Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode IX:
live on PsyMusic 20th Apr 2010

Sorry for the delay on this one… took a while to sort out the tracklist! Plenty of chunky progressive in effect, along with psybreaks, melodic dark electro and more, and closed out with some lush chilled beats. This one going out to Mike. Next show: 18th May 2010 – ooh, that’s tomorrow! 🙂

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: chilled, chunky, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psymusic, techno

Artists: Aerospace, Anarchy Rice, Andro, Asem Shama, Atmos, BSD, Beat Bizarre, Beatman, Behind Blue Eyes, Big Mistake, Bkp, Blazer, Cannabinoid, Chakra, Chris Micali, Colombo, DJ Ico, Depeche Mode, Desert Dwellers, Double D, Edi, El-Tron, Elite Force, Eltron, Flippers, Giakomo Rondinella, Grouch, Hardy Hard, Hedflux, Hybrid, Inkfish, Kilowatts, Kiwa, Krusseldorf, Kultur, Lady Waks, Liquid Ace, Liquid Soul, Ludmilla, Monkey, Mr X, NotoMash, Odissi, One Man Army, Pangaea, Paul Blackford, Peak, Perfect Stranger, Plastic Shell, Quadrat Beat, RMS, Rhino Drum, Ricky Ambilotti, Spooky, Squiddhartha, Ticon, Timmy, Tommy, Untold, Vibrasphere, Weekend Heroes, Zipmix, original dub, s)

Labels: 3 Liquid Hz, Acidphonic, Aurium, Ayra, Balkan Vinyl, Bandcamp, Ching Ching, Choo Choo, Darkdance, Disconekta, Distinct'ive, Dragonfly, Dusted Breaks, Festplatten, Full Tilt, Harmonious Discord, Hessle Audio, High Grade, Hotflush, Iboga, Lot49, Metamorph Muzik, Offaudio, Omnis, Operating System, Rapid Response, Spin Twist, Spooky UK, Tribal Vision, U&A, USB Digital, VIMtronica, Zoo Grooves

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Forthcoming London gig!
Quextal b2b Re:Creation @ Elysian Project
Fri 14th May 2010

Yes yes, Adam Re:Creation has kindly asked me to play alongside him next month at the mighty Elysian Project in London. We’ll be spinning on a fat psybreaks and psydnb/neurofunk type tip, though I suspect we may hop around the genres more than that 🙂 The night offers three rooms with a hugely diverse range of music from both live acts and DJs… click on the flyer to see it full-size.

Sign up on the Facebook event page. If you want any more details, full line-ups etc you can get them on the Elysian Project site.

Note that early bird tickets are available at £7.50 for a few more days. It’s £10 on the door, which is pretty fantastic for an all-nighter!

Hope to see you there 🙂

Categories: Gigs, News // Tags: club, Elysian Project, flyer, gig, London

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Quextal b2b Re:Creation @ Elysian Project
Fri 14th May 2010

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #012:
live on NSB 10th Apr 2010

Just listening back to this one and frankly, even by my standards, it’s absolutely chock-a-block with awesome tunes, including a load of top-notch promos and unsigned tunes. Psybreaks and progressive breaks all the way this week, with just a cheeky little tangent into techno. There’s a couple of glitches in the recording unfortunately due to broadband flaking out (my only major peeve with darkice is that if it loses the network for too long, it messes up the spool to disk too… there’s no need! I’m changing over to butt soon so hopefully that won’t have the same problem…

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

Artists: 48k, Anarchy Rice, Astra, Beatman, Big Mistake, Bkp, Blazer, Chris Micali, DJ Fen, Felix Stone, Flippers, Hedflux, Hybrid, Kiwa, Ludmilla, Lunar Shift, Lutzenkirchen Techno Treat, Monosurround, NotoMash, Odissi, One Man Army, Peak, Plastic Shell, Quadrat Beat, RMS, Reconstructed, Ricky Ambilotti, Scalambrin, Sicily, Wardian, Youthful Implants, Zipmix, s)

Labels: 3 Liquid Hz, Acidphonic, Aurium, Ayra, Dirty Players, Distinct'ive, Dusted Breaks, Flextone, Flextone, Funn Dark, High Grade, Lot49, MS, Spektra, Tribal Vision, VIMtronica, via Soundcloud, via http://soundcloud.com/48k

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live on NSB 10th Apr 2010

Mix: Quexotic Cover for Ben & Lex
live on NSB 5th Apr 2010

Jumped on for a last-minute cover of the Beats & Bobz show for Ben & Lex. In deference to those legends of the Deep South West breaks scene, I aimed to replicate their show’s typical genre distribution (or my impression of it, anyway): roughly 65% breaks, 35% techno, and 110% megarave! There the similarities probably end… well, I just can’t do the West Country accent, moi lover 😉

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: beatz & bobz, ben & lex, breaks, cover, megarave, nsbradio, techno

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Next two weeks swapped on NSB

Short version: I’m doing next Saturday on NSB (10th April), instead of the one after (17th).

As you ought to know, Quexotic Adventures, my fortnightly show on NSB Radio, is partnered with a show from those brillo Brightonians the Slackers Convention. If you haven’t yet checked it out, I suggest you do: if you share some of my taste in progressive, psybreaks and/or chunky techno, you should find plenty of tasty choons to chew served up by LuQas, Pav and friends.

Anyway, due to various plans, schemes, plots and conspiracies, not to mention those villainous wildcards Happenstance, Serendipity and Inability To Be In Two Places Simultaneously (despite all the advances in quantum chromodynamics), we’re swapping over the 10th and 17th.

So the final schedule for April is:
3rd: Quextal (you missed it, archive here)
10th: Quextal
17th: Slackers
24th: Slackers

Normal flip-flopping pattern resumes in May until further notice!

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: nsb, quexotic, Radio Shows, slackers

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #011:
live on NSB 3rd Apr 2010

Yep, I’m afraid it’s another four-hour double-Quex feature! I can’t help myself… I had kinda hoped that the extension might happen this week, because otherwise I’d have had to make very, very difficult choices as to which of the massive pile of superlative new tracks making my hard disk groan and wheeze under the sheer weight of their super-heavy dopeness, would be selected to be played straight away; and which would be sent back down into the dungeon in tears after learning that, through no fault or inadequacy of their own, but just because it happened to be a bumper couple of weeks for decent releases, and the DJ had caught a bit of Bank Holiday Fever and gone somewhat manic with his Crate, they must wait another fortnight, or pray for a cover slot to bring them out of the darkness sooner…

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: chill, dnb, downtempo, electro, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techno

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live on NSB 3rd Apr 2010

Mix: Chilliquid Drum’n’Bliss

Here’s something a little different for you… laidback deep and progressive dnb, minimal to liquid, designed to soundtrack a sunny day. I didn’t plan it this way (well, I didn’t plan it at all, I never do…) but it’s ended up dominated by just two recently-released EPs: New Blood 010 on Med School, and Lm1’s Blue Mountain EP on Offworld. But perhaps the fact that I’ve built almost a whole mix from them just serves to highlight the quality and variety on offer from those labels at the moment. Between this sort of thing and the twisted psychedelic techstep and neurofunk I’ve been pushing on my shows for a while, the prospects are looking good for a renaissance of inventive and beautiful dnb this year… as is the case with breaks. This is shaping up to be an amazing year of breaking new ground with the broken beat.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this little mix. As always I’d love your feedback. If it pushes your buttons, don’t forget that I now regularly serve up a slice of the tastiest dnb alongside the future breaks at 7pm UK time on the first and third Saturdays of every month on NSB Radio.

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: chill'n'bass, chilled, d&b, dnb, drum & bass, drum'n'bass, laidback, liquid, progressive, sunny

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Glade Psy Lineup Flyer

Yeah I can stand being in a line-up like this….

Categories: Gigs, News // Tags: festival, gig, glade, psy, psymusic

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #010:
live on NSB 20th Mar 2010

Lots of wicked promos this week… I didn’t even get through all the ones I wanted to play, so more to come next week! Same deal with the new releases – I bought so many killer tracks that I was still burning them onto CD long until about halfway through the show, as I wanted to get as many as possible in.

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Next NSB show: 3rd April.

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electro, electrobreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

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live on NSB 20th Mar 2010

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #009:
live on NSB 6th Mar 2010

Big love to everyone who squeezed into the Hobbit for my set on Saturday; the place was heaving and it looked like everyone was enjoying it as much as me which is what it’s all about 😀 See you next time!

Anyway here’s my NSB show from last week… bring the breaks!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electrobreaks, nsbradio, nuskool breaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

Artists: Audiohazard, BSD, Beats Persona, Boom Jinx, Brainz, Casual Breakin, Crunch, Digital Base, Diverted, Dopamine, EMS, Hybrid, Hyperion (Oz), Jinx, Lady Packa, Nagual Sound Experiment (aka NSE), Plump DJs, Rennie Pilgrem, Rhino Drum, Rhythm Section, Robosapiens, Triple Agent, Two Lone Swordsmen, Walter Oddington, Wardian

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live on NSB 6th Mar 2010