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This week we have the best of the latest prog/psy breaks as usual for the first half, and then on the second half we journey into the world of 140 jungle breaks and rave breaks. Sorted! Download (167.8MB 192kbps MP3 122’11″)961 downloads
Those lovely chaps over at Psychoactive Records have been busy bees lately. As well as furnishing us with some mighty fine psytrance and psybreaks EPs recently, label head honchos Re:Creation and Unconscious Mind(s) have both now released full-length LPs on the label for free on Soundcloud!
The Unconscious Mind(s) album Broken Dreams Of Euphoria [PSY007] is a 10-track tour-de-force of psychedelic breaks and tech-funk. It’s full of great grooves, chunky rolling basslines, powerful acid lines, and squelches galore!
Hot off the presses today, 11/11/11, at precisely 11:11:11, the long-awaited debut album from Re:Creation was released to an unsuspecting world. Entitled Infinite Expansion, it offers up a smorgasbord of psychedelic sensory delights, from the convention-defying 5/4-signature 100bpm psystep of the opening track, to rolling and melodic soundscapes of full-on psytrance, to blistering high-octane psybreaks and more, this is a truly epic journey of the imagination!
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… Download (323.8MB 192kbps MP3 235’45″)701 downloads
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Artist
Title
Label
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Dyz Lecticus
Morpheus
soundcloud [free]
2
Deeply Unexpected
Mechunanimous
VIM [promo]
3
Fisso & Spark
That’s The Ticket (The C4 rx)
VIM [promo]
4
Soluble Sounds
Became One
soundcloud [free]
5
Isol
Light Is Light
[exclusive]
6
K.K.
Spin
soundcloud [free]
7
Fisso & Spark
Up & Down
Ridiculoud [promo]
8
K.K.
Drops
soundcloud [free]
9
Precision Cuts
Badass 5000
soundcloud [free]
10
Plump DJs
Fever
Finger Lickin
11
Macho
Rewind (Parallax Breakz rx)
VIM [promo]
12
Mad-Tek
X
Digital Distortions
13
Kwah
Hypnotoad
[exclusive]
14
Roboteknic
Our World
Divergence
15
Macho
Breakstar
VIM [promo]
16
Colombo
Drop Da Beat
iBreaks
17
M_Spark
Soviet Submarine (Roboteknic rx)
[exclusive]
18
Geon
Additions
Acida
19
Unconscious Mind(s) vs Peak
5D Hologram
Psychoactive
20
K-Deejays
Fuck Peace
Dubplate
21
Marc Adamo
Throttlefunk
Local Zeros
22
Son Of The Electric Ghost
Concept Of Nature (Lawgiverz “Convict Of Nature” rx)
Get yourselves down to the Soul Cellar in Southampton this Friday for what promises to be an epic night of underground sounds, including breaks, psytrance, techno and more (and that’s just my set!) from a huge number of very talented producers and DJs, plus amazing decor and the south’s friendliest, most up-for-it crowd!
Jumping on for another cover session, taking in everything from funky midtempo to the freshest and phattest psybreaks, progbreaks and techfunk promos, a bit of 140 jungle and ravebreaks, and finishing up with some oldskool classics! Download (151.2MB 192kbps MP3 110’06″)424 downloads
Another fat set of progressive and psychedelic breaks promos, freebies, new releases and top-class classics to massage your eardrums into ecstasy! Download (163.3MB 192kbps MP3 118’54″)539 downloads
The fact that this is only the second time I ‘ve gone to the trouble of recommending someone else’s mix on this site, should tell you I don’t do so lightly. Frankly it takes a very special mix to motivate me to the effort of writing a post about it!
But there’s no question that this is just such a mix, and who better to deliver it than someone who repeatedly delivers the goods in both his DJ sets and his outstanding productions: Hedflux. From the first few seconds of the opening track, his own Introversion — which, by the way, he has now kindly offered up as a free download — to the blistering finale, we are taken on a beautifully evolving journey whose variety of sounds and landscapes offers a far greater range of stimulants for body and mind than you (or I) might have thought possible from such an apparently narrow focus on one subgenre.
In the past I’ve tended to find the majority of tech-funk rather dull – it often fails to add sufficient interest, rhythmic melody or groove to its instrumentation to make up for its simplistic beat structure (relative to breaks), earning it the nickname “plodstep” among its detractors. But Hedflux has often produced exceptions to this rule, and this is a mix of the exceptions (his and others’); while I might not personally like every single tune on here, there’s no plodding here, no dull moments, which is really saying something when there’s hardly a broken beat in sight for the whole 80 minutes. This is truly the state of the art.
Since last fortnight’s show was a glitch-crunk special I’d had a month’s worth of accumulated promos and new releases to get through on this show, so it’s nothing but the finest brand new epic progressive, trippy psychedelic, and twisted techy breaks (albeit with a nice little downtempo number to start, and a registered classic to finish…)
Artists: Alternative Silence, Andrew StetS, Andy Faze, BSD, Beta, Big Mistake, Blaster Plan, Blazer, Destroyers, Digital Base, Digital Breaks Foundation, Dirty Tracks, Far Too Loud, Feltzer, Freak Da Bass, Geon, Jnr Hacksaw, Kid Digital, Kraymon, Lady Packa, MDK, Madmind, Meat Axe, Mesmer, Nelver, Psysun, Quextal, Retroid, Roboteknic, Sketi, Tee-Ex, orig
This is a recording of my DJ set at Technosis vs Decayed at the Cellar, Southampton on 28th April 2011. Download (79.3MB 192kbps MP3 57’45″)428 downloads
