Mix: Live on Brap FM 1st Sep 2008

Heavy on the electro-breaks this week, with a brief excursion into minimal techno of both soft and hard flavours before ending on a bit o’ psytrance, just for shizzles. Thanks for listening!

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1. Agent K – Can’t Hold Back
2. Bad Boys – Bad Boys (Ottone rx)
3. Foxxy – Arcadia (Ave rx)
4. Lowrider – Pitchdown (club mix)
5. Myagi – Come & Penetrate
6. Mike Balance & Joey Mazzola – Flow (Miles Dyson rx)
7. Uberzone – 4 Bit (2 Bit Uberzone Downgrade mix)
8. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
9. Break The Box – Anika
10. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
11. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
12. Zimbardo – Say Hey (Plaza De Funk rx)
13. Pilot – Dilema (Plastic Shell rx)
14. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
15. Kickflip – Pirate Signal
16. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri Live mix)
17. Marco G & DJ Kal – DaHead
18. Lutzenkirchen – Casa Cadabra
19. Nicole Moudaber – 3rd Leg
20. Mauro Picotto – Contaminato (Meganite mix)
21. Bigger Than Jesus – Itchy Glitchy Spider (Fergie rx)
22. Eat Static – Sin-Quest
23. Rinkadink – Disco Decay (Neelix rx)

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My next scheduled show is 6th October, 8-10pm, Brap FM.

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio (last minute cover)

The DJ who was supposed to be covering Ali’s show had some kind of technology-related disaster, and by the time I tuned in there was dead air, so I jumped on to cover for the cover, so to speak, hence why this is only 72 minutes instead of 120.

But in that 72 minutes we got epic psybreaks, tech breaks, prog breaks, electro breaks, oldskool breaks, wrongcore breaks, and even some drum’n’bass.

Here’s the high-quality archive for your enhanced aural pleasure:

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1. Paul Blackford – The Groove (Shinra rx)
2. Koma & Bones – Black Satsuma
3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
4. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
5. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
6. SL2 – DJs Take Control
7. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
8. BETA – Trojan
9. Break The Box – Anika
10. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
11. Uberzone – 4 Bit (Uberzone’s 2 Bit Downgrade mix)
12. Skeetaz – Nein
13. DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
14. Eat Static – Tractor Beam
15. Cyantific – Flashback

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives, Radio Shows // Tags: dnb, electro, nsbradio, oldskool, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, wrong

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 4th Aug 2008

Progressive breaks, techno, psy-prog. Innit.

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1. Flack Su – T-Break
2. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – Two Freaks
3. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
4. BETA – Beat Funk
5. Plastic Shell – Gutbucket
6. Plastic Shell – Conestuck
7. Uncless – Shinkanzen 2008 (Sonority Break rx)
8. ZB – Felicidad (Mavann rx)
9. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
10. Josh Millstone – As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix)
11. Andre Bastos – Ipod Smoking
12. Lutzenkirchen – Casa Cadabra
13. Freq – Away
14. Symphonix – Music Prostitue (Duca rx)
15. Coburn – Razorblade (S-Boyz rx)
16. Duke Walker – Worm (Brainbug rx)
17. Lunacy Sound Division – Suburban Zombie (Prime edit)
18. Tocadisco – Morumbi
19. D-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
20. Jet Project – Saber Force
21. Matador – Satires (Lutzenkirchen rx)
22. Mauro Picotto – Contaminate (Meganite mix)
23. Beauty School – Suicide (The Scientifics rx)
24. Oliver Huntemann – Sao Paulo

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Next show: Monday 1st September 8-10pm BST. Sign up to my Facebook fan page for a reminder nearer the time…

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives, Radio Shows // Tags: brapfm, breaks, mix, progressive, Radio Shows, techno

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio, 21st July 2008

My most excellent friend, superstar DJ and now budding co-producer of most excellent tuneage Ali Rutt, asked if I would like to cover his show tonight. Fortunately I’ve been catching up with the tune shopping recently anyway, and I had baskets full of new stuff at DJD and Juno already.

Mostly not breaks though. Breaks releases seem to have dried up a bit of late (while the tech-house and techno proliferate with over 1000 releases a week on DJD alone… mostly of badly produced shite that would never have made it onto vinyl… the cross I must bear for it being easier for me to sell my tunes when I resume production, is to trawl through this great haystack of dross looking for the tiny handful, 10 on a good day, but often just 2 or 3, diamond-tipped needles shining amongst them. It takes hours, so I don’t do it every week, and then suffer the FEAR that I have missed the GREATEST TUNE OF THE YEAR, the one that puts goosebumps the size of molehills in your skin, that sends rushes of colour and sparkles of electricity radiating around and through your whole body…)

I digress. It’s been a while since I’ve played 2 hours of breaks. I tried to bring as much variety as I could within the genre, but it ended up staying on the fairly full-on side of tech-breaks, psy-breaks, electro-prog and glitchy wrongness. All good dirty fun.

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1. Uberzone – Germs
2. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks (unreleased dub mix)
3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
4. unknown – The Nomad Track
5. DJ Stranger – Requiem (Access Denied breaks mix)
6. Hyperion – On The Expressway
7. General Midi – Further
8. Sam Hell – Soft
9. General Midi – Nuone
10. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
11. Electrotec – Total Bass
12. Plastic Shell – Foley
13. BETA – Trojan
14. Rob Reng – My Flava (Force Mass Motion rx)
15. Skeetaz – Nein
16. Boogie Army – Sex Drugs Rock And Roll
17. Vandal – Idiots
18. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
19. Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
20. Elite Force – Engine
21. Robert Armani – Circus Bells (Lee Coombs back to the future rx)
22. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
23. Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
24. Far Too Loud – Play It Loud

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In a new development, this show was the first successful test of archiving at a higher quality than the broadcast. The show went out at 96k mono as always (Yes, mono; NSB seems to think it’s 1950), but the download here is at 192k stereo. Yay for darkice, and for my 7-year old PC coping with the extra load. I’ll do this for every show now, unless I get told off. You deserve quality, dear listeners. Your ears are a holy shrine, a temple devoted to music, and they should no more suffer a 96k mono stream than listen to music on AM. In my not very humbly-expressed opinion. The several artists who contacted me to thank me for including them on Late Nite Tech Trip, which is at 192k, suggests that they understand that having their tunes included on high-quality mixes means more people get to hear their tunes, more people like their tunes, more people go and buy their tunes. No-one over the age of 12 is so tight that they’d rip a tune out of a mix instead of buying it, which would be the modern equivalent of making a compilation tape from bits of songs you recorded off Radio 1 and attempted, not very well, to edit out the bit where Bruno Brookes talks over the end.

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, nsb, progbreaks, psybreaks, Radio Shows, techbreaks

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Mix: Live on Brap FM

We kicked off with some classic house, then oscillated around some tech-house, techno and oldskool acid trance, a bit of breaks took us into the wrongcore and psy-wonk midsection, from where we pulled out, via a bit more techno, to finish on the tech-breaks and psy-breaks. Yeah, I’m a genre tart.

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1. 00’07” Orbital – Belfast
2. 04’33” Innate – Imod
3. 09’16” DeLacy – Hideaway (Deep Dish rx)
4. 13’41” Lutzenkirchen – Broken Bullet
5. 19’38” Facu Cruz & Nicholas Van Orton – Stereodust (Facu Cruz rx)
6. 23’44” Josh Millstone – As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix)
7. 27’38” Hardfloor – Acperience 1
8. 34’40” Elite Force – You (Hybrid rx)
9. 41’20” Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
10. 48’12” Elite Force – Engine
11. 54’41” Vandal – Idiots
12. 58’20” Skeetaz – Nein
13. 64’11” LeftRight – Concrete Bounce (Kilowatts rx)
14. 71’05” Vlad Sokolov – Acid For Drains (The Bulgarian rx)
15. 76’24” Mr Rogers – A Boy And His Blob
16. 81’13” Mr Rogers – DMT Factor
17. 86’08” Slinky Wire – Croaking Toads
18. 90’03” Hardfloor – Lost In The Silver Box
19. 97’00” General Midi – Nuone
20. 101’16” Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
21. 105’57” Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
22. 111’43” DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
23. 116’09” General Midi – Good To Go (extended mix)

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Thanks to all those who tuned in!

Next show: Monday 4th August, 8-10pm, Brap FM

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Mix: Live on Brap FM

Somewhat belatedly, here’s the archive for my show on 16th June 2008: Techno, Progressive, Breaks.

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Next show is Monday 7th July, 8-10pm, on Brap FM. See you then!

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Mix: Live on Brap FM

Archive and tracklist from tonight’s show, weaving from breaks to progressive to techno. Thanks to all who tuned in!

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1. 00’00” FSOL – Papua New Guinea (Hybrid rx)
2. 06’35” Aeron Aether – Aeristhesia
3. 11’44” BETA – Beat Funk
4. 17’34” Elite Force – You (Hybrid rx)
5. 23’25” Hyperion – On The Expressway
6. 29’02” The Magnet Men – Arms Length
7. 34’11” Anti-Science – Get Hype
8. 39’41” Aaron Sigmon – Power of Bass
9. 43’39” Atomic Hooligan – I Don’t Care (Tom Kraft rx)
10. 47’42” Skeetaz – Nein
11. 53’44” Etostone – Massacre
12. 59’08” Novy & Isma-ae vs Transform – Transformation (club mix)
13. 65’43” BLT – Six Feet Under (Perfect Stranger rx)
14. 71’50” Simon & Shaker vs Groove Garcia – Soultech (Simon & Shaker rx)
15. 78’56” Freq – Return of the Master (RPO rx)
16. 82’15” Timo Garcia – Magic Roundabout (Lutzenkirchen rx)
17. 87’28” Jet Project – Saber Force
18. 94’10” The Touch – Heart of the City (Pig & Dan rx dub vn)
19. 100’12” Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx)
20. 104’35” Lutzenkirchen – Sunmariner
21. 109’09” De-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
22. 114’41” Lutzenkirchen – Storm Chaser

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, progressive, Radio Shows, techno

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Mix: Live on NSB (last minute cover)

I’d been on standby during Ali Rutt’s show in case he had internet problems. He didn’t, but JoeBot did on the following show, so (despite having had a few beers by that point) I ended up covering for an hour and a half. Many thanks to all the chatroom crew for the positive feedback 🙂

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1. 00’05” Robosapiens – The Truth
2. 06’54” Hyperion (Oz) – On The Expressway
3. 11’47” The Magnet Men – Arms Length
4. 17’27” BETA – Trojan
5. 22’19” Aeron Aether – Aeristhesia
6. 27’33” BETA – Beat Funk
7. 33’26” Plastic Shell – Foley
8. 39’03” Robosapiens – Acid Reign
9. 44’26” Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
10. 48’58” DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
11. 53’10” Anti-Science – Get Hype
12. 58’11” Atomic Hooligan – I Don’t Care (Tom Kraft rx)
13. 62’55” General Midi – Nuone
14. 67’23” Robosapiens – Trussed
15. 73’13” Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
16. 77’25” Freeflow 45 – Low Contour
17. 82’15” Far Too Loud – Play It Loud

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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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