Special guest on next Monday’s BrapFM show

I’m delighted to welcome a very special guest to my Void Radio show on Brap FM next Monday who goes by the name of DIGITAL FIST. He and I met at Glade this year, and discovered that our tastes in epic triptronica were uncommonly well-aligned.

Digital Fist is a missionary for the music he loves, with infectious passion and a deep sense of the aesthetics of mixing for journeying, which has clearly been well honed by his years on the Welsh party scene.

He describes his chosen specialisms as “elaborate percussion, wall-destroying basslines, and darkly atmospheric precision machine-funk”. Some other words that spring readily to my mind are: brooding, hypnotic, glitchy, metallic, wonky, evolving, deep and dubby, dark shadows and delicate beauty… and of course, epic.

Expect synergy.

Tune in to Void Radio with Quextal b2b Digital Fist from 8pm UK time this coming Monday 7th Sept. Sign up for a reminder, you don’t want to miss this one. Trust.

NB NB NB! The URL for the Brap FM stream has recently changed. If you are using a pre-saved link, please update it to the first one of these that works for you (try them in this order): http://stream.brap.fm / http://87.117.250.5:9120/listen.pls / http://87.117.250.5:9120/.
The chatroom hasn’t changed.

I’ll give the final words to my guest:

Music is mathematics. Keep it polyhedral.

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: brapfm, breaks, digital fist, glitch, mix, radio show, techno, void radio

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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

Download (211MB 192k MP3 153’55”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_psymusic_2009-08-18.mp3)] downloads

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.

Categories: News, Radio Shows // Tags: psybreaks, psyhouse, psymusic, psytechno, psytrance, Radio Shows, techno

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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 Brap FM 29th June 2009

How many shows in June?!? No wonder I’ve been feeling like a busy bunny…

Another last minute cover job this one, so just over an hour, but that means you could burn it onto a CD if you so desired 🙂

We start with some very tasty progressive breaks with the odd psy-tech twist, moving into techno, a slice of progressive trance, some laidback tech-house, and finishing on an absolute classic slice of evocative prog breaks from the mighty Fluke.

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1. 9B0 – Antilightbulb (BETA rx)
2. Noize Incorporated – Feelings (DJ Fen rx)
3. 9B0 – Sad Cat (Flack.Su rx)
4. Santos – Combination
5. Rektchordz – Left Behind (BETA rx)
6. GTM – Bouncy
7. Superpolitik – Whipped Cream (Boonos rx)
8. System 7 – High Plains Drifter (Live)
9. Yotopia – Goosebumps
10. Mauro Picotto – Greens (Riccardo Ferri Live mix)
11. Dropout – Bukkake
12. Dirt Crew – Get Raw (Bumel & Dos Santos Threesixty mix)
13. Alex Kanji – Adelante
14. Fluke – Setback

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, progressive breaks, progressive trance, radio archive, tech-house, techno

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Mix: Live on BrapFM 22nd June 2009 – 4 hour double feature!

I signed up for an extra BrapFM show this month and decided to spin some chillout in preparation for Sunday’s gig. But then found out that the DJ after my show needed cover. I said I’d carry on for a bit and switch the archives on when I got bored. I didn’t get bored!

So what we have here are 2 hours of chillout and laidback electronica, followed by 2 hours of my usual BrapFM mashup of breaks, techno, progressive house, psytrance etc.

For your convenience I’ve split the archive into these two discrete sections 🙂

Massive shouts to all those who passed through the chatroom at various points during this marathon session, you kept me going 😀

I’ll give you the download links together first, then with the tracklists below.

• Chillout: Download (160MB 192k MP3 116’58”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_brap_fm_2009-06-22_chillout.mp3)] downloads
• Breaks/Techno/Psy: Download (164MB 192k MP3 119’49”) [downloadcounter(quextal_live_on_brap_fm_2009-06-22_beats.mp3)] downloads

Chillout

1. Kilowatts – Jade
2. Sneaky Fox – Fresh Milk
3. The Crystal Method – Divided By Night
4. Hardfloor – Snifter For Daddy
5. Lionrock – Wilmslow Road
6. David Holmes – Inspired by Leyburn
7. Tipper – Flat Ripple
8. Kilowatts – Monument
9. Younger Brother – Evil & Harm
10. Younger Brother – Crumblenaut
11. The Mystery Of The Yeti 4 (A “Welcome” To All Extraterrestrials)
12. Bluetech – Oleander (Phutureprimitive symbiotic rx)
13. Carbon Based Lifeforms – Erratic Patterns
14. Cell – Mister Ayatih
15. Aural Planet – Sub-Sea Engineering Project
16. Aes Dana – Aftermath 3
17. Hallucinogen – The Herb Garden (from the CD Mystery Of The Yeti Part 2)
18. Boards Of Canada – An Eagle In Your Mind

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Breaks/Techno/Psy

1. Domeased Electronica – Mermaid (Fretwell rx)
2. Cuncic & Malcevic – Mafia
3. SLIP187 – Albino Shape Shifting Lizard Bitches
4. Break The Box – Test The Bass (Attack Release rx) [Dead Famous promo]
5. System 7 – High Plains Drifter (Live)
6. Orbootal – Impact
7. Kultur & Colombo – Elektromolekula
8. Hypeartist – Messy Potamia [unsigned]
9. Perfect Stranger – Easy
10. Lunar Shift – Come Alive (Plastic Shell rx)
11. Yotopia – Sleepless Hippies
12. Fractal – Oceanography (Toby Emerson rx)
13. Robosapiens – Cold Sweat
14. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine
15. Kiwa – Drop Control
16. Robosapiens – Infected (LuQas rx) [Dead Famous promo]
17. Pharmacy of Sound – The Big Bang (Re-edit 2009)
18. Stepsine – Transparent Body Breaks (Version)
19. Jim Reaper – Fast Eddie
20. Ace Ventura ft Lish – The Light (Zen Mechanics rx)

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Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, chillout, downtempo, psychill, psydub, psytrance, radio archive, techno, void radio

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 1st Jun 2009

Progressive Electro Tech-Trance Techno Breaks DnB. Something like that. Tracklist to follow. Big ups all the chatroom crew, especially mike, love ya mate :), and all the latecomers 😉 And airplays for the perfect chillout afterwards. Sweeeeeet.

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1. Altern-8 – Inflitrate 202
2. Yotopia – Goosebumps
3. Break The Box – Rock The Mic (Attack Release rx)
4. Lutzenkirchen – 1 Hour To Go
5. DJ Kid Stretch – Get Away (Into The Tech Disco mix by The Scientifics)
6. Hypeartist – YGNA (Plastic Shell rx)
7. Misfilter – A Place For You (Hedflux rx)
8. Break The Box – Rock The Mic (Robosapiens rx)
9. Hypeartist – YGNA (Retroid rx)
10. Vigi & Nectarios – 2C Beat (EK rx)
11. Stepsine – Transparent Body Breaks (version)
12. Parallax Breakz – Vulture
13. Hedflux – Music Is My Weapon
14. Leftfield – Space Shanty
15. Fisso & Spark – You Are Right
16. Quadrat Beat – Hive Inside
17. Anarchy Rice – RockBass (Anarchy Rice mix)
18. Zero Decibelle – Acid Queenz
19. Under This – The Crash
20. Firefarm – Volatile (Pyramid rx)
21. Mr Dan – Body Slam (Modified rx)
22. Nude – Minds

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Many thanks to Dead Famous, Dusted Breaks and V.I.M for the scorchio promos this week. Next shows: NSB 7pm 15th June; Brap 8pm 22nd June; Brap 8pm 6th July

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 4th May 2009

Well that was a most enjoyable way to round off a wicked weekend! We kicked off with a load of chunky ‘n’ squelchy techno, tech-house and progressive, before moving into breaks of the phat, techy and progressive flavours for the second hour, and finishing on some phar-out psybreaks. Special shouts to mike, jels and tomski in the chat for all the positive vibes, glad you enjoyed it and hopefully see you again 🙂

Next show: Monday 1st June, 8pm BST, Brap FM – it’s Quextal’s Birthday Bonanza so expect something extra special 😀

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1. Robosapiens – Cold Sweat
2. Fractal – Oceanography (Toby Emerson rx)
3. Synchronized – Awakening (Nicholas Van Orton rx)
4. Gai Barone – Lilith (Jerome Isma-ae’s Brainfuck rx)
5. Umek – You Might Hear Nothing
6. Yotopia – Sheer Mayhem
7. Hybrid – Gravastar
8. Monaque – Solaris
9. Far Too Loud – All Is Machine
10. Hedflux – Non Stop
11. Hironimus Bosch – Gamma (Robosapiens rx)
12. DJ Mutiny ft Dii Gii – Dreams Come True
13. SL2 – Way In My Brain 2009
14. J*O*K*R – Dr Oetker (Quadrat Beat rx)
15. IITone – Crush
16. Dascyllus – Odessa Keys
17. 4Kuba – Spacebuggy (BETA rx)
18. J*O*K*R – Salad Shaker (Groovediggerz rx)
19. Journeyman & Barrcode – Crush Groovin’
20. Rex – Evil Buddha Comb
21. Solar Chrome – Cellular Automaton
22. Scorb – Ipso Fvcto

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Mix: Live on Brap FM 5th Jan 2009

First show of 2k9 kicked off with some downtempo breaks and then into dark bass’n’bleep techno, rising into chunky progressive territory, emerging into some epic and twisted electro/psy breaks, and closing out with some full-fat drum’n’bass. Fun for all the family!

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1. A-Sham – Kalisha
2. Ceasar K – Home Alone
3. Tomy DeClerque & F.Sonik – Fetaqui
4. Dropout – DNA
5. Dropout – Bukkake
6. Lutzenkirchen – Stumpfe Blumen
7. Joseph Disco & Micky Monza – Dubrider (Lutzenkirchen mixdown)
8. David Weed – Red Moon
9. Desert Dwellers – A Little Spice
10. Duca – Ducaralho
11. Nyquist – Tilt
12. Sneaky Kreeps – Don’t Get Fresh
13. Johan Soh & Myagi – Still (BETA rx)
14. Mesmer – Wormsigns
15. Son of the Electric Ghost – Concept of Nature (Lawgiverz rx)
16. Beatman & Ludmilla – Lizarb The Sad Clown (Plastic Shell rx)
17. Robosapiens – Infected
18. Chunk aka DJ Phunkae – NY is B (promo)
19. Shaolin & Raydar ft Kidd Kaos – Madd Skillz (orig breaks mix)
20. Mobius – Thugs
21. Headphonics – Push The Limit (Movie mix)
22. Eat Static – Tractor Beam
23. Nitrous – Destiny (VIP mix)
24. Psidream – Quasar
25. Nude – Minds
26. Cyantific – Flashback

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Next show: Same time, same place, 2nd Feb. See you then!

Categories: Mixes, Radio Archives // Tags: brapfm, breaks, minimal, progressive, psybreaks, techbreaks, techno, void radio

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