{"id":3605,"date":"2018-03-16T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T06:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2018-03-16T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T06:25:51","slug":"plasmadancer-finrg-podcast-006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=3605","title":{"rendered":"PlasmaDancer &#8211; FINRG Podcast 006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/414102534&amp;color=%232f3842&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the main reasons it&#8217;s been a bit quiet around here recently &#8211; fitting a set around Other Things these days isn&#8217;t always easy. No way I was going to turn down a chance to contribute to the FINRG podcast series though, so here&#8217;s my first full freeform set since the\u00a0<em>In Praise of Shadows\u00a0<\/em>mix.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about how it wasn&#8217;t only the dark, melancholy atmospheres of freeform that initially attracted me, but also a <em>strangeness\u00a0<\/em>that I hadn&#8217;t really heard anywhere else. Play tracks like that in a club setting and you have the other-wordly atmosphere of NRGetic Romancer, of course, and so this set was an attempt to capture some of that with a tracklist of slightly less common tunes. The key was to avoid throwing in unusual tracks for the sake of it, as well as putting the usual effort in to construct a cohesive whole.<\/p>\n<p>To that end I built the set around three main sections, resisting some old, obvious transitions in favour of keeping things headed in the direction I wanted. Hence the use of Twisted Freq early on, and a pretty basic introduction of <em>Godd<\/em>, for example. I wasn&#8217;t desperate to use promos here, but it turned out that GULD&#8217;s little-heard <em>City of Solitude <\/em>remix and Re-form&#8217;s <em>Intro <\/em>both fitted in nicely. Alabaster&#8217;s <em>Awakening <\/em>remix is still under construction, but this is the latest version and not too far from completion (and used with permission, obviously).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>2023 <\/em>remix was supposed to mark the big finale, which is probably my favourite part of the set. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the shift in atmosphere from there to <em>Blackmailer, <\/em>then into the Alek-Mellow Sonic combo. Those two beautiful breaks threaten to bring a tear to the eye every time, and I was hoping the contrast with the rest of the set would make them sound even better.<\/p>\n<p>As always there are things I&#8217;d like to improve, but having already spent an outrageous amount of time planning this one the deadline was probably a good thing. Hope everyone enjoys it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of the main reasons it&#8217;s been a bit quiet around here recently &#8211; fitting a set around Other Things these days isn&#8217;t always easy. 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