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Tavaly karácsonykor Chris.SU-val (@chrissuofficial) ünnepeltünk a soproni Búgócsigában, most pedig végre megérkezett a kétórás szett felvétele is.

T/L:
Björk – All Is Full of Love (Chris.SU Remix)
Chris.SU – To Heal
Ed Rush & Optical – Sick Note
Optiv, Axiom & Chris.SU – Soul Cube
Tactile – The Mist
SKC & Safair – Free My Soul
Calibre feat. MC Fats – Drop It Down
All Thieves – Stars (Zero T Remix)
Matrix, Fierce, Ryme Tyme - Light Sleeper
Sonic & Silver – Rocket Launcher
Concord Dawn – Morning Light
DJ Fresh – Signal
DJ Krust – Warhead (RAM Trilogy Remix)
SKC & Chris.SU – Blastah
Fierce & Cause 4 Concern – Carrier
SKC & Chris.SU – Crash
Absolute Zero & Subphonics – The Code (SKC Remix)
Bad Company – Planet Dust
Digital & Spirit – Remote Control
Tactile & DJ Trace – Body Move
Commix – Be True
MIST – Outerspace
Un-Cut – Midnight (MIST Remix)
Capone – Friday
Dillinja – Nasty Ways (feat. Lorreia Loushy)
Universal Project – Haunted Dreams
Digital – Deadline
Ed Rush & Optical – Medicine (Matrix Remix)
Noisia – Facade
Kemal – Animation
Rymetyme & Trace – Move VIP
Bad Company ​– The Nine
Klute – Tranceformat
Ed Rush & Optical – Bacteria
Chris.SU - Max Von Bass
Spirit – Re-Dial
Chris.SU – Costello
Future Cut – Whiplash
DJ Krust – Kloakin Device
Ram Trilogy - Mindscan (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)
Icicie feat. SP:MC – Dreadnaught
Sinthetix – Ultraviolet
Kemal – Bleed
Ed Rush & Optical feat. Fierce - POD
Cause 4 Concern – Peep Show
Chris.SU – Astro-Sine
Chris.SU – Solaris Theme

Chris.SU: DnB Classics Mix @ 30Hz Sopron (2021/12/23)

Philth marks the start of our 20 years of Dispatch celebration gigs with this special mix. Here's what he had to say - "Ahead of a run of 20 Years of Dispatch parties this summer I’ve put together a mix featuring some of my favourites from the past, present and future catalogue. The mix was selected from a playlist of around 150-200 label Percys, and recorded in 1 take to capture the raw feel of a club set. I’m looking forward to spinning many more Dispatch classics in the coming months"

'Dispatch 20'  events (so far):

02/06/2022 - London, UK > https://www.facebook.com/events/793063085000475

04/06/2022 - Bogota, Colombia > https://www.facebook.com/events/668486011226321/

10/06/2022 - Bristol, UK > https://www.facebook.com/events/362904482355796/

11/06/2022 - Leeds, UK > https://www.facebook.com/events/761581278182696/

24/06/2022 - Guildford, UK > https://www.facebook.com/events/1099995337250210

25/06/2022 - Brighton, UK > https://www.facebook.com/events/742758416740969

28/07/2022 - Outlook Festival (Stage), Croatia > https://www.facebook.com/events/576733937011185/

29/07/2022 - Outlook Festival (Boat party), Croatia > https://www.facebook.com/events/576733937011185/

Philth - Dispatch 20 Years Mix

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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Tickets/info: http://bit.ly/FABRICLIVE1104

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No tracklist given.

Optical - FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Here's my set from Lowlands Festival 2010.

Ed Rush @ Lowlands 2010.

Tracklist:
Audio - Marauder [Blackout]
Ed Rush & Optical - Chubrub [Virus]
Full Kontakt & Vegas - Terrahawk [Bad Taste]
Audio - Ultrasonic [Snake Pit]
Bad Company UK - The Nine (Remastered) [Bad Taste]
Usual Suspects - Killa Bees (Optical & Fierce Remix) [Renegade Hardware]
Usual Suspects - Killa Bees (Audio Remix) [Dub]
Optical & Rymetyme - Twisted (Audio Remix) [Virus]
Bad Company UK - Torpedo [BC Recordings]	
Ed Rush & Optical - Pacman [Virus]
Bad Company UK - 4 Days [Bad Taste]
Bad Company UK - Snowcat [BC Recordings]
Ed Rush - Scarabs [Piranha Pool]
Bad Company UK - Planet Dust [BC Recordings]
Audio - Jibba Jabba [Virus]
Ed Rush & Optical - Goodfoot [Virus]
Black Sun Empire & Noisia - Lead Us (Audio Remix) [Blackout]
Ed Rush & Optical - Space Monkey [Virus]
Ed Rush & Optical, & Matrix - Perfect Drug [Virus]
AKOV & Vegas - One [Bad Taste]
The Prototypes & Elle Exxe - Paradise (Audio Remix) [Blackout]

Hype Mix

Let It Roll: Ed Rush & Optical B2B Bad Company B2B Audio @ Hospitality Hype Mix

Here is a mix of some of the future beats for 2015 on Virus and from the scene in general brought to you by Optical...with some oldschool thrown in too..this year is going to be incredible from what I have heard already!

1.    'Footpath' - Mefjus & InsideInfo feat. The Upbeats (Virus Dubplate)
2.    'Ride' - DJ Red and the Earth People (1997?)
3.    'Break It' - Audio (Ram)
4.    'Drama' - Hybrid Minds (Neonlight Remix)
5.    'SMMF*' - BTK & Maztek (Virus Dubplate)
6.    'Stutter' - Mefjus ft Misanthrop (Critical)
7.    'Above Earth' - Chris SU & State Of Mind
8.    'Thunderball' - Moving Fusion (Ram)
9.    'Transcendent' - Prolix & Misanthrop
10.  'Cybercrime' - Gridlok (Virus Dubplate)
11.  'Ego' - Black Sun Empire & State of Mind
12.  'Detune' - Purge
13.  'Shamen VIP' - DC Breaks
14.  'Inside Out' - Optiv & BTK (Virus Dubplate)
15.  'Exploration' - Prolix & Rido
16.  'Surrounded' - Mefjus (Critical)
17.  'Badass' - Hypoxia (Titan)
18.  'No-Operative' - State Of Mind (Audio Remix)
19.  'Blacker VIP' - Distorted Minds ft Strikes
20.  'Ultron' - Audio (Ram)
21.  'Dive Bomb' - Optiv & BTK (Virus Dubplate)
22.  'Hybrid' - Mefjus (Critical)
23.  'Nitrous' - Bad Company & Trace (Audio Remix)
24.  'Catapult' - Mind Vortex
25.  'Stompbox' - The Qemists (Spor remix)
26.  'Basso Continuo' - Neonlight (Lifted)
27.  'We Want Your Soul' - Adam Freeland (Ed Rush & Optical remix)

Optical ☣ - Virus Podcast (Jan 2015)

TRACKLIST

Fracture ft Lucie La Mode - Remember The Time
D.Kay - Cherokee Heart [LIQUICITY]
Mark System - Twenty Feet Up [EXIT]
Mark System - Waiting For A Meaningful Title [EXIT]
Villem & McLeod - Borrowed Love [UTOPIA]
Calibre - Deep Orca [31R]
Mark System - Water Pressure [EXIT]
Mark System - Peach Fuzz [EXIT]
Fixate - Alive [EXIT]
George CMX - Ghost Loops [EXIT]
Mark System - Bean Bag
Pessimist - Short Sighted [CX]
Fracture - Tunnel Track (Mark System remix) [WARM COMMUNICATIONS]
Stray - Award Tour [EXIT]
The Burbs - Awesome [JERONA FRUITS]

Mark System - BBC Radio1 Exit 60DNB

Thursday Muck About

HEAT - REMIX REC-2025-09-11

My fourth and final CD for Moonshine. Continuing the theme of titles beginning with "F" it was released in 2002. :)



TRACKLIST

DJ SS - Curtains	
Dom & Keaton - Twisted City	
Agent Babylon - Desert Planet (DJ Ecco & Sabotage Remix)	
Randall & A-Sides - Turn It Loose	
JB - Vizion	
Universal Project - Streetlife	
Universal Project - Jackhammer
Sonic - Even When It Rains (Super Disco Mix)	
DJ Ink - Mirage	
Asend & Ultravibe - What Kind Of World (Hazard Remix)	
Rascal & Klone - Galactic Jam	
Total Science - Squash	
Specimen A - Armed And Dangerous (Dylan Remix)	
Moving Fusion - Thunderball	
John B. - Five Times In One Night	
High Contrast - Global Love	



DJ Dara - Further

SixEleven DJ MixSeries Volume 1 was my 3rd mix CD. At the time I had just relocated from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and was living in an apartment with my friend Nigel Richards, a fellow dj and owner of the record store and label 611 Records. I was working at the shop during the week and playing shows on the weekends. Nigel decided that he wanted to get into the mix CD market and we conceptualized the idea of a “mixed series” of music that highlighted good DJs that were also personal friends. For me, this was an opportunity to really start learning the ropes of licensing music, doing better graphic design (I designed the artwork for all of the CDs...and yes that's a picture of my turntable) and putting a more personalized stamp on the music I was pushing on these compilations. I had little to no input on the track selections of my first two mix CDs, so this project was my first real foray into total artistic freedom. To be honest, I don’t completely remember how I was able to lock down all of the music for this tracklist! I just remember that it was a pain in the ass dealing with the various labels and artists and artist egos and budget restrictions. Most of the tracks on the compilation were unreleased when it was made, so I had to cut acetates / dubplates of all of the tunes. Sidenote - every time you play a dubplate you degrade its sound quality. I had to make doubles of every tune, practice with one set, and then try and nail a perfect mix with the unplayed set. Talk about stressful! I mixed this thing sitting on the floor of my living room, turntables in front of me and fingers crossed. It was my first time doing a mix on a mixer that actually had EQ and FX (the Pioneer DJM-500). I used the tight flange FX quite a bit in here for a metallic sound. Also, my turntables were modified and pitched up to play faster. That’s why this mix sounds like it is around 190BPM. I always liked my drum and bass extra fast for some reason! Besides “Messiah” from the 6ixth Session, the track “Tough At The Top” is the one I get the most comments about from people that are familiar with my music. Overall, DJ MixSeries Volume 1 represented a very specific touchstone in my musical career. It was a transition point that really helped jumpstart later projects with crazy intros (this one had none), better graphics, more esoteric and unique track selections, etc. A belated super thank you to Nigel for believing in me and giving me this opportunity. This was definitely a fun art project and a big dip into the deep end of music development.

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TRACKLIST

Hoax - The More I See You (Urban Flavour Remix)
DT - Serious
EZ-Rollers - Tough At The Top (Origin Unknown Remix)
Concept 2 - Unlock The Secrets
Dom + Matrix - Foot Steps
Facs - Rupture
Technical Itch - Hidden Sound (Dom + Roland Remix)
Solar Nine - Audio Distortion
Embee - The Power
Secret Methods - Animation
Swift - Mission
Decoder - EKO
Decoder - DHR
Vagrant - Space Boogie
Sharp Scientific - Stratocruiser

SixEleven DJ MixSeries Volume 1

2016 to 2017 DJ and Studio Mix.
A proper mix up of recent tunes, favourites and classics.

Drum And Bass Style - DJ & Studio Mix - 2016 / 2017

Recorded live at fabric on 28.07.2017

We're stoked to present the first in a new mixtape series from FABRICLIVE. Aiming to capture the essence of those classic and cherished rave tapes from back in the day, FABRICLIVE mixtapes will showcase some of our favourite sets recorded live on the night from selected events. 

For the first installment, we have none other than the legendary Drum & Bass pioneer and FABRICLIVE favourite Ed Rush. This set was recorded live from Room One at fabric on Friday the 27th July 2017 and features the Virus Recordings boss alongside AFT head honcho MC Carasel with an hour-long showcase of the best in dark, techy and upfront Drum & Bass. 

You can catch Ed Rush back in EC1 on Friday 27th October alongside his long term DJ and production partner Optical for a classic Virus set at FABRICLIVE Halloween. He will also be returning on Friday 8th December for a solo set at FABRICLIVE SaSaSaS x Get Hype Records. Tickets: http://fabricldn.co/zdi81p 

Download: https://www.unlock.fm/9vh

www.fabriclondon.com

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FABRICLIVE Mixtape #1 - Ed Rush - 28.07.2017

Marky is famously proud of his Brazilian roots, but even without knowing his background you could likely get some idea from the style of drum & bass he plays. Somehow his sound has always channelled the sun of his native South America both in the records he plays and the gems he’s signed to his label Innerground. 

There are a number of other traits that have made Marky’s sets so distinctive, from his infectious charisma, to his inexplicable scratching skills. He’s demonstrated this time and again in Farringdon, with his long-running Marky & Friends night among one of FABRICLIVE’s best-loved residencies. 

This Friday we’re pleased to welcome Marky back after a whole two years, and to mark the occasion we got hold of him for a one-off mix and interview ahead of the weekend. He delivered a mix of typically breezy rollers and told us what we can expect from his extended 2-hour set in just a few days’ time. 

DJ Marky returns to FABRICLIVE this Friday: fabricldn.co/gbs87c

Tickets for 09/02

DJ Marky FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Two hours and twenty minutes of hard hitting classic drum and bassssssssssss. 

Recorded LIVE in Victoria, BC on October 25th 2005

Dieselboy - Live At The Jungle Room (2005) - Victoria, BC

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

Optical ☣ - Virus Podcast (Jan 2015)

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