The stars have been aligning nicely, as not only has TYFTH finally sorted itself out but FINRG is also making its big comeback. The site is back online and looking very clean, along with some signs of the label’s new direction.
There’ll be no leaving freeform behind of course, but FINRG’s also branching out into techno and psytrance. No bad thing to be widening the appeal of the label, and they could have something special on their hands if they bring some Kalevala to those genres too. Hybridize is coming back as a home for psy and hard trance, while the original FINRG sound will appear under the name FINRG Legacy.
All very good news, and what’s more there’s an attempt underway to rebuild the pretty special community that gathered around the original FINRG site. Among all the expected links on the front page you’ll also find the FINRG Discord – the hope is for it to build into an equivalent of the much-missed FINRG forum. It’s slowly picking up some momentum at the moment (I drop by pretty regularly too) and it could be a good time to show some support.
Heeere you are! And heeere’s a return of…the FINRG site?! This is looking good indeed. Decion + Horzi + Fight Club sounds like it should be the kind of track I used to love from the label. Been listening to lots of techno this year (as has Solvynt going by his Soundcloud follows), which should make for even more to look forward to. Didn’t know about that historical mix from 2001 either! (Anyone got it somewhere?)
Discord, though, ugh…they could at least try to pick something more streamlined and functional, Listserv maybe. 😛 But if I must, maybe I can dig my teeth deep enough into my arm I don’t notice the pain.
Anyhow, welcome back! I was incredibly relieved to see that last set come up, to say the least!
Thanks again, muchly appreciated 🙂
That’s such a good call re. the 2001 mix, surely it must be floating around somewhere. I’ll definitely be asking around. I’ve been hearing very good things from Decion and Horzi too, promising signs there for sure and bodes well for the FINRG relaunch.
I know what you mean re. Discord, but it’s been so long since the FINRG crew were all in the same place that I’d take (almost) anything at this point!
Good to see you back! Need to sort out Discord, have never really used it so haven’t got involved yet.
Belated thanks, had to approve this message so it was in limbo for a while! Nice to see you’ve made it to discord in the meantime 😀