Guld has completed the first part of his European tour, playing at Helsinki’s Säde. A decent crop of videos have already turned up online, and as you can see from the clip here, Guld seems to have done the business in no short order, playing new tracks from himself, Hase, Betwixt & Between, and others. He’ll be heading to Italy next, playing at the Massive event on Saturday.
Finnish
Not long at all now until Guld’s second appearance in Finland, and he’s recently posted up the excellent flyer design for the event at Helsinki’s Sade (I don’t know how to type the ‘special a’, sorry). Playing alongside Proteus, Neon, Friik, Inch b2b with Triton, and Tritium, not to mention Kuroshio Current, it looks like a great event in the making. Those of you in Finland, make sure to take lots of photos/video for us back here in Tokyo.
Electronica Exposed definitely doesn’t do things by half measures. As well as the long-awaited release of Full Circle Recording’s Big Kisses and Darkness, we have the sixth and final release in the Kreatrix series, a wide selection of interesting looking tunes in Plundered Vaults, UK freeform in Electromagnetic: The Complete Works, and finally volumes 3 and 4 of Electronic: The Complete Works. That’s an almost unbelievable list, and just shows what we’re going to miss when EE finally shuts up shop. There are too many great tunes to list in their entirety, but check out the Electronica Exposed site for enough tracklists to sink a very big ship.
Incidentally, Big Kisses and Darkness’ release means that DJ Yousuke and Buzzmasta’s awesome Spiral Life (plus the Invader remix) has finally seen daylight – it’s definitely up there with Halcyon as one of my favourite Full Circle tunes.
A new batch of releases are just out from Hybridize, including a pre-release two-track CD from Nightforce (and Substanced). Featuring the absolutely fantastic Raindrops and the pacy hardcore Do You Love, this is really a must-listen. A few other tracks are now available via the FINRG shop and Trackitdown, including Sam One’s The Future, Substanced’s Geneva and the Swoosh vs Carbon Based remix of DJ Air’s Alone With Me. All great tunes, and highly recommended.
It’s been a good week – I’ve just joined the new FINRG sublabel, Hybridize, as a ‘Hybridize DJ’! Joining the other new recruits, producer/DJs ROB.O.T.T and Nightforce, I’ll be doing my best to push the new Finnish sound in this corner of the world (while pushing the Japanese sound back in the other direction). It’s really an honour to be connected with artists/DJs as great as Epyx & Cyrez, Nomic, Swoosh, Substanced, Sam One, Horzi…the list goes on. I’m starting to think about next month’s Hell’s Gate now, but after that I’ll be sure to bang out a few new mixes ASAP to celebrate.
Recently Proteus’ Bassoradio programme held a special Hybridize showcase, and you can catch a really nice selection of the new sublabel’s releases, including Nomic’s absolutely beautiful Extinguish as the opening tune. The interview with DJ Swoosh and Epyx & Cyrez is probably very interesting too, but I haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. It’s in Finnish, you see. Anyway, highly recommended, and you can download it here.
Nightforceというハードコア／フリーフォームアーティストは四つの新曲が完成しました。全部の曲のメロディーがすごく盛り上がってかっこいいと思います。特にRaindropsはちょっとAlek Szahalaっぽいですね！NightforceのMySpaceで聴けるRaindropsとDo You LoveはフィンランドのHybridizeというレーバルでリリース予定してます。おすすめですよ！
Nightforce has just announced four new tracks – his incredibly catchy Streets at Night remix, a remix of DJ Sash’s Simulate, Do You Love (alongside Substanced) and the fantastic Raindrops. All of the tunes are very melodic and distinctly ‘Nightforce style’, and can be heard on his MySpace page. The good news is that Raindrops and Do You Love are all set for release on Hybridize, so massive congrats are due. Apparently there are more tunes on the way before long – there’s no stopping this man!
Sam One released this one a few days back, another collection of his own productions/collaborations. I really am a fan of the first one, and there’s some really inspired mixing as well as the impressive tunes, so I was very keen to check this one out. Once again, there are a few storming tracks – he really knows how to come up with energetic melodies – and the epic intro followed by Supernova is a great way to kick things off. Other highlights include his remix of Rx’s Code of Silence and already released Hybridize material (The Future and Lionheart). I have to say that I do prefer the first mix, as that seemed to have the perfect combination of hard trance style melodies and freeform roughness, but this is still a great set and definitely worth checking.
- Sam One – Intro
- Sam One – Supernova
- Sam One – The Future
- Sam One – Hypnotize
- DJ Rx – Code of Silence (Sam One remix)
- Sam One & Horzi – Fear of Reality
- Sam One, Substanced and Horzi – Lionheart
Download here (by clicking ‘kuuntele’/’listen’): http://klubitus.org/musiikki.php?id=5749
The dates for Guld’s tour in Europe have just been confirmed, and he’ll be playing first (on the 22nd November) at SADE (alongside Proteus), then at DJ BRK’s event in Italy (on the 26th), MASSIVE. Guld has played in Finland once before, but the Japanese scene was far less known back then (I won’t say smaller, as it’s pretty small now), and so there should be quite a reception for him. It’s also his Italian debut, and it’ll be great to see what kind of a scene is going on in that neck of the woods, too.
You might well have seen this one already, but definitely worth mentioning – the last chapter in the Kreatrix Evilution series, this is without a doubt the best tracklist I’ve laid my eyes on for a good while. Nomic, Tyranoid/Stongstream, Micken, Epyx & Cyrez, Substanced….it’s really a roll-call of the new generation’s best artists.
Of extra interest for visitors to this place is the inclusion of Guld’s DragonBall-influenced Solid State Scouter. If you haven’t heard much of it yet, it’s slightly mad, twisted and surprisingly melodic – and seems to be a bit of a slow burner, it’s really become one of my favourites recently, having listened to it for a long while without being totally convinced. Anyway, great news for Guld, who has also seen Requiem get a recent release in Japan, and has just completed another crazed track – brace yourselves for that one.
01 Epyx & Cyrez, Substanced, Twisted Freq, Tyranoid/Strongstream – Intro
02 Substanced & Grimsoul – Harder Than U Think
03 Nomic – Dead Angel
04 Micken – Prophecy
05 Horzi featuring Alchemiist – Life for Freedom (Epyx & Cyrez remix)
06 Grimsoul – Escape Forever
07 Substanced – Why Me (Micken remix)
08 Horzi – Infernal Psycho
09 Guld – Solid State Scouter
10 Twisted Freq & Cyrez – The Edge of Extinction
11 Tyranoid/Strongstream vs Substanced – Still Hope?