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.

Looks like the competition for ‘craziest event name in Tokyo’ is still ongoing, but look past that and this could be well worth a visit to Shibuya. HANKY PUNKY has been running since last year, and this time the organisers have managed to book both Guld and Eclipse’s DJ ni-21 to play alongside the rest of the lineup (including Morphonics, previously HASHIMOTO). Morphonics and ni-21 both played great sets at Eclipse a couple of months back, with plenty of schranz/hard techno/NRG in there.

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?

It’s the quietest summer for a few years, but there are still some great tracks out there. A few of these have had some play time in my off-the-cuff ustream sets, and might even end up in the next ’studio mix’ (which I’m finally starting to think about again).

One of the things that has inspired me to do another real mix is this unbelievable Prodigy-only set from Bluefire. It was originally posted 5 years ago (!), but I dug it out again after listening to the Experience album this past week. Prodigy tunes aren’t really set up for mixing (as anyone who has tried will tell you), which makes some of the double drops/epic transitions in Bluefire’s set even more amazing. It’s absolutely recommended for anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, and after the slower opening section it thankfully concentrates on the Experience/Jilted Generation era. Check out Bluefire’s original post on Dogs On Acid, there might be an active link there somewhere.

1. Dye In Sound - The Storyteller
2. Betwixt & Between - Point Of No Return
3. Proteus - Fist Of The North Star
4. Samuel K - Neuromancer
5. Suge - Tanasinn
6. Betwixt & Between - Enter the Void
7. Aquanox - Killer Loop
8. Cyrez - Rock n Load
9. Poly Calamity - Unam Sanctum
10.  Nomic - Muuttolintu

At the last minute I wandered along to this one at the weekend, and it turned out to be a really nice event with one of the ‘happiest’ atmospheres for a long time. Sadly I couldn’t make it in time for DX Pasta’s DJ set, but I met up with a lot of the raver crew (including DJ Takehiro, who I haven’t seen since we played at Last Dance together).

As usual the quality is pretty suspect, but I took a quick video of the epic b2b session at the end of the event. A couple of the crowd had climbed on to the speakers by this point, and slightly cheesy hard trance or not, it was very good fun.