Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode IX:
live on PsyMusic 20th Apr 2010

Sorry for the delay on this one… took a while to sort out the tracklist! Plenty of chunky progressive in effect, along with psybreaks, melodic dark electro and more, and closed out with some lush chilled beats. This one going out to Mike. Next show: 18th May 2010 – ooh, that’s tomorrow! 🙂

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: chilled, chunky, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psymusic, techno

Artists: Aerospace, Anarchy Rice, Andro, Asem Shama, Atmos, BSD, Beat Bizarre, Beatman, Behind Blue Eyes, Big Mistake, Bkp, Blazer, Cannabinoid, Chakra, Chris Micali, Colombo, DJ Ico, Depeche Mode, Desert Dwellers, Double D, Edi, El-Tron, Elite Force, Eltron, Flippers, Giakomo Rondinella, Grouch, Hardy Hard, Hedflux, Hybrid, Inkfish, Kilowatts, Kiwa, Krusseldorf, Kultur, Lady Waks, Liquid Ace, Liquid Soul, Ludmilla, Monkey, Mr X, NotoMash, Odissi, One Man Army, Pangaea, Paul Blackford, Peak, Perfect Stranger, Plastic Shell, Quadrat Beat, RMS, Rhino Drum, Ricky Ambilotti, Spooky, Squiddhartha, Ticon, Timmy, Tommy, Untold, Vibrasphere, Weekend Heroes, Zipmix, original dub, s)

Labels: 3 Liquid Hz, Acidphonic, Aurium, Ayra, Balkan Vinyl, Bandcamp, Ching Ching, Choo Choo, Darkdance, Disconekta, Distinct'ive, Dragonfly, Dusted Breaks, Festplatten, Full Tilt, Harmonious Discord, Hessle Audio, High Grade, Hotflush, Iboga, Lot49, Metamorph Muzik, Offaudio, Omnis, Operating System, Rapid Response, Spin Twist, Spooky UK, Tribal Vision, U&A, USB Digital, VIMtronica, Zoo Grooves

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VIII:
live on PsyMusic 16th Feb 2010
with special guest Re:Creation

A real treat for you this month as it was my pleasure to welcome Adam Goodlet, aka Re:Creation into the studio for a full live psytrance set, followed by 3 hours of b2b mixing across the psychedelic genres in true Interstitial style. Many thanks to Adam for coming in. I hope you all enjoy the results as much as we did!

We were unfortunately struck by a couple of broadband dropouts – fortunately they occurred either side of Adam’s live set so that’s not interrupted, but it means the evening’s proceedings have ended up split into three chunks. Adam’s selections are in this colour (although all the psyDnB/neurofunk — from Chook & Phace onwards — is from my stash 🙂 )

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(Quextal mix: psybreaks)

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(full live set from Re:Creation, plus beginning of Quextal b2b Re:Creation in the mix)

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(Re:Creation b2b Quextal in the mix: psytrance, psybreaks, progressive, techno, psydnb)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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(Quextal mix: psybreaks)

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(full live set from Re:Creation, plus beginning of Quextal b2b Re:Creation in the mix)

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(Re:Creation b2b Quextal in the mix: psytrance, psybreaks, progressive, techno, psydnb)

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, neurofunk, progressive, psybreaks, psydnb, psytrance, Re:Creation, techno

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Special Guest for Tuesday’s Tales

It’s my huge pleasure to welcome RE:CREATION into the studio for Tales Of The Interstitial this coming Tuesday 16th February.

Adam Goodlet has been known for some years for his top quality psytrance productions as one half of EPHEXIS, but has recently been proving he can create psybreaks of equal distinction as the “Peak” in RMS & PEAK. Now under his solo projects ATOMIC SPECIES and RE:CREATION he’s continuing to push the psychedelic envelope across the genres… so a suitably Interstitial guest then 🙂 Check out some of his productions over on the Re:Creation Soundcloud.

Tune in Tuesday evening from 7pm GMT, on PsyMusic Radio!

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: interstitial, psybreaks, psytrance

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VII:
live on PsyMusic 19th Jan 2010

If you’ve been struggling to get through all the recent 4+ hour shows, you’ll be pleased to hear that this month’s Interstitial clocks in at a mere 3½ 😀 Although since I only just posted December’s, you may have quite a lot of catching up to do… 😉

Warning: it starts off very glitchy: I think I inadvertantly lost a few listeners in the first minute who thought there must be a technical problem. Oops. Nope, it’s just a weird intro track from P&G…

After the intro we kick off with two of my latest artist discoveries: dope crunky beats from Opiuo, and blissed out fusion sounds from The Nasha Experience. Then we go delving into the darker, glitchier side of psybreaks and electro for a while. That leads into some techy and progressive 4/4s, before we bring the breaks back on an epic trippy nuskool tip, throwing in some techno and tech-funk for good measure, and finally bringing you down gently with a more chilled dub-tech breakbeat vibe.

Big ups all the Shoutbox crew for their support, especially n0sS – another enthusiastic new convert to Quextal’s Radical Interstitialism 😀 See you next time!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: bliss, dark, electro, electrobreaks, glitchy, interstitial, progressive, progressive psytrance, psybreaks, psymusic, techno

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode VI:
live on PsyMusic 29th Dec 2009

Sorry this one took a while… way back in the mists of time before New Year’s Eve, we took a 4 hour epic voyage through breaks, techno, glitch crunk, progressive and dnb, all with the trademark trippiness of course!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, dnb, glitch, interstitial, midtempo, neurofunk, progressive breaks, progressive psytrance, progressive trance, psybreaks, psydnb, psymusic, techno, techstep

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

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

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electro, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psychill, techno

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

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!

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: interstitial, progressive, psybreaks

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live on PsyMusic 20th Oct 2009
with special guest LuQas

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

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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Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: interstitial, luqas, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance

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Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode III:
live on PsyMusic 15th Sep 2009

I was very tired after the shenanigans of Waveform, so really appreciated all the people in the shoutbox keeping me going 🙂 So a simple progression this week, techno-progtrance-breaks-dnb with heavy side orders of glitch…

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, dnb, glitch, interstitial, progressive trance, psymusic, techno

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live on PsyMusic 15th Sep 2009

Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode II:
live on PsyMusic 1st Sep 2009

Take a deep breath in, and…..

psychill – wonky/glitchy midtempo breakbeat – hypnotic techfunk – claustrophobic darkfloor electro – minimal techno/tech-house (spooky/spacey – light/quirky – rolling/bassy – acid/bleepy) – tech-trance – electroglitch – skankin glitch-funk – heavy’n’dope – psylekdubstep – psylekdnb – psybreaks – psytechfunk – progressive psytrance – building and bouncy psytrance – trancey progressive hardhouse classics

It took longer to come up with the above description of last night’s musical journey than it did to transcribe the whole tracklist. I think I did it solely to demonstrate (to myself as much as anyone else) the futility of trying to try to nail down the genres I play, particularly in Tales Of The Interstitial whose stated purpose is to showcase the stuff that doesn’t neatly fit into named boxes. Half the above I patently made-up and won’t mean anything anyway, although if you’re bored you might like to play match-the-genre-description-to-the-tracks, and then I think you’ll find I’ve taken this pointless task very seriously. For all our sakes, I shall not bother doing so again. Instead, I have plans for potentially an even more bizarre but possibly also more useful way of describing my mixes for those who don’t recognise the tracks… ah the mystery, the suspense…

Aaaaanyway, it was another wicked show… thanks everyone for tuning in and egging me on.

I’ll try to add the label responsible for each release into my tracklists from now on alongside artists and titles. However it’s a total PITA because most of the time they don’t put that info in the filename or even the ID3 tag so I have to look it up… useful patterns may emerge from having this info about labels to watch, which will feed into my new watchlist, but if it seems like it’s not worth the time I may stop again. Or try to script it…

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Next show: Next Monday on BrapFM at 8pm BST, with very special guest Digital Fist. More details to follow. Then Tue 15th Sept on PsyMusic.

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: dubstep, glitch, hardhouse, hardtrance, interstitial, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, psychill, psytrance, techfunk, techno, trance

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live on PsyMusic 1st Sep 2009