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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!
It’s been a while but TOTI returns with a bang, joined in the studio by the dudes that are Unconscious Mind(s) and Re:Creation for an epic 4-hour b2b2b session of mind-bending psybreaks and psytrance, including many exclusive tracks forthcoming on their label Psychoactive Records. Huge thanks to them for coming along, and to everyone who tuned in live and got busy in the chatroom.
TOTI is a moveable feast at the moment, ie I don’t yet know when the next one will be, but more fabulous guests are in the pipeline… follow Quextal on Facebook or Twitter to be notified about the next show!
Tracklist key: Re:Creation; Unconscious Mind(s); Quextal Taste the rainbow!
Artists: Adam Faz, Aerospace, Andrey Mute, Big Mistake, Blazer, Burn In Noise, Captain Hook, Chakra, DNA, Dickster, Eat Static, Edi, Far Too Loud, Hedflux, Highpersonic Whomen, Jellyfish, Kwah, Lucas, Madmind, Neelix, Parallax Breakz, Peak, Peter Paul, Quantize, RMS, Re:Creation, Retroid, Rex, Robosapiens, Save the Robot, Space Buddha, The Analogeeks, The Boomzers, Toxical, Unconscious Mind(s), monkey
Labels: Agitato, Ayra, Blue Tunes, Broken Robot, DNA, Dead Famous, Dragonfly, Ego Shot, Exogenic, Exogenic Breaks, Nano, Plusquam, Psychoactive, Recovery House, Solstice, TIP World, Tactic, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud
Another chapter of Tales… this week featuring chunky rolling techno, blissed progressive, epic psybreaks and twisted psytrance in a slightly more compact show than has become typical for Tales, only slightly over 2 hours Download (186.5MB 192kbps MP3 135’48″)227 downloads
Hey all. Sorry this has taken a while to upload – I had the small matter of moving house to attend to! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this epic show. It’s almost entirely 4/4s, from progressive gradually accelerating to banging psytrance with just a couple of psybreaks tracks to keep you on your toes – including the exclusive forthcoming psybreaks monster from Re:Creation (big ups Adam!)
Keep an eye on my Twitter or Facebook page for news of the next episode of Tales Of The Interstitial…
Watch out Northerners… Quextal is playing the main room at the Beaver Works in Leeds on Fri 4th Feb 2011 as new label Psychoactive Records showcase their killer sounds with LIVE PAs from Re:Creation (A/V set), Unconscious Mind(s) and more, across two rooms of sheer psybreaks, psytrance, techno and electro awesomeness, plus the Killertrax boys and girls doing their hard dance thing in the basement.
Chunky progressive, psybreaks, dnb, and plenty of psytrance in this month’s trippy hop round the genres. Going out to everyone who caught my set at Waveform on the Kaplick Solar Stage… see you again next year! Download (250.2MB 192kbps MP3 182’11″)497 downloads
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Perfect Stranger
Free Cloud (Sensient rx)
Open
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Perfect Stranger & Pena
Ode Ao Sol (Live Edit)
[free]
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Way Out West
Only Love (Jerome Isma-Ae rx)
Armada
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Sensient
Bear Bones
Vagalume
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Tomcraft & Jerome Isma-Ae
Trouble In The Redlight District (Weekend Heroes rx)
TOTI is one year old! To celebrate, I was delighted to welcome Jon Ward, in his Fat Mandy and Mr Faster guises, to join me in the studio for both live PA and DJ sets.
After a brief intro from yours truly, Fat Mandy kicked off the show in future-retro style with an Ableton set of electro-swing. I spun a set of progressive and psybreaks after that, then it was the mighty Fat Mandy Live PA, lush evolving breakbeat squelch, interstitially poised somewhere between breaks, dnb and chill. Then Jon switched hats to his Mr Faster persona and we went back to back for nearly three hours of psytrance, rolling, dark, forest, bouncy, you name it. Wicked fun times!
Thanks to Jon for coming along (he’ll be back!), and for all the shoutbox crew for keeping us company!
(In the tracklists below, Jon’s selections are this colour).
Download (437.0MB 192kbps MP3 318’13″)593 downloads (This is the archive of the whole 5+ hour show. Alternatively you can download individual sections below.)
Heads up y’all… this Tuesday 17th August on Psymusic Radio I’ll be joined in the studio by special guest Jon Ward aka FAT MANDY aka MR FASTER.
Fat Mandy LIVE PA – awesome interstitial psychedelia… Jon ranges across tempos and genres with an original melodic and squelchy style… you’re gonna love it!
plus Mr Faster DJing alongside yours truly, psytrance vs psybreaks vs progressive and more. Frankly, anything could happen…
Put it in your phone. Write it in your diary / on your hand / on the wall. Do not miss this.
The details:
Tue 17th Aug 19:00 UK time
Go to http://www.psymusic.co.uk/forum – from there you can tune in and say hi in the shoutbox.
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 )
