DJ Hidden - ElectroWorld

Posted on 24/9/2015, 21:03 by: Luca EW

DJ Hidden - Directive
(Ad Noiseam / Hidden Tracks)

Tracklist
01. Once Upon a Time in Porto
02. Poltergeist
03. In Formation
04. Canadian Dropzone
05. Arctic (with Landscapers)
06. Crowd Mover
07. In My Blood
08. Polar Perspective
09. Street Control
10. The Hour (with MC Coppa)
11. You're Not Real (DJ Hidden's Last Resort Remix)
12. Anathema

Release Date
16th October 2015

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DJ Hidden - Directive

Press Release
DJ Hidden's fourth studio album displays yet again a refinement in this remarkable musician's techniques and a shift of styles. Rather than offering a long cinematic experience, Noel Wessels gathers here a wide range of tracks, with some of his most experimental tunes to date to some of the hardest. Sharp as always and extremely imaginative, "Directive" impresses in the way it marries genres in a very cohesive way, keeping true to DJ Hidden's aesthetics while pointing out in new directions. A new essential album by an essential producer.
This is 2015, Dj Hidden needs no introduction. Any drum'n'bass head been confronted to his music at one point since this musician's debut in the late 90's, any hardcore fan knows his Outside Agency project, and rare are the electronic producers who have not been influenced by his production techniques, his beat-making or his innovations. To cut a long story short: if you aren't yet familiar with DJ Hidden, it's high time you get out of your cave.
Such an album as "Directive" is therefore eagerly awaited, its tracks closely inspected and its approach thoroughly analysed. A couple of years after the odyssey that was "Enclosed" (Ad Noiseam adn173), DJ Hidden's fourth full length album had to live up to very high expectations. Verdict? It does, of course.
Whereas some might have expected DJ Hidden to deliver a crossbreed album, "Directive" isn't (just as The Outside Agency's "The Dogs Are Listening" already wasn't). And those expecting a cinematically tied collection such as "Enclosed" will also have to do a double take. With its very defined tracks, its calm moments and its frantic ones, its dancefloor aspects and its vocal snippets, this new album is probably the closest to a song-based work that Noel Wessels has ever come up with.
From the syncopated "Poltergeist" to the club-packing "Arctic", MC Coppa's supported "...

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Last Post by: Luca EW (24/9/2015, 21:03)

DJ Hidden - P [ L ] A Y L I S T

Posted on 6/5/2015, 23:46 by: Luca EW

DJ Hidden - P [ L ] A Y L I S T
(Hidden Tracks)

Tracklist
01. Death at a Distance
02. The First Evil VIP
03. Radio Silence
04. Sandwaves
05. Blind Universe
06. The Dust Element
07. The Second Evil (Speakerwrath Remix)
08. Session 113
09. Untouched
10. Fatal Rwd [Remake]
11. Bonus Track 1: The Spine
12. Bonus Track 2: Fatal Rwd [Original Version]

Release Date
6th May 2015

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DJ Hidden - Enclosed

Press Release
It is no secret that artists do not make a lot of money releasing their music nowadays. Maybe when you are in the top 10 of mainstream pop producers, you do not have reason to complain. It is different for a lot of "underground" artists. They usually have to do with very little on even a succesful release.
At least they are still making something though.
That is, unless labels decide that they do not feel like paying artists altogether. They make promises of advances and royalties through elaborate contracts but when the time comes to actually share in the profits of a particular release, they bail on the artist.
I have had this happen to me several times by several labels. I'm not going to point fingers: you have the internet at your disposal so if you are really interested in what labels these tracks got released on originally, you are of course free to look this up yourself.
By violating the terms of the various ageements I had with these labels, I felt it would be within my rights to claim full ownership of the tracks they put out and... re-release them myself.
With regards to the mixdowns, I felt that some of these tracks had aged a bit. In order to feel happy about letting these tracks get out in the open again, I decided to remaster every single track. So here it is: remastered versions of several older tracks.
That is not all though: back in the day, I wrote a track called "Fatal Rwd" which was featured in some mixes but never actually was released. The reason for this was that I could never decide on the final mixdown...
When compiling this album, I stumbled upon this track and I decided that it was time to release it... but not in the original version. Instead, I completely re-did the track from scratch - based on the original file but with a new mixdown and new sounds, pretty much only retaining the "feel" of the original.
I truly hope you will enjoy some of these "classic" tracks plus the new and improved version of "Fatal Rwd".
Whether these tracks are new to you or they are trips down memory lane: do me a favor and *buy* this album instead of finding some torrent for it. Tha...

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Last Post by: Luca EW (6/5/2015, 23:46)

DJ Hidden - Enclosed

Posted on 14/9/2013, 10:32 by: Luca EW

DJ Hidden - Enclosed
(Ad Noiseam)

Tracklist
CD 1:
01. Seance I
02. Seance II
03. The Wanderer
04. Beacon I
05. Beacon II
06. Solipsism
07. Fading
08. Traces I
09. Traces II
10. Tritone
11. Pareidolic
12. Clockwise I
13. Clockwise II
14. Uncomfortable Silence I
15. Uncomfortable Silence II
16. Distant Drums
17. Cotard I
18. Cotard II
19. Onyo
20. Legend Has It
21. Surface Understanding
22. Enclosed

CD 2:
23. Reversed Psychology

Release Date
28th October 2013

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DJ Hidden - Enclosed

Press Release
DJ Hidden's third full length album is such a rich and encompassing experience that a few words can't do justice to its diversity and sharpness. A seamless combination of all of Noel Wessels's projects and tastes, it takes its listeners from the calmest, most evocative ambiences to the fastest, most pounding dancefloor highs. Nobody writes a track like DJ Hidden does, and we highly doubt that anybody is going to catch up with a musician whose blasts outside his expected boundaries with such commanding force, as “Enclosed” is a lot more than a regular album.
Enclose:
1. to surround, close in on all sides.
2. to add something to the contents of a package.
Examples: “a listener enclosed by a massive album”, “DJ Hidden enclosed many new elements in his work.
Third albums are often the most complicated to conceive, all the more if the first two are considered as genre-defining, ageless records. Six years and exactly a hundred catalog numbers after “The Later After”, four years after “The Words Below”, DJ Hidden reveals here a tour-de-force which manages to top its predecessors in scope, diversity and depth. Needless to say, this is something that many would have though impossible, considering how highly regarding they are.
There would have been no point for DJ Hidden to repeat himself. Just like the recent album by his Outside Agency project (“The Dogs Are Listening”, 2012) was everything but a longer version of this act's EPs, “Enclosed” is not a regular DJ Hidden release. Organized as a long seamless journey, it combines very short passages with longer tracks, drum'n'bass beats with cinematic atmospheres, slow introversion with extremely fast breaks.
In a way, “Enclosed” is not a DJ Hidden album, but a Noel Wessels one: parts of it come from this project's drum'n'bass focus (“Pareidolic”), parts sound close to his Semiomime album ...

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DJ Hidden & Broken Note / Niveau Zero & Balkansky - Existence / Obey

Posted on 11/12/2011, 21:41 by: Luca EW

DJ Hidden & Broken Note / Niveau Zero & Balkansky - Existence / Obey
(Ad Noiseam)

Tracklist
A. DJ Hidden & Broken Note "Existence"
B. Niveau Zero & Balkansky "Obey"

Release Date
23rd January 2012

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DJ Hidden & Broken Note / Niveau Zero & Balkansky - Existence / Obey

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DJ Hidden & Broken Note / Niveau Zero & Balkansky - Existence / Obey

Press Release
Four confirmed, veteran Ad Noiseam artists and a myriad of versions, edits and corrections ping-ponged between all of them. "Existence" and "Obey" are the carefully laid-out, detailled and fresh results of musicians having fun with each other's material and proving how at ease they are with both dubstep and drum'n'bass. DJ Hidden's sharpness, Broken Note's epic proportions, Niveau Zero's clever open-mindedness and Balkansky's meticulousness: yes they managed to pack all of this in these two highly cohesive tracks. A must-have for anybody into any of these acts.
Four artists, two tracks, and two pairings of some of the most insidious and powerful dubstep and drum'n'bass gathered on one record.
The meeting-up of two high profile but very distinct producers, "Existence" is, by any standard, a beats of a track. Combining the clinically sharp and melodic drum'n'bass of DJ Hidden with the organic basses and monstrously detailed sound assemblage of Broken Note was a tour-de-force for both parties. Here is a tune that went through countless versions, the artists ping-ponging with beats, drops and low frequencies. The result paid off, as "Existence" is almost a genre in itself, from its hypnotic intros to the staccato oscillations of its bassline. Played out by both DJ Hidden and Broken Note at recent concerts, the fruit of this long alchemical process has proven to be an exhilarating, deadly one.
On the flip side, Balkansky & Niveau Zero's collaboration is ...

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