{"id":1716,"date":"2016-11-07T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2016-11-11T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:26:20","slug":"shimotsukei-a-brief-history-of-nomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Shimotsukei &#8211; A Brief History Of Nomic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/286864923&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>Thought you knew Nomic&#8217;s back catalogue pretty well, did you? A rude awakening awaits, as Shimotsukei has gone delving into the obscure and beautiful for another must-listen of a set.<\/p>\n<p>This set very wisely takes a different approach than Nomic&#8217;s own live PAs and mixes, with older, experimental tracks heavily represented alongside some classics. With such a huge selection to choose from it&#8217;s a shame the set doesn&#8217;t go for as many melodic transitions as I was hoping for*, but the tracklist is fabulous and it most definitely has its quality combination moments.<\/p>\n<p>With any other freeform artist you might complain at <em>Leijonakuningas<\/em> opening things and sticking around for a good 5 minutes or so, but for Nomic it sets the tone perfectly &#8211; you know that this is going to be something out of the ordinary. The excellent edit of <em>Human Race <\/em>follows, introducing a long sequence of trademark orchestral tracks that (utterly great though they are) don&#8217;t really have the power to be heard through club PAs very often these days.<\/p>\n<p>Towards halfway is where the set comes into its own, I think &#8211; the combination of <em>Etk\u00f6 ymm\u00e4rr\u00e4<\/em> and <em>Guardian Spirit<\/em> is a real winner, before the bpm really starts picking up for the final third.\u00a0<em>The Black Cage\u00a0<\/em>is a fantastic track that I haven&#8217;t even heard before, while\u00a0<em>This Is The New Shit\u00a0<\/em>into\u00a0<em>Painajaiskarkoittaja\u00a0<\/em>is as good a use of two of my favourites as you&#8217;ll find anywhere (assuming you can find anyone else playing them, that is).<\/p>\n<p>The final section from <em>Battle of Dawn <\/em>is the side of Nomic we rarely hear, but is a totally fitting finish for a top class set that manages something pretty special &#8211; covering all of Nomic&#8217;s trademark sounds but steering clear of too many anthems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* I&#8217;ve since discovered that this was an improvised set streamed live, making it even more impressive. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought you knew Nomic&#8217;s back catalogue pretty well, did you? A rude awakening awaits, as Shimotsukei has gone delving into the obscure and beautiful for another must-listen of a set. This set very wisely takes a different approach than Nomic&#8217;s own live PAs and mixes, with older, experimental tracks heavily represented alongside some classics. With [&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":[10,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnish","category-mixes","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","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=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}