Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VIII:
live on PsyMusic 16th Feb 2010
with special guest Re:Creation

A real treat for you this month as it was my pleasure to welcome Adam Goodlet, aka Re:Creation into the studio for a full live psytrance set, followed by 3 hours of b2b mixing across the psychedelic genres in true Interstitial style. Many thanks to Adam for coming in. I hope you all enjoy the results as much as we did!

We were unfortunately struck by a couple of broadband dropouts – fortunately they occurred either side of Adam’s live set so that’s not interrupted, but it means the evening’s proceedings have ended up split into three chunks. Adam’s selections are in this colour (although all the psyDnB/neurofunk — from Chook & Phace onwards — is from my stash )

Download Part 1 (51MB 192k MP3 37′36″) 96 downloads
(Quextal mix: psybreaks)

Download Part 2 (115MB 192k MP3 84′01″) 90 downloads
(full live set from Re:Creation, plus beginning of Quextal b2b Re:Creation in the mix)

Download Part 3 (241MB 192k MP3 175′32″) 79 downloads
(Re:Creation b2b Quextal in the mix: psytrance, psybreaks, progressive, techno, psydnb)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Download Part 1 (51MB 192k MP3 37′36″) 96 downloads
(Quextal mix: psybreaks)

Download Part 2 (115MB 192k MP3 84′01″) 90 downloads
(full live set from Re:Creation, plus beginning of Quextal b2b Re:Creation in the mix)

Download Part 3 (241MB 192k MP3 175′32″) 79 downloads
(Re:Creation b2b Quextal in the mix: psytrance, psybreaks, progressive, techno, psydnb)

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, neurofunk, progressive, psybreaks, psydnb, psytrance, Re:Creation, techno

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VII:
live on PsyMusic 19th Jan 2010

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!

Download (297MB 192k MP3 216′27″) 131 downloads

Download (297MB 192k MP3 216′27″) 131 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: bliss, dark, electro, electrobreaks, glitchy, interstitial, progressive, progressive psytrance, psybreaks, psymusic, techno

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Mix: my last regular show for Void Radio:
live on BrapFM 7th Dec 2009

Super-Extended 5+ hour marathon!

So after about two years of doing Void Radio slots on BrapFM, I decided to draw it to a close so that I’m not juggling three shows. I’ve enjoyed the freedom that Brap gives to play any genre, and I’m grateful to them and Spoll/OutOfTheVoid for giving me a route in… but the number of listeners tuning in for live broadcasts has always been woeful. It provided me with a good, low pressure introduction to the world of net radio, helped me build my confidence on the mic, and garnered some enthusiastic fans like Mike and Angel, but now I have a show on NSB with regularly 200+ listeners, Brap’s single-figure listener counts seem pointless. I know many more of you enjoyed the archives, but hopefully by dropping the show I’ll have more time to produce promo mixes for the site instead.

So for my last show, I played a wide range of genres, and included plenty of classics and all-time personal favourite tunes. Since there was no show after mine, and I had support in the chatroom, I just kept going, and going… for over 5 hours. So bear in mind the archive is a lot larger than usual…

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Download (431MB 192k MP3 313′51″) 371 downloads

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

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, downtempo, Goa trance, hardhouse, hardtrance, progressive, progressive house, progressive trance, psybreaks, psytrance, techno, void radio

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode V:
live on PsyMusic 17th Nov 2009

Cheers to everyone who tuned in and especially the chatroom crew. We had an enjoyable 3 hour odyssey from breaks to progressive to techno, back to breaks with a few cheeky slabs of darkfloor electro, a smidge of exceptionally rare high-class dubstep, and then an assortment of blissful psychill. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Download (258MB 192k MP3 188′01″) 538 downloads

Download (258MB 192k MP3 188′01″) 538 downloads

Next show: My new show starts this Saturday 21st November, 7-9pm GMT, on NSB! Come and join the party!

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electro, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psychill, techno

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Mix: From The Depths

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…

Download (100MB 192k MP3 73′16″) 681 downloads

Download (100MB 192k MP3 73′16″) 681 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: deep, minimal, organic, progressive, spacey, tech-house, techno

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode IV:
live on PsyMusic 20th Oct 2009
with special guest LuQas

Huge thanks to my special guest LuQas for coming all the way over from Brighton with his little CD wallet stuffed full of fat tunes (his selections are in this colour in the tracklist below). Big ups all the chatters too. Keep it interstitial!

Download (246MB 192k MP3 179′43″) 893 downloads

Download (246MB 192k MP3 179′43″) 893 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, progressive, psybreaks

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Mix: iSpyBreaks

I was asked to do a guest mix by Dead Famous Records (home of Robosapiens et al) label manager Daniella Downs for the “Dead Radio” show on iBreaks Radio. The deal is I get one in return at some point, so watch out for that… Anyway, I’d intended to do about 45 mins but it came out a shade under 80 and went out on iBreaks in full last Saturday, so I now offer it here as an all too rare burn-to-CD promo mix

The name, iSpyBreaks, is a pun on iBreaks of course, and a recognition that while most of the tunes here are not exactly what most people would call psybreaks, they are varied representatives of the kind of epic, progressive breaks with tech edges and psy twists that has always been my main squeeze for the past 2 years. Some tunes are new, some are old but were so ahead of their time that they still fit. Hope you enjoy it.

Download (107MB 192k MP3 78′06″) 944 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: breaks, epic, ibreaks, progressive, psy, spy

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Watchlist updated; Next week’s show

The new Watchlist, where I big up the artists and labels who I consider to be at the forefront of the music I love, has been updated. Congratulations to Amb for earning his place (it’s been long-deserved, but I’ve only recently encountered the full extent of his achievements), and to our four new contenders in the Up & Comers section, well worth keeping an eye on.

I’ve been buying really silly amounts of music lately, mainly as a result of mostly eschewing the new releases in favour of digging around for more by artists and labels that I’ve dug before. If you have hours and hours and hours to spare I highly recommend it

Anyway, it would appear that most of what’s landed in my download folder this week can be filed under tags such as chunky, funky, rolling, pulsing, throbbing and wobbling, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for a QuexTech Special! So on next week’s BrapFM show on Mon 5th Oct from 20:00 UK time I’ll lock the breakbeat away in a lead-lined box and devote the full 2 hours to the 4/4s. Techno, tech-house, tech-trance. All, of course, guided by my core passion for the progressive, the psychedelic, the synaesthetic.

Don’t miss it! Sign up for a reminder!

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: brapfm, chunky, progressive, psychedelic, Radio Shows, tech-house, tech-psy, tech-trance, techno, void radio

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode II:
live on PsyMusic 1st Sep 2009

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…

Download (219MB 192k MP3 159′43″) 2495 downloads

Download (219MB 192k MP3 159′43″) 2495 downloads

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

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 2nd Feb 2009

We commenced with some chunky prog house, followed by a bit of electro house. There was plenty of breaks of the tech-, psy- and prog- varieties, we had a bit of progressive psytrance, then finished with some more psybreaks. Thanks all those who tuned in, and special shouts to THP and Shao for keeping the chatroom alive

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1. Brisker & Magitman – Braniac
2. Brisker & Magitman – Discodelic (Dousk rx)
3. Red Moon – Monster (Vortex rx)
4. Duca – United Nations
5. Brothers Bud v THC – Feel Like Dancing (Micky Slim’s Extra Wrong mix)
6. Mr No Hands – Chuggy
7. Sharps – Girl Sweat
8. Calvertron & Banga – Turn It Up (Karl Sav rx)
9. Audiohazard – Track One (Headphonics rx)
10. Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
11. Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
12. Future Funk Squad v Beatman & Ludmilla – About To Fall (orig – instrumental)
13. Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
14. Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
15. Phrakture – 19th Hour
16. LeftRight – Concrete Bounce (Kilowatts rx)
17. Rauschwerk – Electronique
18. Ace Ventura ft Liquid Soul – Psychic Experience
19. Liquid Soul – Out Of The Blue
20. Kiwa – On The Frequency
21. Omar Santana & Evan Lewis – Hayley’s Comet
22. Mr Frisk – Escape (Matt Harder’s Transform rx)
23. Omar Santana & Dre Hectik – Universal Sound

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, electro, progressive, psybreaks, psytrance, void radio

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