It’s Dyzphazia to the rescue again, this time with a super-high bpm version of the Hard NRG mix I’ve been searching for recently. This one starts off with Nemesis, followed by some very nicely selected Hard NRG, pitched up to within an inch of its life. On the freeform side of things there are some great choices, especially Alabaster’s Sarcomite and Leadbeater from Alchemiist and J-Mx, while standout mixes for me were Heartburn>The NRG and Major Paranoia’s Suspicion>Resurrection. Excellent stuff from our man, very highly recommended.
J-Mx and Labraska have done a good job with the tracklist on SoundCloud, but here’s the full version:
Thanks to Decion for this short but excellent quality video of Proteus doing his stuff at the most recent Frantic event. I don’t know the tune, but it sounds great…any ideas?
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.
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.
Been a bit slow on the updates this week, but thanks to BEEZEE from the UK we now have a brand new set to check out. He got in touch recently, thinking that it might appeal to the TYFTH crew - it’s a really nice mix of old and new, and the first half especially has some genuine classics in there. The Kevin Energy remix of Anger Ball doesn’t really match up to the original in my opinion, but it definitely works well here to link between the older tracks and Horzi/Substanced’s sound. The mixing is very tight too, so this is another recommended mix.
1. NOMIC - FALLING STAR
2. GRIMSOUL - MOMENT OF WONDER
3. SUBSTANCED AND GRIMSOUL - HARDER THAN YOU THINK
4. ALEK SZAHALA - CHIMAERA
5. RX AND PAIN ON CREATION - SUPER SONIC
6. LOST SOUL - BEYOND SALVATION
7. CARBON BASED - ANGER BALL (KEVIN ENERGY RMX)
8. HORZI - INFERNAL PSYCHO
9. SUBSTANCED - ESCALATE
10. SUBSTANCED - EL ORFANATO
Thanks again to BEEZEE - check out his SoundCloud page here.
Finally it’s time to post a quick review of the last Romancer. With all the guest artists and the ever free 4th floor, it ended up being one of the best for a long time, with a pretty high turnout of ravers from different scenes. Guld put in a huge amount of work for this one, so well done to him, and all of us were pretty busy for the whole night. That means that there might be a few gaps when it comes to photos/video…
Before the event it was great to meet up with Jody 6 again, and we ended up giving Bootek a quick tour of the crazier corners of Harajuku. Bootek was another genuinely nice guy, and it was pretty educational talking to him about the hard dance scene in the UK…the scale of events/what labels get up to is like something from another planet for us here.
A few of us at Romancer didn’t know too much about Bootek until recently, so Guld has been passing this video around as a good example of what his style sounds like. Maybe not what we usually hear at NRGetic Romancer, but it really seems like it’d be hard not to enjoy one of his mashed up sets.
If you’re in the mood for some Hard NRG, then this mix is definitely worth checking out. I finally gave it a listen the other day, and Kohl’s selection is really good, with older classics like the still amazing Groove Overdrive alongside some rarer (and newer) tracks. The bpm’s a bit slow for me, but picks up towards the end with some nice hardcore/gabber.
Intro
1. Nish - Dying For You (Wragg & Log:One remix)
2. Lab 4 - Groove Overdrive (Turbo Charge 2005)
3. IK - XBass (Yoji Biomehanika Remix / Kohl Short Re-Edit)
4. Lab 4 - Requiem (DJ X Lab4 Heart of Darkness remix)
5. Crypsis - Dust in your eyes
6. Lab 4 - Hellboy
7. Dark by Design - Death Approaching
8. Dark by Design - Candyman
9. Dj Thera - One Year 4 Years
10. The Beholder meets DJ Zany - Euphoria
11. Zany - Overcome
12. Crypsis feat. Dana - Transmission
A quiet couple of days, so let’s have another break with some nice drum and bass. A couple of post-2000 tunes in this one, and some very deep tracks from the early days.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted the link, but I must have mentioned this before - it’s PFM’s The Western. I once put it at no.1 in my all-time Top Ten, and it might still be there…15 years of listening and I still love it.
Harder Faster has just posted an interview with Proteus, and there are some really interesting thoughts on hard house, reasons why he switched from psytrance to harder styles, and he also mentions that he’s working on his second artist album. Check the whole thing out here.
