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ctoafn's Breaks & Glitch Hop

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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

New Aeroplane remix for Surahn streaming. Out September 24 on DFA

Surahn - Wonderful (Aeroplane Remix)

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Rave Podcast 049 with Aquafeel (June 2014)

Rush Hour 082 comes direct from Australia where Christopher Lawrence is on the Pharmacy: Phase 4 tour. This episode is jam packed with Pharmacy tracks Christopher is playing on tour and the response has been amazing from Down Under. Track of the Month goes to Orbiteck - The Wicked Rabbit Movement (Fergie & Sadrian Remix), plus there's new tunes from Pharmacy's Microsis, tinY, Frost Raven, Jens Jakob, Lamat and Daniel Lesden. There are also new releases from Paratech, plus remixes from Nick Sentience and Nukleall.

This month's guest mix comes from Daniel Lesden, whose remix of Christopher Lawrence & Jonathan Allyn latest single The Human Element on Pharmacy Music spent several weeks in Beatport's Top 20 singles chart. 

Daniel Lesden has solidified his sound in recent years and is a name that is rapidly rising through the ranks and and is certainly definitely respected by his peers. His music can best be described as atmospheric and melodic, but at same time dancefloor orientated Progressive Psy Trance influenced by his love of the universe and journey of discovery. He has been meticulous in his preparations over the last year for his debut album ‘Chronicles Of The Universe’. With a remix of John 00 Fleming’s forthcoming single already in the pipeline, as well as three new EP’s all to be released on J00F Recording in 2014 the backing of such a powerful label proves Daniel has something special and what can only be described as an explosive journey ahead of him. Described as "A great up and coming psy producer!” by Simon Patterson, he began his professional career in the music scene in 2012 with his first release ‘Contact’ being snapped up by Ovnimoon Records and spent a number of weeks in the ‘Beatport PsyTrance Release 100’, finally holding firm at #7.  A remix of another of the heavyweights of the Psy Trance scene followed this with Ace Ventura’s monumental ‘Presence’, unleashing a moretechie sound on this remix that is certain to smash any dancefloor around the world.

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Hour One: Christopher Lawrence
Microsis / Anno Machina / Pharmacy
tinY / Love and War / Pharmacy
Frost Raven / Never Alone / Pharmacy
Orbiteck / The Wicked Rabbit Movement (Fergie & Sadrian Remix) / Pharmacy
Christopher Lawrence & Jonathan Allyn / The Human Element (Daniel Lesden Remix) / Pharmacy
Jens Jakob / Dark Energy / Pharmacy
Second Sine / The Harder / They Drop (Nick Sentience Remix) / Critical Overload
Paratech / Sky Lines / Blacklite
Paratech / Mental Union / Blacklite
Paul Taylor & Andy Mason / Bandersnatch (Nukleall Remix) / Kundalini 
Lamat / On Top, Behind and Beyond / Pharmacy

Hour Two: Daniel Lesden (J00F / Russia)

Daniel Lesden / Ishtar Terra / JOOF
Relativ & Nerso / Burn The Floor / TesseracStudio
Daniel Lesden / ID Starlab / Innerspace / Digital Om
Shogan / Vintage World / Ovnimoon Records
Side Effects / Time Bender (Arhetip Remix) / Digital Om
Daniel Lesden / ID 
Talpa / The Moon (Flegma & Nerso Remix) / TesseracStudio
Miranda / Gnocchi / (ManMachine Remix) / Unreleased
Protonica / Floating Joint / Unreleased
Daniel Lesden / Vortex / JOOF
Liquid Soul / Devotion (Morten Granau & Zyce Remix) / Iboga
Ace Ventura / Presence (Daniel Lesden Remix) / Unreleased
Vertical Mode / Twist Me Up (Lifeforms Remix) / HomMega
Daniel Lesden / Space Form / Tandava Records 


Rush Hour 082 w/ guest Daniel Lesden

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Rave Podcast 060 with StarLab (May 2015)

We have our good pal, Eddie Light, to thank for lining up this week’s talented guests. From the UK, we’re pleased to welcome Barely Royal and Bunnie to the Armory Podcast. Press play. Get down. 

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Barely Royal and Bunnie - Episode 155

Boogie While You Work by Rahaan...

In the forthcoming episode of Digital Om Productions series Daniel Lesden presents his new upcoming album ‘2000 Years Ahead‘ with a special hour long set including some of the top tracks from the new album along with some other current favourites. 

Russian music producer and DJ, based in Israel, Daniel Lesden releases his second studio album titled ‘2000 Years Ahead’ on his home label Digital Om Productions.
Inspired by the many Sci-Fi films and novels, the album tells a story about human race that has reached out a peak of technological growth and a hidden menace it may lead to. With this release expect to hear some robotic voices driving with synthetic leads rolling on kinetic energy all in all an extremely intelligent & mature Psychedelic masterpiece that Daniel Lesden is unleashing after a year of studio work.

This album also includes a collaboration with the Digital Om’s rising talent AudioFire as well as a remix to earlier released track of Middle Mode & Relativ titled ‘Divination’.

‘2000 Years Ahead’ is a sci-infused blend of Progressive and Psytrance that is ready to blast the dancefloors around the world.

We at Digital Om Productions would once again want to thank all those beautiful people who keep us inspiring further to reach higher levels.

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Guest Mixes

DANIEL LESDEN | Digital Om Productions Series Vol.23 | 09/01/2016

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

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Clap Your Hands Stomp Your Feet - Rahaan Remix

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

new LOVE UNLIMITED VIBES is on the way!
LUV09 will be released on 17th of june 2013.
Vinyl only - limited to 500 copies worldwide!
exclusive distribution via KOMPAKT.

LUV09 B

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.