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Krafty Radio: Freeformaniacs this Thursday the 21st

Yes, it’s that time again!

Nova ScotiaI’m back on Freeformaniacs this Thursday, where I will be very proudly premiering Rampage Turbo 12, which I whacked together in one frenzied hour of high BPM mania over the weekend (of course, being over thirty and a middle-class family man, I made sure to do so while my wife was out with my daughter at Gymboree, natch). The mix goes from M-Zone’s magical trancer Subsonic Mass to DJ Eclipse’s gabbatastic Energize in just under an hour … reach for the lasers territory, for real.

If you’re interested in my mix from the last round of Freeformaniacs, go grab Rampage Turbo 11, and you can grab the rest of the Round 3 mixes from the Freeform Forum here. To grab the Round 4 downloads (or at least some of them), go here. I’m going to try to have Rampage Turbo 12 up for download here by the end of the weekend, but no promises!

As ever, the show will be kicking off on Krafty Radio at 10am on Thursday morning.

In other Freeformaniacs news, the Freeformaniacs album Freeformatted is now available for free download from the Ruff Beatz site – check it out here.

Enjoy!

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Two weeks to grab them, two weeks to grab them all …

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An okonomiyaki (Japanese omelette) bought from a street stall on Leather Lane, Clerkenwell … a little weird for my tastes, if I’m being completely honest

(Forgive me the cheesy Lord of the Rings reference, my wife and I spent last weekend re-watching all three movies)

So, as it turns out, I need to clear some room on my server in order to continue serving you up with fresh chunks of delicious, delicious electronic music. Given the huge number of mixes this site now hosts, I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised, but, well, I was surprised.

Obviously I don’t want to delete any mixes completely, so what I have decided to do is to delete some of the mixes in zip pack form, leaving only the single mp3. I’ve talked before about my preference for listening to split mixes, but a recent Facebook poll I conducted showed that I was pretty much alone on this one. This being the case, I’ve therefore decided to clear out some space by deleting the zip packs that accompany my old Rampage series of mixes. To give those of you who haven’t yet grabbed them a chance to download them, I’m going to keep them up for another two weeks, deleting them at around lunchtime on Sunday the 17th of June. Can’t say fairer than that, right?

Of course, you’ll still be able to get them as individual mp3’s.

Anyways, here are the mixes that I will be removing the zip files from:

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Dom Sweeten’s new blog (plus other news)

Dom Sweeten

Attention budding producers!

Hard house production hero Dom Sweeten (subject of my One True Dominator tribute mix) has just started a production blog called 404 Studio Blog, which will feature tips and tricks for getting the best out of your digital music productions. Worth a look if you’re interested (I’ve always been more interested in being a dj, but I did dabble a bit when I was younger, although it was mostly not very good haha).

In other news, I’ve got some exciting new bits of content to come soon, including a new hard house mix by Girdler Synthetic, and an interview with Jay Equinox, who ran the excellent Elite Records in Victoria for a number of years. Plus I have a bunch of new mixes, and some other exciting news I can’t yet unwrap and share with you all yet until everything is totally confirmed.

Finally, I’m holding a vote for my next acid mix on Facebook. Vote here if you’ve not already done so.

There are three options:

  • Stay Up Forever tribute
  • General London acid techno smashup
  • European hard acid techno-trance

Get voting!

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Krafty Radio tomorrow morning

For those of you who like really really hard stuff in the mornings, check out my Rampage Turbo 11 mix, which is premiering on the Freeformaniacs show on Krafty Radio at 10am tomorrow morning UK time. It will be up here on Friday/Saturday.

Enjoy!

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New Facebook Timeline Page Installed

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So I’ve just switched my Facebook page to the new Timeline format, featuring autobiographical snippets of my life as a dj, raver, and music fan going all the way back to 1995, featuring such memories as when I started mixing, my first squat party gig, the start of Rampage, the end of Rampage, and more …

Make sure to have a look!

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M-Zone’s Classics Mix

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Hi everyone, hope you had a great weekend!

Here’s a bit of good news – I’ve now posted M-Zone’s hard trance classics mix in the Old School Marathon mega-post. To grab it, click here. I’ve also posted a split version of Proteus’s amazing old skool mix, recorded live at Superstition in Helsinki. Tell your friends, neighbors, and grand-parents!

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2011: The Year in Rampaging Sonically


The weather is terrible in London … so why not some stats?

Welcome to 2012!

It’s been a pretty cool year for me – I became a dad, I got a new job, I moved back to London, and I even had the time to do a few new mixes along the way.

Anyways, I thought it would be nice to put together a post looking back at the last year here on the Sonicrampage blog, because, well, I like numbers and statistics. If you don’t, feel free to skip this post. 😉

All in all, it was quite a good year for the blog, especially considering that it wasn’t updated super-regularly, with almost 54,000 page views over the course of the year, an average of over 4,000 a month, which was very nice. Thanks to everyone who visited, and a special thanks to all the regular reader/listeners!

First up, here’s how those 54,000 page views break down:

  • My mixes – 46%
  • The home page – 18%
  • The mix galleries – 17%
  • Guest mixes – 12%
  • Other stuff – 7%
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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you from Sonicrampage!

I hope you’re having a great day, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing. I’m with my parents, sister, wife, and daughter, and we’re having a lovely day.

I’ve got a present for you tomorrow … a new mix! More details to come …

Also, as a bit of site news, I’ve also recently updated the About Me and the Top Mixes pages, and I’ve also changed the commenting system to Disqus and updated the Facebook Like Button.

Anyways, have a great day, and check back tomorrow for some electro/techno/house bass-fuelled goodness.

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Radio Times

Happy Friday!

I’ve got two cool bits of news to report today, that have come about as a result of doing Rampage Turbo 8 back in October. Firstly, DJ Meke (whose Nostrumo mix appeared on Sonicrampage last year) invited me to take part in DI.fm’s Oldschool Mix Marathon IV, which will be running from Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 00:00 until Friday, 30 December 2011 at 23:30. It took all of about five seconds to say yeah!

Check out who else is contributing mixes:

M-ZONE [UK]
“the godfather of UK hard trance”

PROTEUS [Finland]
“resident DJ of Superstition club]

MEKE [Finland] vs YOKO [Germany]
“Flashback duo from DI.fm”

ALLY ASYLUM (UK)
CIRILIOX (Spain)
DAVE ELYZIUM (UK)
DECK JAGGER (Finland)
DJ MINDFLASH (Austria)
INDIVIDUAL (Finland)
MARIO TEKNO (Belgium)
XYBO (Finland)

Fine company to be in! Meke asked me for an old skool trancecore mix, so I’m going to be putting together Rampage Turbo 9, and I’ve even bought in a few old skool goodies from Discogs for the ocassion! More details to come soon, but if you would like to join the Facebook event, click here.

Secondly, Stray from the Freeform Forum has been in touch to ask if I would like to be one of the residents on rotation for the Freeformaniacs show on KraftyRadio.com. Again, I’ve said yes, and I’ll be contributing an hour long old skool freeform mix about every nine weeks, probably starting some time in the new year. More details coming soon.

Exciting times!

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Subscribe now!

Just a quick word to let you know that I’ve now set up a subscribe button on the right-hand side, so that you can receive an email whenever I do a new post, whether it’s a mix, a cue file frenzy, something random, or just a little news post like this.