Guld has done an excellent job of sorting out a very busy timetable this time around, and somehow I’ve ended up with a 50 minute set to open the event. It looks like my original idea of running through the past 7 years’ worth of freeform might still be doable…let’s see how many I can fit in!
23:00 PlasmaDancer
23:50 COGI
00:30 Betwixt & Between
01:00 SATOSHI HONJO
01:50 Shriekerz
02:40 DJ MUNETICA
03:10 Full Circle DJs
03:40 Einhander
04:10 GULD
For one reason or another I couldn’t make it to last month’s Destroyed High, but AT’s set was easily the one I was most looking forward to. Luckily Soham was on the case once again, coming up with a lengthy video of AT playing The Tune. It sounds like a nice clean mix to follow up, but sadly the clip ends before I can work out what the track might be…
First of all, many apologies for TYFTH being out of action for the past week (a delay far, far longer than expected), but we’re up and running again now. I hope everyone took the chance to stock up on dressage horses, bridles and stables?
Let’s get back into the swing of things with a quick reminder of NRGetic Romancer’s 7th Anniversary event, coming up this Saturday. We’ve got an amazing lineup of guest DJs this time, with NRG, schranz and hard trance all covered, as well as the usual NRG, freeform and dark psy from the regulars. The set times will be pretty short this time around, but I’ll see how many promos I can squeeze in alongside some Romancer anthems to (quite probably) open the event. Here’s the full promo text for the Japan crew:
NRGetic Romancer
7th Anniversary!!!!!!!
2011.8.13(SAT)
@ARK STUDIO CUBE326(http://
DOOR:3000yen W.F:2500yen and NRGetic Romancer 7th Anniversary CD
OPEN 23:00
□GUEST LIVE PA□
Shriekerz(Total Deztruction)
Einhander(Total Destruction)
□GUEST DJ□
MUNETICA(ENERGIZE JP RECORDS)
SATOSHI HONJO(Adrenaline)
■DJ
GULD
COGI
PlasmaDancer
■LIVE
Full Circle DJs
Betwixt & Between
■VJ
VX PASTA
コケカキイキイ
Support by FINRG, Full Circle Recordings, Kreatrix Recordings, ENERGIZE JP RECORDS, Guhroovy and Anarchy
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遂に7周年目に突入したNRGetic Romancer。
今回はNISHの代表曲SagittariusのリミックスでHarderground Recordingsからリリースを果たしたShriekerz、また別名義でHARD NRGを作りだし北欧を中心にその名を轟かせつつあるEinhanderとしてもブッキング。その名以外全て謎に包まれていたベールが遂に剥がされる。
さらに次世代ジャパニーズサウンドレーベルENERGIZE JP RECORDSからMUNETICA、国内唯一のハードテクノ/シュランツパーティーAdrenalineからSATOSHI HONJO。
7周年を飾るに相応しいラインナップ。
イザ、執行ノトキ…
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Incidentally, I’m in the midst of some hardcore set-planning at the moment, so there probably won’t be a ustream session this week – apologies for that too, but there’ll be plenty of cool stuff to show you once Romancer is all finished.
Epilim is generally acknowledged to be one of the real founders of the Finnish sound, though Proteus’ sets are about the only place to hear his material. Brilliant work from mixu, then, who has unearthed a couple of unreleased tracks. The first (which thanks to Jiipez, we now know is titled Trip 3) is a slow burner with some really nice trancy melodies and a fantastic second half, while the second (Plasma) sounds like it could have influenced everything from Cyclone to Maruuk with its post-breakdown hoovers. Almost goes without saying, but both are essential listens for anyone with the slightest interest in the origins of our scene.
Since the original post, mixu has uploaded a third tune with a lovely, chilled breakdown. Does anyone have any idea what this one’s called?
Now that the mix is all finished, it’s about time for that long-delayed ustream session. Once again it’ll mostly be freeform, this time with a slightly earlier start time for any of the Japan crew who might be around. It’s been a while since the last one, so feel free to stop by and say hello!
Following up the very promising Ephexor and Gladiator, Heathen also has an Epyx & Cyrez remix forthcoming on FINRG. This preview doesn’t give too much away, but it’s nice to hear such pacy drums in an E&C track, while the synths are really sounding top class.
In other news, today I finished the set I’ve been working on. Putting it together in two weeks might have cost me my sanity, but I’m pretty happy with the end result – watch this space!
That means that getting a forum up and running is top of the ‘to do’ list again, as well as finishing at least one of the tunes I’ve got lying around here.
Amini – Eupraxia (Unmixed) by DJ-Amini
It’s great to see Amini keeping up the pace with his production – following his recent trance tune Electric is a proper 175bpm freeform effort called Eupraxia. Once again showing the influence of Sam One, Horzi and Substanced, this is a very good tune with some nice creative touches. If you’re going to go down the ‘huge breakdown’ route you have to make sure it’s a good one, and here Amini’s managed it nicely with a vaguely tech-dance (?) section followed by some hyper-trancy melodies. Honourable mentions to the bassline and general mixdown too, very impressive stuff.
I’m currently going utterly insane (mix-related woes, predictably), but here’s another set to check out courtesy of Dyzphazia. Supernova Remnant is his trance alias, and so here we have a mix that goes right through the genres from trance to freeform, via some drum & bass. I might not be the biggest fan of some of the styles here, but the mixing is absolutely fine and really blends it all together, smoothly progressing from ‘nice background music’ to ‘a set you can dance to’. The final quarter is where the freeform comes in, including my old remix of Hell’s Gate and a rather cheeky (but seamlessly put together) combination of Iron Squid and the Assembly 2010 edit.
Nomic made an appearance at last weekend’s Harder.fi event, and thanks (as usual) to Syntse we’ve got some nice footage of the event. It says it all about the sorry state of the freeform scene that someone as talented as Nomic isn’t headlining a different event every week, but he’s only challenged by Betwixt & Between/Alek Szahala as my artist of the year so far.
Awa (Unfinished & Lost Forever version) [100K DL´s edition] by FINRG Recordings
Something of a milestone for FINRG recently, reaching a total of 100,000 downloads since it became a free label. To mark the event, Nomic has released the latest (2009?) version of Awa, a very versatile tune if you’re in the mood for some long mixing, and plenty of nice melodies for the home listeners too.