{"id":1260,"date":"2014-12-21T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-12-21T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:49:28","slug":"codex4-1st-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"CODEX4, 1st November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEVGQyPrVtE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time for a look back at last month&#8217;s CODEX, definitely one of the year&#8217;s best events for freeform. Raqhow is going beyond the call of duty to keep up momentum, and so it&#8217;s nice to see more ravers taking notice of his hard work. This time of course the guests were Thumpa and Technorch, while the slight improvement in crowd numbers made for a quality atmosphere. Raq has coincidentally just uploaded his own video report, which you can take a look at above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15086758514_0564f72a19_o_zps5d7279e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Le Dos-on opened the event with an absolutely brilliant warm-up set &#8211; starting with Carbon Based&#8217;s <em>Dark Side (Intro Mix)<\/em>, things progressed through hard dance and NRG up to a nicely midrange freeform speed. Continuing the top-level mixing of his past CODEX sets, this really was something pretty special. The video below catches a snippet of <em>Fury Theme<\/em>, toward the end of the set.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkbmFDu_gvY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15682985746_ed87e7de48_o_zps03cfe340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alabaster was up next, playing some uplifing, UK-styled freeform mixed in his trademark considered style. The thin crowd numbers at this stage didn&#8217;t give him much to work with, but the set itself was very well put together. As is traditional these days, he closed out the set with <em>Fairytale <\/em>&#8211; this time followed by the always-entertaining Arkitech remix of <em>Alanamra.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3rr0zCCQIHk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15087350583_75bef3078f_o_zps02d84639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was more UK freeform from NONAKA+CHIN, but with a typical harder undercurrent of Re-form and Alek Szahala that always makes for a surprise or two. A good example is my video below &#8211; expecting to hear <em>Comet Catcher <\/em>played to the end? In leaps Solution and Ephexis&#8217; <em>Requiem<\/em> to take things in a totally different direction. Definitely a good set for the almost-halfway point of the event, and followed by Technorch&#8217;s unique style.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHM0cZCeo6o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15520832889_4fa9633ae1_o_zps66e2dd5d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technorch played a very nostalgic selection of older hardcore and trancecore, including some of his own material. No <em>Gothic System <\/em>sadly, and not as hard as I remember from his THC appearances, but a well-mixed departure that made for a distinctive hour in its own right, refreshing the crowd for the final few sets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15682983516_4cff09202b_o_zps0eb6b194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the crowd warming up nicely, Thumpa hit just the right note with a real something-for-everyone set. The main sound was UK-styled, but there were some welcome nods to the deeper side, including a lovely little sequence of alternating Alek Szahala-Aryx tracks. A very good set then, and keeping the variety up for the whole hour meant that the crowd stayed with him to the very end.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the lack of video around this point &#8211; I had retired to the background for a quiet moment or two, as I didn&#8217;t feel quite as focused as expected. Seems as though chanelling memories of 10 Years of FINRG usually does the trick, and so I was definitely up for it by the time Thumpa played his last track.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15704797341_1dd7343c3f_o_zps146475e9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going on past CODEX events and the guests for this instalment, I decided not to worry about uplifting, melodic sounds, and instead concentrate on a real TYFTH almost-hour of darker, melancholy tracks. Worth mentioning that although these days I treat event sets as another recorded &#8216;studio&#8217; mix in terms of preparation, I was initially so stuck for inspiration that I wasted time cobbling together an intro edit of one of my own unfinished tracks (!). Obviously a terrible idea, and so I instead went for the slightly better option of <em>Vengeance 2007 <\/em>to start, splitting the set into &#8216;dark psychedelic&#8217;, &#8216;dark aggressive&#8217; and &#8216;dark melancholy&#8217; sections.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Soham we have a couple of nice (if muffled) videos, showing <em>Vengeance <\/em>and then <em>The Game \/ Symphony for the Devil:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qkJqWa7PYZk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AQyFsemOd0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A big, big thanks goes to the CODEX crowd for sticking with the slightly different style, and a TYFTH gold star to the sizeable group of ravers who really seemed to know their darker tracks. It&#8217;s extra rewarding to see a crowd react well to the stuff I spend so much time arranging beforehand, while it was also a nice confidence boost to pull off some especially difficult connections. I won&#8217;t be adding the full tracklist here as the best parts are already &#8216;reserved&#8217; for use in future recorded mixes, but I might play the set one more time on ustream.<\/p>\n<p>Final, massive thanks go to Thumpa for lending me use of his HD-25&#8217;s after I left mine at home &#8211; trying to improvise with a different brand during the soundcheck didn&#8217;t go well at all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/15708277492_fc600fc406_o_zpsaa627f63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raqhow played the final set alongside Le Dos-on, a best-of-both-worlds way to open and start the event with a Le Dos-on set. They work very well together and have similar taste in tunes &#8211; the hard, melodic sound of modern FINRG combined with some older Japanese tracks. Ending as usual with <em>Lacrima<\/em>, there followed a raffle for Rebuild albums and t-shirts, before the close of another successful event. 2015 is looking very positive for CODEX, as the lineups and timetabling seem to have found a sweet spot, while crowd numbers and awareness continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos from the event, take a look at photographer Mizuho&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiptrick\/sets\/72157646796981413\/\">Flickr gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a look back at last month&#8217;s CODEX, definitely one of the year&#8217;s best events for freeform. Raqhow is going beyond the call of duty to keep up momentum, and so it&#8217;s nice to see more ravers taking notice of his hard work. 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