{"id":1033,"date":"2013-03-07T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:24:28","slug":"top-3-tracks-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 tracks of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much delayed, but it’s finally time for our annual roundup of the Japanese scene’s favourite tunes. As usual, it’s a mix of tunes released in 2012 and other tracks that DJs found themselves playing a lot, but hopefully it’s just interesting for everyone to see what sounds were most popular here.<\/p>\n

Sadly the Japanese NRG\/freeform scene is very quiet this year, and has so far been totally ignored by other hardcore events (just check the lineup for this year’s Tokyo ‘Hard’ Groove Session for proof). Hopefully things will pick up again as the year progresses – one of the great things about last year was the emergence of a few new DJs, from raqhow and Nrgray gaining more experience at Experience!, to ikaruga_nex’s switch to freeform and Mii’s debut in the darker scene. Alabaster wasn’t very active last year and so isn’t part of this year’s roundup, but hopefully he’ll be back on his game to contribute next time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Massive thanks as always to everyone for taking the time to choose, and it’d be interesting to hear everyone else’s picks, if you can remember back that far.<\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guld (NRGetic Romancer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. Epyx Cyrez – Unohdetut 2011 (Guld’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ Remix)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Betwixt & Between feat. Yukacco – Nothing Compares 2 U<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. N\/A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Le Dos-on (Splash Energy Recordings)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. Endemic – Xen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Ephexis – Alien Sonic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Metric – Black Sheep (Transcend bootie)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ASAHI (EUREKA)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1. BRK – The Nobodies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Grendel – Harsh Generation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. JODY 6 & ConfigSys Project – Japanese Ghost Train<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

raqhow (Experience!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. Substanced & Alchemiist – Permission to Die<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Aryx – Morokai<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Re-form – Decade<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ikaruga_nex (Experience!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. A.B. – Relax<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Substanced & Alchemiist – Skullcrush<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Aryx – Morokai<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u9b45\u8863 [Mii] (Dark Dimension)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. Nomic – Fortuna<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Betwixt & Between – Hollow<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Horzi – The Elegy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nrgray (Experience!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Yuki Kajiura – Mezame (Nomic bootleg remix)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Alek Szahala – Mageslayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Grimsoul – Sorceresses<\/strong><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/p>\n

PlasmaDancer (NRGetic Romancer\/FINRG)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. Substanced – The End of All Things (Aryx remix)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Betwixt & Between – Flowless<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Le Dos-on – Epatoivo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much delayed, but it’s finally time for our annual roundup of the Japanese scene’s favourite tunes. As usual, it’s a mix of tunes released in 2012 and other tracks that DJs found themselves playing a lot, but hopefully it’s just interesting for everyone to see what sounds were most popular here. Sadly the Japanese NRG\/freeform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japanese","category-top-tens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}