Mentalien's Blog

2013-05-20

Friday Promo Mix

Summer has arrived finally, yay! Just like last year, in 2013 you'll be able to get down every friday to the terrace of A38 again for some quality, soulful drum&bass beats and sweet cocktails - because that's what 'Friday at A38' is about. I've tried to sum up the sunny vibes of this series in a short mix, let me know how you like it! ;)

Download >> Mentalien - Friday Promo Mix

Stream / Mirror at soundcloud.com/mentalien | mixcloud.com/mentalien

Tracklist:

S.P.Y feat. DRS & Jenna G - Star Voyager - Soul:R
Nu:Logic - What I've Always Waited For - Hospital
Random Movement - Down Somehow - Innerground
Dave Owen - Deep Breathin - Good Looking
Bcee feat. Darrison - So Right - Spearhead
Dawn Day Night - Alcoholic Dance Flow - Astrophonica
Capleton - Slew Dem (Sinistarr rmx) - Sinistarr Beats
Danny Byrd feat. General Levy - Blaze The Fire (Rah!) (Stray rmx) - Hospital
Cyantific - Cyantific Dub - Cyantific
Young Ax - Midnight Sun (Calibre rmx) - Sugaphonic
Nu:Logic feat. Lifford - Everlasting Days - Hospital
Lenzman - Broken Dreams (Makoto rmx) - Metalheadz
ST Files & Response - Nailbomb - Ingredients
Alix Perez feat. D.Ablo - We Could Have Been - Shogun Audio

2013-04-14

LTJ Bukem party warm-up

DJ Ren, Markov and myself played a 3-person b2b set on wednesday - such a thing never happened before, so you should really check out how we were warming ourselves up for next friday's LTJ Bukem party!

Tracklist:

D-Bridge ft Jenna G - Silent Wonder - Bingo

TEED - Household Goods (Enei rmx) - TEED

Lynx - Midnight Funk - Playaz

ST Files & Response - Nailbomb - Ingredient

Need For Mirrors feat. Edward Oberon - Limits Of Control - Clear Skyz

Icicle - So Close - Med School

Digital & Spirit - Phantom Force (Fractures edit) - Phantom Audio

Rufige Kru - Vanilla - Metalheadz

Fracture - Bad Habit (OM Unit VIP) - Astrophonica VIP

Jubei feat. Flowdan - Say Nothin’ (Rockwell rmx) - Razors Edge

Dub Phizix & Skeptical feat. T Man - Run It Like The President - Samurai

Ed Rush & Optical - Watermelon - Virus

Om Unit & Sam Binga - Gamma - Exit

Calibre - Roundhouse - Signature

Un-Cut - Midnight (Marcus Intalex & ST Files rmx) - Wired

Random Movement - Down Somehow - Innerground

Die - Clear Skyz (Break remix) -Clear Skyz

Subwave - Think - Shogun Audio

Total Science - Lightweight (Zero T rmx) - CIA

Ulterior Motive - Right Here - Metalheadz

Friction & Skream feat. Scrufizzer, P Money & Riko Dan - Kingpin (Rockwell rmx) - Shogun Audio

Dub Phizix - Happy 5 - Exit

Theory - Pictures, Shapes & Patterns - Channel 82

London Elektricity - Main Ingredients (SKC remix) - Hospital

Furney - Drum Tools - Good Looking

High Contrast - Some Things Never Change - Hospital

Peshay feat. Natalie Reece - Fall For You - Liquid V

DJ Marky & S.P.Y - Love Affair - Innerground

Makoto & MC Conrad - Golden Girl - Good Looking

DJ Marky & S.P.Y - Yellow Shoes (Calibre remix) - Innerground

DRS ft Enei - Count To Ten - Soul:R

Total Science - Now As It Was Then - Hospital

Bladerunner - Late Night Caller - Program

Jaydan - Element - Innerground

LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (Marky & S.P.Y rework) - Good Looking

Break - All Around - Symmetry

Rufige Kru - Is This Real - Exit

Zero T feat. Riya - Stolen Moments - C.I.A.

DJ Ren b2b Mentalien b2b Markov @ Together 10.04.2013 by Bladerunnaz on Mixcloud

2013-03-28

Mentalien - North Pole (new bass music mix up!)

To be honest with you, the garage-inspired house sound, which is dominating the bass music scene nowadays, is a bit too much for me. There are many great productions, obviously, but there are way too much cheap copies as well. Don't get me wrong, I love this sound, but if you eat the same thing every day, after a time you get sick of it, so it's better to give it a little pause and go other directions. Yesterday I did a one hour ustream-session and mixed up some great tunes, which are mostly, influenced by techno, and/or have a heavy drum programming. It was really liberating to mix these raw beats instead of the warm basslines, nice vocals and melodies. So at the end of the mixing session I thought this is something I should share, just to show something different, something I rarely do nowadays. Some mixings are just as raw as the tunes themselves, sorry for that, let's concentrate on the flow of the mix instead, hehe. Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD >> Mentalien - North Pole

Stream / mirror at Soundcloud | Mixcloud

Tracklist:

Paul Woolford - Let It Go (Komonazmuk & Appleblim rmx) - Intimacy

Boddika & Joy Orbison - &Fate - Nonplus

South London Ordnance - Pacific - Well Rounded

Nautiluss - Zero Gravity - 3024

>> MikeQ feat. Kevin JZ Prodigy - Feels Like - Fade To Mind

Randomer - Lost Everything - Super

Happa - Bring It Back - Church

Boddika - Soul What (Mickey Pearce rmx) - Swamp 81

T.Williams - Go In - Local Action

Parris Mitchell feat. Shinoby - Bounce - Wicked Bass

Lil Silva - Venture - white

Kingdom - Fukin Jaker - Fade To Mind

Crue - Untitled B (Crue 3) - white

WK7 - Do It Yourself - Power house

Joy Orbison - Big Room Tech House DJ Tool - TIP! - Nonplus

Helix - Stacks Riddim - All Caps

Shadow Child & horx feat. TK Wonder - Border Town - Apollo

2013-03-22

Top 20 chart - March / 2013

The amount of great releases is just amazing nowadays, so it was inevitable for me to create a chart. Click here to chek out the actual chart, or stream the releases on this player:

2013-03-15

Back on the radio!

As some of you might remember, once I was running a show called 3K in my hometown's FM station, called Trio Radio, which I decided to end in february 2008. After a 5 year long pause I was asked to run a radio show at RCKO.FM, a new station which is available to listen online. The show is kind of a special one, because it's basically the home of the mighty Bladerunnaz crew, that's why one of the fixed features will be some free tickets to win for the next BLZ parties. You can check out the very first show here! I'm still trying to figure out how to build up the whole thing, so you shouldn't have big expectations while listening to it. :) Oh and don't forget to tune in live every second monday evening between 21 and 23pm!

Bladerunnaz Radio Show w/ Mentalien @ RCKO.FM 2013.03.11 (guest: DJ Ren) by Bladerunnaz on Mixcloud

Mentalien's events in 2013

01.08. BBM pres. Dusky warm-up @ Tilos Radio (info)
01.12. Different Drum @ Volt Presszo, Akvarium (info)
02.01. Mentalien + Shadam allnighter @ Kolor (info)
02.02. Sub Night 2nd Bday @ Napkozi, Debrecen (info)
02.10. BBM pres. Dusky warm-up @ Together (info)
02.15. Different Drum @ Volt Presszo (Akvarium) (info)
02.16. Budapest Bass Music pres. Dusky @ Corvinteto (info)
02.19. BLZ 14th Bday warm-up @ Tilos (info)
02.23. Bladerunnaz 14th Bday @ A38 (info)
03.08. Budapest Jungle pres. Calibre @ Corvinteto (info)
03.15. Different Drum @ Volt Presszo (Akvarium) (info)
03.22. Pushin' @ Muzikum (info)
03.23. Mentalien x Shadam all night long @ Rizsa Dva Klub (info)
04.06. Budapest Bass Music pre. DJ EZ @ Corvinteto (info)
04.10. Outlook + LTJ Bukem warm-up @ Together (info)
04.19. Budapest Jungle pres. LTJ Bukem & MC Moose, MC DRS & Jenna G @ Durlin (info)
04.20. Different Drum \w Spinline @ Volt Presszo (Akvarium) (info)
04.26. Pushin' @ Muzikum (info)
04.27. Mentalien x Shadam On Tour @ Telep / Kolor (info)
05.10. Friday @ A38 (info)
05.10. Mentalien x Shadam All Night Long @ Rizsa Dva Klub (info)
05.11. Different Drum @ Volt Presszo (Akvarium) (info)
05.24. Friday @ A38 (info)
06.14. tba
06.28. tba

Biography

As many DJs, Mentalien had been a music freak already at a very young age. He started to gain interest in less commercial music at the age about 12. After a while his addiction focused mostly on drum&bass. Momentous tunes, like Inner City Life, Warhead or Friday made him fall in love with the genre so much, that he started to buy dnb vinyls when he was 16. It was the time when liquid funk was born, and from that point this rolling, very vocal and soulful sound has always played an important role in his musical taste, even when the style might be somewhat different from drum&bass. As a huge music fan, he’s always been keeping his eye on several styles, like garage, house, hip-hop, soul, broken beats, techno or jazz.

After a few local gigs, guest appearances on Hungary’s well known radio stations (Tilos Radio, Est Fm) and co-hosting the 3Elements crew’s show at his hometown’s FM radio, he decided to start his own show, called 3K. It was on air every Sunday for more than four years. Many talented Hungarians, and a few international guests took part, and of course, the showrunner himself proved his diverse taste of drum&bass and other music styles many times. Besides the radio, he started having gigs regularly both in Budapest and in the countryside as well.

During the past few years he started to widen his musical palette as a DJ and was digging deeper in other genres like garage, UK funky, or house. Concentrating on the crowd, most of his selection comes from dancefloor oriented, but soulful and melodic tunes with a few heavier tracks. However, sometimes he likes to push his boundaries and picks some unexpected or „leftfield” tunes. Since 2004 Mentalien has taken part in the Hungarian scene as a journalist and editor, too, writing articles, interviews and reviews for Impulsecreator. He also worked for the highly praised magazine, called New Noise, which was released between 2010 and 2011.

All through the years he didn’t only play alongside the main Hungarian DJs, but also together with some of his internationally acclaimed musical heroes, like DJ Marky, MJ Cole, Makoto, Pearson Sound, DJ Storm, Danny Byrd, Toddla T, Oneman, Kingdom, Girl Unit, TC1, Mosca, Redeyes, Marcus Intalex, Fabio, TC and many more. When it comes to playing drum&bass out at a radio station, a club or a festival, he always has room for some Random Movement, Nu:Tone, Die or Dillinja records. If he plays something else than dnb, then there is a good chance that some tunes from Roska, El-B, Zed Bias or Katy B may be heard.