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NRGetic Romancer 5th Anniversary, 15th August

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 19, 2009
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Japanese. 1 comment

It’s less than a month away, so last night we were giving out flyers for next month’s 5th Anniversary event. A bit hard to see here, but the cover is made up of every flyer design so far – Guld designed it himself, and it sounds like it was a pretty tough job to come out with something looking this nice in the end.

The other thing you might notice is that there will be a special Hybridize mix CD on entry….mixed by me! I’ve been messing around with possible tracks for a while now, and there’ll be a good few promos/unreleased material on there, from Finland and Japan. I’m really glad to have a deadline for it, but I’m going to make sure it’s as good I can possibly manage in the time I have – it’s a massive thing to be mixing this for the 5th Anniversary, and thanks go to Guld for the chance to do it. Of course, the mix will be appearing on here eventually too…finally I’ll have something new for people to listen to!

Operation Karma, 20th June

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 19, 2009
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I’ve been really busy with music-related stuff this past week, but I’m back from NRGetic Romancer now and I’ll try to get a post or two up today. First of all, here’s a quick roundup of last month’s Operation Karma – I haven’t seen any video yet, but it was one of the best events I’ve been to in the past year, I think, so it’s definitely worth a mention.

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Android Lime, DJ-X (Lab 4) vs BRK @ LSO Radio

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 9, 2009
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For anyone who missed the Android Lime and DJ -X vs BRK sets last week, they are now both downloadable. I’ve already given Android’s mix a couple of listens, and it’s great stuff once again. Starting off with hard dance, things get more and more frantic towards the end – my favourite section is probably the mix from DJ Rx’s In Memoriam to Android’s own remix of Hell Night, followed by the Jody 6 remix of Hatral.

Download the set here

I haven’t had a chance to check the DJ -X vs BRK set yet, but I’ll be doing so tomorrow – until then, everyone else can download it from here, too.

Substanced – Live @ Konemetsä 2009

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 7, 2009
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So Konemetsä has been and gone, and a lot of the FINRG/Hybridize artists were playing there. I hope we’ll get to hear a few recorded sets, and to start us off here’s one from Substanced. As you can see, it’s full-on freeform all the way with a really high BPM (just as it should be), and runs through a lot of Substanced’s classic older tunes plus Harder Than U Think, Freeform Mercury, that kind of thing. It would have been great to be there for this one…I wonder if anyone took some video during the set?

  1. Horzi – The Elegy (Substanced remix)
  2. Substanced – Lost Temple
  3. Substanced – Escalate
  4. Substanced – Worth Fighting For (Konemetsä edit)
  5. Substanced & Grimsoul – Harder Than U Think
  6. Substanced – Lost Temple Part II
  7. Substanced – Dream of You
  8. Substanced, Sam One & Horzi – Lionheart
  9. Substanced & Horzi – Superior Pressure 09
  10. Substanced – Freeform Mercury
  11. (Substanced – F!CK ME)

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Hybridize digital releases for free

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 26, 2009
Posted in: Finnish, Japanese, Releases. 2 comments

That’s right – new Hybridizes are now available for free download (!) from the FINRG homepage, inlcuding some great tunes from all the regular crew, plus a collaboration between Japanese artist Dexterpurpure and Tyranoid (Ascension, a favourite of Guld’s for a while now).

It’s obviously a big change for Hybridize, and if it gets the tunes out to even more DJs and listeners then it’s surely a good thing – of course I’ve been pushing them a lot at Hell’s Gate and NRGetic Romancer, and recently Hybridize tunes have been turning up in sets by Betwixt & Between, DJ Minagi, Alabaster and others. The newest batch includes everything from hard trance up to Substanced’s amazing Freeform Mercury (which I’ll be playing again next month, no doubt), and now there’s nothing stopping you from checking them all out.

Sam One and Substanced in Trackitdown’s Top 20

Posted by PlasmaDancer on May 25, 2009
Posted in: Finnish, Releases. 2 comments

Two tunes by Hybridize artists Sam One and Substanced have broken into the Hardcore Top 20 on Trackitdown. Both released by Electronica Exposed, Sam One’s tune, Hypnotize, is at the time of writing a very very impressive 12th, while Substanced’s great rework of Lost Temple is currently in 21st place. To be up there amongst all the UK Hardcore is quite an achievement, and both tunes are genuinely worth getting hold of if you haven’t already.

Sam One – Promo Mix 2009 / Decion – Soul Redemption

Posted by PlasmaDancer on May 21, 2009
Posted in: Finnish, Mixes. 2 comments

Here are two new mixes from Finland that are well worth checking out – the first is Hybridize artist Sam One’s latest tune showcase. His previous sets were absolute quality, and this one doesn’t disappoint either, with a hardtrance feel that gradually ups the bpm into freeform territory towards the end. Some of the melodies in here really are fantastic (check out the breakdown in S.O.S, for example), and the set finishes with one of my favourite tunes of last year, Fear of Reality.

  1. Sam One – The Future
  2. Sam One – S.O.S
  3. Sam One – The Reason 2009
  4. Sam One – U Gotta Feel This
  5. Sam One – Royal Flush
  6. Sam One – Supernova
  7. Sam One & Horzi – Fear of Reality

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Next is Decion’s Soul Redemption, another storming Hard NRG set. This one features some very nice mixing, and continues the same pounding style of the last couple of Decion sets. I don’t listen to that much UK-style Hard NRG, but Decion’s selection is always impressive and definitely creates a dark atmosphere. Highly recommended once again.

1. Intro
2. Weazal – The Avenger
3. Andy K & Lee Mills – Bring It (Grady G Remix)
4. Weazal – Bin Juice (Michael Smith Remix)
5. Firefox – Oz (NARC Remix)
6. The Punisher – Fire In The Sky (Random But Raw Remix)
7. Tom Urwin & Prohibited – Raw To The Point
8. Grady G – Sever Trauma
9. Wylie – Down Under
10. Eufex & Jay B – Vacuum Packed (Grady G Remix)
11. Base Graffiti – The Hulk
12. Firefox – The Devil’s Work (2007 Remix)
13. Grady G – Bezerk
14. Grady G – Broken

Download (click ‘kuuntele’ as usual) 

DJ Azsa – Floral Freeform

Posted by PlasmaDancer on April 2, 2009
Posted in: Canadian, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 9 comments

Thanks again for about the millionth time to Decion, this time for letting me know about a nice mix of freeform from around the world that includes a few Japanese tunes. It starts off with Eternal Cannon….it’s tough to find anything to follow that, but the set has a lot of energy and would definitely be a good one to hear live.

Decion found it in a thread on the Hullabaloo forums, which also very kindly bigs up my mixes and Decion’s Metaform.

RaverRoseTF – Eternal Cannon
Dok & Ponder – Ribcage (Oli G Remix)
Nomic – Holocaust
MINAMOTOYA – Miss You
Betwixt & Between – GENSHI KURAGE
Mark Smith – Bring On The Noize
Oli G – Cordelia
Ephexis & Seventy-7 – Psymbiosis (Blistering Breaks Mix)
EFM-7 – Dream Machine
Kevin Energy & K Complex – Suck My Rock
Tazz vs. Digital Anarchy – Kickin It Ruff
EFM-7 – Pulse 2
Addiction – Senselessness NRG
Oli G – Gir (Arkitech Remix)
Ephexis – Nan Chuan
Teranoid vs Betwixt & Between – AYAKASHI

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Recommended mixes

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 18, 2009
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Time for another mix round-up, I think. My own mix is very very slowly coming together, but I won’t be setting a date for it….picking the first two tunes has taken me about a week (!).

Anyway, first up is Decion’s newest Hard NRG set, Scum of the Earth. Dark and nasty NRG is the thing here, with a fantastic intro that is genuinely one of the best I’ve heard for a long time. It might be Decion’s best Hard NRG set so far, so make sure to download it here, right away (clicking on kuuntele, as usual).

Next is Meke’s Japanese freeform-themed set, Freeformed. This one is really impressive, with some quality selection and nice mixing. The set has the atmosphere of a Japanese event from a couple of years ago, as the sound has changed quite a lot since Invoker and Nightmare Freak were getting regular play. A lot of people here miss some of those retro tunes though, so this was definitely a nice listen. Download here.

Finally we have Kuruption’s Get Finergized Vol 4. His previous sets have been quality, and this one mainly focuses on Hybridize releases. Hell’s Gate and NRGetic Romancer ravers will have heard a lot of these tracks before (especially from the second half of the set), but for anyone else who wants to hear a good selection of the recently released tunes, then this is the mix to go for. Download here.

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Konemetsa 09 Trailer

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 17, 2009
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Thanks to Decion for pointing me towards this one – I’d been watching some videos from Konemetsa earlier today, as it happens. It looks like such a great event…I’ll be heading to Finland at some point, I’m 100% sure, but maybe I can’t make it to the ’09 Konemetsa. A Finnish raver I met at Energetic Trance the other week was telling me about the amazing sound of the music in amongst all those trees, kind of a ‘softer’ sound, or something like that. Seems like the kind of thing you have to be there to experience properly though, so time to start saving..