AMBIENT / CHILL / DOWNTEMPO Chris Hale Rados
BREAKS / DnB / DUBSTEP Ninja Kodou Staedler & Waldorf
HOUSE (Electro / Hard / Prog / Tech) Addicted Craze Daagard & Morane EricM Firedance Giorno Laanga Madison Miradey Phil Hiett QED Sam Walkertone Sonera
NU JAZZ Chris Hale Torso
GOA & PSYTRANCE Jeff Alford Krash Kourse Timeliner Zetan Spore
TECHNO & TECHNOTRANCE Air One Clubbfire Division Hardformers
TRANCE & HARD TRANCE David Koonen Duneflyer Front Jason Sean Yahel Yuto
YUTO (Japan)
Click above to play tracks from Are You Ready For This? Hardcore Trance Cyber Trance 20 year old half Japanese and half English Yuto Nagayama producer hailing from Japan. He started creating music at the age of 16. While he had no formal music production education, he knew that he wanted to create music for as many people as would listen. So he studied up on how DJ's make music, and found a program that suited his purposes. He downloaded a demo version of 'Fruity Loops' and started messing around with the knobs and modulators until he created something that sounded vaguely like real music. Ever since that time, creating music on computer has become his passion. Yuto's not opposed to creating tunes in any genre - Trance, Rock, Classical, Funk, Thrash Metal, Breakbeat, Hip-Hop or R & B. He's always looking to broaden his horizons. Club music remains one of his main loves. There have been a few artists in the Trance genre that really made an impression on him while he was in the first stages of music production. He started out by producing Psytrance music, so naturally emulated artists like Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Asterix, G.M.S., Yahel, Eskimo, Protoculture, Alien Project and many others. Yuto pretty much listened to a host of Psytrance music to get a general idea of what fans liked to listen to, and what caught peoples' attention. Eventually he developed a style of his own and took it from there. If he had to describe his style of Psytrance music, he'd say it was mostly hardcore party music, accentuated by a hard kick, a rough, thick bassline, some metal riffs and more then a few slightly eerie and twisted sounds that he couldn't really put into words. And yet at times it is melodic - flowing with musical synths, acoustic strings and a little symphony in the mix. Another genre of Trance that fascinates him is Cyber Trance. Yuto started creating Cyber tracks a few years back. He knows a thing or two about the fans of this genre of music, and they certainly inspire him. At the same time, he wanted to make something that would appeal to a larger crowd of electronic music fans. So he listened to popular artists like Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Scooter, ATB, Mauro Picotto, Above and Beyond, Svenson and Gielen and others. Once again he set out to create his own original style; something that was fresh, and commercial enough to catch peoples’ attention, his Cyber Trance is slightly harder then the typical fare. The tunes remain very melodic and catchy. What does the future hold? Yuto would like to branch out in more musical directions, including producing an album of breakbeat tracks, laced with a lot of vocals. He's also had a dream of making my own record label someday, and perhaps in the future, this dream can become a reality. 'Are You Ready For This?' Is what Yuto would call 'Hardfloor Trance'. It has a definite Cyber Trance/Euro Trance feel to it, accentuated by melodic synths and uplifting compositions. It's definitely a party-orientated album, but it's just as much a saga of his musical journey as anything. He wanted to take the album as well as his musical creativity in different directions. Most of the 16 tracks available on the album are definitely Trance and are designed to be mercilessly blared on a set of sturdy speakers. 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes' and ' Plastic Superbomb' are his two personal favourites on the album. 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes' is particular beautiful, thanks in whole to his good friend Marie Giustini, who supplied him with most of the vocals for the track. 'Plastic Superbomb' is another track he's very attached too, for no other particular reason than…he just thinks the whole song is totally out of wack, and it works. Oh, and he also likes the fact that the song is a dedication to every surgically-enhanced celebrity out there. Ha! Not every track on the album, however, follows a particular trance pattern. So with 'Are You Ready For This' expect to hear a few tracks that are not club-orientated in the least; tracks such as 'Acoustica', 'Matsuri (Taiko Big Mix)' and 'The End'. 'Acoustica' pretty much speaks for itself. It's an acoustic-guitar track fused with symphony and high synths, giving the whole song a mellow and thought provoking sound. 'Matsuri (Taiko Big Mix)' is another personal favourite of Yuto's. It's an energetic, updated Taiko (traditional Japanese percussions) based track, featuring a host of other native Japanese instruments like the Shamisen, the Koto, the Shakuhachi etc. His main reason for making this track was he wanted to make a statement. He's half Japanese and this is what that half sounds like. 'The End' is a soundtrack based track, with a smooth Drum and Bass sound. A few choppy orchestrations thrown in and stuttered at the proper intervals make it another definable track on the album.
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