Guld has just started up a SoundCloud account for those tunes that won’t/can’t get a release anywhere else, and first up we have his recent Solid State Scouter-based track, Final Revenger. I’m sure most people know it from his MySpace, and I’ve played it online a couple of times too…it’s a great tune, I still like that intro a lot. The file’s only 192kbps though, so it might not be one to play through a big PA…
It’s always nice to find some new material from Technorch - I’ve been a fan since the days of Gothic System, and really like his oldskool style in tunes like Table Talk Music. STRAIGHT is his newest release, a bit of a genre-bender at a relatively low bpm. I was surprised to find myself enjoying this one a lot, from the hard dance filters and kick of the intro to the inventive melody in the breakdown, it’s a quality track. The version up on YouTube comes complete with an amazing music video, courtesy of ace live artist Hiroyuki Takahashi and Maya Spirits.
Guld recommended Proteus’ Fist Of The North Star to me last weekend, and now I see why - this is yet another quality track that would work just as well in a freeform or Hard NRG set. That intro is amazing, and with those tearing synths it’s great to hear something that sounds so distinctly Finnish. For anyone else who hasn’t checked it out yet, head over to Proteus’ MySpace to listen.
More from SoundCloud - this time it’s an amazingly creative DJ set from Betwixt & Between. The nazo part of the title means ‘mystery’, and the mix lives up to it with mashed up vocal tunes, hard(core) techno sections and some NRG/freeform towards the end. Most of these vocal tunes would be painful in the extreme at normal speed, but at this bpm and joined by a massive kick they work really well. The mixing’s impressive too, it feels quite similar to one of Betwixt’s NRGetic Romancer Live PAs.
Really worth checking out, then - and while you are on the TOTAL DISCOMMUNICATION page, why not have a listen to some much older Betwixt tracks that were recently uploaded too.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Promising ‘experimental, innovative and futuristic’ freeform, Dye In Sound could be one of the most exciting things to happen to freeform for a long while. The group has been set up by Twisted Freq and Nightforce, and this preview of their first DIS track is showing all the signs of being a bit special.
The Storyteller already has an amazing breakdown - even if I’m not usually the bigest fan of long voice samples in freeform, once the kick and lead come in the ‘It is the exception…’ also works really well. So far there seems to be just the right balance of dark, nasty synths and melody, so (as you might have noticed) I’m really looking forward to this one.
