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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
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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)
Here’s a deep techno and tech-house mix I did over a year ago and never quite got round to uploading due to the usual uncertainty about whether I’d got the flow of the journey quite right. But I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about it so here you go…
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…
First show of 2k9 kicked off with some downtempo breaks and then into dark bass’n'bleep techno, rising into chunky progressive territory, emerging into some epic and twisted electro/psy breaks, and closing out with some full-fat drum’n'bass. Fun for all the family!
These are gonna be awesome, Void knows how to throw parties
I’m playing from 9pm at the Southampton gig (8th Nov), and 4pm at the Bristol one (15th Nov). The tour also takes in Winchester, Brighton and Portsmouth.
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Well. I got back from the pub about midnight, and then instead of going to bed like any normal person who has to be up at 7am next day, I stayed up and did a mix from the CDs I’ve just burned of the minimal techno I bought online yesterday and haven’t listened to yet. I’d inscribed the CD “Techno and/or Minimal” but it now seems the “or” was superfluous. This is not deep, chilled minimal like the middle part of this mix, and neither is it full-on hard stompy techno. It occupies that perfect centre of afterhours music (as far as I’m concerned) where it is equally suited to dancing around the lounge, hipswinging while seated, mild head nodding, or non-motile appreciation in a more horizontal and relaxed position (but definitely not sleep.) Most importantly of course, it progresses, it journeys, it trips, and takes you with it through different places and spaces in your imagination. It is alchemical – by means of sound, it creates images, feelings, sensations. Or, you create, it facilitates. I merely facilitate the facilitation. And I LOVE doing it.
There’s probably a couple of rough edges due to the fact that I was (and am) a bit mullered (could you tell?), I’ve never played these tunes before, and I couldn’t hear very well as I kept the volume low out of respect for my neighbours at this hour. But sod excuses, I managed to blow my own head off repeatedly both during the mix and listening to it back afterwards, so I thought I’d share it with you. Hope you like it, and as always your feedback is always welcome (add a comment or send an email).
This is a spool of my live 2-hour Void Radio show on Brap FM on 17th Dec 2007, journeying through psybreaks, progressive trance, psyhouse, techno and minimal.
A tour of some different styles of Minimal (and some less minimal…). We start off with journeying tech-house and tripped-out techno, moving through very deep organic morphing chill, then gradually building up again towards a maxi-minimal techno climax, before touching down on a gentler, more progressive sound.
