A slightly shorter show, this one, as it wasn’t supposed to be my week but Rumbler was having technical issues, so I hopped on to cover with a selection box of mostly old favourites: Electro, Prog Breaks, Tech Breaks and Psybreaks.
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Download (129.9MB 192kbps MP3 94’35″) 21 downloads

Quextal – Live on NSB 2012-03-10

Epic progressive breaks, twisted psybreaks, techfunk, nuskool, fat electro and a smattering of techno. Interstitial breakbeat for the international jetset willy.
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Download (167.4MB 192kbps MP3 121’52″) 104 downloads

Quextal – Live on NSB 2012-03-03

Deep tech breaks, melodic electro, and of course epic progressive and psychedelic breaks.
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Download (174.6MB 192kbps MP3 127’10″) 1366 downloads

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Often when Quexotic Adventures is unexpectedly extended to 4 hours I flip over to dnb or crunk for the second half, but this one stays with the breaks all the way – but of course ranges widely within that genre from laidback chilled IDM to progressive nuskool to psybreaks to dark electro and more, raiding the crates for forgotten classics along the way…
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Download (323.8MB 192kbps MP3 235’45″) 704 downloads

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This time around we started with something a little different, showcasing trippy darkfloor electro, mainly in order to play a whole load of Espion tracks I just downloaded. Nuff respect to Arnie Espion for making so many of his tunes available for free download! You can get them for yourself from the Hyperoctave Soundcloud
page, while stocks last!

After that, it was back to the breaks with, as usual, the cream of the week’s promos served up with the choicest cuts of progressive and psychedelic tuna.

Just one more NSB show from me this year, Sat 18th Dec at the usual time of 7pm GMT. I’ll be digging out some of my favourite tunes of 2010 and looking forward to what treats might be in store for us next year – new artists, new labels, new collaborations. Hope to see you in the chatroom then! http://www.nsbradio.co.uk

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Download (153.8MB 192kbps MP3 111’59″) 455 downloads

We kick off with some choice deep, rolling, techy nuskool, highlighting in particular the excellent new Early Works EP from Lady Packa, before moving on through psybreaks and electro to a second half of tasty drum’n'bass selections: progressive, wonky, neurofunk and wobbly. Easy now. Next NSB show: 16th Oct, 7pm BST.
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Download (173.1MB 192kbps MP3 126’03″) 530 downloads

Yep, I’m afraid it’s another four-hour double-Quex feature! I can’t help myself… I had kinda hoped that the extension might happen this week, because otherwise I’d have had to make very, very difficult choices as to which of the massive pile of superlative new tracks making my hard disk groan and wheeze under the sheer weight of their super-heavy dopeness, would be selected to be played straight away; and which would be sent back down into the dungeon in tears after learning that, through no fault or inadequacy of their own, but just because it happened to be a bumper couple of weeks for decent releases, and the DJ had caught a bit of Bank Holiday Fever and gone somewhat manic with his Crate, they must wait another fortnight, or pray for a cover slot to bring them out of the darkness sooner…

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Download (316MB 192k MP3 230’21″) 745 downloads

Lots of wicked promos this week… I didn’t even get through all the ones I wanted to play, so more to come next week! Same deal with the new releases – I bought so many killer tracks that I was still burning them onto CD long until about halfway through the show, as I wanted to get as many as possible in.

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Download (156.3 MB 192kbps MP3 113’48″) 775 downloads

Next NSB show: 3rd April.

If you’ve been struggling to get through all the recent 4+ hour shows, you’ll be pleased to hear that this month’s Interstitial clocks in at a mere 3½ Although since I only just posted December’s, you may have quite a lot of catching up to do…

Warning: it starts off very glitchy: I think I inadvertantly lost a few listeners in the first minute who thought there must be a technical problem. Oops. Nope, it’s just a weird intro track from P&G…

After the intro we kick off with two of my latest artist discoveries: dope crunky beats from Opiuo, and blissed out fusion sounds from The Nasha Experience. Then we go delving into the darker, glitchier side of psybreaks and electro for a while. That leads into some techy and progressive 4/4s, before we bring the breaks back on an epic trippy nuskool tip, throwing in some techno and tech-funk for good measure, and finally bringing you down gently with a more chilled dub-tech breakbeat vibe.

Big ups all the Shoutbox crew for their support, especially n0sS – another enthusiastic new convert to Quextal’s Radical Interstitialism See you next time!

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Download (297MB 192k MP3 216’27″) 1028 downloads

Another epic extended show… I carried on past the end of my allotted 2 hours as someone was supposed to be covering the next show but had said he might be a little bit late. In the end he didn’t turn up until nearly the end of that show, so I ended up doing the full 4 hour double feature. Download this mix, and the recent 5+ hour BrapFM marathon, onto your mp3 player, and you’re equipped with enough first-class choonage to survive almost any journey. Except maybe Eurostar.

Here we’ve got mostly my intoxicating special blend of the fortnight’s finest new releases and backcat discoveries in psybreaks, progressive breaks, neck-tingling nuskool, electrifying electro, twisted tech-breaks… and our first tentative foray on NSB into something that could be described as techno (but it’s Robosapiens so it must be ok). But just for shizzles, around the halfway mark as a kind of interlude we go on a brief tour of some classic oldskool hardcore and jungle techno from 1992-1994ish. This section doesn’t exactly fit with the flow to either side… hopefully this lump of strange-sounding foreign material is sufficiently colourful that you won’t find it too obtrusive…

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Download (324MB 192k MP3 235’56″) 1238 downloads

Lots of hot promos and demos this week – thanks to all those labels and artists who sent them. In particular, thanks to unsigned artists Cannabinoid and Unconscious Mind(s) for allowing me to display their wares. I’m very interested in supporting other unsigned acts in this way… assuming I like your sound of course! Think you’ve got something I need to hear? Hit me up.

Next show: Sat 2nd Jan 2010, 19:00 GMT, NSB.

Happy Yule/Saturnalia/Hannukah/Christmas/Cashmas/WinterFest… and here’s to more odysseys in 2010