Alek Szahala has just made a big update to his homepage, with a very nice redesign and some quality new additions. Most obvious is the recent Mayhem set from Australia – no tracklist/other info yet, as I’m just about to give it a listen while out and about for the afternoon.
edit: It’s easy to hear the effort that went into this one – it’s undoubtedly one of Alek’s best sets for a long time. Unlike some Live PAs, it flows really well, and there are so many edits in here that its an essential listen from start to finish.
Listen out especially for the stupendous new version of Ascend to the Stars that does exactly what I was hoping from the original (double edit: Ascend to the Stars was cut after the intro, so it’s actually a mystery second tune), a great version of Vertigo and a final tune that brings back ‘Thank you for the horse’! Well done to Alek, here’s the best I can do with the tracklist so far here’s his official tracklist:
01. Alek Szahala – Ascend to the Stars
02. Alek Szahala – Ziggurat (unfinished)
03. Alek Szahala – Astraia
04. Alek Szahala – Vertigo (unfinished)
05. Alek Szahala – Deimos
06. Alek Szahala – Maruuk
07. Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon
08. Alek Szahala – Dryad Machine
09. Alek Szahala – Aurinko 2009
10. Alek Szahala – Iron Squid
11. Alek Szahala – Starcrossed (unfinished)
12. Mark Seibert – Erana’s Peace (Alek Szahala remix)
13. Scott Brown – Viroid (Alek Szahala’s made in hotel remix)
The redesign also does a fabulous job of integrating stuff from SoundCloud – I’ve been planning to do something similar with TYFTH when (if..?) my own SC gets sorted out, so that’s all very inspiring. Something else worth mentioning is the listing of Deimos in the upcoming releases for this year, it’s really good to see Alek getting back into the swing of things these days.
Awesome stuff!! First track was Ascend to the Stars but according to description it was cut after 1 min due to technical problems, so the second track should be (?) I think. 😀
You’re right! Forget about my Ascend to the Stars comment, in that case 😉
Wow. Had this set on in the car on the way to work today. Amazing stuff!! Loving that mystery tune lol. So excited about him releasing demois and hopefully starcrossed. From a fan’s point of view, it’s so nice to see Alek releasing stuff and sorting his website out etc. To me it seemed like he went through a bit of a wilderness period a few years ago but now he seems back in the game and seemingly getting more gigs as well. \o/
Here I am listening along to Ascend to the Stars and then suddenly all hell breaks lose! Amazing.
Time to enjoy the rest of the set.
Isn’t the second to last track Alek Szahala – Pax Eranae that could be heard in the Black Light set released earlier? Such a beautiful tune. Simply a magical production. Can’t find good enough words to rightfully describe it realy.
Done listening to the whole thing now and all the new tunes combined with the little edits here and there is a joy to listen through. The quality of all productions is mindblowing. And the sound here is only presented in 128kbit mp3 format. Can’t wait to see Deimos to be released.
Very nice and clean update to the site. Great work there indeed. I’m just curious to know if the old discogs-page will be back again later on or not.
I’m listening the set on and on. This set is simply magnificent and mind-blowing. Alek truly did it with this one. Massive respects to Alek Szahala, the Gilgamesh of Freeform! 😀
Labraska
You’re absolutely right re. Pax Eranae – I must be going mad, I thought I’d already added it..
Gaia
Haha, I bet Alek would appreciate that reference 😀
Track 2 is called Ziggurat 😉
Labraska
Old discogs page is still available at alek.szahala.com/tracklist
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Nice work, Aldz 🙂
Hey plasma gonna email you later. Got some ideas for our little project 😉
i ripped n uploaded pax eranae on youtube some while ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCJhihDwlQ ..beautiful..
Tracklist posted on Soundcloud! 🙂
mixu
I noticed that…you’ve been uploading some awesome stuff lately, keep it going 🙂
Labraska
Thanks! Updating the post now 🙂
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I thought I had posted here before, but *really* – words cannot describe how I feel with this. Definitely looking forward to the future releases!