Mix: Quexotic Cover for Hubie Sounds
live on NSB 23rd Aug 2011

Jumping on for another cover session, taking in everything from funky midtempo to the freshest and phattest psybreaks, progbreaks and techfunk promos, a bit of 140 jungle and ravebreaks, and finishing up with some oldskool classics!
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: 140 jungle, breaks, jungle, nsb, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, rave

Artists: 0rig, 48k, AP3X, Beauty School, Bob Marley, Cannabinoid, Citadel Of Kaos, Ear Drum Kru, Eddie Voyager, Electronic Experienced, Hedflux, Hironimus Bosch, Home Alone, Kimmy, LuQas, Macho, MartOPeter, Meat Katie, Metalheads, Mobius, Neurodriver, Peak, Retroid, Strange Rollers, The Scientifics, Unconscious Mind(s), Word, orig

Labels: Basement, Boombastic Plastic, Broken Robot, Hardcore Lives Digital, Held2Ransom, Psychoactive, Red Robot, Ridiculoud, Synthetic, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud

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live on NSB 23rd Aug 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #041:
live on NSB 6th Aug 2011

Another fat set of progressive and psychedelic breaks promos, freebies, new releases and top-class classics to massage your eardrums into ecstasy!
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: nsb, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: 9b0, Acid, Aeron Aether, Altered Beats, BETA, Cannabinoid, Destroyers, Digipack, Dirty, EK, Eshcm breaks, Flack.Su, Future Sound Of London, Hedflux, Home Alone, Hybrid, J Hazen, K.K., Kraymon, M_Spark, Nelver, Neofluxx, Oleg Zubkov, Open Cluster, Parallax Breakz, Precision Cuts, Raushwerk, Retroid, Robosapiens, Sasha, Shadowboxer, Skein, Skor Motion, Tom Clyde

Labels: Badbwoy, Cosm, Diablo Loco, Far Ace, Glack Audio, Morphosis, Pieces of Eight, RUNE, Ridiculoud, VIM, soundcloud

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live on NSB 6th Aug 2011

Mix: Quexotic Cover for Beyond The Breaks
live on NSB 4th Aug 2011

Hopped on for an unplanned Thursday morning session to cover for Marty B. So we’re mainly on a melodic progressive breaks tip to suit the daytime vibe – a mixture of sunshine and clouds means you get doses of happy and melancholic – but a good dollop of squelch in there too.

(Sorry if the volume jumps around a bit – first broadcast on new headphones…)

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: epic, melodic, nsb, progressive breaks, quexotic

Artists: 9b0, Abdomen Burst, Amb, BETA, Burufunk, Colombo, Cord, DJ Hook, Destroyers, Dirty Tricks, DiskError, Dockthor, Elite Force, Espion, Fimas, Flack.Su, Home Alone, Hybrid, Hyperion (Oz), Ilya Mosolov, Johan Soh, Keith303, Kraymon, Lady Packa, Llupa, Mavann, Mint Royale, Myagi, Parallax Breakz, Plump DJs, Robosapiens, Roger T, Santos, Tom Clyde, ZB, Zipmix, orig

Labels: Bass4Bots, Chi, Diablo Loco, Distinct'ive, Dusted Breaks, Faith and Hope, Glack Audio, Held2Ransom, Navigation, NoiseDepot, RUNE, Sound of Habib, U&A, VIM, iBreaks, scene.org

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live on NSB 4th Aug 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #040:
live on NSB 23rd Jul 2011

Since last fortnight’s show was a glitch-crunk special I’d had a month’s worth of accumulated promos and new releases to get through on this show, so it’s nothing but the finest brand new epic progressive, trippy psychedelic, and twisted techy breaks (albeit with a nice little downtempo number to start, and a registered classic to finish…)

Next show: Sat 6th Aug 19:00 BST NSB Radio.

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: nsb, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, tech breaks

Artists: Alternative Silence, Andrew StetS, Andy Faze, BSD, Beta, Big Mistake, Blaster Plan, Blazer, Destroyers, Digital Base, Digital Breaks Foundation, Dirty Tracks, Far Too Loud, Feltzer, Freak Da Bass, Geon, Jnr Hacksaw, Kid Digital, Kraymon, Lady Packa, MDK, Madmind, Meat Axe, Mesmer, Nelver, Psysun, Quextal, Retroid, Roboteknic, Sketi, Tee-Ex, orig

Labels: Bombtraxx, Broken Robot, Disconekta, Distorsion, Divergence, Dusted Breaks, Ego Shot, Flextone, Funkatech, Psychoactive, RUNE, Scarcity, Speedsound, VIM, iBreaks, soundcloud

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live on NSB 23rd Jul 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #039:
Skanky Glitch Crunk special!
live on NSB 9th Jul 2011

It’s been far too long since I infected your eardrums with the genre that I (and probably only I) like to call skanky glitch crunk, so I went shopping at Addictech and we rolled with the funky, wobbly, squelchy midtempo vibe for most of the show. The chatroom showed their love for the sounds, and I only managed to play about a third of what I bought, so you can probably expect more crunk to pop up at random intervals in future shows 🙂 Had to shoehorn some psybreaks onto the end as I needed to play some killer promos and, of course, to spin my own little tune in celebration of it finally being released 🙂
Special thanks to Mouldy Soul for sending over some of his fresh new squelch, and Spectral Theory for rising to my challenge to get his new tune finished in time!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, glitch, glitch-crunk, glitch-hop, glitchy, midtempo, nsb, psybreaks, quexotic, skanky

Artists: Blazer, Blunt Instrument, Bran Richards, Digital Breaks Foundation, Electrocado, Entanglement (Circuit Bent, Freak Da Bass, Goosebumpz, Jay Wikid, Kalya Scintilla, Lady Packa, Madmind, Mouldy Soul, Mr Bill, Mr Bill), Opiuo, Quextal, Ray, Spectral Theory, Spoonbill, Staunch, The Lucky 23, Tom Cosm

Labels: Addictech, Bandcamp, Colony, Enig'matik, Hopskotch, Muti, Omelette, Psychoactive, RUNE, Simplify, UP, VIM, breaks.sk, deliciousmusic.co.nz, soundcloud

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Skanky Glitch Crunk special!
live on NSB 9th Jul 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #038:
live on NSB 18th Jun 2011

I was in a more-than-usually adventurous and experimental mood going into this show… there’s nothing hugely far out, this is all still the breaks that you know and love, but a little different… tempo ranging more widely than usual, more unusual juxtapositions of styles and sounds… it’s good to have a session of Beating (Back) The Boundaries every so often…

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, nsb, psybreaks, quexotic, rave breaks

Artists: Andy Faze, Atomic Drop, Big Mistake, Colombo, DBF, Eddie Voyager, Fuoco, Geon, Hedflux, Hironimus Bosch, Jamie Rotten, Kiwa, Metabreed, Mr Mirra, Peter Paul, Re:Creation, Retroid, Rise From The Grave, Sinewinder, Sirreal, Spectral Theory, Spirallianz, Strange Rollers, Tim Healey, Unconscious Mind(s), Zip, Zipmix, orig, s)

Labels: Bombtraxx, Cosm, Ego Shot, Exogenic, Held2Ransom, Psychoactive, Surfer Rosa, VIM, iBreaks, soundcloud

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live on NSB 18th Jun 2011

Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode XVIII:
live on PsyMusic 14th Jun 2011
with special guests Re:Creation
and Unconscious Mind(s)

It’s been a while but TOTI returns with a bang, joined in the studio by the dudes that are Unconscious Mind(s) and Re:Creation for an epic 4-hour b2b2b session of mind-bending psybreaks and psytrance, including many exclusive tracks forthcoming on their label Psychoactive Records. Huge thanks to them for coming along, and to everyone who tuned in live and got busy in the chatroom.

TOTI is a moveable feast at the moment, ie I don’t yet know when the next one will be, but more fabulous guests are in the pipeline… follow Quextal on Facebook or Twitter to be notified about the next show!

Tracklist key: Re:Creation; Unconscious Mind(s); Quextal Taste the rainbow!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance

Artists: Adam Faz, Aerospace, Andrey Mute, Big Mistake, Blazer, Burn In Noise, Captain Hook, Chakra, DNA, Dickster, Eat Static, Edi, Far Too Loud, Hedflux, Highpersonic Whomen, Jellyfish, Kwah, Lucas, Madmind, Neelix, Parallax Breakz, Peak, Peter Paul, Quantize, RMS, Re:Creation, Retroid, Rex, Robosapiens, Save the Robot, Space Buddha, The Analogeeks, The Boomzers, Toxical, Unconscious Mind(s), monkey

Labels: Agitato, Ayra, Blue Tunes, Broken Robot, DNA, Dead Famous, Dragonfly, Ego Shot, Exogenic, Exogenic Breaks, Nano, Plusquam, Psychoactive, Recovery House, Solstice, TIP World, Tactic, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud

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live on PsyMusic 14th Jun 2011
with special guests Re:Creation
and Unconscious Mind(s)

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #037:
live on NSB 4th Jun 2011

A dubstep track to kick things off… yes, really, dubstep. I have a near embargo on the genre but I do break it on the rare occasions that I find something worth breaking it for, and I hope you agree that this track is worth it. The rest of the show takes the more usual course through the latest and greatest of psybreaks and dnb.
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: dnb, dubstep, nsb, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: Andy Faze, Blazer, Bowser, Bulletproof, DBF, Dr Fish, Geon, Glenn Miller, Jeroen Van Aken, Kid Chameleon, Liam Shy, Mage, Mesmer, Mspark, Nadi, Nemanoe, Paperclip, Parallax Breakz, Parallax Breakz dubstep, Peter Paul, Phace, Re:Creation, Retroid, Sauna Boys, The Analogeeks, Trukers, Xilent, orig, s)

Labels: Ayra, Beta, Cyanide, Ego Shot, Flextone, Hybridize, Kill Inc, Mindtech, Psychoactive, Rune, Scarcity, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud

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live on NSB 4th Jun 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #036:
live on NSB 21st May 2011

More choice selections from the world of progressive and psychedelic breaks past, present and future!
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: nsb, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: Abdomen Burst, Adam Faz, Affective, Andy Faze, BETA, Bad Tango, Blade, Blazer, Cage Page, Cuncic, DBF, Feuerhake, General Midi, Ghettface, Halobeatz, Invincible, Karton, Kwah, Malcevic, Mesmer, Monk3ylogic, Parallax Breakz, Re:Creation, Ri, Somsay, Spyke, Toy Quantize, Triple Agent, original, s)

Labels: Kilowatt, Logariddim, Psychoactive, RUNE, Scarcity, Sound Of Habib, VIM, soundcloud

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live on NSB 21st May 2011

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #035:
4-hour Double Feature! breaks/dnb
incl Parallax Breakz retrospective
live on NSB 7th May 2011

Unplanned double-length show this week… and boy did we fit a lot into it! 42 tracks in all, which is a very appropriate number what with Towel Day coming up. So what lies within?

Scroll down for the download link and tracklist, or read on…

First we round up the best of the latest releases and promos as usual, including a hot new pre-promo from Kwah (thanks man!) and some choice collaborations from VIM‘s new compilation celebrating their 100th release (congratulations on reaching that milestone, and big ups Greg and everyone else involved in this label which has been providing quality fuel for my radio shows pretty much since I started on Brap all those years ago!)

We then bid a fond farewell to Parallax Breakz, a name that will be familiar to all regular listeners of this show and indeed anyone on the prog/psybreaks scene. The man behind that name, Ukraine’s Alexander Zhikharev, is moving on to new musical pastures under different names, but we couldn’t let him go without a retrospective of some of the stack of great progressive and psychedelic breaks that he has produced over the past few years.

One of Alex’s future musical directions will be deep drum’n’bass, so for most of the (unexpected) second two hours of the show we went on one of QA’s semi-regular forays into that genre, bringing you some of the highlights of Med School’s eagerly awaited New Blood 011 along with more selections from the leading lights of intelligent dnb, starting progressive and getting pretty twisted by the end.

Enjoy!

Next show: Sat 23rd May, 19:00 BST, NSB Radio

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, dnb, nsb, Parallax Breakz, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: Abdomen Burst, Almaz, Andy Faze, Anile, Beat Rangers, Blazer, Bop, Cage Page, DBF, Digibox, Eat Static, Fletric, Halobeatz, Home Alone, Hunter Vaughan, Ilya Mosolov, Keith303, Kharm, Krone, Kwah, LM1, Llupa, Luca, Malsum, Maxim Kuznyecov, Melo, Mesmer, Method One, Nasha Experience, Operon, PBK, Paperclip, Parallax Breakz, Parallax Breakz atmospheric dnb, Pendulum, Rawtekk, Roger T, Seathasky, Steve Maccabe, Strago, Subwave, System 2, The Prodigy, Toy Quantize

Labels: AUX, Bass Reflections, Camino Blue, ChipSound, Covert Operations, Dispatch, Don't Panic, Ego Shot, Golden Orb, Levitated, Med School, Mindtech, Morphosis, Nasha, Offworld, RUNE, Solstice, VIM, XL, ctgmusic.com, soundcloud

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4-hour Double Feature! breaks/dnb
incl Parallax Breakz retrospective
live on NSB 7th May 2011