{"id":89,"date":"2008-07-07T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-07-07T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:14:09","slug":"im-normal-technomania-shoko-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"I’m Normal Technomania – Shoko F"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of months back Cogi and I were having a bit of a talk about mixing\/constructing sets, and how difficult\/exciting it is to create a particular atmosphere. Anyway, Cogi recommended that I check out Shoko F’s fabulously-titled I’m Normal Technomania<\/em>, a classic NRG mix from way back in 1997, as an example of how it should be done. Apparently Shoko F had an entire ‘story’ in mind while mixing, and imagined an epic journey through a Europe-style fantasy land – forging through a dark forest, emerging to find a huge castle, and so on. With this background info, listening to the mix is extremely impressive – not only is it nigh-on seamless, but the ebb and flow\/structure of the set is superb, and a real inspiration. Of course, as an NRG\/Hard Trance set, the mixing style is somewhat different to modern freeform, but the philosophy is applicable to all genres, I reckon – it’s definitely given me a lot of ideas for future mixes.<\/p>\n

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This mix is also fantastic for those (like me) who weren’t too involved with harder trance\/NRG in the mid\/late 90s. A particular favourite of Cogi and Guld is Accelerator<\/em>, and now I know why – it’s definitely one of those ‘way ahead of its time’ tracks, and ripe for a 21st century remix, for sure. Just in case you haven’t heard it either, I’ve included it at the top of this post, and here too is the full tracklist:<\/p>\n

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  1. Black Acid – Six Minutes of Mayhem<\/li>\n
  2. DJ Choci & Injector – Nothing<\/li>\n
  3. Black Acid – Stargate<\/li>\n
  4. Nuclear Hyde – Accelerator<\/li>\n
  5. Rebel Yelle – Mizbehavinit<\/li>\n
  6. Hydro – Liquid Prayers<\/li>\n
  7. Chris Liberator – Spectrum<\/li>\n
  8. Chase – Reject<\/li>\n
  9. Legacy – All Out of Bubble Gum<\/li>\n
  10. Dr. Bass – Don’t Stop<\/li>\n
  11. DJ Choci – Can You Feel the Force<\/li>\n
  12. Scope – Beyond Gravity<\/li>\n
  13. Bi Boy Action Squad – Got To Learn<\/li>\n
  14. Cores – Babylon<\/li>\n
  15. Tripswitch – TIC TAC<\/li>\n
  16. Yoji Biomehanica – Rendezvous de Telepathy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now the bad news – it might be difficult to get hold of this mix these days, but while writing this post I stumbled across Shoko F’s MySpace page<\/a>, which might be a start. There are some dark and nasty techno tunes up there as well, and definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A couple of months back Cogi and I were having a bit of a talk about mixing\/constructing sets, and how difficult\/exciting it is to create a particular atmosphere. Anyway, Cogi recommended that I check out Shoko F’s fabulously-titled I’m Normal Technomania, a classic NRG mix from way back in 1997, as an example of how […]<\/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":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-mixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}