I hope you’re enjoying your weekends!
Today’s little post is just to alert you to the fact that I’ve now added a gallery on the right-hand side to collate all of the guest mixes I’ve posted. It’s well worth checking them out, since the selection includes techno, breaks, freeform hardcore, and hard trance.
However, if you’re feeling lazy and don’t want to shift your eyes to the right, you can just click here to go straight to the gallery. 😉
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Mixed in London, November 2010
(67:08, 123.07 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)
Style: Techno
So, 2011 is almost here!
Phew, what a great year it’s been here at Sonicrampage.org – a bunch of new mixes from myself, some great guest mixes, and a solid growth in pageviews have made this an excellent year, and one to build on for the future.
But the year’s not over yet, so I thought I would put in a little post to tell you what I’ve got planned for December. It’s going to be a really exciting month!
I’m planning on posting four mixes, two from myself and two guest mixes. What a way to finish the year!
Firstly, I’ve decided to post my Cold World mix, because my wife and I moved about a month ago and I’ve been so busy setting up my own company that I’ve not yet had a chance to get my decks set up:
This being the case, I’ve obviously not had the time to re-do Cold World like I said I would. Not that it really needs redoing – the mix is absolutely fucking savage and (in my opinion) possibly the best drum n’ bass mix I’ve ever done, but it has about six little skips in it from the new recording setup that I used for it. The skips were annoying, so I thought I would re-record, but since I physically do not have the setup to do so, instead I have just used Soundforge to cut out the gaps in the audio, which should make the skips less noticeable.
An example of one of the skips
So, since I’m going to be putting up Cold World probably sometime next week, if you are a photographer and want to participate in the accompanying post, where I will be posting people’s favourite winter shots, now’s your last time to get them to me!
Besides Cold World, I also am planning on posting another mix by myself, probably around Christmas. Of course, to do so, I’ll need to get access to someone else’s set-up, so hopefully I can sort that out soon.
When it comes to guest mixes, I’ve got two quality mixes from two great dj’s to post this month. If you enjoyed Flip’s Freeform Mix, which I posted a few weeks back, then you’ll be very pleased to know that the man himself has found another one of his old freeform mixes for me to post, featuring classic tracks from the likes of Pain On Creation, Carbon Based, Kevin Energy, and many more. Amazing stuff!
The other guest mix is by Paul Zykotik who has given me a fantastic hypnotic techno mix. It’s been a while since this site has featured any ‘proper’ techno, so I’m very happy to have it, and if you love techno, you will too!
It’s going to be a great month, so please keep coming back to Sonicrampage. 😀
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Mixed in Brisbane, October 2010
(85:14, 196.16 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)
Style: Hard House/Hard Trance from Nick Sentience
Spotted earlier today in my stats:
This morning I read that someone on USH.net was looking for Flip’s Freeform Mix; funnily enough, I had put it on my server ages ago for someone else, and had then forgotten about it.
Anyways, since Pearsall lives to give ( 😉 ), I thought that I would put a quick post up to draw your attention to it, since it really is a great mix, and if you are a fan of freeform hardcore you should definitely check it out:
Tracklisting:
01. C.I.N. – Sacrificial
02. Carbon Based – Reactivated
03. Shanty & D.O.K. – Route 88
04. Dodgee & UFO – Timespan
05. Kevin Energy – Waves Of Desire
06. Tazz & Concept – Planet Of Dreamz
07. Oli G & Gammer – Photex
08. Impact & Exert – Power Of Acid
09. DOK & Dodgee – Inside
10. CLSM – Transmission To Mars feat Bello B
11. K Complex – Global Panic (Kevin Energy & K Complex Edit)
12. S4 & Phosphor – I Came For You
13. Carbon Based – Cyclone
14. Alek Szahala – Invitation
Flip is an old mate of mine that I met on the club scene many years ago, back when he was one of the resident dj’s with the Redtrip crew, who did parties at the Elektrowerkz and The Telegraph and a few other places from about 2002 to about 2005 or so. I played for Redtrip a few times, both playing drum n’ bass in the side room and playing techno in the main room, and I even wrote a review of one of their 2003 parties for Harderfaster.net, which I will reproduce below:
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Mixed in Edinburgh, October 2010
(39:45, 75.39 MB, V0 VBR MP3)
Zip pack (cut into individual tracks)
Large cover
Cue file
Style: Acid Techno
Grange Loan, Edinburgh, January 2010
Cold World has now been recorded (and it’s completely rocking!), but I still need your photos for the accompanying blog post! If you have a favourite winter photograph and would like it featured on this blog, please email a high-resolution copy (if you have one) to pearsall@gmail.com, as well as your name and (optionally) a description and a link to your website (if you have one). Having received it, I’ll be more than happy to include it in the final post.
Yesterday I received a message on BangingTunes.com from a user named Hettoblaster complimenting me on the Heartcore mix, and pointing me towards Mark Reeder’s Myspace page. Mark Reeder, for those who don’t know (a group that included me until yesterday evening!), is an Englishman who moved to Berlin back in the 1970’s and went on to become one of the key figures in the development of trance music, establishing the MFS (“Masterminded For Success”) label back in 1991. Through MFS, Mark launched the careers of people like Cosmic Baby and Paul van Dyk, who was later to become one of the biggest dj’s in the world, as well as putting out releases by producers such as Humate, Marco Zaffarano, and Mijk van Dijk.
Anyways, on his MySpace page, Mark has written a very long and interesting piece about his experiences in the Berlin music scene from the 1970’s through to today, which has a lot of fascinating detail about the latter part of the Cold War. It’s well worth going over there to have a read through the whole thing, but as a teaser I thought that I would excerpt what Mark has to say about the development of trance music and his relationship with Paul van Dyk:
If you’ve enjoyed my recent dubstep tributes, you should definitely check out Laurent Fintoni’s epic DMZ tribute that he did for his Saw You On The Flipside blog back in April. It’s got almost every classic tune that you might want from dubstep overlords Mala, Coki, and Loefah, spliced together with some audio from the YouTube interviews the crew did with Scion Radio. Amazing.
