Mixes

Carbon Based – Live at Oulu / New FINRG releases

Posted by PlasmaDancer on January 6, 2010
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Carbon Based – Live at Oulu by FINRG Recordings

Not too much is happening here in Japan, but I’m trying to finish a mix that’s been on the schedule for the last month…it’s a busy week, though…

Anyway, over on the FINRG SoundCloud there are a few new mix-length uploads – one of them is a really brilliant set from Carbon Based. I’m guessing it’s from a while back – I’m lucky enough to have some of the older CB material, but there were a few gaps in the tracklist for me too. Anyway, CB’s melodies are always fantastic, and it’s not often us folk outside Finland get to hear their tunes b2b like this.

Other new sets include the Rx vs Alek Szahala Live PA from the 2007 Hakkapeliitta tour, Alek’s great hardcore set from Mania, Swoosh’s 512 set and Rx and Alek Szahala Live once again, this time at Pharmacy.

As if that wasn’t enough, there are also a lot of newly-free Re-form releases, including Mask Man 2005 and Cyanide, one of my old favourites. Once again, the FINRG SoundCloud is the place to go.

Latest update from FINRG

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 26, 2009
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Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon by FINRG Recordings

Here’s an epic end-of-year update from FINRG, including Alek Szahala’s Voices of Babylon! It’s possible that I’ve played this tune at every event this year, but I’m nowhere near tired of it – Guld and KA-NA have also been dropping it every chance they get. As well as VoB, there’s my recent favourite The Most Masochist, plus Private Demon, Final Destination, Eewol’s newer tracks and more.

Also just uploaded is Sam One’s set from the Free of Form show on Christmas Eve – I wasn’t able to catch it live, so I’ll be checking this one out soon.

FINRG SoundCloud

Nomic – Muuttolintu

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 23, 2009
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Nomic – muuttolintu(pre alpha beta delta giga 02) by nomic

I expect almost everyone’s heard this one already, but here’s the preview of Nomic’s fabulous Muuttolintu. Apparently translating as ‘migratory bird’ (thanks Substanced), Nomic has again come up with two amazing breakdowns, and a great track overall. If one day I can create melodies like this, I’ll be a happy man… Anyway, this is the pre-alpha-beta-delta-giga version, so there might be more to come in the finished tune. For now, enjoy.

Talking of uploads, my NRGetic Romancer x Hybridize mix is also on the FINRG SoundCloud. My SC is (of course) a free version, and downloads now stop at 100 – the mix had actually gone past 200 before the limit came in, but it’s available again for anyone who missed it.

Huge update from Alek Szahala / FINRG

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 19, 2009
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Alek Száhala – Sunray (Unfinished Forever Edit) by FINRG Recordings

This has made my day/month/year – a massive update from FINRG, but also from Alek Szahala himself! I think we all have to thank TYFTH’s BerN for leaving a comment on Alek’s guestbook, as he’s gone ahead and added everything requested. Biggest news must surely be the free release of Sunray, an amazing, amazing tune – DJs, make sure to play this one ASAP, it will probably be included in pretty much every mix for the next few months. Other tracks include his live edit of Supriya, Last of the Mohicans and his Live at Sade 2003, while over at the FINRG SoundCloud there are also releases from Sam One and Substanced.

J-Mx – Itachi

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 16, 2009
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I’m late posting this one up, but it deserves some promotion – TYFTH is the perfect place to give J-Mx’s newest mix a shout. Made up of mostly Japanese tracks, it’s a very melodic set with some great selections. It’s obvious that J-Mx spent a lot of time on finding good connections between tracks, which is how it should be for a mixtape/studio mix, and he’s definitely made strides since his first uploaded set earlier this year.

Selection-wise, there’s an inspired opening from Nachi Sakaue’s Eternal Dream into Mood Music, as well as a couple of my favourite Alabaster tracks in a really excellent first half. After Betwixt & Between’s Nemesis, the set morphs into the kind of ‘happy Japanese freeform’ that I’m not so keen on, but that’s just me – the mixing is still very good, and fans of the Tano*C sound etc should really enjoy it. Overall, it’s a very nice set indeed, and a good showcase for a slightly different sort of Japanese freeform.

  1. Nachi Sakaue – Eternal Dream
  2. Devastate – Mood Music (Oli G remix)
  3. Alabaster – Barbotage
  4. Betwixt & Between – Discord
  5. Alabaster – Zealot
  6. Aryx – Chaldea
  7. Sam one – Mechanical (Alchemiist remix)
  8. Betwixt & Between – Nemesis
  9. SUGE – simulaton
  10. DJ 490 – Cloudy
  11. DJ Noriken – Sunset Emotion
  12. Ark-Z – Dear Mr GR
  13. S.C.M.E – log
  14. Lv4 – XQCL

Download here

Tokyo Hardcore Construction, 10th January 2010 / Lunch – Visual Contact

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 12, 2009
Posted in: Events, Japanese, Mixes. 2 comments

Not long until the next Tokyo Hardcore Construction, and although it seems like Kanon won’t be there, Lala is returning, which makes a big difference to the middle of the night. The following day’s a big national holiday (even for me, unusually), so should be a decent crowd.

While we’re on a THC tip, here’s Visual Contact, a promo gabber mix from Lunch himself. It’s been up for a while, but I don’t think I’ve posted it before – sorry I don’t have a tracklist, but it’s very similar to his Hardcore Construction sets, with the banging gabber broken up by a couple of nice vocal breakdowns. Download here

Epyx – Grimorium Verum

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 8, 2009
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I’ve been messing around with industrial and Hard NRG/freeform tracks for a while now, but don’t know enough about the former to make a full set. Cue Epyx, who shows how it’s done with this great set. Built around a few of Proteus’ tracks, this one mixes the rawness of the industrial sound and some nasty NRG synths to really good effect. Highly recommended, with some very nice combinations and a fresh sounding take on some of E&C’s tunes.

  1. Epyx – Intro
  2. Apocalyptica – Grace (Proteus remix)
  3. Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
  4. Kill Memory Crash – Never Forget
  5. Suicide Commando – Massaker
  6. Turmion Katilot – Verta Ja Lihaa (Proteus remix)
  7. Combichrist – This is my Life
  8. Epyx & Cyrez vs Substanced – Expedition Bloodbath
  9. Proteus – I See Things That You Don’t See
  10. Lab 4 – Witchdoctor
  11. Epyx & Cyrez – Warcry
  12. Marilyn Manson – This is the New Shit (John B remix)
  13. Epyx & Cyrez – 4th Dimension

Download here

Android Lime vs Alek Szahala @LSO Radio / Betwixt & Between – Nemesis

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 3, 2009
Posted in: Japanese, Mixes, Releases. 15 comments

Hopefully everyone caught Android Lime and Alek Szahala’s radio show last night? There were some amazing tracks from Alek Szahala, including his upcoming release, Astraia. On hearing it, I realised I knew the track already, but the breakdown is just something else – especially now I’m ‘producing’ myself, his melodies are genuinely awe-inspiring…

For anyone who missed the radio show, it was a fantastic set which went right the way through from hard NRG (including Android Lime’s new track, Sex and Violence), to some very high bpms at the end. I’ll let Android post up a tracklist if/when that’s ok, but one of the tracks in the middle was Betwixt & Between’s recently released Nemesis (included on Hardcore Syndrome 3 included on the Alice’s Emotion COLORS compilation – thanks to eirik for the correction).

He already played it at a couple of NRGetic Romancers, and it’s one of his best for a while – when I first heard the breakdown, I was thinking that the less skilled hardcore producers out there would have stopped at the first melody, others might have kept going with the second, but only the top level (Alek etc) can come up with that final melody as the drums come back in…that’s what takes it into ‘potential classic’ territory, I reckon.

edit: Thanks to Android Lime, here’s the full tracklist for the Radio set:

  1.  Intro
  2. Dark by Design – Stigmata
  3. Android Lime – Sex and Violence
  4. Betwixt & Between -The Wander of Hesotarou Tankobu
  5. Alek Szahala – Astraia
  6. Alek Szahala – Vertigo
  7. Alek Szahala – Lagash
  8. Guld – Hannya X (Android Lime remix)
  9. Betwixt & Between – Nemesis
  10. Alek Szahala – Iron Squid
  11. Chanel5 – Never Forget (Alek Szahala remix)
  12. Alek Szahala – Human Flesh Engine

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Dyzphazia – 3FORM

Posted by PlasmaDancer on December 2, 2009
Posted in: Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 3 comments

Here’s a new mix from one of the regulars at TYFTH, Dyzphazia (aka Chip when he’s commenting here), and it’s very refreshing to hear a set that starts off at 175bpm. Opening with the classic Sunfire, this one is a really nice mix of old and new, just how it should be. He’s been quick off the mark to include Airwave, as well as Genshi Kurage and Hell’s Gate from TYFTH. Other nice selections include Alek’s Lagash and Pain on Creation’s Ironworks, making a set that’s well worth checking out.

On the constructive criticism side, personally I might have changed the order of a few tracks to get some smoother connections here and there – but Genshi Kurage>Iron Works>Unhola works especially well, and I was smiling like a fool while listening to the teasing in of Hell’s Gate over Icy Clouds.

The mix is now up on Dyzphazia’s SoundCloud – and I’d recommend his previous set too, a lot of my favourites are in there.