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Two gigs coming up in November

14 October 2008

These are gonna be awesome, Void knows how to throw parties 🙂

I’m playing from 9pm at the Southampton gig (8th Nov), and 4pm at the Bristol one (15th Nov). The tour also takes in Winchester, Brighton and Portsmouth.

Void vs Brap Tour Flyer side A

Void vs Brap Tour Flyer side B

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 6th Oct 2008

6 October 2008

What we have here is a kind of fat sandwich, featuring a chunky filling of deep and trippy minimal techno and tech-house, surrounded on each side by seedy slices of electro-psy-breaks and tech-funk, and jazzed up with a few bits of salad from selected other genres. Enjoy!

Next shows:

  • 27th Oct, 7-9pm, NSB, covering for Ali Rutt.
  • 3rd Nov, 8-10pm, BrapFM, my usual Void Radio slot (first Monday of every month).

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  1. Monosurround – Hello World
  2. Ottone – Lush
  3. Tomcraft – Loneliness
  4. 30Hz – Consume Daphne (Lee Coombs rx)
  5. Lowrider – Pitchdown (club mix)
  6. Mike Balance & Joey Mazzola – Flow (Miles Dyson rx)
  7. Klovn – I Want You (Dirty Deal rx)
  8. Moby – Disco Lies (The Dusty Kids Fears rx)
  9. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
  10. Lutzenkirchen – Sunmariner
  11. D-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
  12. Synthetique – Bauhaus
  13. Lars Wickinger – Undertaker
  14. Masaya – Like A Fish In Water
  15. Tigerskin – Peter’s Secret Weapon
  16. Vibrasphere – Wasteland (Fiord rx)
  17. Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx)
  18. David K – Boul De Nerf
  19. The Touch – Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub vn)
  20. Hardfloor – Lost In The Silver Box
  21. Skein – Renegade
  22. Channel Surfer – Mega Bomb

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Next radio show: Monday 6th October

3 October 2008

Once again Quextal seizes control of the airwaves of Brighton (101.4FM) and the fibreopticwaves of the interfrob (http://brap.fm) this Monday, 8-10pm. This month I have mostly been eating trippy minimal space techno and tech-house, so expect plenty of that, alongside the usual finely-crafted melée of doof, blurble, fizz, swoosh, thump, wonk and flip-trip-swizzlestick. You knows it.

Tune in, spazz out.

Direct links:

Sign up to the Facebook page and/or the Facebook group to get a reminder in your Updates or Inbox respectively, or email me your moby to get an SMS on the day. You don’t want to miss it, you’ll cry.

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 1st Sep 2008

2 September 2008

Heavy on the electro-breaks this week, with a brief excursion into minimal techno of both soft and hard flavours before ending on a bit o’ psytrance, just for shizzles. Thanks for listening!

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  1. Agent K – Can’t Hold Back
  2. Bad Boys – Bad Boys (Ottone rx)
  3. Foxxy – Arcadia (Ave rx)
  4. Lowrider – Pitchdown (club mix)
  5. Myagi – Come & Penetrate
  6. Mike Balance & Joey Mazzola – Flow (Miles Dyson rx)
  7. Uberzone – 4 Bit (2 Bit Uberzone Downgrade mix)
  8. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
  9. Break The Box – Anika
  10. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
  11. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
  12. Zimbardo – Say Hey (Plaza De Funk rx)
  13. Pilot – Dilema (Plastic Shell rx)
  14. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
  15. Kickflip – Pirate Signal
  16. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri Live mix)
  17. Marco G & DJ Kal – DaHead
  18. Lutzenkirchen – Casa Cadabra
  19. Nicole Moudaber – 3rd Leg
  20. Mauro Picotto – Contaminato (Meganite mix)
  21. Bigger Than Jesus – Itchy Glitchy Spider (Fergie rx)
  22. Eat Static – Sin-Quest
  23. Rinkadink – Disco Decay (Neelix rx)

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My next scheduled show is 6th October, 8-10pm, Brap FM.

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New reminder services

23 August 2008

Chatted to a few people recently who’ve said they keep meaning to tune in to a show but forget. They might have just been saying that of course… but anyway, as I’m a helpful sort of a chap, I’ve set up a few new options that you can sign up to to receive a memory jogger.

  • If you’re on Facebook, as well as the Fan page which sends “Updates”, which are easy to miss, you can now join the Quextal Group which will send occasional news and reminders directly to your inbox (no more that 3-4 per month, I won’t drown you).
  • If you’re on MSN or use an Instant Messaging client which supports it, such as Pidgin (formerly Gaim), add quextalXXX@YYYquextal.com (without the Xs and Ys) as a buddy, and if I see you logged in just before a show, you’ll get a reminder right there.
  • If you’re on Twitter, you can start following me here, and I’ll try to remember to actually update it once in a while…
  • If you have a UK mobile number, you can email it to me at quextalXXX@YYYquextal.com and I’ll send you a text message.

Privacy statement: I will not pass your details on to anyone without your permission, ever, unless people beat it out of me with sticks, and even they they’d have to be really big sticks.

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Next radio show: Monday 1st September

22 August 2008

Quextal’s next scheduled appearance on the airwaves and netwaves is on Monday 1st September 2008, 8-10pm UK time, on Brap FM.

Direct links on the night:

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio (last minute cover)

11 August 2008

The DJ who was supposed to be covering Ali’s show had some kind of technology-related disaster, and by the time I tuned in there was dead air, so I jumped on to cover for the cover, so to speak, hence why this is only 72 minutes instead of 120.

But in that 72 minutes we got epic psybreaks, tech breaks, prog breaks, electro breaks, oldskool breaks, wrongcore breaks, and even some drum’n’bass.

Here’s the high-quality archive for your enhanced aural pleasure:

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  1. Paul Blackford – The Groove (Shinra rx)
  2. Koma & Bones – Black Satsuma
  3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
  4. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
  5. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
  6. SL2 – DJs Take Control
  7. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
  8. BETA – Trojan
  9. Break The Box – Anika
  10. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
  11. Uberzone – 4 Bit (Uberzone’s 2 Bit Downgrade mix)
  12. Skeetaz – Nein
  13. DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
  14. Eat Static – Tractor Beam
  15. Cyantific – Flashback

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 4th Aug 2008

7 August 2008

Progressive breaks, techno, psy-prog. Innit.

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  1. Flack Su – T-Break
  2. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – Two Freaks
  3. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
  4. BETA – Beat Funk
  5. Plastic Shell – Gutbucket
  6. Plastic Shell – Conestuck
  7. Uncless – Shinkanzen 2008 (Sonority Break rx)
  8. ZB – Felicidad (Mavann rx)
  9. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
  10. Josh Millstone – As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix)
  11. Andre Bastos – Ipod Smoking
  12. Lutzenkirchen – Casa Cadabra
  13. Freq – Away
  14. Symphonix – Music Prostitue (Duca rx)
  15. Coburn – Razorblade (S-Boyz rx)
  16. Duke Walker – Worm (Brainbug rx)
  17. Lunacy Sound Division – Suburban Zombie (Prime edit)
  18. Tocadisco – Morumbi
  19. D-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
  20. Jet Project – Saber Force
  21. Matador – Satires (Lutzenkirchen rx)
  22. Mauro Picotto – Contaminate (Meganite mix)
  23. Beauty School – Suicide (The Scientifics rx)
  24. Oliver Huntemann – Sao Paulo

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Next show: Monday 1st September 8-10pm BST. Sign up to my Facebook fan page for a reminder nearer the time…

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Next radio show: Monday 4th August

28 July 2008

Your next chance to participate in a full Quextal journeying experience through/around/between the genres is this Monday 4th August on Brap FM, 8-10pm BST.

Direct links:

See you there!

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio, 21st July 2008

22 July 2008

My most excellent friend, superstar DJ and now budding co-producer of most excellent tuneage Ali Rutt, asked if I would like to cover his show tonight. Fortunately I’ve been catching up with the tune shopping recently anyway, and I had baskets full of new stuff at DJD and Juno already.

Mostly not breaks though. Breaks releases seem to have dried up a bit of late (while the tech-house and techno proliferate with over 1000 releases a week on DJD alone… mostly of badly produced shite that would never have made it onto vinyl… the cross I must bear for it being easier for me to sell my tunes when I resume production, is to trawl through this great haystack of dross looking for the tiny handful, 10 on a good day, but often just 2 or 3, diamond-tipped needles shining amongst them. It takes hours, so I don’t do it every week, and then suffer the FEAR that I have missed the GREATEST TUNE OF THE YEAR, the one that puts goosebumps the size of molehills in your skin, that sends rushes of colour and sparkles of electricity radiating around and through your whole body…)

I digress. It’s been a while since I’ve played 2 hours of breaks. I tried to bring as much variety as I could within the genre, but it ended up staying on the fairly full-on side of tech-breaks, psy-breaks, electro-prog and glitchy wrongness. All good dirty fun.

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  1. Uberzone – Germs
  2. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks (unreleased dub mix)
  3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
  4. unknown – The Nomad Track
  5. DJ Stranger – Requiem (Access Denied breaks mix)
  6. Hyperion – On The Expressway
  7. General Midi – Further
  8. Sam Hell – Soft
  9. General Midi – Nuone
  10. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
  11. Electrotec – Total Bass
  12. Plastic Shell – Foley
  13. BETA – Trojan
  14. Rob Reng – My Flava (Force Mass Motion rx)
  15. Skeetaz – Nein
  16. Boogie Army – Sex Drugs Rock And Roll
  17. Vandal – Idiots
  18. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
  19. Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
  20. Elite Force – Engine
  21. Robert Armani – Circus Bells (Lee Coombs back to the future rx)
  22. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
  23. Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
  24. Far Too Loud – Play It Loud

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In a new development, this show was the first successful test of archiving at a higher quality than the broadcast. The show went out at 96k mono as always (Yes, mono; NSB seems to think it’s 1950), but the download here is at 192k stereo. Yay for darkice, and for my 7-year old PC coping with the extra load. I’ll do this for every show now, unless I get told off. You deserve quality, dear listeners. Your ears are a holy shrine, a temple devoted to music, and they should no more suffer a 96k mono stream than listen to music on AM. In my not very humbly-expressed opinion. The several artists who contacted me to thank me for including them on Late Nite Tech Trip, which is at 192k, suggests that they understand that having their tunes included on high-quality mixes means more people get to hear their tunes, more people like their tunes, more people go and buy their tunes. No-one over the age of 12 is so tight that they’d rip a tune out of a mix instead of buying it, which would be the modern equivalent of making a compilation tape from bits of songs you recorded off Radio 1 and attempted, not very well, to edit out the bit where Bruno Brookes talks over the end.

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