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Molecule - Rabbit Hole WEB CLIP(UNSIGNED)

One of my most personal mixes. For this one I really tried to go outside the box conceptually - who would have thought to do a fantasy role-playing themed drum and bass mix? Having been a life long Dungeons and Dragons fan, I thought it would be cool to basically let everyone know that I was into role-playing games. And for the intro I was able to lock down the voice of Optimus Prime himself Peter Cullen! During the recording process I was patched into his headphones when he was in the studio and was even able to direct him. It wasn't until later that I discovered he had voiced the character of Venger on the 80's cartoon series Dungeons and Dragons. Awesome! The artwork was once again handled by the legendary Akira Takahashi. One of the coolest parts of the art is the reoccurring image of a dragon which is an exact copy of the dragon tattoo on my back. I always thought Akira was very clever to incorporate that image so deeply throughout the design. Though you cannot see it here, I spent a lot of time working on the liner notes so that they kind of read like stuff you would find in Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. One of the coolest things about this project was being able to get remixes made of popular non-dnb artists like Tiësto, Sasha, Josh Wink and BT. It really sort of pushed this thing over the top at the time. Finally there is something that needs to be said about one of the tracks on here. The Paul B + Subwave remix isn't of the Tiësto tune "Flight 643". It is a remix of his track "Lethal Industry". I can't remember why this happened in the first place, but there you go! Enjoy :)

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Prologue
Cartridge - End Of The World
Break - Accelerate
Kaos + Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Soul On Fire (Concord Dawn Remix)
Basic Operations - White
Tech Itch - The Hand
Raiden - Infection (E-Sassin Remix)
Sasha - Immortal (Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Wink - Evil Acid (Gridlok Remix)
Teebee + Calyx - Follow The Leader
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Dub Faction - Flightpath
Usual Suspects - Doorway (Gridlok + Echo Remix)
Dom + Kemal - Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy + Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Tiësto - Flight 643 (Paul B + Subwave Remix)
Concord Dawn - Take Me Away (Ill Skillz Remix)
Decorum - Contrax (Weapon Remix)
Dumonde - Human (Ill Skillz Remix)

The Dungeonmaster's Guide

Here is “The Soldier’s Story”, my first truly original cd for the prestigious American electronic music label Moonshine. For this release I was given complete control of choosing all of the music and really went out of my way to find the best future thinking, unreleased and heavy as hell drum and bass at that time. This one was not just for the dancefloor and really started to establish the way I would approach choosing music for all future mix projects. Some of the key tunes on here would be my collaboration with Technical Itch “Atlantic State”. The bassline was born out of a keyboard glitch and the cool pads in the intro are from a Skinny Puppy sample cd. The name was a nod to the classic 808 State tune “Pacific State” (the Atlantic ocean separates the USA and the UK ;). Jonny L “Bellz” was just a white hot smasher that I loved to death. And “The Stalker” was a weird super minimal tune that eventually became the anthem for my drum and bass weekly “Platinum" in Philly (everyone used to love that track!). For the intro I used a bunch of samples from the videogames Half Life and Quake (I found the sound libraries and broke them up and mined the shit out of them). At one point I was contacted by some people who worked on Half Life and they said they used to play my mix at the office. That was awesome. This mix sounds fast because I mixed it on my home turntables that were modified to play faster than normal. I always thought faster was better. The artwork was done by the late Todd Baldwin of Airline Industries. He hired famous Marvel comics artist Paul Gosier to draw me as a super soldier for the cover. Most people didn’t really think it looked like me ;) Finally, I lifted the title from the movie “A Soldier’s Story”. In the drum and bass scene a “soldier” is a die hard fan of the music. That pretty much sums me up to this day. Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Precautionary Procedure
Konflict - The Beckoning
Usual Suspects + Fierce - Sawn Off
DJ Friction - Photon Remix
Future Cut + Mark Da Intallex - Plastic
Technical Itch - Deception
Technical Itch - Stack
Moving Fusion - Sex Drive
Jonny L - The Bellz
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker
Vertigo - Drained
Danny Breaks - Dissonance
Peshay - Vegas
Kosheen - Yes Men (Decoder Remix)
Technical Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State
Decoder - BS9

A Soldier's Story

System Upgrade was my 4th and final mix CD release for Moonshine back in 2000. I was on a roll at this point, given that my last CD “Soldier’s Story” had been released only one year before. I was super motivated by the freedom that I had finally been given to select all of the music in my mixes, and this tracklist reflects a truly diverse selection of really great drum and bass from that era. Being able to kick things off with the remix of “Mindscan” by the legends Ed Rush and Optical was truly an honor for me. At that time stateside artists and DJs were still struggling with garnering respect from the UK. I feel that this mix was sort of a transition for building trans-Atlantic relationships during that unfortunately tense era. Dillinja came through with a beast of a remix for American super producer Hive with “Ultrasonic Sound”. Decoder did serious justice to his remix of my tune “The Descent”. And E-Sassin was one of my favorite artists at the time and straight killed it with tracks like “Symptom”. A true American DNB classic. The rest of the mix was filled out with plenty of great music from the likes of Bad Company (the first time they licensed a tune for the American market), Kemal and Rob Data AKA Konflict and of course Dom + Roland, Tech Itch, etc. Was always super happy with the tunes I was able to get for this one. And yes, this was another mix I did in my pajamas sitting on the floor of my living room in my apartment in Philadelphia. Very classy! The artwork was handled by Justin Fines, otherwise known as Demo Design. I discovered his work on a flier at a rave in Detroit back in the 90s. He was way beyond most flier designers at that point in time. Currently he is killing it in the world of TV commercials here in NYC. Was very lucky to have him on board for this project. The concept of the mix was elevating consciousness through music. This theme played out through the title of the mix, the graphics, the liner notes, and the intro (which was a collaboration between myself and a Mr Justin Geller). Here is a fun story. The rainforest environment FX in the intro were recorded in binaural sound (that means in headphones they should sound like they are in true 3D audio). We also used a sample from one of my favorite new age / synth artists at the time named Steve Roach. Outside of the new age music scene I didn’t think he was well known. Buuut…Moonshine ended up getting contacted by his lawyers for my illegal sampling of his track. I had to forfeit all of my income from the CD to pay Steve Roach back for using his music in my intro without clearance. To this day I am still not sure how he found about it. Long story short, “System Upgrade” is a mix that reflected the vibe of drum and bass at the time and it was a very important stepping stone between what I had previously been doing before mix wise and what I would go on to do with the “6ixth Session” and future mixes. And, to this day, people still tell me that it is their favorite mix. I don’t disagree. I feel like this was an important moment in the progression of the  US drum and bass scene.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Loading Program
Ram Trilogy - Mindscan (Ed Rush + Optical Remix)
E-Sassin - Symptom
Hive - Ultrasonic Sound (Dillinja Remix)
Biostacis - Brain Hack
Dom + Roland - Can’t Punish Me
Decoder - Road Rage
Future Cut - Overload
Kemal + Rob Data - Konspiracy VIP
Stakka + Skynet - Side Effects
Dieselboy - The Descent (Decoder Remix)
Jonny L - Selecta
Decoder - Dumb
Facs + B-Key - Antics
Technical Itch - Deadline
Bad Company - Sentient 
Absolute Zero - The Code (Usual Suspects VIP)

System Upgrade

SixEleven DJ MixSeries Volume 1 was my 3rd mix CD. At the time I had just relocated from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and was living in an apartment with my friend Nigel Richards, a fellow dj and owner of the record store and label 611 Records. I was working at the shop during the week and playing shows on the weekends. Nigel decided that he wanted to get into the mix CD market and we conceptualized the idea of a “mixed series” of music that highlighted good DJs that were also personal friends. For me, this was an opportunity to really start learning the ropes of licensing music, doing better graphic design (I designed the artwork for all of the CDs...and yes that's a picture of my turntable) and putting a more personalized stamp on the music I was pushing on these compilations. I had little to no input on the track selections of my first two mix CDs, so this project was my first real foray into total artistic freedom. To be honest, I don’t completely remember how I was able to lock down all of the music for this tracklist! I just remember that it was a pain in the ass dealing with the various labels and artists and artist egos and budget restrictions. Most of the tracks on the compilation were unreleased when it was made, so I had to cut acetates / dubplates of all of the tunes. Sidenote - every time you play a dubplate you degrade its sound quality. I had to make doubles of every tune, practice with one set, and then try and nail a perfect mix with the unplayed set. Talk about stressful! I mixed this thing sitting on the floor of my living room, turntables in front of me and fingers crossed. It was my first time doing a mix on a mixer that actually had EQ and FX (the Pioneer DJM-500). I used the tight flange FX quite a bit in here for a metallic sound. Also, my turntables were modified and pitched up to play faster. That’s why this mix sounds like it is around 190BPM. I always liked my drum and bass extra fast for some reason! Besides “Messiah” from the 6ixth Session, the track “Tough At The Top” is the one I get the most comments about from people that are familiar with my music. Overall, DJ MixSeries Volume 1 represented a very specific touchstone in my musical career. It was a transition point that really helped jumpstart later projects with crazy intros (this one had none), better graphics, more esoteric and unique track selections, etc. A belated super thank you to Nigel for believing in me and giving me this opportunity. This was definitely a fun art project and a big dip into the deep end of music development.

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TRACKLIST

Hoax - The More I See You (Urban Flavour Remix)
DT - Serious
EZ-Rollers - Tough At The Top (Origin Unknown Remix)
Concept 2 - Unlock The Secrets
Dom + Matrix - Foot Steps
Facs - Rupture
Technical Itch - Hidden Sound (Dom + Roland Remix)
Solar Nine - Audio Distortion
Embee - The Power
Secret Methods - Animation
Swift - Mission
Decoder - EKO
Decoder - DHR
Vagrant - Space Boogie
Sharp Scientific - Stratocruiser

SixEleven DJ MixSeries Volume 1

Source Material returns strong with another carefully chosen session of current and forthcoming favorites. As usual, dubstep, drum & bass, and all things bass-minded are in rotation.

Tracklist:
Danny Scrilla & Kromestar - Saturn’s Ring [Library Music]
Pugilist - Pineapple Tune [Dub]
Folding City - Fragile Truce [Dub]
Axh - Dubplate Champion [Gourmet Beats]
LEVELZ - Front Face (Dub Phizix Remix) [LEVELZ]
Dalek One - Cycles [Forthcoming Encrypted Audio]
Egoless - Empire Of Dirt [Deep Medi Musik]
Sir Hiss - Danny Uzi Vert [Infernal Sounds]
Mister Shifter - Dub Attack [Forthcoming Artikal Music UK]
Danny Scrilla - Wipeout [Forthcoming Perfect Records]
Lewis James - Nutso [Rua Sound]
Jon E Cash - Hoods Up Dub (Chimpo & Sam Binga Remix feat. Trigga & Killa P) [Dub]
Mister Shifter - Kigali Stomp [Forthcoming Artikal Music UK]
Mystic State - Zoo (feat. Jakaboski) [Flexout Audio]
Danny Scrilla - Mirrors (feat. Alis) [Forthcoming Perfect Records]
Out of Fuel - Minus 25 [Translation Recordings]

Source Material Podcast

Source Material 002 - Mister Shifter

JOURNAL ENTRY - MARCH 26 2019

“I was a wanderer on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable jungle. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances…and this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. As I slowly penetrated ever so deeper into this heart of darkness my soul was set ablaze with an infinity of wonders that I discovered…”

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Dieselboy returns to deliver another mind-bending powerhouse of visionary drum and bass programming - the electrifying HEART OF DARKNESS! 28 years of World Tour DJ’ing with an obsessive focus on clever and creative mixing has driven him to craft this STAGGERING 91 minute / 125 track subsonic BEHEMOTH that pushes the boundaries of a DJ mix. Moving far beyond the traditional “linear” mixing model, Dieselboy has perfected a style of layering tracks that can only be described as “threaded” or “braided” - songs, loops and samples twist around one another in specific ways so that every element enhances those around it. With HEART OF DARKNESS the man has created an absolutely compelling audio experience - painting vibrant peaks, deep valleys and broad vistas of dense sonic textures designed to spellbound the intrepid listener. Come and take this incredible journey with him…DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE!

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 
Graphic Design by Dieselboy
Artwork by Dan Dussault

TRACKLIST LINK >> https://tinyurl.com/y4d4om4a

Heart Of Darkness

DIESELBOY THE DESTROYER - LIVE AT EDC

68 MINUTES.
82 TRACKS.
4 DECKS.
1 DJ.



May 19th 2019 - The Destroyer ascends the steps to the fabled Basspod at Electric Daisy Carnival to deliver a carpetbomb of  100% unadulterated drum and bass napalm upon the assembled masses. Track after track after straight fucking triple drop continuously craters the crowd into a vast smoking ruin. 

News reports later confirm there were no survivors.

#NOFUCKINGPREPLANNEDSETS2019

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TRACKLIST

Carl Orff - O Fortuna
Drumsound + Bassline Smith - Bloodclaaart // TECHNIQUE
A.M.C - Look Out // TITAN
Benny L - Vanta Black // METALHEADZ
Bou + Sub Killaz - Starburst // SOUPED UP
Ekko + Side Track - Black Stone // VIPER
Sound In Noise - Duppy Bass // RAM
Twenty One Pilots - Ride (KC Bootleg) // DUB
Mean Teeth - Nine Lives // RED LIGHT
DJ Hazard - Air Guitar // PLAYAZ
Bad Company - The Nine // BC RECORDINGS
Skantia - Cluster // RAM
Dutta + T>I - One Round // SOUPED UP
Urban Dawn - Come Together // HOSPITAL
Sound In Noise - Cowards // RAM
Phace - Das Techno // NEOSIGNAL
Cryteria - Death Camp 13 // FOUR CORNERS
Hazard - Bricks Will Roll // PLAYAZ
Kanine - Dubplate Soldier // ELEVATE
Diskord - Hit The Floor (TC Edit) // CIRCUS
Abis - If U (Synergy Remix) // DIVIDID
Levela - Orbit // PROGRAM
Demo + Cease - Ladies Night (Drumsound + Bassline Smith Remix) // HUMAN IMPRINT
Mob Tactics - LDN Bass // RAM
TC - Ride // DONT PLAY
Friction + Turno - The Future // ELEVATE
The Prototypes - Millenia // GET HYPE
Hamilton - Hopelessly Addicted VIP // RAM
DC Breaks + Loadstar - Opposition // RAM
Break + DLR - City Slickers // SYMMETRY
Post Malone - Rockstar (TC Remix) // REPUBLIC
Shy FX - Bambaata (Break Remix) // DIGITAL SOUNDBOY
Audio - Headroom VIP // RAM
Loadstar - Encarta // RAM
Prodigy - No Good (TC Remix) // XL
Dimension - UK (Skrillex Remix) // DIMENSION
Heist - Intercepter // LOW DOWN DEEP
Dieselboy + Counterstrike + Mark The Beast - Stagediver // HUMAN IMPRINT
Mefjus + June Miller - Saus VIP // RAM
Break - Who Got Da Funk // SYMMETRY
Hive - Neo (Audio Remix) // RAM
Basstripper - Typhoon // LOW DOWN DEEP
Dawn Penn - You Don’t Love Me (TC Remix) // BIG BEAT
TC - Ho // DONT PLAY
Benny L - Low Blow VIP // METALHEADZ
Qemists - Stompbox (Spor Remix) // NINJA TUNE
Turno - Asylum // ELEVATE
Annix - Axshun (feat Strangez) // PLAYAZ
Shimon + Benny L - Yeti // BASSRUSH
DJ Hazard - It’s A Secret // PLAYAZ
TC - GTFU // DONT PLAY
Friction - Lost It Mode (feat Linguistics) // ELEVATE
Optiv + BTK - Over The Edge (Aggressor Bunx Remix) // DUTTY AUDIO
Konz - Breathe (Version Remix) // DUTTY BASS
TC - Sledgehammer // DONT PLAY 
Current Value - The Smile // VISION
Enei - Modulate // CRITICAL
TC - The Teacher // DONT PLAY
TC - Tap Ho (A.M.C Remix) // DONT PLAY
Eric Prydz - Generate (Dimension Remix) // VIRGIN
Culture Shock - The Bypass // RAM
Commix - Talk To Frank (Break Remix) // METALHEADZ
Zed’s Dead + Delta Heavy - Lift You Up // RAM
Dossa + Locuzzed - Cargo VIP // VIPER
A Cray - Stomper // NEODIGITAL
S.P.Y. - Rock Da House // HOSPITAL
TC - Vegas // DONT PLAY
Noisia - Incessant // VISION
Critical Impact - Bulletproof Vest feat Skibadee // PLAYAZ
Pendulum - Blood Sugar (Prototypes Intro Remix) // BREAKBEAT KAOS
Upbeats - Cauldron // VISION
Nuvertal feat Maureen - Things We Shared // IGNESCENT
Agressor Bunx - Roadside // BLACKOUT
Drumsound + Bassline Smith + Prolix - Welcome To The Machine // TECHNIQUE
Point Blank - I Need You (Original Sin Remix) // BROKEN
Phace - Fraktal Total // NEOSIGNAL
Dimension // Whip Slap II // MTA
TC - Countdown VIP // DONT PLAY
Prodigy - Voodoo People VIP // XL
Bad Company - Bullet Time (Spor Remix) // BAD TASTE
Skrillex - DNB Ting // DUB
Sub Focus - X-Ray (Metrik Remix) // RAM

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