There’ll probably be some more videos from Muon coming before too long (courtesy of SHINOSAN), but thanks again to Eirik for this one, taken near the beginning of my set. First is one of Betwixt & Between’s older tracks, Liberation, followed by Alek Szahala’s Invitation.
A quick shout for Alchemiist’s newest track, the first freeform tune for a while after all his recent Hard NRG. Radiation’s opening and the first piano melody remind me of Epyx & Cyrez, but then it goes off in a different direction – Alchemiist’s nasty synths are really sounding good these days, and that hyper melody after the (very nice) breakdown sounds a bit different to almost everything else out there at the moment…check it out at the top of this post.
Recently I changed my mind about a couple of the next tracks to go up on TYFTH, but hopefully this one is worth the wait! Phaedra appeared in Twisted Freq’s Darkest Halloween Tale mix a couple of years ago, but hasn’t really been heard of since. Shame, as it’s a very twisted/dark freeform track of the type we don’t see enough of these days, but still with that Betwixt feel to it. It’s definitely worthy of getting into a few more DJ sets from now on.
Download here, but it’ll be going in the Tracks section too, of course.
As usual, huge thanks go to Betwixt & Between for permission to put this one online.
The latest in the Crush on Hardcore series has been in the works for a while, and now there’s just a month or two more until release. This time the DJs are Cube::Hard, Shanty and a final FINRG set from JNKS/Swoosh and Rx/Carbon Based. The other big news is that there will be a physical version released in small numbers too (for free), as well as a follow-up CD of full tracks called Sequel of the V…also for free.
Inside this post is the promotional text from the COH crew, including the full tracklists. Watch out for some nice new tunes from FINRG in the final set…
The first Top Ten for quite a while, but first here’s an amazing tune I completely forgot about until a couple of days ago. This week I’ve been listening to a very nice mix of Photek’s mid-90s dark, minimal tunes, and UFO is right in the middle of the set. It has some of the best use of voice samples I’ve ever heard, taking lines from the audio recording of the UFO sighting at Rendlesham Forest in the UK (here’s the second half of the recording that Photek sampled). Whether it’s a hoax or not (!) there are about a million sample-worthy lines, and Photek used them perfectly. With his trademark drums, amazing sub bass and weird sounds, it’s a special tune, no mistake.
Anyway, back to freeform:
- Nomic – Muuttolintu
- Alek Szahala – Lagash
- Nomic – Walking in the Air
- Alek Szahala -Astraia
- Substanced – Crank Cleopatra
- Guld – Hannya X (Proteus “Kampai Forever” remix)
- Betwixt & Between – Nemesis
- Poly Calamity – Unam Sanctam
- Nightforce – Symphony for the Devil (The Virus Escaped)
- Hase – Disintegration
I’m quite late to this one, but on Mikseri there’s a great sounding preview of a new track from Df-X (aka Fea) called Dipping, and although it stops before the track really gets going, it sounds really promising. Does anyone know if the track is finished now?
By the way, if you’re new to Fea’s Mikseri page, be sure to check out Hyperthymia, still one of my favourites. I remember using the preview years ago in a 160bpm practice set, mixed with Balag Lamara and Galatea, I think…
Man of a million genres, aka Syntse, looks like he played a great freeform set in Finland last Friday, including Betwixt & Between’s Airwave remix. It’s definitely worth checking out both videos, but Airwave is at the start of the second. Always great to see a Japanese tune get that kind of response from the crowd…
Here’s a short clip taken at last November’s Operation Karma, with NRGetic Romancer regular, video-taker and all-round nice-guy Soham (on the left) dancing to Alek Szahala’s Lagash. This one was probably during KA-NA’s set, shame he didn’t get the freestyle glow-nunchaku going, too.
I’m back from Roppongi, and a pretty unusual Muon event. It was great to meet all the DJs, but over half the event was hard house/schranz of the light variety, with only A10 Device, SHINOSAN and myself playing harder tunes at the start of the night.
A10 Device’s set was really good, playing very hard THC-style gabber, but as an opening set to this kind of event it was always going to fall a bit flat. Add in the delay of 10 minutes caused by the incredibly unhelpful staff (one very professional guy excluded), and A10 Device did a great job to keep it together. SHINOSAN also played a nice set of slower Hard NRG/schranz, including Hellnight and DJ X’s Hannya X remix. He also went to town with the video-taking, getting about 10 minutes of each DJ, so some of those might be coming later.
I’m heading out to Roppongi and Muon before long, but there’s just time to mention the Hard Dance Awards. Get yourself over to the official site and show some support to FINRG and its artists – it might be worth a vote or two for the Japanese scene, too…Guld managed to get into LOUD’s Top 50 last year, don’t forget.
We’ll be back to normal service once tonight’s event is over, by the way, with some new tracks coming soon to TYFTH and FINRG.