We organized a totally exquisite day in Helsinki perimeter with my old friend and a skilled photographer Eero Jokimies and a great and professional lad originally from the UK – Tomas Whitehouse. The goal was to shoot some new promotional shots for myself, as the old ones were getting, well, kinda old.

I’ve seen a lot of great pics in the Finnish rave scene. Common thing with them is that those are usually shot by same couple of people. I wanted to bring a bit different view from the outside to the whole thing.

This is where Eero and Tomas step in.  I had seen a lot of their work before and really fell in love with that stuff. They’ve spent a lot of time practicing both the shooting itself an post processing. I drove to Helsinki and we spent a  great day in a empty mall parking lot and in a total wasteland. The guys had a really impressive setup of cameras, lenses, flashlights, dishes, softboxes, stands etc. And of course a lot of skill to wield them!

I’ve still seen just a fraction of the final stuff but I’m already totally impressed. More of this stuff will definitely be seen in different occasions. I truly recommend these guys if you are in a need of pics yourself. As a bonus, they are extraordinarily fun to work with!

Some finished shot, behind the scenes -shots and a video of our day can be seen at Tomas’s blog.

Huge thanks to the guys, let’s do it again some time!

Crush On Hardcore

Hello crew!

Finally after some cruel some delays the new Crush On Hardcore is available for totally free. I’m featured, alongside some huge names,  on the last CD which a FINRG allstars -mashup mix totally worth checking out.

After several weeks of delays, forced artwork alterations and various technical issues, our most exciting project to date is finally out – which, in Crush On Hardcore terms, means free to download. Go get it.

Over the course of the last 3 years, Crush On Hardcore has been receiving massive amounts of praise and support from the hardcore community all over the planet. COH has given DJs a platform to properly showcase not just their own work, but also a wide range of sounds from both established and up-and-coming artists, consistently raising the bar and ultimately combining two seemingly distant worlds of professional and free of charge into one fascinating series.

The Album That Was Called V is more creative then the name would suggest. It balances musical art and a fresh approach to the concept of a hardcore album. TATWCV is filled with a pleasant variety of music styles, masterfully mixed by Cube::Hard, Shanty, Jnks + Swoosh & DJ RX + Carbon Based. Download the album here – the package consists of 3 full-CD high-quality mixes, cue files for easy splitting or burning and high quality printable PDF artwork. Totally and completely free.

GO GET IT!

Just a quick one to let you know that my latest track ‘Skywalker’ was featured on the infamous NEC Podcast which was mixed by DJ Solution.

Stepping up to host this week’s NEC Resident Radio Show is south-coast
based DJ and producer Jamie Solution who will be spinning the freshest,
most pure and upfront Freeform around at the minute.
Armed with a bag full of forthcoming goodies, including some of his own exciting new
material, Thursday’s show promises to be absolutely rocking! Make sure
you’re locked in at 9pm GMT on Krafty Radio.

The NEC show runs weekly every Thursday bringing a new NEC talent to the table each time around!
To subscribe to our podcasts and pick up all the shows so far go to
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/NuEnergyCollectivePodcasts. Tracklistings
can be found at http://www.kraftyradio.com/profiles/129/.

Jnks visits DJ Proteus’s long running hard dance radio program ‘Dark Side’ Wednesday 17.3.2010 for a 2 hour deep interview and some great upfront music & classics.
Show is aired live 22:00-24:00 Finnish time (GMT +2.00) and will be broadcast in Finnish.

Tune in to 102,8mHz or listen the stream at Basso.fi. A downloadable recording of the show will be provided after the show asap. Watch this space!

After months of blood, sweat and tears, I am happy to announce that the Worldwide Freeform Album is now available to pre order! 20 brand new unmixed full length tracks over 2 CDs, with a whopping 18 tracks never released before and 17 absolute exclusives never to be released on any other format! Full artwork in a shiny brand new double jewel case! All tracks professionally mastered by mastering engineers like Andy @ Mindsurf and Ruffage @ Pure Focus. These tracks sound GREAT!

Freeform is a Worldwide movement, with producers, DJs and ravers from around the World following an ‘anything goes’ attitude to hardcore. This album represents many different styles and tempos, from the melodic beauty of Alek Száhala’s ‘Astraia’ and Sam one & Horzi’s ‘Macropsia’, to the 140bpm breakbeat vibes of ‘Raver’s Legacy’ by Cyrez, to the the intricate landscape of Oli G’s ‘Mood Music’ remix, the downright ravey ‘34m’ by Gammer and the dark and driving psy trance influenced ‘Warlock’ by Lost Soul, and everything in between. I have spent months compiling this album, and I honestly believe there isn’t a duff track on this.

This is the 2010 bible of freeform…

CD1

01. Alek Száhala – Astraia
02. Freestyle – The Sleeper
03. Ponder – Alignment
04. Aryx – Chaldea
05. Phyton – Heroes Of War
06. Jnks – Type O’Negative
07. Grimsoul – Enchanted Mind
08. Sam One – Need For Beat
09. Gammer – 34m
10. A.B – Tekno1

CD2

01. Devastate – Mood Music (Oli G remix)
02. Sam One & Horzi – Macropsia
03. Endemic – Lunar Energy
04. Rampant & Transcend – Stimulant
05. Voycey & Douglas – Surface Of The Sun
06. Alex Sash – Transmission
07. Cyrez – Raver’s Legacy
08. Ephexis – Sick Seduction
09. Lost Soul – Warlock
10. Firefly – Secret Passageway

More information available here!

After months of keeping our mouths shut, we are happy to reveal that the previously-reported upcoming album entitled as TATWCV is the fifth installment in the Crush On Hardcore free-to-download album series. In the last 3 years, Crush On Hardcore received critical acclaim for their different approach of thinking. Previous editions gave the DJs a platform to showcase not only their work, but also from a wide range of both established and up-and-coming artists.

The Album That Was Called V is more creative then the name suggests, it balances musical art and creative strategies above a catch-net filled with a pleasant variety of music styles.

Crush On Hardcore: The Album That Was Called V will be officially available as a free download on March 1st, 2010.

CD1 mixed by Cube::Hard
01. Ponder – Shutdown
02. Hattrixx – I Am A Robot (Cube::Hard Remix)
03. Click – Not Invented Here
04. 75 Numbers – Let The Feeling Grow (Drum & Bass Remix)
05. CLSM – Takes Me Higher (Click Remix)
06. Wizbit – Tales From The Flipside Revisited
07. Alex Sash – Stimulate
08. Deeper Territory – The Answer
09. Entity – When We Find Akanoyo (Breaks Remix)
10. Supernova – Cheesy DJs (Cube::Hard Remix)
11. StrifeII – Soul On Fire
12. Karl Future & Simon Perry – Free
13. Entity, CLSM and Niki Mak – You Are Mine (Hugo D Remix)
14. False Economy – Certain Love
15. Entity – Plan B
16. CLSM & Entity – Rudloe Cold War City (Breaks Remix)
17. Ponder – Monolith
18. Stargazer – Released 2010

CD2 mixed by Shanty
01. Audio X – Incommensurate
02. Click – Alpha Dog
03. AC Slater – New Rave
04. Amalgamation Station & Ephexis – With Full Spiral
05. Dodgee – Phukkt
06. Kevin Energy vs A.B. – Fucking Rocking It
07. Firefly – Centrifuge (Shanty & Invader Remix)
08. Joey Riot & Kevin Energy – The Number Of The Beast
09. Helikaon & Ephexis – Iliad
10. Full Circle DJs – Things Past (Shanty vs Epyx & Cyrez Remix)
11. Oli G & Shanty – Reign Of Terror
12. Eryk Orpheus – Really Nasty
13. Lee UHF – Kickdrum Trip (Shanty Remix)
14. Nightforce – The Second Redemption
15. Freestyle – Party Crashin’ (Shanty Remix)
16. Invader & Shanty – Danse Macabre
17. Helikaon, Erik de Grijze & Ephexis – Exploder
18. Robbie Long & Devastate – 50,000 Watts (Shanty Remix)
19. 3star – Forgotten Trip
20. Karl Future vs Indigo & Pearl Blue – A Living Evil
21. Penguin Conspiracy – The Lazarus Phenomenon
22. 3star & Invader – Get This Place (Shanty Remix)
23. Penguin Conspiracy – Mechanical Fables
24. Hyperterminal – Stranger In Paradise (Lost Soul featuring Chwhynny Remix)
25. Darwin – Peak 1.1
26. Penguin Conspiracy – Escape

CD3 mixed by Jnks & Swoosh and DJ RX & Carbon Based
01. Sam One & Substanced – Memoria
02. Cube::Hard – Hold The Beat (Rob O.T.T. Bootleg)
03. Carbon Based & Swoosh – Future vs Past
04. Random Raver – Screwball
05. Altitude – Altitude (Substanced Bootleg)
06. Substanced – Aquarius
07. Devastate – Mood Music (Oli G Remix)
08. Nomic – Aurinkoon
09. Alek Száhala – Sunray
10. Firefarm – Volatile (DJ RX, Big Mistake & Drumhead Remix)
11. Carbon Based, DJ RX & Proteus – Fleshfest (TATWCV Exclusive Mix)
12. Alek Száhala – Voices of Babylon
13. Kevin Energy & DJ RX – Translate Replicate
14. Substanced – Freeform Mercury
15. Oli G – Jasmine (Helikaon vs Ephexis Camelrape Remix)
16. Carbon Based & DJ RX – Titor Quantum Theory
17. RX featuring Jolea – My Serenity (Synthwulf Remix)

Next to the download album, there are advanced plans for a limited edition (±30 copies).
This will be, like everything Crush On Hardcore related, free. We’ll keep you up-to-date on this exciting side project.
Take a look at the limited edition artwork..

Last but not least, a few weeks after the official release date of V, we give away the free CD ‘Sequel Of The V’ with full length tracks.
More details regarding this will be posted soon. In the meantime, keep checking www.crushonhardcore.com; a new website is coming within a few days. You can still download our latest released project to date there, Crush On Hardcore 4 (5xCD).

Help us spread the word, you can do so by downloading the high quality A4 and A3 posters, or just copy paste this post everwhere you can!

Not long to go now..

The Jnks Remix focuses on hybridizing Freeform and Drum & Bass into on huge trip. Jolea’s beautiful voice takes over the long dropdown and both verses include some 2/4 beats as well as the standard 4/4. Have a listen and tell me what you think!

Dj RX feat Jolea – My Serenity (JNKS Remix) Mastered 24bit 44k wav by FINRG Recordings

I wonder where you are
hiding re-opened scars
(I’m) Bruised so bad
that I’m ready to give back
everything we had

I go through every second reversed
Our history immersed into hurt
What was I ever thinking..

Serenity
plays its tricks on me
My serenity
I thought you were my mental key (but)
now I must break free

Christ I’m done with them all;
Your demons, your face, your fall
I do understand
That overwhelming feeling
even I can’t defeat it

Serenity
plays its tricks on me
My serenity
I thought you were my mental key (but)
now I must break free

The huge remix -kit will ensure that we’ll see some other brilliant remixes of this one in the near future!

Listen and download ‘My Serenity’ original + remixes

The track well be released by ReBuild Music as part pf the ‘Worldwide Freeform EP‘ -project.  Expect also some high definition releases by Gammer and other such talented producer. I’m totally exited about this one!

First EP’s should pop up in the beginning of 2010. Meanwhile, check the preview clip at the Music -section!

DJ RX – Code Of Silence (Jnks Remix)

Here are the clips for other Hybridize -remixes too, they’re available to buy from the FINRG -shop!