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

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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!

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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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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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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: Tales Of The Interstitial episode I:
live on PsyMusic Radio 18th Aug 2009

Couldn’t have hoped for a better turnout and reaction for the first chapter of my new residency 🙂

True to the show’s remit we jumped around the genres, but kept it mostly upbeat for this week, alternating between psybreaks, progressive psytrance and chunky techno most of the way, serving up the dark and the uplifting, the deep, the epic and the glitchy… and finally closing out with some choice dubstep.

Big love to all those who tuned in and the many who made the effort to register just to present themselves in the chatroom, you are all stars! Hope you can join me for the next one on Tue 1st Sept @ 7pm

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1. Intro: DJ Purple Rabbit – Shroom
2. A-Sham – Kalisha
3. Starflower – Process The Future
4. Cord – Impulses
5. Burufunk – Outsider (Flack.Su rx)
6. Naga & Amb – Agni
7. Perfect Stranger & Sunseek – Eyes Wide Shut
8. Perfect Stranger – Easy
9. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri live mix)
10. Peace Division – No More Subliminal (Main mix)
11. Proper Filthy Naughty – Future Burn
12. EMS – Colonized
13. Espion – Petrol Bomb The Fuckers
14. Carbon Community – Dr Spectacles (Lawgiverz rx)
15. DJ Naga – Fraid (Brain mix)
16. Proton & Grateful – Crank
17. Attack Release vs Robosapiens – Trip [Dead Famous promo]
18. DinoFreak – We Control
19. Son Of The Electric Ghost – Concept Of Nature (Lawgiverz “Convict of Nature” rx)
20. Skein – Renegade
21. David Weed – Red Moon
22. Red Moon – Monster (Vortex rx)
23. Umek – You Might Hear Nothing
24. Hironimus Bosch – Gamma (Robosapiens rx)
25. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine
26. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto
27. Mood Deluxe – Secret Agent 666
28. ZeroDouble – One vs One
29. Nagual Sound Experiment – Frontier
30. Truth – Terror Planet
31. Espion – Architektur (Liquid Stranger rx)

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: deep, dubstep, epic, glitchy, interstitial, progressive trance, psybreaks, techno

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New show forthcoming on PsyMusic Radio!

Been a while in the planning this, but I’m delighted to announce that my new twice-a-month show on PsyMusic begins next Tuesday 18th August @ 7pm (UK), and thereafter on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. (Want to join a reminder service?)

The show is called Tales of the Interstitial (all the other PsyMusic shows have strange names, I didn’t want to feel left out…) and every fortnight we’ll be setting sail on a journey across the many faces of psychedelic electronica, floating effortlessly between psybreaks, progressive psytrance, psytechno and psychill, and particularly trying to find the lost chords in the spaces between… in the interstitial…

One of the significant differences between this show and the others that I’ve been involved with, is there’s no official finishing time. I plan to do at least 2 hours, but it may be 2.5, 3, 4… it all depends on you, the listeners, to get into the chatroom and bring your influence to bear! On PsyMusic the chatroom is called the ShoutBox and it’s on the forum front page (different to the main homepage of the site), or here’s a bigger version. You need to be registered on the forum to use it (registration is free of course). It looks and feels just like an IRC-based chat (like Brap or NSB), but apparently it isn’t really IRC so you can’t use your own client.

Together we will weave a journey… a story. Let’s make it epic.

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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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Mix: Live on NSB 11th July 2009

Hopped on for another last minute cover on NSB late on Saturday night. Kept things on a progressive tip for the most part, but there’s plenty of acid and tech too, and we slowly twist things up to finish with some full-on psybreaks. Love to the chatroom, you always make NSB shows a pleasure 🙂

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1. Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid (Plump DJs 2001 re-rub)
2. Dascyllus – Odessa Keys
3. Plastic Shell – Conestuck
4. 9B0 – Antilightbulb (Beta rx)
5. Rektchordz – Left Behind (Beta rx)
6. BSD – Intoxikated Muzik
7. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
8. Youthful Implants v Tigerfunk – Heatseeker (LuQas rx) [Dead Famous promo]
9. Kultur & Colombo – Elektromolekula
10. 9B0 – Sad Cat (Flack.Su rx)
11. Santos – Combination
12. Youthful Implants v Tigerfunk – Heatseeker (Robosapiens rx) [Dead Famous promo]
13. Robosapiens – Infected (LuQas rx)
14. Future Funk Squad – RaveUlator
15. SL2 – Way In My Brain 2009
16. GTM – Bouncy
17. Espion – Apophis
18. Solar Chrome – Cellular Automaton
19. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto

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Next show: Nothing confirmed for NSB, may well be more random last minute covers! Next scheduled show is Mon 3rd April 2009, 8-10pm BST, over on Brap.

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Mix: Live on NSB 15th June 2009

Covering the Mobius Trip once again, we started with some deep and epic prog-electro-psy breaks for the first hour or so, gradually beefing it up into full-fat electrobreaks and a dose of proper psy-side psybreaks, with Doctor Who to finish, and why not? Wicked promo action from V.I.M.Records too – congrats to Disco Patrick who won a stack of V.I.M promo CDs in our competition (and shouts of course to Pale Penguin from V.I.M for the goods themselves!)

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1. Kultur & Colombo – Elektromolekula
2. Cuncic & Malcevic – Mafia
3. Pharmacy Of Sound – The Big Bang (2009 Re-Edit)
4. Erik Jackson – Return Of The Breakbeat
5. Terratropin – Acid Balls
6. Frost-RAVEN & MDFX – Input Potential
7. Hypeartist ft Brad Sucks – YGNA (Retroid rx)
8. Dascyllus – Odessa Keys
9. ILYKE – Rough Yam (Macho rx) [VIM promo]
10. Hedflux – Music Is My Weapon
11. Break The Box ft MC Cop – Style And Flavour
12. Fisso & Spark – You Are Right
13. Pedro Pablo Perez Hidalgo – Count Drak In The Mix (Peter Paul rx)
14. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine (Specimen A rx)
15. Plastic Shell – Dead End (Eshericks extended rx)
16. Under This – The Crash
17. DJ Mutiny ft Dii Gii – Dreams Come True (Flore rx)
18. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto
19. Mood Deluxe – Secret Agent 666
20. Boonos – Back With It
21. Orbital – Doctor?

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