We kicked off with some classic house, then oscillated around some tech-house, techno and oldskool acid trance, a bit of breaks took us into the wrongcore and psy-wonk midsection, from where we pulled out, via a bit more techno, to finish on the tech-breaks and psy-breaks. Yeah, I’m a genre tart.
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- 00’07” Orbital – Belfast
- 04’33” Innate – Imod
- 09’16” DeLacy – Hideaway (Deep Dish rx)
- 13’41” Lutzenkirchen – Broken Bullet
- 19’38” Facu Cruz & Nicholas Van Orton – Stereodust (Facu Cruz rx)
- 23’44” Josh Millstone – As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix)
- 27’38” Hardfloor – Acperience 1
- 34’40” Elite Force – You (Hybrid rx)
- 41’20” Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
- 48’12” Elite Force – Engine
- 54’41” Vandal – Idiots
- 58’20” Skeetaz – Nein
- 64’11” LeftRight – Concrete Bounce (Kilowatts rx)
- 71’05” Vlad Sokolov – Acid For Drains (The Bulgarian rx)
- 76’24” Mr Rogers – A Boy And His Blob
- 81’13” Mr Rogers – DMT Factor
- 86’08” Slinky Wire – Croaking Toads
- 90’03” Hardfloor – Lost In The Silver Box
- 97’00” General Midi – Nuone
- 101’16” Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
- 105’57” Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
- 111’43” DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
- 116’09” General Midi – Good To Go (extended mix)
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Thanks to all those who tuned in!
Next show: Monday 4th August, 8-10pm, Brap FM
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Starting Monday 7th July 2008 I’ll be playing the Void Radio slot on Brap FM once a month! It’ll be the first Monday of every month, 8-10pm. Hope to see some of you tuning in regularly… and don’t forget to get yourselves in the chatroom 🙂
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Somewhat belatedly, here’s the archive for my show on 16th June 2008: Techno, Progressive, Breaks.
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Next show is Monday 7th July, 8-10pm, on Brap FM. See you then!
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Don’t forget… n e x t w e e k e n d Bank Holiday Sunday 25th May 2008 everyone within a hundred miles of Southampton is instructed to converge on The Hobbit pub in that town at precisely 1pm (don’t be late or you’ll miss my set!) for 12 hours of massive musical mayhem and good times galore.
I’ve been given the honour of starting the proceedings, 1-2 in the afternoon. There will be barbecue there with good food, so no need to have lunch before you come down. You should obviously expect to be dancing for the whole of my set 8-), but then you’ll have worked up a proper appetite and you’ll appreciate that nice charred burger all the more.
And of course, it’s all for a good cause: Everyone involved in putting on the party is giving their services and equipment for free, so all proceeds and donations go straight to Oxfam to help those whose need is so unimaginably greater than ours. We get a really great party. They get access to fresh water, or a goat, or emergency rations, and the support of an organisation which continues to campaign for a fairer world, for the rights of the world’s poorest people to clean water, sufficient food, shelter, healthcare, knowledge… the essentials of survival that we take for granted.
Categories: Gigs //
Tags: club, dj set, gig, oxfam, oxjam, the hobbit
Archive and tracklist from tonight’s show, weaving from breaks to progressive to techno. Thanks to all who tuned in!
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- 00’00” FSOL – Papua New Guinea (Hybrid rx)
- 06’35” Aeron Aether – Aeristhesia
- 11’44” BETA – Beat Funk
- 17’34” Elite Force – You (Hybrid rx)
- 23’25” Hyperion – On The Expressway
- 29’02” The Magnet Men – Arms Length
- 34’11” Anti-Science – Get Hype
- 39’41” Aaron Sigmon – Power of Bass
- 43’39” Atomic Hooligan – I Don’t Care (Tom Kraft rx)
- 47’42” Skeetaz – Nein
- 53’44” Etostone – Massacre
- 59’08” Novy & Isma-ae vs Transform – Transformation (club mix)
- 65’43” BLT – Six Feet Under (Perfect Stranger rx)
- 71’50” Simon & Shaker vs Groove Garcia – Soultech (Simon & Shaker rx)
- 78’56” Freq – Return of the Master (RPO rx)
- 82’15” Timo Garcia – Magic Roundabout (Lutzenkirchen rx)
- 87’28” Jet Project – Saber Force
- 94’10” The Touch – Heart of the City (Pig & Dan rx dub vn)
- 100’12” Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx)
- 104’35” Lutzenkirchen – Sunmariner
- 109’09” De-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
- 114’41” Lutzenkirchen – Storm Chaser
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, progressive, Radio Shows, techno
I’d been on standby during Ali Rutt’s show in case he had internet problems. He didn’t, but JoeBot did on the following show, so (despite having had a few beers by that point) I ended up covering for an hour and a half. Many thanks to all the chatroom crew for the positive feedback 🙂
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- 00’05” Robosapiens – The Truth
- 06’54” Hyperion (Oz) – On The Expressway
- 11’47” The Magnet Men – Arms Length
- 17’27” BETA – Trojan
- 22’19” Aeron Aether – Aeristhesia
- 27’33” BETA – Beat Funk
- 33’26” Plastic Shell – Foley
- 39’03” Robosapiens – Acid Reign
- 44’26” Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
- 48’58” DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
- 53’10” Anti-Science – Get Hype
- 58’11” Atomic Hooligan – I Don’t Care (Tom Kraft rx)
- 62’55” General Midi – Nuone
- 67’23” Robosapiens – Trussed
- 73’13” Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
- 77’25” Freeflow 45 – Low Contour
- 82’15” Far Too Loud – Play It Loud
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breaks, psybreaks, techbreaks
Quextal returns to the Void Radio slot on Brap FM on Monday 5th May 2008. Boarding at 8pm (UK Time), as always I’ll be taking you on a two-hour voyage through caverns measureless to man and out into deep space, catalysed by the very finest selections of trippy tuneage this side of Ursa Minor Beta, and paying no particular regard to pigeons or their holes.
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Do hope you can come along for the ride. If so, get yourselves in the chatroom — no need to register, just point your favourite IRC client at 72.20.48.120, channel #brap.fm, or just direct your browser to the Java client.
If you can’t make it, the show will be archived here soon afterwards… darkice willing…
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Tags: brapfm, outofthevoid, Radio Shows, void, void radio
I’ll be playing alongside a baker’s dozen of the other finest southcoast DJs at this event, masterminded by those crazy folk over at Out Of The Void. The date and time for your diary is 1pm to 1am on the Bank Holiday Sunday 25th May, and it’s all for charidee, so even if you don’t care about seeing me play, come along anyway. Last year’s event was several metric shedloads of fun, and this one is shaping up to be even more awesome, if such a thing were possible.
Exactly what style of music I’ll be playing has yet to be determined… depends on the running order. But whatever it is, you can be sure it’s music for the mind, the heart and the feet, so come ready to dance…
EDIT: I’ll be on first (1pm) so I guess I’d better play something of an uplifting and progressive flavour (breaks/house/trance) rather than spooky techno. Probably.
Categories: Gigs, News //
Tags: outofthevoid, oxfam, oxjam, party, southampton, the hobbit
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Well. I got back from the pub about midnight, and then instead of going to bed like any normal person who has to be up at 7am next day, I stayed up and did a mix from the CDs I’ve just burned of the minimal techno I bought online yesterday and haven’t listened to yet. I’d inscribed the CD “Techno and/or Minimal” but it now seems the “or” was superfluous. This is not deep, chilled minimal like the middle part of this mix, and neither is it full-on hard stompy techno. It occupies that perfect centre of afterhours music (as far as I’m concerned) where it is equally suited to dancing around the lounge, hipswinging while seated, mild head nodding, or non-motile appreciation in a more horizontal and relaxed position (but definitely not sleep.) Most importantly of course, it progresses, it journeys, it trips, and takes you with it through different places and spaces in your imagination. It is alchemical – by means of sound, it creates images, feelings, sensations. Or, you create, it facilitates. I merely facilitate the facilitation. And I LOVE doing it.
There’s probably a couple of rough edges due to the fact that I was (and am) a bit mullered (could you tell?), I’ve never played these tunes before, and I couldn’t hear very well as I kept the volume low out of respect for my neighbours at this hour. But sod excuses, I managed to blow my own head off repeatedly both during the mix and listening to it back afterwards, so I thought I’d share it with you. Hope you like it, and as always your feedback is always welcome (add a comment or send an email).
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This mix is also known as:
“If you don’t love minimal techno… You Will.”
- (00’00”) Bigger Than Jesus – Itchy Glitchy Spider (Fergie rx) – Silver Planet
- (05’24”) Bread and Butter – Kartoffel – Hot Slice
- (10’35”) Cabal – All In Off – Subtronic
- (14’03”) Patrice D’Angelo – Happy Lab – Freaky Cabs
- (19’59”) James Unk – Drop – Lessizmore
- (25’34”) Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx) – Plain
- (31’42”) Jesse Voorn ft ZoXenia – SeeMe (DJ Lion dub) – USB Digital
- (37’13”) Sara Galli – Machete – 303Lovers
- (41’25”) The Junkies – Uneasy Feeling – PBR Recordings
- (47’21”) The Touch – Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub version) – Trunkfunk
- (53’32”) Utku Dalmaz – Little More – Bosphorus Underground
By popular request, I’ve upped the audio quality: from now on studio mix MP3s will be 192kbps.
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Tags: afterhours, dark, minimal, spooky, techno
