{"id":1321,"date":"2015-03-22T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2015-03-27T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:55:13","slug":"sky-dragon-freeformaniacs-round-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Sky Dragon &#8211; Freeformaniacs Round 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/194237038&amp;color=6fa81c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an interested eye on Sky Dragon&#8217;s productions for a long time now, and so I was very excited to see him in the lineup for round 19 of Freeformaniacs. Happily his set has lived up to expectations, and is a lovely example of (mostly) deeper melodies and well-considered mixing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Liquid Moon <\/em>is such a nice choice to set the early tone, and I really, really enjoyed the blend into <em>Code of Silence<\/em> &#8211; something about the two playing together adds a sad note to the hard trance melodies of <em>LM<\/em>. There&#8217;s a nice, careful key change into <em>Celestia <\/em>too, and while <em>Ambient Angels\u00a0<\/em>wouldn&#8217;t normally be my kind of track, it works superbly here as a bridge between <em>Nightingale <\/em>and <em>Lightshaft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The final section will probably appeal more to the UK freeform brigade, but <em>Solar Summon <\/em>takes things back to the deeper atmospheres of earlier in the set and is a more than fitting finale.<\/p>\n<p>A great mix from Sky Dragon, and it&#8217;s so encouraging to see some (relatively) new DJs approaching their sets with this much thought, and an obvious feel for how melodies and atmospheres can blend together.<\/p>\n<p>01. 2 Raverz &#8211; Into My World (T-Forces Remix)<br \/>\n02. Sam One &#8211; Liquid Moon<br \/>\n03. DJ Rx &#8211; Code of Silence<br \/>\n04. Aryx &#8211; Celestia<br \/>\n05. Sky Dragon &#8211; Nightingale [Demo]<br \/>\n06. Gammer &#8211; Ambient Angels<br \/>\n07. Grimsoul &#8211; Lightshaft<br \/>\n08. Oli G &#8211; Jasmine (Ephexis &amp; Helikaon Remix)<br \/>\n09. JD-Kid &#8211; Unforgettable<br \/>\n10. K90 &#8211; Red Snapper (Metrix Remix)<br \/>\n11. Gammer &#8211; Unforgettable Hope (Douglas Remix)<br \/>\n12. Vyral XIII &#8211; Solar Summon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an interested eye on Sky Dragon&#8217;s productions for a long time now, and so I was very excited to see him in the lineup for round 19 of Freeformaniacs. Happily his set has lived up to expectations, and is a lovely example of (mostly) deeper melodies and well-considered mixing. Liquid Moon is [&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":[10,4,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnish","category-mixes","category-uk","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}