Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode XII:
live on PsyMusic 20th Jul 2010

This month started with a quick tour of midtempo, gentle into glitch-crunk, then switched into psybreaks, but most of the show was given over to the stack of great journeying chunky progressive I’d just bought… with a bit of minimal / tech-house to wind down. Big shouts to all the chatroom crew 🙂
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: crunk, glitch, interstitial, midtempo, minimal, progressive, progressive house, progressive trance, psybreaks, psymusic, tech-house

Artists: AMB, Ajja, Andrea Bertolini, Andrey Mute, Andy Faze, Arksun, Bumel, Chris Micali, Cursor Miner, DJ Ico, DJ Slater, Dan, David K, Dirt Crew, Dos Santos Threesixty, Double D, Dual Boot, Duca, Fiord, Flippers, Francesco Pico, Hedflux, Ill.Gates, Jade, Jellyfish, Jerome Isma-Ae, Josh Millstone, Knowa Knowone, LuQas, Macho, Mesmer, Mouldysoul, Opiuo, Phony Oprhants, Phony Orphants, Phunk Investigation, Pig, Point B, Quade, Quantize, Quextal, Robosapiens, Sawtooth, Seed, Sleek, Slinky Wire, Squarefeet, The Touch, Tomcraft, Triple Agent, Uniphi, Vibrasphere, Visua, Yotopia

Labels: Addictech, Armada, Audio Therapy, Aurium Recordings, Ball of Waxx, Blue Tunes, Broken Robot, Combat, Dead Famous, Dirt Crew, Echoes Records, Exogenic, Freak N Chic, Grooves For You, Iboga, Muti, New State, Operating System, Organic Domain, Peak, Ridiculoud, Scarcity, Tribal Vision, Trunkfunk, http://opiuo.bandcamp.com, via Soundcloud

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live on PsyMusic 20th Jul 2010

Mix: From The Depths

Here’s a deep techno and tech-house mix I did over a year ago and never quite got round to uploading due to the usual uncertainty about whether I’d got the flow of the journey quite right. But I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about it so here you go…

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: deep, minimal, organic, progressive, spacey, tech-house, techno

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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

Mix: Live on Brap FM 5th Jan 2009

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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1. A-Sham – Kalisha
2. Ceasar K – Home Alone
3. Tomy DeClerque & F.Sonik – Fetaqui
4. Dropout – DNA
5. Dropout – Bukkake
6. Lutzenkirchen – Stumpfe Blumen
7. Joseph Disco & Micky Monza – Dubrider (Lutzenkirchen mixdown)
8. David Weed – Red Moon
9. Desert Dwellers – A Little Spice
10. Duca – Ducaralho
11. Nyquist – Tilt
12. Sneaky Kreeps – Don’t Get Fresh
13. Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
14. Mesmer – Wormsigns
15. Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz rx)
16. Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
17. Robosapiens – Infected
18. Chunk aka DJ Phunkae – NY is B (promo)
19. Shaolin & Raydar ft Kidd Kaos – Madd Skillz (orig breaks mix)
20. Mobius – Thugs
21. Headphonics – Push The Limit (Movie mix)
22. Eat Static – Tractor Beam
23. Nitrous – Destiny (VIP mix)
24. Psidream – Quasar
25. Nude – Minds
26. 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

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Two gigs coming up in November

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.

Categories: Gigs, News // Tags: brap, brapfm, Gigs, minimal, outofthevoid, oxjam, progressive, psybreaks, techno, void

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Next radio show: Monday 6th October

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:

• Tune in
• Chatroom (get in there!)

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

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Mix: Late Nite Tech Trip

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.”

1. (00’00”) Bigger Than Jesus – Itchy Glitchy Spider (Fergie rx) – Silver Planet
2. (05’24”) Bread and Butter – Kartoffel – Hot Slice
3. (10’35”) Cabal – All In Off – Subtronic
4. (14’03”) Patrice D’Angelo – Happy Lab – Freaky Cabs
5. (19’59”) James Unk – Drop – Lessizmore
6. (25’34”) Javy Union – Gate 9 (Pascal Feos rx) – Plain
7. (31’42”) Jesse Voorn ft ZoXenia – SeeMe (DJ Lion dub) – USB Digital
8. (37’13”) Sara Galli – Machete – 303Lovers
9. (41’25”) The Junkies – Uneasy Feeling – PBR Recordings
10. (47’21”) The Touch – Heart Of The City (Pig & Dan rx dub version) – Trunkfunk
11. (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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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: afterhours, dark, minimal, spooky, techno

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Mix: Live on Brap FM

This is a spool of my live 2-hour Void Radio show on Brap FM on 17th Dec 2007, journeying through psybreaks, progressive trance, psyhouse, techno and minimal.

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1. 00’00 – Suspender – Quake – Ritual Sounds US
2. 05’30 – BETA – Trojan – ReConnect
3. 10’52 – Etostone – Waiting For U – Erase
4. 15’44 – Robosapiens – Acid Reign – Sinister
5. 21’08 – Plastic Shell – Foley – Electrofly
6. 27’01 – Sam Hell – Stay Out All Night (Groovediggerz rx) – Sinister
7. 32’35 – Boris Blenn – RockIt – Multiverse
8. 38’52 – Cloudz Factory – Beginner’s Luck – Bellarine
9. 44’57 – 4Mal – Red Dust (Jumping Reds mix) – Bellarine
10. 52’12 – Koush – 3 Tickets To Dublin – Flash
11. 56’15 – Perfect Stranger + Sunseek – Eyes Wide Open – Iboga Mexico
12. 63’15 – Perfect Stranger + Pena – Ode Ao Sol – Flow
13. 68’51 – Simon + Shaker – NaCo – Electronic Elements
14. 75’09 – Juvenile Sin – Nocturnal Obsession (Holmtik mix) – Moov
15. 78’50 – Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (Dub) – Global Underground
16. 82’31 – Dejonka – Memento (Yassin + Arne rx) – Parquet
17. 89’08 – Jeff Bennett – Poincare – Kickin
18. 93’34 – Pedro Campos – The Music Is (Remix) – Elektrofone
19. 99’00 – Vasco + Jersey – Sonnenwende (Andre Traenkner rx) – Myminimusic
20. 104’16 – Trentemoller + Buda – Gamma (Minilogue rx) – Kickin
21. 108’38 – Oliver Huntemann – Sao Paolo – Confused
22. 113’47 – Pedro – So Far – Acid Milk

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, psyhouse, tech-house, techno, techtrance

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Mix: Mostly Minimal…

A tour of some different styles of Minimal (and some less minimal…). We start off with journeying tech-house and tripped-out techno, moving through very deep organic morphing chill, then gradually building up again towards a maxi-minimal techno climax, before touching down on a gentler, more progressive sound.

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1. Dejonka – Memento (Yassin & Arne rx) – Parquet
2. Ilario Naples – Area 51 – Leftroom
3. Jeff Bennett – Poincare – Kickin
4. Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (Dub) – Global Underground
5. Limbo – Math (The Dolphins rx) – Proton Music
6. Pedro Campos – The Music Is (remix) – Elektrofone
7. Vasco & Jersey – Sonnenwende (Andre Traenkner rx) – My Best Friend Ltd
8. Trentemoller & Buda – Gamma (Minilogue rx) – Kickin
9. Minilogue – Seconds (Moonbeam rx) – Traum Schallplatten
10. Marcus Vector – Palass – Nomor Records
11. Combo – Kebo (Paolo Driver rx) – ?
12. Roland Klinkenberg ft DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (orig) – Global Underground
13. Juvenile Sin – Nocturnal Obsession (Holmtik mix) – Moov
14. Lutzenkirchen – Storm Chaser – Craft
15. Layo & Bushwacka! – Tabloid (Saudade rx) – Olmeto
16. Ali Khan – Plump – Doppelganger

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