{"id":2776,"date":"2017-09-22T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T10:42:19","slug":"substanced-pure-freeform-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"Substanced &#8211; Pure Freeform I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/338301526&amp;color=%232f3842&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>This one&#8217;s already closing in on 200 SoundCloud &#8216;likes&#8217; and will probably have been on everyone&#8217;s radar for a while, but Substanced&#8217;s newest set definitely deserves a respectful shout here too. I expect most will have looked with disbelief at such a new-release heavy tracklist &#8211; if this was your only set listen of the year you&#8217;d be convinced the 2017 scene is in rude (albeit very trancy\/melodic) health, with Substanced&#8217;s tracks pushing a promising style of updated FINRG sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Remember me positing that Hyphen&#8217;s <em>Dryad Machine <\/em>remix would be the\u00a0<em>In Praise of Shadows\u00a0<\/em>track with the most cross-scene appeal? Hardly a bold prediction, but it seems to be the case, here used from the break as a really effective post-intro opening track. Substanced&#8217;s material is an absolute highlight of the set &#8211; they might be tricky to mix with really darker stuff, but my gooodness there&#8217;s some great work on the melodies, as well as yet more evidence (see that excellent <em>Gamemaster<\/em> remix) that he&#8217;s the current king of the &#8216;FINRG filter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>We all know what a good fit Substanced and Transcend&#8217;s tracks are together &#8211; melodic, often uplifting and with enough nastiness to get everyone dancing, here they&#8217;re mixed in a rock solid style that&#8217;s hard not to enjoy. Alchemiist&#8217;s remix of\u00a0<em>Can U See Now\u00a0<\/em>might be my favourite of the new tracks though, while I was overjoyed to hear <em>Unconsciousness <\/em>towards the end &#8211; the madness of that classic breakdown is a worthy follow up to Substanced&#8217;s <em>Cyclone <\/em>remix.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;I&#8217; in the mix suggests a follow up, and as welcome as that&#8217;d be it seems that this set alone has been enough for a fair few FINRG fans to revisit the scene. With the label taking submissions again we could be on the way up again after the recent quiet spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s already closing in on 200 SoundCloud &#8216;likes&#8217; and will probably have been on everyone&#8217;s radar for a while, but Substanced&#8217;s newest set definitely deserves a respectful shout here too. I expect most will have looked with disbelief at such a new-release heavy tracklist &#8211; if this was your only set listen of the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnish","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","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=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}