This month started with a quick tour of midtempo, gentle into glitch-crunk, then switched into psybreaks, but most of the show was given over to the stack of great journeying chunky progressive I’d just bought… with a bit of minimal / tech-house to wind down. Big shouts to all the chatroom crew 
Download (284.8MB 192kbps MP3 207′21″) 166 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Ajja |
Pearcushion |
Peak |
| 2 |
Arksun |
Generation |
| 3 |
Opiuo |
The Freaky Bean |
http://opiuo.bandcamp.com |
| 4 |
Ill.Gates |
Eggplantation (Knowa Knowone’s Playa Sunrise rx) |
Muti |
| 5 |
Quade |
Throbbin’ the Light (Uniphi & Seed Mix) |
Ball of Waxx |
| 6 |
Opiuo |
Creamy Taco |
Addictech |
| 7 |
Point B |
Headland (Cursor Miner rx) |
Combat |
| 8 |
Macho |
Red Key (Andy Faze rx) |
breaks.sk [promo] |
| 9 |
Robosapiens |
Bodies (Hedflux rx) |
Dead Famous |
| 10 |
Mouldysoul |
Abnormal Activity |
via Soundcloud [unsigned] |
| 11 |
Jellyfish & Andrey Mute |
Trouble In The Attic |
Broken Robot |
| 12 |
Dual Boot |
Trigger (Triple Agent rx) |
Ridiculoud |
| 13 |
Phony Oprhants |
Dr Sachs (Sleek Remix) |
Iboga |
| 14 |
AMB |
Seka (Francesco Pico Remix) |
Audio Therapy |
| 15 |
Andrea Bertolini |
Fireface (Flippers rx) |
Echoes Records |
| 16 |
Chris Micali |
Schiphol |
Aurium Recordings |
| 17 |
Sawtooth |
Dance With Me (Jade Remix) |
Dead Famous [promo] |
| 18 |
Squarefeet |
Moustache Ghost |
Exogenic |
| 19 |
Visua |
Nano Technology |
Blue Tunes |
| 20 |
Yotopia |
No Way Out |
Iboga |
| 21 |
Yotopia |
Spunk |
Iboga |
| 22 |
Quantize |
Nightmosphere (Yotopia Remix) |
Iboga |
| 23 |
LuQas |
Altered States (Quextal rx unmastered) |
[unreleased] |
| 24 |
Jerome Isma-Ae & Tomcraft |
Trouble In The Redlight |
Armada |
| 25 |
Jerome Isma-Ae |
Smile When You Kill Me |
New State |
| 26 |
Jerome Isma-Ae |
Hold That Sucker Down |
Armada |
| 27 |
Mesmer |
Melting Yoghurt (Robosapiens rx) |
Scarcity |
| 28 |
Duca & DJ Slater |
Virada (Phony Orphants Remix) |
Iboga |
| 29 |
Josh Millstone |
As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation’s ghost mix) |
Grooves For You |
| 30 |
DJ Ico & Double D |
Excess (original dub) |
Operating System |
| 31 |
The Touch |
Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub version) |
Trunkfunk |
| 32 |
Slinky Wire |
Croaking Toads |
Organic Domain |
| 33 |
David K |
Boul De Nerf |
Freak N Chic |
| 34 |
Vibrasphere |
Wasteland (Fiord rx) |
Tribal Vision |
| 35 |
Dirt Crew |
Get Raw (Bumel & Dos Santos Threesixty rx) |
Dirt Crew |
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: crunk, glitch, interstitial, midtempo, minimal, progressive, progressive house, progressive trance, psybreaks, psymusic, tech-house
Artists: AMB, Ajja, Andrea Bertolini, Andrey Mute, Andy Faze, Arksun, Bumel, Chris Micali, Cursor Miner, DJ Ico, DJ Slater, Dan, David K, Dirt Crew, Dos Santos Threesixty, Double D, Dual Boot, Duca, Fiord, Flippers, Francesco Pico, Hedflux, Ill.Gates, Jade, Jellyfish, Jerome Isma-Ae, Josh Millstone, Knowa Knowone, LuQas, Macho, Mesmer, Mouldysoul, Opiuo, Phony Oprhants, Phony Orphants, Phunk Investigation, Pig, Point B, Quade, Quantize, Quextal, Robosapiens, Sawtooth, Seed, Sleek, Slinky Wire, Squarefeet, The Touch, Tomcraft, Triple Agent, Uniphi, Vibrasphere, Visua, Yotopia
Labels: Addictech, Armada, Audio Therapy, Aurium Recordings, Ball of Waxx, Blue Tunes, Broken Robot, Combat, Dead Famous, Dirt Crew, Echoes Records, Exogenic, Freak N Chic, Grooves For You, Iboga, Muti, New State, Operating System, Organic Domain, Peak, Ridiculoud, Scarcity, Tribal Vision, Trunkfunk, http://opiuo.bandcamp.com, via Soundcloud
Welcoming the mighty Digital Fist for a return visit to a Quextal guest slot but his first on NSB, showcasing his specialist subjects of glitchy electrobreaks, deep-diving dubbreaks and techsteppin’ dnb, alongside your regular Quextal diet of crunky midtempo, twisted neurofunk, and all breaks progressive and psychedelic. Mr Fist’s selections are in this colour.
It’s a long one again I’m afraid
There was a no-show from the next DJ so we carried on… Unfortunately we had to interrupt proceedings for an outside test broadcast, hence the mix is split into two parts…
Big ups all chatroom, and thanks to the two Misters, Mirra and Snook, for providing quality fresh unsigned goodies: Snap ‘em up, label piranhas!
Part 1
Download Part 1 (258MB 192k MP3 188′30″) 506 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Fiord |
Keen String (Opiuo rx) |
Open |
| 2 |
VENT |
Itchy Feet |
Addictech |
| 3 |
Opiuo |
Forensic Lick |
Colony |
| 4 |
Posthuman |
Lander (Cursor Miner’s Irresponsible rx) |
Handsette |
| 5 |
Jnr Hacksaw |
You Are A Machine |
Trigger |
| 6 |
Asset |
Peak Limiter (Ion Driver rx) |
| 7 |
Bass Kittens |
Mono Melo |
| 8 |
Factorfunk |
Strange |
| 9 |
4Kuba |
Crunchdown |
| 10 |
Ion Driver |
Revolution (Lifecycle rx) |
| 11 |
Bass Kittens |
Bastard Squad |
| 12 |
Skeetaz |
Rubber |
| 13 |
Product.01 |
Destrukt |
| 14 |
Mood Deluxe |
Mercury Rising |
| 15 |
Jnr Hacksaw |
The Truth Is |
| 16 |
Senor Frio |
Polar |
| 17 |
Claas Reimer |
Lift Off (The Scientifics rx) |
VIM Breaks [promo] |
| 18 |
BETA vs Mesmer |
Tetris (Kovacs rx) |
Scarcity [free download] |
| 19 |
Stisch |
Heads |
| 20 |
Ion Driver |
Revolution |
| 21 |
Omni Trio |
Lucid |
Moving Shadow |
| 22 |
DBF |
OverRide (Cosmonaut rx) |
VIM Breaks |
| 23 |
Kraymon ft Colleen Quinn |
Trouble (Eshericks rx) |
Dusted Breaks [promo] |
| 24 |
Mr Mirra |
Three Legged Donkey |
[unsigned] |
| 25 |
Decal |
Kiss Acid |
| 26 |
Mista Snook |
Past The Noise |
[unsigned] |
| 27 |
Nymate Association |
Junkcore |
| 28 |
Mr Mirra |
All Screwed Up |
[unsigned] |
| 29 |
Opiuo |
Wizards Of Oz |
| 30 |
Dr Evil |
Ritual |
| 31 |
Mad-Tek |
Meteor Shower |
| 32 |
Eat Static |
Tuned Mass Damper |
| 33 |
Naga & Amb |
Agni |
Chi Recordings |
| 34 |
Carbon Community |
Dr Spectacles (Lawgiverz rx) |
| 35 |
Dub Elements |
Space Cowboy |
| 36 |
PMT |
Gyromancer (False Prophet mix) |
| 37 |
Chris Carter |
Moonshot |
| 38 |
Sensient |
Madman’s Playroom (Sensient breaks mix) |
Disconekta |
| 39 |
The Nasha Experience |
Clotted Cream |
Nasha |
| 40 |
Skynet |
Ascension |
| 41 |
Teebee |
Lost Paradise |
| 42 |
Teebee |
Lifepod |
| 43 |
Fanu |
Siren Song |
| 44 |
Martsman |
Trueschool Drumkit Wonder |
Med School |
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Part 2
Download Part 2 (60MB 192k MP3 44′02″) 430 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
| 1 |
Martsman |
Trueschool Drumkit Wonder |
Med School |
| 2 |
Axi |
Gladiator |
| 3 |
Optical & Ryme Tyme |
Twisted |
| 4 |
Ed Rush & Optical |
Zardoz |
| 5 |
Phace |
Cold Champagne |
| 6 |
Axi |
Warning |
| 7 |
Martsman |
Worst Case Scenario |
| 8 |
Ed Rush & Optical |
Crisis |
| 9 |
Nude |
Unchained |
| 10 |
Snap! |
Cult Of Snap (Matrix & Futurebound rx) |
Download Part 2 (60MB 192k MP3 44′02″) 430 downloads
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: crunk, dnb, dubbreaks, electrobreaks, glitch, midtempo, neurofunk, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techstep
Sorry this one took a while… way back in the mists of time before New Year’s Eve, we took a 4 hour epic voyage through breaks, techno, glitch crunk, progressive and dnb, all with the trademark trippiness of course!
Download (326MB 192k MP3 237′34″) 597 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Dascyllus |
Tokamak |
Glack Audio |
| 2 |
Grouch |
Latex Knuckle Kids |
Disconekta |
| 3 |
Robosapiens |
Bodies |
Dead Famous |
| 4 |
Liquid Soul |
Love In Stereo (Jerome Isma-Ae rx) |
Iboga Denmark |
| 5 |
Daniel Portman |
Dark Is The Night For All |
Enormous Tunes |
| 6 |
Interplay |
Locked (club mix) |
Proton Music |
| 7 |
Konstantin Yoodza |
Force |
Tech It |
| 8 |
Brisker & Magitman |
Six Degrees |
Tribal Vision |
| 9 |
Magitman |
Utility |
Flow |
| 10 |
RMS & Peak |
Ten Dimensions |
Broken Robot |
| 11 |
Cursor Miner |
Metathon |
Lo Recordings |
| 12 |
Sensient |
Madman’s Playroom (Sensient breaks rx) |
Disconekta |
| 13 |
Beatman & Ludmilla |
Moldova |
Ayra |
| 14 |
Robosapiens |
Acid Reign |
Sinister |
| 15 |
Plastic Shell |
Foley |
Electrofly |
| 16 |
Depeche Mode |
Peace (BSD rx) |
[unreleased] |
| 17 |
Sam Hell |
Gunclub (Hedflux rx) |
Broken Robot |
| 18 |
Unconscious Mind(s) |
FD PsYbreaks |
[forthcoming] |
| 19 |
Cannabinoid |
Power Of The Tea |
[unsigned] |
| 20 |
Ans |
Funkache |
Io.lab |
| 21 |
Cursor Miner |
Superluminary |
Combat |
| 22 |
Posthuman |
Lander (Cursor Miner’s Irresponsible rx) |
Handsette |
| 23 |
VENT |
Bear Crunk |
Colony |
| 24 |
Bird Of Prey |
Terradactyl Porn |
Vaporvent |
| 25 |
Mr Rogers |
DMT Factor |
Goa |
| 26 |
Desert Dwellers |
A Little Spice |
Iboga |
| 27 |
Grouch |
Make Believe |
Disconekta |
| 28 |
Lish |
Dirty Feelings (Alter Breed rx) |
Echoes |
| 29 |
Aerospace |
Simple Words |
Blue Tunes |
| 30 |
Breeder |
The Chain (Babealicious mix) |
Rhythm Syndicate |
| 31 |
Marmion |
Schoneberg (Man With No Name rx) |
Substance |
| 32 |
Techtonic ft Quantum |
Zuma |
Kundalini |
| 33 |
Ticon |
Chicken Shaker (Aerospace rx) |
Spin Twist |
| 34 |
Liquid Ace |
Let Go |
Iboga Mexico |
| 35 |
Electrypnose |
Mydrm |
Digital Psionics |
| 36 |
Skynet |
Ascension |
Skynet |
| 37 |
Tim Ismag |
Fairy Polar |
Green Mono Music Studio |
| 38 |
Martsman |
Trueschool Drumkit Wonder |
Med School |
| 39 |
Optical |
Millennium |
Virus |
| 40 |
Phace |
Cold Champagne |
Neosignal |
| 41 |
Proktah |
Backfire |
Have A Break Germany |
| 42 |
Ryme Tyme & Optical |
Twisted |
Virus |
| 43 |
Skynet |
Geometrix |
Skynet |
| 44 |
Far Too Loud vs Code Zero |
Blackout (Genki vs Muffler rx) |
Exogenic Breaks |
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: crunk, dnb, glitch, interstitial, midtempo, neurofunk, progressive breaks, progressive psytrance, progressive trance, psybreaks, psydnb, psymusic, techno, techstep
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…
Download (324MB 192k MP3 235′56″) 877 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Random Source |
Zombie Rats |
Sound of Habib |
| 2 |
Cuncic & Malcevic |
Mafia |
[remastered promo] |
| 3 |
Invincible |
Mean Streets |
Sound of Habib |
| 4 |
Oleg Zubkov |
New Paralells [sic] (Abdomen Burst rx) |
Mistiquemusic |
| 5 |
Espion |
Witches |
Bass4Bots |
| 6 |
Meat Katie & Elite Force ft Roland Clark |
The Answer (Force Mass Motion rx) |
Lot49 |
| 7 |
Sensient |
Madman’s Playroom (Sensient breaks rx) |
Disconekta |
| 8 |
Grouch |
Latex Knuckle Kids |
Disconekta |
| 9 |
Lady Packa |
Solar Attack |
V.I.M [promo] |
| 10 |
Robosapiens |
Bodies |
Dead Famous [promo] |
| 11 |
Cannabinoid |
Power of the Tea |
[unsigned demo] |
| 12 |
Depeche Mode |
Peace (BSD rx) |
[unreleased] |
| 13 |
Unconscious Mind(s) |
FD PsYbreaks |
[unsigned demo] |
| 14 |
Beatman & Ludmilla |
Moldova |
Ayra |
| 15 |
Ans |
Funkache |
[promo] |
| 16 |
Stisch |
Beauty In Me (Splitloop rx) |
SubSpace Communications |
| 17 |
Karton |
Spacetrip 82 (BETA rx) |
Sound of Habib |
| 18 |
Sidel |
Rollin |
ChipSound |
| 19 |
Beatman & Ludmilla |
Leeroy Jenkins |
Ayra |
| 20 |
Sylus |
Grind |
Transverse |
| 21 |
Xim n Bass vs Critical |
Believe |
Dusted Breaks [promo] |
| 22 |
Enough Weapons |
Supersonic (Eshericks rx) |
Ape |
| 23 |
Far Too Loud |
All Is Machine |
Funkatech |
| 24 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon part 2: The Darkside |
Production House |
| 25 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Ronnie’s Revenge |
Boombastic Plastic |
| 26 |
Nino |
World Champion |
Production House |
| 27 |
D’Cruze |
Bass Go Boom (D.O.P.E. rx) |
Suburban Base |
| 28 |
Electronic Experienced |
More I.Q |
Basement |
| 29 |
Invisible Man |
Skyliner |
Timeless |
| 30 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Urbanity |
Boombastic Plastic |
| 31 |
Acen |
Obsessed II: Pictures Of Silence |
Production House |
| 32 |
Illuminatae |
Our Mind |
XVX |
| 33 |
Fluke |
Reeferendrum |
Circa |
| 34 |
Burufunk |
Outsider (Flack.Su rx) |
Navigation |
| 35 |
Cannabinoid |
Copious Amounts Of Ganja |
[unsigned demo] |
| 36 |
Rennie Pilgrem |
Coming Up For Air (JDS rx) |
TCR |
| 37 |
Diverted |
Scorch |
Sokolov Sounds |
| 38 |
Lifecycle |
Do Not Pass (Flack.Su rx) |
Ricochet |
| 39 |
Phil K & Habersham |
Cloudbrake |
Audio Therapy |
| 40 |
Skein |
Renegade |
Pieces of Eight |
| 41 |
Paul Hardcastle / Zero One |
Over & Over |
Hardcastle |
| 42 |
BP & One |
Revolution |
BP |
| 43 |
Koma & Bones |
High Rollin’ |
TCR |
| 44 |
Orbital |
Halcyon & on & on (Cannabinoid rx) |
[unreleased demo] |
| 45 |
Marc Adamo |
Krakupz |
Local Zeros |
| 46 |
Future Funk Squad |
Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx) |
Default |
| 47 |
Elite Force |
You (Hybrid rx) |
U&A |
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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
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: classics, electro, electrobreaks, glitch, nsb, nuskoolbreaks, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks, techfunk, techno
I was very tired after the shenanigans of Waveform, so really appreciated all the people in the shoutbox keeping me going
So a simple progression this week, techno-progtrance-breaks-dnb with heavy side orders of glitch…
Download (208MB 192k MP3 152′03″) 1146 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
| 1 |
Umek |
You Might Hear Nothing |
| 2 |
Monaque |
Solaris |
| 3 |
Hedflux & Tom Wilkes |
Basscake (Plastic Shell rx) |
| 4 |
Slinky Wire |
Croaking Toads |
| 5 |
James Harcourt |
Call & Response |
| 6 |
Yotopia |
Goosebumps |
| 7 |
Desert Dwellers |
A Little Spice |
| 8 |
Perfect Stranger & Pena |
Ode Ao Sol |
| 9 |
Josh Millstone |
As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix) |
| 10 |
System 7 |
High Plains Drifter (Live) |
| 11 |
Liquid Ace |
Let Go |
| 12 |
Ghettface vs Yanix |
Wikked Wayz (BETA rx) |
| 13 |
Neurodriver |
Sidewinder |
Broken Robot |
| 14 |
Tipper |
Twister (Hybrid A.D. Twisted rx) |
| 15 |
Butter Party |
Eat The Mushroom |
| 16 |
Skeetaz |
Dirty Dobbers |
| 17 |
Jim Reaper |
Fast Eddie |
| 18 |
Product.01 |
Ready To Rage (dub) |
Dead Famous |
| 19 |
Mad-Tek |
Dread |
Digital Distortions |
| 20 |
Mad-Tek |
Meteor Shower |
Digital Distortions |
| 21 |
Far Too Loud vs Code Zero |
Blackout (Headphonics rx) |
| 22 |
IITone |
Crush |
| 23 |
Schizophrenics |
Ethnic |
| 24 |
VENT |
Turn The Page |
| 25 |
The Phat Riderz |
Organic Neurosis |
| 26 |
D-Ranged |
Sins Of Claire (Lawgiverz rx) |
| 27 |
Bob Humid |
Prediction |
| 28 |
Bob Humid |
Shiny Black Bug |
| 29 |
Scorb |
P2P |
| 30 |
Far Too Loud vs Code Zero |
Blackout (Genki vs Muffler rx) |
Download (208MB 192k MP3 152′03″) 1146 downloads
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breaks, dnb, glitch, interstitial, progressive trance, psymusic, techno
Many thanks to my guest Digital Fist for bringing his unique blend of deep and dark glitchy and hypnotic breaks and techno to tonight’s proceedings. He’ll be back (in the meantime, if you need more glitch to sustain you, I recommend picking up his latest mix, it’s a corker). And a big shout to all the listeners and chatters, record-breaking numbers of both
Download (170MB 192k MP3 124′18″) 1411 downloads
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Mad-Tek |
Meteor Shower |
Digital Distortions |
| 2 |
Decoder |
266 |
Ricochet |
| 3 |
Mad-Tek |
X |
Digital Distortions |
| 4 |
Product.01 |
Ready2Rage (dub) |
Dead Famous [promo] |
| 5 |
DST |
Tribute |
Digital Distortions |
| 6 |
Lawgiverz |
Gators (Crystal Distortion rx) |
Addictech |
| 7 |
Skeetaz |
Skeeters |
Spacebar Sentiments |
| 8 |
Skeetaz |
Dirty Dobber |
Proboscis |
| 9 |
Butter Party |
Eat The Mushroom |
Trickery Collective |
| 10 |
Guido Schneider |
Under Control |
Tuning Spork Germany |
| 11 |
Asset |
Peak Limiter |
Digital Distortions |
| 12 |
D-Unity |
Afrika |
Beat Therapy |
| 13 |
Dessben |
Anisakis |
Antiritmo |
| 14 |
Steevio |
Orjiva |
Mindtours |
| 15 |
Steevio |
Cloudseeders (Tribal Chemistry mix) |
Mindtours |
| 16 |
Steevio |
Nocturnia I |
Mindtours |
| 17 |
Steevio |
Release |
Mindtours |
| 18 |
Phidelity |
In The Details |
Recursive |
| 19 |
Flack.Su |
Psychomancer |
Glack Audio |
| 20 |
Dub Pistols |
Architect (Dub Pistols breaks mix) |
Distinctive |
| 21 |
Cord |
Impulses |
Chi |
| 22 |
Senior Frio |
Sub Noctem (Ion Driver rx 2) |
Digital Distortions |
| 23 |
Mad-Tek |
Dread |
Digital Distortions |
| 24 |
Neuronaut |
Database (Neuronauts 2008 Timewarp mix) |
Addictech |
| 25 |
Lady Packa |
Don’t Let The Feeling Go! (Halobeatz rx) |
VIM Breaks [promo] |
| 26 |
F-Word |
Death Valley (Eshericks rx) |
Dusted Breaks [promo] |
| 27 |
The Infinity Project |
Time and Space (Black Sun rx) |
Dragonfly |
| 28 |
Shpongle |
Dorset Perception |
Twisted |
Download (170MB 192k MP3 124′18″) 1411 downloads
Next show: Tuesday 15th Sep, 19:00 BST, PsyMusic: the next episode of Tales Of The Interstitial…
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, dark, deep, glitch, techno
I’m delighted to welcome a very special guest to my Void Radio show on Brap FM next Monday who goes by the name of DIGITAL FIST. He and I met at Glade this year, and discovered that our tastes in epic triptronica were uncommonly well-aligned.
Digital Fist is a missionary for the music he loves, with infectious passion and a deep sense of the aesthetics of mixing for journeying, which has clearly been well honed by his years on the Welsh party scene.
He describes his chosen specialisms as “elaborate percussion, wall-destroying basslines, and darkly atmospheric precision machine-funk”. Some other words that spring readily to my mind are: brooding, hypnotic, glitchy, metallic, wonky, evolving, deep and dubby, dark shadows and delicate beauty… and of course, epic.
Expect synergy.
Tune in to Void Radio with Quextal b2b Digital Fist from 8pm UK time this coming Monday 7th Sept. Sign up for a reminder, you don’t want to miss this one. Trust.
NB NB NB! The URL for the Brap FM stream has recently changed. If you are using a pre-saved link, please update it to the first one of these that works for you (try them in this order): http://stream.brap.fm / http://87.117.250.5:9120/listen.pls / http://87.117.250.5:9120/.
The chatroom hasn’t changed.
I’ll give the final words to my guest:
Music is mathematics. Keep it polyhedral.
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, digital fist, glitch, mix, radio show, techno, void radio
Take a deep breath in, and…..
psychill – wonky/glitchy midtempo breakbeat – hypnotic techfunk – claustrophobic darkfloor electro – minimal techno/tech-house (spooky/spacey – light/quirky – rolling/bassy – acid/bleepy) – tech-trance – electroglitch – skankin glitch-funk – heavy’n'dope – psylekdubstep – psylekdnb – psybreaks – psytechfunk – progressive psytrance – building and bouncy psytrance – trancey progressive hardhouse classics
It took longer to come up with the above description of last night’s musical journey than it did to transcribe the whole tracklist. I think I did it solely to demonstrate (to myself as much as anyone else) the futility of trying to try to nail down the genres I play, particularly in Tales Of The Interstitial whose stated purpose is to showcase the stuff that doesn’t neatly fit into named boxes. Half the above I patently made-up and won’t mean anything anyway, although if you’re bored you might like to play match-the-genre-description-to-the-tracks, and then I think you’ll find I’ve taken this pointless task very seriously. For all our sakes, I shall not bother doing so again. Instead, I have plans for potentially an even more bizarre but possibly also more useful way of describing my mixes for those who don’t recognise the tracks… ah the mystery, the suspense…
Aaaaanyway, it was another wicked show… thanks everyone for tuning in and egging me on.
I’ll try to add the label responsible for each release into my tracklists from now on alongside artists and titles. However it’s a total PITA because most of the time they don’t put that info in the filename or even the ID3 tag so I have to look it up… useful patterns may emerge from having this info about labels to watch, which will feed into my new watchlist, but if it seems like it’s not worth the time I may stop again. Or try to script it…
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| # |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Kilowatts |
Jade |
Kilowatts |
| 2 |
Tipper |
Swamp Thing |
Tipper |
| 3 |
Mr Rogers |
Mr Lemurian |
Goa |
| 4 |
Neurodriver |
Yeti’s Revenge |
Broken Robot |
| 5 |
Dub Pistols |
Architect (Dub Pistols breaks mix) |
Distinctive |
| 6 |
Bob Humid |
Preparation |
Serve & Destroy |
| 7 |
The Touch |
Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub version) |
Trunkfunk |
| 8 |
David K |
Boul De Nerf |
Freak N Chic |
| 9 |
Lutzenkirchen |
Sunmariner |
Flash |
| 10 |
Dropout |
Bukkake |
Antiritmo |
| 11 |
Tom Novy |
Pumpin (Jason Young 2008 rx) |
Kosmo |
| 12 |
Son Of The Electric Ghost |
The Christian Logic |
Bless |
| 13 |
Son Of The Electric Ghost |
Concept Of Nature (orig 12″ mix) |
Addictech |
| 14 |
VENT |
Bear Crunk |
Colony |
| 15 |
Bird Of Prey |
Terradactyl Porn |
Vaporvent |
| 16 |
Kether |
Goblinz |
Muti |
| 17 |
Fine Cut Bodies & Chris Carter |
Fiddlesticks (Modul’s Vulgardown Edit) |
Chi |
| 18 |
Nagual Sound Experiment vs EMS |
Anti Spiral |
Liquid |
| 19 |
Eat Static |
Tractor Beam |
Solstice |
| 20 |
Nitrous |
Destiny (VIP) |
In Da Jungle |
| 21 |
Far Too Loud vs Code Zero |
Blackout (Genki vs Muffler rx) |
Exogenic Breaks |
| 22 |
Parallax Breakz |
Extraterrestrial |
Don’t Panic |
| 23 |
Youthful Implants vs Tigerfunk |
Heatseeker (LuQas VIP rx) |
unreleased |
| 24 |
Ace Ventura |
M.A.R.S. (Gaudium rx) |
Iboga |
| 25 |
Kiwa |
On The Frequency |
Exogenic |
| 26 |
Queens Park Derangers |
Create A Hippy |
Tip World |
| 27 |
Dickster & Lucas |
Living Dangerously |
Tip World |
| 28 |
Eat Static & Lucas |
Primitive Earthlings |
Tip World |
| 29 |
DJ Misjah & DJ Tim |
Access (KY Jelly Babies rx) |
Tripoli Trax |
| 30 |
Jon Doe & UFO |
Phaze 1 |
Toast |
| 31 |
Jon Doe |
D3A |
(white) |
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Next show: Next Monday on BrapFM at 8pm BST, with very special guest Digital Fist. More details to follow. Then Tue 15th Sept on PsyMusic.
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: dubstep, glitch, hardhouse, hardtrance, interstitial, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, psychill, psytrance, techfunk, techno, trance
I’d bought a lot of glitch and weirdness for tonight, way outside my normal field of operation… In the end it didn’t infect the show to the extent I’d anticipated… trying to cover too many styles in 2 hours perhaps… but nonetheless, we start with a good chunk of “selections from the other side” before drifting into progressive breaks/house/techno, pulling back into some deeper techno territory, and then building up into a high-voltage electrobreaks finish. Greetings to everyone who tuned in and helped to set a new record number of listeners
Let’s see if we can beat it next month… full details of the reminder services are on the contact page
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- Major Lazer – Hold The Line
- Bob Humid ft twila.too – Danger Angel
- Bob Humid – Preparation
- Ribotto – Hard As Nerd
- VENT – Bear Crunk
- Kether – Goblinz
- Bird Of Prey – Terradactyl Porn
- Kriece – After Dark
- Digital Base – The Climax
- Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor rx)
- David Forbes pres Sebrof Divad – Infectious (Maarten de Jong rx)
- James Harcourt – Call & Response
- Maleza – Lancer
- Yan Oxygen – Dual
- Break The Box – Test The Bass (Attack Release rx)
- Timmy & Tommy – MixTape
- Skor Motion – Pura Fisica (Dirty & Acid rx)
- Double Negative – Vegas
- Mobius – The Lab (Ben & Lex rx) [Dusted Breaks promo]
- Lunar Shift – Ashes (Access Denied rx)
- The Playfellow – Hyjack (White Papoo rx)
- LoseYourMind – Guitar Hero (Decepticonz rx)
- Product01 – Ready2RAGE (vocal mix)
- Mars ft Profit – The Last Element (VIP)
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Next Show: Monday 7th September, 8-10pm (UK), Brap FM
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: electrobreaks, glitch, progressive breaks, techno
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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- 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
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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
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breakbeat, breaks, electrobreaks, glitch, lawgiverz, psybreaks, psychedelic, squelch, tech-house, tipper, twisted