Mineral – Atmospheric Drum'n'bass

This week’s Free Track of The Week is by a really special guest Furi Anga from Finland. I’ve been a fan of Furi’s moody dnb production for a long time, and I’ve been playing his tracks in my mixes a lot too. This marvellous track “The Human Project” is all about what Furi does best: moody, melodic and minimalistic dnb. Check it out!

Furi Anga – The Human Project [download_www.mineral.fi_free013]

Furi Anga – The Human Project (2011 / FREE DOWNLOAD) by Furi Anga

Furi Anga alias Antti Viitamäki is a deep soul explorer from Finland, Scandinavia. Listening to his music one gets transported into a melancholic fairy world – sometimes true and beatiful, sometimes dark and grotesque. He gets heavy influences from ascetic finnish nature. “Cold scandinavian moods delivered in a form of drumandbass.”, as Furi describes at his site Furianga.com.

I’m currently working on a collaboration track “Awakening” with Furi, and it’s gonna be really good! I’ll let you know when it’s finished.

The Free Track of The Week #12 is up. This time we have some chilly summersounds to warm up the cold winter days. Check out this liquid dnb track “Step” by Mineral:

Mineral – Step [download: www.mineral.fi_free012]

Mineral – Step (www.mineral.fi_free012) by DJ mineral

Free Track of The Week #12 is a chilly and easylistening drum’n’bass track by Mineral. The rolling breaks and beats accompanied with various melodies make this a nice roller. Grab a cup of coffee (or even better: a cold beer), turn up the volume and start listening! Hope you enjoy this track!

The cover artwork for Step is designed by a really talented graphic artist Maija Paloheimo. She has done lots of amazing works for bands and different websites for example, so check out her portfolio for more art by Maija.

CHECK MORE FROM MINERAL

http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-mineral – more tracks at my soundcloud
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mineral-Atmospheric-Drumnbass – follow Mineral on facebook

Happy new year 2011! The new year couldn’t start in any better way than this: yesterday we reached 10.000+ visits at mineral.fi since the very first post on 25th October. I’ve got quite a lot of interesting plans for the site, so check back often. Thanks to all of you who have visited the site!

Free Track of The Week #10 is up, and the site gets more international attention, as we have a special guest Eclipse from Poland. I’ve been feeling this track a lot lately as it’s deep and atmospheric drum’n’bass – just the way it should!

Eclipse – Tricky [download www.mineral.fi_free010]

Eclipse – Tricky by eclipsednb

Piotr Pasierowski aka Eclipse – DJ,  promoter and producer from Gdansk, Poland.  Member of Deeper Than Deep collective. Fascinated by electronic music for several years. He gained first experience on brother CD’s. Dark, melodic trip-hop took possession of his mind, and set up a musical way. For several years focused on drum and bass music. Eclipse began making his own music over a year ago. His productions and sets are characterized by a cinematic elements and strong,  deep bass sound . Playing at many events he had chance to support DJs such as: Survival, Zyon Base, Skeptical, DBR UK, Flatliners, Bcee, Bungle.

CHECK MORE QUALITY TRACKS FROM ECLIPSE

– Eclipse’s soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/eclipsednb

A fresh new Science podcast #13 by Defence is up at www.sciencehki.net.

Defence was featured earlier at mineral.fi with the track “Sight of Vision” [mineral.fi_free004]. The duo’s mixes are spectacular, so I recommend this new Science podcast a lot!  “Deep, rolling beats and some of their own tunes too.”, says Trisector at sciencehki.net. Check out more defence: http://www.soundcloud.com/defence

Science Podcast #13:

01 sabre : ash – critical
02 zero t : harms way – subtitles
03 rockwell : full circle – shogun
04 defence : daniel’s – dub
05 alix perez : menacing ways – shogun
06 need for mirrors : nevada – sgn:ltd
07 all thieves : stars (zero t remix) – footprints
08 sabre : global – subtitles
09 defence : out of nowhere – dub
10 zero t & ulterior motive : breach – subtitles
11 s.p.y. : xenomorph – metalheadz
12 defence & subsense : keep on walking – dub
13 zero tolerance & beta 2 : bizzy time (break remix) – c.i.a. ltd
14 esc : love (defence remix) – dub
15 code 3 : escape hatch – sgn:ltd
16 break & hydro : breathless (break VIP mix) – dnaudio
17 defence : unknown – dub
18 tc1 & dlr : space & time – dispatch
19 alix perez : dark days – shogun
20 sabre : havens verge – critical

sciencehki_podcast_13.m4a

It’s time to present a fresh Drum’n’bass track from an extremely potential young talent, Puzzle. The atmosphere is very special in this Free Track of The Week #9, “Kumoi”.

Puzzle – Kumoi [download www.mineral.fi_free009]

Puzzle – Kumoi (FREE!) by Puzzle

Puzzle alias Juho Kavasto is a young talent from Finland. Being only 15 years at the moment, Puzzle has an excellent future as a Drum’n’bass artist. Several labels are already interested in his production, which is not surprising: simply listen to this guy’s tracks and be amazed of the tight drum’s and the deep basslines.

Keep an eye for Puzzle’s production, as I’m sure he will break big time in the future!

CHECK MORE FROM PUZZLE

– Puzzle’s facebook: http://www.facebook.com/puzzlednb
– Puzzle’s soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/puzzlednb

The Kongocrew 10-years celebration was a real success last Friday. Many d’n’b heads from Finland gathered together in this very special event. I had a blast performing a B2B DJ-set with Quadra from Defence. It was a pleasure to meet so many friends and new faces too. Thanks to all the people who attended! Also, massive props to Esc & DBLJ for arranging this event. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.

The new Free Track of The Week will be up tomorrow… It’s gonna be really good, so check back tomorrow!

Check out more photos from the party by Jonne Renvall

My track Other Life had a massive dubstep remix done by Nitrous from Canada. This spectacular remix was released on Monkey Dub recordings last week:

Various Artists – MDRMX002 – Montreal LP

– Listen & buy the tracks from Juno
– Read more @ Monkey Dub Recordings

Yesh! This weeks Free Track comes from Germany, from a really talented artist, Wintermute. I’m really loving the atmosphere and especially the bassline in this tune. Listen & download now:

• Wintermute – The Rift Between [download www.mineral.fi_free007]

Wintermute – The Rift Between (cut) by Wintermute (mal_function)

Wintermute is a moniker of Florian Förster aka. mal_function, which he uses for all of his bass-driven music productions. He excels in producing eclectic musical pieces, which vary from deep, minimal drum’n’bass tunes to techno and dubstep excursions. Most of his drum’n’bass productions were released under Creative Commons Licence by the german netlabel digitalGEWITTER and the demoscene-related NoSYS Productions. Wintermute’s current productions received dj support by Kano (Sinuous Records, DSCI4/UK), Neonlight (TrustInMusic, Ammunition Rec./GER), Acid_Lab (Basswerk, Syncopathic Rec./GER), to mention a few.

CHECK MORE FROM WINTERMUTE:
– Wintermute’s soundcloud – brilliant tracks to listen!

WINTERMUTE & AUDITE REMIXES MINERAL
Wintermute & Audite did a really nice remix of my track Lukumo a few weeks ago. I’m happy to announce, that the track has already gotten some DJ support. Check out this clip of the remix here, if you haven’t already:
Mineral – Lukumo (Wintermute & audite Remix) (cut) by Wintermute (mal_function)

Breaks, unique sounds, atmospheric percussions and melodies that give you goosebumps? If this sounds perfect, this weeks Free Track of The Week is for you. Proudly presenting:

• Fanu – Shogun (remix) [download www.mineral.fi_free_006]

Shogun (remix) by Fanu
Fanu is, without doubts, one of the most successful Finnish drum’n’bass & downtempo artists with a large scale of fans around the world. Fanu is a busy producer & DJ who spins vinyls around the world, and he has releases on quite a few labels: Subtitles, Commercial Suicide, Offshore, Ohm Resistance / Columbia, Breakin’, Warm Communications, Subtle Audio, Subvert Central, Thermal, Forestry Service , LoCuts, Soothsayer, 13 Music, Pauze, Darkestral, Pinecone Moonshine, Bonafide, Cyberset , and now he’s concentrating on his own label, Lightless Recordings.

Personally, what I’ve always enjoyed most in Fanu’s production, is his unique style to chop the breaks, and his skills with the drums in general. Also, the atmospheres in both his downtempo and drum’n’bass production are very much worth mentioning. Check out the cool reverbs on the percussions of this Shogun remix, and you’ll know what I’m talking about! Amazing stuff, for real.

FANU REMIXES MINERAL, FORTHCOMING ON LIGHTLESS DIGITAL

Fanu has been working on a remix of my track “Jupiter” during the last weeks, and the remix is about to get finished. I’ve heard previews, and I gotta tell it is a DOPE remix! Also, I’m more than happy to announce that the it will be released later on Lightless Digital with another track by myself, Twisted Dream. Expect some serious amen rudeboy business in this release!

CHECK MORE FROM FANU:
– Fanumusic.com
– Fanu on facebook
– Fanu on soundcloud