Just when it was turning into one of those weeks for freeform, here we have a brand new set from Alek Szahala to keep us going into the new year. This one was recorded during Alek’s recent gig in Canada, and there’s plenty of new/updated material along with staples like Maruuk and Iron Squid. Listen out for the slightly Nomic-esque breakcore (?) track in the second half – it stands out a little in amongst all the freeform, but it’s a very nice experimental tune. The excellent Starcrossed and what I think is a reworking of his Baldur’s Gate II remix are other new tunes, while Phobos is sounding as incredible as ever.
You’d have to be mad not to give this a listen – here’s a tracklist of what I recognise so far, thanks to Jiipez for the help!
- Alek Szahala – Ascend to the Stars
- Alek Szahala – Astraia
- Alek Szahala -Deimos
- Alek Szahala – Maruuk
- Alek Szahala – Lagash
- Alek Szahala – Iron Squid
- Alek Szahala -Wraithverge
- Alek Szahala – Starcrossed
- Alek Szahala – Vengeance (2007 edit)
- Alek Szahala – Pax Eranae
- Chanel 5 – Never Forget (Alek Szahala remake)
WOOOO
Dl’ing like the fist of north star!
Brilliant, brilliant set. I’m out of words. Alek is a genius, I doubt anyone can make music as inspiring as his.
Sweating oceans as I type this, time to dance to never forget now~
downloading now.. cant wait! the tracklist looks so awesome
I have been waiting for this. Download time!
I was kinda waiting when will Alek release this to the rest of the world; this has been up for Finnish listeners for over a month now (reason being, some radios wanted to play the set, he said).
Well however, I also saw the tracklist and seems Phobos has been renamed to Deimos (!) in it, maybe to separate this new(est) version from the old (ones)? Also the seventh track is “Wraithverge” and tenth goes under name “Pax Eranae”
Oh, nice one Jiipez.
Strange it has been renamed, as the main melody is the same. Perhaps we could expect a different Phobos in the future, then? Either way, this Deimos sounds beautiful.
The whole set was great and made perfect sense, if you know what I mean. I’ve become more forgiving about Ascend to the Stars. It’s actually growing on me, tbh.
As for Wraithverge and Pax Eranae, they are stormers of tracks. I love breakcore like this, shame I don’t have much knowledge about the genre.
Pax Eranae was the one that did it for me, though. It’s perfect. So, so epic.
So yeah, merry xmas to alek, too! And also to all of you, if we don’t have more posts ’till then. :p
So, it appears Deimos is Phobos’ twin brother:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(mythology)
The more you know. :I
A true masterpiece. This set is totally magnificent.
This set looks pretty damn epic to be honest! Really like the look of it ^^
I wonder if FINRG have anything in store for us for xmas/new year. My Serenity was an amazing gift last year. I wonder if DJ RX can top it with something this year?
Here’s to FINRG/Freeform/NRGetic Romancer/Hard NRG and everything else, for what has been a slow, but insightful and ‘new’ era and style of our scene.
And a special Kampai to PlasmaDancer for yet another year of freeform/hard NRG news and friendship to us all. ^^
Merry Xmas and a Happy new year to all 😀
Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope you had a good one 🙂
Jiipez
Thanks a lot for the track/mix info! I’ve updated the main post now…
Chip
Not sure that there’s anything planned – at least not for Christmas, but hopefully new year/2011 will wake things up a bit.
Kanpai back to you! Thanks to you and everyone else for sticking with TYFTH through the quiet times this year 😉