Substanced – Crank Cleopatra by FINRG Recordings
Jiipez has already mentioned this in the previous post, but just in case people miss it (the download count is still quite low) Crank Cleopatra is now available via FINRG. You probably heard it yesterday on YouTube, so download from the FINRG SoundCloud right away. Also, Happy Birthday to Substanced!
For everyone who was wondering about Substanced’s new Crank Cleopatra – here it is! I love the intro, and the Substanced-style melody after the breakdown really grabs you, classic stuff. When I played it at the last NRGetic Romancer, even people who had just walked in couldn’t help dancing away…
There’ll probably be some more videos from Muon coming before too long (courtesy of SHINOSAN), but thanks again to Eirik for this one, taken near the beginning of my set. First is one of Betwixt & Between’s older tracks, Liberation, followed by Alek Szahala’s Invitation.
A quick shout for Alchemiist’s newest track, the first freeform tune for a while after all his recent Hard NRG. Radiation’s opening and the first piano melody remind me of Epyx & Cyrez, but then it goes off in a different direction – Alchemiist’s nasty synths are really sounding good these days, and that hyper melody after the (very nice) breakdown sounds a bit different to almost everything else out there at the moment…check it out at the top of this post.
Recently I changed my mind about a couple of the next tracks to go up on TYFTH, but hopefully this one is worth the wait! Phaedra appeared in Twisted Freq’s Darkest Halloween Tale mix a couple of years ago, but hasn’t really been heard of since. Shame, as it’s a very twisted/dark freeform track of the type we don’t see enough of these days, but still with that Betwixt feel to it. It’s definitely worthy of getting into a few more DJ sets from now on.
Download here, but it’ll be going in the Tracks section too, of course.
As usual, huge thanks go to Betwixt & Between for permission to put this one online.
The latest in the Crush on Hardcore series has been in the works for a while, and now there’s just a month or two more until release. This time the DJs are Cube::Hard, Shanty and a final FINRG set from JNKS/Swoosh and Rx/Carbon Based. The other big news is that there will be a physical version released in small numbers too (for free), as well as a follow-up CD of full tracks called Sequel of the V…also for free.
Inside this post is the promotional text from the COH crew, including the full tracklists. Watch out for some nice new tunes from FINRG in the final set…
The first Top Ten for quite a while, but first here’s an amazing tune I completely forgot about until a couple of days ago. This week I’ve been listening to a very nice mix of Photek’s mid-90s dark, minimal tunes, and UFO is right in the middle of the set. It has some of the best use of voice samples I’ve ever heard, taking lines from the audio recording of the UFO sighting at Rendlesham Forest in the UK (here’s the second half of the recording that Photek sampled). Whether it’s a hoax or not (!) there are about a million sample-worthy lines, and Photek used them perfectly. With his trademark drums, amazing sub bass and weird sounds, it’s a special tune, no mistake.
Anyway, back to freeform:
I’m quite late to this one, but on Mikseri there’s a great sounding preview of a new track from Df-X (aka Fea) called Dipping, and although it stops before the track really gets going, it sounds really promising. Does anyone know if the track is finished now?
By the way, if you’re new to Fea’s Mikseri page, be sure to check out Hyperthymia, still one of my favourites. I remember using the preview years ago in a 160bpm practice set, mixed with Balag Lamara and Galatea, I think…
Man of a million genres, aka Syntse, looks like he played a great freeform set in Finland last Friday, including Betwixt & Between’s Airwave remix. It’s definitely worth checking out both videos, but Airwave is at the start of the second. Always great to see a Japanese tune get that kind of response from the crowd…
Here’s a short clip taken at last November’s Operation Karma, with NRGetic Romancer regular, video-taker and all-round nice-guy Soham (on the left) dancing to Alek Szahala’s Lagash. This one was probably during KA-NA’s set, shame he didn’t get the freestyle glow-nunchaku going, too.