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Proteus @Monday Bar Spring Break Cruise

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 19, 2010
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Japanese. 3 comments


DJ PROTEUS @ MONDAY BAR SPRING BREAK CRUISE (SWEDEN)
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The Monday Bar Spring Break Cruise 2010 has been and gone, this time starring a lot of the FINRG crew. Hopefully there’ll be some more video on the way, but for now here’s a great sequence of clips from Proteus’ set. Kudos to him as always for upping the bpm in the second half, and as you’ll hear he played his remix of Guld’s Hannya X. Seeing the reaction to Guld’s lead melody was a bit special, hope he enjoys watching this video as much as I did.

DJ Rx joins Carbon Based

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 18, 2010
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I’m back from Nagoya and FUNERAL (I escaped into the countryside of Wakayama for a few days, too), and one of the biggest pieces of news of the last week are the changes with Carbon Based. DJ E-nrg has left the group, but the numbers are made up again by DJ Rx! For the scene to lose E-nrg is a real shame, but Rx’s collabs with CB have been very nice up to now and it’s safe to expect big things (such as Fleshfest, the tune made alongside Proteus). Rx will still be producing under his original name, but focusing there on breaks/drum and bass. Below is the statement from the boys themselves:

12th of March 2010, Lahti, Finland.

We are now ready to release possibly the biggest news in history of our band!

Ari Virtanen (DJ E-nrg) has left the group in standing friendship and we are more than proud to welcome our new member – Ville Sorsa, better known as DJ Rx.

Ville has also done a long career developing harder edge of Finnish electronic music and for the last ten years been like a fifth member of the crew. He is also a key member of our record company FINRG Recordings so decision wasn’t hard. We are sure that Ville will bring fresh ideas, whole lot of creativity and energy that keeps us going and believing in what we do from the bottom of our hearts. Ville’s first gig as a new member will be at Monday Bar Spring Break Cruise on 13th of March 2010.

We have a noteworthy tune in the production pipeline called “Fleshfest”. It’s been produced in co-operation with DJ Proteus and Mika Tauriainen from Finnish heavy metal band Entwine. We’ve planned doing a video out of it and the tune itself will be released during summer.

We are releasing “Carbon Based – Singles 2000 – 2010” double collection during spring. Collection will feature our most important releases during last decade as well as some unreleased material. Collection will be downloadable FOR FREE at http://www.finrg.com/downloads 

Worldwide Freeform

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 12, 2010
Posted in: Finnish, Releases, UK. 8 comments

Something I missed out on covering while I was away is this upcoming CD release from the UK. Worldwide Freeform is 2 CDs of new tracks, with a very decent selection from some of the current Finnish crew. It’s fair to say that Astraia is the standout track here, but Enchanted Mind and Macropsia are also great tunes. Special congratulations to Aryx for the release of Chaldea – his production is really coming along well, and this one is very professional with some great touches.

Japanese freeform is obviously still a bit too far under the radar for this kind of release, but what’s here should appeal to a lot of different DJs/listeners. Check out the FINRG topic for the full tracklist and previews.

Matt England – Promo / Classics Mix 2010

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 3, 2010
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Finnish, Mixes, UK. 3 comments

Matt England – Promo Mix 2010 by FINRG Recordings 

Here’s a very welcome promo mix from Matt England, with an atmosphere that anyone on TYFTH should enjoy. After Psiosis, the set has a less dark feel, but after Alek Szahala’s Lumi it definitely gets going again. I was pleasantly surprised by Lost Soul’s Beyond Salvation, and the sequence following that is really very nice. Listen out too for Evol Intent’s Middle of the Night, a very nice selection followed by Shunt.

It’s highly recommended, and online now at the FINRG SoundCloud. Here’s the tracklist:

1. Matt England – Psiosis
2. Lost Soul – Love Can Destroy
3. Asa & S1 – Cured
4. Matt England – Underground
5. Alek Szahala – Lumi
6. Matt England – Consciousness
7. Lost Soul – Beyond Salvation
8. Alek Szahala – Maruuk
9. Matt England – Decelerate
10. The Qemists – Stompbox (Spor Remix)
11. Evol Intent – Middle of the Night
12. Ephexis – Shunt
13. Alek Szahala – From Flesh to Machines

Matt England – Psiosis / Decelerate

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 18, 2010
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Matt England – Psiosis by FINRG Recordings

Along with new tracks from Substanced and Rob.O.T.T, there are two more releases from Matt England on FINRG. Psiosis in particular is a very nice track, with a strong Rx influence – just listen to the bassline and a few of the filtered synths – it’s great to hear someone so obviously going for a ‘Finnish style’ sound and getting this close. Even if the breakdown doesn’t quite live up to the rest of the track, it keeps the atmosphere going nicely, and thankfully stays well away from the typical UK sound.

The other track, Decelerate, is a bit more experimental, with guitar, more Rx style synth work and a breaks/dubstep section in the breakdown. With the right tracks surrounding it, I can imagine this one working really well in a club set, the structure is perfect for a live crowd.

Apofish – Perappyyhe (Part II)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 15, 2010
Posted in: Finnish, Mixes, Releases. 3 comments

Most people will have heard this before, but a while ago I came across Perappyyhe Part II on YouTube, and can’t resist posting it up. Made under Alek Szahala’s early moniker, Apofish, it’s still a really nice track, and made me go back and check out some of his other earlier tunes (like his excellent 1997 Ravemix).

What really interests me is that Alek was using FastTracker 2 for his producing back then, which is what really got me into music making, too (we’re almost the same age, I think). Knowing what goes into making a tracked tune, and considering how long ago he put them together, it’s hard not to be really impressed. Somehow he was coming up with stuff in the late 90s that already showed signs of the Alek Szahala sound – just listen to some of the melodies and the flow of the tunes…

FURY presents DJ X Lab 4, 5th February

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 8, 2010
Posted in: Events, Finnish, UK. 6 comments

Last Friday DJ X Lab 4 was playing at FURY (Helsinki), and here are some highlights from his set. Looks like it was another excellent one – not sure I’ll ever get tired of hearing the new version of Requiem..but does anyone know what the last track is from 6.10?

All these YouTube videos are a bit tough for the site to handle, so click below for Proteus’ set – well worth checking out as always.

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New FINRG releases

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 3, 2010
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Carbon Based – Ancestor by FINRG Recordings

A few of the FINRG releases I mentioned last week are starting to arrive now, as well as the slightly (!) delayed Ancestor, from Carbon Based. It’s still a great track and mixes quite easily into a lot of different tunes, so it should be a useful one for the DJs out there.

Other tunes include a new (I think) drum and bass/breakbeat tune from The Sauna Boys and a couple of unreleased Pain on Creation edits. The Fatal Error edit of Lush is an interesting one – it’s 180bpm (instead of the original 170), but is missing the ‘main’ melody from the breakdown onwards. The crazy synths sound amazing at this faster bpm though…

As usual, the FINRG SoundCloud is the place to find these tracks.

[TYFTH Tracks] Epyx & Cyrez vs Fea – Untitled 4 Evah (Unfinished edit)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 2, 2010
Posted in: Finnish, Releases. 3 comments

There haven’t been too many tracks added lately, but following up from Phaedra here’s another killer from three of Hybridize’s finest. Epyx, Cyrez and Fea’s untitled track became an absolute anthem when I played at Hell’s Gate, and was the opening tune for my first ever set there. Believe it or not I had it pitched up to about 172bpm, and I’ll never forget the reaction of the crowd when the kick came in…of course the hard trance style melodies sound great at the original 160, too.

Cyrez came up with a ‘Hell’s Gate edit’ especially for the first event, but this newer version has a few extra bits and pieces in the main breakdown. If anyone was at the FINRG 512 event, it was part of the Hybridize set – that’s the quality of tune we have here. Extra massive thanks go to Epyx, Cyrez and Fea – hope everyone enjoys it.

Download here