Amini – Guitarian – Mixed (Unmastered) by DJ-Amini
More posts to come tomorrow, but for now here’s a look at Amini’s newest track, Guitarian. Once again, the progress he’s making with his production is obvious – this one has a nicely rough feel in between the trancy melodies, and isn’t that breakdown great? Personally I might have taken advantage of the momentum it builds up, and brought the kick back sooner, but otherwise this is really quality stuff.
Alchemiist – The Dome (clip) by Alchemiist
Yet another quality sounding preview from Alchemiist, The Dome is a freeform track with a definite Japanese feel to it. A very long breakdown, but it follows that up with some trademark synths and an excellent, driving main section.
Completely unrelated, but in other news the TYFTH forum is still going to happen! I was deciding on initial boards today, and all being well there should be something for everyone to sign up to next week…
I mentioned this the other day, but here’s confirmation of a great event next month. All sorts of genres and a massive list of DJs make this one to look forward to.
T.C.P.T presents HARD/DARK SOUND PARTY
Destroyed High vs Lunatic Sabbath
2011.10.15(Sat)
23:00−5:00
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★Resident DJ’s★
DAIRIN(Destroyed High/Soul of tattoo)
KA⇒NA(Destroyed High/Zetto/HELL’SGATE)
AT(Destroyed High/Karma-業-)
★Lunatic Sabbath DJ’s★
ac-key†damb head(Lunatic Sabbath)
siki(Lunatic Sabbath/Rituals The Head Shop)
裏口入学(Lunatic Sabbath)
– PERFORMANCE＆DANCE –
鞠(Lunapark/霞鳥幻樂団/xHC08x)
★Destroyed High DJ’s★
殺女(AVIlity)
Sh1nmei(VIDA Musica/Arcadia)
MERCHEN DIVER(aka A2C)
DJ DAHLIA(Frieden、Arche)
ZIO(HELL’SGATE)
まっつ
★LIVE PAINT★
將 (Lunatic Sabbath)
– MODEL＆PERFORMANCE –
TSUMUGI
★VJ★
Hosopyi(ECLIPSE/T.C.P.T)
DORAchan
★STAFF★
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★Genre★
HARDSTYLE/HARDCORE/SPEEDCORE//BRAKECORE/FREEFORM/HARDNRG/
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人体という壁を越えて魂で、して絶頂を体感せしめる新感覚DANCE EVENT
「Destroyed High」！！
数々のCLUB EVENTをくぐり抜けてきたツワモノ達による
破壊的絶頂の境地へ貴方を案内する。
『音楽に留まらない、アンダーグラウンドカルチャーの発信基地』であるLunatic sabbathの方々のSound＆アンダーグラウンドカルチャーとHard Soundを融合させ、よりハードでアンダーグラウンドな、破壊的絶頂と平行した別次元にある誰も試みた事のないHARD＆アンダーグラウンド空間が出現 する！！
そこで、各々が想いのままに自己を表現せよ！！
今宵あなたがHARD＆アンダーグラウド空間の主役になる。
さぁ！お手をどうぞ！！
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Cyrez – The Brain Controls Pain (Electronica Exposed, CLIP) by Cyrez
Fans of Cyrez’s dark and atmospheric sound should rejoice – he now has a SoundCloud account, complete with some previously unreleased material. Rock n Load and his remix of Digital Destruction are downloadable for the first time, and there’s also a clip of his newest track, The Brain Controls Pain.
There are plenty of other tunes up there too, incuding one of my all-time favourites, Private Demon, and the Elegy remix that I’ve played to death during the past few months.
Destroyed High has turned into a monthly event these days, so last Saturday I took the chance to check out September’s edition. Kanon was the guest DJ this time, and the rest of the lineup was very good, including the set of the night from MIYUJOU.
I took a few videos this time – to spare the TYFTH front page from yet more embedded stuff, you’ll need to click below to take a look.
I’m not too sure when photos from last weekend’s Sabbath will be appearing, but this promo video (completed just a day or so ago) does an awesome job of conveying the atmosphere of the event. It has to be one of the very best I’ve ever played at, with an incredible crowd of underground characters who seemed ready to dance to just about any genre that was thrown at them. Huge thanks once again to ac-key and Siki for giving me the chance to appear at such an amazing event, but also to KANGU, Kohaku and the rest of the ravers for support, as well as to Alexis, Selia and the Decadance Bar staff.
The genres were far more varied than I was expecting, and both ac-key and Siki played two sets each. Siki’s first was a warm up, with some gentle psy and industrial, followed by ac-key’s jungle, dubstep and hard techno. For one reason or another RYO was very delayed, so Shou somehow fitted in a rock/metal set before starting his painting. After my set, Siki played some high bpm dark psy, and RYO finally appeared to play a brief session of hardcore-with-guitars. ac-key finished off the event with a great set of breakbeats and some more uplifting tunes.
After describing my style as ‘aggressive and melancholy’ on the flyer, I really tried to go all-out in that direction. By some miracle it ended up being one of my best-ever sets, and probably as close as I’ve ever gotten to what I think NRG/freeform should ‘really’ sound like. There weren’t many promos this time, partly because of the dark/melancholy drought we’re having these days, but also because I guessed that even the classics would be new to a lot of the crowd. Here’s the tracklist, then:
01. Stereo Junks – Chemistry (Proteus remix)
02. Epyx & Cyrez – Risk Addiction (Substanced remix)
03. Beati Mortui – Let the Funeral Begin (Proteus remix)
04. Alek Szahala – Sunray
05. FEN Project – Mad Man
06. Proteus – I See Things That You Don’t See (Guld remix)
07. Hase – Brionac [unfinished]
08. Alek Szahala – Maruuk
09. Alek Szahala – Voices of Babylon
10. Betwixt & Between – Zusammengehorigkeit
11. E-Noid – Order Chaos
12. Epyx & Cyrez – The Most Masochist
13. Epyx & Cyrez – When Left Alone
14. Dye In Sound – The Storyteller
15. Alek Szahala – Last of the Mohicans
16. RR-ThermalForce – Al Megiddo
The intro was supposed to ease the crowd into things with some guitars/goth style, while I tried to use Alek at certain points in the set to freshen things up and introduce some melodies (without ever getting into ‘trancy’ territory, of course). As luck would have it, the Let the Funeral Begin>Sunray connection was my best mix for months, so I’ll definitely be using that in a future studio set, and the extremely dark sequence from Zusammengehorigkeit to The Storyteller went down far better than I could have hoped…just a shame that I couldn’t fit Nomic’s Marilyn Manson remix in at the end. Anyway, Shou’s painting began during my set, and the atmosphere was just fantastic – watching the crowd go mad to When Left Alone while TSUMUGI did her thing next to the speaker was amazing, and right up there among my ‘best DJ moments’ so far.
I was lucky enough to make a few contacts during the night, so hopefully there’ll be more chances to get involved with this scene in the future. Next stop, Tokyo Decadance on the 24th…
Grimsoul & Pain On Creation – Fury Theme by FINRG Recordings
Another massive release from Grimsoul, but this time featuring Pain on Creation! We can only pray that this is a proper return to the scene, as Fury Theme is as good a comeback tune as you could hope for. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard these synth fills and melancholy melodies, this time with that unmistakeable Grimsoul sound. Here in Tokyo you’re still almost guaranteed to hear a PoC track at any freeform event, so this’ll surely be one of the most popular releases of the year so far.
Grimsoul – Jään hautaamat 2012 by FINRG Recordings
This week saw Grimsoul’s latest (and very welcome) release, an update to the 5-year-old Jään hautaamat. The original is an absolute classic, so it’s nice that this version doesn’t alter too much and instead spruces up the melodies and bass with some 2011/2012 production quality. Grimsoul fans should stay alert, as there may well be some more material on the way before too long.
A thousand and one thanks to Pearsall (of excellent blog Sonicrampage) for letting me know about this gem from back in the day. It seems that it was originally released on CD as a magazine promotion, mixed by early pioneer DJ Fury.
Anyone familiar with classics like Lemonade Raygun will partly know what to expect, but this brilliant set actually goes all the way from oldskool trancecore to piano-and-amens happy hardcore. I missed out on a lot of the less-happy tunes at the time (and also never realised that Billy Bunter was responsible for Let It Lift You!), so this was both a superb listen and quite an education.
01. Helix – Testament
02. Cortex – Eurosis
03. DJ Fury & Helix – Y Not
04. D-Zyne & Fury – Hyperhydrosis
05. Justin Time – The No. 1
06. Helix – Helixia
07. DJ Fury – Droppin’ Bombs
08. Different Vibe – Can You Feel It
09. Billy Bunter & JDS feat. Gem – Let It Lift You
10. Highlife & Style – Bits and Bobs
11. We 3 – Groovy Dimensions
12. N-Zo & DJ Invincible – Trippin’ On Sunshine
Check out Pearsall’s original post for the download link, plus a very tasty-looking hardcore techno set (that I haven’t had a chance to listen to yet).
Gaiaforce – フリーフォーム楽しい by Gaiaforce
Two mixes to post about tonight, the first of which is Gaiaforce’s new J-Core/freeform set, Freeform Tanoshii. A glance at the tracklist will show that this mix is heading deep into Hardcore Tano*C territory, with a Japan-only selection and some tunes that we don’t often (or ever, even) see on TYFTH.
Starting off with Eternal Cannon, Gaia’s set manages to include tracks as varied as Tano*C anthem Moonlives, Tout est Bien and Outer Space. After a really impressive intro, some of the connections are more successful than others (inevitable really, with this much variety), but the lovely sequence of TeB, Alive in the Darkness and Optical Force features a really nice mix at the end. I might not be a huge fan of the Tano*C sound these days, but I enjoyed this a lot, and there’s plenty of potential for a series of ‘J-Core for a freeform audience’ sets. Gaia is definitely on the right track (and technically already very good), so hopefully it won’t be too long before the next installment.
01 RaverRoseTF – Eternalcanon
02 DJ SHARPNEL – TRANCEFORMer
03 REDALiCE – Energy Stream
04 DJ Noriken – Moonlight Cluster
05 Masayoshi Minoshima – Moonlives
06 Betwixt & Between – Tout est Bien (Sein zum Tode)
07 LV.4 – Alive in the darkness
08 umbrella – Optical Force
09 Ryu＊ – orion
10 源屋 – Outer Space
11 Alabaster – Forgotten Ancient
12 DJ Technetium – チーターマンNRG (FREE FORM MIX)
13 Ark-Z – 夢見