Mix: Quexotic Adventures #004:
live on NSB 2nd Jan 2010
(speechless!)

NB: Because there’s no talking, I’ve filed this under Promo Mixes as well as Radio Archives – but unlike the other promo mixes, it won’t fit onto an audio CD.

An extra rare treat for the first show of 2010… I lost my voice on NYE, so there’s no mic/talkover, I just had to let the music speak for itself… 🙂 Also, as we were all still in the recovery zone from the New Year shenanigans, I pulled back the tempo and kept it deep, techy and rolling for the most part, gradually fattening up towards the end of course 8)

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, deep, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, rolling, techbreaks, techy

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live on NSB 2nd Jan 2010
(speechless!)

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #003:
live on NSB 19th Dec 2009

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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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

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Mix: Quexotic Adventures #002:
live on NSB 5th Dec 2009

Yes, my new show has a name! Thanks to everyone who sent in their suggestions, there were some great ones, couldn’t decide between them so went for something completely different 😉

This week’s show featured some proper tripped out nuskool and epic progressive breaks of the style that got me hooked on it in the first place about 9 or 10 years ago (though these tunes are more recent!), some pslinkin psexy psybreaks, and for the final half hour, something that I hope to be exploring more in future, some twisting mind-expanding leftfield neurofunk-esque drum’n’bass. Oh yes indeed. Word.

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Next shows:

• Tue 15th Dec, 7pm GMT, PsyMusic
• Sat 19th Dec, 7pm GMT, NSB (first and third Saturday of each month, plus the fifth Saturday in January 🙂 )

Various reminder services are available, but the most reliable one is the Facebook group and page. See you next time 😀

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, deep, dirty, dnb, drum'n'bass, electrobreaks, nsb, nsbradio, nuskoolbreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, psychedelic, psydnb, quexotic, trippy

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live on NSB 5th Dec 2009

Quextal recommends: Morning Coffee vol 29
mixed by BETA

I download a lot of other DJ’s mixes. Most of them warrant no more than a cursory scrub before being discarded as Not My Kind Of Music. Some get a more detailed scan, with a couple of interesting tracks noted down to check later. A few get played in full, chugging along in the background while I work, a good track interrupting me every so often demanding to be ID’d.

But once in a while, a mix comes along which, gently but firmly, grabs hold of me, takes me over. A mix that cannot be a background to any other activity, but draws in more and more attention, and rewards it.

Such mixes are very rare.

But it should be no great surprise that BETA should come up with one, because he is a man of very rare talent. He’s repeatedly blown me away with his productions over the last two years. And while others may jostle to be flavour of the month, BETA’s sheer consistency, razor sharp production, and the way that each new release nudges the sound of progressive breaks forward, have earned him a place at the very top of my personal league table of producers.

Somehow, in all of the time I’ve been buying his music, I’ve never heard him mix. It was worth the wait. This is what progressive breaks is supposed to be like. The mix traces out a beautiful curving flow, through bigger and ever more epic tunes, until the last track, which goes way beyond merely “huge”, shoots straight through “immense” and breaks off the top of the chart. Shock Theropy[sic] – Void is the first breaks tune to really knock me flat in a long while – I hope it’s getting released soon, cos I can’t wait to play it out and watch it knock other people flat…

In the meantime, I so wanted you to hear this mix, that I started a new section of my website for it. Only a very few selected mixes and tracks will earn a place in Recommendations. By starting with this mix, the benchmark has been set pretty high.

Download MP3 from bbz.ru

Morning Coffee vol.29 mixed by BETA (blog entry / tracklist / cuefile) (if you want to download the MP3 from that page, you have to click on the link that’s a Russian word. The one that says Download will just give you a cuefile.)

Categories: Recommendations // Tags: beta, epic, mix, progressive breaks

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mixed by BETA

Mix: Quexotic Adventures #001:
live on NSB 21st Nov 2009

Still haven’t quite found a name for this show yet, but there were some excellent suggestions in the chatroom, especially from BooMboxx, so thanks for those — I definitely like the idea of getting some obscure Mayan references in there… but the competition is still open, so if you have an idea for what to call the show, get in touch and you could win a prize!

Anyway, many thanks to all who tuned in, and stayed tuned in despite glitches (trunk network maintenance which I had been warned about by my ISP, so hopefully this was a one-off).

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Next show is an extra appearance this coming Mon 23rd Nov at 8pm GMT on BrapFM, which is going to be an oldskool special, and then 5th Dec on NSB…

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks, quexotic, techbreaks

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live on NSB 21st Nov 2009

New NSB show starts tomorrow…

Sat 21st Nov
19:00 GMT
NSB Radio

… the journey begins …

When stood behind the decks … you are confronting infinity — Lawgiverz

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: epic, journey, nsbradio, progressive breaks, psybreaks

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Mix: Live on PsyMusic 17th Oct 2009 (cover)

Hopped on to cover for Full Lotus’s show on PsyMusic, and ended up doing a full 3 hours of prog/psy flavours of trance, house, techno, breaks, Goa, and midtempo breakbeat. Genre slut, me, but you should know that by now. Back on the same channel this Tuesday 7pm BST with special guest LuQas, do not miss it!

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Mix: Live on NSB 10th Aug 2009

My occasional series of late-notice covers for random NSB DJs continues… this time I was standing in for JoeBot. His normal tune selection doesn’t have a lot of overlap with mine anyway, so I threw caution to the wind and, alongside some beautiful progressive breaks to lull you into a false sense of security, went through some styles of breaks that don’t seem to get much airing on NSB: deep hypnotic, progressive acid, chopped-up glitchy, growly electro zap… a quick dip in the funky sea of midtempo glitch-dub in the middle… and other stuff that Addictech might categorise as “Heavy” and “Dope”.

It seemed to go down well. For most of the show NSB was the most listened to breaks netradio station in the world, with about 30 more listeners than DI Breaks. Might have happened before but I’ve never seen it. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and all those supporting in the chatroom.

Very special thanks to Mike Metacognition – a good number of the tunes played tonight were introduced to me by him. The man has outstanding taste, so I plan to get him along as a guest on a future show. Respect. Ahh Yeh.

Thanks also to Ian @ Dead Famous for the fine promos.

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1. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip (Precision Cuts rx) [Dead Famous promo]
2. Kriece – After Dark
3. Digital Base – The Climax
4. Introspective – Slavery Incorporated (AMB rx)
5. Peace Division – No More Subliminal (main mix)
6. EMS – Colonized
7. Ion Driver – Magma
8. Lifecycle – On The Vine (Ion Driver rx)
9. Kilowatts – Feed
10. Proper Filthy Naughty – Future Burn
11. Skeetaz – Nein
12. Uriel – Pekinese (Arto Kumanto rx)
13. VENT – Bear Crunk
14. Bird Of Prey – Terradactyl Porn
15. Skeetaz – Skurry
16. Hardfloor – Skill Shot
17. Rektchordz – Tramp Stamp
18. Mr No Hands – Chuggy
19. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip (original) [Dead Famous promo]
20. Santos – Combination
21. Monk & Canatella – Enter The Monk (Hybrid rx)
22. The Playfellow – Hyjack (White Papoo rx)
23. Mobius – The Lab (Ben & Lex rx)
24. Mars ft Profit – The Last Element (VIP)

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Next show: NEW SHOW starting in the next couple of weeks on PsyMusic Radio, details soon!

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: acid breaks, breaks, electrobreaks, glitchy, midtempo, progressive breaks, tech breaks

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 3rd Aug 2009: “Further Out”

I’d bought a lot of glitch and weirdness for tonight, way outside my normal field of operation… In the end it didn’t infect the show to the extent I’d anticipated… trying to cover too many styles in 2 hours perhaps… but nonetheless, we start with a good chunk of “selections from the other side” before drifting into progressive breaks/house/techno, pulling back into some deeper techno territory, and then building up into a high-voltage electrobreaks finish. Greetings to everyone who tuned in and helped to set a new record number of listeners 🙂 Let’s see if we can beat it next month… full details of the reminder services are on the contact page 🙂

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1. Major Lazer – Hold The Line
2. Bob Humid ft twila.too – Danger Angel
3. Bob Humid – Preparation
4. Ribotto – Hard As Nerd
5. VENT – Bear Crunk
6. Kether – Goblinz
7. Bird Of Prey – Terradactyl Porn
8. Kriece – After Dark
9. Digital Base – The Climax
10. Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor rx)
11. David Forbes pres Sebrof Divad – Infectious (Maarten de Jong rx)
12. James Harcourt – Call & Response
13. Maleza – Lancer
14. Yan Oxygen – Dual
15. Break The Box – Test The Bass (Attack Release rx)
16. Timmy & Tommy – MixTape
17. Skor Motion – Pura Fisica (Dirty & Acid rx)
18. Double Negative – Vegas
19. Mobius – The Lab (Ben & Lex rx) [Dusted Breaks promo]
20. Lunar Shift – Ashes (Access Denied rx)
21. The Playfellow – Hyjack (White Papoo rx)
22. LoseYourMind – Guitar Hero (Decepticonz rx)
23. Product01 – Ready2RAGE (vocal mix)
24. Mars ft Profit – The Last Element (VIP)

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Next Show: Monday 7th September, 8-10pm (UK), Brap FM

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: electrobreaks, glitch, progressive breaks, techno

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Mix: Live on NSB 20th July 2009

On the last minute cover for Ben & Lex, digging out quite a few older tunes that haven’t had much play, as well as a few that have but deserve another spin 🙂

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1. Halobeatz – Wicked Style (Gelaz rx) [VIM promo]
2. Future Funk Squad – Street Knowledge
3. GTM – Bouncy
4. Robosapiens – Infected (LuQas rx)
5. Rektchordz – Left Behind (Beta rx)
6. Youthful Implants vs Tigerfunk – Heatseeker (LuQas rx) [Dead Famous promo]
7. 9B0 – Sad Cat (Flack.Su rx)
8. Suspender – Quake (Phokus rx)
9. Aufgang – Channel 7 (Krazy Baldhead rx)
10. Son Of The Electric Ghost – Concept Of Nature (Habersham rx)
11. Rex – Evil Buddha Comb
12. Foxxy – Arcadia (Ave rx)
13. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks
14. IITone – Crush
15. JBass & JMekka – Freestyle (Robosapiens ft Sneaky Kreeps rx)
16. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
17. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
18. Plastic Shell – Foley
19. Elite Force – Engine
20. Hedflux – Non Stop
21. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine

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Next show: Monday 3rd August, 8-10pm BST, Brap FM

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breaks, electrobreaks, progressive breaks, psybreaks, techfunk

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