![Betwixt & Between posted his notes on Nanosecond Eternity’s tracks and an apology on his blog, so I’ll do a quick translation in case anyone else likes reading liner notes as much as I do.
Apology: In the 9th track, hydra (Long edit), there’s some small noise around the 0:11 mark.Excuse: hydra’s original project file had disappeared so a 2mix wav was all I had at hand, but no matter what I wished for people to listen to this tune. Please excuse me.
たんこぶへそ太郎の放浪 (The Wandering of Hesotaro Tankobu)First released on a mix CD over at Alba’s [Alabaster’s] place.It’s being argued about the tune’s genre over in the comments section on YouTube, but me myself don’t really know what to call it. Basically there are too many components being mixed together in my tunes, I think many of them are impossible to categorize.
out of Blue: Bass – Takashi ShintoI asked my friend since junior high school to help me put in some live bass. I was thinking I wanted to try something different from the usual, and besides, work from other collaborations had piled up at the time. I’m quite fond of this tune. The title comes from the fact that Shinto was playing by the blues scale. Simplicity (lol)
Pain KillerBecause of pain coming from a cavity, I got pain killers from the dentist, and while I was taking them I produced this track, thus ending up with this title (lol)I wanted to do a tune where there’s 1 bridge with a small break afterwards, and then the synth from that blends with the first one and becomes 2 bridges!
Paradoxical SilenceI wrote this tune specifically for the Osaka HARDCORE INFECTiON special CD in March. It’d be a waste to have it released only there so I threw into this album.
City of solitudeWas it XTC-ism? It’s old and has become unavailable, but it’s a nice tune I wanted to put in here. Yeah, I’ve been producing weird tracks for a long time.
IsolationI was thinking I’d make some straight Hard NRG, but the intro is mainstream hardcore-ish (lol)
Gravity’s RainbowA relatively old unreleased tune. When listening again it was good, so I included it.
Unseen entitySometimes I want to try making some UK hardcore-ish tracks, but it ended up as a tune I don’t understand ＾＾☆
hydra (long edit)It’s a long edit of the tune included in suga-kun’s [suge’s] CD. I’m sorry for the noise that ended up in there. It’s not just longer. The sound is also increased!
Nanosecond EternityThe title track!! I was trying to make something mainstream-ish but the scent of NRG is strong (lol) The kicks are too hard
AwakeningThis is also old. But, even if I said my reason for creating an album was to publish this tune, it wouldn’t be exaggeration!!!!!!I want to listen to this track roar while watching the morning sunrise!
たんこぶへそ太郎の放浪 (Proteus Remix) - Remixed by DJ ProteusLoaded with Proteusness! You recognize Proteus’ sound at once when listening to it. Thank you Proteus! kiitos paljon!!
If you still haven’t gotten this CD, it’s now available on Amazon Japan with domestic shipping, and via Guhroovy’s Hardrave Store for international orders.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lflcj3qQfK1qz7poxo1_500.jpg)
Betwixt & Between posted his notes on Nanosecond Eternity’s tracks and an apology on his blog, so I’ll do a quick translation in case anyone else likes reading liner notes as much as I do.
Apology: In the 9th track, hydra (Long edit), there’s some small noise around the 0:11 mark.
Excuse: hydra’s original project file had disappeared so a 2mix wav was all I had at hand, but no matter what I wished for people to listen to this tune. Please excuse me.たんこぶへそ太郎の放浪 (The Wandering of Hesotaro Tankobu)
First released on a mix CD over at Alba’s [Alabaster’s] place.
It’s being argued about the tune’s genre over in the comments section on YouTube, but me myself don’t really know what to call it. Basically there are too many components being mixed together in my tunes, I think many of them are impossible to categorize.out of Blue: Bass – Takashi Shinto
I asked my friend since junior high school to help me put in some live bass. I was thinking I wanted to try something different from the usual, and besides, work from other collaborations had piled up at the time. I’m quite fond of this tune. The title comes from the fact that Shinto was playing by the blues scale. Simplicity (lol)Pain Killer
Because of pain coming from a cavity, I got pain killers from the dentist, and while I was taking them I produced this track, thus ending up with this title (lol)
I wanted to do a tune where there’s 1 bridge with a small break afterwards, and then the synth from that blends with the first one and becomes 2 bridges!Paradoxical Silence
I wrote this tune specifically for the Osaka HARDCORE INFECTiON special CD in March. It’d be a waste to have it released only there so I threw into this album.City of solitude
Was it XTC-ism? It’s old and has become unavailable, but it’s a nice tune I wanted to put in here. Yeah, I’ve been producing weird tracks for a long time.Isolation
I was thinking I’d make some straight Hard NRG, but the intro is mainstream hardcore-ish (lol)Gravity’s Rainbow
A relatively old unreleased tune. When listening again it was good, so I included it.Unseen entity
Sometimes I want to try making some UK hardcore-ish tracks, but it ended up as a tune I don’t understand ＾＾☆hydra (long edit)
It’s a long edit of the tune included in suga-kun’s [suge’s] CD. I’m sorry for the noise that ended up in there. It’s not just longer. The sound is also increased!Nanosecond Eternity
The title track!! I was trying to make something mainstream-ish but the scent of NRG is strong (lol) The kicks are too hardAwakening
This is also old. But, even if I said my reason for creating an album was to publish this tune, it wouldn’t be exaggeration!!!!!!
I want to listen to this track roar while watching the morning sunrise!たんこぶへそ太郎の放浪 (Proteus Remix) - Remixed by DJ Proteus
Loaded with Proteusness! You recognize Proteus’ sound at once when listening to it. Thank you Proteus! kiitos paljon!!
If you still haven’t gotten this CD, it’s now available on Amazon Japan with domestic shipping, and via Guhroovy’s Hardrave Store for international orders.
Olof Gustafsson is indeed a renowned tracker artist, but Alek remade the Pinball Illusions intro track under his Paokala alias and made it sound even better than it ever did. It’s fun to hear tunes that clearly influenced Alek’s style, starting out as a tracker artist before getting to the point of playing a huge role in defining Finnish hard dance.
Recently did my very first digital music purchases, after figuring out how to use the iTunes gift card I got for Christmas. There’s a decent amount of FINRG releases up there, my first snatch was DJ Rx’s remix of the ThermalForce classic Eternalcannon. While I prefer the original, Rx has added lots of breaks and the overall feel is really cool. Alek Száhala (Dryad Machine!!!), Epyx & Cyrez and other Rx tracks were of course also on my list of stuff to get.
Guess lately I’ve been all about FINRG artists, especially Pain on Creation (although their mastering seems to be really off). Carbon Based produced some awesome shit as well. Then there’s the rest of the Hybridize crew to dig through. Good things there’s so much music to play even though the genre is really narrow!
Gonna do a June “top five tracks” type of post at the end of the month, and the number one spot is clear as the sky is blue!! …which it isn’t right now, but the point stands either way.
Betwixt & Between posted a recording of his TANO*C 5th STRIKE set on his MySpace site a long while ago, and I’d burned it on a CD but not really listened that carefully. When I put some new batteries in it yesterday, it came as a shock that I hadn’t digging it that much before. It starts of very hard, but that’s my only complaint I guess. My favorite part of the mix is the cool mixing between Tindaros and Betwixt’s remix of DJ Rx’s Hellfire, an amazing rendering of the track, which I’d never heard before listening through this set. Absolutely worth your 30 minutes.
The track list is as follows:
- Betwixt & Between - Phaedra
- Betwixt & Between - Tindaros
- DJ Rx - Hellfire (Betwixt & Between Remix)
- Betwixt & Between - Surendrajit
- Betwixt & Between - Zusammengehörigkeit
- RANK1 - Airwave (Betwixt & Between Remix)
Alabaster has put up a site for his upcoming release Delta Attack, and in the track list was a song called “The Barrel Maze”, taken from Super Donkey Kong 2. That’s Donkey Kong Country 2 for us. Yes, it’s a fucking Alabaster arrange of the Stickerbrush Symphony!
