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Chaos Crew DJs

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 27, 2011
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Here’s another trip into the past, for a quick look at another great duo who were on the fringes of the Finnish scene back in the day. Around 2005 or so, some lovely tunes were appearing on Chaos Crew DJs’ Mikseri page, most notably Broken Dreams, Brake Out and the demented Xan-lunarian. Finnish military service interrupted the guys’ production, and sadly the master files to these tunes have lone gone, leaving only the 160kbps versions…

There was talk a year or so back of them starting up again, but in the meantime have a listen to any of these that you missed the first time around. Plenty of chunky filtered sawtooths and catchy melodies here – one of my big favourites is Slave, but the sound quality doesn’t match up to other stuff at this sort of bitrate and it’s one to listen to at home…I did sneak Brake Out into a recent ustream set, though.

Decion – Electronic Voice Phenomenon

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 27, 2011
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Decion’s back with more Hard NRG, with enough filtered hoovers to keep us occupied until the next installment. I listened while making dinner and lost track of which tune was playing, but somewhere around the middle of the set an excellent breakdown was the standout for me. For those who like the occasional dose of Hard NRG, this comes as recommended as all of Decion’s sets.

01. Rodi Style – Crazy (Crazy Chris Remix)
02. Defective Audio – Control & FX
03. Random But Raw & DJ Serenity – The Condemned
04. Pure Perfection – Dirty Trick (Grady G Remix)
05. Defective Audio & Marc Johnson – Hyperscum (Grady G Remix)
06. Korrosive – Fear
07. Random But Raw – Illicin Sensations
08. Riggsy & Rembo – First Blood
09. Tortured Souls – Pride
10. Random But Raw – Pump Summat
11. Base Graffiti – Bamzooki (Grady G Remix)
12. Random But Raw – Day Of The Dead
13. Grady G – Yokel

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Thank You For The Horse, tonight @11pm Tokyo time (3pm BST)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 22, 2011
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A request from one of the Japan crew has made up my mind about whether or not to do a ustream set tonight, so there’ll be a Nomic-only show starting at the slightly earlier time of 11pm. I’ll try to throw in some stuff that you don’t hear so often, as well as some tracks from Anomic/Samuel K.

edit: Having messed around with some tunes this evening, I’d like to do a better Nomic-only set some other time, so tonight’ll be another improvised set (including a few Nomic tracks, of course).

As always, anyone else who happens to be around will be very welcome!

Alek Szahala & Byproduct – Live @Assembly 2010

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 17, 2011
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Alek Szahala & Byproduct live at Assembly 2010 by FINRG Recordings

Coincidentally, I’ve had Byproduct’s tunes on almost constant repeat for the last week or so, and now along comes his jaw-dropping set with Alek Szahala. It was performed at Assembly (last year), and for anyone who remembers the days of trackers and 8/16-bit videogame OSTs this is an absolutely essential listen.

The set gradually builds up the bpm, ending with Alek’s demented Never Forget and Duck Tales remixes, followed by the highscore theme from The Great Giana Sisters (a track I could listen to for hours, it seems). What’s also really impressive is that their original tunes easily stand up to the melodies from heavyweights like Hülsbeck and Sakaguchi. I’d love to hear them take on some of Tim Follin’s tracks – LED Storm has been remixed to death, but an Alek/Byproduct version of that would be something to hear…

Anyway, I haven’t enjoyed a set this much for a very long time, and there are even edited versions of Maruuk and Iron Squid in here for the freeform-only crew.

01. Olof Gustafsson – Pinball Fantasies highscore (Alek Száhala Remake)
02. Byproduct – Culture 12
03. Pinball Illusions Intro (Paokala Remake)
04. Purple Motion – 2nd Reality OST (Byproduct remix)
05. Alek Száhala – Crystal Thunder
06. Kenny Chou – One Must Fall 2097 Title (Byproduct remix)
07. Chris Hülsbeck – Great Giana Sisters Cave Theme (Paokala Remake)
08. Paokala – Camelopardalis (Byproduct remix)
09. Byproduct – Vector
10. Byproduct – Ocean Planet
11. Quazar – Funky Stars (Original & Byproduct remix mashup)
12. Alek Száhala – Lost in Time
13. Byproduct – Platform
14. Byproduct – Bonus Stage
15. Iku Mizutani – Shatterhand final level (Falcon & Byproduct remix)
16. Chris Hülsbeck – Turrican II Intro (Byproduct remix)
17. Alek Száhala – Maruuk
18. Alek Száhala – Iron Squid
19. Chanel 5 – Never Forget (Alek Száhala Remix)
20. Yoshihiro Sakaguchi – Duck Tales Moon Theme (Alek Száhala Remix)
21. Chris Hülsbeck – Great Giana Sisters highscore (Paokala Remake)

Alabaster – Hard Dance/Freeform mix

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 17, 2011
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This one passed me by a couple of months ago, but a new set from Alabaster is always welcome. Coming via Deep Sea, this was one of Alabaster’s recent ustream live sets, heavy on the cheerful UK hardcore and hard dance. Don’t be fooled by the dark opening (the ever-excellent Storm), as the rest of the set is very main-floor friendly with some harder tracks thrown in to keep the interest up. There’s some nice mixing here – the so-crazy-it-works combination of Super Mario and Hellboy stood out for me the first time around.

Take a look at the tracklist, and download here.

01. Pain On Creation & E-NRG – Storm
02. Dave Curtis – Awesome (Original Mix)
03. Manik – Skywalker
04. Kipster – Through The Portal
05. Steve Hill Vs Technikal – Impulse
06. BRK3 – C4ut1on
07. Organ Donors – Super Mario
08. Lab4 – Hellboy
09. DJ Gammer – Ambient Angels
10. Lost Soul – Dark Side Of The Moon (K Complex & Mark Ashley Remix)
11. Breeze & Kevin Energy – The Pendulum of Bass
12. Alabaster – Acid Maker
13. Synthwulf – Every Soul
14. Eryk Orpheus – Really Nasty
15. S3RL – Mozart On Crack
16. Sharkey, Eryk Orpheus & Kevin Energy – Hit Ya Hard
17. Shanty, Tazz & Concept – The Prophecy

Substanced – Geneva Part II

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 15, 2011
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Substanced – Geneva Part II by Substanced / Subi

Before I disappear for the evening, here’s Substanced’s fabulous preview of Geneva Part II for anyone who missed it earlier in the week. Following up the Risk Addiction remix, this really sounds like an artist at the top of his game – check out those Substanced filtered synths with the tight kick, and the melody is definitely on the right side of melancholy this time around. It feels like a long while since we heard a real ‘Hybridize style’ tune, this is how hard trance+freeform should be done.

Kevin Energy vs Proteus – London Helsinki Underground (Proteus 2011 ‘Warcry’ remix)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 5, 2011
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London Helsinki Underground – Proteus 2011 ‘Warcry’ Remix Preview by Proteus Official

To mark the final release on Nu-Energy, Proteus is dusting off the classic London Helsinki Underground for a heavy-on-the-acid remix. I’ve listened to the preview a few times now, and it seems to me like one of those deceptive tunes that might not sound like a must-play at first, but would really work brilliantly in the right set. Definitely bodes well for the rest of the Nu-Energy 100 compilation, too…

Gaiaforce – Formless Infinity

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 4, 2011
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Gaiaforce – Formless Infinity by Gaiaforce

Time to welcome another DJ into the group – none other than TYFTH crew member, Gaia! He’s been kind enough to let me know about his debut set, and I’m posting it up here as a very promising taste of things to come. I’m not sure many of us were brave enough to put our first ever freeform set online (Yamanote was my third, I think), but this one’s a really good effort.

Most of the connections could have used a little nudging one way or the other to get them nicely into line (nothing catastrophic, mind), but the final sequence of Pahus, Invoker, and Deus is absolutely fine, and works really well selection-wise, too. Another nice mix is the Lucia – Lush connection, quite a nice/suprising crossover there. As for the less successful side of things, the opening reminded me why I always start playing Aurora after the first ‘mini-break’ – utterly awesome the tune may be, but the intro can start to drag if you’re not mixing it with something else. Dryad Machine – Frozen Flame would probably have benefitted from a sneaky early fade out, but it’s great to see someone taking on the challenge of a nice long mix.

With this kind of tracklist and some of the more adventurous connections towards the end, the signs are there that Gaia(force) is definitely on the right track – the mixing and the ‘when to use which tune’ spider sense will only get better from now on, after all.

01 Cyrez & Nightforce – Endstille
02 Aryx – Aurora
03 DJ Noriken – Lucia
04 Pain on Creation – Lush
05 Alek Száhala – Dryad Machine
06 DJ Rx – Frozen Flame
07 Substanced – Aquarius
08 Grimsoul – Pahus
09 Betwixt & Between – Invoker
10 Alabaster – Deus

Custom Built DJs – The Free of Form Show Mix, May 2011

Posted by PlasmaDancer on May 30, 2011
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Custom Built DJs – The Free of Form Show Mix May 2011 by Custom Built DJs

Yet another mix to check out, this time a Free of Form set from Custom Built DJs. I must confess that I haven’t heard much CB material before, but some of the tracks are very promising, even reminiscent of some of Epyx & Cyrez’s Electronica Exposed releases. The first half is pretty much a Custom Built showcase, but after Noriken’s Fighting for Freed…sorry, Lucia, things take a deeper melodic turn with Aquarius, Aurora and Astraia.

I can think of a few DJs here who might find room in their sets for a CB tune or two, while for everyone else it might be nice to hear something a bit different to what we’re used to on TYFTH.

1. Epyx & Cyrez – Twisted Faith (Cyrez 2010 Edit)
2. Custom Built DJs – Going Down
3.Custom Built DJs – The Journey
4. Custom Built DJs – U Sure Do
5. Custom Built DJs – Fear of Conciousness
6. Custom Built DJs – Revenge with Honour
7. Sam One – Hypnotize
8. DJ Noriken – Lucia
9. Substanced – Aquarius
10. Aryx – Aurora
11. Alek Szahala – Astraia