{"id":4177,"date":"2022-12-09T18:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:08:51","slug":"asukarai-matsuri-respect-to-alek-szahala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"Asukarai Matsuri &#8211; Respect to Alek Sz\u00e1hala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-4wbxL8Btw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fresh take on the classics that we&#8217;re getting from the newer DJs has definitely been one of the highlights of the last year or so, chiefly from Asukarai Matsuri. This Alek tribute is as good as you&#8217;d expect and if (like me) it&#8217;s been a while since you heard a full set of his tracks it&#8217;ll be just the dose of inspiration you need to finish off the year.<\/p>\n<p>Asukarai Matsuri does a fine job here of deciding when to keep things in key and when to work out another way through a transition, with the first three or four tracks being a good example. <em>Dryad Machine <\/em>is the (slightly abrupt?) cue for things to head in more melodic direction, with some excellent selection choices. The <em>Lagash &#8211; Mohicans <\/em>transition is superb, but the later <em>Superstition &#8211; Man Eaten <\/em>is even better and probably one of the best Alek combinations I&#8217;ve ever heard. Although I would have moved <em>Caballo <\/em>to earlier in the set to keep things as dark as possible, that&#8217;s really nitpicking what&#8217;s a high quality tracklist. The finale of <em>Firecloud\u00a0<\/em>into\u00a0<em>Xochitlan\u00a0<\/em>is such a good combination of ferocity and depth, plus a last airing of the all-important sample, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rank this as the best Alek-only set I&#8217;ve heard so far (his own live PAs are in a different category, for me) and the thoughtful mixing makes it a must listen for veterans as much as newcomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fresh take on the classics that we&#8217;re getting from the newer DJs has definitely been one of the highlights of the last year or so, chiefly from Asukarai Matsuri. This Alek tribute is as good as you&#8217;d expect and if (like me) it&#8217;s been a while since you heard a full set of his [&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":[1309,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-finnish","category-mixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","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=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}