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I hope everyone enjoyed the week or so without Thank You For The Horse<\/em>? Sadly (?) the site hasn’t been bought out by a group of freeform loving millionaire Russians, or anything like that – instead, the domain name expired. Oops, eh? Anyway, everything is shipshape now, so I’ll try to catch up on a few things from the last week or so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First of all, the end of last month saw Hell’s Gate at Studio Cube. Although I was a bit late (just for once), the post-midnight DJs were all excellent. Ayako’s hardhouse set was right up there with her efforts at Dance or Die vs Hell’s Gate – maybe even harder this time, and she came up with a sackload of tunes I’ve never heard before.<\/p>\n KA=>NA played one of the best sets I’ve heard for a while – she’d told me the day before that she would be playing Alek Szahala’s tracks, but I wasn’t expecting the whole first half of the set to be Alek only! Starting off with Balag Lamara<\/em>, she also played Maruuk, Ashurnishishi, Supriya <\/em>and Man Eaten<\/em> (been far too long since I last heard that). The second half was a a mix of Hard NRG from Japan and elsewhere, and it’s safe to say that she’s got the Khaotic Domension <\/em>CD – tracks included Mirage, Dasein <\/em>and Galatea<\/em>. It seems like we’ve got very similar taste in tunes, then, and it was really a great set. I couldn’t make it to Energy Cocktail in the end, so I’m really glad I caught this one.<\/p>\n I have to say that KA=>NA completely overshadowed Chucky’s guest performance, who followed immediately after. Of course, I’m biased, as her style of NRG\/freeform is much more my thing, but his set did have its moments. Zio was the final DJ of the evening, and as is normal at Hell’s, he played 100% Hardstyle. It’s not my favourite genre, but this was a really nice set, with enough melodic moments to break up the pounding tunes. I was getting quite into it by the end, and so even if I’m not going to become a Hardstyle head for a while yet, I’ll be looking forward to Zio’s next Hell’s set to continue my education.<\/p>\n The next Hell’s Gate is the 14th of next month, and the lineup has just been announced. More on that soon, though….<\/p>\n (By the way, that’s Zio up at the top of the page, in full Hell’s Gate mode)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope everyone enjoyed the week or so without Thank You For The Horse? Sadly (?) the site hasn’t been bought out by a group of freeform loving millionaire Russians, or anything like that – instead, the domain name expired. Oops, eh? Anyway, everything is shipshape now, so I’ll try to catch up on a […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","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=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}