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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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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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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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode III:
live on PsyMusic 15th Sep 2009

I was very tired after the shenanigans of Waveform, so really appreciated all the people in the shoutbox keeping me going 🙂 So a simple progression this week, techno-progtrance-breaks-dnb with heavy side orders of glitch…

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, dnb, glitch, interstitial, progressive trance, psymusic, techno

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live on PsyMusic 15th Sep 2009

Mix: Live on Brap FM with Digital Fist 7th Sep 2009

Many thanks to my guest Digital Fist for bringing his unique blend of deep and dark glitchy and hypnotic breaks and techno to tonight’s proceedings. He’ll be back (in the meantime, if you need more glitch to sustain you, I recommend picking up his latest mix, it’s a corker). And a big shout to all the listeners and chatters, record-breaking numbers of both 🙂

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Next show: Tuesday 15th Sep, 19:00 BST, PsyMusic: the next episode of Tales Of The Interstitial…

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, dark, deep, glitch, 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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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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live on PsyMusic 1st Sep 2009

Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode I:
live on PsyMusic Radio 18th Aug 2009

Couldn’t have hoped for a better turnout and reaction for the first chapter of my new residency 🙂

True to the show’s remit we jumped around the genres, but kept it mostly upbeat for this week, alternating between psybreaks, progressive psytrance and chunky techno most of the way, serving up the dark and the uplifting, the deep, the epic and the glitchy… and finally closing out with some choice dubstep.

Big love to all those who tuned in and the many who made the effort to register just to present themselves in the chatroom, you are all stars! Hope you can join me for the next one on Tue 1st Sept @ 7pm

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1. Intro: DJ Purple Rabbit – Shroom
2. A-Sham – Kalisha
3. Starflower – Process The Future
4. Cord – Impulses
5. Burufunk – Outsider (Flack.Su rx)
6. Naga & Amb – Agni
7. Perfect Stranger & Sunseek – Eyes Wide Shut
8. Perfect Stranger – Easy
9. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
10. Peace Division – No More Subliminal (Main mix)
11. Proper Filthy Naughty – Future Burn
12. EMS – Colonized
13. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
14. Carbon Community – Dr Spectacles (Lawgiverz rx)
15. DJ Naga – Fraid (Brain mix)
16. Proton & Grateful – Crank
17. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip [Dead Famous promo]
18. DinoFreak – We Control
19. Son Of The Electric Ghost – Concept Of Nature (Lawgiverz “Convict of Nature” rx)
20. Skein – Renegade
21. David Weed – Red Moon
22. Red Moon – Monster (Vortex rx)
23. Umek – You Might Hear Nothing
24. Hironimus Bosch – Gamma (Robosapiens rx)
25. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine
26. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto
27. Mood Deluxe – Secret Agent 666
28. ZeroDouble – One vs One
29. Nagual Sound Experiment – Frontier
30. Truth – Terror Planet
31. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: deep, dubstep, epic, glitchy, interstitial, progressive trance, psybreaks, techno

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Mix: Live on NSB 10th Aug 2009

My occasional series of late-notice covers for random NSB DJs continues… this time I was standing in for JoeBot. His normal tune selection doesn’t have a lot of overlap with mine anyway, so I threw caution to the wind and, alongside some beautiful progressive breaks to lull you into a false sense of security, went through some styles of breaks that don’t seem to get much airing on NSB: deep hypnotic, progressive acid, chopped-up glitchy, growly electro zap… a quick dip in the funky sea of midtempo glitch-dub in the middle… and other stuff that Addictech might categorise as “Heavy” and “Dope”.

It seemed to go down well. For most of the show NSB was the most listened to breaks netradio station in the world, with about 30 more listeners than DI Breaks. Might have happened before but I’ve never seen it. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and all those supporting in the chatroom.

Very special thanks to Mike Metacognition – a good number of the tunes played tonight were introduced to me by him. The man has outstanding taste, so I plan to get him along as a guest on a future show. Respect. Ahh Yeh.

Thanks also to Ian @ Dead Famous for the fine promos.

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1. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip (Precision Cuts rx) [Dead Famous promo]
2. Kriece – After Dark
3. Digital Base – The Climax
4. Introspective – Slavery Incorporated (AMB rx)
5. Peace Division – No More Subliminal (main mix)
6. EMS – Colonized
7. Ion Driver – Magma
8. Lifecycle – On The Vine (Ion Driver rx)
9. Kilowatts – Feed
10. Proper Filthy Naughty – Future Burn
11. Skeetaz – Nein
12. Uriel – Pekinese (Arto Kumanto rx)
13. VENT – Bear Crunk
14. Bird Of Prey – Terradactyl Porn
15. Skeetaz – Skurry
16. Hardfloor – Skill Shot
17. Rektchordz – Tramp Stamp
18. Mr No Hands – Chuggy
19. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip (original) [Dead Famous promo]
20. Santos – Combination
21. Monk & Canatella – Enter The Monk (Hybrid rx)
22. The Playfellow – Hyjack (White Papoo rx)
23. Mobius – The Lab (Ben & Lex rx)
24. Mars ft Profit – The Last Element (VIP)

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Next show: NEW SHOW starting in the next couple of weeks on PsyMusic Radio, details soon!

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: acid breaks, breaks, electrobreaks, glitchy, midtempo, progressive breaks, tech breaks

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 3rd Aug 2009: “Further Out”

I’d bought a lot of glitch and weirdness for tonight, way outside my normal field of operation… In the end it didn’t infect the show to the extent I’d anticipated… trying to cover too many styles in 2 hours perhaps… but nonetheless, we start with a good chunk of “selections from the other side” before drifting into progressive breaks/house/techno, pulling back into some deeper techno territory, and then building up into a high-voltage electrobreaks finish. Greetings to everyone who tuned in and helped to set a new record number of listeners 🙂 Let’s see if we can beat it next month… full details of the reminder services are on the contact page 🙂

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1. Major Lazer – Hold The Line
2. Bob Humid ft twila.too – Danger Angel
3. Bob Humid – Preparation
4. Ribotto – Hard As Nerd
5. VENT – Bear Crunk
6. Kether – Goblinz
7. Bird Of Prey – Terradactyl Porn
8. Kriece – After Dark
9. Digital Base – The Climax
10. Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor rx)
11. David Forbes pres Sebrof Divad – Infectious (Maarten de Jong rx)
12. James Harcourt – Call & Response
13. Maleza – Lancer
14. Yan Oxygen – Dual
15. Break The Box – Test The Bass (Attack Release rx)
16. Timmy & Tommy – MixTape
17. Skor Motion – Pura Fisica (Dirty & Acid rx)
18. Double Negative – Vegas
19. Mobius – The Lab (Ben & Lex rx) [Dusted Breaks promo]
20. Lunar Shift – Ashes (Access Denied rx)
21. The Playfellow – Hyjack (White Papoo rx)
22. LoseYourMind – Guitar Hero (Decepticonz rx)
23. Product01 – Ready2RAGE (vocal mix)
24. Mars ft Profit – The Last Element (VIP)

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Next Show: Monday 7th September, 8-10pm (UK), Brap FM

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, glitch, progressive breaks, techno

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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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