There are some real gems on pocketpool1000’s (aka mixu) YouTube channel these days, and here’s an absolutely brilliant oldie from Nomic. I think I’ve heard most of his back catalogue, but this mix of 90s breakbeats, happy hardcore stabs and Nomic-style freeform is new to me.
Substanced – The World Collapses – Album Previews by Substanced / Subi
Substanced’s upcoming album is on the horizon, and now we’re starting to see some amazing stuff in preview form. The intro section’s kick, bass and filters took me right back to the good old days of Pain on Creation, and there’s acid, drum and bass, all sorts going on elsewhere.
If the material on here matches up to Geneva Part II, this is going to be one of the most important releases this year, no question.
It’s great to see Betwixt & Between producing again – there’s now a new track preview up of Tout est Bien, a filter heavy mix of his recent styles. Check out the first half of the tune, pretty masterful stuff as it builds into the main section, while there’s something nicely retro-sounding about that kick. Oldskool filters in the breakdown plus modern Betwixt melodies do the damage in the second half.
Sorry the posts are a bit sporadic at the moment – I’ve been away for a couple of days, and there’s also some behind-the-scenes stuff going on that’ll hopefully result in a few things this week.
In the meantime, thanks to Stray for letting me know about a new forum dedicated to freeform. Since the FINRG homepage went into hybernation the harder/deeper freeform scene has lacked an English-language forum, so this could really be worth supporting. I’ll be signing up, and we might even get a few new recruits to TYFTH, who knows..
I often think about starting up a forum here too, especially with some recent comment sections/ustream sets turning into epic conversations between a few people…any thoughts?
Alek Száhala – Ziggurat by FINRG Recordings
FINRG is building up some real momentum again, and following up Guld’s Concept of Love remix we now have a brand new freeform release from Alek Szahala. Everyone’ll be familiar with Ziggurat from the Mayhem 2011 set, but there’s no unfinished edit business going on here, it’s now updated with an incredible new section from 4.12 onwards. This one nicely balances the melodies with the rougher stuff, and will no doubt be getting some serious play from any right-minded DJ for the rest of this year.
Here’s another trip into the past, for a quick look at another great duo who were on the fringes of the Finnish scene back in the day. Around 2005 or so, some lovely tunes were appearing on Chaos Crew DJs’ Mikseri page, most notably Broken Dreams, Brake Out and the demented Xan-lunarian. Finnish military service interrupted the guys’ production, and sadly the master files to these tunes have lone gone, leaving only the 160kbps versions…
There was talk a year or so back of them starting up again, but in the meantime have a listen to any of these that you missed the first time around. Plenty of chunky filtered sawtooths and catchy melodies here – one of my big favourites is Slave, but the sound quality doesn’t match up to other stuff at this sort of bitrate and it’s one to listen to at home…I did sneak Brake Out into a recent ustream set, though.
Decion’s back with more Hard NRG, with enough filtered hoovers to keep us occupied until the next installment. I listened while making dinner and lost track of which tune was playing, but somewhere around the middle of the set an excellent breakdown was the standout for me. For those who like the occasional dose of Hard NRG, this comes as recommended as all of Decion’s sets.
01. Rodi Style – Crazy (Crazy Chris Remix)
02. Defective Audio – Control & FX
03. Random But Raw & DJ Serenity – The Condemned
04. Pure Perfection – Dirty Trick (Grady G Remix)
05. Defective Audio & Marc Johnson – Hyperscum (Grady G Remix)
06. Korrosive – Fear
07. Random But Raw – Illicin Sensations
08. Riggsy & Rembo – First Blood
09. Tortured Souls – Pride
10. Random But Raw – Pump Summat
11. Base Graffiti – Bamzooki (Grady G Remix)
12. Random But Raw – Day Of The Dead
13. Grady G – Yokel
On the spur of the moment I braved a trip to the armpit of Tokyo (aka Roppongi) last night, to check out a new Goa event. This one caught my eye with its 90s/oldskool Goa theme, and despite INDIGO being one of the smallest DJ bars I’ve ever seen, it was a fun event with a friendly crowd and some quality selections from the DJs.
I was a bit lost with the lineup (as was everyone else I asked), but recognised plenty of older tunes, and even some Filteria towards the end of the night. The guest DJ (SHIORI) played an unusual set of repetitive semi-Goa that was mixed really well, while the night also featured a couple of real veterans who were obviously around in the very early days. The video at the top of the post was taken in the middle of one of their sets (just after SHIORI), and gives a decent idea of the atmosphere, complete with the (deliberate) blackouts that came at the end of every tune…
A request from one of the Japan crew has made up my mind about whether or not to do a ustream set tonight, so there’ll be a Nomic-only show starting at the slightly earlier time of 11pm. I’ll try to throw in some stuff that you don’t hear so often, as well as some tracks from Anomic/Samuel K.
edit: Having messed around with some tunes this evening, I’d like to do a better Nomic-only set some other time, so tonight’ll be another improvised set (including a few Nomic tracks, of course).
As always, anyone else who happens to be around will be very welcome!
Last Saturday I was all set to go to this event, but once again my horrendous early weekday mornings caught up with me…
This clip is from Tsucchi’s set, no sign of Kanon just yet. Anyway, aside from the incongruous sight of waistcoated restaurant staff strolling past, it looks like they did a quality job of transforming the slightly-fancy Pasela into a proper club venue. Wonder if I’ll make the next one…