{"id":1115,"date":"2014-05-30T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2014-06-03T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:57:08","slug":"a-farewell-to-aryx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell to Aryx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TDFF4EIlzIQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Along with Epyx &amp; Cyrez&#8217;s retirement earlier this year, Aryx&#8217;s decision to stop freeform production has to be the biggest news of 2014 so far. While I&#8217;m sure we all wish him well as he heads off to pastures new, his absence will be another massive loss to the freeform.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for last year&#8217;s Munted! in London then, as I finally had the chance to play on the same lineup after out first meeting at 10 Years of FINRG. An unbiased observer* said that ours were the two best sets of the night, and it was an honour to be pushing our styles together in an unfamiliar outpost of the scene.<\/p>\n<p>I say our styles &#8211; but while I&#8217;ve been neglecting production in order to diddle away the years on DJ sets, Aryx has done the hard work to go from a total rookie to one of the very finest freeform artists so far. His\u00a0<em>The End of All Things\u00a0<\/em>remix remains a stupendous track that transports me back to Lahti every time I hear it, but any artist would also kill to have tunes like <em>Chaldea<\/em>, <em>Morokai,<\/em> and <em>Polaris <\/em>on their CV.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the fact that Aryx is one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one hoping that we&#8217;ll one day see him back in the scene. For now, let&#8217;s enjoy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/aryx\/aryx-alek-sz-hala-byrgius\">Byrgius<\/a>, <\/em>and look forward to his next (trance?) tracks in his new guise.<\/p>\n<p>*aka my younger brother<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Epyx &amp; Cyrez&#8217;s retirement earlier this year, Aryx&#8217;s decision to stop freeform production has to be the biggest news of 2014 so far. While I&#8217;m sure we all wish him well as he heads off to pastures new, his absence will be another massive loss to the freeform. Thank goodness for last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,10,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-finnish","category-releases","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","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=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}