I’m obviously no use as a news source right now, but the endless commutes and post-work gazing into space is at least giving me a chance to catch up on some excellent sets. I have a few to post up now, so let’s begin with Son of Sam’s Sinistry selection of melodic/twisted tracks.
That opening rock-solid mix between Reborn and Polaris had me immediately convinced, but using Starfall as the set’s centrepiece is just fantastic – it remains one of my all-time favourite Alek tunes. The mix into Air shows that a lot of thought went into this mix, and there’s a great flow here. It might be a bit of a freeform cliche these days to finish a set with gabber, but when it works this well, why not?
Overall this was a brilliant set and a really nice surprise – with the one like BEEZEE also dropping some trademark sounds, Sinistry might just have been the best UK event ever for ‘intelligent freeform’. With Aryx and myself trying to do the same at Munted! (a much-delayed look back at that will be coming one of these days), there’s real hope that deeper sounds will play a much bigger role in the scene’s development.
- jD-KiD – Reborn [Re-Born Beats]
- Aryx – Polaris [Watchtower]
- jD-KiD & Javi DJ – Purnima [B-Form Beats]
- Alek Szahala – Deimos [FINRG]
- Le Dos-On – Obsidian [Relentless Digital]
- Paocala – Starfall [Electronica Exposed]
- Le Dos-On – Air [Relentless Digital]
- Substanced – Ghost of the Future [Watchtower]
- jD-KiD & DJ Corr – Carinae [ReBuild Music]
- Korsakoff – Pink Noise [Cloud 9 Dance]
- Dyprax – Murder & Crime [MoH]
- AniMe – Cracks [Traxstorm]