This time we are looking back into year 2008 and listen to some of the greatest tracks produced in this year. We are concentrating on more heavier electronic dance music, but won’t forget other styles either. There was lots of goodness released in 2008 and although I was trying to be objective, I still couldn’t get over the DJ side in myself and played more on the flow. So many extremely good artists were unfortunately left out cause I just couldn’t fit them in. Don’t worry though, I will play your songs some other time for sure!
Hilights of the show are probably the first track by Polybius and my inability to pronounce some song and artist names.
I hope anyone doesn’t get offended of me twisting their names. And if you do, please let me know how to pronounce them correctly, so I wouldn’t screw it up next time.
In this episode we also have some great breakcore artists, my favourite Charly Linch, and everybodys favourite Venetian Snares. Also we have pretty cool Trance/House music artist, Scott Althams, who I discovered recently from CC Mixter, thanks to tip by himself. Also, let’s not forget the names of Keith303, an amazing techno expert. B-Complex, true dnb guru. Beatslaughter & ptrance doing an amazing darker techno mix together, and It Alien, super technical artist with musical variation as wide as a national
library.
Special mention goes to Benefit of The Boomerang with a demo track for the shiny new Renoise 2.0, which has had lots of feedback and interest from many people. His usage of bassline is extremely expressive and thanks to the technique the song truly connects to the listener using truly minimal set of instruments.
As a special thank you for the community for helping me to assemble the show, I give away one free renoise T-Shirt to one of the people who helped me. The hand of fortune, who indirectly picked the person, belonged to Taktik. He picked a random number which after some math made the selection. Who actually won the Shirt? Well, listen to the show and find out!
And after you have done listening to the show, go to Renoise.com if you haven’t done it already, and fetch yourself a brand new version of Renoise. I hear this time they give you a nice selection of samples together with the software for free.
Playlist
- Polybius – Ephemere
- Scott Altham – I wonder If God Was Sleeping
- Keith303 – No More Looking Back
- Beatslaughter & Ptrance – Crowbar Massacre
- She – Gum
- Charly Linch – Marbles
- Venetian Snares – Gentlemen
- B-Complex – Acid Trip
- Benefit Of The Boomerang – Jong Belegen
- It-Alien – Le Femme Et Le Chien

