The first Destroyed High is one day away, so it’s about time for a look at the new event homepage. It’s a bit sparse right now, but there are already some artist profiles (in Japanese), links to the youtube channel and a short sample mix from AT. Sadly the set has a few messy transitions, but the selection gives a good idea of what AT will be playing tomorrow – Hybridize melodic freeform with added Guld-style nastiness.
Another mix from one of the TYFTH crew – this time it’s BEEZEE with an excellent set of melodic freeform. Although it includes both Aryx’s Chaldea and Aurora, the set mostly mixes up the odd bit of melancholy with plenty of UK-style energy. High fives to him for the inclusion of Colombia and Creation, tracks that were ‘released’ here on TYFTH, I bet Substanced and Rob.O.T.T will be pleased to see them getting some use in a set. Speaking of Colombia, the connection from that to Coming Up is so close to being a brilliant mix, it’s easy to see the thinking behind that one. The rest of the set’s technically great too, so this is another one in the ‘highly recommended’ category.
1. ENDEMIC + LOST SOUL – VOICE OF THE ECLIPSE
2. ARYX – CHALDEA
3. ENDEMIC – HURRICANE
4. SUBSTANCED – COLOMBIA
5. AB – COMING UP
6. ROB O.T.T – CREATION
7. NOMAD – LOSE IT
8. NOMIC – BLACK LOTUS
9. EPHEXIS – EXPLODER
10. LOST SOUL – MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
11. ARYX – AURORA
Here’s a very nice video from Swoosh and Jayvee’s Supercharged set that features one of the most underrated tunes of last year – Grimsoul’s I’ll Bring The Storm.
Alchemiist – Aerobiosis by Thank You For The Horse
Sorry it’s been a while, but hopefully these new (and one not-so-new) tracks will have been worth the wait. Huge thanks to all the guys involved – I’m trying to keep a fairly consistent sound on the TYFTH SoundCloud so far, and once again we’ve got some really high quality stuff, all the way from Aryx’s excellent melodic hard trance up to TF’s nasty freeform.
Fall 4 You was actually released for free a long time ago by Twisted Freq, but it’s really deserving of being up somewhere more permanently, while Alchemiist and J-Mx’s tracks are up for the first time, and will hopefully get them some new listeners.
For one reason or another I can’t upgrade the SC account just at the moment, so the next group of tunes (which are already partly decided) will have to wait for a while. It also means that this new batch will be limited to 100 downloads for the time being. Most of the other tracks reached the download limit very quickly, so grab them while you can!
Substanced – The Free of Form Guest Mix 2011 by FINRG Recordings
I’ve been under the weather for a couple of days, and nearly missed Substanced’s guest appearance on the Free of Form show. Lucky I didn’t though, as this one’s a top-notch set with a good mix of melodies and harder stuff. Standouts among the newer tracks might include Substanced’s Aurora remix, Horzi’s excellent rework of Unique Mind and the Bad Girl bootleg, while there are plenty of other quality selections like Rachel’s Song and Point of No Return. Substanced also deserves kudos for the high bpm right from the very start, at a time when a lot of tunes/sets seem to be getting slower.
So, here we go then – apart from a couple of sound glitches near the start, the first real attempt at recording a Ustream show miraculously went fairly well. The set itself was a bit of an experiment to see if I could get from dark psy to freeform, and I’m very happy with the sequence in the second half. I’ve already used Hesotarou Tankobu in a recorded set though, so a few of these connections might be live-event only in the future. Massive thanks to BerN by the way, for keeping me company through the recording.
Thanks to Syntse for this video from Heathen and J7’s b2b set last Friday. I was looking forward to hearing what they played, and it turned out to be hard house and NRG all the way – nice to hear Kraateri in there at the beginning.
The quiet week is ending on a high thanks to Alderz, who has come up with a very timely mix of classics and recent tunes. DCTTUL is a great advert for the unplanned set, with an absolute ton of energy (that in a way is harder to get from a sit-down-with-pen-and-paper studio mix) and some quality mixing that does an impressive job of tying together tunes from the old days and the likes of Unhola, Aurora and Inexistenz. Hardly surprising though, as Alderz himself has been playing for about 13 years, alongside some very big names at UK events like Detox, Xposed and Blackout.
Thanks again to Alderz – with sets like this, it looks as though the sound we all love won’t be disappearing anytime soon.
Another new set from Decion – this time a short 40 minute-ish mix of hard NRG. Maybe not quite as ferocious as the last couple of sets, this one really gets going in the second half and is another excellent break if you’ve had enough of freeform (for some reason).
I’ve been looking forward to Guld’s new set for a while now, and in all honesty it’s one of the best mixes I’ve heard for a long time. Full-on NRG from start to finish (with a couple of freeform tracks for good measure), this is just the kind of dark, aggressive sound we don’t hear enough of these days. The selection is spot on, but Guld has also done a quality job with the mixing, with some very nicely thought-out connections here and there. There are one or two tracks that I’ve been planning to use in my next set too, but mine’ll be 170-175bpm, I think.
No tracklist at the moment, but this one easily gets a golden TYFTH seal of approval. Take a deep breath before downloading though, as the wav file weighs in at around 500mb..
Thanks to kuilin/eirik for adding it to the comments section, but here’s Guld’s tracklist for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet: