Mix: Quexotic Adventures #009:
live on NSB 6th Mar 2010

Big love to everyone who squeezed into the Hobbit for my set on Saturday; the place was heaving and it looked like everyone was enjoying it as much as me which is what it’s all about See you next time!

Anyway here’s my NSB show from last week… bring the breaks!

Download (161MB 192k MP3 117′14″) 18 downloads

Download (161MB 192k MP3 117′14″) 18 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electrobreaks, nsbradio, nuskool breaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, techbreaks

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #007:
live on NSB 6th Feb 2010

Sighs of relief all round as this week’s Adventure comes in only slightly over 2 hours. But what a show! Special bigups to all the artists contributing their unsigned works fresh from the factory… there’s some serious talent on display here…

Next show is on PsyMusic on 16th Feb and I’ve hopefully got a very special guest coming in… announcement shortly, mark the date now!

Download (183MB 192k MP3 133′43″) 83 downloads

Download (183MB 192k MP3 133′43″) 83 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, electrobreaks, midtempo, progressive breaks, psybreaks, psywonk, quexotic, techbreaks

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #006:
live on NSB 30th Jan 2010
with special guest Digital Fist

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″) 80 downloads

Download Part 1 (258MB 192k MP3 188′30″) 80 downloads

Part 2

Download Part 2 (60MB 192k MP3 44′02″) 57 downloads

Download Part 2 (60MB 192k MP3 44′02″) 57 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, dnb, dubbreaks, electrobreaks, glitch, midtempo, neurofunk, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techstep

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VI:
live on PsyMusic 29th Dec 2009

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″) 88 downloads

Download (326MB 192k MP3 237′34″) 88 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, dnb, glitch, interstitial, midtempo, neurofunk, progressive breaks, progressive psytrance, progressive trance, psybreaks, psydnb, psymusic, techno, techstep

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #004:
live on NSB 2nd Jan 2010
(speechless!)

NB: Because there’s no talking, I’ve filed this under Promo Mixes as well as Radio Archives – but unlike the other promo mixes, it won’t fit onto an audio CD.

An extra rare treat for the first show of 2010… I lost my voice on NYE, so there’s no mic/talkover, I just had to let the music speak for itself… Also, as we were all still in the recovery zone from the New Year shenanigans, I pulled back the tempo and kept it deep, techy and rolling for the most part, gradually fattening up towards the end of course

Download (165MB 192k MP3 120′17″) 112 downloads

Download (165MB 192k MP3 120′17″) 112 downloads

Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, deep, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, rolling, techbreaks, techy

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #003:
live on NSB 19th Dec 2009

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″) 485 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

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: classics, electro, electrobreaks, glitch, nsb, nuskoolbreaks, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks, techfunk, techno

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #002:
live on NSB 5th Dec 2009

Yes, my new show has a name! Thanks to everyone who sent in their suggestions, there were some great ones, couldn’t decide between them so went for something completely different

This week’s show featured some proper tripped out nuskool and epic progressive breaks of the style that got me hooked on it in the first place about 9 or 10 years ago (though these tunes are more recent!), some pslinkin psexy psybreaks, and for the final half hour, something that I hope to be exploring more in future, some twisting mind-expanding leftfield neurofunk-esque drum’n'bass. Oh yes indeed. Word.

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Download (163MB 192k MP3 119′15″) 400 downloads

Next shows:

• Tue 15th Dec, 7pm GMT, PsyMusic
• Sat 19th Dec, 7pm GMT, NSB (first and third Saturday of each month, plus the fifth Saturday in January )

Various reminder services are available, but the most reliable one is the Facebook group and page. See you next time

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, deep, dirty, dnb, drum'n'bass, electrobreaks, nsb, nsbradio, nuskoolbreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, psydnb, quexotic, trippy

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Quextal recommends: Morning Coffee vol 29
mixed by BETA

I download a lot of other DJ’s mixes. Most of them warrant no more than a cursory scrub before being discarded as Not My Kind Of Music. Some get a more detailed scan, with a couple of interesting tracks noted down to check later. A few get played in full, chugging along in the background while I work, a good track interrupting me every so often demanding to be ID’d.

But once in a while, a mix comes along which, gently but firmly, grabs hold of me, takes me over. A mix that cannot be a background to any other activity, but draws in more and more attention, and rewards it.

Such mixes are very rare.

But it should be no great surprise that BETA should come up with one, because he is a man of very rare talent. He’s repeatedly blown me away with his productions over the last two years. And while others may jostle to be flavour of the month, BETA’s sheer consistency, razor sharp production, and the way that each new release nudges the sound of progressive breaks forward, have earned him a place at the very top of my personal league table of producers.

Somehow, in all of the time I’ve been buying his music, I’ve never heard him mix. It was worth the wait. This is what progressive breaks is supposed to be like. The mix traces out a beautiful curving flow, through bigger and ever more epic tunes, until the last track, which goes way beyond merely “huge”, shoots straight through “immense” and breaks off the top of the chart. Shock Theropy[sic] – Void is the first breaks tune to really knock me flat in a long while – I hope it’s getting released soon, cos I can’t wait to play it out and watch it knock other people flat…

In the meantime, I so wanted you to hear this mix, that I started a new section of my website for it. Only a very few selected mixes and tracks will earn a place in Recommendations. By starting with this mix, the benchmark has been set pretty high.

Download MP3 from bbz.ru

Morning Coffee vol.29 mixed by BETA (blog entry / tracklist / cuefile) (if you want to download the MP3 from that page, you have to click on the link that’s a Russian word. The one that says Download will just give you a cuefile.)

Categories: Recommendations // Tags: beta, epic, mix, progressive breaks

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #001:
live on NSB 21st Nov 2009

Still haven’t quite found a name for this show yet, but there were some excellent suggestions in the chatroom, especially from BooMboxx, so thanks for those — I definitely like the idea of getting some obscure Mayan references in there… but the competition is still open, so if you have an idea for what to call the show, get in touch and you could win a prize!

Anyway, many thanks to all who tuned in, and stayed tuned in despite glitches (trunk network maintenance which I had been warned about by my ISP, so hopefully this was a one-off).

Download (162MB 192k MP3 118′15″) 546 downloads

Download (162MB 192k MP3 118′15″) 546 downloads

Next show is an extra appearance this coming Mon 23rd Nov at 8pm GMT on BrapFM, which is going to be an oldskool special, and then 5th Dec on NSB…

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

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New NSB show starts tomorrow…

Sat 21st Nov
19:00 GMT
NSB Radio

… the journey begins …

When stood behind the decks … you are confronting infinity — Lawgiverz

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: epic, journey, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks

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