Frisky Radio: Set of the Year [2013]

I bought a monthly subscription to Frisky Radio about two years ago and I'm still really enjoying it as it's my main medium for new electronic music in the form of 60 minute or 120 minute sets that are mostly centered on the progressive house micro-genre but can vary to progressive tribal and even techno/trance depending on your personal taste.  Every month or so you get a true gem of a set that can be commensurate to an album release.  One that is so well put together you shake your head that it was included in your subscription.

For the calendar year 2013, I have to go all the way back to March to highlight my personal favorite Frisky Set of the year.  It's Marcelo Vasami's 2 hour set from March 2013 and it garners my perfect 10/10 rating.  The set doesn't go too far out of range of the progressive house mainline that Marcelo is known for in his Inception series but the incremental build-up is absolutely fantastic.  The peak time track, which I still don't know the artist/title, follows three or four tracks that perfectly set the stage so the listener isn't surprised and the transition is mellifluous leading up to the insanity of this peaker.  One of the transition tracks leading up to the peak time track is the absolutely smooth sounds of "Still Here" (Oscar Vazquez Unofficial Mix) by Ziger.  This track has an oscillating (almost hypnotic) progressive synth accompanied by an incoherent male vocal that is more than apt.  It's the kind of music you lose yourself in while dancing or running and just when you lose yourself in this track a few tracks later comes the peak which absolutely sets your feet on fire.  It's at the 1 hr 40 minute mark and any trainspotters out there that know the title I'd love to know the artist and track title as it's one of my favorites of the year.  All in all, this Inception set by Marcelo Vasami is stellar and deserves my set of the year honors.

Digweed [SF]

My man John Digweed will be in San Francisco this Friday night and I'll be there.  Hear's hoping we hear the new Guy J VS remix of "Heaven Scent"...

The World as Hawtin sees it...

Richie Hawtin traveling the speed of sound.

iTunes Radio

iTunes Radio went live yesterday, here's my electrophobic station, just for you...enjoy:

electrophobic on iTunes Radio

Grey Clouds

This track is badass.

Ozgur Ozkan - "Grey Clouds" (Suffused Mix)

JVM and Bedrock, back at it again

New Order - "Blue Monday" (Digweed/Muir 30 Year Tribute Mix)

John Digweed and Nick Muir's 30 year tribute mix of New Order's "Blue Monday".  Absolutely lush.

New Martin Garcia Show on Frisky Radio

Frisky Radio announced today a new quarterly show by Martin Garcia called Cabin Pressure.  If you've heard the past sets that Martin has put together for Frisky Radio you'll know why I'm super excited.  3 more days until the debut show...

NYE: Darin Epsilon's White Winterland

If you're going clubbing on New Year's Eve, this is the kind of music you want to listen to...incredible, non-stop, high-energy house music from Darin Epsilon at the White Winterland party in Los Angeles.  My trained ear spotted mashups and mixes of such classics as Cafe Del Mar's "Energy 52", Underworld's "Dark and Long" and Sasha and Emerson's "Scorchio" while there's an array of absolutely fantastic peak-time bangers mixed in at the end.  The set is an exemplary display of how a DJ can dash into many types of house music in a single set and make it all seemlessly work.  Listen to this set below using the SoundCloud link.

Darin Epsilon - Live at White Winterland Party (NYE 2012)