It’s shaping up to be a very busy week, but there’s just time to post up this new preview clip from Betwixt & Between’s PURE EXISTENCE compilation. As he mentioned before, this is Industrial Hardcore, Betwixt-style – the clip actually reminds me of a slowed down version of some of his Berserk & Haste tracks. Looking forward to what comes next, but in the meantime check the clip here.
Carbon Based & RX & Swoosh – Future vs Past by DJ Swoosh
Here’s a preview of the upcoming Hybridize collab track from Carbon Based, Rx and Swoosh. Future vs Past has a very house-style opening, before a breakdown that has the crew bringing out all the tricks – some great melodies and growly synths, with a bit of acid in there too. A lower bpm this time, but it’s nice to hear the guys taking on a different style of tune – the release isn’t far away, either.
Not long until the next Tokyo Hardcore Construction, and although it seems like Kanon won’t be there, Lala is returning, which makes a big difference to the middle of the night. The following day’s a big national holiday (even for me, unusually), so should be a decent crowd.
While we’re on a THC tip, here’s Visual Contact, a promo gabber mix from Lunch himself. It’s been up for a while, but I don’t think I’ve posted it before – sorry I don’t have a tracklist, but it’s very similar to his Hardcore Construction sets, with the banging gabber broken up by a couple of nice vocal breakdowns. Download here
Some very good news out of the blue – Betwixt & Between is starting his own label. Called TOTAL DISCOMMUNICATION, the first release (Pure Existence) will be a compilation of Industrial Hardcore, and should be out this winter. More info as and when, but Japanese readers can also check the new TOTAL DISCOMMUNICATION blog.
Coming soon is a big release from NRGetic Romancer – Pieces of Hannya brings together interpretations of Hannya8000 from five Hard NRG/Schranz artists. This new version is known as Hannya X, and Guld’s ‘original’ is sounding really vicious, even unmastered, and all the others I’ve heard so far have managed to bring their their own style to the tune.
Not long to wait now – it’s looking good for a release before next week’s NRGetic Romancer.
edit: The release is now set for 17th December, the day before NRGetic Romancer.
Two more TYFTH releases – this time we have high bpm freeform/hardcore, courtesy of Substanced and Betwixt & Between.
Colombia was included in last year’s NRG Monogatari 2 mix, but for those who don’t know it’s freeform with a strong hard trance feel. Substanced wants me to point out that this is a very old track, but personally I think the ‘rougher’ sound works really well this time, the Finnish style grinding synths sound that bit wilder and the track definitely has a lot of energy. It’s also a very handy tune for connecting dark and melodic freeform, so I was a bit surprised that it was never picked up for release. Hopefully this will get it some much-deserved play time.
Next is Eternally, which might be new to most people – it was actually the first Betwixt & Between track I heard, years and years ago. The style might be closer to hardcore than freeform, but it’s got elements of both, with the huge kick giving it a lot of power. It’s a long way from ‘modern Betwixt’, but listening to it again recently I remembered what a good track it is – it reminds me of some of the hardcore tunes that Nomic and Alek have made in the past, with plenty of acid and some great vocal samples. Look out especially for the bludgeoning melody/sequence at 3.30 – it made a pretty big impression when I heard it in one of Betwixt’s NRGetic Romancer sets. Something to note is that although I’ll always be aiming to make 320kbps tracks available, this one is 192. It’s quite a rare tune, so this is the best we have for now…absolutely fine for mixing though.
Big thanks once again to Substanced and Betwixt & Between. There might not be two tunes coming every week, but more are already on standby – I’ll be doing my best with some of the suggestions, too!
A quick heads up on this snappily-titled event, coming up in a few weeks – the main reason being Zio will make a rare DJ appearance. He’s on the main ‘trance’ floor though, so it’ll probably be tech dance rather than anything harder. In a re-run of the Trance Halloween event, John Robinson will be the guest, and a separate ‘hard floor’ will be there for the two or three people who want to hear faster tunes. Two or three might not be an exaggeration, as during A2C’s (peak time) set at Trance Halloween I was the only person on the floor – what a weird experience that was.
Here’s the lineup so far, with more still to be announced, I think.
2F TRANCE FLOOR
SPECIAL GUEST DJ:
JOHN ROBINSON (ex-velfarre)
DJ:
YOSHIMASA (MASSIVE)
ZIO (HELL’S GATE)
TOKYO (Global Airwaves)
HIKO (ex-TRANCEENOUGH)
syun (SENSE)
and more…
4F HARD FLOOR
DJ:
A2C (SENSE)
AEMI (Muon)
DX PASTA (GET HARD BACK)
6F PSYCHEDELIC FLOOR -produced by ENOUGHOLE-
DJ:
addict88
Ryuushin
PONTA
Sauzaa
Latest tracks by FINRG Recordings
As two more free releases are out on FINRG, it’s a good time to make them listenable here too. Iron Squid and the classic Lush are the latest tunes, so check them out the player above and download via FINRG’s SoundCloud.
I’ve been messing around with industrial and Hard NRG/freeform tracks for a while now, but don’t know enough about the former to make a full set. Cue Epyx, who shows how it’s done with this great set. Built around a few of Proteus’ tracks, this one mixes the rawness of the industrial sound and some nasty NRG synths to really good effect. Highly recommended, with some very nice combinations and a fresh sounding take on some of E&C’s tunes.
- Epyx – Intro
- Apocalyptica – Grace (Proteus remix)
- Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
- Kill Memory Crash – Never Forget
- Suicide Commando – Massaker
- Turmion Katilot – Verta Ja Lihaa (Proteus remix)
- Combichrist – This is my Life
- Epyx & Cyrez vs Substanced – Expedition Bloodbath
- Proteus – I See Things That You Don’t See
- Lab 4 – Witchdoctor
- Epyx & Cyrez – Warcry
- Marilyn Manson – This is the New Shit (John B remix)
- Epyx & Cyrez – 4th Dimension
Something a bit different here – Betwixt & Between has been booked to play at a Cyber Goth event on the 23rd December. Other artists include Takuya Angel and SiSeN (who mostly plays dark psy/industrial etc). Not sure if the rest of the music would be my thing, but coincidentally I was just checking the Takuya Angel site earlier today – it’s incredibly hard to find anything connected to Cyber style in Tokyo now that Cyberdog and Fotus have both disappeared.