Mix: Tales Of The Interstitial episode XIII:
live on PsyMusic 17th Aug 2010
with special guest Fat Mandy / Mr Faster

TOTI is one year old! To celebrate, I was delighted to welcome Jon Ward, in his Fat Mandy and Mr Faster guises, to join me in the studio for both live PA and DJ sets.

After a brief intro from yours truly, Fat Mandy kicked off the show in future-retro style with an Ableton set of electro-swing. I spun a set of progressive and psybreaks after that, then it was the mighty Fat Mandy Live PA, lush evolving breakbeat squelch, interstitially poised somewhere between breaks, dnb and chill. Then Jon switched hats to his Mr Faster persona and we went back to back for nearly three hours of psytrance, rolling, dark, forest, bouncy, you name it. Wicked fun times!

Thanks to Jon for coming along (he’ll be back!), and for all the shoutbox crew for keeping us company!

(In the tracklists below, Jon’s selections are this colour).

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0. Intro

1. Fat Mandy electro-swing DJ set

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2. Quextal progressive/techno/psybreaks DJ set

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3. Fat Mandy Live PA

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4. Mr Faster vs Quextal psytrance DJ set

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: breakbeat, dark, electro-swing, forest, interstitial, live, progressive, psy, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance

Artists: 1200 Mics, 8220 GOA, ?, Analogik, Andrey Mute, Atriohm, Audiohazard, Benny Berigan, Bombax, Chinese Man, Chris Nemmo, Comadust, Der Dritte Raum, Dickster, Dirty Sole, Dunklebunt, Eat Static, Electrypnose, Encephalopaticys, Fat Mandy, Flanger, Fletric, Frohlocker, Gramophonedzie, Highpersonic Whomen, Home Alone, Jellyfish, Kiwa, Klopfgeister, Kormac, Lena Horne, Loose Connection, Loud, Lucas, Neurodriver, Normalize, Orquesta Del Plata, Parov Stelar, Perfect Stranger, Philter, Psilodump, Quantum, Red Nichols, Schatsi, Scorb, Sensient, Sun Control Species, Techtonic, Troll Scientists, album, cosmo, dub

Labels: ?, Auraquake, Bombtraxx, Demon Tea, Digital Psionics, Digital Sensation UK, Ego Shot, Exogenic, Flying Rhino Digital, Futureaudio, Highly Evolved, Iboga, PsyLife, PsyTropic, Spin Twist, TIP World, Trick, Zenon

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live on PsyMusic 17th Aug 2010
with special guest Fat Mandy / Mr Faster

Special guest LIVE PA this Tuesday

Heads up y’all… this Tuesday 17th August on Psymusic Radio I’ll be joined in the studio by special guest Jon Ward aka FAT MANDY aka MR FASTER.

Fat Mandy LIVE PA – awesome interstitial psychedelia… Jon ranges across tempos and genres with an original melodic and squelchy style… you’re gonna love it!

plus Mr Faster DJing alongside yours truly, psytrance vs psybreaks vs progressive and more. Frankly, anything could happen…

Put it in your phone. Write it in your diary / on your hand / on the wall. Do not miss this.

The details:
Tue 17th Aug 19:00 UK time
Go to http://www.psymusic.co.uk/forum – from there you can tune in and say hi in the shoutbox.

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: live, progressive, psybreaks, psymusic, psytrance, Radio Shows

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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: Tales Of The Interstitial episode XI:
live on PsyMusic 21st Jun 2010

Kicking off with some lush early 90s acid trance and pre-Goa, moving through chunky psychedelic techno into tech-psybreaks, into further realms of acid, progressive sounds and some chilled tech-house to finish… next show Tue 20th July at 19:30 BST.
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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: acid trance, interstitial, progressive, psybreaks, psymusic, tech-house, techno

Artists: 108 Grand, Aerospace, Alan Fitzpatrick, Andrey Mute, BETA_, BSD, Bass Kittens, Criss Source, Cursor Miner, DP-6, Dual Boot, Fabel, Flack.Su, Flippers, Freeflow 45, Gary Clail, Geon, Grouch, Group Therapy, Hugo Rizzo, Hybrid, Imprintz, J. Scott G, Jellyfish, Kilowatts, Kloe, Kultur, Left Right, Li Kwan, Lifecycle, Lusine, Lutzenkirchen, Magitman, Nyquist, Oakenfold, Osborne trance, Perfect Stranger, Petar Dundov, Point B, Quantize, Robosapiens, Triple Agent, Yan Oxygen, dub

Labels: Bedrock, Bombtraxx, Broken Robot, Combat, DP-6, DeConstruction, Dead Famous, Digiprana, Disconekta, Distinct'ive, Full Tilt, Ghostly International, Iboga, Island, Logico Beatz, Perfecto, Plusquam, Pretension, Richochet, Ridiculoud, Shiznit, Six Foot Six, Stereo Seven Plus, Tribal Vision, iBreaks

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live on PsyMusic 21st Jun 2010

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: Chilliquid Drum’n’Bliss

Here’s something a little different for you… laidback deep and progressive dnb, minimal to liquid, designed to soundtrack a sunny day. I didn’t plan it this way (well, I didn’t plan it at all, I never do…) but it’s ended up dominated by just two recently-released EPs: New Blood 010 on Med School, and Lm1’s Blue Mountain EP on Offworld. But perhaps the fact that I’ve built almost a whole mix from them just serves to highlight the quality and variety on offer from those labels at the moment. Between this sort of thing and the twisted psychedelic techstep and neurofunk I’ve been pushing on my shows for a while, the prospects are looking good for a renaissance of inventive and beautiful dnb this year… as is the case with breaks. This is shaping up to be an amazing year of breaking new ground with the broken beat.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this little mix. As always I’d love your feedback. If it pushes your buttons, don’t forget that I now regularly serve up a slice of the tastiest dnb alongside the future breaks at 7pm UK time on the first and third Saturdays of every month on NSB Radio.

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: chill'n'bass, chilled, d&b, dnb, drum & bass, drum'n'bass, laidback, liquid, progressive, sunny

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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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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: my last regular show for Void Radio:
live on BrapFM 7th Dec 2009

Super-Extended 5+ hour marathon!

So after about two years of doing Void Radio slots on BrapFM, I decided to draw it to a close so that I’m not juggling three shows. I’ve enjoyed the freedom that Brap gives to play any genre, and I’m grateful to them and Spoll/OutOfTheVoid for giving me a route in… but the number of listeners tuning in for live broadcasts has always been woeful. It provided me with a good, low pressure introduction to the world of net radio, helped me build my confidence on the mic, and garnered some enthusiastic fans like Mike and Angel, but now I have a show on NSB with regularly 200+ listeners, Brap’s single-figure listener counts seem pointless. I know many more of you enjoyed the archives, but hopefully by dropping the show I’ll have more time to produce promo mixes for the site instead.

So for my last show, I played a wide range of genres, and included plenty of classics and all-time personal favourite tunes. Since there was no show after mine, and I had support in the chatroom, I just kept going, and going… for over 5 hours. So bear in mind the archive is a lot larger than usual…

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Next show: Sat 2nd Jan, 19:00 GMT, NSB

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, downtempo, Goa trance, hardhouse, hardtrance, progressive, progressive house, progressive trance, psybreaks, psytrance, techno, void radio

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live on BrapFM 7th Dec 2009

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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