{"id":1649,"date":"2016-08-13T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T02:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T02:45:39","slug":"nomic-lucky-lotus-online-music-festival-6-solvynt-lucky-lotus-online-electronic-music-festival-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Nomic &#8211; Lucky Lotus Online Music Festival 6 \/ Solvynt &#8211; Lucky Lotus Online Electronic Music Festival 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/271031944&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>Lucky Lotus 6 was very high on quality, and I&#8217;m still working my way through a few of the sets from the event. So far my favourites have been Nomic and Solvynt, two distinctive sets that did a fine job representing freeform.<\/p>\n<p>Nomic&#8217;s hour won&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the nicest balances of melancholy and harder stuff that I&#8217;ve heard for a long while, while the WIPs and new tracks mean there&#8217;s plenty for Nomic veterans to check out, too. We have to mention the opening, of course, as the third part of <em>Falling Star <\/em>is an absolutely beautiful track that does more than enough to distinguish itself from the &#8217;08 version. Watch out for new track <em>Shattered, <\/em>as it starts a very classy section from there to <em>Black Lotus,<\/em> before the traditional harder finale, this time of\u00a0<em>Leave Me Alone \/ Mad Man <\/em>and <em>Holocaust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/271149600&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>Solvynt&#8217;s set comes at things from a DJ angle, and so in my book the transitions, selections and &#8216;story&#8217; of the set should take centre stage. Right from the start it&#8217;s clear that Solvynt has kept that in mind, as the <em>Superstition &#8211; Purple &#8211; Tendrils of Reality<\/em> combination is about as good as you&#8217;ll hear anywhere. There&#8217;s a lovely flow to it, from the psychedelic darkness to the way things build up to the harder stuff with <em>Tendrils<\/em>, and if things had maintained those standards for the entire set we&#8217;d be looking at an all-time classic.<\/p>\n<p>Easier said than done (and I certainly don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever managed it either), but even when the flow is interrupted slightly the tracks themselves are high quality choices. It&#8217;s from <em>Brionac,<\/em> though, where things get back into top-level territory and the kind of twisted atmosphere that&#8217;s so hard to get right with freeform &#8211; that move into <em>The Ghost of Jupiter <\/em>is great, followed by some superb use of Nomic and Pain on Creation. U<em>nicorn Grove <\/em>signals a classic Alek\/Betwixt finish, a nice way to end a very impressive hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Lotus 6 was very high on quality, and I&#8217;m still working my way through a few of the sets from the event. So far my favourites have been Nomic and Solvynt, two distinctive sets that did a fine job representing freeform. Nomic&#8217;s hour won&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the nicest balances of melancholy [&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":[10,5,4,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnish","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-uk","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}