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New NSB show starts tomorrow…

20 November 2009

Sat 21st Nov
19:00 GMT
NSB Radio

… the journey begins …

When stood behind the decks … you are confronting infinity — Lawgiverz

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode V:
live on PsyMusic 17th Nov 2009

17 November 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!

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

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Next show: My new show starts this Saturday 21st November, 7-9pm GMT, on NSB! Come and join the party!

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Mix: From The Depths

5 November 2009

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

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GoreCore 2

28 October 2009

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 πŸ™‚

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

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode IV:
live on PsyMusic 20th Oct 2009
with special guest LuQas

21 October 2009

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

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Mix: Live on PsyMusic 17th Oct 2009 (cover)

17 October 2009

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

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Next show: Tue 20th Oct with special guest LuQas!

15 October 2009

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, he’s 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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Mix: iSpyBreaks

12 October 2009

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 πŸ™‚

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

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Mix: QuexTech – Live on Brap FM 5th Oct 2009

5 October 2009

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

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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 πŸ™‚

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Watchlist updated; Next week’s show

27 September 2009

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 πŸ™‚

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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