To celebrate our 3rd birthday, we laid down a double-length show, featuring 2 hours of the latest and greatest of the journeying progressive and psychedelic breaks that is our bread and butter, including some super-hot promos and exclusive tracks, followed by 2 hours taking you back to the 90s with the oldskool breakbeat sound that got me into underground dance music in the first place.
Massive thanks to all you lovely listeners who have supported my NSB show over the past 3 years, and to all the NSB Radio crew who maintain this as the greatest breakbeat radio station in the world!
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# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Soulforse |
Rain |
VIM [promo] |
2 |
LuQas |
Altered States (Quextal rx) |
[unreleased] |
3 |
Tummy Talk |
Run For Your Money |
Broken Robot [promo] |
4 |
Triple Agent |
Unterwelt |
Logariddim [promo] |
5 |
Alter Form |
Cybernetic Reason |
Need4Beat |
6 |
Tummy Talk |
Mycelium |
Broken Robot [promo] |
7 |
Brujo’s Bowl |
Reality Ripples |
Broken |
8 |
Cruzdub |
Black Sun (Dr Fish rx #1) |
Diablo Loco [promo] |
9 |
Pink Floyd |
Another Brick In The Wall (Kiwa rx) |
soundcloud [free] |
10 |
Quextal |
Xia [WIP v24] |
[unreleased] |
11 |
Tee-Ex |
Incredible |
Morphosis |
12 |
Soulforse |
Paranoia (“WTF” rx by Resonant Status) |
13 |
Caravan Palace |
Clash |
Cafe De La Danse |
14 |
Tee-Ex |
Further |
Morphosis |
15 |
Alter Form |
Neurotoxin (The Fixionist rx) |
Break Wind |
16 |
Beta |
Feel |
Sound of Habib |
17 |
MartOpetEr |
Home Grown (Roboteknic rx) |
Divergence [pre-promo] |
18 |
Alter Form |
Sarcophagus (Part One) |
Ego Shot |
19 |
MartOpetEr |
Substances |
Broken Robot |
20 |
Optobot |
Man Or Machine (MartOpetEr rx) |
Sub Element [promo] |
21 |
Roboteknic |
Three Dimensional Space |
Divergence [pre-promo] |
22 |
Triple Agent |
Pistols and Spaceships |
Logariddim [promo] |
23 |
Electric Soulside |
Soul On Fire (Kid Panel rx) |
Diablo Loco [promo] |
24 |
Quextal |
L92B [very rough first cut WIP] |
[unreleased] |
25 |
Nino |
World Champion |
Production House |
26 |
SL2 |
Way In My Brain |
XL |
27 |
DJs Unite |
DJs Unite |
XL |
28 |
Acen |
Close Your Eyes (XXX mix) |
Production House |
29 |
SL2 |
DJs Take Control |
XL |
30 |
Altern8 |
Activ8 (Come With Me) |
31 |
The Prodigy |
Rip Up The Sound System |
XL |
32 |
Liquid |
Sweet Harmony |
XL |
33 |
The Prodigy |
Your Love |
XL |
34 |
Orbital |
Chime (Live Style mix) |
35 |
SL2 |
On A Ragga Tip |
XL |
36 |
Njoi |
Boom Bass |
Deconstruction |
37 |
The Prodigy |
G-Force (Energy Flow) |
XL |
38 |
Rhythm Section |
The Chainsaw |
39 |
Fast Floor |
7th Heaven |
Smooth |
40 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon Part II: The Darkside |
Production House |
41 |
Edge |
Cmpnded (Remix) |
[white] |
42 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Urbanity |
Boombastic Plastic |
43 |
Electronic Experienced |
More IQ |
Basement |
44 |
Invisible Man |
Skyliner |
45 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon Part III: Kaleidoscopiklimax |
Production House |
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Quextal – Live on NSB 2012-11-17
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: j-tek, jungle, nsb, nuskool breaks, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, rave
Artists: "WTF, Acen, Alter Form, Altern8, Beta, Brujo's Bowl, Caravan Palace, Citadel Of Kaos, Come With Me, Cruzdub, DJs Unite, Dr Fish, Edge, Electric Soulside, Electronic Experienced, Energy Flow, Fast Floor, Invisible Man, Kid Panel, Kiwa, Liquid, Live Style, LuQas, MartOpetEr, Nino, Njoi, Optobot, Orbital, Part One, Pink Floyd, Quextal, Re, Rhythm Section, Roboteknic, SL2, Soulforse, Tee-Ex, The Fixionist, The Prodigy, Triple Agent, Tummy Talk, XXX
Labels: Basement, Boombastic Plastic, Break Wind, Broken, Broken Robot, Cafe De La Danse, Deconstruction, Diablo Loco, Divergence, Ego Shot, Logariddim, Morphosis, Need4Beat, Production House, Smooth, Sound of Habib, Sub Element, VIM, XL, soundcloud
Jumping on for another cover session, taking in everything from funky midtempo to the freshest and phattest psybreaks, progbreaks and techfunk promos, a bit of 140 jungle and ravebreaks, and finishing up with some oldskool classics!
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# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
48k |
High Cat |
soundcloud [free] |
2 |
Cannabinoid |
I Am Not A Robot |
Red Robot [promo] |
3 |
Bob Marley |
Exodus (Kimmy’s Reggatronic rx) |
soundcloud [free] |
4 |
Beauty School |
Suicide (The Scientifics rx) |
VIM |
5 |
Meat Katie |
Bizarre Is Beautiful (MartOPeter rx) |
soundcloud [free] |
6 |
AP3X |
Power Struggle (Retroid rx) |
Ridiculoud [promo] |
7 |
Hedflux & LuQas |
Reptoid |
Broken Robot [promo] |
8 |
Ear Drum Kru |
24 7 (Macho rx) |
breaks.sk [promo] |
9 |
Word |
The Crunch (Mobius rx) |
VIM [promo] |
10 |
Unconscious Mind(s) vs Peak |
Unconscious Peaks |
Psychoactive [promo] |
11 |
Hironimus Bosch |
The Pulse (Home Alone rx) |
VIM [promo] |
12 |
Cannabinoid |
The Buddha |
Red Robot [promo] |
13 |
Hedflux & Neurodriver |
Energy Vibration |
Broken Robot [promo] |
14 |
Hironimus Bosch |
The Pulse (0rig) |
VIM [promo] |
15 |
Unconscious Mind(s) vs Peak |
5D Hologram |
Psychoactive [promo] |
16 |
Strange Rollers |
There’s Something Out There |
Hardcore Lives Digital [promo] |
17 |
Eddie Voyager |
Runaway (orig) |
Held2Ransom [promo] |
18 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Ronnie’s Revenge |
Boombastic Plastic |
19 |
Electronic Experienced |
I.Q. |
Basement |
20 |
Metalheads |
Terminator |
Synthetic |
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: 140 jungle, breaks, jungle, nsb, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, rave
Artists: 0rig, 48k, AP3X, Beauty School, Bob Marley, Cannabinoid, Citadel Of Kaos, Ear Drum Kru, Eddie Voyager, Electronic Experienced, Hedflux, Hironimus Bosch, Home Alone, Kimmy, LuQas, Macho, MartOPeter, Meat Katie, Metalheads, Mobius, Neurodriver, Peak, Retroid, Strange Rollers, The Scientifics, Unconscious Mind(s), Word, orig
Labels: Basement, Boombastic Plastic, Broken Robot, Hardcore Lives Digital, Held2Ransom, Psychoactive, Red Robot, Ridiculoud, Synthetic, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud
Ali Mobius had been rolling some tasty dnb on the show before this one, so I decided to carry on in that vein.
Kicking off with the kind of laidback progressive dnb that I touted on my mix Chilliquid Drum’n’Bliss, then getting tougher, glitchier, more psychedelic and neurofunked, before the time machine circuits kicked in and we pay a visit to some absolutely classic mid-90s dnb, jungle, and then further back to the sound of the underground that first got me dancing, early 90s oldskool breakbeat hardcore. Bring the noise!
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# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Bass Flo |
Dreamwalker |
Offworld |
2 |
Seathasky |
Swarm |
Offworld |
3 |
Operon |
Kobayashi |
Golden Orb |
4 |
LM1 & Kharm |
Duplicity |
Dispatch |
5 |
LM1 & Kharm |
Inversion |
Levitated |
6 |
LM1 |
Digital Dream |
Covert Operations |
7 |
Axi |
Warning |
Mindtech |
8 |
Noisia & Black Sun Empire |
Infusion |
Vision |
9 |
Axi |
Phillthrill |
Mindtech |
10 |
Bionic 1 |
Hilton Transylvania |
Mindtech |
11 |
Incident |
Fire Ants |
Subculture |
12 |
Method One |
In The Dark Hours |
Offworld |
13 |
Safire |
Dark Moments |
Mindtech |
14 |
Insulin |
Intersection |
Levitated |
15 |
Doc Scott |
The Unofficial Ghost (Doc Scott rx) |
Metalheadz |
16 |
Foul Play |
Being With You |
Moving Shadow |
17 |
Flytronix |
Ethno Blast |
Moving Shadow |
18 |
LTJ Bukem |
Rain Fall |
Looking Good |
19 |
Invisible Man |
Skyliner |
Timeless |
20 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Urbanity |
Boombastic Plastic |
21 |
Electronic Experienced |
More IQ |
Basement |
22 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon (Part II: The Darkside) |
Production House |
23 |
Nino |
World Champion |
Production House |
24 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon (Part III: Kaleidoscopiklimax) |
Production House |
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: d&b, dnb, drum and bass, hardcore, nsb, oldskool, quexotic
Artists: Acen, Axi, Bass Flo, Bionic 1, Black Sun Empire, Citadel Of Kaos, Doc Scott, Electronic Experienced, Flytronix, Foul Play, Incident, Insulin, Invisible Man, Kharm, LM1, LTJ Bukem, Method One, Nino, Noisia, Operon, Part II: The Darkside, Part III: Kaleidoscopiklimax, Safire, Seathasky
Labels: Basement, Boombastic Plastic, Covert Operations, Dispatch, Golden Orb, Levitated, Looking Good, Metalheadz, Mindtech, Moving Shadow, Offworld, Production House, Subculture, Timeless
Another epic extended show… I carried on past the end of my allotted 2 hours as someone was supposed to be covering the next show but had said he might be a little bit late. In the end he didn’t turn up until nearly the end of that show, so I ended up doing the full 4 hour double feature. Download this mix, and the recent 5+ hour BrapFM marathon, onto your mp3 player, and you’re equipped with enough first-class choonage to survive almost any journey. Except maybe Eurostar.
Here we’ve got mostly my intoxicating special blend of the fortnight’s finest new releases and backcat discoveries in psybreaks, progressive breaks, neck-tingling nuskool, electrifying electro, twisted tech-breaks… and our first tentative foray on NSB into something that could be described as techno (but it’s Robosapiens so it must be ok). But just for shizzles, around the halfway mark as a kind of interlude we go on a brief tour of some classic oldskool hardcore and jungle techno from 1992-1994ish. This section doesn’t exactly fit with the flow to either side… hopefully this lump of strange-sounding foreign material is sufficiently colourful that you won’t find it too obtrusive…
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# |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
1 |
Random Source |
Zombie Rats |
Sound of Habib |
2 |
Cuncic & Malcevic |
Mafia |
[remastered promo] |
3 |
Invincible |
Mean Streets |
Sound of Habib |
4 |
Oleg Zubkov |
New Paralells [sic] (Abdomen Burst rx) |
Mistiquemusic |
5 |
Espion |
Witches |
Bass4Bots |
6 |
Meat Katie & Elite Force ft Roland Clark |
The Answer (Force Mass Motion rx) |
Lot49 |
7 |
Sensient |
Madman’s Playroom (Sensient breaks rx) |
Disconekta |
8 |
Grouch |
Latex Knuckle Kids |
Disconekta |
9 |
Lady Packa |
Solar Attack |
V.I.M [promo] |
10 |
Robosapiens |
Bodies |
Dead Famous [promo] |
11 |
Cannabinoid |
Power of the Tea |
[unsigned demo] |
12 |
Depeche Mode |
Peace (BSD rx) |
[unreleased] |
13 |
Unconscious Mind(s) |
FD PsYbreaks |
[unsigned demo] |
14 |
Beatman & Ludmilla |
Moldova |
Ayra |
15 |
Ans |
Funkache |
[promo] |
16 |
Stisch |
Beauty In Me (Splitloop rx) |
SubSpace Communications |
17 |
Karton |
Spacetrip 82 (BETA rx) |
Sound of Habib |
18 |
Sidel |
Rollin |
ChipSound |
19 |
Beatman & Ludmilla |
Leeroy Jenkins |
Ayra |
20 |
Sylus |
Grind |
Transverse |
21 |
Xim n Bass vs Critical |
Believe |
Dusted Breaks [promo] |
22 |
Enough Weapons |
Supersonic (Eshericks rx) |
Ape |
23 |
Far Too Loud |
All Is Machine |
Funkatech |
24 |
Acen |
Trip II The Moon part 2: The Darkside |
Production House |
25 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Ronnie’s Revenge |
Boombastic Plastic |
26 |
Nino |
World Champion |
Production House |
27 |
D’Cruze |
Bass Go Boom (D.O.P.E. rx) |
Suburban Base |
28 |
Electronic Experienced |
More I.Q |
Basement |
29 |
Invisible Man |
Skyliner |
Timeless |
30 |
Citadel Of Kaos |
Urbanity |
Boombastic Plastic |
31 |
Acen |
Obsessed II: Pictures Of Silence |
Production House |
32 |
Illuminatae |
Our Mind |
XVX |
33 |
Fluke |
Reeferendrum |
Circa |
34 |
Burufunk |
Outsider (Flack.Su rx) |
Navigation |
35 |
Cannabinoid |
Copious Amounts Of Ganja |
[unsigned demo] |
36 |
Rennie Pilgrem |
Coming Up For Air (JDS rx) |
TCR |
37 |
Diverted |
Scorch |
Sokolov Sounds |
38 |
Lifecycle |
Do Not Pass (Flack.Su rx) |
Ricochet |
39 |
Phil K & Habersham |
Cloudbrake |
Audio Therapy |
40 |
Skein |
Renegade |
Pieces of Eight |
41 |
Paul Hardcastle / Zero One |
Over & Over |
Hardcastle |
42 |
BP & One |
Revolution |
BP |
43 |
Koma & Bones |
High Rollin’ |
TCR |
44 |
Orbital |
Halcyon & on & on (Cannabinoid rx) |
[unreleased demo] |
45 |
Marc Adamo |
Krakupz |
Local Zeros |
46 |
Future Funk Squad |
Sorcerary (Lawgiverz rx) |
Default |
47 |
Elite Force |
You (Hybrid rx) |
U&A |
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Lots of hot promos and demos this week – thanks to all those labels and artists who sent them. In particular, thanks to unsigned artists Cannabinoid and Unconscious Mind(s) for allowing me to display their wares. I’m very interested in supporting other unsigned acts in this way… assuming I like your sound of course! Think you’ve got something I need to hear? Hit me up.
Next show: Sat 2nd Jan 2010, 19:00 GMT, NSB.
Happy Yule/Saturnalia/Hannukah/Christmas/Cashmas/WinterFest… and here’s to more odysseys in 2010 🙂
Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives //
Tags: classics, electro, electrobreaks, glitch, nsb, nuskoolbreaks, oldskool, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks, techfunk, techno
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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- Paul Blackford – The Groove (Shinra rx)
- Koma & Bones – Black Satsuma
- Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
- Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
- Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
- SL2 – DJs Take Control
- Koma & Bones – Morpheus
- BETA – Trojan
- Break The Box – Anika
- General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
- Uberzone – 4 Bit (Uberzone’s 2 Bit Downgrade mix)
- Skeetaz – Nein
- DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
- Eat Static – Tractor Beam
- Cyantific – Flashback
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives, Radio Shows //
Tags: dnb, electro, nsbradio, oldskool, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, wrong