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Last week was the special free edition of NRGetic Romancer (featuring Adrenaline), and the turnout was pretty good. We were worried beforehand that Friday would be difficult for most people, and although again a lot of the regular ravers were missing, the numbers were eventually made up by a big group of unfamiliar faces. If they keep coming to future events, then that’ll be a real result.<\/p>\n
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I was up first this time, and it was pretty interesting to see how different the opening slot crowd can be. Actually, the regulars who had made it in time were dancing away, but with so few people it’s almost impossible to build the kind of atmosphere you need for high bpms. I don’t like mixing under 170bpm for too long though, so what to do next time if I’m opening…<\/p>\n
Anyway, I was incredibly grateful to the people who made along in time for my set – especially big thanks to Eirik, Magnus, Yuhei (and his girlfriend), Mai, Shinosan and Akibakei. The plan this time was to start slowly, and then see if I could get the bpm up to ‘normal set’ speed by the end. There were a few new\/unreleased tunes I haven’t heard through the Cube PA before, so I thought I’d take the chance this time to test them out – some of them got the crowd going, so that’s good to know for the future. I thought that my mixing was technically pretty bad this time, with a lot of stupid slips, but people don’t seem to have noticed them…instead the biggest problems were the jumps in the sound levels – I was using a new audio interface, and it had a lot more power than I was expecting. By next time I should be more used to it.<\/p>\n
On to the tracklist:<\/p>\n
01. The Prodigy – Claustrophobic Sting
\n02. The Prodigy – Full Throttle
\n03. The Prodigy – No Good (Start the Dance)
\n04. Lab 4 – Groove Overdrive (Turbo Charge 2005)
\n05. Psycho Keaton – Hellnight (Android Lime remix)
\n06. Hase – Disintegration
\n07. Pain on Creation & Orfeus – The Sanctuary
\n08. Epyx & Cyrez vs Fea – Unihalvaus
\n09. Epyx & Cyrez – The Most Masochist
\n10. Alek Szahala – Unholy Word
\n11. Twisted Freq – Innocence (AMS remix)
\n12. Substanced – Freeform Mercury
\n13. Trevor Jones – Last of the Mohicans (Alek Szahala remix)
\n14. Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon
\n15. Sonic – Inside the Ride<\/p>\n
Since hearing Claustrophobic Sting<\/em> and the other Jilted Generation <\/em>tracks as a 13 year old I’ve wanted to play\/hear them through big speakers, and so I thought this was a good chance. After the Prodigy opening, it was good fun to play a few of my favourite Hard NRG tracks, and I was pretty happy with how The Sanctuary <\/em>linked to the freeform…The Most Masochist <\/em>is an amazing tune for when things are heating up towards the end of the set, and although it’s actually 160bpm it pitches up really well – I’ll definitely be using it again. All the over 170bpm tracks are favourites of mine, and Last of the Mohicans <\/em>followed by Voices of Babylon <\/em>is lovely melody overload…. On a less good note, I ended on Inside the Ride <\/em>(to give Cogi some more time to prepare), but it didn’t have anything like the impact of April’s set. Ah well.<\/p>\n Cogi’s set was a mixing masterclass as usual, and 100% dark psy. He seems to have stopped the mixing in of older FINRG tracks now and then, but it keeps the atmosphere consistently dark and thumping. As usual, I can’t name the tunes without a tracklist (except my old favourite, Instrumental<\/em>), but if you’ve seen any of the recent Cogi videos on YouTube it was more of the same – great stuff.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/CIMG5414.jpg\")
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