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.

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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.

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio (last minute cover)

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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1. Paul Blackford – The Groove (Shinra rx)
2. Koma & Bones – Black Satsuma
3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
4. Retroid – Origin (Plastic Shell rx)
5. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
6. SL2 – DJs Take Control
7. Koma & Bones – Morpheus
8. BETA – Trojan
9. Break The Box – Anika
10. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
11. Uberzone – 4 Bit (Uberzone’s 2 Bit Downgrade mix)
12. Skeetaz – Nein
13. DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
14. Eat Static – Tractor Beam
15. Cyantific – Flashback

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives, Radio Shows // Tags: dnb, electro, nsbradio, oldskool, psybreaks, radio archive, techbreaks, wrong

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Mix: Live on NSB Radio, 21st July 2008

My most excellent friend, superstar DJ and now budding co-producer of most excellent tuneage Ali Rutt, asked if I would like to cover his show tonight. Fortunately I’ve been catching up with the tune shopping recently anyway, and I had baskets full of new stuff at DJD and Juno already.

Mostly not breaks though. Breaks releases seem to have dried up a bit of late (while the tech-house and techno proliferate with over 1000 releases a week on DJD alone… mostly of badly produced shite that would never have made it onto vinyl… the cross I must bear for it being easier for me to sell my tunes when I resume production, is to trawl through this great haystack of dross looking for the tiny handful, 10 on a good day, but often just 2 or 3, diamond-tipped needles shining amongst them. It takes hours, so I don’t do it every week, and then suffer the FEAR that I have missed the GREATEST TUNE OF THE YEAR, the one that puts goosebumps the size of molehills in your skin, that sends rushes of colour and sparkles of electricity radiating around and through your whole body…)

I digress. It’s been a while since I’ve played 2 hours of breaks. I tried to bring as much variety as I could within the genre, but it ended up staying on the fairly full-on side of tech-breaks, psy-breaks, electro-prog and glitchy wrongness. All good dirty fun.

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1. Uberzone – Germs
2. Blim & Rennie Pilgrem – 2 Freaks (unreleased dub mix)
3. Flack Su – T-Break (BETA rx)
4. unknown – The Nomad Track
5. DJ Stranger – Requiem (Access Denied breaks mix)
6. Hyperion – On The Expressway
7. General Midi – Further
8. Sam Hell – Soft
9. General Midi – Nuone
10. Devine & Emilyplay – We Get Funky
11. Electrotec – Total Bass
12. Plastic Shell – Foley
13. BETA – Trojan
14. Rob Reng – My Flava (Force Mass Motion rx)
15. Skeetaz – Nein
16. Boogie Army – Sex Drugs Rock And Roll
17. Vandal – Idiots
18. General Midi – Good To Go (extended)
19. Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
20. Elite Force – Engine
21. Robert Armani – Circus Bells (Lee Coombs back to the future rx)
22. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
23. Pete Houle – Apollo (breakbeat mix)
24. Far Too Loud – Play It Loud

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In a new development, this show was the first successful test of archiving at a higher quality than the broadcast. The show went out at 96k mono as always (Yes, mono; NSB seems to think it’s 1950), but the download here is at 192k stereo. Yay for darkice, and for my 7-year old PC coping with the extra load. I’ll do this for every show now, unless I get told off. You deserve quality, dear listeners. Your ears are a holy shrine, a temple devoted to music, and they should no more suffer a 96k mono stream than listen to music on AM. In my not very humbly-expressed opinion. The several artists who contacted me to thank me for including them on Late Nite Tech Trip, which is at 192k, suggests that they understand that having their tunes included on high-quality mixes means more people get to hear their tunes, more people like their tunes, more people go and buy their tunes. No-one over the age of 12 is so tight that they’d rip a tune out of a mix instead of buying it, which would be the modern equivalent of making a compilation tape from bits of songs you recorded off Radio 1 and attempted, not very well, to edit out the bit where Bruno Brookes talks over the end.

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Mix: Live on NSB (last minute cover)

I’d been on standby during Ali Rutt’s show in case he had internet problems. He didn’t, but JoeBot did on the following show, so (despite having had a few beers by that point) I ended up covering for an hour and a half. Many thanks to all the chatroom crew for the positive feedback 🙂

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1. 00’05” Robosapiens – The Truth
2. 06’54” Hyperion (Oz) – On The Expressway
3. 11’47” The Magnet Men – Arms Length
4. 17’27” BETA – Trojan
5. 22’19” Aeron Aether – Aeristhesia
6. 27’33” BETA – Beat Funk
7. 33’26” Plastic Shell – Foley
8. 39’03” Robosapiens – Acid Reign
9. 44’26” Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
10. 48’58” DJ Mutiny – Turning Point (Far Too Loud rx)
11. 53’10” Anti-Science – Get Hype
12. 58’11” Atomic Hooligan – I Don’t Care (Tom Kraft rx)
13. 62’55” General Midi – Nuone
14. 67’23” Robosapiens – Trussed
15. 73’13” Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop rx)
16. 77’25” Freeflow 45 – Low Contour
17. 82’15” Far Too Loud – Play It Loud

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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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Mix: Prog.Psy Breaks 08

A trip through psybreaks, from progressive to techy to noisy to full-throttle.

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1. Introspective – Skanky (Splitloop remix)
2. Pilot – Dilema (Plastic Shell remix)
3. Parallel Sound – Cut Off Control
4. Vital Substance – Digital Dub
5. Robosapiens – Acid Reign
6. Soul Of Man – Acid Punch (Brothers Bud remix)
7. Kiwa – Access
8. General Midi – Nuone
9. Kiwa – Fire Escape
10. Peter Paul – Reverendo
11. D-Ranged – Get Shift (Far Too Loud remix)
12. K-Deejays – Fuck Peace
13. Nixon & Shimon – Whitenoise
14. Nursery of Naughtiness – Eyes (Far Too Loud remix)

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Categories: Mixes, Promo Mixes // Tags: breaks, progressive, psybreaks

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