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Munted Tonight! Check out the Munted Takeover from Freeformaniacs with Pearsall, Plasma Dancer, Aryx, and Midas

Freeformaniacs Round 9 – Munted Takeover! feat Plasma Dancer, Midas, Aryx, and Pearsall (30/05/2013)

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Last week saw a very special edition of the Freeformaniacs show in honour of Munted presents Animal House, this Friday, June 7, 2013 at Union in Vauxhall, London! Two hours of real deal underground freeform music, featuring Plasma Dancer (Thank You For The Horse), Aryx (the Slovenian boy wonder), Midas (Munted/Scarred Digital) and Pearsall (Sonicrampage, and also, erm, me). This was originally due to include Douglas, but he wasn’t able to participate in the end, so I literally stepped in at the last minute and recorded my half hour the night before transmission.

If you are going to the party tonight have a great time!

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Written by Pearsall

June 7th, 2013 at 2:23 pm

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Tagged with aryx, freeform hardcore, freeformaniacs, guest mix, midas, plasma dancer

Guest Mix: Benjy Bars presents The Roots of Ruff Sqwad

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Benjy Bars presents The Roots of Ruff Sqwad

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Mixed in London, May 2013
(54:19, 99.6 MB, 256 KBPS MP3)

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Written by Pearsall

May 6th, 2013 at 10:02 pm

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Girdler Synthetic’s Guest Mix for Freeformaniacs Round 9

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Girdler Synthetic’s Guest Mix for Freeformaniacs Round 9

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Mixed in the UK, April 2013
(118:12, 278 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

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Written by Pearsall

April 28th, 2013 at 9:55 am

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Tagged with freeform hardcore, freeformaniacs, girdler synthetic, guest mix

Old School Mix Marathon V

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Old School Mix Marathon V

Seven fresh mixes of old skool goodness from DI.fm’s Old School Electronica Channel, plus a selection of classic 90′s mixtapes

For the second year running, Sonicrampage is very happy to present the official blog post to accompany the Old School Mix Marathon V, a very special project organized by Finland’s DJ Meke in conjunction with Digitally Imported’s Old School Electronica channel to celebrate the best in old school rave music (click here to check out the Old School Mix Marathon IV). As I said before, the goal of this project is to “create a series of old skool mixes from across a range of harder dance music styles, mixed by dj’s from across Europe, that would showcase the amazing music made in the 90′s to nostalgiacs and newcomers alike.”

This year’s edition certainly does that, with specially created mixes covers everything from hard trance to rave to Goa trance to, from myself, acid techno.

Here’s a quick run down of the mixes:

Pearsall Slaves to the Silver Box – My own contribution (of which I am working on a separate, distinct post) is another dark, rumbling acid journey, in a similar vein to previous mixes of mine like Beyond The Valley Of The Acid Vixens and The Waveform Cult. IF you like the mind-expanding capabilities of the Roland TB-303, then this is for you!
Yoko vs Meke Rave’O'Lution – The DI.fm Flashback team deliver 80 minutes of relentless European hard trance, covering both classics and obscurities, as well as some modern takes on the classic hard trance sound from Sound Spectre, Artemis Wave, and Yoko himself. High bpm’s, lots of acid, and gigantic melodies … what’s not to love?
Dawn vs Meke RetroActive VI – Meke’s second appearance, alongside Germany’s DJ Dawn, is another headfirst dive into vintage hard trance, with Dawn’s set covering the anthems, while Meke works in some obscurities from SDD label compilations (and I’ll stick my hand up here and say that I’ve never heard any of these tunes before!)
Dave Elyzium Classic Goa & Morden OMGoa – Both Welsh hard trance dj/producer Dave Elyzium and Finnish dj Morden deliver awesome hour long sets of 90′s Goa trance. I haven’t really listened to this stuff in a while … and so I had forgotten how good it is. It’s easy to joke about psytrance and all of its ‘herders of the moon goat’ hippy baggage, but tune wise this early punchy Goa stuff was pretty damn good. I definitely recommend grabbing both mixes if you like psytrance, or even if you are just curious.
Yoko RetroRaveTekk – Yoko’s second mix is a vintage selection of punchy early 90′s rave music, that rich brew of innovation, rip-offs and general dancefloor lunacy from continental Europe that existed at the moment before hardcore, trance, and techno all became distinct genres with rigidly set boundaries. Awesome.
Spacehopper Classic Gabber – Last but very much not least is this absolutely storming set from Spacehopper, covering some of the greatest ever moments in hardcore techno history. Not for the faint-hearted, this high-velocity brain-shredder of a set brings together awesome tunes from the likes of Hellfish, Tieum, Dolphin, and more, and finishes on what is quite possibly the finest moment in hardcore history … Lenny Dee’s Forgotten Moments. Great set.