Name: Optical - Zoner (Virus unreleased 1997) by Optical ☣ in DRUM & BASS 2019 - part 2
Duration: 7 min 17 s
Description: An unreleased track from 1997, lost in a pile of DAT's somewhere in the studio amongst other bits of old fruit and rizla.

Thi track alone made the Virus Vaults album possible! True classic

is this the same version that was on Vaults Vol. 1?

So happy when this appeared on Virus Vaults!

this is awesome - should release it!! £££

DRUM & BASS 2019 - part 2

BLCKTNL004: Black Sun Empire - Variations on Black (Remix Album)
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01. Black Sun Empire - Arrakis (Noisia Remix)
02. Black Sun Empire - B'Negative (Phace & Misanthrop Remix)
03. Black Sun Empire & Eye-D - Brainfreeze (Neonlight Remix - V2)
04. Black Sun Empire - Breach (The Upbeats Remix)
05. Black Sun Empire - The Rat (Gridlok Remix)
06. Black Sun Empire - Sideways (Optiv & BTK Remix)
07. Black Sun Empire & Noisia - Lead Us (Audio Remix)
08. Black Sun Empire feat Thomas Oliver & Youthstar - All is Lost (Memtrix Remix)
09. Black Sun Empire & Jade - Deadhouse (Insideinfo & Mefjus Remix)
10. Black Sun Empire - Extraction (Rido Remix)
11. Black Sun Empire feat Inne Eysermans - Killing the Light (Icicle Remix)
12. Black Sun Empire - Dont You (State of Mind Remix)
13. Black Sun Empire feat Foreign Beggars - Dawn of a Dark Day (Prolix Remix)
14. Black Sun Empire - Bitemark (Zardonic Remix)
15. Black Sun Empire - Potemkin (S.P.Y Remix)
16. Black Sun Empire - Monologue (Ulterior Motive Remix)
17. Black Sun Empire - Eraser (SPL Remix)
18. Black Sun Empire & Eye-D - Brainfreeze (Neonlight Remix - V1)
19. Black Sun Empire - Gunseller (Counterstrike Remix)
20. Black Sun Empire & Concord Dawn - The Sun (Evol Intent Remix)
21. Black Sun Empire - Fever (Chris.SU Remix)
22. Black Sun Empire - The End of Me (N.Phect Remix)
23. Black Sun Empire & Eye-D - Milkshake (VIP)
24. Black Sun Empire & Noisia - Hideous (VIP)
25. Black Sun Empire & Audio - Drizzle (VIP)
26. Black Sun Empire feat Inne Eysermans - Killing the Light (June Miller Remix)
27. Black Sun Empire feat Thomas Oliver & Youthstar - All is Lost (Telekinesis Remix)
28. Black Sun Empire feat Foreign Beggars - Dawn of a Dark Day (Receptor Remix)

Beatport Exclusive: 4th of November
Worldwide Release: 18th of November

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From the Shadows (Remix) - EP

Killing the Light

Black Sun Empire feat Inne Eysermans - Killing The Light (June Miller Remix) - Clip

An unreleased track from 1997, lost in a pile of DAT's somewhere in the studio amongst other bits of old fruit and rizla.

Optical - Zoner (Virus unreleased 1997)

Kyrist DJ mix | 1985 Music x Let It Roll 2022

Enei takes us on a journey across his deep discography with his All Enei mix, featuring all his classics (hands up if One Chance is still your favourite Enei track 🙋‍♂️) and all of his latest stompers. 

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UKF Podcast #133 - Enei's "All Enei" 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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No tracklist given.

Optical - FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Hour long DJ set from Ed Rush & Optical taken from the Basspod Stage @ EDC Las Vegas 2014. With MC Dino on the MIC.

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State of Mind - No Operative
Fourward - Wishes [Mindscape remix]
Chris.SU & State of Mind - Above Earth
InsideInfo - Honeybee [Viper]
Audio - Headroom VIP [Virus]
I Am Legion - Make Those Move (Teddy Killerz Remix)
Rockwell - Detroit
Camo & Krooked - Cryptkeeper
Knife Party - LRAD [Prototypes remix]
Porter Robinson - Spitfire [Kill the Noise remix]
Hive - Neo [Audio remix]
Mind Vortex - Catapult
Audio - Collision [Virus]
The Prototypes - Just Bounce
Dirtyphonics - Prelude Black
Loadstar - Warrior VIP
DJ Hazard & D Minds - Mr. Happy [Hydraulix remix]
Slang Banger - Labyrinth
DC Breaks - Shaman VIP
Metrik - Drift
Sonic & Silver - Rocket Launcher VIP [Virus]
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Phantasm
Ed Rush - Untitled (Dubplate)
State Of Mind & Nymfo - Put It On
Noisia - Shaking Hands
Smooth - Cyber Funk
The Qemists - Stompbox [Spor remix]
Optiv & BTK - Shredder [Virus]
The Upbeats - Def Crescent
Noisia & The Upbeats - Dustup
Ed Rush & Optical - Pacman [Upbeats VIP] [Virus]
The Upbeats - Bad Bitches (Bootleg)
Optiv - Krakpot [Jade remix]
Konflict - Messiah [Noisia remix]

Ed Rush & Optical - EDC Las Vegas - 2014-06-22

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)

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

Same tracklist as S.P.Ys 2010 set at 15 Years of Renegade Hardware, but mixed by me.

S.P.Y - Go with the Flow [RAM]
S.P.Y. - Xenomorph [Metalheadz]
Nymfo - Matchstick VIP [Commercial Suicide]
Marcus Intalex - Paulista DUB (feat. S.P.Y.) [Soul:R]
S.P.Y. - Favela [Metalheadz]
Siren - Snorkel [Siren]
Gridlok - Bottomfeeder VIP [Project 51]
S.P.Y - The Boy Who Cried Wolf [31 Records]
Rockwell - Full Circle [Shogun Audio]
Total Science - Gangsta [Shogun Audio]	
S.P.Y - Loneliness feat Riya [C.I.A]
Future Cut - 20/20 VIP	[Trouble On Vinyl]
Spirit - All I Need [Interactive Music]
S.P.Y - Full Metal Jacket [Run DNB]
LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (Marky & S.P.Y. Rework) [Goodlooking Recordings]
Dillinja - Nasty Ways (feat. Lorreia Loushy) [London Music]
Capone - Friday [Valve]
Total Science, S.P.Y - Squash (S.P.Y Remix)	
Logistics - Notes From The Block [Hospital]
Alix Perez - The Ladders [Dispatch]
Dub Phizix - Codec [Critical]
8Bits - So Good [Digital Soundboy]
S.P.Y. - Close Encounters [Soul:R]
S.P.Y - Untold Future [Hospital]

Remix: S.P.Y @ Renegade Hardware - 26/06/2010

Upload of my DNB60 mix I did last week for BBC Radio 1 :D

PHACE MIX | #DNB60 Critical | BBC Radio 1 [Friction D&B Show] | December 2015

Break - Promo Mix for Symmetry@Let It Roll - 03/08/2017

Break - Promo Mix for Symmetry@Let It Roll 2017

Epilogue VIP / The Pursuit

Epilogue (Rawthang VIP)

My remix for Black Sun Empire's 'All Is Lost' featuring Thomas Oliver & Youthstar, out now on BSE Recordings.

Cut from Friction's Drum & Bass show co-hosted with Goldie

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Black Sun Empire - All Is Lost (Memtrix Remix)

Taken from Dom & Roland's new Fabric Mix. Forthcoming on his label sometime :P

Dom & Roland - Flux (Gridlok Remix)

Ed rush and optical-D&BTV 26 virus special 29.10.2008

Black Sun Empire feat Inne Eysermans - Killing the Light (June Miller Remix)
Worldwide release date: March 25th 2013 (Exclusive to Beatport for two weeks)
OUT NOW: http://www.beatport.com/release/from-the-shadows-remix-ep/1050670
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With support from a stunning cross section of industry players – Chase & Status, Pendulum, Friction, Camo & Krooked, Loadstar, Rockwell, High Rankin, Feed Me – and a position in the top five best-selling albums of 2012 on Beatport, Black Sun Empire’s ‘From The Shadows’ LP was one of the Dutch trio’s biggest accomplishments in their fifteen year, five album history. To celebrate? They’re serving up this disgustingly massive remix compendium. 

Featuring some of the most exciting talents in drum & bass, each of the six remixes here offer a sizzling new slant on three of the album’s biggest tracks. All armed with their own character and uncompromising dynamics, it’s a challenge deciding which one to drop first…

‘All Is Lost’ starts the set with the perfect balance of emotional sonic star-gazing and gritty bottom-end welly. With stunning hymn-like vocals from Thomas Oliver and hype-hungry attitude from Youthstar, it’s widely regarded as one of the album’s boldest highlights. Naturally both Memtrix and Telekinesis have stepped up to the massive challenge. 

Lifted fave Memtrix goes first. Opening with teases of the original’s euphoric synths, he lets the vocals breath for one second before BANG: utter bassline sickness takes over. Complete sonic bombardment of the senses, there is no mistaking Memtrix’s direction and focus for this prime-time piece of D&B naughtiness. And there’s no mistaking the raw power of Telekinesis’s remix, either… Igniting with piano-primed ‘lighters up’ intro, we’re soon pushed into the deepest end of the darkness pool with Youthstar’s spitfire delivery, a gut-busting halfstep groove and a murder of distorted bass tones. Flipping to full D&B tempo midway, it’s a strident party piece that will stay in your wallet or playlist from now until the 23rd century.  

Next up, ‘Dawn Of A Dark Day’: A blazing unity of UK grime and Euro neuro, the day Black Sun Empire called up the Foreign Beggars for mic-duties was a game-changing day for the entire bass industry. Naturally both remixes pay respect to the fusion and fire of the original. Prolix takes the original’s swaggering halfstep intro and adds a touch more menace on the low-end and an industrial punch to the beats before dropping into a rampant, rolling speaker-smasher. No face will be left unmelted when you drop this. We guarantee it. Meanwhile Receptor adds his own interpretation with an instant uptempo kickstart and the creative use of drama-drenched cinematic strings and devilish Slayer-level guitars.  

‘Killing The Light’ brings us to a fitting climax with two of drum & bass most distinctive, forward-thinking acts on remix duties. Delicately dressed with the heart-melting vocals of Inne Eysermans, the raw emotion makes ‘Killing The Light’ the closest thing to a ballad Black Sun Empire will ever write. Paying respect to this, Icicle sharpens the kicks and snares, weaves haunting pads into the mix and takes the vocal to the darkest place imaginable. For those looking for more of a laser-snapping edge, look no further than June Miller’s remix; bolstered with a gargantuan bassline and searing sonic flares, the Dutch-Anglo duo have taken the softness and depth of the original and subverted into a priceless peaktime banger that NO D&B DJ should be without this season. 


Black Sun Empire feat Inne Eysermans - Killing the Light (June Miller Remix) - Clip

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

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