Remember your favourite tunes from last year? Well four months late, here’s a roundup of what the Japanese crew were listening to in 2011. Once again, the number of DJs playing freeform has fallen, but at least we’ve seen some new faces like raqhow and Le Dos-on (who’ll make his Top 3 debut this year, I suppose), while the selections here show that the remaining DJs are pushing some really quality sounds. Dust off memories of yesteryear, and feel free to throw in your own choices at the end of the post.
Guld (NRGetic Romancer)
- Lab 4 – Concept of Love (Guld remix)
- Einhander – One Immortal (Earlystyle mix)
- Eternal Rhythm – Eternal ’97 (2011 YOJI remix)
Alabaster (Monochrome & Colored Rec.)
- Alek Szahala – Vertigo
- Future Resonance & Defective Audio – Super Catch
- Alabaster – Fluorite
AT / Asahi (Dark Dimension)
- Nomic – Muuttolintu
- Horzi – Blind Faith
- Sam One – Black Pearl
raqhow (Experience!)
- Epyx & Cyrez – Unohdetut 2011
- Synthwulf vs DJ Rx – Ragnarok
- Le Dos-on – Stance
Nrgray (Experience!)
- Alek Szahala – Ziggurat
- Proteus & Kevin Energy – London Helsinki Underground (Proteus ‘Warcry’ remix)
- Cyrez – The Brain Controls Pain
PlasmaDancer (NRGetic Romancer, FINRG)
- Yuki Kajiura – Memaze (Nomic bootleg remix)
- Hase – Brionac
- Stereo Junks! – Chemistry (Proteus remix)
for me id say
aryx – nephila
grimsoul and POC – fury theme
endemic and solution – outbreak (rx mix)
My top 3 last year were …
Douglas – Jonestown
Substanced – Geneva part 2
Transcend – Mindglow
1. Anomic – This Moment
2. Nomic & Pain on Creation – Chameleon
3. Betwixt & Between – Liberation
Triple A:
Alek Szahala – Vertigo
Arxy – Nephila
Alabaster – Fluorite
2011 only tracks:
Betwixt & Between – Tout Est Bien (Sein zum Tode)
Betwixt & Between – Niji
Alabaster – Acid Maker
Betwixt & Between – Tout Est Bien (Sein zum Tode)
Amini – Guitarian
Cyrez – Rock N Load
Can’t forget
Eryk Orpheus – PVC (Lost Soul Remix)
1. Stripe – Ecstasy of Asia
2. Lv.4 – Aestivalis
3. Aryx – Polaris
And special mention:
Substanced – Stockholm Syndrome
Outstanding breakdown (!)
Thanks all, some nice lists here!
Fury Theme would have been my no.4, and great shout on Stockholm Syndrome, forgot about that…
Lost Soul’s PVC remix wasn’t bad, but we’d really have a killer tune if Nomic ever gets the chance to do a version – imagine the breakdown
Hey, Plasma, whatever happened to COGI? I’d be interested in check his top3, as well. (if possible, of course)
bernuseqi
I did ask him, but at the time he said that he hadn’t been keeping track of new tunes and nothing really came to mind. Funnily enough though, I was going to ask him for some dark psy recommendations, so maybe there’ll be something to go up here eventually