Android Lime, DJ-X (Lab 4) vs BRK @ LSO Radio

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 9, 2009
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For anyone who missed the Android Lime and DJ -X vs BRK sets last week, they are now both downloadable. I’ve already given Android’s mix a couple of listens, and it’s great stuff once again. Starting off with hard dance, things get more and more frantic towards the end – my favourite section is probably the mix from DJ Rx’s In Memoriam to Android’s own remix of Hell Night, followed by the Jody 6 remix of Hatral.

Download the set here

I haven’t had a chance to check the DJ -X vs BRK set yet, but I’ll be doing so tomorrow – until then, everyone else can download it from here, too.

Substanced – Live @ Konemetsä 2009

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 7, 2009
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So Konemetsä has been and gone, and a lot of the FINRG/Hybridize artists were playing there. I hope we’ll get to hear a few recorded sets, and to start us off here’s one from Substanced. As you can see, it’s full-on freeform all the way with a really high BPM (just as it should be), and runs through a lot of Substanced’s classic older tunes plus Harder Than U Think, Freeform Mercury, that kind of thing. It would have been great to be there for this one…I wonder if anyone took some video during the set?

  1. Horzi – The Elegy (Substanced remix)
  2. Substanced – Lost Temple
  3. Substanced – Escalate
  4. Substanced – Worth Fighting For (Konemetsä edit)
  5. Substanced & Grimsoul – Harder Than U Think
  6. Substanced – Lost Temple Part II
  7. Substanced – Dream of You
  8. Substanced, Sam One & Horzi – Lionheart
  9. Substanced & Horzi – Superior Pressure 09
  10. Substanced – Freeform Mercury
  11. (Substanced – F!CK ME)

Download here

Doc Scott – The Deep End

Posted by PlasmaDancer on July 5, 2009
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I know, this is a drum and bass mix, but it includes a great sequence of 3 or 4 tunes that are a perfect example of telling a ‘story’. Anyone familiar with drum and bass will know Doc Scott, one of the early pioneers with the ambient/intelligent jungle sound back in the mid-90s, and this set does a pretty good job of rounding up some ‘deep’ modern tunes. First of all, take a look at the tracklist.

  1. D-Bridge – Inner Disbelief
  2. ASC – Starkwood
  3. System – El Sunrise
  4. KDC – Selfless
  5. Spectrasoul – Insignia
  6. Mindmapper – Resurrection Hub
  7. ASC – Porcelain
  8. Data – Dead Rising
  9. ASC & Method One – Deadlock
  10. Blu Mar Ten – Believe Me
  11. Jubei – Entrapment
  12. Survival – Sky
  13. Bop – Ataraxia
  14. Consequence – 11 Circles
  15. Raiden – Roentgen
  16. Jynx – Beating Me
  17. Instra:Mental – Watching You
  18. Despot – Concert

ASC and Blu Mar Ten are names from back in the good old days too, and the three tracks in bold make up the sequence that caught my attention. Dead Rising is almost dubstep style (it might even be dubstep, I’m not really familiar with it), and is one of those tunes that is really made by a well chosen sample – “Two news agencies are reporting accounts of the dead returning to life”. The pace of the sequence builds up with a rolling drumbeat and ominous bassline in Deadlock, before the vocal and more melodic style of Believe Me shifts the atmosphere again…it’s quite a beautiful tune, but sounds slightly disturbing/melancholy when matched up with the other two tracks.

I’m usually not a fan of modern dnb, and I wasn’t keen on a few of these tunes, but this is an amazing sequence and very inspiring, a dark/melancholy freeform set could definitely try to create the same sort of atmosphere. It shows the kind of ‘journey’ a good DJ can take you on, for sure.

If you fancy a listen after all that, download from here.

Android Lime @LSO Radio, 1st July

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 29, 2009
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A quick heads up for this coming Wednesday, Android Lime’s first mix as a resident will be broadcast on Live Sets Online Radio, with plenty of dark and nasty NRG in store (don’t ask me how I know, I just know). Show some support and give it a listen if you can, and don’t forget that DJ X (Lab 4) is also a resident, so definitely worth catching his sets too. If you’re after more info, be sure to check out Android Lime’s resident page here, and DJ X here.

Hybridize digital releases for free

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 26, 2009
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That’s right – new Hybridizes are now available for free download (!) from the FINRG homepage, inlcuding some great tunes from all the regular crew, plus a collaboration between Japanese artist Dexterpurpure and Tyranoid (Ascension, a favourite of Guld’s for a while now).

It’s obviously a big change for Hybridize, and if it gets the tunes out to even more DJs and listeners then it’s surely a good thing – of course I’ve been pushing them a lot at Hell’s Gate and NRGetic Romancer, and recently Hybridize tunes have been turning up in sets by Betwixt & Between, DJ Minagi, Alabaster and others. The newest batch includes everything from hard trance up to Substanced’s amazing Freeform Mercury (which I’ll be playing again next month, no doubt), and now there’s nothing stopping you from checking them all out.

Full Circle Recordings presents Cubizm, 4th July

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 25, 2009
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There’s a new event coming up from the Full Circle DJs, starting next month. You’ve probably noticed that the Full Circle style has changed quite a lot during this year, and this looks like more of a dedicated event for that kind of sound. Promising House, Soca (not sure what that is, to tell the truth), drum and bass and more, it’ll be interesting to see what other DJs will be playing there. It’s in the same venue as the recent foolish event, Nakameguro’s OVO.

Remo-Con & Nao/Remo-Con & Yoji @Vinylize

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 21, 2009
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Ah, sorry for the lack of updates this week, but not much has been going on. I did make it to Project Karma in Kawasaki last night though, so my legs are currently absolutely killing me… There was lots of video etc taken, so maybe I’ll up some of it here in the next few days.

In the meantime, last weekend was the latest Vinylize event in Shibuya. I wasn’t there (Guld was, and said it was great), but here are a couple of videos, just so I’m posting up something.

First is Remo-Con playing with live violin backing – maybe not exactly my kind of thing, but live/DJ collab performances are always interesting:

Next is Remo-Con alongside Yoji, playing Yoji’s track Airport, I think. I’ve seen a few Yoji videos lately, and seems like he’s playing slightly harder tunes again…or maybe it was just wishful thinking..

Guld vs Betwixt & Between – Hatral (Jody 6 remix)

Posted by PlasmaDancer on June 12, 2009
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To tie in with next month’s NRGetic Romancer, Jody 6 has just finished a remix of one of the tunes of last year, Guld/Betwixt & Between’s Hatral. This one really shows what a remixer can bring to a track, with the bpm dropping and it becoming more of a hard trance effort…I could definitely imagine someone like Munetica coming out with this sort of tune. Anyway, it’s already out on NRGetic Romancer Records (and seems like it’s a ‘featured tune’ on Trackitdown, too), so any hard trance/house heads should take a look here.