Events

PlasmaDancer live @NRGetic Romancer, 18th April

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 24, 2009
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Thanks to Cogi, April’s set at NRGetic Romancer was recorded after all, so there’s actually something new for me to upload – the first time in over a year (!). I’ve given the set a couple of listens, and overall I’m pretty happy with it….

Cogi recorded it through a mic, so although the quality isn’t amazing, you can hear some of the crowd too, which gives a good idea of the atmosphere during the set. You can also hear how knowledgeable the Romancer crowd is – near the end I go from Freeform Mercury to Supriya, and after about 10 seconds of mixing the two basslines Detch (I think) shouts out ‘Alek Szahala!!’ They really know their stuff.

Here’s the tracklist again, anyway:

  1. Nomic – Steradian
  2. Nomic – There Is No Escape
  3. IAF – Kinky
  4. Re-form – Cobra
  5. Kevin Energy vs Proteus – London Helsinki Underground (K Complex remix)
  6. Albinoni – Adagio in G minor (Nomic remix)
  7. EFM-7 – Dream Machine
  8. Nightforce – The Second Redemption 09
  9. Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon
  10. Sonic – Inside the Ride
  11. Substanced – Freeform Mercury (pre-release version)
  12. Alek Szahala – Supriya
  13. Anomic – This Moment
  14. Outro – Nomic

I’m pretty happy with most of the mix combinations, but that There Is No Escape>Kinky mix didn’t sound as good as I was hoping…not too sure what I was thinking there. Brace yourself at the end too – Cogi needed just a couple more minutes to prepare, so I threw in Nomic’s Outro – to tell the truth I forgot it was 190bpm… The speedcore massive (DJ Redd etc) liked it, at least.

Anyway, it’s a good example of the kind of thing I play these days (last weekend was a bit darker, though) – hope you enjoy!

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NRGetic Romancer 5th Anniversary, 15th August

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 19, 2009
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It’s less than a month away, so last night we were giving out flyers for next month’s 5th Anniversary event. A bit hard to see here, but the cover is made up of every flyer design so far – Guld designed it himself, and it sounds like it was a pretty tough job to come out with something looking this nice in the end.

The other thing you might notice is that there will be a special Hybridize mix CD on entry….mixed by me! I’ve been messing around with possible tracks for a while now, and there’ll be a good few promos/unreleased material on there, from Finland and Japan. I’m really glad to have a deadline for it, but I’m going to make sure it’s as good I can possibly manage in the time I have – it’s a massive thing to be mixing this for the 5th Anniversary, and thanks go to Guld for the chance to do it. Of course, the mix will be appearing on here eventually too…finally I’ll have something new for people to listen to!

Operation Karma, 20th June

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 19, 2009
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I’ve been really busy with music-related stuff this past week, but I’m back from NRGetic Romancer now and I’ll try to get a post or two up today. First of all, here’s a quick roundup of last month’s Operation Karma – I haven’t seen any video yet, but it was one of the best events I’ve been to in the past year, I think, so it’s definitely worth a mention.

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Full Circle Recordings presents Cubizm, 4th July

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 25, 2009
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There’s a new event coming up from the Full Circle DJs, starting next month. You’ve probably noticed that the Full Circle style has changed quite a lot during this year, and this looks like more of a dedicated event for that kind of sound. Promising House, Soca (not sure what that is, to tell the truth), drum and bass and more, it’ll be interesting to see what other DJs will be playing there. It’s in the same venue as the recent foolish event, Nakameguro’s OVO.

Remo-Con & Nao/Remo-Con & Yoji @Vinylize

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 21, 2009
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Ah, sorry for the lack of updates this week, but not much has been going on. I did make it to Project Karma in Kawasaki last night though, so my legs are currently absolutely killing me… There was lots of video etc taken, so maybe I’ll up some of it here in the next few days.

In the meantime, last weekend was the latest Vinylize event in Shibuya. I wasn’t there (Guld was, and said it was great), but here are a couple of videos, just so I’m posting up something.

First is Remo-Con playing with live violin backing – maybe not exactly my kind of thing, but live/DJ collab performances are always interesting:

Next is Remo-Con alongside Yoji, playing Yoji’s track Airport, I think. I’ve seen a few Yoji videos lately, and seems like he’s playing slightly harder tunes again…or maybe it was just wishful thinking..

NRGetic Romancer, 18th July

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 1, 2009
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The flyer for next month’s NRGetic Romancer is out, and it’s finally ok to announce the two guests – Australia’s Jody 6 and Justin Charge. Both big names in the Australian scene, with releases on all sorts of different labels, this Romancer is themed around a Japan vs Australia hard dance ‘world war’, as you can see. A check of Jody 6’s MySpace shows that he’ll definitely have the catchy/uplifting side of things covered (he used to be a resident at the now-deceased Code in Shinjuku, which speaks for itself), and it should be a good complement to the darker tunes we usually play.

I’ll be representing Japan, of course, and although with 8 DJs/Live PAs in total I’ll probably be playing a much shorter slot this time, I’ve already got a good few ideas as to what sort of thing to play. What with there being two guest artists, the door price will be 3500yen this time, with 3000/possibly 2500 (don’t quote me, I’m not sure yet) for guests. As always, anyone who happens to be in Tokyo should feel free to drop a message here!