Unleashed and Deep Vibrations is one of the nicest I’ve heard for a while. raqhow’s definitely making progress with his sets, this is another that’s well worth a listen.
Just a quick post today (more to come tomorrow, though), for those who haven’t seen mixu’s recent upload of another older Epilim track. You can really hear the influences from hardcore, trancecore and early freeform in Windup – once again it must have been well ahead of its time, and is still a nice example of how doing the simple things well can make a great track.
SunCore – HardNRG wandering by suncore_music
I’ve been meaning to mention this set for a while now – SunCore hails from Russia, and looks to be another up-and-coming DJ with an excellent sense of how to arrange a set. Get past the ferocious bpm of the brutally pitched up Icy Clouds and this is an excellent half-hour of twisted/melancholy freeform. While the mixes might not always be the cleanest, there’s some really excellent stuff going on with the selection, suggesting that SunCore definitely knows his stuff. Hopefully we’ll hear more from him in the future, but for now this (non-downloadable, sadly) set is absolutely worth a listen.
We’ve now got some excellent footage of the recent SADE event courtesy of Syntse, including this 10-minute compilation from Carbon Based’s set. They’re just as powerful on stage as ever, and the set seems to to have been really nicely put together.
Check the rest of the post for videos from Substanced and Tyranoid/Strongstream.