Void Radio 5th May

Quextal returns to the Void Radio slot on Brap FM on Monday 5th May 2008. Boarding at 8pm (UK Time), as always I’ll be taking you on a two-hour voyage through caverns measureless to man and out into deep space, catalysed by the very finest selections of trippy tuneage this side of Ursa Minor Beta, and paying no particular regard to pigeons or their holes.

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Do hope you can come along for the ride. If so, get yourselves in the chatroom — no need to register, just point your favourite IRC client at 72.20.48.120, channel #brap.fm, or just direct your browser to the Java client.

If you can’t make it, the show will be archived here soon afterwards… darkice willing…

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Void Oxjam Alldayer @ The Hobbit 25th May

I’ll be playing alongside a baker’s dozen of the other finest southcoast DJs at this event, masterminded by those crazy folk over at Out Of The Void. The date and time for your diary is 1pm to 1am on the Bank Holiday Sunday 25th May, and it’s all for charidee, so even if you don’t care about seeing me play, come along anyway. Last year’s event was several metric shedloads of fun, and this one is shaping up to be even more awesome, if such a thing were possible.

Exactly what style of music I’ll be playing has yet to be determined… depends on the running order. But whatever it is, you can be sure it’s music for the mind, the heart and the feet, so come ready to dance…

EDIT: I’ll be on first (1pm) so I guess I’d better play something of an uplifting and progressive flavour (breaks/house/trance) rather than spooky techno. Probably.

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Mix: Late Nite Tech Trip

Well. I got back from the pub about midnight, and then instead of going to bed like any normal person who has to be up at 7am next day, I stayed up and did a mix from the CDs I’ve just burned of the minimal techno I bought online yesterday and haven’t listened to yet. I’d inscribed the CD “Techno and/or Minimal” but it now seems the “or” was superfluous. This is not deep, chilled minimal like the middle part of this mix, and neither is it full-on hard stompy techno. It occupies that perfect centre of afterhours music (as far as I’m concerned) where it is equally suited to dancing around the lounge, hipswinging while seated, mild head nodding, or non-motile appreciation in a more horizontal and relaxed position (but definitely not sleep.) Most importantly of course, it progresses, it journeys, it trips, and takes you with it through different places and spaces in your imagination. It is alchemical – by means of sound, it creates images, feelings, sensations. Or, you create, it facilitates. I merely facilitate the facilitation. And I LOVE doing it.

There’s probably a couple of rough edges due to the fact that I was (and am) a bit mullered (could you tell?), I’ve never played these tunes before, and I couldn’t hear very well as I kept the volume low out of respect for my neighbours at this hour. But sod excuses, I managed to blow my own head off repeatedly both during the mix and listening to it back afterwards, so I thought I’d share it with you. Hope you like it, and as always your feedback is always welcome (add a comment or send an email).

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This mix is also known as:
“If you don’t love minimal techno… You Will.”

1. (00’00”) Bigger Than Jesus – Itchy Glitchy Spider (Fergie rx) – Silver Planet
2. (05’24”) Bread and Butter – Kartoffel – Hot Slice
3. (10’35”) Cabal – All In Off – Subtronic
4. (14’03”) Patrice D’Angelo – Happy Lab – Freaky Cabs
5. (19’59”) James Unk – Drop – Lessizmore
6. (25’34”) Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx) – Plain
7. (31’42”) Jesse Voorn ft ZoXenia – SeeMe (DJ Lion dub) – USB Digital
8. (37’13”) Sara Galli – Machete – 303Lovers
9. (41’25”) The Junkies – Uneasy Feeling – PBR Recordings
10. (47’21”) The Touch – Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub version) – Trunkfunk
11. (53’32”) Utku Dalmaz – Little More – Bosphorus Underground

By popular request, I’ve upped the audio quality: from now on studio mix MP3s will be 192kbps.

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: afterhours, dark, minimal, spooky, techno

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Mix: Live on Brap FM (some of it)

For reasons best known to itself, my streaming software (darkice), which has always worked flawlessly before, decided to only record the second half of tonight’s show. Meh.

So here is that second half anyway, in crispy clear 128k MP3ness.

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1. Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
2. Dekoy – Highrise (Dopamine rx)
3. Kickflip – Pirate Signal
4. Azzido Da Bass – Doom’s Night (Timo Maas rx)
5. Timo Garcia – Magic Roundabout (Lutzenkirchen rx)
6. Lauer & Canard – Hypnotize
7. Plastic Shell – Conestruck
8. Cloudz Factory – Beginner’s Luck
9. Ace Ventura ft Liquid Soul – Psychic Experience
10. Symphonix – Music Prostitute (Duca rx)
11. Ace Ventura – M.A.R.S.
12. Plump DJs – Move It With Your Mind
13. Ace Ventura ft Lish – The Light

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Another radio show coming up

Thanks to all who tuned in to hear me covering for Ali Rutt on NSB Radio for the past two Mondays. My next show is on Monday 17th March over on Brap FM for the Void Radio slot.

As before I’ll be mixing up the musical memes, and you may hear anything from full-on psybreaks to journeying progressive trance to deep minimal tech-house, and more. Tune in to find out! And if you can, do join the chatroom; you need to be registered on the Brap forums to use it, so why not register now and then you’ll be all set for the show…

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Two NSB Radio shows

While my good friend Ali Rutt of Mobius fame is on holiday, he’s kindly left me in charge of his show, The Mobius Trip, on NSB Radio.

The show is on every Monday from 7-9pm UK time, and I’m covering on 25th Feb and 3rd Mar.

As this is a breaks station I’ll be playing, er, breaks. More specifically, 25th Feb will feature the breaks of Now, including psybreaks, tech-breaks, acid breaks and wonky breaks. 3rd Mar is an oldskool special: I’ve been mining the vinyl to bring you a choice selection of early 1990s hardcore, rave and drum’n’bass. You know the score!

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Mix: Live on Brap FM

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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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, psyhouse, tech-house, techno, techtrance

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Mix: Mostly Minimal…

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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Mix: Neurogenetic Kinaesthesia

A 79-minute odyssey of psyhouse, techtrance and progressive. Music to melt your mind and shake your shoes.

Updated 2011-06-21: Now higher-quality 192kbit MP3 instead of the previous 96kbit. If you have already downloaded the previous version, whose filename was quextal_psyhouse_20071107.mp3, you might like to delete that and download this one instead 🙂

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1. Daniel Gregory – Rush
2. Duca – Square
3. 4 Mal – Red Dust (Jumping Reds mix)
4. Jacco@Work – 15 Den Club (King Con rx)
5. 4 Mal pres Square Coil – Black Tube (Nicholas Van Orton rx)
6. Cloudz Factory – Beginners Luck
7. Ace Ventura – Rise (Perfect Stranger rx)
8. Inkfish – Prescreen
9. Odiseo & Xahno – Damn
10. Perfect Stranger & Sunseek – Eyes Wide Open
11. Cafu – Blue Balls
12. Liquid Soul – The Source (Atmos rx)
13. Perfect Stranger & Pena – Ode Ao Sol

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