Surprise little end-of-the-year reappearance here, and this might even be another one of those TYFTH returns to form. I’ve been playing around with a few sets lately, with the intention of finally streaming some short sets on a more regular schedule. Some might not be much more than half an hour or so, but at least that’ll be easier to do consistently. They could well include some of those old ideas like promo-only sets, other genres, that kind of thing.

For now, there’ll be a shortish set tomorrow as I ease back into things. This’ll be freeform on the darker side – which, as anyone who’s been keeping an eye on the scene lately will know, means a mostly older tracklist. The vast majority of the last run-through was based around tracks that I’ve never played anywhere before though, so at least it won’t be yet another rerun of me chugging through the old faithfuls.

Another post is on the way that looks at some recent(ish) releases, which will eventually make up for tomorrow’s lack of representation. In the meantime you’ll be welcome to stop by twitch tomorrow, or keep an eye on YouTube for the upload soon afterwards.

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Thanks everyone who listened live – apologies for the trouble with the visuals, that’ll be sorted before the next set. The audio version is up on YouTube now though, and here’s the tracklist:

01. Epyx & Cyrez – The Lurking Fear
02. Pain on Creation – Ironworks (Gain Edit)
03. Kevin Energy & Proteus – London Helsinki Underground (Proteus Warcry 2011 Remix)
04. Epyx & Cyrez – Polar Energy
05. Nemes & Blender – Inquisition
06. Morita Yuuhei – Sadistic Form
07. RR-ThermalForce – Eternal Cannon (DJ Rx remix)
08. Twisted Freq – Releashed (Original Mix)
09. Alabaster – Galaxy
10. Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling (Transcend remix)

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it to the inaugural twitch stream, especially after social media did its best to keep people away. Even the last-ditch Facebook posts on the day were being hidden away, which wasn’t much help to the mostly European crew who had shown interest in the cancelled edition a few weeks ago. Lesson learned though, and from now on I’ll be relying more on here, lesser-of-two-evils Twitter, and twitch itself for announcements. Special thanks to the Japanese crew and TYFTH regulars who managed to find their way to the stream, it was utterly great to see you all.

I have uploaded the video for anyone who missed it though, with some very minor edits to cut out the soundcheck and some silence at the end. I was tempted to go down the titles/captioning route to spruce up the presentation a bit but that’s possibly going a bit far for what was supposed to be a pretty casual set.

In the end we made it to just shy of two hours, which was quite a surprise. I hope everyone enjoyed it, and if I seemed slightly subdued it was mostly thanks to having to keep more of an eye than usual on some new technical stuff. I tend to be as much of an arm waving loon during practice at home as in the club but didn’t want to hit one of the four screens I was surrounded by…

Anyway, the set was great fun and was reasonably on-brand for me considering it wasn’t planned to the usual extreme degree. I’ve noticed that winging it completely doesn’t really work as the transitions will be shorter and/or less interesting – too many of them and it starts to sound less and less like one of my mixes. Dug my own grave there, it seems.

Finally, I was glad to see the visuals went down well with everyone. What with it being a twitch set I really wanted some way add some visual interest and a live, interactive feel, and this seemed a pretty successful first try. Might be an idea to lower the room lighting next time for that authentic, cramped club vibe.

Stay tuned then – I’d like to manage one of these sets each month, but it’d be nice to stream some practice runs and other genres in the meantime, too.

Tracklist

01. Turmion Katilot – Verta ja Lihaa (Proteus Mental remix)
02. Lab4 – 4 Those About 2
03. GULD – Nightmare Freak (2009 remix)
04. Lab4 – Candyman (GULD remix)
05. Marilyn Manson – Resident Evil (J-Gear bootleg remix)
06. GULD – Hannya (Android Lime remix)
07. Lab4 – Perfect Drug
08. Hatsune Miku – Senbonzakura (GULD remix)
09. Alek Szahala – Ziggurat
10. Zio – Hell’s Gate (PlasmaDancer remix)
11. Alek Szahala – Dryad Machine (GULD remix)
12. Morita Yuuhei – Redemption Song
13. Cyrez & Sam One – Reboot the System
14. GULD – Gozenzeuna
15. Twisted Freq – Rougher Than You
16. Alek Szahala – Caballo
17. Betwixt & Between – Surendrajit (2011 refix)
18. Nomic – Rule Breaker
19. Betwixt & Between – Like a Flame
20. Nomic & Pain on Creation – Make Me Real
21. Eryk Orpheus – PVC
22. Proteus – Venla
23. Proteus – Venla Part 2
24. Cryobiosis – Serenity

A quick reminder that the rescheduled TYFTH twitch stream is happening tomorrow, which might be especially necessary as our old friend Facebook is limiting visibility of yesterday’s announcement. The set will definitely be longer than the usual event appearances but I’m not sure by how much – I was trying out a few mixes yesterday but I haven’t got a fixed tracklist in mind. Let’s say longer than one hour but probably less than two.

This’ll be a test run, but I’ll be aiming to iron out any sound issues and tinker with the visuals for a few minutes before the official start time. I’ll do my best with the multitasking to keep an eye on the chat, and it’ll be great to see anyone who’s able to stop by.