Chanel5 – Never Forget (Alek Szahala Remake) by FINRG Recordings
A new release from Alek Szahala is now up on SoundCloud, with his demented hardcore rework of an old Scream Tracker module, Never Forget. Personally I love this one – it’s not the next Iron Squid, but I’d be really keen to hear a few more mod reworks in this style.
edit: What’s more, Alek has also added the amazing Solar Hive to the download section of his site. It might already be six years old, but has all the features of a classic Alek track – eerie chords, lovely breakdown and the crazy attacking synth sections. I’ll definitely be playing this one next month…
Woooo-hooo!! Yessss!
He also released Solar Hive! Check his website!
Happy Easter Everyone!
I noticed this afternoon, just updated the post 🙂
Happy Easter to you too!
*starting to panic*
I cant find the d/l link for Solar Hive….
Chip
Should be on the front page right now!
Wow lovely! 😀
And I absolutely adore Solar Hive XD Yay!
No totaly on topic but during a total of three hours by car yesterday I was listening to an hour long freeform mix I threw together in a computer program a couple of days ago. It features Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon that all of you should be familiar with. I listened to that tune at least 10 times during those three hours and it just keeps getting better and better for every time I hear it. Combine that with sitting in a car driving down a highway a cloudy, rainy late afternoon in springtime sweden. The sun is setting and it is getting dark.
It is a special feeling.
I am now convinced, Voices of Babylon real is the best track officialy released in 2009.
Great comment Nisse 🙂
I know exactly what you mean – a couple of days ago I was walking through the middle of a busy station as the VoB breakdown started up on my headphones, and I just had to stop and close my eyes for a while…I’m appreciating it more and more as time goes on, too.
By the way, I’d love to hear the mix you put together – or at least the tracklist, if you don’t think this one’s ready for public listening?
Awesome, Nisse. I would really be quite interested also…. I played VoB quite a few times now, i absolutley love the tune. Its really easy to mix as well, especially for Alek. Has anyone else noticed the 3 or 6 bar breaks in Alek tunes you can’t mix through? I spotted it a while ago…
Nisse> Have you heard Freeformensaundi?
Plasmadancer & Chip>
Ok, so I signed up at Soundcloud today and uploaded the mix to that site. But I am not sure if I can just upload it and make it available for public download just like that. I do not know what kind of rights I have or do not have and all that. Since you are in the business, mind if I ask you how this stuff works with copyright an things like that?
There is also different options for Licence when you upload a track to Soundcloud and I have no idea of what to choose from there. Any help to sreighten things out would be greatly appriciated. 🙂 Thanks
I am no expert and don’t have any real experience as a DJ. And the mix is done with software, so the quality is what it is. But I don’t mind, hopefully people will at least appriciate the effort and the music selection.
http://soundcloud.com/labraska/labraska-lite-freeform
That is the address if you want to have a listen. The mix is currently also available for download, but like I said I don’t know if it will stay that way depending on rights.
I added a tracklist as well.
Any and all oppinions about the mix and the selection of tracks is very welcome, good and bad as long as it is constructive. 🙂
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have and will do in the future!
Nisse
Sorry for the slow reply – regarding the right you have to make it available for download, it’s good that it crossed your mind, but I wouldn’t worry about it at all. Of course, for mixes that will be sold in any way, every track has to be given the go-ahead by the label that owns it, but for everyone else who is just putting a set together for promotion then it’s fine.
When it comes to promo tunes, then I always check with the artist before including one of theirs (which is just common sense/courtesy, really). Until fairly recently it seemed to be quite common to upload the mix in lower quality (say 160kbps). I always guessed that it was to stop people ripping from the sets, but these days it’s pretty common to find 320kbps mixes online, so that doesn’t seem to be an issue either.
Re. the ‘License’ part on SoundCloud, I suppose ‘No Rights Reserved’ is the one to go for, but as long as you’re not selling it there won’t be any problems at all. There wouldn’t be much of a hardcore/electronic scene if people were too strict about DJ mixtapes, after all 😉
By the way, I was really impressed with the mix, and just gave it a post of its own 🙂
Chip
I know just what you mean about some of Alek’s tunes…Chimaera is the one that always gives me trouble. Cogi reckons that Tlaloc might be the most DJ-friendly, you can do all sorts of crazy-combination stuff with that 🙂