Happy Dynamite 10th Anniversary, 26th June @Shibuya ROCK WEST

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 19, 2011
Posted in: Events, Japanese. 3 comments

To mark the 10th anniversary of Happy Dynamite, the lineup will bring together DJs from every corner of the harder scene, in a similar style to the early hardcore events I hear so much about. I wasn’t here during that ‘golden era’ for hardcore in Tokyo, so this one-off event is an absolute must-see.

★HAPPY JACK -HAPPY DYNAMITE REUNION!-★

2011/6/26(日) 渋谷 ROCK WEST http://rockwest.jp/
OPEN/CLOSE : 15:00-21:00
Door（当日入場）:2,000Yen(1ドリンク付)
With Flyer/Discount:1,500Yen（1ドリンク付）

■LIVE PA:
M-Project (TERRAFORM MUSIC)

■DJs:
DJ CHAMP (HAPPY JACK)
DJ DEPATH (GUHROOVY)
DJ ZET (HAPPY JACK)
DJ BUG (X-TREME HARD)
SHORT-CUTz (JIMMY-!&OKMR)
DJ EUTO (HAPPY JACK)
MHC
GULD (NRGetic Romancer)
DJ YOUSUKE & BUZZMASTA (Full Circle Recordings)
DJ Nemo (Scouse!!)
DJ MERCHEN DIVER (aka.A2C)
G.T
DJ Azsa (NITRO-X)
marix (ハブとマングース)
ASSHI (JCC)
COGI (NRGetic Romancer)
MAREHITO (伝説)

■MCs:
MC Euthman (HAPPY JACK)
KONNY MC (MHC)
楽天斎 (DYNASTY RECORDS)

・HAPPY JACK/HAPPY DYNAMITE公式サイト
http://happydynamite.com/

・【mixi】HAPPY JACK/HAPPY DYNAMITE公式コミュニティ
http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1269283

※このイベントは昼間に開催しておりますので、入場時のIDチェックはありません。

Alek Szahala & Byproduct – Live @Assembly 2010

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 17, 2011
Posted in: Finnish, Japanese, Mixes. 10 comments

Alek Szahala & Byproduct live at Assembly 2010 by FINRG Recordings

Coincidentally, I’ve had Byproduct’s tunes on almost constant repeat for the last week or so, and now along comes his jaw-dropping set with Alek Szahala. It was performed at Assembly (last year), and for anyone who remembers the days of trackers and 8/16-bit videogame OSTs this is an absolutely essential listen.

The set gradually builds up the bpm, ending with Alek’s demented Never Forget and Duck Tales remixes, followed by the highscore theme from The Great Giana Sisters (a track I could listen to for hours, it seems). What’s also really impressive is that their original tunes easily stand up to the melodies from heavyweights like Hülsbeck and Sakaguchi. I’d love to hear them take on some of Tim Follin’s tracks – LED Storm has been remixed to death, but an Alek/Byproduct version of that would be something to hear…

Anyway, I haven’t enjoyed a set this much for a very long time, and there are even edited versions of Maruuk and Iron Squid in here for the freeform-only crew.

01. Olof Gustafsson – Pinball Fantasies highscore (Alek Száhala Remake)
02. Byproduct – Culture 12
03. Pinball Illusions Intro (Paokala Remake)
04. Purple Motion – 2nd Reality OST (Byproduct remix)
05. Alek Száhala – Crystal Thunder
06. Kenny Chou – One Must Fall 2097 Title (Byproduct remix)
07. Chris Hülsbeck – Great Giana Sisters Cave Theme (Paokala Remake)
08. Paokala – Camelopardalis (Byproduct remix)
09. Byproduct – Vector
10. Byproduct – Ocean Planet
11. Quazar – Funky Stars (Original & Byproduct remix mashup)
12. Alek Száhala – Lost in Time
13. Byproduct – Platform
14. Byproduct – Bonus Stage
15. Iku Mizutani – Shatterhand final level (Falcon & Byproduct remix)
16. Chris Hülsbeck – Turrican II Intro (Byproduct remix)
17. Alek Száhala – Maruuk
18. Alek Száhala – Iron Squid
19. Chanel 5 – Never Forget (Alek Száhala Remix)
20. Yoshihiro Sakaguchi – Duck Tales Moon Theme (Alek Száhala Remix)
21. Chris Hülsbeck – Great Giana Sisters highscore (Paokala Remake)

Alabaster – Hard Dance/Freeform mix

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 17, 2011
Posted in: Finnish, Japanese, Mixes, UK. Leave a Comment

This one passed me by a couple of months ago, but a new set from Alabaster is always welcome. Coming via Deep Sea, this was one of Alabaster’s recent ustream live sets, heavy on the cheerful UK hardcore and hard dance. Don’t be fooled by the dark opening (the ever-excellent Storm), as the rest of the set is very main-floor friendly with some harder tracks thrown in to keep the interest up. There’s some nice mixing here – the so-crazy-it-works combination of Super Mario and Hellboy stood out for me the first time around.

Take a look at the tracklist, and download here.

01. Pain On Creation & E-NRG – Storm
02. Dave Curtis – Awesome (Original Mix)
03. Manik – Skywalker
04. Kipster – Through The Portal
05. Steve Hill Vs Technikal – Impulse
06. BRK3 – C4ut1on
07. Organ Donors – Super Mario
08. Lab4 – Hellboy
09. DJ Gammer – Ambient Angels
10. Lost Soul – Dark Side Of The Moon (K Complex & Mark Ashley Remix)
11. Breeze & Kevin Energy – The Pendulum of Bass
12. Alabaster – Acid Maker
13. Synthwulf – Every Soul
14. Eryk Orpheus – Really Nasty
15. S3RL – Mozart On Crack
16. Sharkey, Eryk Orpheus & Kevin Energy – Hit Ya Hard
17. Shanty, Tazz & Concept – The Prophecy

Substanced – Geneva Part II

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 15, 2011
Posted in: Finnish, Releases. 3 comments

Substanced – Geneva Part II by Substanced / Subi

Before I disappear for the evening, here’s Substanced’s fabulous preview of Geneva Part II for anyone who missed it earlier in the week. Following up the Risk Addiction remix, this really sounds like an artist at the top of his game – check out those Substanced filtered synths with the tight kick, and the melody is definitely on the right side of melancholy this time around. It feels like a long while since we heard a real ‘Hybridize style’ tune, this is how hard trance+freeform should be done.

Thank You For The Horse Live, 17th June @11.30pm Tokyo time (3.30pm BST)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 14, 2011
Posted in: Events, Japanese. 5 comments

Last week I foolishly mentioned that I might try to make a semi-regular thing of these Wednesday evening sessions, so I’ll be playing another set tomorrow night. Maybe starting off with the nasty NRG I didn’t use last week, I’ll also try to rustle up some less well-known tunes from the freeform back catalogue.

As long as I don’t fall asleep beforehand it’ll all start at 11.30pm! edit: Make that 11.30pm on Friday – I’m not feeling too good today, so an early night might be a better idea this time. Apologies for the last minute change, but hopefully there’ll be a few people around on the 17th!

Destroyed High, 16th July @Tamachi Studio Cube

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 12, 2011
Posted in: Events, Japanese. 4 comments

Great to see the return of Destroyed High next month, sticking pretty much to the lineup that worked so well last time. Even while we wait for KA-NA to see sense and start playing freeform again, there should be plenty of Finnish tunes from AT and ac-key (and maybe even DAIRIN), while I’m also looking forward to seeing Myosuke for the first time. The final bit of good news is that the event’ll be held on Cube’s 2nd floor, sparing us from the 4th floor’s truly dismal PA.

T.C.P.T presents HARD/DARK SOUND PARTY
Destroyed High
-破壊的絶頂-

2011.7.16 (Sat)
23:00−5:00
at 芝浦Cube326
DOOR 3000/WF 2500/Discount 2000

Hard Floor{２F}
DJs
DAIRIN (Destroyed High/Soul of tattoo)
KA⇒NA (Destroyed High/Zetto/HELL’SGATE)
AT (Destroyed High/Karma-業-)
殺女 aka Raverkiller (AVIlity)
ac-key (Lunatic sabbath)

LIVE
DJ Myosuke (SOLIDBOXRECOSDS/PsychoFilthRecords)
Massive New Krew (SOLIDBOX RECOSDS)

VJ
VX PASTA

Psychdelic Floor{４F}
DJ’s
DJ-KUMA.aka.GARUDA（MATERIA RECORD/RETURNER）
DJ 禮 (U2 RECORDS【CHIBA】/SaLoN de ReI【OSAKA】JPN)
DJ POOH (iNSPiRE)
UZ-CHEMICAL (ZiON/RETURNER)
XiON（BLACK MARIA）
DJ a.y.k(d★p/jp)

VJ
DORAchan

STAFF
GAS ALL MEMBERS

Genre
HARDSTYLE/HARDCORE/SPEEDCORE/FREEFORM/BREAKCORE/GABBER/HARDNRG/
HARDDANCE/HARDTRANCE/PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE/DARKPSYCHE/DARKELECTRO/etc…

Thank You For The Horse Live, 8th June @11pm Tokyo time (3pm BST)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 7, 2011
Posted in: Events, Japanese. 8 comments

I’ll finally have a chance to escape Tokyo this weekend, when I head down to Shizuoka for a couple of days. Instead of Friday/Saturday, then, I’ll be doing one of my mid-week ustream sets tomorrow. With the release of Concept of Love today, maybe a bit of Hard NRG would be a nice idea…there’ll definitely be some Pain on Creation, too.

If all goes to plan we’ll start at 11pm – not great for the Europe crew, but we had a very nice little group there last time.