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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

This set as recorded as part of Therapy Sessions Melbourne VII - Right before Robyn Chaos & The Panacea played.

Its 2.5 hours long and I'm way to busy to do a full tracklist but I can tell you thats its a fast poaced and up front set of heavy rolling techy dnb set with tracks from Audio, The Sect, Tech Itch, Loki, Ed Rush, Outside Agency, Current Value, Cooh, Black Sun Empire, Counterstrike, Paul Blackout, Raiden and many, many, many more (probably 40-50 tracks in total).

Probably my favourite dnb set I've ever mixed - Its heavy but not stupidly heavy - so hopefully you jump on it and give it a listen.

About 2 hours 15 mins @ 256k mp3

ctoafn - Therapy Sessions Melbourne VII

QUADRATIC "garbage cats" unmastered

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QUADRATIC "garbage cats" unmastered

This is a mix by my good mate Kanevil. I personally think its the best bloody Glitch Hop mix I've heard - and he is still a rookie too ffs ;-P

So I am hosting it for him so more people can listen to this so get on it!

1:  Griz - Do My Thang
2:  Mr. 50 - Low King
3: Je M'Amuse - Caravan Palace (R.O Remix)
4: Mouldy Soul & William Breakspear - Mash Up The Scene
5: Beat Fatigue - Organic Bamboo
6: AMB - Starsky & Glitch
7: Bristletone - Quibble
8: Skope - Good To Me
9: Mr. 50 - Reeses Pieces 
10: Grizmatik - My People
11: Griz - Gettin' Live
12: BreakZhead - It's Massive!
13: Ahab - Flux
14: Bare & Datsik - King Kong (Neon Steve Remix)
15: Roughmath feat. Maksim - Sound In Your System (Koven Remix)
16: Critical & Beatsmith - Bounce (LaFunkt Remix)
17: Pruga P - China Town
18: Ahrmor - Atomic Earthsmasher
19: Joe Ford - Bring The Bass
20: Reso - Check 1, 2
21: Divided By Zero - Hustle At The Hideout
22: Reso - The Rugged
23: Volatile Psycle - Layer Cake.

ctoafn presents DJ Kanevil - The 'Wicked Glitch Of The West' Mix 2013

My first ever international supporting set and it was mutherfuckin' Tech Itch & Dylan!!!

** WARNING - This is a rookie and live mix from 10 years ago, worth a listen but read below for the back story first **

Joined a new crew called Bassoids and our first big party was the release party for Tech Itch & Dylan's LP on the Hell Down Under tour. We packed out Club Retro with 300-400 people. Club Retro was the only club we could find available. Shady as fuck nightclub on Lonsdale St with a vending machine with vibrators and editable panties which is usualy a 'pick up' club playing purely retro. he bar staff & management shat themselves when they heard the music (and also stole all the door takings at the end of the night) 

 I was going under the name of DMZ (which was me and an ex-mate). DMZ was a much better name than 'ctoafn' and was well before the name DMZ became synonymous with club that helped launch Dubstep. All for the best though. 

The place was rammed jammed and was up for the heaviest shit we could throw at them but on top of shitting ourselves playing to so many people right before the Godfather's of Heavy DnB stood over us, the needles were skipping like crazy as the dancefloor bounced so its a bit messy in spots but the vibe was insane and the only reason I'm putting this up.

We were lucky enough to have MC's Wasp, Dr Sponk and JC rotating on the mic who did a mad job hyping and made it an epic night. 

Made the total rookie mistake of playing some big Tech Itch tunes right before he came on to play which I still cringe hearing but I was a newbie and learnt not to do that again pretty quickly.

Also my first big rewind when Paradrenasite dropped. Still get goosebumps.

So its a bit of a messy mix at times but it taught me some big lessons which helped shape me as a DJ and what would introduce me into the Melbourne DnB scene.

Subwave - Dirty Dozen
Dom & Skynet - Rhino
Tech Itch & MC Jakes - The Risin'
Future Prophecies - Voice of Loneliness
Tech Itch - Turn Me Out
Kryptic Minds - Hide The Tears (Refige Kru Remix)
Resonant Evil - NuBreed
DJ Hidden & Slacknote - Where's The Score (Evol Intent Remix)
Usual Suspects - Stalker (Danny C Remix)
D Kay & IllSkillz (?) - The Martians
Spirit - Out Of Control
Dylan & Loxy - Fraggle Rock
B Key - Final Conflict
Future Cut - Ghetto Style (Evol Intent Remix)
Universal Project - Ultra Violence
>> Bad Company - The Nine (terrible attempt at a tease lol)
Dom & Roland (Paradrenasite (Hive Combo Mix)
The Militia - Echo Chamber (DSL, Kaos & Karl Kennedy Remix)
Dieselboy - Barrier Break
Seriously - Cannot Remember nor Does Shazam
Special Forces - Sidewinder
Tech Itch & MC Jakes - The Rukus
Bad Company - Planet Dust
Ed Rush & Optical - Compound (Gridlok Remix)
Usual Suspects - Spawn Punch (Future Cut Remix)

ctoafn (formerly half of DMZ) w/ MCs Wasp, Dr Sponk & MCJC - 'Tech Freaks' Tour @ Club Retro 2004

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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

Now this is a lot different to what I normally play but after a month or metal awesomeness that was Slipknot, System of A Down and Soundwave, my ears we're craving something a lot different so I put this together.

For my mates who don't like the heavy shit I normally play, you may really like this. For my crew who expected my normal heavy shit, you probably wont like this but its titled 'The Calm Before The Storm' for a reason.....................

1. Displaced Paranormals - L'Amore
2. ASC - Matter Of Time
3. Unquote feat Grimm - Memories Fade Away
4. Cause4Concern - Makes Me Wonder
5. High Contrast & Underworld - 238 Days
6. Unquote feat Grimm - Paint My Wings
7. dBridge - So Lonely (Consequence Remix)
8. Flame - Long Way Home
9. Technicolour - No Evil
10. Xtrah - Arise
11. Little Jinder - Without You (Seba Remix)
12. Debial & Stunnah - Misfit
13. Unquote feat Molecular Structure - Lubov Moya
14. Komatic - Make The Most Of Now
15. dBridge - The Little Things
16. Atom - Studio Electronics
17. Unquote - Hide Your Tears Because We Are In Heaven
18. Pledge - Made You Feel
19. George Fitzgerald - Don't You
20. Elarob8 - Again
21. NEOS - Come Back
22. Phaeleh - The Cold In You
23. Unquote - Heavy Rain

1 hour 42 mins @ 320k - 240MB

Ctoafn 'The Calm Before The Storm' Mixtape - March 2012

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

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

Found this old mix (close to 8 years old) that I recorded live before playing with Raiden @ HiFi. We had some sick Japanese MC but the recorder didn't catch them ;-(

1. Gridlok - Vampire VIP_ctoafn intro VIP (Violence)
2. Ewun/Kill The Noise - Guntalk (Barcode) 03:58
3. Muffler - Pandemonium (DSCI4) 06:31
4. Raiden - Flat 32 (Sinuous Records) 08:42
5. SPL - Bullets - SPL (Disturbed) 11:15
6. Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Hide The Tears_Refuge Kru remix (Metalheadz) 13:48
7. Cause4Concern - Mind Killer (Technical Freaks) 16:20
8. Q Bik - Jackdaw (Drop On Request) 18:31
9. Future Prophecies - Magnetic (Subtitles) 20:19
10. Dom & Roland - Paradrenasite_Hive Duo Remix (Moving Shadow) 22:50
11. Closer (John B remix) - NIN (Rock God) 25:21
>>> The Nine - Bad Company (BC Recordings) 27:28
12. Technical Itch - Replicator (Penetration) 28:44
13. Chase & Status - The Grudge (Renegade Hardware) 31:47
14. Technical Itch & MC Jakes - Critical Switch (Tech Itch Recordings) 33:56
15. Dylan - Lost Dreams (Freak Recordings) 36:46
16. Unknown Error/Apex - Shadows (Renegade Hardware) 38:54
17. Total Science - Champion Sound_Bad Company Remix (CIA) 42:49
18. Cliffery - ??? (Dub) 45.59

ctoafn live before Raiden @ HiFi Melbourne - November 2005

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.