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Quextal (/ˈkwɛkstəl/) is a DJ & producer of epic progressive and psychedelic music, based in Southampton UK.
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Get yourselves down to the Soul Cellar in Southampton this Friday for what promises to be an epic night of underground sounds, including breaks, psytrance, techno and more (and that’s just my set!) from a huge number of very talented producers and DJs, plus amazing decor and the south’s friendliest, most up-for-it crowd!
Kicking off techy and glitchy this week, evolving into fat progressive and psychedelic breaks. Download (192.9MB 192kbps MP3 140’25”)[downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_nsb_2011-09-10.mp3)] downloads
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! Download (151.2MB 192kbps MP3 110’06”)[downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_nsb_2011-08-23.mp3)] downloads
Another fat set of progressive and psychedelic breaks promos, freebies, new releases and top-class classics to massage your eardrums into ecstasy! Download (163.3MB 192kbps MP3 118’54”)[downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_nsb_2011-08-06.mp3)] downloads
The fact that this is only the second time I ‘ve gone to the trouble of recommending someone else’s mix on this site, should tell you I don’t do so lightly. Frankly it takes a very special mix to motivate me to the effort of writing a post about it!
But there’s no question that this is just such a mix, and who better to deliver it than someone who repeatedly delivers the goods in both his DJ sets and his outstanding productions: Hedflux. From the first few seconds of the opening track, his own Introversion — which, by the way, he has now kindly offered up as a free download — to the blistering finale, we are taken on a beautifully evolving journey whose variety of sounds and landscapes offers a far greater range of stimulants for body and mind than you (or I) might have thought possible from such an apparently narrow focus on one subgenre.
In the past I’ve tended to find the majority of tech-funk rather dull – it often fails to add sufficient interest, rhythmic melody or groove to its instrumentation to make up for its simplistic beat structure (relative to breaks), earning it the nickname “plodstep” among its detractors. But Hedflux has often produced exceptions to this rule, and this is a mix of the exceptions (his and others’); while I might not personally like every single tune on here, there’s no plodding here, no dull moments, which is really saying something when there’s hardly a broken beat in sight for the whole 80 minutes. This is truly the state of the art.
Since last fortnight’s show was a glitch-crunk special I’d had a month’s worth of accumulated promos and new releases to get through on this show, so it’s nothing but the finest brand new epic progressive, trippy psychedelic, and twisted techy breaks (albeit with a nice little downtempo number to start, and a registered classic to finish…)
Artists: Alternative Silence, Andrew StetS, Andy Faze, BSD, Beta, Big Mistake, Blaster Plan, Blazer, Destroyers, Digital Base, Digital Breaks Foundation, Dirty Tracks, Far Too Loud, Feltzer, Freak Da Bass, Geon, Jnr Hacksaw, Kid Digital, Kraymon, Lady Packa, MDK, Madmind, Meat Axe, Mesmer, Nelver, Psysun, Quextal, Retroid, Roboteknic, Sketi, Tee-Ex, orig
This is a recording of my DJ set at Technosis vs Decayed at the Cellar, Southampton on 28th April 2011. Download (79.3MB 192kbps MP3 57’45”)[downloadcounter(technosis_vs_decayed_2011-04-28_5_quextal.mp3)] downloads
It’s been far too long since I infected your eardrums with the genre that I (and probably only I) like to call skanky glitch crunk, so I went shopping at Addictech and we rolled with the funky, wobbly, squelchy midtempo vibe for most of the show. The chatroom showed their love for the sounds, and I only managed to play about a third of what I bought, so you can probably expect more crunk to pop up at random intervals in future shows 🙂 Had to shoehorn some psybreaks onto the end as I needed to play some killer promos and, of course, to spin my own little tune in celebration of it finally being released 🙂
Special thanks to Mouldy Soul for sending over some of his fresh new squelch, and Spectral Theory for rising to my challenge to get his new tune finished in time!
I was in a more-than-usually adventurous and experimental mood going into this show… there’s nothing hugely far out, this is all still the breaks that you know and love, but a little different… tempo ranging more widely than usual, more unusual juxtapositions of styles and sounds… it’s good to have a session of Beating (Back) The Boundaries every so often…
It’s been a while but TOTI returns with a bang, joined in the studio by the dudes that are Unconscious Mind(s) and Re:Creation for an epic 4-hour b2b2b session of mind-bending psybreaks and psytrance, including many exclusive tracks forthcoming on their label Psychoactive Records. Huge thanks to them for coming along, and to everyone who tuned in live and got busy in the chatroom.
TOTI is a moveable feast at the moment, ie I don’t yet know when the next one will be, but more fabulous guests are in the pipeline… follow Quextal on Facebook or Twitter to be notified about the next show!
Tracklist key: Re:Creation; Unconscious Mind(s); Quextal Taste the rainbow!
Artists: Adam Faz, Aerospace, Andrey Mute, Big Mistake, Blazer, Burn In Noise, Captain Hook, Chakra, DNA, Dickster, Eat Static, Edi, Far Too Loud, Hedflux, Highpersonic Whomen, Jellyfish, Kwah, Lucas, Madmind, Neelix, Parallax Breakz, Peak, Peter Paul, Quantize, RMS, Re:Creation, Retroid, Rex, Robosapiens, Save the Robot, Space Buddha, The Analogeeks, The Boomzers, Toxical, Unconscious Mind(s), monkey
Labels: Agitato, Ayra, Blue Tunes, Broken Robot, DNA, Dead Famous, Dragonfly, Ego Shot, Exogenic, Exogenic Breaks, Nano, Plusquam, Psychoactive, Recovery House, Solstice, TIP World, Tactic, VIM, breaks.sk, soundcloud
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