{"id":1690,"date":"2016-10-04T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2016-10-04T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T13:10:00","slug":"dj-danny-stokes-insane-nuttiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"DJ Danny Stokes &#8211; Insane Nuttiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/277253182&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>An interesting take on the dark\/melancholy formula here, in a set from DJ Danny Stokes. Recorded a few years ago, the set is anchored around a few heavily pitched up Lab 4 tracks &#8211; this might be a deal breaker for some, but it&#8217;s this and the surprising combo of Nu-Energy with darker tracks that are the noteable elements here.<\/p>\n<p>Although personally I could do without tracks like Kevin Energy&#8217;s remix of <em>Lumi<\/em>, it&#8217;s tracklists like these that show the potential of coaxing more UK freeform-centric DJs towards the FINRG, EE, Kreatrix and (wait for it) TYFTH side of things. As an example, CLSM&#8217;s <em>Revolution <\/em>remix works brilliantly here as a link between Lab 4, with <em>Adaption <\/em>making perfect sense as a follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought-provoking stuff, before the second half of the set switches into a nicely mixed selection of old favourites. I have my own thoughts on how the TYFTH flavour of NRG and freeform can reach wider audiences, but sets like these (and Thumpa&#8217;s, obviously) show a another possible, optimistic attack vector on the less grimdark corners of the freeform world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting take on the dark\/melancholy formula here, in a set from DJ Danny Stokes. Recorded a few years ago, the set is anchored around a few heavily pitched up Lab 4 tracks &#8211; this might be a deal breaker for some, but it&#8217;s this and the surprising combo of Nu-Energy with darker tracks that [&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":[11,10,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian","category-finnish","category-mixes","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}