Sorry for the lack of updates during the last few days, I was a bit busy with work and then went to Tokyo Hardcore Construction on Sunday night (Monday was a national holiday, thanks heavens). Anyway, one of the DJs at THC was Lala, a regular there but someone I’ve never actually seen play – you may also remember him from the recent THC preview videos. Anyway, I was expecting dark and nasty speedcore or something, but his genre of choice is actually retro-themed hardcore\/gabber. His set on Sunday was really good fun, and so here’s his promo mix from the Hardcore Construction site, if you’ve missed it until now (as I had).<\/p>\n
I’d forgotten how much I love those old happy hardcore style kicks and simple melodies, and I defy you not to have a little dance\/head-nod while listening to this set. The file’s only 30-something Mb, so you’ve (almost) nothing to lose – download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry for the lack of updates during the last few days, I was a bit busy with work and then went to Tokyo Hardcore Construction on Sunday night (Monday was a national holiday, thanks heavens). Anyway, one of the DJs at THC was Lala, a regular there but someone I’ve never actually seen play – […]<\/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":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-mixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}