{"id":908,"date":"2012-07-22T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2012-07-22T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:30:44","slug":"munted-monthly-episode-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Munted! Monthly! Episode 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F51924041&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=6fa81c\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For one reason or another this post was interrupted last week, so before I get completely left behind here&#8217;s a brief-ish roundup of Munted! Monthly! Episode 7.<\/p>\n<p>Le Dos-on started things off with an excellent set of his own productions. As is common with one-artist-only mixes, the focus was on the selection rather than transitions, but this was the perfect showcase of Le Dos-on&#8217;s style for those who might not be too familiar with his newer tunes.<\/p>\n<p>With influences ranging from Alek Szahala to Hybridize via UK and Japanese freeform, he&#8217;s successfully forging a very distinctive sound &#8211; starting this time with one of my tunes of the year, the fabulous <em>Intro (epatoivo)<\/em>. The second half of the set\u00a0leans towards the lighter side of things (the wonderful <em>Le <\/em>and <em>Sena<\/em>\u00a0aside), but his melancholy\/darker tracks are just about a match for anything you&#8217;ll hear these days.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Intro(epatoivo)<\/li>\n<li>Stance-Another Story-<\/li>\n<li>Aurora<\/li>\n<li>yksisarvinen<\/li>\n<li>toivomus<\/li>\n<li>Mental Madness<\/li>\n<li>TRANSFORMER<\/li>\n<li>Silver Rain<\/li>\n<li>Sky<\/li>\n<li>Le<\/li>\n<li>Sena<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dyzphazia followed with another nice set full of variety, starting with some merrier melodies that gradually darkened up into a quality selection of Finnish\/UK melodic filters. Fans of the newer FINRG artists will definitely enjoy this one, but there&#8217;s also the clever selection of <em>Fisheye <\/em>into <em>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow\u00a0<\/em>to add something different towards the end.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?fbplz2x1adefymv\">Download here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Entity Vs. Autumn Nights &#8211; Fallen Souls<\/li>\n<li>Star Driver Pres. Nightforce Ft. Yuna-X &#8211; Fallen Angel<\/li>\n<li>DJ Rx &#8211; Code of Silence (Epyx &amp; Cyrez Remix)<\/li>\n<li>DJ Noriken &#8211; Moonlight Cluster [Druggy&#8217;s Acid Rack]<\/li>\n<li>Substanced Alchemiist &#8211; Skullcrush (Transcend &amp; Dyzphazia Remix)<\/li>\n<li>Horzi &#8211; Human Hater<\/li>\n<li>Transcend &#8211; Upwards<\/li>\n<li>Substanced &amp; J-Mx &#8211; Flawless Victory<\/li>\n<li>DJ Rx &#8211; Fisheye<\/li>\n<li>Betwixt &amp; Between &#8211; Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/li>\n<li>Amini &#8211; Aminus<\/li>\n<li>Helikaon vs. Ephexis &#8211; Iliad<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We&#8217;ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=901\">already mentioned<\/a>\u00a0Substanced&#8217;s set, and Midas followed that up with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?oqidn0lc5r7dp7n\">a nicely mixed hour of big kick and gabber<\/a>. Since the death of Tokyo Hardcore Construction I haven&#8217;t heard much from these styles, so this was a very nice interlude from the Finnish\/Japanese sounds elsewhere. The final third had some especially heavy tunes, a few of which I recognised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F52424333&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=6fa81c\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was next, and in a lucky coincidence I had chosen to start off with some fairly hefty Proteus tracks, making the transition from Midas&#8217; set nice and smooth. For this set&#8217;s preparation I was really pressed for time, and made just one recording (rather than the million or so I usually go for). Inevitably that gives the set more of a &#8216;live feel&#8217;, which let&#8217;s face it is just a euphemism for &#8216;more mistakes than a studio set&#8217;. Overall though, I&#8217;m very happy with it, even if I would have loved to continue the dark atmosphere of the first half&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The original plan was to finally come up with a mix that could match <em>Yamanote <\/em>or <em>Monogatari 1<\/em>\u00a0for darkness, but I simply ran out of preparation time and had to fall back on my trusty melodic melancholy for the second half. As it happens, the <em>Unohdetut &#8211; The End of All Things <\/em>section was lifted from my 10 Years of FINRG set, and initially the move from the darkness of the earlier tunes to <em>Unohdetut <\/em>felt quite jarring to me. I tried to rescue things with a tease of the piano melody during\u00a0<em>Syxautik<\/em>, but either way the flow of the set has since grown on me a bit. It&#8217;s certainly better than the <em>Psychopath &#8211; For All You Heavy Hearted<\/em>\u00a0connection, which is pretty slapdash by anyone&#8217;s standards.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other connections are remnants of my 10 Years of FINRG prep, including <em>gXX-XeY-XQn 2010 &#8211; Freezing Clouds<\/em>. I decided early on that I wanted to use <em>FC <\/em>in Lahti, and after spending half a day or so searching out the right Qygen track I became slightly obsessed with fitting it in at all costs. In the end I gave up after panicking over how much time it was all taking, but luckily here I quickly stumbled on a way to include it in that first seven track sequence. <em>Brionac <\/em>also saved the day once again &#8211; being unfinished means there isn&#8217;t a great deal going on during the intro\/outro, making it fantastically simple to mix, while I thought the slightly mad jangly melodies at the start of the breakdown might follow on nicely from the trippiness of <em>FC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Not playing last this time, I decided against a super bombastic finish (especially as I knew how Betwixt&#8217;s set was going to begin). Instead I thought the <em>Suicide Machine &#8211; Mekhanika Child <\/em>combo would have a bit of promo surprise value while not being too brutal a lead into <em>Out of Blue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while it wasn&#8217;t my best set ever, it was nice to see that different sections of the set seemed to go down well with different members of the Krafty chatroom, and I hope I (occasionally) succeeded in my usual mission of putting together a mix that rewards a few extra listens.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, heartfelt thanks to both <strong>Proteus <\/strong>and <strong>Alek Szahala<\/strong>, as without their help and the kind use of their tracks I really would have been stuck for inspiration this time around. Thanks also to <strong>Nomic<\/strong> for his constant help, as well as to <strong>Chip<\/strong>, <strong>Midas<\/strong>, and all the Munted! crew and listeners for the support &#8211; it really was an honour to be asked back. Special thanks to all the Horsers present &#8211; Allfonquez deserves a Golden Horse of Honour for some phenomenal track IDing, while it&#8217;s always entertaining to see Bern&#8217;s deadpan wit unleashed on an unsuspecting Krafty chatroom.<\/p>\n<p>01. ADAM Lab 4 &#8211; Psychopath (Proteus Hard Boiled remix)<\/p>\n<p>02. Black Light Discipline &#8211; For All You Heavy Hearted (Proteus Soittoversio Remix)<\/p>\n<p>03. Alek Szahala &#8211; Vengeance 2007<\/p>\n<p>04. Qygen &#8211; gXX-XeY-XQn 2010<\/p>\n<p>05. Alek Szahala &#8211; Freezing Clouds<\/p>\n<p>06. Hase &#8211; Brionac<\/p>\n<p>07. Twisted Freq &#8211; Syxautik<\/p>\n<p>08. Epyx &amp; Cyrez &#8211; Unohdetut 2011<\/p>\n<p>09. Nomic &#8211; Chaos Maker<\/p>\n<p>10. Betwixt &amp; Between &#8211; Matter of Fact<\/p>\n<p>11. Substanced &#8211; The End of All Things (Aryx remix)<\/p>\n<p>12. Yuki Kajiura &#8211; Mezame (Nomic bootleg remix)<\/p>\n<p>13. Betwixt &amp; Between &#8211; Dust to Dust<\/p>\n<p>14. Nomic &#8211; Suicide Machine<\/p>\n<p>15. Nomic &#8211; Mekhanika Child<\/p>\n<p>The event finished with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?bcpacyjb0yz6qtx\">Betwixt &amp; Between&#8217;s live recording<\/a>, an excellent high-bpm set of his danceable modern tracks. By this time of the night it seemed like the European listeners were feeling the strain, with a few heading off to bed before the end of the hour. Still, those who remained seemed to enjoy it, and the recording will surely introduce a few more freeform fans to the variety and quality of Betwixt&#8217;s current sound.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>BTW with Takashi Shinto &#8211; Out of Blue<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; Wandering of Tankobuhesotaro<\/li>\n<li>Vice Tek Heavy Industry &#8211; 3m3sys 3<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; ULTRA WORLD 6<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; Point of No Return<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; So Sweet Bitter Days<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; Zusammengehorigkeit<\/li>\n<li>RANK 1 &#8211; Airwave (BTW&#8217;s hard re:Boot)<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; Tout est Bien (Sein zum Tode)<\/li>\n<li>BTW &#8211; Hydra (long)<\/li>\n<li>BTW with Yukacco &#8211; Nothing Compares 2 You<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For one reason or another this post was interrupted last week, so before I get completely left behind here&#8217;s a brief-ish roundup of Munted! Monthly! Episode 7. Le Dos-on started things off with an excellent set of his own productions. As is common with one-artist-only mixes, the focus was on the selection rather than transitions, [&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":[9,6,10,5,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drum-bass","category-events","category-finnish","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}