{"id":1550,"date":"2016-04-07T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:18:13","slug":"midas-freeformaniacs-round-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Midas &#8211; Freeformaniacs Round 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/244943073&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>It&#8217;s a bit of an injustice that Midas hasn&#8217;t had more mentions on TYFTH, as he&#8217;s been doing a brilliant job over the years of sneaking Finnish and Japanese sounds into his sets, both online and around the UK. In fact I wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised if some of the UK freeform crew have Midas to thank for their first exposure to FINRG.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t often hear Wizbit and Alek Szahala in the same mix, but Midas was on top form for his recent-ish Freeformaniacs set, deftly negotiating his way from nutty breakbeat hardcore to some classics of the darker side. I&#8217;ve been known to <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/plasmadancer\/pd-dreams-into-harder-november-2010\" target=\"_blank\">dabble<\/a> in breakbeat hardcore myself, and it&#8217;s hard to resist some of these throwbacks to the amen-heavy mid-nineties, especially when mixed this well. Some teeth-gritting might be needed through the tracks that start sounding a bit too nu-skool, but we&#8217;re soon into some of the best of current UK freeform, including Transcend&#8217;s excellent <em>Candyman <\/em>remix.<\/p>\n<p>Midas has often pushed the Hybridize era nasty-but-melodic sound, and here it works as a nice bridge into the darker final section. <em>Morokai, Fluorite, Icy Clouds, <\/em>Alchemiist&#8217;s <em>Pain <\/em>remix &#8211; you really couldn&#8217;t ask for a much better selection if you&#8217;re looking to introduce folk to our side of things. Quite the journey of a set, and one that&#8217;d easily grace the peak time of many a UK event, I reckon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit of an injustice that Midas hasn&#8217;t had more mentions on TYFTH, as he&#8217;s been doing a brilliant job over the years of sneaking Finnish and Japanese sounds into his sets, both online and around the UK. In fact I wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised if some of the UK freeform crew have [&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":[9,10,5,4,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drum-bass","category-finnish","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-uk","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}