I’m a bit late with the news of Decion’s latest NRG set, a ferocious hour of some of the best tracks (in this genre, at least) I’ve heard for a long time. This kind of NRG often seems to have all the right dark sounds, but melodies that don’t really do them justice, sometimes sounding a bit too light/catchy. No such trouble here though, maybe thanks in part to the number of Alchemiist tracks – as we all know, he really knows how to create a dark atmosphere, and there are some excellent, aggressive synths in tunes like No God and Head Trauma.

There’s a nice progression to the tunes here too, so for a nasty 160bpm interlude this is definitely the set to go for.

1 Matt R – Phased Array [Piston Records]
2 Matt R – Subatomic [Piston Records]
3 Anna K & Zoe Holborn – Nipple Twister [CD-R]
4 Grady G – Turn The Bass Up [Slingshot Recordings]
5 Defective Audio – Body Warmer [Deprivation]
6 Alchemiist & Decion – Code Red (2012 Remix) [CD-R]
7 Dr Tre & Disturbed – Imposters [Oktane Records]
8 Alchemiist – Locked Up [CD-R]
9 Random But Raw & Sinobe – I Am Cockney [Digital Damage Recordings]
10 Alchemiist – No God [CD-R]
11 Alchemiist – Head Trauma [CD-R]
12 Random But Raw & Rob Brown – You Can’t Hide [Boxed Digital]
13 Ben Townsend & NooNoo – Till Death Do Us Party (Grady G Remix) [Small Town Records]