Nightforce & Twisted Freq – Kill You Slowly

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 27, 2010
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Nightforce & Twisted Freq – Kill You Slowly by Nightforce

I was meaning to catch up on some recent happenings yesterday, but at the last minute decided to go to Illegrrrls after all – some video coming soon.

A lot of people will have noticed this one up on SoundCloud already, a really nice new track from Nightforce and Twisted Freq. Kill You Slowly blends the two styles together brilliantly, with Nightforce’s melodies playing behind a brutal Kreatrix-style lead, and it has definitely come on a huge amount since I heard an early version. Of course it’s great news that TF is making a return – looks like there is more nastiness on the way, so stay tuned.

3 new tracks from Cyanide Project

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 24, 2010
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With the scene running a bit dry again so far this week, I’m really happy to see a long-awaited return to freeform from Cyanide Project. Back in 2007-2008 he came up with some excellent tunes, a couple of which I still regularly play at home, and since then I’ve been trying to find out if he’s still producing.

These three tracks show that he is, and his heavy-on-the-filters, slightly old-skool FINRG style hasn’t changed too much – a good thing, I reckon. All three tunes are nice, but my favourite might be Sacrifice, which has something of the much-missed Pain on Creation about it.

Check out all three via Cyanide Project’s MySpace.

Tribal Connection vol.9 @Shibuya HOME, 19th June

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 16, 2010
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Looks like I got the dates muddled up – this is the jungle event I was talking about a few days ago, so it doesn’t clash with Illegrrrls after all. It took some finding, but from what I can tell this is real old skool business with everything from 90s breakbeat hardcore to ragga jungle. There are only three DJs through the night, and one of them is YAHMAN – here’s a video of him playing in Nakameguro a couple of years ago. Terrible video quality, but two absolutely classic tunes from back in the day. I used to love the second track here, it’s the ’94 remix of Conquering Lion’s Code Red.

ECLIPSE @Asakusa Stella GEO, 12th June

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 13, 2010
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Back from Asakusa and a fun night at ECLIPSE. Guld was headlining of course, and I headed over there with Cogi just in time to catch the end of Morphonic’s set – it wasn’t the NRG he used to play, more like fairly mainstream techno, but for the last couple of tracks he played much older material from his Hashimoto days (and the crowd predictably enjoyed that more).

Guld followed right after Morphonics, and his selection was pretty much perfect for the event. The bpm was fairly low for the whole set, around 160, and he ran through a lot of older tracks while throwing in tunes like Android Lime’s Sunray remix and Hase’s Disintegration. The video at the top of the post was his intro, using a tune from anime classic Akira before going straight into Requiem.

The rest of the night was a lot slower and heavy on the hard house, but definitely had its moments. DJ ni-21 was technically fantastic, and even if I wasn’t too keen on many of the tunes, his mixing really kept the interest up. DJ 204 finished the event with a very varied set, going from chunky hard house to cheesy J-pop remixes, via the occasional hard trance tune. The highlight of his set (for me) had to be a hard house remix of Slipmatt’s 1993 hardcore classic from SMD 1. I was dancing at the time and forgot to take a video, but here’s the original – weirdly I was listening to this track in one of his live sets just a couple of days ago.

BEEZEE – BEHEMOTH

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 12, 2010
Posted in: Finnish, Mixes, UK. 3 comments

BEEZEE – BEHEMOTH by BEEZEE

Been a bit slow on the updates this week, but thanks to BEEZEE from the UK we now have a brand new set to check out. He got in touch recently, thinking that it might appeal to the TYFTH crew – it’s a really nice mix of old and new, and the first half especially has some genuine classics in there. The Kevin Energy remix of Anger Ball doesn’t really match up to the original in my opinion, but it definitely works well here to link between the older tracks and Horzi/Substanced’s sound. The mixing is very tight too, so this is another recommended mix.

1. NOMIC – FALLING STAR

2. GRIMSOUL – MOMENT OF WONDER

3. SUBSTANCED AND GRIMSOUL – HARDER THAN YOU THINK

4. ALEK SZAHALA – CHIMAERA

5. RX AND PAIN ON CREATION – SUPER SONIC

6. LOST SOUL – BEYOND SALVATION

7. CARBON BASED – ANGER BALL (KEVIN ENERGY RMX)

8. HORZI – INFERNAL PSYCHO

9. SUBSTANCED – ESCALATE

10. SUBSTANCED – EL ORFANATO

Thanks again to BEEZEE – check out his SoundCloud page here.

Illegrrrls, 26th June @Shinjuku WIRE

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 9, 2010
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I was thinking of going to an oldskool jungle club on the 26th, but looks like that’ll have to wait. Organised by Tokyo Hardcore Construction’s Kanon, Illegrrrls will round up the best female DJs in Tokyo’s harder scene for an awesome looking event. A look at the genres on the flyer was enough to get me interested, but now I’ve managed to find the full lineup of artists, too:

Kanon (TOKYO HARDCORE CONSTRUCTION/Party Pill)
KA-NA (operation karma-業-)
DJ ギズモ [GIZMO] (ever free/C-NEON）
DJ AEMI（夢音v.2 DiH / WEEKENDER / SUNRISE）
Milky (IScream/TWIST)
Siki (LunaticSabbath/Android）
MIYUKISS