Mineral – Atmospheric Drum'n'bass

Blu Mar Ten and Kmag announced the winners of the All or Nothing -remix contests yesterday. It was a magnificent contest with lots of high quality remixes. Congratulations to the winners! Read more at Kmag.

Now that the contest is over and my track didn’t win, I decided to give it a free DL. Thanks for the support to everyone!

Download Mineral.fi Free Track #32: Blu Mar Ten – All Or Nothing (Mineral remix)

  Blu Mar Ten – All Or Nothing (Mineral rmx) by DJ mineral

KMAG BLU MAR TEN REMIX CONTEST: MINERAL’S TOP 3 PICKS

The contest got over 350 entries, and I really enjoyed listening to other producer’s tracks too. I want to highlight three remixes that I really liked, so here goes…

Furi Anga remix
  Blu Mar Ten – All Or Nothing (Furi Anga Remix) DOWNLOADABLE by Furi Anga
Antony G remix
Blu Mar Ten – All or Nothing (Antony G Remix) [free download] by Antony G

Dwayne & Kale vs. Nova Six remix Blu Mar Ten – All or Nothing (Dwayne & Kale vs. Nova Six rmx) by Dwayne & Kale

Fracture Design remix

Ah well, I just HAD to add a 4th pick… This one was such a great remix too.

  Blu Mar Ten – All Or Nothing (Fracture Design Remix) [Free Tune] by Fracture Design

All the contest entries are available at the soundcloud Kmag remix group page.

Another high quality Podcast by the one and only Trisector from Science Helsinki Crew. Among lots of high quality tracks, Trisector included my new track Living the Dream (yet unsigned) in the mix. Living the Dream has now gotten quite a lot of dj & fan support worldwide, which I’m really excited about. To make things even more exciting, I’m happy to announce that there’s also a remix of the track on the making by Esc & Subsense. The first previews of the remix sound phat, I’m telling ya…

Anyways, prepare your coffees / teas / beers or whatever your favorite drink is and check out Trisector’s magnificent podcast below.

Science Hki #29 – Trisector

01 below : explorer zero – dub
02 dbridge : cornered – metalheadz
03 rory mcpike : otherworld – dub
04 defo : disappearance – hustle audio dub
05 kr4y : live wire – beat addiction
06 fd : stripped – warm communications
07 falcon : detroit resurrection – fokuz
08 dbridge & calibre : ponderosa – exit
09 fostec : bon voyage – hustle audio dub
10 code 3 : double dipped – critical
11 lm1 : amaranthine – offworld
12 soul intent : igloo – outsider
13 mineral : living the dream – dub
14 bop : meta – sonorous
15 oak : otaku (asc remix) – space cadet

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Kmag is running a Blu Mar Ten remix contest and I decided to take part in it. Here’s my contribution. Please share your comments and favorite this, if you like it! 🙂

We’re going back to the basics of atmo dnb in this remix: rolling beats & breaks with natural sounding basslines accompanied with atmospheric melodies.

I wanted my remix to sound very different from the original, so I ended up rebuilding most of the elements, yet wanting the remix to resemble the original song at some parts. I spiced up the original piano with new old schoolish pads and melodies.

Hope you like my contribution to the Kmag Blu Mar Ten remix contest. I put a lot of effort in producing this track, so feedback would be much appreciated. Please share your comments and favorite the track if you like it! – Mineral at New York 24^th Feb 2012.

Mauoq, a professional dnb producer & dj from the UK, has been busy recording another high quality dnb podcast. This time he goes really deep with experimental vibes. He also included my new unsigned track “Living The Dream” as the very last track in his set. Big ups Mauoq and listen below!

I promised to give another free track when we reach 300 fans at soundcloud. I just realized that we’ve crossed the mark, so it’s time to celebrate. Thanks a lot! The next surprise will be at the 500-fan-mark so keep on spreading the word 🙂

Still Waiting is a chilly old schoolish dnb track I did back in 2006. It has been played by many djs in various chillout gigs and legendary radiochannels like YleX & Bassoradio, but the track was never released on any label. Considering today’s dnb standards, it has quite a low bpm, but I’d say that somehow the slower tempo allows more variations to the breaks and gives you a nice little groove, don’t you think? Ah well, it’s up to you to decide. If you like Good Looking Records material, this one’s definitely for you!

Free Track #31: Mineral – Still Waiting [free download]

If you like Still Waiting, I’d suggest you to check one of my earlier releases on In Da Jungle Recordings. It has the same GLR style with melodic and chilly pads & old school breaks. Buy the track if you feel like supporting an artist. 😉

The boss at the Lightless Recordings, the guy behind Fanuism, Master of Breaks – Fanu has many names for what he is really talented in: producing and dj’ing drum’n’bass. He has been busy lately with his album Serendipity getting released, remixing big name artists, doing lots of gigs, and planning future releases for his label. All this action has drawed even more attention to this talented artist: this time he was interviewed by Kmag. Along with the interview, he serves us a really dope Guest mix.

The Kmag mix is one of the very best I’ve ever listened… It has such an incredible amount of crazy breakbeats with deadly basses that it’s really a _MUST_ for dnb lovers. Lightless material at its best. The atmosphere is really deep.  The mix even includes a track by myself “Twisted Dream“, that was released on Lightless Recordings in 2011.

Download Fanu’s Kmag guest mix here

Tracklisting

1. Fanu feat. Swervez – Cry4U
2. Fanu – Amok
3. Dak – Ovi A Re-Opened
4. Martsman & Bad Matter – Cold Love
5. NSF – Come Back
6. Fanu – Tears Of The Killer
7. Fanu – From The Afterlife She Speaks
8. Naphta – Soundclash part 1
9. Mineral – Twisted Dream
10. Fanu – For Those Who Dream (Vector Burn remix)
11. Fistfunk – Persona
12. Greenleaf – Watch The Rhythm
13. Fistfunk – Tetsuo
14. Greenleaf – Who
15. Fanu – Garmonbozia
16. Fanu – Poltergeist

Fanu has five medium Lightless T-shirts to give away for free. To enter the draw simply go to Fanu’s Facebook fan page and ‘like’ it. Fanu will then pick five winners and send out the T-shirts.

I was recently interviewed by Finland Center Foundation (FCF), an organization that is the meeting point of Finnish and American culture, commerce and community.

Read my “Finns in New York” interview by Katariina Forsberg at FCF’s blogsite:
http://finlandcenter.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/finns-in-new-york-ilkka/

It’s about time Finnish DnB culture gets some attention in New York, don’t you think?

I noticed that the Science Helsinki Crew has put up another podcast up at their site. Actually I haven’t listened to it yet, but I’m about to do that right now. And the tracklist seems so promising that I’ve gotta post the mix here right away… Check out this Podcast including lots of 90’s classics by St. Laurent.

Science Hki #28 – St. Laurent

01 photek : u.f.o. – photek
02 source direct : concealed identity – science
03 doc scott : far away (fourteen flavours of funk) – metalheadz
04 wax doctor : finer things – r&s records
05 dj pulse : return voyage (pulse & stretch remix) – moving shadow
06 dj trace : miles high – deejay recordings
07 photek : rings around saturn – photek
08 seba : connected – good looking records
09 appaloosa feat. dj dream : night train – good looking records
10 artemis : fairlight – good looking records
11 dj crystl : paradise – deejay recordings
12 source direct : a made up sound – metalheadz
13 jmj & richie : montana – moving shadow
14 boymerang : lazarus – regal records

sciencehki_podcast_28.m4a

Esc, the man behind the recent Mineral.fi Free Tracks Season Two Mixtape, has come up with an idea to pick up one drum’n’bass tune that he is feeling once a week. He’s also planning to maybe record a mixtape later on when he gets more tracks chosen. I was really honoured to have my new track Living the Dream chosen as the first track of the series. That’s great! Oh and thanks to everyone for the extremely nice feedback of the track. Please spread the word, comment and favorite the track if you like it!

Make sure to check out Esc’s artist page for more tunes and his upcoming gigs: http://www.facebook.com/Escbreaks

A busy start to the New Year, thanks to everyone who listened to or downloaded the Mineral.fi Free Tracks Season Two mix. Here’s a track that I’ve been working on recently in between enjoying the seasonal festivities, making New Year resolutions and spending the occasional late night at http://www.gamingclub.com/fi whilst mixing down some tracks. Listen below and please let me know what you think about the finished mix.

“Living the Dream” is about the mysterious feeling when dreams and reality blur together. Although woken up, you still feel like the dreams go on… Enjoy this minimalistic dnb track and feel free to comment & share & sign. – Mineral @ NYC 2012 (www.mineral.fi)