Review by Wouter Schotte aka .less. / pointlesspoint
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Rémi Andrade aka Free Spirit, netlabel Chase Records founder, teams up with Tony Katana (Tommy Bonnevialle) under his Tony Kashmere alias to bring us the fifth chapter in his 'Counterflux' series: mixes spanning different electronic music genres, being it hard(core) techno, acid, gabber, ambient, drum 'n bass, and more, spanning 3 decennia.
Every episode gets distributed online, fully tracklisted on GabbaTracklistWorld.com (link 1) and send to friends and fanboys/girls. The man chooses to not put the releases on Discogs, unfortunately.
For the fifth episode we've got 2 dj's who practice deeper crate digging, so we're in for a journey.
Artwork
According to Rémi, the artwork is a scene from Cronenberg's movie 'Scanners', since he associates this movie with acid music. The Scan X track in this mix would fit perfectly with the movie's atmosphere. The title comes from 'Biocarbon Amalgamate' company in the movie and its logo, visible as a watermark on the artwork
Format
80 minutes CD-R. Distributed online as mp3 and wave file.
Review
In contrast to Tony's mix, Rémi's set opens with breakbeat rave madness from a Martin Damm's alias. I've heard Phase IV tracks used effectively in a mix by Zyper C... and i also appreciate it here. I always love it when breakbeat or broken stuff gets mixed with straight 4/4. I can assure you that the moment Taciturne's track kicks in, your hardcore head will get necked!
Dashcraft's track is a kick + percussion filler techno track (you need them too), after which banging industrial acidcore from Lasse Steen underlined by La Peste's sped up IDM fuckery creeps in like the deadly fog over the bay in John Carpenter's classic horror story.
Thrilling atmospheres are reminiscent of his very very awesome third mix in the series (check link 2),
namely:
– broken beats morphing into straight 4/4, see the previous paragraphe.
– ambient intermission: the beatless synth part halfway Scan X's track from 1993 predicts a dark future, from which a new act starts from the ground up: Katharsis' 'Urolith' lets a simple kick progressesing into a nifty techno track.
Quite surprising is how a hardhouse/hardtrance/goa crossover track from Ninu & Wasi 'The Executioner' [Distorsion Times 003] "2021" ends up in this mix. Rave alert!
Koenig Cylinders track '99.9', albeit well knowjn, almost feels like a filler track, compared to the beast that follows... . Kicking relentless industrial techno from the Healy brothers and Caustic Vision. Metallic sounds getting used as hammers forming stabbed patterns. Banger!
The ending i am somehow less fond of. The Enticer's broken fierce melody and distorted beats halt the last bars of the previous punishing techno, after which a noisy Burning Lazy Persons track on the Trash Massacre vinyl compilation that supported the eponymous 2025 event, closes off.
Free Spirit offers us a showcase of the variety of hard(core) techno. Building up, keeping interest, solid overall. Tracks spanning decennia move us back and forth in the spectrum. One small remark would be that the recording could have been mastered a bit to make it a bit louder.L
Pay attention to how tight this mix is, how it flows... tracks spanning decennia. Listen closer... now this is how you do it, you vinyl junkies!
Link1:
Counterflux series tracklists:
https://www.gabbatracklistworld.com/index.php?explore=search&search=counterflux&searchType=all
https://www.mixcloud.com/ChaseRecords
Online listening
https://hearthis.at/counterflux-series/
Link 2
Counterflux 03
https://www.mixcloud.com/ChaseRecords/free-spirit-shaking-the-concrete-counterflux-series-03/
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