{"id":781,"date":"2011-11-14T17:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T08:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T08:08:04","slug":"zio-hells-gate-afagddu-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Zio &#8211; Hell&#8217;s Gate (Afagddu remix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YtUveYgyOIs\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"430\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who follows mixu&#8217;s (aka pocketpool1000) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/pocketpool1000\">YouTube channel<\/a> might have noticed already, but there&#8217;s an extra artist name floating around from now on. PlasmaDancer was never even supposed to be a DJ name, and so for a while now I&#8217;ve been planning on using something else for any tracks I manage to come up with. Listening to the edit of my <em>Hell&#8217;s Gate<\/em> remix the other day, I decided that it&#8217;s just about dark enough to warrant the first use of my alias, Afagddu.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Welsh myths for inspiraton for a while now (I already have a few unfinished tracks with a variety of unpronounceable Welsh names), and decided on Afagddu as it derives from the ancient Welsh for &#8216;utter darkness&#8217;. The whole story behind this pleasant fellow can be found on the Celtic knot-tastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celtnet.org.uk\/gods_a\/afagddu.html\">Nemeton<\/a>, while Beezee might be the only Horser with an idea of how to pronounce it &#8211; in Welsh one &#8216;f&#8217; makes a &#8216;v&#8217; sound, while &#8216;dd&#8217; is more like &#8216;th&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it the most horrendous word imaginable for Japanese speakers, but I&#8217;ll still be PlasmaDancer for everything here\/when DJing, so it&#8217;s not as if we&#8217;ll be seeing it often&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, many thanks to mixu for the upload &#8211; I still have some space on my PlasmaDancer SoundCloud account, so a wav version will be online to download sometime this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who follows mixu&#8217;s (aka pocketpool1000) YouTube channel might have noticed already, but there&#8217;s an extra artist name floating around from now on. PlasmaDancer was never even supposed to be a DJ name, and so for a while now I&#8217;ve been planning on using something else for any tracks I manage to come up with. [&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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}