Name: Ed Rush & Optical @ Let It Roll 2014 (01.08.2014) by Optical ☣
Duration: 1 h 16 min 23 s
Description: Live recording of Ed Rush and Optical DJ set from Let-It-Roll Festival, Prague 2014.

This is a live recording of Ed Rush & Optical with Rymetyme taken from day 2 of the Virus Weekend at Steelyard in London. 08/10/22

We are releasing this mix to celebrate our 25th Virus anniversary in 2023!!

Ed Rush & Optical feat. Rymetyme - Virus Weekend - Day2 - Steelyard London 08/10/2022

Alongside Ed Rush, Matt Quinn (who you’ll undoubtedly know better under his DJ name, Optical) has helped sculpt the drum & bass scene’s multifarious experimentations for nearly two decades now. As producers they pioneered the techstep sound, making crisp and explosive d&b sing on the defining <em>Wormhole</em> album, but as bosses of Virus Recordings they’ve managed to continually stay propulsive releasing music from people like Audio, Optiv & BTK, The Upbeats, Noisia and many many more. A mainstay here, the duo’s forceful and dominating sets are always surefire highlights which is why, ahead of their set headlining Room Two this Friday, we asked Optical to put together an hour long mix which demonstrates a) why we hold them in such high regard and b) why Optical’s still one of the most quietly inventive production forces in modern drum & bass.

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Optical - FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Vicious Circle B2B Universal Project @ Renegade Hardware The Final Event @ The End -  09/01/2009

I've recorded this mix for REV D&B : https://www.youtube.com/@REVDrumBass
Original post : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUHYJ6PoIMc

00:00 Konflict - Messiah (Magnetude Remix) - Renegade Hardware Dub
01:52 Usual Suspects - Killa Bees (InsideInfo Remix) - Renegade Hardware
02:37 Enei - The Hammer - Critical Recordings
04:48 Bad Company - Dogs On The Moon (Delta Heavy Remix) - Bad Taste   
06:39 Stakka & Skynet feat. Friction - Altitude (Gridlok VIP) - Underfire 
07:23 Mindscape & Rymetyme - Sickness (Zero Method Remix) - Citrus
09:14 Dom & Roland - Mind Feeders - Dom & Roland Productions
09:57 Noisia - Block Control - Moving Shadow Recordings 
11:26 Bad Company & Trace - Son Of Nitrous - BC Recordings 
14:11 Future Cut - Horns (Dylan Remix)  - Renegade Hardware
16:02 Phobia & Skitty - False Prophets - Renegade Hardware
17:53 Trust - Screwdriver - Gasm Recordings
19:21 Friction - Photon (Remaster) - Trouble On Vinyl 
20:49 Concord Dawn & State Of Mind - Aces High - Uprising
22:39 Matrix - Temperament (Half-Life Bootleg) - Free download
24:07 Maztek - Renegade (Optiv Remix) - Renegade Hardware 
25:36 Total Science - Squash (Break Remix) - CIA Recordings 
27:04 Ed Rush & Optical - Fixation (Black Barrel Bootleg) - Patreon 
28:32 Agressor Bunx - Bunker - Eatbrain Recordings 
29:10 Gridlok - Bottom Feeder - Project 51
30:23 Audio - Sanctum - Virus Recordings 
31:51 Phobia - Hatcher - Renegade Hardware
33:42 DJ Ink - Ghost Ship - Renegade Hardware
35:32 Digital & Spirit - Phantom Force (Spirit Remix) - White
37:22 Hive & Keaton - The Plague (DJ Trace Remix) - Renegade Hardware
39:34 Universal Project - Haunted Dreams (Stealth Remix) - Universal Project
41:47 Stakka & Skynet ft. Kemal & Rob Data - Bios-Fear - Underfire 
42:53 Icicle & Nymfo - Franky Mountain - RAM Records 
44:44 Alix Perez & Spectrasoul - Forsaken (Calibre Remix) - Shogun Audio
45:50 Commix - Faceless (Marcus Intalex Remix) - Shogun Audio
47:18 Q Project - Trouble (Myth Remix) - CIA Recordings 
48:46 London Electricity - Billion Dollar Gravy (Watch The Ride Remix) - Hospital
49:30 Shimon - Hush Hush - RAM Records 
51:32 Keaton & Hive - Under Pressure - Violence
53:44 Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith - Friday - CIA 
55:56 Strider / Heist - Feel No Way - Chronic Recordings
56:41 Bad Company - Torpedo (InsideInfo Remix) - Bad Taste
58:53 Doc Scott - Ghost 25 - Metalheadz Recordings 
01:00:00 Future Cut - Obsession (Ulterior Motive Remix) - Metalheadz
01:02:12 Ink - B-Boy Convention (Gremlinz Remix) - Renegade Hardware Dub
01:03:30 Future Cut - Whiplash (Cern Remix) - Future Cut 
01:05:08 Aspect - Ruthless (Friske Remix) - Audio Decay  
01:07:21 Kryptic Minds - More Like You (Unknown Error Remix) - Defcom
01:09:10 Limewax - Agent Orange - L/B Recordings 
01:10:40 Noisia & The Upbeats - Dead Limit - Vision   
01:12:30 John B - Numbers (Camo & Krooked Remix) - Beta  
01:13:36 Dillinja - Thugged Out Bitch - Valve Recordings 
01:15:32 Hyper On Experience - Disturbance (Hamilton Remix) - Kniteforce
01:16:55 Mampi Swift - Trippin - Charge Recordings  
01:18:23 D8 - Murder Was The Bass (Metrik Remix) - ELP
01:19:51 Umek - Gatex (Axis & Trank Remix) - Temper D
01:22:04 Black Sun Empire - Arrakis (Noisia Remix) (Evi1cat Edit)

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Optiv & BTK History Mix by CasCo

This mix includes Optiv & BTK tracks only, collabs, remixes and soloprojects by BTK. 

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--- One Take!! NO CUT, COPY & PASTE ---
Vinyl & Digital

Tracklist:
1. Optiv & BTK - Inception (Renegade Hardware)
2. Optiv & BTK ft. MC Fokus - Blindstruck (Renegade Hardware)
3. Optiv & BTK ft. Presence Unknown - Crawler (Demand)
4. Optiv & BTK ft. MC Fokus - Scientist (Renegade Hardware)
5. Optiv & BTK - Mind over Matter (Frequency)
6. Optiv & BTK - Backlash (Virus)
7. Optiv & BTK - Whatever (Dutty Audio)
8. Optiv & BTK - Lurker (Virus)
9. Optiv & BTK - Zero Hour (Frequency)
10. Optiv & BTK - Let it Hit´em (Frequency)
11. BTK - Drop It (Dutty Audio)
12. Optiv & BTK - King Pin (Virus)
13. Optiv & BTK - Insight (Renegade Hardware)
14. Optiv & BTK - Haywire (Virus)
15. Optiv & BTK ft. Sam Wills - Understand (Shogun Audio)
16. Optiv & BTK - Slander (Playaz)
17. BTK - Addiction (Renegade Hardware)
18. Moderat - Bad Kingdom (BTK DNB Bootleg)
19. Optiv & BTK - Tapout (Dispatch)
20. BTK - Vigilante (DNB Arena)
21. Optiv & BTK - Beserker (Frequency)
22. Optiv & BTK - Drop the Funk (Playaz)
23. Optiv & BTK - Zero Tolerance (Dispatch)
24. Optiv & BTK - Journey from the light (Red Light)
25. Optiv & BTK - Target (Blackout)
26. Optiv & BTK ft. Ryme Tyme - Ignition (DNB Arena)
27. Optiv & BTK - Midnight Nation (2am Rmx) (Commercial Suicide)
28. Optiv & BTK - Let it Loose (Dutty Audio)
29. Optiv & BTK ft. Nuklear MC - Groundshaker (Virus)
30. Optiv & BTK - Mind Control (Virus)
31. Optiv & BTK - That Sound (Virus)
32. BTK - Be Yourself (Renegade Hardware)
33. Optiv & BTK ft. Ryme Tyme - Blackjack (Virus)
34. Optiv, BTK & Cold Fusion - Void (Renegade Hardware)
35. Optiv & BTK - Shredder (Virus)
36. Dementia & Rregula - Timeline (Optiv&BTK RMX) (Citrus)
37. Black Sun Empire - Sideways (Optiv&BTK RMX) (Blackout)
38. Maztek - Limber (Optiv&BTK RMX) (Renegade Hardware)
39. BTK - Megahertz (Renegade Hardware)
40. BTK - Thats what it is (Dutty Audio)
41. Optiv & BTK - Weapon of Choice (Virus)
42. Kontrol - Forcefield (Optiv&BTK RMX) (Renegade Hardware)
43. Optiv & BTK ft. Podage&La Meduza - Music Within (Demand)

NEW MIX!

Optiv & BTK History Mix by CasCo

This is a live DJ set from Ed Rush & Optical feat. Rymetyme, recorded at The Steelyard in London on 30/09/23 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Virus Recordings Part 1

25 Years Of Virus Part 1 Ed Rush & Optical @ The Steelyard 30/09/23

Live recording of Ed Rush and Optical DJ set from Let-It-Roll Festival, Prague 2014.

Ed Rush & Optical @ Let It Roll 2014 (01.08.2014)

Bad Company History Mix 1 - A mix to show the immense amount of good tracks made by these guys who shaped the scene! Keep a look out for Vol.2  coming soon.

Track List

Ladies of Spain
Hysteria
Dogs on the Moon
Smash Something - Adam F - BC Remix
Dogsploitation                          BC & Mampi Swift
Brainscan
JellyFish                                    BC & Matrix
Womb
Dog Fight
Believe 
Oxygen
Aisle 13                                      Digital Nation (BC)
Dead Side
Breathe
Spacehoppa
Snowcat
Spider
China Cup                 
Mutated X                                   BC & Trace

Bad Company UK History Vol.1 - Live Vinyl Only Mix

1. Echo - Out of Time (Calyx Remix) – Violence
2. SKC - Off Guard Remix - Commercial Suicide
3. Bad Company - Mass Hysteria (Hive Remix) – Human
4. Digital - Gateman (Keaton Remix) - Phantom Audio
5. Kraken - Side Effects – Underfire Recordings
6. Aphrodite – Lava Flow – Aphrodite Recordings 
7. Pendulum – Vault – 31 Recordings 
8. DJ Die - Clear Skyz (Break Remix) - Clear Skyz 
9. Photek - Age of Empires – Metalheadz 
10. Hive - Neo (Audio Remix) – RAM Records 
11. Commix – Be True – Metalheadz Recordings 
12. Total Science – Squash (SPY Remix) – Run DNB
13. Trace & Rymetyme - Move (Universal Project Remix) 
14. John B – Up All Night (Epic mix) - Metalheadz 
15. Noisia – Block Control – Moving Shadow
16. Chase & Status - Hurt You - RAM
17. Sketch & Code - Sucker – Emotif
18. Red One - Sweet Music - Liftin Spirit
19. Bad Company – Planet Dust – BC 
20. Skeptic – Tear – Eastside Recordings 
21. High Contrast – If We Ever - Hospital 
22. Digital & Spirit – Phantom Force (Fracture Remix) 
23. Amit – Swastika – Commercial Suicide 
24. Stakka & Skynet – Decoy – Underfire
25. Raiden – Fallin’ – Renegade Hardware 
26. Mampi Swift – Trippin' – Charge Recordings 
27. Ed Rush & Optical – Gasmask Remix – Virus
28. Noisia - Façade VIP - RAM Recordings
29. Stakka & Skynet - Altitude (Gridlok VIP) - Underfire
30. Upbeats & Bulletproof – Camouflage Re-lick - Cyanide
31. Konflict – Messiah (Noisia Remix) - Renegade Hardware 
32. Kemal & Tech Itch - Calling (Evol Intent & Ewun Remix)
33. Eye-D - Unicorn MF (Black Sun Empire Remix) - Citrus
34. Digital - Waterhouse Dub (A-Sides Remix) - Function 
35. A-Sides & MC Fats - Crazy (Skeptic VIP) - Eastside
36. LTJ Bukem – Atlantis (Marky & SPY Remix) - GLO 
37. Makoto & MC Conrad - Golden Girl - GLO
38. Breakage - So Mars - Bassbin Recordings
39. Artificial Intelligence – Desperado – V

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Optical is owner of Virus Recordings, Music Producer and DJ from England.
Bookings: UK/ROW: mark@esp-agency.com
USA: saleem@amodeagency.com

This page is dedicated to my sons: Aidan and Solomon, they are the inspiration for everything I do in life now.

"He is best known for his work with Ed Rush, fellow head of the Virus Recordings label, and as a pioneer of the techstep and neurofunk sound. His first single for Metalheadz, 'To Shape the Future'/'Raging Calm' (1997) and his collaborative material with Ed Rush, such as the Wormhole, album (1998) were archetypal developments in the style. The duo followed this debut album with The Creeps (2000) and The Original Doctor Shade (2003), as well as countless singles and remixes. More recently, the duo have returned to form with their (2009) LP 'Travel The Galaxy' containing the modern classic 'Chubrub' and 'No Cure' LP in 2015."

"He also notably did all of the engineering and production work for Grooverider's album Mysteries of Funk, and work on Goldie's 'Saturns Return' LP. In addition, he has produced solo for many labels including Virus, Metalheadz, Prototype, 31 Records, Metro and released in collaboration with many artists, including Ed Rush, Trace, Dom and Roland, Fierce, and his brother Matrix. The first Optical release was in 1996."

"Matt Quinn's savage dance floor productions as Optical (for, among many others, Groove's own label Prototype) have earned him a place in drum'n'bass's premier division.”

"Optical's pure, unchallenged talent shines through on his solo tunes, showcasing an artist well ahead of his time. No doubt the modern sounds of the likes of D-Bridge, Instra:mental and the rest of the minimalist dark revival heads, draw heavy influence not only from Optical himself, but from his inspirations in Jazz, such as Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. His ability to blend Jazz, Funk and futuristic, technical soundscapes is masterful. From his early work on Metalheadz and Prototype Recordings to his collaborative work on Virus Recordings and the classic Mysteries of Funk (Grooverider's landmark LP), Optical can perhaps qualify as one of the most underrated musicians of the modern era. His mind has crafted sounds which were never before heard, moods which were completely original, and his vision of the future, although ultimately dark and disjointed, is beautifully vivid and addictive. Its a world he pulls you into with each and every track and only a handful of artists can begin to dream of being this successful in their work."

Virus Recordings has become a DnB scene favourite and continues to release the ultimate in DnB vibes, with artists like C4C, Audio, Optiv & BTK, The Upbeats, Noisia, Gridlok, Ram Trilogy, Matrix, Rymetyme, Sonic & Silver, Pendulum, Mefjus,  InsideInfo

Ed Rush & Optical @ Let It Roll 2014 (01.08.2014)

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