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I really appreciate the feedback. You’ve inspired me to get on with uploading more studio mixes, so hold tight for those, and in the meantime, hope you enjoy Psylekbreaks.
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It’s been far too long since I uploaded a studio mix. Partly this is down to increasing numbers of gigs and radio shows which occupy a large part of my time plying the decks these days. But it’s not as if I haven’t been making studio mixes from time to time, I was just never quite happy enough with them to upload.
Well, time for that to change. If there’s one message I’m receiving loud and clear every time I play out, it’s that there are people out there who are desperate to hear the kind of stuff that I play. Whatever that is! And even if I think a mix is flawed (usually because I think the tune selection could have been better rather than any technical error these days), you’d rather have that, than silence.
So here you are. This mix covers a fairly wide selection from across the spectrum of progressive, psychedelic, tech and electro flavoured breakbeats that float my boat. It’s plainly more of a home or car listening CD than the sort of journey I would construct at a club or festival, but it should take you to some interesting places. Enjoy
Download (108MB 192k MP3 78′37″) 1075 downloads
- Espion – MKYF
- Starflower – Process the Future
- Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
- Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
- BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
- Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
- Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
- Marc Adamo – Krakupz
- D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
- Digital Base – White Lines (Robosapiens rx)
- Robosapiens – Robots
- C-Vaughn ft Annalyze – Straight Up
- C-Vaughn – Waste Away
- Vent – Turn The Page
- Livin So Fast – HandBreak
- MKM & GBX – I Don’t Think So
- Myagi – Giorgio Marauder
- Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
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Tags: breakbeat, dubstep, electrobreaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, studio mix, techfunk
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Normally my mixes are all beatmatched to perfection (!) so tend to either hang around the same BPM or gradually accelerate from say 128 to 145. But with this month’s show I wanted to push back the boundaries, playing a more twisted style of electro-psy-breaks including some much slower and faster than the normal range.
I’d been on a massive acquisition binge with freshly burned CDs containing 60 new tunes, with only space for about 25 in a 2-hour show, so the selection is nice and varied… but the transitions and the overall shape of the journey could perhaps have done with more planning. I definitely need to figure out some more tricks to blend between wildly different BPMs.
Anyway, it didn’t seem to matter at the time, the promise of sick and twisted beats drew in a record-equalling number of listeners and an all-time record number of chatters compared to any of my previous Brap show’s, and you all loved it didn’t you, you dirty dirty people 
Download (169MB 192k MP3 122′32″) 745 downloads
- Tipper – Flat Ripple
- Tipper – Swamp Thing
- EPROM – 64 Bytes (Vibesquad rx)
- Tipper – A Touch of the Vapours
- Smacs & Patrick Kong – Offside
- Dylan Rhymes ft Pablo Decoder – I Am Sweet (Tom Real rx)
- Steve Mac – Roller Coaster (Adam Shaw rx)
- Tom Cosm – Naughty Chicken
- Antix – Circade (Tom Cosm rx)
- Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
- Espion – Architektur (original)
- Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
- Robosapiens – Robots
- Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
- Cybass – Wind It Back (Afghan Headspin rx)
- Koma & Bones – High Rollin
- D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
- The Phat Riderz – Organic Neurosis
- Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
- Cursor Miner – This Is Electro
- Tom Cosm – Heebie Jeebies
- Vent – Turn The Page
- Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz Convict of Nature rx)
- Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers (Point B rx)
- Marc Adamo – Krakupz
Download (169MB 192k MP3 122′32″) 745 downloads
Big love to Espion, Jamie Robosapiens and Greg VIM for the promos. Any other producers/labels want to put me on your lists in return for honest feedback, and airplay – if I like ‘em! (unless you’d prefer not in which case just say!), the address to use is quextal.removethisbit@quextal.com 
Got radio shows and gigs coming up next week so get on it
Next radio show (to be confirmed) B2B with Ali Rutt, NSB, Mon 13th Apr, 7-9pm BST
Next gig: That Night @ Ad Hoc, High St, Southampton UK Sat 18th Apr
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breakbeat, breaks, electrobreaks, glitch, lawgiverz, psybreaks, psychedelic, squelch, tech-house, tipper, twisted
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This month I have been mostly buying dark and twisted electro-psychedelic breakbeats at all bpms from 75-175, so expect plenty of that, but that’s certainly not all, I can hardly neglect the 4/4-beats entirely when I’ve had a good handful of sweet tech-house promos through too…
How, you ask, will Quextal sew all this together into a seamless coherent journey? Can it be done? I have no idea. Tune in to find out! 8pm BST tonight – http://brap.fm – see you in the chatroom
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