ctoafn's Breaks & Glitch Hop

trance

Part One of my next Mixtape Series. Since my DJ name is stupid and no-one either understands it or knows how to say it, this mixtape will hopefully help people at least say it right ;-0

First mix is all @ 105-110bpm. Its half Glitch Hop & half Moombahcore. The second mix will go from Trap (just a little bit to breaks, Dubstep then DNB. The third I planned for strictly deep DNB.

1. K+Lab - SpaceDirt
2. Buck Rogers & Imagine This - Bounce
3. Koan Sound - Eastern Thug
4. I Am Legion (Noisia & Foreign Beggars) - Make Those Move
5. Skope - Robofunk
6. Cant Find the damn name ;-P
7. DJ Shadow - Scale It Back (Blunt Instrumental Remix)
8. Koan Sound - Sly Fox (Opiuo Remix)
9. Seven Lions & Birds Of Paradise - She Was
10. GRiZ - Smash The Funk
11. Pyramyth - Rubber Kangaroo
12. Buck Rogers - Time To Rock
13. KrossBow & Greenpiece - Our Time
14. Calvertron - 50k
15. Nick Thayer feat Wizard Sleeve - Like Boom
16. Infected Mushroom - U R So Fucked (Opiuo Remix)
17. Volatile Psycle & Charged - Gramophone
18. Bro Safari & UFO! - Savage Beauty

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Its Pronounced 'Cee-Toe-Fen' August 2013 Mix - Part One

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025 - No other mix CD out has made me want to wake up to it as much as this one. Think slowly rising from a dream/hangover with the best sound possible and that's about it. Both discs on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure open with absolutely gorgeous tracks, Gus Gus's 'Believe' being an example of this. Furry Phreak's 'Soothe (Chicane Jazz)' dives deeper into the sound before the cd moves on to intelligent breaks, early trance and climaxes in what must be one of the most beautiful electronic tracks ever made... Hybrid's Symphony. This isn't just music you would wake up too, it's so good, you'd probably happily die to it as well. Another CD which raises the bar and takes it's own thrown on the Classic Mix CD series, and a fine choice for our quarter century episode. Turn it up... and enjoy the mix.

025 - Northern Exposure II - Sasha and John Dignweed - Disc 1(1998)

Head up Bas Heads - You probbaly won't like this (or you might) its just uploaded for a few mates and the private share thing on SC is fucked so making it public.

So the story goes when I first got introduced to Electronic Music, it was lat 1998 and it was all about trance and Gatecrasher. Fuckin loved it. Raves at the dock, great rugs, fun times. 

A year later I met some new (but now lifelong) friends who took me to a DNB gig (Fierce @ Tekstep) and the rest was history.

When I started Dj'ing years later and I was buying my fortnightly (pay day) stack of vinyl, I would occasionally pick up some late 90's trance wax when I could so one day in 2008 I decided to actually put it in a mix. Its not the best, I missed heaps of songs but just found it on a CD and know some people who might like it.

I didn't mix 4x4 much, the phrasing is quite different to the way DnB was and I don't bother to mix in key (I use my ears). We don't mix in key much in DnB cause you are too busy actually mixing songs in every minute or two rather than waiting 10 minutes between songs and waving your hands like a knob (looking at you Tiesto).

So there s the story if you've bothered to read it. No tracklist, Shazam it if you like a song, let me know if you like it too ;-)

ctoafn attempts Old School Trance Mix 2008

Blade Attack - Come With Me/Junk Project Mix (Drizzly)
Junk Project - Beats Bring Silence (Drizzly)
DJ Quicksilver - Cosmophobia (Underdog)
Hitchiker & Jacques Dumondt - Travelling (Velvet Vibe)
Strings Of Harmony - Part 1 (Drizzly)
Dream Wave - Lift Off/Sam Pling Mix(Spaceflower)
Marino Stephano - Eternal Rhapsody/Vocal Mix - (No Respect)
Marino Stephano - Free Time (Heaven Beats)
Datura - 7th Hallunication - (Trance Records)
Sequel Bass - The Third Chapter - (Tunnel Records)
Code 28 - Feel My Desire/Cocooma Mix - (United Ravers)
Suburban Delay - All I Need (Jolly Roger Lite ) 

I did not intend on recording a mix, I wanted to listen to some tracks I was yet to mix and this is the result. I will re-record this soon and do a 'real' mix. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy TrancePants! d(X_x)b






90's Hard Trance Vinyl Classics Mixed by Squat Project

An ambient set (all originals) recorded at CoSM. 
Featuring tracks spanning the last 15 years.


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Tipper - CoSM Ambient Set

A mix of some old tracks, some new tracks and some unreleased tracks.

Tipper Promo Mix 2011

After two of my hard drives failed, I lost a tonne of my old mixes, whilst I've found most of them, there were a few that I didn't and this 'was' one of them.

I recorded this at the now defunct Melbourne institution DMC Records in Prahran back in 2006 in a Studio they had upstairs as well as a DnB mix. Breaks was massive back in Melbourne in the early to mid 2000's - every Friday night at Fractured (@ Se7en Nightclub in South Melbourne) there would be a big breaks room with lots of local guys like NuBreed making awesome tunes then you'd have a DnB sideroom. This mix is short and sweet, I recall running out of studio time.

Thanks to Luke InTheory for finding the mixes - big ups mate!!!

1. The Autobots - Flesh Eater
2. Hyper On Experience - Lord of the Null Lines__Aquasky vs Masterblaster Remix
3. Plump DJ's - Get Kinky
4. Pendulum - Out Here
5. Infusion  - Dead Souls__Evil Nine Remix
6. Miss Shiva - Dreams__Lucky 7 Remix 
7. Zen - Minefield (DnB 45 @ 33rpm) 
8. Spork  - Let It Ride
9. Autobots vs Screwface - Apocolypse
10. NuBreed - One Day
11. Bedrock - Heaven Scent
12. Hybrid - Finished Symphony

From The Vaults

ctoafn 'From The Vaults' 2017 - June 2006 DMC Breaks Studio Mix - June 2006

After two of my hard drives failed, I lost a tonne of my old mixes, whilst I've found most of them, there were a few that I didn't and this 'was' one of them.

I recorded this at the now defunct Melbourne institution DMC Records in Prahran back in 2006 in a Studio they had upstairs as well as a DnB mix. Breaks was massive back in Melbourne in the early to mid 2000's - every Friday night at Fractured (@ Seven Nightclub in South Melbourne) there would be a big breaks room with lots of local guys like NuBreed making awesome tunes then you'd have a DnB sideroom. A term called 'Tear Out' started to come into play, I guess its the equivalent of BroStep to Dubstep and this was early Tear Out, still had the funk not the straight chainsaws and reece b lines. Looking back at this tracklist its a lot of the same producers but its was all on vinyl and @ $20 for 2 songs, B sides used to be a lot beter than they are these days. This has some more local guys quite early on in their production like Nick Thayer plus you've got Dopamine and old boys Bubble & Squeek.

Thanks to Luke InTheory for finding the mixes - big ups mate!!!

1. The Breakfastaz - Crazy (Cyberfunk Music) 
2. Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought - Hold Up (Supercharged) 
3. Dopamine Vs Bubble and Squeek - In Shallow (Title Fight) 
4. Drumattic Twins - Pumped Up Funk (Finger Lickin) 
5. Drumattic Twins - Feelin Kinda Strange__Bass Kleph & Nick Thayer Remix (Finger Lickin) 
6. The Breakfastaz - Green Light (Mob Records) 
7. No Hands - Fat Cats__Diverted Remix (Diverted Traffic) 
8. Aquasky & The Autobots - Dreamland (Passenger) 
9. Aquasky vs Masterblaster - Boom__Breakfastaz Remix (Passenger) 
10. Tom Real Vs Rogue Element - He's So Hot Right Now (Functional Breaks) 
11. Deep Impact vs Autobots - Ultrafunkula (Broke) 
12. The Breakfastaz - Freefall (Cyberfunk) 
13. Deep Impact  - Out Of Control (Broke) 
14. Freestylers V Million Dan - No Replica__Aquasky v Masterblaster Remix (Supercharged) 
15. Sound Of Man - My Dirty Lo Down (Finger Lickin) 
16. Fat Boy Slim - Right Here Right Now__Freemasons Remix (Skint)

ctoafn 'From The Vaults' 2017 - September 2006 Breaks Studio Mix

1. Unbalanced Jack - Kickin, Rhyme, Steady (Autobots Remix)
2. Nitro - Violence (Rogue Element Remix)
3. Screwface & Ctrl+Z - The Tunnel VIP
4. Far Too Loud - Get High
5. General Midi - NuOne 
6. Backdraft - Manic
7. Hybrid - I Choose Noise (Elite Forces Remix) 
8. Antiform - Boombox (Screwface Remix)
9. Culture Shock - Asteroids
10. Ctrl+Z & Screwface - Stereo:Typical 
11. Far Too Loud - Play It Loud 
12. Th Autobots - Seconds Out
13. Far Too Loud - Shredder
14. Ctrl+Z  - Pain
15. DJ Hyper - No Rockstars
16. Deekline & Wizard - All Your Love
17. Aquasky vs Masterblaster - 777 
18. Ctrl+Z & Screwface - Dar Licks 
19. Agent K & DJ J Break  - American Werewolf In London (Screwface Remix)
20. DJ Mutiny - Most Feat Ms Trouble (The Breakfastaz Remix)

Its 79:59 minutes long @ 256k (Total 141MB) 

Ctoafn party breaks mix - November 2007

Going through my archives and found this mini mix I did playing around with some breaks. Lots of psy breaks and big bassline chunky basslines.

Truth be told it was supposed to be an hour and a half long but my recording device ran out of space 40 minutes in.

ctoafn Mini Breaks Mix April 2012

ctoafn (Couldn't Think Of A F%#king Name) has been a DJ and promoter for the last 18 years in Melbourne moving back home to Adelaide January 2016 and back to Melbourne late 2021). He was the man behind Collateral Damage and Therapy Sessions Melbourne representing the darkside of drum n bass and has toured/supported acts including Dylan, Limewax, Current Value, Audio, Robyn Chaos, The Sect, Raiden, The Panacea, Dom & Roland, SPL and more. He also promoted and supported the "original and infamous" Spor & Ewun show @ The Palace, Evol Intent, John B, Apex (Unknown Error) and Telemetrik to name a few.

After giving up promoting in 2009 (except for the odd warehouse party) ctoafn spent a lot of time successfully getting his brand of bass music to the masses - Fast and furious mixing, dancefloor filling, bass ridden, filthy yet funky bass ;-) Whether its DnB, Dubstep, Glitch Hop, Moombahton or Breaks you are bound to hear it all.

His "PowerDub" mix released in July 2010 has received props from across the globe with thousands of downloads, CDs etc and then stepped it up and went onto 3 decks for the 2nd PowerDub Mixtape.

This led to playing for all of the large Melbourne bass music crews like Tekstep, BBA, Heavy Innit, The Operatives, PTA as well as Bass Elements & Enchanted Forest in Adelaide, Earth Frequency Festival in Brisbane, Dark Hearts in Christchurch. He's been a resident for one of the top 3 bass crews in Melbourne 'Twisted Audio' for 10 years after stepping back into his DNB roots. He then moved back to his home town of Adelaide to perform with Bass Element & The Collective which in the process across Melbourne & Adelaide been given the responsibility to warm up or close for a 'who's who' of D&B & Dubstep acts including Noisia, Calyx & Teebee, S.P.Y, Dillinja, Dub Phizix & Strategy, Rene La Vice, LTJ Bukem, Spectrasoul, DRS, Datsik, 16 Bit, SPL, Funtcase, Gemini, Audio/Pixel Fist, Phaeleh, Current Value, Dieselboy, State Of Mind, Evol Intent, Mefjus, Stickybuds, Emperor, InsideInfo, Cooh/Balkansky, Xilent, Fred V & Grafix, The Upbeats, Black Sun Empire, DC Breaks, Ivy Lab, Ekko & Sidetrack, Trei, Brookes Brothers, Annix, Jade, Teddy Killerz & Tantrum Desire. Even got to do a NYE mix for Triple J !

I have a monthly show called 'All Styles All Flavours' on KISSFM and finally I co-hosted a weekly show on Fresh927 FM alongside Uttersounds & OhQ called 'The Ones and Twos' Thursday nights 10pm til midnight CDST from 2018-2021 and all of my shows are archived here.