{"id":1375,"date":"2015-07-04T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T01:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2015-07-05T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T01:57:29","slug":"plasmadancer-lucky-lotus-5-6th-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"PlasmaDancer &#8211; Lucky Lotus 5, 6th June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/209177299&amp;color=73ab43&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>Probably about time for a quick note on my Lucky Lotus set, broadcast a few weeks ago and now up on the FINRG SoundCloud.<\/p>\n<p>I actually put a lot of effort into this one, and hoped to follow up my old (and very melodic) LL mix with something a bit darker. In the end I decided on a dark first half, before a psychedelic midsection and a slightly lighter finale &#8211; I&#8217;m (occasionally) working on a special set for TYFTH at the moment which&#8217;ll be heavy on the melancholy, and so I wanted to keep things energetic this time around.<\/p>\n<p>As is usual these days, you&#8217;ll notice that most of the tracks are very old, and even one or two of the connections might be familiar-ish if you&#8217;ve listened to some of the more ancient sets listed here. It wasn&#8217;t the plan from the outset to use so many oldies, but it&#8217;s of course hard to find a similar atmosphere in many modern tracks &#8211; it&#8217;s a nice feeling to be so familiar with a lot of these tunes, and hopefully that&#8217;s reflected in some fairly interesting connections and a flow I&#8217;m very happy with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>edit: <\/strong>To add something a bit more informative, a really important part of the first half was <em>Superstition <\/em>&#8211; I&#8217;ve always wanted to use it in a set, and the track actually changes key after the intro, which is incredibly useful if you&#8217;re going for a smooth sequence of tunes. <em>Pink Magic <\/em>is another Alek track that does something similar.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually quite pleased with the next part too &#8211; I&#8217;m not the first or last to try to connect a few psychedelic tracks to <em>Supriya<\/em>, but this was my best attempt so far, and I really like the progression to Le Dos-on&#8217;s <em>Mezame <\/em>bootleg. Having melodically fumbled my way out of that section, I was looking forward to smoothly progressing things towards the finale. Sadly though, time restraints meant I couldn&#8217;t mess around with <em>Mezame <\/em>experiments for too long, and I decided to switch things up and lead into the <em>Mediterranean Summer &#8211; Spatial Healing <\/em>combination I&#8217;ve been sitting on for a while. A shame to let the momentum of the previous 45 minutes trickle away a bit, but there was the silver lining of using <em>Rift <\/em>in a set for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there was quite a positive response to the set during the broadcast, and once again a few new listeners seem to have checked out our brand of freeform as a result (if some sudden action on the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/thank-you-for-the-horse\">TYFTH SoundCloud<\/a> is anything to go by). That was the main objective of course, so huge thanks once again to the Lucky Lotus organisers for another chance to spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably about time for a quick note on my Lucky Lotus set, broadcast a few weeks ago and now up on the FINRG SoundCloud. I actually put a lot of effort into this one, and hoped to follow up my old (and very melodic) LL mix with something a bit darker. In the end I [&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":[11,10,16,5,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian","category-finnish","category-goa-psy","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}