For everyone who was wondering about Substanced’s new Crank Cleopatra – here it is! I love the intro, and the Substanced-style melody after the breakdown really grabs you, classic stuff. When I played it at the last NRGetic Romancer, even people who had just walked in couldn’t help dancing away…
Finnish
There’ll probably be some more videos from Muon coming before too long (courtesy of SHINOSAN), but thanks again to Eirik for this one, taken near the beginning of my set. First is one of Betwixt & Between’s older tracks, Liberation, followed by Alek Szahala’s Invitation.
A quick shout for Alchemiist’s newest track, the first freeform tune for a while after all his recent Hard NRG. Radiation’s opening and the first piano melody remind me of Epyx & Cyrez, but then it goes off in a different direction – Alchemiist’s nasty synths are really sounding good these days, and that hyper melody after the (very nice) breakdown sounds a bit different to almost everything else out there at the moment…check it out at the top of this post.
The latest in the Crush on Hardcore series has been in the works for a while, and now there’s just a month or two more until release. This time the DJs are Cube::Hard, Shanty and a final FINRG set from JNKS/Swoosh and Rx/Carbon Based. The other big news is that there will be a physical version released in small numbers too (for free), as well as a follow-up CD of full tracks called Sequel of the V…also for free.
Inside this post is the promotional text from the COH crew, including the full tracklists. Watch out for some nice new tunes from FINRG in the final set…
The first Top Ten for quite a while, but first here’s an amazing tune I completely forgot about until a couple of days ago. This week I’ve been listening to a very nice mix of Photek’s mid-90s dark, minimal tunes, and UFO is right in the middle of the set. It has some of the best use of voice samples I’ve ever heard, taking lines from the audio recording of the UFO sighting at Rendlesham Forest in the UK (here’s the second half of the recording that Photek sampled). Whether it’s a hoax or not (!) there are about a million sample-worthy lines, and Photek used them perfectly. With his trademark drums, amazing sub bass and weird sounds, it’s a special tune, no mistake.
Anyway, back to freeform:
- Nomic – Muuttolintu
- Alek Szahala – Lagash
- Nomic – Walking in the Air
- Alek Szahala -Astraia
- Substanced – Crank Cleopatra
- Guld – Hannya X (Proteus “Kampai Forever” remix)
- Betwixt & Between – Nemesis
- Poly Calamity – Unam Sanctam
- Nightforce – Symphony for the Devil (The Virus Escaped)
- Hase – Disintegration
I’m quite late to this one, but on Mikseri there’s a great sounding preview of a new track from Df-X (aka Fea) called Dipping, and although it stops before the track really gets going, it sounds really promising. Does anyone know if the track is finished now?
By the way, if you’re new to Fea’s Mikseri page, be sure to check out Hyperthymia, still one of my favourites. I remember using the preview years ago in a 160bpm practice set, mixed with Balag Lamara and Galatea, I think…
Man of a million genres, aka Syntse, looks like he played a great freeform set in Finland last Friday, including Betwixt & Between’s Airwave remix. It’s definitely worth checking out both videos, but Airwave is at the start of the second. Always great to see a Japanese tune get that kind of response from the crowd…
I wasn’t there, as expected, but luckily TAK666 took some nice footage of all the DJs at yesterday’s Cradle to Grave. Here we have Alabaster playing Frozen Flame, still a lovely tune. It sounds like Singularity being mixed in at the end there, one of his favourites recently.
Dyzphazia – Freeformensaundi by Dyzphazia
Dyzphazia’s been busy with another mix, and it’s easily his best yet. Very twisted from start to end, but with the melodies in all the right places, it’s great to see how his selection is coming along – this one has some of the nicest combinations I’ve heard for a long time, and just look at the tracklist:
- Proteus – Venla Pt.2
- Epyx & Cyrez – Black Mamba
- Pain on Creation – Shine
- Alek Szahala – Supriya (live edit)
- DJ Rx – Code of Silence
- Epyx & Cyrez – Heroes for Sale
- Alek Szahala – Dryad Machine
- Pain on Creation -Lush (Carbon Based remix)
- DJ Rx – Fish Eye
- Epyx & Cyrez – Unhola
- Pain on Creation – Iron Works
- DJ Rx – Frozen Flame
- Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon
- RR-ThermalForce – Eternal Cannon
Combining the new with the old, there’s probably a tune for everyone here, plus what I think might be the best mix into Eternal Cannon I’ve heard so far. Other mixes that especially caught my ear were Black Mamba>Shine and Fish Eye>Unhola, but the effort that’s gone into the whole set is clear. Very highly recommended – support a fellow TYFTH reader and check this one out ASAP.
It’s worth mentioning that if you’re scared by the idea of downloading a mix in wav format, there’s a link for a 256kbps mp3 on the SoundCloud, too.
Following yesterday’s post, here we have a brand new promo mix from Nomic himself. Given that his recent tunes (apart from Aurinkoon) seem to have been a bit slower, I was expecting 160bpm+, but it starts off with Falling Star, hammering along at a nice 170.
There isn’t an official tracklist yet, but a few of my recent favourites are in there – Desolated Dreams, Delta Pavonis and the new Muuttolintu. A Nomic-only set is about as good an hour of music as you’re going to hear anywhere…aside from a couple of off connections (hard to avoid with such complex tunes) I really can’t recommend this one highly enough.
I nearly forgot to mention that he also has a wonderful new Anomic track on the SoundCloud. Called My Universe, it’s a beautiful tune, something like a 5-minute Nomic breakdown with its strings, piano and occasional techy sounds.