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″) 487 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: 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…

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Download (219MB 192k MP3 159′43″) 2505 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 NSB 20th July 2009

On the last minute cover for Ben & Lex, digging out quite a few older tunes that haven’t had much play, as well as a few that have but deserve another spin

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1. Halobeatz – Wicked Style (Gelaz rx) [VIM promo]
2. Future Funk Squad – Street Knowledge
3. GTM – Bouncy
4. Robosapiens – Infected (LuQas rx)
5. Rektchordz – Left Behind (Beta rx)
6. Youthful Implants vs Tigerfunk – Heatseeker (LuQas rx) [Dead Famous promo]
7. 9B0 – Sad Cat (Flack.Su rx)
8. Suspender – Quake (Phokus rx)
9. Aufgang – Channel 7 (Krazy Baldhead rx)
10. Son Of The Electric Ghost – Concept Of Nature (Habersham rx)
11. Rex – Evil Buddha Comb
12. Foxxy – Arcadia (Ave rx)
13. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks
14. IITone – Crush
15. JBass & JMekka – Freestyle (Robosapiens ft Sneaky Kreeps rx)
16. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
17. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
18. Plastic Shell – Foley
19. Elite Force – Engine
20. Hedflux – Non Stop
21. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine

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Next show: Monday 3rd August, 8-10pm BST, Brap FM

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electrobreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, techfunk

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Mix: Live on NSB 15th June 2009

Covering the Mobius Trip once again, we started with some deep and epic prog-electro-psy breaks for the first hour or so, gradually beefing it up into full-fat electrobreaks and a dose of proper psy-side psybreaks, with Doctor Who to finish, and why not? Wicked promo action from V.I.M.Records too – congrats to Disco Patrick who won a stack of V.I.M promo CDs in our competition (and shouts of course to Pale Penguin from V.I.M for the goods themselves!)

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1. Kultur & Colombo – Elektromolekula
2. Cuncic & Malcevic – Mafia
3. Pharmacy Of Sound – The Big Bang (2009 Re-Edit)
4. Erik Jackson – Return Of The Breakbeat
5. Terratropin – Acid Balls
6. Frost-RAVEN & MDFX – Input Potential
7. Hypeartist ft Brad Sucks – YGNA (Retroid rx)
8. Dascyllus – Odessa Keys
9. ILYKE – Rough Yam (Macho rx) [VIM promo]
10. Hedflux – Music Is My Weapon
11. Break The Box ft MC Cop – Style And Flavour
12. Fisso & Spark – You Are Right
13. Pedro Pablo Perez Hidalgo – Count Drak In The Mix (Peter Paul rx)
14. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine (Specimen A rx)
15. Plastic Shell – Dead End (Eshericks extended rx)
16. Under This – The Crash
17. DJ Mutiny ft Dii Gii – Dreams Come True (Flore rx)
18. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto
19. Mood Deluxe – Secret Agent 666
20. Boonos – Back With It
21. Orbital – Doctor?

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, competition, electrobreaks, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, techfunk

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Mix: Psylekbreaks

It’s been far too long since I uploaded a studio mix. Partly this is down to increasing numbers of gigs and radio shows which occupy a large part of my time plying the decks these days. But it’s not as if I haven’t been making studio mixes from time to time, I was just never quite happy enough with them to upload.

Well, time for that to change. If there’s one message I’m receiving loud and clear every time I play out, it’s that there are people out there who are desperate to hear the kind of stuff that I play. Whatever that is! And even if I think a mix is flawed (usually because I think the tune selection could have been better rather than any technical error these days), you’d rather have that, than silence.

So here you are. This mix covers a fairly wide selection from across the spectrum of progressive, psychedelic, tech and electro flavoured breakbeats that float my boat. It’s plainly more of a home or car listening CD than the sort of journey I would construct at a club or festival, but it should take you to some interesting places. Enjoy

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1. Espion – MKYF
2. Starflower – Process the Future
3. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
4. Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
5. BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
6. Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
7. Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
8. Marc Adamo – Krakupz
9. D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
10. Digital Base – White Lines (Robosapiens rx)
11. Robosapiens – Robots
12. C-Vaughn ft Annalyze – Straight Up
13. C-Vaughn – Waste Away
14. Vent – Turn The Page
15. Livin So Fast – HandBreak
16. MKM & GBX – I Don’t Think So
17. Myagi – Giorgio Marauder
18. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)

Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: breakbeat, dubstep, electrobreaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, studio mix, techfunk

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Mix: Live on NSB 9th Mar 2009

Covering for Ali again tonight as his PC’s broken… I felt in a bit of an experimental mood, so we started with some slower funky stuff, went all epic progressive for a while, then settled into a kind of electro-techfunk-psybreaks circuit for the second hour or so.

Thanks as always to all those who tuned in and the ever-random chatroom crew. Love you all, you mad people.

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1. Smoove & Turrell – I Can’t Give You Up (A-Skillz rx)
2. Mr No Hands – Chuggy
3. Rektchordz – Tramp Stamp
4. Ottone – Lush
5. Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
6. Hybrid – Formula of Fear (Hybrid rx)
7. Abakus – Indu (Shiloh rx)
8. Jinx – Twilight 2000 (BETA rx)
9. Seth Vogt – Don’t Turn Away
10. Under This – Tonight
11. BP and One – Revolution
12. BSD – Funkdation
13. Access Denied – Lucky Bitches (Adsorb rx)
14. Elite Force – Godfather (with a Groove)
15. (unknown) – Champion Hounds
16. Omar Santana & Evan Lewis – Hayley’s Comet
17. Robosapiens – Infected
18. Calvertron & Banga – Turn It Up (Karl Sav rx)
19. Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
20. General Midi – Nuone
21. Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
22. Mr Frisk – Escape (Matt Harder’s Transform rx)
23. Omar Santana & Dre Hectik – Slutronica

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, funky, nsb, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, techfunk

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Mix: Live on NSB 27th Oct 2008

Previously on NSB I’ve tended to stick to breaks. Tonight though I decided to loosen that rule: while still centred on psy/tech/elek-breaks, I moved freely out to chill, electro-house, and even a bit of progressive trance. I think it paid off, this was definitely my best and most enjoyable NSB show so far, and the chatroom crew seemed to like it too Cheers to everyone who tuned in, and thanks to Ali for asking me to cover.

Next show: next Monday, 3rd November, Brap FM.

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1. Nick Hogendoorn & Eelke Kleijn – The Rhythmshaker (Eelke Kleijn ambient mix)
2. Dreadzone – The Warriors
3. Pitch Black ft KP – Rude Mechanicals (PZ 3-beat mix)
4. Spoon Wizard – Spoonkey
5. Skein – Renegade
6. Under This – Tonight
7. Statyk – Rise & Fall
8. Tomcraft – Loneliness
9. Rehab Riot – Dirt Kontrol (5Eleven rx)
10. unknown – Champion Hounds
11. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
12. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
13. Soul Of Man – Dirty Waltzer
14. 30Hz – Consume Daphne (Lee Coombs rx)
15. Lowrider – Pitchdown (club mix)
16. Chunk’n'Attack – Rocka Revolution
17. Agent K – Can’t Hold Back
18. Devine & Emilyplay – Kome Into My World
19. DB3 – Baader (Dreadzone rx)
20. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
21. Nick Hogendoorn & Eelke Kleijn – Fat Dragon
22. BETA – Trojan
23. Channel Surfer – Mega Bomb
24. Myagi – Payback
25. General Midi – Nuone
26. Headphonics – Phase Dreamer
27. New Order – Blue Monday (Hardfloor rx)

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electro, nsb, nsbradio, progressive, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, techfunk, tracklist

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Next radio show: Monday 6th October

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.

Direct links:

• Tune in
• Chatroom (get in there!)

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Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: brapfm, breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, Radio Shows, tech-house, techfunk, techno

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