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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Tags: brapfm, breaks, chunky, mix, psybreaks, Radio Shows, techno
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 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
We commenced with some chunky prog house, followed by a bit of electro house. There was plenty of breaks of the tech-, psy- and prog- varieties, we had a bit of progressive psytrance, then finished with some more psybreaks. Thanks all those who tuned in, and special shouts to THP and Shao for keeping the chatroom alive 🙂
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- Brisker & Magitman – Braniac
- Brisker & Magitman – Discodelic (Dousk rx)
- Red Moon – Monster (Vortex rx)
- Duca – United Nations
- Brothers Bud v THC – Feel Like Dancing (Micky Slim’s Extra Wrong mix)
- Mr No Hands – Chuggy
- Sharps – Girl Sweat
- Calvertron & Banga – Turn It Up (Karl Sav rx)
- Audiohazard – Track One (Headphonics rx)
- Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
- Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
- Future Funk Squad v Beatman & Ludmilla – About To Fall (orig – instrumental)
- Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
- Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
- Phrakture – 19th Hour
- LeftRight – Concrete Bounce (Kilowatts rx)
- Rauschwerk – Electronique
- Ace Ventura ft Liquid Soul – Psychic Experience
- Liquid Soul – Out Of The Blue
- Kiwa – On The Frequency
- Omar Santana & Evan Lewis – Hayley’s Comet
- Mr Frisk – Escape (Matt Harder’s Transform rx)
- Omar Santana & Dre Hectik – Universal Sound
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, electro, progressive, psybreaks, psytrance, void radio
First show of 2k9 kicked off with some downtempo breaks and then into dark bass’n’bleep techno, rising into chunky progressive territory, emerging into some epic and twisted electro/psy breaks, and closing out with some full-fat drum’n’bass. Fun for all the family!
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- A-Sham – Kalisha
- Ceasar K – Home Alone
- Tomy DeClerque & F.Sonik – Fetaqui
- Dropout – DNA
- Dropout – Bukkake
- Lutzenkirchen – Stumpfe Blumen
- Joseph Disco & Micky Monza – Dubrider (Lutzenkirchen mixdown)
- David Weed – Red Moon
- Desert Dwellers – A Little Spice
- Duca – Ducaralho
- Nyquist – Tilt
- Sneaky Kreeps – Don’t Get Fresh
- Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
- Mesmer – Wormsigns
- Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz rx)
- Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
- Robosapiens – Infected
- Chunk aka DJ Phunkae – NY is B (promo)
- Shaolin & Raydar ft Kidd Kaos – Madd Skillz (orig breaks mix)
- Mobius – Thugs
- Headphonics – Push The Limit (Movie mix)
- Eat Static – Tractor Beam
- Nitrous – Destiny (VIP mix)
- Psidream – Quasar
- Nude – Minds
- Cyantific – Flashback
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Next show: Same time, same place, 2nd Feb. See you then!
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, techbreaks, techno, void radio
Hi gang. Just to let you know I’ll be putting in a guest appearance alongside Ali Rutt on The Mobius Trip NSB this Monday 15th December, 7-9pm GMT. Bit of a mix each, bit of back2back, that kinda thing. Hope you can tune in and join us in the chatroom. 🙂
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: breaks, electro, nsb, nsbradio, nuskoolbreaks
Previously on NSB I’ve tended to stick to breaks. Tonight though I decided to loosen that rule: while still centred on psy/tech/elek-breaks, I moved freely out to chill, electro-house, and even a bit of progressive trance. I think it paid off, this was definitely my best and most enjoyable NSB show so far, and the chatroom crew seemed to like it too 🙂 Cheers to everyone who tuned in, and thanks to Ali for asking me to cover.
Next show: next Monday, 3rd November, Brap FM.
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- Nick Hogendoorn & Eelke Kleijn – The Rhythmshaker (Eelke Kleijn ambient mix)
- Dreadzone – The Warriors
- Pitch Black ft KP – Rude Mechanicals (PZ 3-beat mix)
- Spoon Wizard – Spoonkey
- Skein – Renegade
- Under This – Tonight
- Statyk – Rise & Fall
- Tomcraft – Loneliness
- Rehab Riot – Dirt Kontrol (5Eleven rx)
- unknown – Champion Hounds
- Robosapiens – Acid Reign
- Koma & Bones – Morpheus
- Soul Of Man – Dirty Waltzer
- 30Hz – Consume Daphne (Lee Coombs rx)
- Lowrider – Pitchdown (club mix)
- Chunk’n’Attack – Rocka Revolution
- Agent K – Can’t Hold Back
- Devine & Emilyplay – Kome Into My World
- DB3 – Baader (Dreadzone rx)
- Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
- Nick Hogendoorn & Eelke Kleijn – Fat Dragon
- BETA – Trojan
- Channel Surfer – Mega Bomb
- Myagi – Payback
- General Midi – Nuone
- Headphonics – Phase Dreamer
- New Order – Blue Monday (Hardfloor rx)
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: breaks, electro, nsb, nsbradio, progressive, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, techfunk, tracklist
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.
Categories: News, Radio Shows //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, Radio Shows, tech-house, techfunk, techno
Progressive breaks, techno, psy-prog. Innit.
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- Flack Su – T-Break
- Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – Two Freaks
- Koma & Bones – Morpheus
- BETA – Beat Funk
- Plastic Shell – Gutbucket
- Plastic Shell – Conestuck
- Uncless – Shinkanzen 2008 (Sonority Break rx)
- ZB – Felicidad (Mavann rx)
- Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
- Josh Millstone – As The Day Fades (Phunk Investigation Ghost mix)
- Andre Bastos – Ipod Smoking
- Lutzenkirchen – Casa Cadabra
- Freq – Away
- Symphonix – Music Prostitue (Duca rx)
- Coburn – Razorblade (S-Boyz rx)
- Duke Walker – Worm (Brainbug rx)
- Lunacy Sound Division – Suburban Zombie (Prime edit)
- Tocadisco – Morumbi
- D-Pen – Moroi (Presslaboys rx)
- Jet Project – Saber Force
- Matador – Satires (Lutzenkirchen rx)
- Mauro Picotto – Contaminate (Meganite mix)
- Beauty School – Suicide (The Scientifics rx)
- 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…
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives, Radio Shows //
Tags: brapfm, breaks, mix, progressive, Radio Shows, techno
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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- Uberzone – Germs
- Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks (unreleased dub mix)
- Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
- unknown – The Nomad Track
- DJ Stranger – Requiem (Access Denied breaks mix)
- Hyperion – On The Expressway
- General Midi – Further
- Sam Hell – Soft
- General Midi – Nuone
- Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
- Electrotec – Total Bass
- Plastic Shell – Foley
- BETA – Trojan
- Rob Reng – My Flava (Force Mass Motion rx)
- Skeetaz – Nein
- Boogie Army – Sex Drugs Rock And Roll
- Vandal – Idiots
- General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
- Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
- Elite Force – Engine
- Robert Armani – Circus Bells (Lee Coombs back to the future rx)
- Robosapiens – Acid Reign
- Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
- 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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Tags: breaks, nsb, progbreaks, psybreaks, Radio Shows, techbreaks
