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ctoafn's 'From The Vaults'

Rusha Rollerz 3-2-22

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 breaks mix (so it's not me trying to scratch or anything). I was always proud of this mix back in the day as I'd only been playing for couple of years and a simple 'one take' on the fly thing as I only had access to the studio for 3 hours to mke 2 mixes.

This one covers some nice wide spectrum of DnB Its got a lot of Pendulum as they were huge at the time, some heavy funk, some smooth Logistics, some totally stripped back minimal ('Imminent' by Atom 1 who worked at DMC), a little bit wobble with Zinc and Wickaman, some Dillinja and even a super rare Full Cycle Megamix at the end - I will admit the mix of the first two tunes 'Slam' by Pendulum with 'Sonar' by Trace doubling up the way they do, I don't think you'll find two tunes thta go togther any better than those IMO.

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

1. Pendulum - Slam (BBK) 
>> Trace - Sonar (Prototype) 
2. Zinc - Fairfight_Friction Remix (Bingo) 
3. Subfocus  - Airplane (Ram) 
4. Logistics - Blackout (Hospital) 
5. Atom 1 - Imminent (World of DnB) 
6. Prode  - Coral (Off Key) 
7. Warlockz  - Walking With My Friends
8. C4C - Carrier_Gridlok rmx (Quarantine) 
9. Rawthang  - Push (white) 
10. The Prodigy - Voodoo People_Pendulum Remix (XL) 
11. Sparfunk & Joe Solo - Blazin' Jazz (Ram) 
12. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour_BiPolar Remix (BBK) 
13. Logistics  - Uprock (Hospital) 
14. J Majik - Love Is Not A Game_Dillinja Remix (Defected) 
15. Wickaman & Hoodlum - Hustler (Infrared) 
16. Ed Rush & Optical - The Message (white) 
17. Concord Dawn - Say Your Words (Metalheadz) 
18. Pendulum  - Masochist VIP (BBK) 
19. Chase & Status feat Capelton - Duppy Man (BBK) 
20. ?? - Pump Friction (white) 
21. Full Cycle Crew - Full Cycle Mega Mix
>> Drummsound & Simon Bassline Smith - Odyssey (Prototype)

DMC Studio DnB Mix

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

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

Part of my 'From The Vaults' series, here is an all vinyl DnB Studio mix that I did @ DMC back in 2006 but was lost for about 8 years due to some Back Up HD failures - which I've manage to rediscover at the start of 2017.

About 80-90% of these tunes are absolute bonafide classic that youll hear for years to come.

1. Silence (J Majik rmx) - Delerium (White)
>> X Ray - Subfocus (Ram)
2. Tell Me - J Majik (Infrared)
3. Apache - Matrix (Virus)
4. Beyond Words - Kabuki (V)
5. With All My Love - Brooklyn (Subtitles)
6. House Music VIP - D:Ecco & Sabotage (Frequency)
7. Quadrant - Teebee (Renegade Hardware)
8. Shame - Alliance (Cymbalism)
9. The Origin - Spor (???)
10. Nosher (Baron Rmx) - Total Science (CIA)
11. Violent Sound - Hive, Keaton, Gridlok & Echo (Violence)
12. Solaris VIP - Chris Su (Subtitles)
13. B Negative (SKC & Chris Su Rmx) - Black Sun Empire (BSE)
14. Screamer - Ram Trilogy (Ram)
15. Vault - Pendulum (31 Records)
16. LK feat Stamina - Marky & XRS (V)
17. Bodyrock - Andy C & Shimon (Ram)
18. Another Planet - Pendulum (Breakbeat Kaos)
19. Up All Night Remix - John B (Metalheadz)

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

Chase & Status Ft Plan B - Pieces - Ram
Xample & Lomax - Contra - Ram
Noisia - Diplodocus - Quarantine
Chase & Status - Music Club - Ram
Concept 2 - Cause & Effect - Ram
Jakes (Ft Tc) - Swerve - D Style
Sigma - El Presidente - Dub
Chase & Status - Dumpling Riddim - Ram
TC & Jakes - Haters - D Style
System - Near Miss - Digital Soundboy
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo (High Contrast Rmx) - Ministry
Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down - Bbk
Break - Submerged Rmx (Calyx & Teebee Vip) - Subtitles
Chase & Status - Take Me Away - Ram
Vicious Circle - Technicolour - Dub
Andy C & Shimon - Quest Vip - Ram
Chase & Status - Hurt You - Ram
Icicle & Nymfo - Franky Mountain - Ram
Chase & Status - Streetlife - Ram
Chase & Status - Eastern Jam - Ram
Breakage - Together - Digital Soundboy
Burial - Untrue - Hyperdub
Lenny Dee Ice - We Ie (Caspa & Rusko Rmx) Dub
Chase & Status - Saxon - Dub
Benny Page & Zero G - Pan Pipes - Digital Soundboy
501 - Insanity - Dubtrade
TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Rmx) - D Style
Cotti & Doctor - Rise The Temperature - Dubtrade
Chase & Status Ft Kano - Against All Odds - Ram
Dizzee Rascal - Old Skool - Xl
Inner City Dwellers - Rudeboy - Dub
Metallica - Master Of Puppets (Pendulum Rmx)
Noisia - Stigma - Vision
Chase & Status - Smash Tv - Ram
Ed Rush & Optical - Alien Girl - Prototype
Chase & Status - Brazil - Ram
Hazard - Killaz - Playaz
Lomax - Artisan Vip - Dub
Vicious Circle - Peer Pressure - Dub
Dc Breaks - Taken - Frequency
Chase & Status - Judgement - Ram
Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows - Ram
Chase & Status - Duppy Man - Bbk
Plan B - No Good (Chase & Status Rmx) - 679
Lomax - Mercia - Dub
Sub Focus - Follow The Light - Ram
Hive & Tech Itch - Detox - Violence
Chase & Status - Havoc -
Breakage - Clarendon Vip - Digital Soundboy
Furney - Jahman - Good Looking
Alix Perez - Stray - Shogun
Calibre & High Contrast - Mr Majestic
Zero T - Refusal (Calibre Rmx) - Dub


Chase & Status - Essential Mix (9/8/2008)

Managed to find an old PC which had 1400 of my old tunes from back in the day. Spent 6 hours collating them and here is a bunch of them. Some of the files werent the great quality but too good not too play regardless.
			
1. Ones & Twos Intro		
2. Pendulum - Still Grey
3. Matrix - The Saint
4. Noisia & Teebee - Shower For An Hour [unshared]
5. DJ Trace - After Hours
6. Commix - Talk To Frank (Remastered)
7. High Contrast - Make It Tonight
8. Matrix and Danny J - Telepathy
9. Future Prophecies - September Boss
10. Photek - The Seven Samurai (Photek remix)

11. Bad Company	- Colonies
12. Cause 4 Concern - Epox
13. Ink & Dylan	- Need You [DJ Dara Mix]
14. Ed Rush & Optical - Watermelon
15. Ray Keith - Terrordome (2002 VIP Mix)
16. DJ Motive - Roc Raider
17. Noisia And Mayhem ft Mc Verse Choke
18. Moving Fusion - Living Daylights
19. Xample & Sol - Gauze
20. State Of Mind - Back To The Jungle

21. Sub Focus - Special Place
22. Break - Submerged (Calyx & Teebee Remix)
23. Shy FX - Bambaata - Break Remix
24. Shy FX & UK Apache - Original Nuttah (Aphrodite VIP
25. Q-Project - Champion Sound [bad company rmx]
26. Pendulum - Spiral
27. Mark Knight & Skin - Nothing Matters (Noisia Remix)
28. Photek - Age Of Empires
29. Special Forces - Sidewinder
30. State Of Mind - Dune
31. Raiden - I Hate You Motherfuckers VIP
32. Pendulum - Vault
33. )EIB( + Trace - Flashback (The Tumpa)

34. Dumonde - Human (Il Skillz remix)
35. Bad Company - Mass Hysteria (Hive Remix)
36. Noisia - Block Control (VIP Remix)
37. Basement Jaxx Ft Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star (Dillinja Remix)	
38. Pendulum and Subfocus  - Triad Warrior (Noisia remix)
39. Dom & Roland - Can't Punish Me (VIP Mix)
40. Spor - The Resistance
41. Ed Rush & Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum Remix)
42. The Upbeats	- Le Mammoth
43. Glenn Wilson - Aural Exciter (The Sect Remix)
44. Dieselboy - The Descent (Phunckateck VIP Mix)

022 - The Ones And Twos On Fresh927 - Ctoafn Old School Set 020519

This is the follow up to my Guide to 2000's Dark DNB I did last year. I complied artist A thru L and now I have completed L thru Z. Couple of train wrecks in there but if I dont get this out, I may never find the time again.

1. Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch w/ Dylan - Metaphor Remix
2. Mystification - Crack Up (Rude Awakening Remix)
3. Limewax - Everything
4. Nanotek - Never Say Die
5. Limewax - 1/2 Pound
6. Mystification - Computers
7. Masheen - Earth Shock
8. Noisia - Block Control VIP
9. Photek - Age Of Empires
10. Medium - Disgusted Face
11. Photek - Baltimore
12. Paul Blackout - Revolution
13. Raiden - Infection (eSassin Remix)
14. Proket - Kaskad (excuse the dodgy mix)
15. Raiden & Woody McBride - Basketball Diaries (Raiden Remix)
16. Spirit - Redial
17. Raiden & Current Value - RM Bleeps
18. Stakka & Skynet - Altitude (Break Remix)
19. Spor, Ewun & Evol Intent - Dirge
20. Silent Killer - Armada
21. Submerged - Servant (Tech Itch VIP)
22. SPL - Empty Studio
23. Technical Itch - Judge
24. SPL - Global Chaos
25. The Enemy - Malice Afterthought
26. Usual Suspects - Shrapnel (Sakka & Skynet Remix)
27. Telemetrik - The Bane
28. The Panacea - Blood For Blood Remix
29. The Upbeats - Le Mammoth
30. TZA - On The Inside
31. Universal Project - Bleach (Unknown Error Remix)
32. Vicious Circle - Welcome To Shanktown

Check out A to L here - https://soundcloud.com/ctoafn/ctoafns-a-z-guide-to-the

1hr 56mins - Recorded @ 320k - 233MB

Ctoafn's A-Z guide to the darkest 2000's dnb - Part 2 (L to Z) - March 2013

We have a special guest bringing the melodic, vibing yet kooky D&B flavours -  local ADLDNB boy Kingy

ctoafn

1. Muted Hue - Horizons
2. Dub Phizix - Slush Puppeh
3. Ink & Dylan - Need You (Ink, Loxy & Resound RMX)
4. The Upbeats - Ionized
5. Koherent - Endless Haze
6. Muted Hue ft. Bazil MC - Parting Ways
7. workforce - Back Up
8. Quartz - Coercion
9. Skeptical - Static
10. Zero T - Radical Step
11. Revan & Parallel Identities - Beurs

ctoafn

12. Workforce - EGO
13. Dub Phizix - Bunraku
14. Koherent - Rave Chatter
15. Muted Hue - White Lies
16. Zero T - Hurt Inside
17. Quartz - Haxan Magic
18. Particle & Klinical - Cult Process
19. The Upbeats - Shatter
20. Mofes ft. Division (DNB) - Katakomben (Phentix Remix)
21. Secula - Nameless
22. Klinical & Waeys - Framed
23. workforce - Maudlin

KINGY

24. Keosz & Trilo - Pride
25. Annix - Forever
26. KLAX - Become (feat. Charli Brix)
27. Subtension - Unterspannung
28. Satl ft. Dan Stezo - Guna Guna
29. Askel & Elere - Glass
30. Rido feat. Thomas Oliver - Twisted
31. Sub Focus & Wilkinson - Freedom (Sub Focus & Wilkinson vs. High Contrast Remix)
32. Facing Jinx - Meet You There 
33. Ownglow - LA
34. Jevon Ives - Head In The Clouds feat. Charli Brix (Hyroglifics Remix)
35. Snow Ghosts - And the World Was Gone (Calibre Remix)
36. Lenzman - Rain (feat. Children Of Zeus)
37. Phace & Rockwell - NO! (Submarine Remix)
38. Ulterior Motive Ft ICICLE - Anode
39. Jamie Lidell - Believe In Me (Klax Refix)

KINGY

40. Rockwell - Technoir (feat. Breakage)
41. IMANU - Monchou
42. Calibre - Sick Of It All
43 Enter Shikari - The One True Colour (Keeno Remix)
44. Phase - Albatross (ft. Viv May)
45. Halogenix - Cliche
46. Dawn Wall - Lemon Dogs
47. Fourward - Over	
48. Spectrasoul Feat. D-Bridge - Glimpse
49. Ivy Lab - 'Teacup' 
50. Posij & Former - Lore
51. High Contrast - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
52. Jubei State Of The Art (feat. SPMC) (Ulterior Motive VIP)
53. Emba x Tempza - All Our Years

054 - The Ones And Twos On Fresh927 - ctoafn x Kingy 18022021

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.