This is more for the crew in Japan, but in a few minutes I’ll be doing a quick ‘broadcast’ to test out the ustream recorder, using the first part of the set I played on Sunday. If anyone’s around, feel free to say hi, but it’ll only be 30 minutes or so (and all being well the recording will go up here and on Ustream anyway).
Events
Thanks to Syntse for this video from Heathen and J7’s b2b set last Friday. I was looking forward to hearing what they played, and it turned out to be hard house and NRG all the way – nice to hear Kraateri in there at the beginning.
About 25 minutes to go until I clang through a few tunes on ustream, so maybe about time to put the window up here too. I’m quite happy with the intro I’ve got planned, but don’t have a clue what’ll happen after that – I’ll have plenty of tracks to hand though, for any requests for something special.
Time to stretch my legs a bit before all that starts – anyone who’s free later on, hope to see you there!
To get in the mood for next week’s THC, here’s a clip of Kanon playing hardcore at the vs Rainbow Devil event at the end of last year. I’m either going senile (very possible) or somehow I managed to completely miss this set at the time…
Just some early warning that I’ll be playing another Ustream set on Sunday, starting at 9pm my time. For those who aren’t around, in the next couple of days I’ll experiment a bit with recording while streaming, too. Not too sure about the tunes yet, but there’ll be some newer stuff as well as a few more oldies…
It’s a quiet week so far, but luckily the rest of the month is going to be pretty busy, event-wise. Here’s a quick look at the three I’ll probably be going along to.
First up (on the 10th) is Tokyo Hardcore Construction. The lineup is looking reasonable, and as this one is the night before a national holiday there might be some other ravers there, too.
There’s a Tokyo Decadance on Saturday the 12th, but intelligent dnb legend LTJ Bukem is playing a special long-set on the same evening. Modern dnb or not, I can’t really miss this one, so I’ll probably end up two-stepping it with the drunken expat crew at Daikanyama’s Unit.
Finally (on the 19th) we have Dairin and KA-NA’s new event, Destroyed High. It’s a nice first-event lineup, and Kanon will be playing again as a special guest.
I had a great time playing older tunes and the Betwixt/Alabaster showcase last night – massive thanks to everyone who came along. Hopefully I’ll have time to do another one pretty soon, but in the meantime here’s the tracklist from the first set.
01. Pain on Creation – Adaption (pre-release version)
02. Carbon Based – Kraateri
03. DJ Rx – Frozen Flame
04. Carbon Based – Real Stuff
05. Nomic – Falling Star (original)
06. Dok & Ponder – Mental Ward (Carbon Based remix)
07. EFM-7 vs Twisted Freq – Lumalux 20
08. Level 13 – Die Like The Rest
09. Level 13 – Exaltation
10. DJ Fury – Lemonade Raygun (Back Room remix)
11. Amx & Nomic – Trip to Heaven (Nomic remix)
12. Alek Szahala – Solar Hive
13. Carbon Based & Nemes – Heaven n Hell (Alek Szahala remix)
14. Proteus – Venla
I’ve finally solved the distortion problems that have made recent Ustream shows a bit of a mess – just in time for an hour-long semi-rerun of last week’s Betwixt vs Alabaster set. Before that though, I’ll be playing an hour or so of older freeform (inspired by Flip’s Mentasm set and all the comments underneath).
I’m guessing that there might be a few people who haven’t yet got their hands on the new Betwixt & Between and Alabaster albums, so tonight I’ll be playing a Ustream showcase of the two (plus a few other bits and pieces). Nothing’s very organised yet, but I’ll have a rummage around and see what I can come up with before 11pm.
edit: Thanks to everyone who stopped by last night – it was tough to come up with a ‘set’ in the 90 minutes before I started, but I got at least a few of the new tracks in. As requested, here’s the tracklist for the main part of the show.
01. Outro [Pure Existence]
02. Betwixt & Between – Paradoxical Silence [Nanosecond Eternity]
03. Alabaster – Black Border [Pure Existence]
04. Betwixt & Between – Out of Blue [Nanosecond Eternity]
05. Betwixt & Between – Enter the Void [東方酒乱集]
06. Betwixt & Between vs Teranoid – CG25 [Pure Existence]
07. Alabaster – Zealot (Edit) [Rust World]
08. Alabaster – Acid Maker [Deus]
09. Betwixt & Between – Isolation [Nanosecond Eternity]
10. Betwixt & Between – The Moon from Below [Scarlet Eyes]
11. Alabaster – Forgotten Ancient (Remix) [Rust World]
12. Alabaster – Hellion [Deus]
13. Betwixt & Between – City of Solitude [Nanosecond Eternity]
14. Alabaster – Revenant (Album edit) [Deus]
15. Alabaster – Void [Hardcore Syndrome 2]
16. Betwixt & Between – Disturbed Mind [Promo]
17. Poly Calamity – Opkiklo [Pure Existence]
18. Betwixt & Between – Gravity’s Rainbow [Nanosecond Eternity]
19. Betwixt & Between – ? [Promo]
Both of these events took place last month, and for one reason or another both had truly woeful attendance. Some sneaky camera angles disguise it pretty well, but (unfortunately) I’m easy enough to spot at the beginning of the Nitro X clip.
A shame that nobody was around for Betwixt’s THC set – it was a mix of his TOTAL DISCOMMUNICATION and Nanosecond Eternity tracks – but that’s what comes of holding the event on a weekday, I suppose.