Sat 21st Nov
19:00 GMT
NSB Radio
… the journey begins …
When stood behind the decks … you are confronting infinity — Lawgiverz
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: epic, journey, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks
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!
Download (258MB 192k MP3 188’01”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-11-17.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Slidingonthewalls |
Troubador |
unreleased demo |
2 |
Psure & Psyan |
Tough Case (orig) |
3 |
Hardwired & Mars |
Mass |
4 |
Kiwa |
Dynamite |
5 |
LuQas |
Replicant |
Dead Famous promo |
6 |
Macho |
Aliens |
breaks.sk promo |
7 |
RMS & Peak |
Ten Dimensions |
Broken Robot |
8 |
Konstantin Yoodza |
Force |
9 |
Daniel Portman |
Dark Is The Night For All |
10 |
Lish |
Dirty Feelings (Alter Breed rx) |
11 |
Aerospace |
Simple Words |
12 |
Dom Kane |
Breakthrough (James Harcourt rx) |
13 |
Magitman |
Utility |
14 |
Vibrasphere |
Analog Marinade |
15 |
Space Manoeuvres |
Octobot |
16 |
Vibrasphere |
Waveguide |
17 |
X Noise |
Breaking The Toys (Quantize rx) |
18 |
Rhino Drum |
Suipacho 220 |
19 |
Psure & Psyan |
Tough Case (Quadrat Beat rx) |
20 |
RMS & Peak |
New Realm (Hedflux rx) |
21 |
Triple Agent |
Dimmer Disco |
22 |
Paul Hardcastle |
Over And Over |
23 |
Espion |
Apophis |
24 |
Espion |
Petrol Bomb The Fuckers (Point B rx) |
25 |
Digital Base |
U Know Me |
26 |
Pete Houle |
Apollo (breakbeat mix) |
27 |
Omar Santana & Dre Hectik |
Universal Sound |
28 |
Far Too Loud |
Dancefloor Destroyer |
29 |
Ekaj |
Other Worlds |
30 |
Bop |
Forms Ideas & Chips |
31 |
Scann-Tec |
Hope |
32 |
Ninbimimi |
Future |
33 |
Bluetech |
Oleander (Phutureprimitive symbiotic rx) |
34 |
Altitudes |
Altitude II |
35 |
Kilowatts |
Monument |
Download (258MB 192k MP3 188’01”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-11-17.mp3)] downloads
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
Here’s a deep techno and tech-house mix I did over a year ago and never quite got round to uploading due to the usual uncertainty about whether I’d got the flow of the journey quite right. But I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about it so here you go…
Download (100MB 192k MP3 73’16”) [downloadcounter(quextal_from_the_depths_2008-09-20.192.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
1 |
Synthetique |
Bauhaus |
2 |
Klovn |
I Want You (Dirty Deal rx) |
3 |
Moby |
Disco Lies (The Dusty Kids Fears rx) |
4 |
Mauro Picotto |
Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix) |
5 |
Vibrasphere |
Wasteland (Fiord rx) |
6 |
Masaya |
Like A Fish In Water (Nhar rx) |
7 |
Tigerskin |
Peter’s Secret Weapon |
8 |
Dirt Crew |
Get Raw (Bumel & Dos Santos Threesixty rx) |
9 |
Tigerskin |
From The Depths |
10 |
Lars Wickinger |
Undertaker |
11 |
David K |
Boul De Nerf |
12 |
Masaya |
Like A Fish In Water (orig) |
13 |
Anthony Collins |
Reeves |
Download (100MB 192k MP3 73’16”) [downloadcounter(quextal_from_the_depths_2008-09-20.192.mp3)] downloads
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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes //
Tags: deep, minimal, organic, progressive, spacey, tech-house, techno
This Saturday… a rare chance to catch a full 90-minute Quextal set… exploring the darker and dirtier side of my output… I’m on 9.30pm – 11pm, upstairs, so get there early!
Clinophobia vs Straight Up presents GORECORE 2 at the King Alfred in Southampton. Sat 31st Oct, 9pm – 2am
After last year’s shenanigans, Southampton’s top underground promoters once again join forces for Halloween to present 2 rooms of dirty music, freaky decor, scary visuals, fancy dress with prizes for best and worst dressed(!), special drinks offers and the most up-for-it party crowd in the country π
Room 1
Optimystic – Jungle, Drum & Bass
DirtyRatChild – Eclecticism
Root 8 – Breaks
Mike Dyson – Breaks
OneFootSkank – Dubstep
Robnoxious – Dubstep
Room 2
Esion – Drum & Bass
RMS and Peak – Breaks
Quextal – Breaks/Techno/Progressive/Acid
Floppy Johnson & The Hard 1 – Breakcore & IDM
What more could a ghoul ask for?
The King Alfred
51-53 Northam Road,
Southampton,
Hampshire,
SO14 0PD
Categories: Gigs, News //
Tags: breaks, dnb, gig, halloween, king alfred, southampton, techno
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!
Download (246MB 192k MP3 179’43”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-10-20_with_luqas.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Project Synthetic |
Back To The Mothership |
Divergence |
2 |
Amb |
No Time |
Chi |
3 |
Kraymon |
Papillon Rouge (LuQas rx) |
Dead Famous promo |
4 |
Triage & Jaden |
Nautical Machines |
Bombtraxx |
5 |
Robosapiens |
Bodies (Hedflux rx) |
Dead Famous promo |
6 |
Rex |
Alternate Reality |
Sinister |
7 |
LuQas |
Replicant |
Dead Famous promo |
8 |
Solid Snake |
Shadows Part I |
Tribal Vision |
9 |
Access Denied |
One More Time (Stephen Cole rx) |
KDB Breaks |
10 |
Audiomatic & Magnetrixx |
Triebwagen |
Plusquam |
11 |
Ace Ventura & Lish |
The Light (Zen Mechanics rx) |
Euphoria |
12 |
Chris Nemmo & Andree Eskay |
Affectation (Dousk rx) |
Restart Digital |
13 |
Solid Snake |
The Source |
Tribal Vision |
14 |
Ace Ventura |
Judo |
Iboga |
15 |
Astronivo |
Anything You Want (Beckers rx) |
Sprout |
16 |
Nok |
In Heaven With You |
Spin Twist |
17 |
RMS & Peak |
New Realm (Hedflux rx) |
Broken Robot promo |
18 |
Mesmer |
Solaris |
High Definition |
19 |
Slyde |
Jetset |
Global Underground |
20 |
DJ Code |
Buddha (break mix) |
Elektrax Progressive |
21 |
BSD |
You Must Find Strength |
iBreaks |
22 |
Neurodriver |
Sidewinder |
Broken Robot |
23 |
Future Funk Squad |
Isolate (Eshericks rx) |
En:Vision |
24 |
The Magnet Men |
Emetic |
Pure Filth |
25 |
Future Funk Squad |
RaveUlator (Bill Vega & New Decade rx) |
En:Vision |
26 |
Stormtrooperz |
Spirits |
Audiogore |
27 |
Audiomatic |
Metaphorik |
AP Records |
28 |
Symphonix |
The Good Old Times (Neelix rx) |
Blue Tunes |
29 |
Liquid Soul |
The Reason (Perfect Stranger rx) |
Iboga |
Download (246MB 192k MP3 179’43”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-10-20_with_luqas.mp3)] downloads
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: interstitial, progressive, psybreaks
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!
Download (242MB 192k MP3 176’27”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-10-17_cover.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
1 |
Behind Blue Eyes & Perfect Stranger |
Diamond In The Rough |
2 |
Perfect Stranger |
Easy |
3 |
Perfect Stranger & Liquid Soul |
Wildcave |
4 |
Save The Robot |
Mars Needs Time |
5 |
Underworld |
Cowgirl |
6 |
Ghettface & Yanix |
Wikked Wayz (BETA rx) |
7 |
PMT |
Gyromancer (False Prophet mix) |
8 |
Forme |
Let It All Out (By Numbers) |
9 |
Flack.Su(?) |
American Beauty (TN Tribute rx) |
10 |
BSD |
You Must Find Strength |
11 |
Pheex |
Number One |
12 |
Duke Walker |
Worm (Brainbug rx) |
13 |
David Weed |
Red Moon |
14 |
Yotopia |
Sleepless Hippies |
15 |
Felguk |
Guess What (Perfect Stranger rx) |
16 |
Jeremiah |
Surface Of The Moon (Umek rx) |
17 |
Space Manoeuvres |
Octobot |
18 |
Filth & Splendour vs Kalva |
Divide (Umek rx) |
19 |
Union Jack |
Two Full Moons And A Trout (14″ mix) |
20 |
Marmion |
Shoneberg (Man With No Name rx) |
21 |
1200 Mics |
Mescaline |
22 |
Eat Static |
Trantaloid |
23 |
Queens Park Derangers |
Create A Hippy |
24 |
Kiwa |
On The Frequency |
25 |
Skeetaz |
Slain And Pimple |
26 |
Mr Rogers |
DMT Factor |
27 |
Klone |
Metamorphosis |
28 |
Mr Rogers |
Mr Lemurian |
29 |
Cursor Miner |
Superluminary |
30 |
Phidelity |
Cell Abrasion |
31 |
Phidelity |
In The Details |
32 |
Cursor Miner |
This Is Electro |
Download (242MB 192k MP3 176’27”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-10-17_cover.mp3)] downloads
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: Goa trance, midtempo, progressive breaks, progressive house, psytrance, techno
For next Tuesday’s Tales of the Interstitial on PsyMusic Radio, I’ll be joined in the studio by rising psybreaks superstar LuQas.
LuQas is Luke Trott from Brighton England. Born and raised in Bristol, heβs been into dance music since around 2000, where friends and family supplied him a constant feed of prog-house mix tapes. By chance he purchased an early Y3K album after spotting a Sasha track and has been into breaks ever since. Not satisfied with being a punter, he bought his first decks in 2001, promoted a successful Brighton breaks night in 2004 and now is rapidly finding his niche as a producer of deep techy noises.
He draws influences from many different genres, particularly psy-trance and techno, and his varied DJ sets reflect this. Now a resident at the awesome night Slackers Convention, he plays regularly to a loyal crazy crowd of Brighton revellers. You can also catch him on NSB Radio every Saturday night where he fronts the Slackers show alongside Pav and Toxic Shock. With tracks signed to Dead Famous, Yellowfinger Communications, Hardplace Records and Future Perfect, LuQas is starting to gain recognition internationally, with forthcoming gigs in Croatia and Prague.
Luke will be bringing along a sackload of full-on psybreaks, and yours truly will be keeping it interstitial with the finest fizzling 4/4s on the flip. Whatever that means.
In the words of my guest: “Rah!!!!!!” Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Tales of the Interstitial episode IV: Tue 20th Oct: 7pm BST till late
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Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: interstitial, luqas, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance
I was asked to do a guest mix by Dead Famous Records (home of Robosapiens et al) label manager Daniella Downs for the “Dead Radio” show on iBreaks Radio. The deal is I get one in return at some point, so watch out for that… Anyway, I’d intended to do about 45 mins but it came out a shade under 80 and went out on iBreaks in full last Saturday, so I now offer it here as an all too rare burn-to-CD promo mix π
The name, iSpyBreaks, is a pun on iBreaks of course, and a recognition that while most of the tunes here are not exactly what most people would call psybreaks, they are varied representatives of the kind of epic, progressive breaks with tech edges and psy twists that has always been my main squeeze for the past 2 years. Some tunes are new, some are old but were so ahead of their time that they still fit. Hope you enjoy it.
Download (107MB 192k MP3 78’06”) [downloadcounter(quextal_i_spy_breaks_2009-10-08.192.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
1 |
Mad-Tek |
Meteor Shower |
2 |
Semi-Detached |
Who Da Fuck (False Prophet rx) |
3 |
Lifecycle |
Do Not Pass (Flack.Su rx) |
4 |
Ghettface & Yanix |
Wikked Wayz (BETA rx) |
5 |
BSD |
You Must Find Strength |
6 |
Rektchordz |
Left Behind (BETA rx) |
7 |
Neo |
Aura (Cosmonaut rx) |
8 |
Santos |
Combination |
9 |
Phil K & Habersham |
Cloudbrake |
10 |
Amb |
Rust |
11 |
Rennie Pilgrem |
Rich Rule Us (BSD rx) |
12 |
Koma & Bones |
Morpheus |
13 |
Introspective |
Skanky (Splitloop rx) |
14 |
Robosapiens |
Infected (LuQas rx) |
15 |
Future Funk Squad |
RaveUlator |
Download (107MB 192k MP3 78’06”) [downloadcounter(quextal_i_spy_breaks_2009-10-08.192.mp3)] downloads
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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes //
Tags: breaks, epic, ibreaks, progressive, psy, spy
Chunky. Funky. Rolling. Pulsing. Throbbing. Wobbling. For one night only, we went 100% techno, tech-house and tech-trance. Zero breakbeat guaranteed.
Download (163MB 192k MP3 119’09”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_brap_fm_2009-10-05_quextech.mp3)] downloads
# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Federico Milani |
Green (Alex Di Stefano rx) |
Hell Yeah |
2 |
Felguk |
Guess What (Perfect Stranger 2.4GHz Paranoia rx) |
Savage Media |
3 |
Glitter |
Poco Loco |
Kraft |
4 |
Halobeatz |
Beat It (Circuit Breaker rx) |
VIM promo |
5 |
Khainz |
Noizy |
Blue Tunes |
6 |
Loud |
Subinya (Perfect Stranger rx) |
Echoes |
7 |
Perfect Stranger & Liquid Soul |
Wildcave |
Blue Tunes |
8 |
Tom Novy |
Pumpin (Jason Young 2008 rx) |
Kosmo |
9 |
Umek |
2nd To None |
Rekluse |
10 |
Glitter |
Fight Floor |
Nuuktal Digital |
11 |
Fergie |
Exit People |
Hell Yeah |
12 |
Dropout |
Acid Monstruation |
Offaudio |
13 |
Tomy DeClerque |
Loky |
Hell Yeah |
14 |
Filth & Splendour vs Kalva |
Divide (Umek rx) |
Twisted Frequency |
15 |
Jeremiah |
Surface Of The Moon (Umek rx) |
Jeremiah |
16 |
Khainz |
Distance (Exercise One rx) |
Kumquat Tunes |
17 |
Space Manoeuvres |
Octobot |
Lost Language |
18 |
Loafer |
Dirt Bike |
Hope Recordings |
19 |
Lusine |
Falling In |
Ghostly International |
20 |
Scan Mode |
Terra Erre |
Antiritmo |
21 |
Gregor Tresher |
The Life Wire (Petar Dundov variation) |
Break New Soil |
Download (163MB 192k MP3 119’09”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_brap_fm_2009-10-05_quextech.mp3)] downloads
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 π
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, psytechno, quextech, tech-house, tech-trance, techno, void radio
The new Watchlist, where I big up the artists and labels who I consider to be at the forefront of the music I love, has been updated. Congratulations to Amb for earning his place (it’s been long-deserved, but I’ve only recently encountered the full extent of his achievements), and to our four new contenders in the Up & Comers section, well worth keeping an eye on.
I’ve been buying really silly amounts of music lately, mainly as a result of mostly eschewing the new releases in favour of digging around for more by artists and labels that I’ve dug before. If you have hours and hours and hours to spare I highly recommend it π
Anyway, it would appear that most of what’s landed in my download folder this week can be filed under tags such as chunky, funky, rolling, pulsing, throbbing and wobbling, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for a QuexTech Special! So on next week’s BrapFM show on Mon 5th Oct from 20:00 UK time I’ll lock the breakbeat away in a lead-lined box and devote the full 2 hours to the 4/4s. Techno, tech-house, tech-trance. All, of course, guided by my core passion for the progressive, the psychedelic, the synaesthetic.
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Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: brapfm, chunky, progressive, psychedelic, Radio Shows, tech-house, tech-psy, tech-trance, techno, void radio