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

Categories: Gigs, News // Tags: breaks, dnb, gig, halloween, king alfred, southampton, techno

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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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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, progressive, psybreaks

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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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Next show: Tue 20th Oct with special guest LuQas!

For next Tuesday’s Tales of the Interstitial on PsyMusic Radio, I’ll be joined in the studio by rising psybreaks superstar LuQas.

LuQas is Luke Trott from Brighton England. Born and raised in Bristol, he’s been into dance music since around 2000, where friends and family supplied him a constant feed of prog-house mix tapes. By chance he purchased an early Y3K album after spotting a Sasha track and has been into breaks ever since. Not satisfied with being a punter, he bought his first decks in 2001, promoted a successful Brighton breaks night in 2004 and now is rapidly finding his niche as a producer of deep techy noises.

He draws influences from many different genres, particularly psy-trance and techno, and his varied DJ sets reflect this. Now a resident at the awesome night Slackers Convention, he plays regularly to a loyal crazy crowd of Brighton revellers. You can also catch him on NSB Radio every Saturday night where he fronts the Slackers show alongside Pav and Toxic Shock. With tracks signed to Dead Famous, Yellowfinger Communications, Hardplace Records and Future Perfect, LuQas is starting to gain recognition internationally, with forthcoming gigs in Croatia and Prague.

Luke will be bringing along a sackload of full-on psybreaks, and yours truly will be keeping it interstitial with the finest fizzling 4/4s on the flip. Whatever that means.

In the words of my guest: “Rah!!!!!!” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Tales of the Interstitial episode IV: Tue 20th Oct: 7pm BST till late

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Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: interstitial, luqas, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance

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Mix: iSpyBreaks

I was asked to do a guest mix by Dead Famous Records (home of Robosapiens et al) label manager Daniella Downs for the “Dead Radio” show on iBreaks Radio. The deal is I get one in return at some point, so watch out for that… Anyway, I’d intended to do about 45 mins but it came out a shade under 80 and went out on iBreaks in full last Saturday, so I now offer it here as an all too rare burn-to-CD promo mix 🙂

The name, iSpyBreaks, is a pun on iBreaks of course, and a recognition that while most of the tunes here are not exactly what most people would call psybreaks, they are varied representatives of the kind of epic, progressive breaks with tech edges and psy twists that has always been my main squeeze for the past 2 years. Some tunes are new, some are old but were so ahead of their time that they still fit. Hope you enjoy it.

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: breaks, epic, ibreaks, progressive, psy, spy

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Mix: QuexTech – Live on Brap FM 5th Oct 2009

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 🙂

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, psytechno, quextech, tech-house, tech-trance, techno, void radio

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