Tyranoid/Strongstream – Delta Green by FINRG Recordings
I’ve been playing some of Tyranoid / Strongstream’s older material on ustream, and here’s a long-awaited new release from them. Delta Green is a very hypnotic/psychedelic tune – I love that bassline, and wait for the gated vocal that comes in around halfway. Wouldn’t this sound nice mixed in with some of the Goa we’ve been talking about?
Aquanox – Killer Loop by Aquanox
Aquanox is back again with more new material, including Killer Loop, another awesome acid freeform track. This could be my favourite from him since Thunderbird, with plenty of freeform style filters and high speed melodies in amongst the now-familiar Aquanox acid.
449-Aquanox-The Unknown by Aquanox
The second track is also well worth posting up – The Unknown actually reminds me of some of Betwixt & Between’s recent tunes (thinking of Stairway to Solstice and Point Of No Return). It doesn’t quite reach those levels, but there are very, very positive signs from this one, with that lovely melody on top of the melancholy strings.
Dye In Sound – Extended by Nightforce
The latest track from Dye In Sound is well underway, this time with a real oldschool Twisted Freq sound. Built around a classic Kreatrix synth and breakdown, Extended definitely has one of the darkest atmospheres we’ve heard for a while.
A quick reminder that tonight I’ll be playing another live set on ustream, starting at 11pm Tokyo time once again. I’ve been rounding up a few tunes (still plenty of rounding to do before this evening, though) and there will be some brand new freeform and NRG this time (as well as the promos from last week).
Over on the Stand and Fight post’s comment section we’ve been talking about hard techno/hardcore and Betwixt’s high bpm tunes. It suddenly reminded me about WILD PARTY’s set last month at NRGetic Romancer vs ever free. He started off around 175bpm, and things just kept getting faster – a lot of the tunes were on the happier side of things, and not really hard techno, but he gradually darkened up the set as it went along, finishing with Unam Sanctum. I was really impressed with WILD PARTY – it was the most technical hardcore set I’ve seen for a long long time, and the preparation/practice that must have gone into it is something a lot of harder DJs could learn from. Just a shame that this is such a short clip…
This is a nice surprise – a compilation album (free, of course) from the COH crew that features a fair few Finnish tracks alongside some of the UK producers I look out for. Check out the tracklist below and you’ll see what a good job has been done with rounding up tunes.
In the freeform section, we all know about Sunray, Aurinkoon etc, but Jnks’ Skywalker shows how much he’s coming along as a producer, and it’s always nice to hear a new track from Matt England. Other tracks mostly fit into the breakbeat hardcore category, and I must admit that I quite liked Fuck Me Egyptian Style, a nutty jungle/happy/hardcore mashup.
Get all eighteen tracks in one file via the COH site.
I’m a couple of months late with this one, but the Operation Karma site has been updated with a new mix from my old Hell’s Gate co-DJ, Minagi. I’ll get a tracklist as soon as possible as there are a lot of tunes I don’t know, but it’s well worth a listen as an example of his style, running through hard house, NRG and finishing with freeform. Nice opening tune too…it sounds like an anime theme, but I’ve no idea what.
Check the mix out via the Operation Karma site, just click on ‘Promo Mix’ to listen.
Last Sunday’s set went surprisingly well, and ended up going on for a couple of hours before technical trouble started to ruin things. Huge thanks to Chip and Nisse for taking part right from the beginning, as well as to Twisted Freq and the mysterious Boddingtons (my younger brother back in the UK, in case anyone was wondering). Thanks too to the guests, whoever they might have been – we ended up with a show-record 12 people in there at one point.
Anyway, there’ll be another set this coming Sunday at the same time (11pm Tokyo time), same place (here). All are welcome!
Btw-stand and fight by TOTAL DISCOMMUNICATION
No, it’s not a new freeform track – instead this is some really brutal hardcore from Betwixt & Between, high bpm with a very punchy kick. This one is obviously all about power, but if you’re into this kind of thing there are a couple of nice little tricks in the structure that keep the interest up.
Dyzphazia (aka TYFTH’s Chip) played this set recently, and after checking it out I thought it was well worth sharing with everyone. All the DJs at the event had a 30 minute time slot, and as the event was more hard dance than hardcore Dyzphazia went for a hard trance/slowed down freeform set. I think it works very well, and Fleshfest is a great way to finish – it might not have the power to end a full-on freeform set, but here it’s a perfect step up from the more trancey sounds. The mixing’s also very good, so well done to Chip for this one – after chatting last night during my online set it seems like there’s more to come, too.