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Aww shiyat. This had to happen sooner or later — we come to Shibuya - the prime jewel of the young generation Tokyo experience for many. From the absolute crazyness of the infamous “scramble” street crossing, to the insane 9 floors of candyrave driven shopping at 109, to the booming beats down in Dogenzaka clubs like Womb, this place is alive.

So for this month’s Sake Flight - a tasting of the whomp - got a selection of stompy, stabby, trance picks culminating in Gareth Emery’s recent hit Tokyo. Let it roll!

Derek Ryan - Sake Flight 8 - Shibuya (right click and save-as to download)

Tracklist will be added tomorrow when I wake my sorry ass up!

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Contrary to what the usual suits and commutes image brings to mind for Japan, there’s a thriving club culture in the land of the rising tempo.

King of this has got to be Ageha - the largest club in Japan - out in the boonies of Tokyo in a place called Shin-Kiba (in fact, it has it’s own bus to get there).

Ageha is four rooms of madness - the pristine white house room, the dingy warehouse room, a Distrikt-esque pool area, and the massive main room. Huge, and the sound is solid everywhere, the crowd is ready to go, and the drinks are stiff.
Everything is top notch, and full of impact.

In hommage to that great space, this month’s flight features bold, driving, mainroom flavors that tend towards the techy side of trance, with some progressive hints as well. One of the the cuts is a great blogsphere remake of a timeless classic, and two of tunes are from a collaborative project of mine, Aureal, so keep an ear out.

Let’s go:

Derek Ryan - Sake Flight 8 - Ageha
(right click and save-as to download)

Tracklist after the jump:

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I have a favor to ask below, so please read till the end!

So, Sasha is running a remix comp. Yup, that Sasha.
First off, whoa. Second off…whoa.

His new track Cut Me Down is so hot off the presses you can’t even download it yet, but he’s already going ahead with giving the public chances to create their own take on the vibe. This is crazy cool. The stakes are high, as are the rewards (like working with Sasha 0_0).

I’ve undertaken the challenge, and taken it in a whole other direction - where Sasha’s original is deep and proggy, I decided to take a total 90 degree turn and make a full-on bigroom tech trancer out of it!

I’m pretty happy with the results - I think this could do some serious damage…see what you think:

So, dear Beatery reader, I’d like to ask for your help at this point.
Though it will be Sasha himself who decides who is in the winners circle, in order to even get listened to you have to promote your mix online and drum up some support for it.

What I would humbly like to ask of you is - if you dig the track, could you follow the link below, then click “Like” on the page?

https://burn-studios.com/track/derekryan/cut_me_down_derek_ryan_tech_mix

Thanks so much! I hope the remix meets with your fancy!

Posted by: Derek

before he was professor x, he was charles…before he was magneto, he was….

…oh oops, wrong movie.
So back in the day, I used to DJ under a different name - the incredibly hard to read “fr33st4t3“.
yup, leet. read “freestate”, and yeah I actually did start using it before the mau5 took leet spelling into the mainstream.

I used this alias from when I started out playing deep house (!), and it took me from there to classic prog, breaks, trance, and back to prog again…

Perhaps a bit of nostalgia has hit me, as I’ve dug up a mix from that time that’s got some serious tunage…some of these tracks are old faves of mine.

A bit different than the sheen and hyped production of modern tracks, but they definitely pump.

See what you think for a ride with a different sound…we go through waves of prog, trance and even some boshed UP breaks tunes in here…

fr33st4t3 - tracer (right click and Save As to download)

Tracklist after the jump!

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Brr. After some sun and temperate strangeness it’s back to being cold in Japan, and snowing in a great many parts of the country - and nowhere more than Akita, up a bit north from Tokyo. The snow falls pretty heavy on this prefecture where the onsen are warm, and women are hot, and the drinks are strong - especially the sake.

Akita is known for some of the finest flavors in the sake world, so keep that in mind as we bring you some warming winter palate pleasers in the form of beat driven fun on this latest five-on-friday format mini mix.

Check out some exquisite flavors from what’s new out there in the progressive/trance world–

Derek Ryan - Sake Flight 2 - Akita

(right click here and save-as to download…)

Like what you’re hearing? Tracklist after the break!
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