Mix: Quexotic Adventures #028:
live on NSB 29th Jan 2011

Stacks of promos on this week’s return of Quexotic Adventures following my house move, including two brand new labels that will be well worth keeping an eye on, Psychoactive and Logariddim, plus old favourites VIM, Dusted Breaks and Dead Famous. Psybreaks and progressive breaks all the way on this one… well, nearly all the way… 🙂 Plus first play of my new tune 😀
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: nsb, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: Barrcode, Beat Rangers, Big Mistake, Blazer, Citizens Of The Empire, Colombo, DBF, Energy Flow, Far Too Loud, Fisso, Freeflow 45, Journeyman, Kultur, LuQas, Mobius, Peter Paul, Projectsynthetic, Quextal, Refracture, Retroid, Rioter No 1 vocal, Sketi, Spark, Terry Sun, The Prodigy, Triple Agent, Unconscious Mind(s), orig

Labels: Dead Famous, Dusted Breaks, En:Vision, Funkatech, Logariddim, Lot49, Metamorph Muzik, Psychoactive, VIM, XL, soundcloud

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live on NSB 29th Jan 2011

Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode XVI:
live on PsyMusic 30th Dec 2010

Hey all. Sorry this has taken a while to upload – I had the small matter of moving house to attend to! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this epic show. It’s almost entirely 4/4s, from progressive gradually accelerating to banging psytrance with just a couple of psybreaks tracks to keep you on your toes – including the exclusive forthcoming psybreaks monster from Re:Creation (big ups Adam!) 🙂

Keep an eye on my Twitter or Facebook page for news of the next episode of Tales Of The Interstitial…

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

Artists: Ace Ventura, Aerospace, Atriohm, Audiomatic, Brainiac, Burn In Noise, Captain Hook, DJ Fabio, DNA, Dickster, Eat Static, Electrypnose, Eskimo, Even 11, Intelabeam, Interactive Noise, Ital, Jade, Kultur, Loud, Lutzenkirchen, Magnetrixx, Moon, Neelix, Neuroplasm, Pena, Perfect Stranger, Quantize, Quantum, Re:Creation, Sawtooth, Sensient, Solid Snake, Techtonic, Tone Depth, U-Prag Drummers, Zen Mechanics, live edit

Labels: 247, Auraquake, Blue Hour Sounds, DNA, Dead Famous, Desert Trax, Digital Nature, Digital Psionics, Echoes, Incorrect Music, Kundalini, Metamorph Muzik, Nano, Plusquam, PsyTropic, Sigma, Solstice, Sound Of Cologne, Spin Twist, Tribal Vision, Zenon, soundcloud

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live on PsyMusic 30th Dec 2010

My work here is done…

If you’ll permit me a slightly smushy aside. Here’s an email that arrived this morning and made my day/week/year, quoted verbatim:

Heya Quextal, not sure were to start on this, so ill go from the begining!

raving about in the perth doof scene, mixing here and there, i was slowly going off good ol psy-trance, and my CDJ’s were slowly gaining dust as they sat on my desk, un-used… untill at around the beggining of 2010, i stumbled upon one of your earlier mixes on psymusic.uk and had a listen.

well, i was blown away, and quickly downloaded and smashed out mix after mix from your site, (particularly love your NSB shows), and better yet, got onto the tracklists and has a look around on beatport.

and in September, i played my very first psy-breaks set at Earthdance WA and another at a new-years party out in the country. playing the likes of luqas, kiwa, far to loud and loads of other goodies from lables i discovered from your little website! the crowd loves it, and many people referred to the sets as “the best of the party”, and 3 more gigs are lined up in the next couple months!

i use my decks daily again, and my breaks tunes now totally fill up the CD wallet, and its all thanks to you! im writing this basicly to tell you, that your tunes are tops, and you’ve inspired a small, but growing wave of psy-breaks love in Western Australia, the most isolated city in the world! keep it up!

As you’ll know from my biography, I had a similar moment of epiphany in 2007, when I was inspired to get back into DJing after a long absence by encountering the sound of psybreaks, courtesy of a DJ called Giani. I’m so chuffed to be able to pay that forward, and I’m sure the author of this email will pay it forward again.

This is what it’s all about. Be inspired, inspire others, feel the passion, spread the love.

Thankyou to everyone who has given me feedback over the past 3 years. You kept me going, helped me to know that I was on the right path. I dedicate it all to you.

Right, that’s enough smush for now. I’ve finally got broadband back after my house move, so radio shows will resume shortly. I’m not going to wait until my normal slots (and in any case I’m changing the Psymusic slot) so watch out for announcements. As usual, the Facebook Page is the most reliable way to keep in the loop.

Categories: Misc // Tags: fans, feedback, inspiration

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Gig: Killertrax goes Psychoactive
/ Leeds / 4th Feb 2011

Watch out Northerners… Quextal is playing the main room at the Beaver Works in Leeds on Fri 4th Feb 2011 as new label Psychoactive Records showcase their killer sounds with LIVE PAs from Re:Creation (A/V set), Unconscious Mind(s) and more, across two rooms of sheer psybreaks, psytrance, techno and electro awesomeness, plus the Killertrax boys and girls doing their hard dance thing in the basement.

Categories: Gigs, News // Tags: gig, leeds, psybreaks, psychoactive, psytrance, techno

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/ Leeds / 4th Feb 2011

Mix: Ice Into Fire – A Progressive Epic

Yeah it’s been too long again since the last promo mix. I hope it’s been worth the wait. Presenting Ice into Fire, an evolving winter warmup mix of progressive house, techno, trance and psytrance.

Happy Christmas everyone!

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: epic, progressive, progressive house, progressive psytrance, progressive trance, psygressive, techno, trance

Artists: Aerospace, Alex Di Stefano, DJ Slater, David Weed, Duca, Dyno, Flippers, Jerome Isma-Ae, Khainz, Magitman, Perfect Stranger, Phony Orphants, Sensient, Simone De Caro, Ticon, Timmy, Tomcraft, Tommy, Umek, Yan Oxygen, Yotopia

Labels: Armada, Blue Tunes, DP-6, Echoes, Fektive, Full Tilt, Iboga, Mantra Vibes, Spin Twist, Tribal Vision, Zenon

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #027:
live on NSB 18th Dec 2010

Last scheduled NSB show of the year, so as well as this fortnight’s promos we looked back at 2010 with some of my favourite tracks, artists and labels of the year.

During the show I was struck by the quality of tunes that have come out on the new Ukrainian label Rune Recordings this year; in fact they pretty much immediately established themselves as one of the world’s finest imprints for progressive breaks, and as a result they have now been awarded a place on my watchlist. Keep up the good work guys!

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

Artists: Abdomen Burst, Andro, Beatman, Big Mistake, Blazer, Chris Nemmo, Cuncic, Depeche Mode, Dmitry Bessonov, Dual Boot, Elite Force, Flack.Su, Fletric, Future Funk Squad, Geon, Hedflux, Hoffman, Ilya Mosolov, Kraymon, Line Of Sight, Ludmilla, Malcevic, Monk3ylogic, Nemesis, Parallax Breakz, Retroid, Subliminal System, Triple Agent, Unconscious Mind(s), VIP

Labels: Ayra, Broken Robot, Ching Ching, Dead Famous, Digital Sensation, Digital Sensation UK, FFS Xmas Goody Bag, Glack Audio, High Grade, Logico Beatz, Ridiculoud, Rune, U&A, soundcloud

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live on NSB 18th Dec 2010

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #026:
live on NSB 4th Dec 2010

This time around we started with something a little different, showcasing trippy darkfloor electro, mainly in order to play a whole load of Espion tracks I just downloaded. Nuff respect to Arnie Espion for making so many of his tunes available for free download! You can get them for yourself from the Hyperoctave Soundcloud
page, while stocks last!

After that, it was back to the breaks with, as usual, the cream of the week’s promos served up with the choicest cuts of progressive and psychedelic tuna.

Just one more NSB show from me this year, Sat 18th Dec at the usual time of 7pm GMT. I’ll be digging out some of my favourite tunes of 2010 and looking forward to what treats might be in store for us next year – new artists, new labels, new collaborations. Hope to see you in the chatroom then! http://www.nsbradio.co.uk

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: darkfloor, electro, Espion, nsb, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: A2C, Audiohazard, Beatman, Blazer, DST, Dave Grusin, Dessben, Digibox, Eddie Voyager, El-Tron, Espion, Espion breakcore mashup, Future Funk Squad, Geon, Hedflux, Jon Virtue, Kraymon, Ludmilla, M Spark, Mesmer, Mike Hulme, Neztic, Parallax Breakz, Plastic Shell, Re:Creation, Sir Real, Steve Maccabe, The Gulf Gate Project, The Spider Bite, Triple Agent, Under This, version 1

Labels: Ayra, Darkdance, Dusted Breaks, Ego Shot, En:Vision, Held2Ransom, High Grade, Logariddim, Offaudio, RUNE, Sango Music, U&A, VIM, iBreaks Bass, soundcloud

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live on NSB 4th Dec 2010

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #025:
First Birthday
live on NSB 20th Nov 2010

QA is one year old! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we had exclusive tracks from Triple Agent and Re:Creation (thanks guys!), and I rummaged around for some of my favourite breaks tracks of years gone by to play alongside the current and future releases.

A little while after my show finished I went back on to cover as the next DJ had been called away in an emergency (hope all’s ok there AP), so there’s a little bonus mix for you below the main one.

Thanks to everyone who’s supported the show over the past year, and special shouts to Mobius (for getting me onto NSB in the first place some years earlier), and LuQas (for giving me this peachy peaktime slot). For the coming year, I hope to have more guests, more exclusives, and of course to keep doing my bit to push things forward… NONSTOP TO THE FUTURE!

Next show: 4th Dec, 19:00 GMT, on NSB Radio

Main Mix

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Bonus Beats

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

Artists: BETA, Backdraft, Beatman, Bones, Broken Eye, Devine, Digibox, Elite Force, Emilyplay, Espion, Etostone, Force Mass Motion, General Midi, Groovediggerz, Hedflux, K-Deejays, Kilowatts, Koma, LeftRight, Ludmilla, Means, Mesmer, Mike Hulme, Mix 1 Test Master 1, Neztic, Nuboy, Parallax Breakz, Peter Paul, Re:Creation, Rob Reng, Sam Hell, Triple Agent, Under This, Ways

Labels: Ayra, Deadlock, Digiprana, Distinct'ive, Dubplate, En:Vision, Erase, High Grade, Logariddim, Lot49, Plus, RUNE, Sango, Sinister, TCR, U&A, VIM, dPulse, iBreaks Bass

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #024:
live on NSB 13rd Nov 2010

Heavy on the phat psybreaks this week, with some dope new promos and a couple of golden oldies for good measure. Next week it’s Quexotic Adventures’ first birthday so expect something special to celebrate…
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: nsb, psybreaks, quexotic

Artists: Andy Faze, Bkp, Cage Page, Curl, Dean, Elite Force, Era, Geon, Hal 9000, Hardfloor, Hedflux, Hoffman, Home Alone, Kraymon, Lady Packa, LuQas, Macho, Monk3ylogic, Neurodriver, Open Cluster, Parallax Breakz, Perpetual Present, Plump DJs, Prato, Quextal, Scapo, Spectral Theory, Stefan, Subliminal System, Triple Agent, Vida G, orig

Labels: Broken Robot, Dead Famous, Dirty Drop, Dusted Breaks, Finger Lickin, Freskanova, RUNE, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud

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live on NSB 13rd Nov 2010

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #023:
live on NSB 16th Oct 2010

The 23rd episode of Quexotic Adventures and it’s Quextal’s chosen specialist subject, progressive and psychedelic breaks all the way…
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, nsb, nuskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

Artists: Andy Faze, Audiohazard, Beta, Blazer, Broken Eye, Cannabinoid, Geon, Hedflux, Ilya Mosolov, Kraymon, Lady Packa, Line Of Sight, Neurodriver, Parallax Breakz, Pilot, Plastic Shell, Psysun Vs Urucubaca, Roger T, Scapo, Unconscious Mind(s), Wardian

Labels: Broken Robot, Curl & Dean Remix, Dirty Drop, Dusted Breaks, Ego Shot, Electrofly, Funndark, High Grade, Imbassion, Logico Beatz, Re:Connect, Rune, Speedsound, VIM, soundcloud

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live on NSB 16th Oct 2010