Events

Munted! Monthly! Episode 7

Posted by PlasmaDancer on April 29, 2012
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What with one thing and another I’m not a very regular contributor on the Freeform Forum at the moment, but luckily there does seem to be a nice little community taking shape over there. Thanks to Chip, then, who’s pointed me towards the new poll that’s up and running re. episode 7 of Munted! Monthly!

It looks like something quite special is planned, with Chip and Midas, two new guests, and two crusty veterans from previous shows. That includes me of course, so if you enjoyed my last M!M! set do feel free to put a vote in (or a vote for someone else if you didn’t, of course). Looking at the poll this evening, it appears that the ‘leaders’ are currently me and the fairly un-crusty Substanced, but we’ll see what happens.

Anyway, I’m messing around with a few different mixes at the moment (both freeform and otherwise), so whatever happens I’m hoping to have a new set properly under construction soon.

P.R.D, DAHLIA, ASAHI @Dark Dimension

Posted by PlasmaDancer on April 20, 2012
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Thanks to Kohaku there are some nice videos up from last weekend’s Dark Dimension – luckily, as I made a total mess of preparation, with jetlag knocking me out just before I was going to leave. I’m not sure I’ve ever been so disappointed to miss an event, as this one had pretty much everything I’m into these days. As long as the next one’s a Saturday I’ll be there no matter what…

Anyway, it looks like there was some pretty rough stuff from DJs like DAHLIA and P.R.D (as the video up top shows), while ASAHI made my day by playing TYFTH tune Sound & Fury. Check out the Dark Dimension channel for some other clips of goth scene regular Wakana and the rest of the lineup.

Munted! Monthly!

Posted by PlasmaDancer on April 20, 2012
Posted in: Drum & Bass, Events, Mixes, UK. 2 comments

Something I’ve been meaning to check out for a while is the Munted! Monthly! blog/website, but I finally got around to it while catching part of last Saturday’s show. It looks like Dyzphazia/Chip’s doing a fine job on the updates so far, and there’ll soon be MM5 links for the non-facebook crew. The other sets are also archived there, including the very interesting MM4 (which is top of my ‘to listen’ list at the moment).

Dark Dimension, 14th April @Decadance Bar

Posted by PlasmaDancer on April 14, 2012
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There’s a much-delayed post lined up, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow as I’m off to my first Dark Dimension this evening. Organised by NRGetic Romancer regular Kohaku, I’ve already mentioned DD and its excellent combination of dark/gothic atmosphere and harder DJs, but haven’t been able to attend until tonight. This’ll be a treat then, especially with Asahi hopefully providing a bit of NRG alongside PRD, Wakana, Selia and the rest of a very promising lineup.

I’ve been trying to get to one of Hiroyuki Takahashi’s live painting sessions for a long time, and it just so happens that he’ll be doing a show during tonight’s event. All being well there’ll be plenty of photos as well as video come tomorrow..

Destination Finland

Posted by PlasmaDancer on March 1, 2012
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, UK. 14 comments

This will be the last post before I head off to Helsinki tomorrow – sorry I haven’t been able to post as much as I would have liked this past week, but predictably I underestimated how much time it would take to plan a set as well as my month-long trip. I’ll be posting again from Finland/the UK, but until then, big thanks to everyone for their Hybridize track suggestions, and I hope to bump into a few Horsers this weekend!

Experience! Vol.3, 18th February

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 26, 2012
Posted in: Events, Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. 1 comment

Last weekend I managed to head along to Experience!, and even remembered to take a few videos. It was an excellent event that gives me hope that there might be a future for freeform at Tokyo hardcore events after all, especially with producers of the quality of the outstanding Le Dos-on and up-and-coming DJs like raqhow and Nrgray.

It was great to meet both raq and Le Dos-on (as well as ikaruga) for the first time, and their b2b set was just phenomenal. Le Dos-on’s production is coming on at an amazing rate, and his newest material is sounding like a powerful mix of FINRG, Hybridize and Betwixt & Between. Raqhow also came up with some quality selections – the combination of an artist playing his own stuff while a DJ responds with tracks from around the scene was amazingly effective, I’d love to see that happen more often. Here are the two videos from their set, click below for a quick look at what else was going on.

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The return of the Saunaboys

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 26, 2012
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Topping even the last post, here’s what might be ultimate promovideo for next weekend – the Saunaboys are back in a new and even madder adventure, with oscar-worthy perfomances from many of the crew. An absolute must-view then, even if the Finnish dialogue might be a bit of a mystery.

TYFTH is back (again)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 25, 2012
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That was nice timing, wasn’t it? I don’t have a clue what happened to TYFTH this time (and nor does the resident tech guru), but we’re back with exactly one week to go until the 10th Anniversary event.

I’m afraid it’ll have to be TYFTH Turbo Edition this weekend, as lots of stuff has happened but I don’t have much time to post about it. Hopefully we’ll be up to date in a couple of days, and there should be some new posts next week before I leave for Finland (on Thursday).

Before I get back to mix practice, here’s Alek Szahala’s suitably mad contribution to the promotion push – support FINRG or the Swedes take over! Though if we’re talking Heathen and Labraska, I’m not sure many would complain…

Munted! Monthly! Episode 3, 18th February @10pm (GMT)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on February 15, 2012
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Coming this weekend is the next installment of Munted! Monthly!, and it looks like being another quality show. As well as regulars Dyzphazia and Midas, there’ll be sets from A.B and Watchtower label owners Endemic. I have high hopes for the Endemic set, and after A.B’s excellent Lionheart remix it’ll be very interesting to see what he comes up with. All being well I’ll be up on time to catch the whole show live on Krafty Radio – hope to see some of the crew there too.

As for TYFTH Live, it’s obviously not going to happen in February, but stay tuned, as it just occurred to me that I could fit one in while I’m in the UK or Finland (!).