Time for another edition of our Monday Mix series! This time we don’t have to promote sets from others, instead this is one of our own: Event Horizon by elysion.
The set is constructed of the tracks that I find most inspiring at the moment. These tracks are maybe not that straight forward and a bit difficult to grasp, but you will be greatly rewarded if you take some time to try and concentrate into all the different elements in the tracks. You might not get the tracks instantaneously – I should know, took me quite a while. But now that I’ve seen the beauty of them, I can’t stop listening to them!
Don’t know the exact genre they belong to and am not really that fond of compartmentalizing in general, but for a quick reference I’d describe them with words “deep” and “techy”.
“It’s the silence between the notes that makes the music”
Was absolutely wicked last Monday spinning the dnb vibes on the show! So many great tracks and this time I guess the blends weren’t that bad either . If you missed the show or want a recap, check the player below:
Had the Breaks Classic part at the end of the show same as last time. Guess last time the classic was not all that obvious and I was able to spare the beer money as no-one guessed the track right. This time though, my mate mk-ultra got the id right just seconds before I announced it. On the show I guess I said that no-one got it right, but that was because I didn’t check the IRC channels before the announcement. But anyway, Congrats Teemu, will buy you a beer (or some alternative beverage) when we meet next time!
So first the problem: The people who have been testing the system have probably noticed that the Beatport releases don’t have anything in the url to identify the track, which makes purchasing them a bit, well, difficult. There still is a way to find the track from Beatport by using the id number on the url. This id is the last number in the url before the ‘LOFI.mp3′ part. When you concatenate this with the url ’http://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/track/detail/‘ you get the url for the release that track is on. Here is an example to clarify what I mean:
But why stop here? Manual labor is always tedious . So how to make this more automated? If you are like me and value a good browser, you too are probably already using Google Chrome. If not, go grab it now. Anyway, Chrome has this nice support for custom search engines. This support is actually so good that it isn’t constrained only to search engines. So how can this feature be used in this case? Here’s how:
In Chrome click the monkey wrench icon in the toolbar right of the address bar. Select options from the menu that opens. Open the Basics tab from the Options dialog. Click the Manage button next to the default search engine drop down. Click ‘Add..’- or the ‘+’-button and type in these values:
Now when you click ‘Add’ and close the opened dialogs and go to the address bar of the browser you can just type ‘bpr’ + the release number you are looking for, and Chrome opens the info page of this release in Beatport (e.g. for the aforementioned release type ‘bpr 1078779′ (without the hyphens)).
Just in: big tingzz happening on September 18th. The second Concussion party will be held on that date in Tampere. We are going to follow the same well-proved formula as in the last party, so it’s going to be dubstep vs. drum & bass. Interesting acts coming, be sure to stay tuned for updates!
Time to continue what M-za started two weeks ago, this time with dnb flavours. If last monday mix was moody, this one is more on the cheery side. A mix that I downloaded for a bus journey from Tampere to Helsinki when going to Tallin for our company’s summer party. For me the mix was a really positive find as it is somewhat similar to what I always try to achieve in my mixes: A nice journey into the world of dnb with nice tracks and smooth, nearly seamless blends. The mix I’m talking about here is by Sparx and it is entitled ‘Seamless Mix’ (not the most innovative name for the set, but the contents well make up for it. You can grab the mix from Dogs on Acid forum, or download it straight from Mediafire.
Tracklist:
01. Enter Shikari – Juggernauts (Nero remix)
02. Brookes Brothers vs Futurebound – Dawn Treader
03. Imogen Heap – Headlock (High Contrast full remix)
04. Logistics – Cascades of Colour
05. Dub Tau – Ready Done
06. Benny Page – Turn Down The Light
07. London Elektricity – Strangest Secret In The World
08. Pish Posh – Corrupt Cops (Evol Intent)
09. Logistics – Shooting Star
10. Cyantific – Can’t Let Go
11. Bachelors Of Science – Strings Track (Apex remix)
12. London Elektricity – Great Drum N Bass Swindle (Logistics remix)
13. High Contrast – Return Of Forever
14. Matrix & Futurebound – Strength2Strength
15. The Ian Carey Project – Get Shakey (Matrix & Futurebound Nip & Tuck remix)
16. Underworld – Born Slippy (London Elektricity remix)
17. Xample & Lomax – Contra
18. Zinc ft Eksman – Drive By Car
19. High Contrast – Made It Last Night
Interesting things happening later today, as the Concussionists will be serving music to crowds with quite a wide spectrum. I will be taking care of the darker stuff at Kolina-Produktio: Prison Break -party that is held at Vastavirta-klubi here in Tampere. Will be spinning only the darkest dnb tracks from my collection. Needless to say, it’s going to be heavy!
At the same time M-za will be hosting the opening event of his brand new “Funkin’ Up Your Wednesday” club at 1bar, downtown Tampere. As you can tell from the name, the atmosphere there is going to be much lighter and more laid back. The club is one of a kind as it is the first and only nu funk club in Finland!
If you are a friend of proper good music, you don’t want to miss these two! See you on the spot!
I’m going to start a new thing at this blog right from this monday. I’m gonna post every monday when we do not have Concussion show @ Nubreaks.com one mixtape and one tune for your listening pleasure to fill up the cap between the radio shows.
I’m gonna start this thing ofcourse with stuff from Finland. The tune and the mix are really moody and sometimes even dark. The TUNE of the week is pure dubstep-gold and comes ofcourse from our trusted producer friends from Tampere – Vesicle. Their brand new track called “We are Lost” just made my monday. The tune got amazing atmosphere made by nice female lyrics, chill guitar samples and ofcourse Vesicles trademark “mörköläskibasso” as Stinks put it (meaning something like fat-spooky-bass“) . We are Lost is going to be realeased from Paradise Lost in near future. Gotta say that this one is going to be played at next weeks Concusssion dubstep special
The MIX of the week is also from Finland. But the thing about it is that not only the DJ is from Finland but also all the tracks are from Finland. This drum’n'bass mix is also really moody and dark. I have been listening it a lot lately. The mix contains 10 great tracks from finnish producer called Furi Anga. You may have heard his tracks for example at finnish extreme travelling show Madventures. If you are interested about the soundtracks go and check out this page. The mix is made by DJ Wispy (who btw. was guest at Concussion show few months ago). I think that the tags what Furi Anga has made at his soundcloud will give you the best picture about what you gonna get.
minimal shadybrain translation silk deep dark melancholic
As it has been blogged in here earlier, one member of our crew, Stinks, has been infiltrating the breakbeat scene in Hong Kong, and doing a rather fine job at it too! He’s been representing our crew successfully there by entertaining the crowds with his dubsteps at local parties. In addition to all this, he also offered a nice opportunity to the other members of Concussion to promote our common cause. This opportunity was to make a guest mix for Asia’s biggest dnb podcast: the Kongkast.
I (elysion) took up the challenge and after two months of planning, recording, mashing up etc. the Kongkast episode #116 was ready! The mix features an insane amount of energy in the form of over 49 minutes of dnb and dubstep floorfillers. Check out the post at Kongrete Bass’ blog at: http://kongkretebass.com/kkblog/?p=1874 and grab the mix there. I myself am quite pleased with the outcome (which is quite unusual for me ), hope it pleases you too!
Keeping a radio show fresh and exciting for a long period of time is quite a challenging task, and requires quite much thought and effort. Lately we have been putting our heads together trying to solve this issue with our show on NuBreaks. All kinds of breakbeats, be that drum & bass, breakbeat or dubstep are our passion, but we understand that this is not the case for everyone. Thus we have decided to divide the show into separate drum & bass and dubstep slots. With this change we also decided that we would also separate the responsibilities for filling these slots between me (elysion) and M-za. This way we have more time to prepare the shows and make them even more entertaining for all you. So from now on, the first show of the month will be focused on dubstep and the second on dnb. Continue reading »
One of my mates held a birthday party and I was lucky enough to get invited. The especially nice thing about this was that the guy lived in London and was kind enough to accommodate me and a couple of other blokes at his flat. While preparing for the trip I went through the event listings of the big night clubs in London such as Herbal, Mass, Fabric, Matter etc. At first I got quite excited when noticing that there would be a FWD party at Matter and was already quite pleased about the date my mate had selected for the party. Luckily I was patient enough to check the other venues as well, and noticed that an event at Fabric quite much crushed all the other options at least in my amount-of-interest-scale. The event was called “Playaz Bank Holiday Special” and boy did it have a nice line up! A nice selection of some of the biggest names in the scene such as Andy C, Hazard, Ed Rush, SpectraSoul etc. etc. were on the list. Went to fabric’s site in a flash, booked a ticket from there and a few moments later had a nice e-ticket in my gmail.
Tracklist:
. If you missed the show or want a recap, check the player below:
. So how to make this more automated? If you are like me and value a good browser, you too are probably already using 
