Mineral – Atmospheric Drum'n'bass

One of my earlier unsigned tracks was released on IDJ recordings as a free track some days ago. It is part of the “Freeloader EP” that consists of 10 high quality dnb tracks. Enjoy them breaks!

Mineral – Mars (download)

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

sciencehki_podcast_29.m4a

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.

Here’s the new Jungle Visions pt5 mixtape that I recorded a few days ago here in New York City. Jungle Visions is a mixtape series about various styles of Jungle/Drum’n’bass. It explores the deeper and more atmospheric sides of the genre. After being on hold for a while, it’s time to bring the mixtape series back with a fresh mix. Hope you enjoy the atmospheric mix.

Jungle Visions Pt5 mixed by Mineral (1h 3min)
http://www.mineral.fi/JungleVisions/Jungle_Visions_pt5_Mineral.mp3

01. Seba – Metropolaris : Warm Communications
02. Blu Mar Ten – Sweet Little Supernova : Blu Mar Ten
03. Sabre – A Wandering Journal (Rockwell’s Club Mix) : Critical
04. Atmospherix and M-zine – Kinetic : IM:Ltd
05. Mineral – The Streets of New York : Mineral.fi free
06. Source Direct – Shadows : Basement Records
07. Mineral – It Could Be Just a Dream : In Da Jungle Records
08. Seba – Nucleus : Svek
09. Nevermind – Lost Soul (Omnius remix) : Amen Brothers Records
10. Naraka & Furi Anga – Last Drops Of Sapphire : Brainz Recordings
11. Mauoq – We Better Stop Them : Extent VIP Recordings (forthcoming)
12. Anile – Never Together : Deepsoulmusic UK
>> Loxy & Resound – Typecast : Loxyresound.com free
13. Loxy & Resound – Typecast (June Miller rmx) Loxyresound.com free
14. Esc – Secret Ways : Unsigned
15. Nitrous – Lotus : In Da Jungle Records
16. Photek – Ni Ten Itchi Ryu (Riot Remix) : free
17. Sabre – 100 Theeth (Dub Phizix Remix): free
18. Seathasky – Packet Loss : free
19. Crimean – Snowflakes : free
20. Bulb & N4m3 – From The Moon : free
21. A-Negative & keOSz – Through Your Eyes : Totaal Rez forthcoming
22. 5-Foot Nothing – Broken English (For Kelly) : free

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?