Mix: my last regular show for Void Radio:
live on BrapFM 7th Dec 2009

Super-Extended 5+ hour marathon!

So after about two years of doing Void Radio slots on BrapFM, I decided to draw it to a close so that I’m not juggling three shows. I’ve enjoyed the freedom that Brap gives to play any genre, and I’m grateful to them and Spoll/OutOfTheVoid for giving me a route in… but the number of listeners tuning in for live broadcasts has always been woeful. It provided me with a good, low pressure introduction to the world of net radio, helped me build my confidence on the mic, and garnered some enthusiastic fans like Mike and Angel, but now I have a show on NSB with regularly 200+ listeners, Brap’s single-figure listener counts seem pointless. I know many more of you enjoyed the archives, but hopefully by dropping the show I’ll have more time to produce promo mixes for the site instead.

So for my last show, I played a wide range of genres, and included plenty of classics and all-time personal favourite tunes. Since there was no show after mine, and I had support in the chatroom, I just kept going, and going… for over 5 hours. So bear in mind the archive is a lot larger than usual…

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Next show: Sat 2nd Jan, 19:00 GMT, NSB

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, downtempo, Goa trance, hardhouse, hardtrance, progressive, progressive house, progressive trance, psybreaks, psytrance, techno, void radio

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live on BrapFM 7th Dec 2009

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #002:
live on NSB 5th Dec 2009

Yes, my new show has a name! Thanks to everyone who sent in their suggestions, there were some great ones, couldn’t decide between them so went for something completely different 😉

This week’s show featured some proper tripped out nuskool and epic progressive breaks of the style that got me hooked on it in the first place about 9 or 10 years ago (though these tunes are more recent!), some pslinkin psexy psybreaks, and for the final half hour, something that I hope to be exploring more in future, some twisting mind-expanding leftfield neurofunk-esque drum’n’bass. Oh yes indeed. Word.

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Next shows:

• Tue 15th Dec, 7pm GMT, PsyMusic
• Sat 19th Dec, 7pm GMT, NSB (first and third Saturday of each month, plus the fifth Saturday in January 🙂 )

Various reminder services are available, but the most reliable one is the Facebook group and page. See you next time 😀

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, deep, dirty, dnb, drum'n'bass, electrobreaks, nsb, nsbradio, nuskoolbreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, psydnb, quexotic, trippy

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live on NSB 5th Dec 2009

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

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: 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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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