Radio show featuring an hour long mix from Ed Rush & Optical recorded in 2001 on BBC Radio 1's Breezeblock Show.

Marcus Intalex – Love & Happiness (31)
Stakka & Skynet – Clockwork (Underfire)
Bad Company – Spider (White Label)
Moving Fusion – Black Hole (Ram)
Stakka & KT – Altitude (White Label)
Ed Rush & Optical – White Lightning (Virus)
Unknown – Acid Track (Flex)
Bad Company – The Nine (White Label)
Ed Rush & Optical – Kerb Crawler (Virus)
Cause For Concern – Unknown (White Label)
Johnny L – Piper (XL Recordings)
Bad Company – Planet Dust (White Label)
Cause For Concern – Unknown (White Label)
Bad Company – Speed Ball (White Label)
Ant Miles – Chinatown (Ram)
Ed Rush, Optical, Rhyme Time – Canibal Run (Virus)
Stakka & Konflict – Bios Fear (White Label)
Ed Rush & Optical – Flight Data (Virus)
John B – Up All Nite (Metalheadz)

Ed Rush & Optical 'Breezeblock Mix' - BBC Radio1 23.01.2001

Ed Rush & Optical Essential Mix 07-02-99

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)

Here is “The Soldier’s Story”, my first truly original cd for the prestigious American electronic music label Moonshine. For this release I was given complete control of choosing all of the music and really went out of my way to find the best future thinking, unreleased and heavy as hell drum and bass at that time. This one was not just for the dancefloor and really started to establish the way I would approach choosing music for all future mix projects. Some of the key tunes on here would be my collaboration with Technical Itch “Atlantic State”. The bassline was born out of a keyboard glitch and the cool pads in the intro are from a Skinny Puppy sample cd. The name was a nod to the classic 808 State tune “Pacific State” (the Atlantic ocean separates the USA and the UK ;). Jonny L “Bellz” was just a white hot smasher that I loved to death. And “The Stalker” was a weird super minimal tune that eventually became the anthem for my drum and bass weekly “Platinum" in Philly (everyone used to love that track!). For the intro I used a bunch of samples from the videogames Half Life and Quake (I found the sound libraries and broke them up and mined the shit out of them). At one point I was contacted by some people who worked on Half Life and they said they used to play my mix at the office. That was awesome. This mix sounds fast because I mixed it on my home turntables that were modified to play faster than normal. I always thought faster was better. The artwork was done by the late Todd Baldwin of Airline Industries. He hired famous Marvel comics artist Paul Gosier to draw me as a super soldier for the cover. Most people didn’t really think it looked like me ;) Finally, I lifted the title from the movie “A Soldier’s Story”. In the drum and bass scene a “soldier” is a die hard fan of the music. That pretty much sums me up to this day. Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Precautionary Procedure
Konflict - The Beckoning
Usual Suspects + Fierce - Sawn Off
DJ Friction - Photon Remix
Future Cut + Mark Da Intallex - Plastic
Technical Itch - Deception
Technical Itch - Stack
Moving Fusion - Sex Drive
Jonny L - The Bellz
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker
Vertigo - Drained
Danny Breaks - Dissonance
Peshay - Vegas
Kosheen - Yes Men (Decoder Remix)
Technical Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State
Decoder - BS9

A Soldier's Story

Astrokid Mini Pack - Bioluminescent Drum & Bass

Bioluminescent Drum & Bass - Track 17

Project Human was essentially the launch point for my drum and bass label Human Imprint (the name of the cd was meant to tie in with the label name). It was a culmination of what I had been trying to do conceptually over the past few years and really set the template for all future mix projects - Big, cinematic voiceover intros. Remixes done specifically for my mixes. Big big tunes. Music that I had a hand in. Around this time I had started to get serious with making music and had partnered up with my dear friend Chris “Kaos” Ritter. He is featured on quite a few of the tunes on here. The first 12” release on Human Imprint was the Stratus tune “You Must Follow” and this provided Chris and I a remix opportunity to get our production feet wet. This was followed by our remix of a hip-hop track I really enjoyed by Styles And Beyond called “Subculture”. Originally I had this track remixed by Dylan and Ink for this mix, but I wasn’t especially fond of their effort and they unfortunately refused to put any more work into it. This inspired me and Kaos to do our own take on it, which is what appears here. Pretty proud of the details in that one to be honest. Looking over the tracklist…there was just a lot of really cool stuff that came together for this mix. Lots of remixes of disco house tunes (Robbie Rivera, Funk Parlor, Billy Lo). Remixes of seminal Moving Shadow tunes (Quadrant 6, The Shadow). I helped create a short lived North American drum and bass production “supergroup” called Weapon that has two remixes on here. Such awesome memories working on those tunes. We were actually in the middle of the Reborn remix (one of my favorite personal projects) when 9/11 happened. Never forget indeed. The artwork on this release was handled by the amazing WeWorkForThem boys (Michael Young and Michael Cina). They used images from a photoshoot I did with famed photographers Kelly and Meyers. I asked WWFT to remove my mouth in the images so I resembled the faces from the Human Imprint logo. The voiceover for the intro was my first ever voice actor hire. Aaaand it was Don LaFontaine himself, the most legendary voice actor of all time (“The Voice Of God”). I remember when he sent me the DAT with his voiceover takes on it. I listened to it in headphones and literally got the chills. So fucking amazing. Unfortunately around the time I was working on this intro, another DJ (Bad Boy Bill) made an internet promo that was supposed to sound like a movie trailer. It used a couple of the exact lines from my Project Human intro by coincidence! So I had to go back and rewrite those lines and have Don re-record them. Sad to say the version of the script was better (and the sound quality on the voice takes were better) in the original. Oh well. Of all of the mixes I have released, Project Human has seemed to resonate with drum and bass fans the most. I am quite proud of it.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy + Joshua Ryan - Genesis
Optical + Ryme Tyme - Shapecharge
Styles Of Beyond - Subculture (Dieselboy + Kaos VIP)
The Funk Parlor - Something For The Dancefloor (Underfire Remix)
Stratus - You Must Follow (Dieselboy + Kaos Remix)
Stakka + Skynet + Friction - Altitude (Fierce + Ryme Tyme VIP)
Dylan + DJ Ink - California Curse (Technical Itch Remix)
Billy Lo - Carjacker (Ram Trilogy Remix)
Robbie Rivera - Harder And Faster (Weapon Vs E-Sassin Remix)
Kemal + Rob Data - Hostile
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker (Danny C Remix)
Rob + Goldie - The Shadow (Hive VIP)
Dom + Roland - Soundwall (Dom + Roland VIP)
Dom + Optical - Quadrant 6 (E-Sassin VIP)
Rascal + Klone - Terminal Velocity
Technical Itch - Reborn (Weapon Remix)
Bad Company - Mindgames
Dieselboy + Joshua Ryan - Revelations

Project Human

System Upgrade was my 4th and final mix CD release for Moonshine back in 2000. I was on a roll at this point, given that my last CD “Soldier’s Story” had been released only one year before. I was super motivated by the freedom that I had finally been given to select all of the music in my mixes, and this tracklist reflects a truly diverse selection of really great drum and bass from that era. Being able to kick things off with the remix of “Mindscan” by the legends Ed Rush and Optical was truly an honor for me. At that time stateside artists and DJs were still struggling with garnering respect from the UK. I feel that this mix was sort of a transition for building trans-Atlantic relationships during that unfortunately tense era. Dillinja came through with a beast of a remix for American super producer Hive with “Ultrasonic Sound”. Decoder did serious justice to his remix of my tune “The Descent”. And E-Sassin was one of my favorite artists at the time and straight killed it with tracks like “Symptom”. A true American DNB classic. The rest of the mix was filled out with plenty of great music from the likes of Bad Company (the first time they licensed a tune for the American market), Kemal and Rob Data AKA Konflict and of course Dom + Roland, Tech Itch, etc. Was always super happy with the tunes I was able to get for this one. And yes, this was another mix I did in my pajamas sitting on the floor of my living room in my apartment in Philadelphia. Very classy! The artwork was handled by Justin Fines, otherwise known as Demo Design. I discovered his work on a flier at a rave in Detroit back in the 90s. He was way beyond most flier designers at that point in time. Currently he is killing it in the world of TV commercials here in NYC. Was very lucky to have him on board for this project. The concept of the mix was elevating consciousness through music. This theme played out through the title of the mix, the graphics, the liner notes, and the intro (which was a collaboration between myself and a Mr Justin Geller). Here is a fun story. The rainforest environment FX in the intro were recorded in binaural sound (that means in headphones they should sound like they are in true 3D audio). We also used a sample from one of my favorite new age / synth artists at the time named Steve Roach. Outside of the new age music scene I didn’t think he was well known. Buuut…Moonshine ended up getting contacted by his lawyers for my illegal sampling of his track. I had to forfeit all of my income from the CD to pay Steve Roach back for using his music in my intro without clearance. To this day I am still not sure how he found about it. Long story short, “System Upgrade” is a mix that reflected the vibe of drum and bass at the time and it was a very important stepping stone between what I had previously been doing before mix wise and what I would go on to do with the “6ixth Session” and future mixes. And, to this day, people still tell me that it is their favorite mix. I don’t disagree. I feel like this was an important moment in the progression of the  US drum and bass scene.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Loading Program
Ram Trilogy - Mindscan (Ed Rush + Optical Remix)
E-Sassin - Symptom
Hive - Ultrasonic Sound (Dillinja Remix)
Biostacis - Brain Hack
Dom + Roland - Can’t Punish Me
Decoder - Road Rage
Future Cut - Overload
Kemal + Rob Data - Konspiracy VIP
Stakka + Skynet - Side Effects
Dieselboy - The Descent (Decoder Remix)
Jonny L - Selecta
Decoder - Dumb
Facs + B-Key - Antics
Technical Itch - Deadline
Bad Company - Sentient 
Absolute Zero - The Code (Usual Suspects VIP)

System Upgrade

UMF Radio MIX TRACKLIST 

1-Calyx & TeeBee - Stray Bullet (RAM)
2-Calyx & TeeBee - Cloud 9 (RAM)
——> Calyx & TeeBee - Sawn Off (RAM)
3-Mikal - The Rough Life (Headz)
4-Disprove - Negative Dots (Invisible)
5-Xtra & Noisia - Up To Something (Invisible)
6-LSB - Loop of Love (Unknown)
7-Calyx & TeeBee - Day That Never Comes (RAM)
—-> Noisia - Incessant (Vision) 
8-Foxes - Better Love (Calyx & TeeBee RMX) (BMG)
9-Was A Be - Carcosa - (Subtitles)
10-Calyx & TeeBee - Long Gone (RAM)
11-Tchami feat. Kaleem Tyler - Promesses (Calyx & TeeBee RMX) (Ministry)
12-DLR & Nympho - Affiction (Dispatch) 
13-Meridian Dan & Fresh - Hot For Me (Calyx & TeeBee RMX) (Sony)
14-Apex - Inner space (Subtitles)
15-Calyx & TeeBee - Elevate This Sound (RAM)
16-Calyx & TeeBee feat. Ayah Mahrar - The Fall (1X1)(RAM)
17-Calyx & TeeBee - Ghostwriter (RAM)
18-Calyx & TeeBee -Panic Attack (RAM) 
19-Mefjus - Expedition (Inside Info RMX) (Critical)
20-Xtrah/Dub Physix - Dubplate (Unknown)
21-Kryptic Minds - The Truth (Inside Info RMX ) ( RAM)
22-Calyx & TeeBee - Snakes & Ladders (RAM)
23-Calyx & TeeBee - Broken Notes (RAM)
24-EDIT - Flake (Subtitles)
25-Xtrah/Noisia - Gravitas (Invisible)
26-Mikal feat.Chimpo  - Brain Matter (Headz)
27-Was A Be - Choices (Subtitles)
28-Calyx & TeeBee feat. Doctor -Where We Go (RAM)
—->Gridlok & Prolix - Revenge (Project 51)
29-Noisia & The Upbeats - Dead Limit (Vision)
30-Davip - One Big Thing (Subtitles)
31-Brain Crisis & Segment & Concept Vision - Defender (Subtitles)
32-Denney - Low Frequency (Calyx & TeeBee RMX)(Ministry of Sound)
33-Calyx & TeeBee - Get It Twisted (RAM)
34-Calyx & TeeBee - Untitled (Unknown)
—>Brain Crisis - Gamacho (Subtitles)

Calyx & TeeBee - Mix for UMF Radio USA

THE HUMAN RESOURCE
EVOL INTENT ASSEMBLES THE MONSTER
a mix by Evol Intent

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Released in April of 2006, the HUMAN RESOURCE was a compilation of musical highlights from my drum and bass label HUMAN IMPRINT. The double vinyl release had brand new exclusive remixes and original music. The double CD release consisted of 12 tracks on CD1 and a great mix of 22 label jams on CD2 by my boys @evolintent entitled “Evol Intent Assemble The Monster”. The entire visual and audio “concept” for the album was based on the story of Frankenstein (hence the mix name). I collaborated on the mix intro with @evolintent and we called it VIVIFY (to animate / enliven). The packaging design was an idea that i worked out with my friend @joelsavitzky. He crushed it. I designed the HUMAN RESOURCE lettering for the front of the release. The inside of the booklet was bright red with an overlay of clear ink that looked like muscle tissue and a quote from the vocal we had made for the intro track - “the switch thrown as raw lightning arcs down the line / violent / consuming the cold form upon the table / within moments the power is diminished / by the glimmer of the half extinguished light / i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open / it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”. Lots and lots of thought went into what should have been a simple "Best Of” release. Extremely proud of this one. 

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TRACKLIST

Evol Intent x Dieselboy - Vivify
Infiltrata + Define - Parallel Universe
Mayhem, Evol Intent + Thinktank - Broken Sword
The Upbeats - Piss Fiend
Kaos, Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Moonraker (Gridlok Remix)
Evol Intent, Mayhem + Psidream - Assimilation
Styles of Beyond - Subculture (Upbeats Remix)
Kaos and Karl K (feat. Jae Kennedy) - Xanadu (Stratus Remix) 
Fresh - Wargames
Bad Company - Hysteria (Hive Remix)
Dieselboy + Kaos - Barrier Break 
Dieselboy + Kaos - Barrier Break (Infiltrata + Hochi Remix)
Evol Intent + Ewun – Reality Check
The Upbeats - Le Mammoth
Evol Intent + Ewun - The Rapture
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Bad Company - Grunge (Dieselboy, Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Ewun - The Divide 
Stratus - You Must Follow
Stratus - You Must Follow (Dieselboy + Kaos Remix)
Stratus - You Must Follow (Evol Intent VIP)
Tech Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State (Gridlok Remix)
Dieselboy + Kaos - Submission
Sasha - Fundamental (Gridlok Remix)
BT - The Great Escape (Alliance Remix)

The Human Resource

The Human Resource - Evol Intent Assembles The Monster

Klute b2b Dom & Roland ft. Stamina MC @ Sun and Bass 2017

Klute b2b Dom & Roland ft. Stamina MC @ Sun & Bass 2017

VEGAS [Bad Company UK] - BBC Radio 1 - Bad Taste Mix

VEGAS:
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BAD TASTE RECORDINGS

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TRACKLIST:

Drumsik - Noise In My Mind - BAD TASTE

Minor Rain - Humanoid - BAD TASTE

Trillo & Vegas - Rush - BAD TASTE

Drumsik - Two-Faced - BAD TASTE

Ephyum - Fluctuation - BAD TASTE

Minor Rain - Trigger - BAD TASTE

Malux - Pitfall - BAD TASTE

Mind Vortex - Shall We Begin - RAM

Splah Heads - Untitled Dub - BAD TASTE

Ram Trilogy - Screamer - RAM

Full Kontact & Vegas - Terrahawk - BAD TASTE

The Prototypes - Levels (BadCo VIP) - GET HYPE

Ephyum - Shrine - BAD TASTE

Malux & Vegas - Silo - BAD TASTE

Filip Motovunski - For My Dogs - BAD TASTE

Zombie Cats & Heist - Falcon - BAD TASTE

Ephyum - Chimerical - BAD TASTE

Bad Company UK - Spider (Optiv & BTK Remix)

Merikan - Absolute Zero - BLACKOUT

Bad Company UK - Planet Dust VIP

Drumsik - Groove Generator - BAD TASTE

Kursiva - Nasty - BAD TASTE

Full Kontakt & Vegas - Need It - BAD TASTE

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (Remix)