TOTI is one year old! To celebrate, I was delighted to welcome Jon Ward, in his Fat Mandy and Mr Faster guises, to join me in the studio for both live PA and DJ sets.

After a brief intro from yours truly, Fat Mandy kicked off the show in future-retro style with an Ableton set of electro-swing. I spun a set of progressive and psybreaks after that, then it was the mighty Fat Mandy Live PA, lush evolving breakbeat squelch, interstitially poised somewhere between breaks, dnb and chill. Then Jon switched hats to his Mr Faster persona and we went back to back for nearly three hours of psytrance, rolling, dark, forest, bouncy, you name it. Wicked fun times!

Thanks to Jon for coming along (he’ll be back!), and for all the shoutbox crew for keeping us company!

(In the tracklists below, Jon’s selections are this colour).

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0. Intro

1. Fat Mandy electro-swing DJ set

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2. Quextal progressive/techno/psybreaks DJ set

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3. Fat Mandy Live PA

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4. Mr Faster vs Quextal psytrance DJ set

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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

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1. Espion – MKYF
2. Starflower – Process the Future
3. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
4. Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
5. BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
6. Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
7. Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
8. Marc Adamo – Krakupz
9. D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
10. Digital Base – White Lines (Robosapiens rx)
11. Robosapiens – Robots
12. C-Vaughn ft Annalyze – Straight Up
13. C-Vaughn – Waste Away
14. Vent – Turn The Page
15. Livin So Fast – HandBreak
16. MKM & GBX – I Don’t Think So
17. Myagi – Giorgio Marauder
18. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)

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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

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1. Tipper – Flat Ripple
2. Tipper – Swamp Thing
3. EPROM – 64 Bytes (Vibesquad rx)
4. Tipper – A Touch of the Vapours
5. Smacs & Patrick Kong – Offside
6. Dylan Rhymes ft Pablo Decoder – I Am Sweet (Tom Real rx)
7. Steve Mac – Roller Coaster (Adam Shaw rx)
8. Tom Cosm – Naughty Chicken
9. Antix – Circade (Tom Cosm rx)
10. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
11. Espion – Architektur (original)
12. Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
13. Robosapiens – Robots
14. Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
15. Cybass – Wind It Back (Afghan Headspin rx)
16. Koma & Bones – High Rollin
17. D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
18. The Phat Riderz – Organic Neurosis
19. Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
20. Cursor Miner – This Is Electro
21. Tom Cosm – Heebie Jeebies
22. Vent – Turn The Page
23. Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz Convict of Nature rx)
24. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers (Point B rx)
25. Marc Adamo – Krakupz

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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