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
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Kicking off with some lush early 90s acid trance and pre-Goa, moving through chunky psychedelic techno into tech-psybreaks, into further realms of acid, progressive sounds and some chilled tech-house to finish… next show Tue 20th July at 19:30 BST.
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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…

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Chunky. Funky. Rolling. Pulsing. Throbbing. Wobbling. For one night only, we went 100% techno, tech-house and tech-trance. Zero breakbeat guaranteed.

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Normal service will resume for the next show, Tuesday 20th October on PsyMusic as we bring you episode IV of Tales Of The Interstitial, with special guest LuQas

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.

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How many shows in June?!? No wonder I’ve been feeling like a busy bunny…

Another last minute cover job this one, so just over an hour, but that means you could burn it onto a CD if you so desired

We start with some very tasty progressive breaks with the odd psy-tech twist, moving into techno, a slice of progressive trance, some laidback tech-house, and finishing on an absolute classic slice of evocative prog breaks from the mighty Fluke.

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1. 9B0 – Antilightbulb (BETA rx)
2. Noize Incorporated – Feelings (DJ Fen rx)
3. 9B0 – Sad Cat (Flack.Su rx)
4. Santos – Combination
5. Rektchordz – Left Behind (BETA rx)
6. GTM – Bouncy
7. Superpolitik – Whipped Cream (Boonos rx)
8. System 7 – High Plains Drifter (Live)
9. Yotopia – Goosebumps
10. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri Live mix)
11. Dropout – Bukkake
12. Dirt Crew – Get Raw (Bumel & Dos Santos Threesixty mix)
13. Alex Kanji – Adelante
14. Fluke – Setback

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####### Next show:

Normally my mixes are all beatmatched to perfection (!) so tend to either hang around the same BPM or gradually accelerate from say 128 to 145. But with this month’s show I wanted to push back the boundaries, playing a more twisted style of electro-psy-breaks including some much slower and faster than the normal range.

I’d been on a massive acquisition binge with freshly burned CDs containing 60 new tunes, with only space for about 25 in a 2-hour show, so the selection is nice and varied… but the transitions and the overall shape of the journey could perhaps have done with more planning. I definitely need to figure out some more tricks to blend between wildly different BPMs.

Anyway, it didn’t seem to matter at the time, the promise of sick and twisted beats drew in a record-equalling number of listeners and an all-time record number of chatters compared to any of my previous Brap show’s, and you all loved it didn’t you, you dirty dirty people

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1. Tipper – Flat Ripple
2. Tipper – Swamp Thing
3. EPROM – 64 Bytes (Vibesquad rx)
4. Tipper – A Touch of the Vapours
5. Smacs & Patrick Kong – Offside
6. Dylan Rhymes ft Pablo Decoder – I Am Sweet (Tom Real rx)
7. Steve Mac – Roller Coaster (Adam Shaw rx)
8. Tom Cosm – Naughty Chicken
9. Antix – Circade (Tom Cosm rx)
10. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
11. Espion – Architektur (original)
12. Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
13. Robosapiens – Robots
14. Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
15. Cybass – Wind It Back (Afghan Headspin rx)
16. Koma & Bones – High Rollin
17. D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
18. The Phat Riderz – Organic Neurosis
19. Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
20. Cursor Miner – This Is Electro
21. Tom Cosm – Heebie Jeebies
22. Vent – Turn The Page
23. Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz Convict of Nature rx)
24. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers (Point B rx)
25. Marc Adamo – Krakupz

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Big love to Espion, Jamie Robosapiens and Greg VIM for the promos. Any other producers/labels want to put me on your lists in return for honest feedback, and airplay – if I like ‘em! (unless you’d prefer not in which case just say!), the address to use is quextal.removethisbit@quextal.com Got radio shows and gigs coming up next week so get on it

Next radio show (to be confirmed) B2B with Ali Rutt, NSB, Mon 13th Apr, 7-9pm BST
Next gig: That Night @ Ad Hoc, High St, Southampton UK Sat 18th Apr

Once again Quextal seizes control of the airwaves of Brighton (101.4FM) and the fibreopticwaves of the interfrob (http://brap.fm) this Monday, 8-10pm. This month I have mostly been eating trippy minimal space techno and tech-house, so expect plenty of that, alongside the usual finely-crafted melée of doof, blurble, fizz, swoosh, thump, wonk and flip-trip-swizzlestick. You knows it.

Tune in, spazz out.

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• Chatroom (get in there!)

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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.

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1. 00’00 – Suspender – Quake – Ritual Sounds US
2. 05’30 – BETA – Trojan – ReConnect
3. 10’52 – Etostone – Waiting For U – Erase
4. 15’44 – Robosapiens – Acid Reign – Sinister
5. 21’08 – Plastic Shell – Foley – Electrofly
6. 27’01 – Sam Hell – Stay Out All Night (Groovediggerz rx) – Sinister
7. 32’35 – Boris Blenn – RockIt – Multiverse
8. 38’52 – Cloudz Factory – Beginner’s Luck – Bellarine
9. 44’57 – 4Mal – Red Dust (Jumping Reds mix) – Bellarine
10. 52’12 – Koush – 3 Tickets To Dublin – Flash
11. 56’15 – Perfect Stranger + Sunseek – Eyes Wide Open – Iboga Mexico
12. 63’15 – Perfect Stranger + Pena – Ode Ao Sol – Flow
13. 68’51 – Simon + Shaker – NaCo – Electronic Elements
14. 75’09 – Juvenile Sin – Nocturnal Obsession (Holmtik mix) – Moov
15. 78’50 – Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (Dub) – Global Underground
16. 82’31 – Dejonka – Memento (Yassin + Arne rx) – Parquet
17. 89’08 – Jeff Bennett – Poincare – Kickin
18. 93’34 – Pedro Campos – The Music Is (Remix) – Elektrofone
19. 99’00 – Vasco + Jersey – Sonnenwende (Andre Traenkner rx) – Myminimusic
20. 104’16 – Trentemoller + Buda – Gamma (Minilogue rx) – Kickin
21. 108’38 – Oliver Huntemann – Sao Paolo – Confused
22. 113’47 – Pedro – So Far – Acid Milk

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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.

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1. Dejonka – Memento (Yassin & Arne rx) – Parquet
2. Ilario Naples – Area 51 – Leftroom
3. Jeff Bennett – Poincare – Kickin
4. Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (Dub) – Global Underground
5. Limbo – Math (The Dolphins rx) – Proton Music
6. Pedro Campos – The Music Is (remix) – Elektrofone
7. Vasco & Jersey – Sonnenwende (Andre Traenkner rx) – My Best Friend Ltd
8. Trentemoller & Buda – Gamma (Minilogue rx) – Kickin
9. Minilogue – Seconds (Moonbeam rx) – Traum Schallplatten
10. Marcus Vector – Palass – Nomor Records
11. Combo – Kebo (Paolo Driver rx) – ?
12. Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (orig) – Global Underground
13. Juvenile Sin – Nocturnal Obsession (Holmtik mix) – Moov
14. Lutzenkirchen – Storm Chaser – Craft
15. Layo & Bushwacka! – Tabloid (Saudade rx) – Olmeto
16. Ali Khan – Plump – Doppelganger

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