Well that was a most enjoyable way to round off a wicked weekend! We kicked off with a load of chunky ‘n’ squelchy techno, tech-house and progressive, before moving into breaks of the phat, techy and progressive flavours for the second hour, and finishing on some phar-out psybreaks. Special shouts to mike, jels and tomski in the chat for all the positive vibes, glad you enjoyed it and hopefully see you again 🙂
Next show: Monday 1st June, 8pm BST, Brap FM – it’s Quextal’s Birthday Bonanza so expect something extra special 😀
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- Robosapiens – Cold Sweat
- Fractal – Oceanography (Toby Emerson rx)
- Synchronized – Awakening (Nicholas Van Orton rx)
- Gai Barone – Lilith (Jerome Isma-ae’s Brainfuck rx)
- Umek – You Might Hear Nothing
- Yotopia – Sheer Mayhem
- Hybrid – Gravastar
- Monaque – Solaris
- Far Too Loud – All Is Machine
- Hedflux – Non Stop
- Hironimus Bosch – Gamma (Robosapiens rx)
- DJ Mutiny ft Dii Gii – Dreams Come True
- SL2 – Way In My Brain 2009
- J*O*K*R – Dr Oetker (Quadrat Beat rx)
- IITone – Crush
- Dascyllus – Odessa Keys
- 4Kuba – Spacebuggy (BETA rx)
- J*O*K*R – Salad Shaker (Groovediggerz rx)
- Journeyman & Barrcode – Crush Groovin’
- Rex – Evil Buddha Comb
- Solar Chrome – Cellular Automaton
- Scorb – Ipso Fvcto
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, chunky, mix, psybreaks, Radio Shows, techno
If you’ve seen me play out recently, indicated that you’re feeling what I’m doing, and earned a special limited edition Quextal business card for your trouble… hello 🙂 I really appreciate the feedback. You’ve inspired me to get on with uploading more studio mixes, so hold tight for those, and in the meantime, hope you enjoy Psylekbreaks.
If you’re around, I’d really love your company on Monday 4th May at 8pm on Brap FM for my regular genre-hopping smorgasbord of electronic delights. Come and say hi in the chatroom 🙂
Want a reminder? There are lots of ways to keep in touch, but the easiest is to search for Quextal on Facebook and join the group 🙂
Big love xxx
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
It’s been far too long since I uploaded a studio mix. Partly this is down to increasing numbers of gigs and radio shows which occupy a large part of my time plying the decks these days. But it’s not as if I haven’t been making studio mixes from time to time, I was just never quite happy enough with them to upload.
Well, time for that to change. If there’s one message I’m receiving loud and clear every time I play out, it’s that there are people out there who are desperate to hear the kind of stuff that I play. Whatever that is! And even if I think a mix is flawed (usually because I think the tune selection could have been better rather than any technical error these days), you’d rather have that, than silence.
So here you are. This mix covers a fairly wide selection from across the spectrum of progressive, psychedelic, tech and electro flavoured breakbeats that float my boat. It’s plainly more of a home or car listening CD than the sort of journey I would construct at a club or festival, but it should take you to some interesting places. Enjoy 🙂
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- Espion – MKYF
- Starflower – Process the Future
- Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
- Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
- BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
- Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
- Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
- Marc Adamo – Krakupz
- D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
- Digital Base – White Lines (Robosapiens rx)
- Robosapiens – Robots
- C-Vaughn ft Annalyze – Straight Up
- C-Vaughn – Waste Away
- Vent – Turn The Page
- Livin So Fast – HandBreak
- MKM & GBX – I Don’t Think So
- Myagi – Giorgio Marauder
- Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes //
Tags: breakbeat, dubstep, electrobreaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, studio mix, techfunk
Normally my mixes are all beatmatched to perfection (!) so tend to either hang around the same BPM or gradually accelerate from say 128 to 145. But with this month’s show I wanted to push back the boundaries, playing a more twisted style of electro-psy-breaks including some much slower and faster than the normal range.
I’d been on a massive acquisition binge with freshly burned CDs containing 60 new tunes, with only space for about 25 in a 2-hour show, so the selection is nice and varied… but the transitions and the overall shape of the journey could perhaps have done with more planning. I definitely need to figure out some more tricks to blend between wildly different BPMs.
Anyway, it didn’t seem to matter at the time, the promise of sick and twisted beats drew in a record-equalling number of listeners and an all-time record number of chatters compared to any of my previous Brap show’s, and you all loved it didn’t you, you dirty dirty people 😉
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- Tipper – Flat Ripple
- Tipper – Swamp Thing
- EPROM – 64 Bytes (Vibesquad rx)
- Tipper – A Touch of the Vapours
- Smacs & Patrick Kong – Offside
- Dylan Rhymes ft Pablo Decoder – I Am Sweet (Tom Real rx)
- Steve Mac – Roller Coaster (Adam Shaw rx)
- Tom Cosm – Naughty Chicken
- Antix – Circade (Tom Cosm rx)
- Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)
- Espion – Architektur (original)
- Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx)
- Robosapiens – Robots
- Marc Adamo – Throttlefunk
- Cybass – Wind It Back (Afghan Headspin rx)
- Koma & Bones – High Rollin
- D-Ranged – Sins of Claire (Lawgiverz rx)
- The Phat Riderz – Organic Neurosis
- Meat Katie – Can’t Hear Ya
- Cursor Miner – This Is Electro
- Tom Cosm – Heebie Jeebies
- Vent – Turn The Page
- Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz Convict of Nature rx)
- Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers (Point B rx)
- Marc Adamo – Krakupz
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Big love to Espion, Jamie Robosapiens and Greg VIM for the promos. Any other producers/labels want to put me on your lists in return for honest feedback, and airplay – if I like ’em! (unless you’d prefer not in which case just say!), the address to use is quextal.removethisbit@quextal.com 8) Got radio shows and gigs coming up next week so get on it 😉
Next radio show (to be confirmed) B2B with Ali Rutt, NSB, Mon 13th Apr, 7-9pm BST
Next gig: That Night @ Ad Hoc, High St, Southampton UK Sat 18th Apr
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breakbeat, breaks, electrobreaks, glitch, lawgiverz, psybreaks, psychedelic, squelch, tech-house, tipper, twisted
This month I have been mostly buying dark and twisted electro-psychedelic breakbeats at all bpms from 75-175, so expect plenty of that, but that’s certainly not all, I can hardly neglect the 4/4-beats entirely when I’ve had a good handful of sweet tech-house promos through too…
How, you ask, will Quextal sew all this together into a seamless coherent journey? Can it be done? I have no idea. Tune in to find out! 8pm BST tonight – http://brap.fm – see you in the chatroom 🙂
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
To continue the wake for Ali’s PC, I went on a marathon tune shopping binge, so most of tonight’s show was shiny new. And a quality show it was too if I say so myself, which I do. I really can’t be arsed trying to categorise it into tiny subgenres though, so I’ll just say it’s Top Shelf Breaks and leave it at that. Big ups the chatroom crew. Ali’s back next week, even if he has to do the show from my house!
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- BreakZhead – It’s Cold
- Halobeatz & Matroid – All Glory
- G! & Special Kase – Hey You! (Ceasar K rx)
- AMB – Flagpole
- Loop De Ville ft Michelle Upton – The One (Butter Party rx)
- Drumattic Twins – Don’t Be So Drumattic
- Blackstone – Technical Desert (Bitrocka rx)
- DJ Feat – Break The Point
- MKM & GBX – Xtra Xtra
- Farace – The Life
- BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
- Digipack – Electronic Outlaw Underground
- Access Denied – Lucky Bitches (Adsorb rx)
- Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
- MKM & GBX – I Don’t Think So
- C-Vaughn ft Annalyze – Straight Up
- Audiohazard – Track One (Headphonics rx)
- Jake Shanahan ft G Thomas – Bad Attitude (J2K rx)
- Break The Box – Prostitutes and Video Games
- Darkmode – Natural City (Decal rx)
- Shaolin & Raydar ft Kidd Kaos – Madd Skillz (orig breaks mix)
- C-Vaughn – Waste Away
- Neofluxx – Machines Over The Dancefloor (Altered Beats rx)
- Vandal – Idiots
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Covering for Ali again tonight as his PC’s broken… I felt in a bit of an experimental mood, so we started with some slower funky stuff, went all epic progressive for a while, then settled into a kind of electro-techfunk-psybreaks circuit for the second hour or so.
Thanks as always to all those who tuned in and the ever-random chatroom crew. Love you all, you mad people.
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- Smoove & Turrell – I Can’t Give You Up (A-Skillz rx)
- Mr No Hands – Chuggy
- Rektchordz – Tramp Stamp
- Ottone – Lush
- Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
- Hybrid – Formula of Fear (Hybrid rx)
- Abakus – Indu (Shiloh rx)
- Jinx – Twilight 2000 (BETA rx)
- Seth Vogt – Don’t Turn Away
- Under This – Tonight
- BP and One – Revolution
- BSD – Funkdation
- Access Denied – Lucky Bitches (Adsorb rx)
- Elite Force – Godfather (with a Groove)
- (unknown) – Champion Hounds
- Omar Santana & Evan Lewis – Hayley’s Comet
- Robosapiens – Infected
- Calvertron & Banga – Turn It Up (Karl Sav rx)
- Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
- General Midi – Nuone
- Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
- Mr Frisk – Escape (Matt Harder’s Transform rx)
- Omar Santana & Dre Hectik – Slutronica
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: electrobreaks, funky, nsb, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, techfunk
This coming Friday, 6th March, you can catch me playing at an excellent night in Bristol called WaxOnWaxOff, which takes place at a great little venue called Chesters on Frogmore Street. I had a wicked time at the last WO:WO (just as a punter) so I’m reallly looking forward to this one.
The music policy is a heady mixture of fat breaks and twisty psytrance, so of course I’ll be concentrating on psybreaks 🙂
Shimon (RAM/FingerLickin) is headlining, with support from Dexter Styles, Mishima and Tethis. It runs 10pm-4am and admission is only £2 b4 11, £4 after.
Hope to see you there 🙂
Categories: Gigs, News //
Tags: breaks, Bristol, club, gig, psybreaks, psytrance
I’ll be joined in the studio tonight by a special guest… ROOT 8. He’s a regular fixture at some of Southampton’s best underground nights including Clinophobia and Psychedelic Saturday, so I’m sure he’ll have some quality discs to spin for us tonight.
Tune in from 8pm for another genre-hopping tech-trip!
Tune in: http://212.72.165.26:9418/listen.pls
Chatroom: http://www.brap.fm/forums/ircchat/brapchat.html
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Many thanks to special guest Cut Freqz for joining me in the studio with some fat vinyl. The first three tracks were mine, then it’s back2back all the way, mixing it up from electro to heavy bassline breaks.
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- Rektchordz – Tramp Stamp
- Jinx – Twilight 2000 (BETA rx)
- The Scientifics – Invading Claire
- Freefall Collective – System Check
- Dopamine & Diverted – First To The Floor
- Omar Santana – Raver’s Damnation (Evil Z & DJ Fix rx)
- BSD – Funkdation
- Noisia – Brainstitch (Aquasky rx)
- Amb – Rust
- Equalizers – Wide Awake
- Dopamine – Come Closer (Boonos rx)
- Pyramid v Far Too Loud – The System
- Access Denied – Lucky Bitches (Adsorb rx)
- D-Ranged – Sand Mouth
- Seth Vogt – Don’t Turn Away
- Timmy Schumacher – X-Rated
- Jake Shanahan ft G. Thomas – Bad Attitude (J2K rx)
- Afghan Headspin – Bang Spanner
- Neo – Diskhead (Anorganik rx)
- Deekline & Wizard – Up For The Posse
- Cavemen – Kidz (Suspender rx)
- D-Ranged – Control Freek (Far Too Loud rx)
- The Prodigy – Omen (Noisia rx)
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Hopefully got another special guest coming in next week for the Brap show… watch this space 🙂
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
