Last Void Radio show tonight!

This was supposed to be happening later this month but has been brought forward to tonight. After two years of playing regularly on Brap.FM I’m leaving so I can devote more time to my shows on other stations. Brap never took off audience-wise, although I did appreciate the musical freedom it gave me to hop around genres…

With that in mind, tonight’s show is going to be a complete free-for-all. I have nothing specific in mind to play, so it’s your chance to get in the chatroom and send in your requests during the show! I’ll be in there from 7.30pm, the show starts at 8pm.

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Quextal recommends: Morning Coffee vol 29
mixed by BETA

I download a lot of other DJ’s mixes. Most of them warrant no more than a cursory scrub before being discarded as Not My Kind Of Music. Some get a more detailed scan, with a couple of interesting tracks noted down to check later. A few get played in full, chugging along in the background while I work, a good track interrupting me every so often demanding to be ID’d.

But once in a while, a mix comes along which, gently but firmly, grabs hold of me, takes me over. A mix that cannot be a background to any other activity, but draws in more and more attention, and rewards it.

Such mixes are very rare.

But it should be no great surprise that BETA should come up with one, because he is a man of very rare talent. He’s repeatedly blown me away with his productions over the last two years. And while others may jostle to be flavour of the month, BETA’s sheer consistency, razor sharp production, and the way that each new release nudges the sound of progressive breaks forward, have earned him a place at the very top of my personal league table of producers.

Somehow, in all of the time I’ve been buying his music, I’ve never heard him mix. It was worth the wait. This is what progressive breaks is supposed to be like. The mix traces out a beautiful curving flow, through bigger and ever more epic tunes, until the last track, which goes way beyond merely “huge”, shoots straight through “immense” and breaks off the top of the chart. Shock Theropy[sic] – Void is the first breaks tune to really knock me flat in a long while – I hope it’s getting released soon, cos I can’t wait to play it out and watch it knock other people flat…

In the meantime, I so wanted you to hear this mix, that I started a new section of my website for it. Only a very few selected mixes and tracks will earn a place in Recommendations. By starting with this mix, the benchmark has been set pretty high.

Download MP3 from bbz.ru

Morning Coffee vol.29 mixed by BETA (blog entry / tracklist / cuefile) (if you want to download the MP3 from that page, you have to click on the link that’s a Russian word. The one that says Download will just give you a cuefile.)

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mixed by BETA

Quexotic Adventures on NSB Radio

Yes I’ve finally decided on a name for the new show… I wanted something that gave an idea of the principle without constraining me to specific genres. And unfortunately, once I’d come up with the pun on “quixotic”, it wouldn’t let go…

So, Quexotic Adventures continues this Saturday 5th December, 7-9pm GMT, on NSB Radio!

Here’s the (typically hyperbolic) show description…

Quextal leads you on an epic journey, flowing through space and time,
shapes and textures, landscapes and creatures, organic and alien – all
synaesthetically engineered from the finest quality
progressive/psychedelic breaks and other mutated electronic
soundforms.

So in the end I didn’t choose any of the names suggested by listeners, but one person in particular contributed many excellent suggestions and so has earned a prize anyway. Congratulations to BooMboxx… get in touch to claim 🙂

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #001:
live on NSB 21st Nov 2009

Still haven’t quite found a name for this show yet, but there were some excellent suggestions in the chatroom, especially from BooMboxx, so thanks for those — I definitely like the idea of getting some obscure Mayan references in there… but the competition is still open, so if you have an idea for what to call the show, get in touch and you could win a prize!

Anyway, many thanks to all who tuned in, and stayed tuned in despite glitches (trunk network maintenance which I had been warned about by my ISP, so hopefully this was a one-off).

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Next show is an extra appearance this coming Mon 23rd Nov at 8pm GMT on BrapFM, which is going to be an oldskool special, and then 5th Dec on NSB…

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

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live on NSB 21st Nov 2009

New NSB show starts tomorrow…

Sat 21st Nov
19:00 GMT
NSB Radio

… the journey begins …

When stood behind the decks … you are confronting infinity — Lawgiverz

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode V:
live on PsyMusic 17th Nov 2009

Cheers to everyone who tuned in and especially the chatroom crew. We had an enjoyable 3 hour odyssey from breaks to progressive to techno, back to breaks with a few cheeky slabs of darkfloor electro, a smidge of exceptionally rare high-class dubstep, and then an assortment of blissful psychill. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Next show: My new show starts this Saturday 21st November, 7-9pm GMT, on NSB! Come and join the party!

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electro, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psychill, techno

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Mix: From The Depths

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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Link to generate podcast enclosure

Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: deep, minimal, organic, progressive, spacey, tech-house, techno

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GoreCore 2

This Saturday… a rare chance to catch a full 90-minute Quextal set… exploring the darker and dirtier side of my output… I’m on 9.30pm – 11pm, upstairs, so get there early!

Clinophobia vs Straight Up presents GORECORE 2 at the King Alfred in Southampton. Sat 31st Oct, 9pm – 2am

After last year’s shenanigans, Southampton’s top underground promoters once again join forces for Halloween to present 2 rooms of dirty music, freaky decor, scary visuals, fancy dress with prizes for best and worst dressed(!), special drinks offers and the most up-for-it party crowd in the country 🙂

Room 1
Optimystic – Jungle, Drum & Bass
DirtyRatChild – Eclecticism
Root 8 – Breaks
Mike Dyson – Breaks
OneFootSkank – Dubstep
Robnoxious – Dubstep

Room 2
Esion – Drum & Bass
RMS and Peak – Breaks
Quextal – Breaks/Techno/Progressive/Acid
Floppy Johnson & The Hard 1 – Breakcore & IDM

What more could a ghoul ask for?

The King Alfred
51-53 Northam Road,
Southampton,
Hampshire,
SO14 0PD

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode IV:
live on PsyMusic 20th Oct 2009
with special guest LuQas

Huge thanks to my special guest LuQas for coming all the way over from Brighton with his little CD wallet stuffed full of fat tunes (his selections are in this colour in the tracklist below). Big ups all the chatters too. Keep it interstitial!

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live on PsyMusic 20th Oct 2009
with special guest LuQas

Mix: Live on PsyMusic 17th Oct 2009 (cover)

Hopped on to cover for Full Lotus’s show on PsyMusic, and ended up doing a full 3 hours of prog/psy flavours of trance, house, techno, breaks, Goa, and midtempo breakbeat. Genre slut, me, but you should know that by now. Back on the same channel this Tuesday 7pm BST with special guest LuQas, do not miss it!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: Goa trance, midtempo, progressive breaks, progressive house, psytrance, techno

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