The first post of 2010 is a beautiful new track from Nomic. I thought I’d overdosed on WITA with the Re-form bootleg, but this one is a lot calmer, and about as close as you can get to chilled out freeform. Fantastic intro, and wait for the break at 6.24…
Here’s the second big post of the day, but hope it’s an interesting one – just in time for the end of the year I’ve managed to ask around the biggest names here for their top 3 tunes of the past year. Some of the guys and girls have been playing a lot of older tracks, so it’s more of a ‘tracks you’ve played a lot’ than a ‘tracks that were released in 2009’ kind of list. One big miss you’ll notice is Betwixt & Between – that’s completely my fault, I forgot (!) until this morning that I hadn’t asked him yet. If he gets back to me in the next few days I’ll add him to the list.
This’ll be the last post of 2009, so I’d just like to add a massive thanks to everyone who has supported TYFTH through the past year. It’s been amazing to see more and more people checking the site, leaving comments, and giving me support too – I really appreciate it. Also a huge kiitos goes to Guld and the FINRG crew for obvious reasons.
So, I hope the lists are worth a look – there were some new tunes for me in here too, and just from the three tracks you can get a nice idea of each DJ’s style. If you had your own favourites this year, definitely feel free to add a Top 3 in the comments section.
Happy New Year!/よいお年を〜
2009 Top 3 Tracks
Guld (NRGetic Romancer)
- Guld – Hannya X
- Betwixt & Between – City of Solitude (Guld remix)
- Guld – Nightmare Freak (Wonderland)
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It’s taken a while to round up some photos/video of the last event (Cogi didn’t have his recorder or camera), but we’re all set now. Big thanks for the photos go to Shinosan, Eirik and Detch, and to Eirik again for the videos.
The crowd was smaller than we were hoping (especially as it was another free event), but Friday is difficult for a lot of ravers – the timing was pretty tight for me too. Despite all that, it turned out to be a great Romancer with a really nice atmosphere, and pretty high-bpm from start to finish.
The flyer is now finished for next month’s Muon event, thanks to Hosopyi. Unfortunately a couple of typos slipped through (seems like I’ll be playing under my other DJ name, ‘PlasmsDancer’), but it’s looking very tidy other than that. At last night’s Transa I was asking around a few of the regulars, and it seems like quite a few will be coming, someone also mentioned that Studio FORUM is a pretty big venue.
Talking of Transa, it was a good event – DX Pasta and AEMI both played nice sets, but KA-NA’s hour was worth the price of entry on its own. I’ve said it before, but her taste in tunes is exactly the same as mine, and although she couldn’t fit in Mirage as she was thinking beforehand, the set was mostly Grimsoul tracks combined with Alek Szahala, my Hell’s Gate remix and some inspired Kreatrix tunes. This year she’s become my favourite DJ, selection-wise, at least…shame she doesn’t play that many events.
Alek Szahala – Invitation by FINRG Recordings
Not the unreleased tracks that everyone is chasing right now, but FINRG has released three more of Alek Szahala’s tunes for free. Invitation, Pink Magic and Chimaera are now on the FINRG SoundCloud, so if anyone reading hasn’t got them yet (I doubt it), get yourself over there right now.
Tonight I’m heading out to the Transa Year End Party at my second home (aka Studio Cube), as KA-NA has managed to get herself on the lineup at the last minute. With her, AEMI, DX Pasta (and Zio playing tech/hard dance on the main floor), it should be a good one with DJs I don’t hear all that often…
It’s always good to see Finnish tracks being played at events around the world, so thanks to Skadi for this video of Technoid’s Hard NRG set in Florence on the 19th December. In the clip we have Rx’s Hellfire, as well as the classic Psychopath and another of my old favourites, Eryk Orpheus’ PVC.
I doubt there are many people here who don’t check the FINRG forum, but it’s worth posting this up just in case – an epic list of old/unreleased FINRG tracks, compiled by Jiipez. He’s even added audio clips for quite a few, really an amazing effort. You can easily lose a morning checking them all out though, so beware.
I’ve used a few of the tunes listed in my sets, but the vast majority I’ve never heard before. Recently the FINRG servers have been checked for older stuff, so at least some of the tunes are possibles – Alek’s older tunes like Solar Hive and the incredible Freezing Clouds haven’t turned up yet though. As BerN says in that thread, it might be better not to release everything for the sake of it – a few of the tunes are understandably sounding a bit creaky these days – but others are definite classics…let’s hope they get the releases they deserve, eh?
A nice clip has just appeared from yesterday’s Tano*C – this one seems to be another ‘Butabaster’ b2b featuring Betwixt and Alabaster, with Ruins of Jade mixing into Hesotarou Tankobu. Looks like it was a nice set, and I think TYFTH’s Eirik is somewhere in the crowd too.
Operation Karma’s DJ AT has just put together a very nice promo movie of some of the Hard Dance Raver crew (including AT himself) in action, with a lot taken at NRGetic Romancer. The backing track is of course Alek Szahala’s Sunray.
Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon by FINRG Recordings
Here’s an epic end-of-year update from FINRG, including Alek Szahala’s Voices of Babylon! It’s possible that I’ve played this tune at every event this year, but I’m nowhere near tired of it – Guld and KA-NA have also been dropping it every chance they get. As well as VoB, there’s my recent favourite The Most Masochist, plus Private Demon, Final Destination, Eewol’s newer tracks and more.
Also just uploaded is Sam One’s set from the Free of Form show on Christmas Eve – I wasn’t able to catch it live, so I’ll be checking this one out soon.