My first Dieselboy CD-this CD was my introduction to dnb

Listening to this again in 2025.. still kicks

This CD got me into dnb and running.. got me through some great runs

i think this is the most extreme form of "Moulin Rouge" out there

who still here Oct 2025? this was how I  discovered dnb as a kid.... waiting for mom in the music section of Barnes and noble

I have been bumping this mix since I downloaded to my iPod. That shit was like 2005 or something thank you for making this mix available to the public!

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

Here is a recent live set for your pleasure. it was recorded July 18th 2014 from a show at The infamous Whiskey Bar in Portland Oregon. Enjoy! btw, I know the piano line from the Lighter comes in very loud, but we can't all be perfect ;) &#13;
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Track List&#13;
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1. Callide &amp; Intraspekt - Stone Cold ft. MC Coppa&#13;
2. Spexion - Those Eyes&#13;
3. Illskillz &amp; Dkay - Codename Zero&#13;
4. Mob Tactics - Mirror Mirror&#13;
5. DJ Vapour - Paper Cuts Loop&#13;
6. Original Sin - Stronger&#13;
7. Teddy Killerz - Demolisher (Gridlok Rmx)&#13;
8. Wilkinson - Dirty Love (TC Rmx)&#13;
9. Konichi - Entrance&#13;
10. Break - Groove With It&#13;
11. Optiv., BTK, &amp; Mindscape - Intruder&#13;
12. Ulterior Motive - M.I.R.&#13;
13. Quadrant, Kid Hops, &amp; Iris - Partials&#13;
14. Aries &amp; Gold Dubs - Took My Love&#13;
15. Optiv, BTK, &amp; Cold Fusion - Void&#13;
16. Krust - Warhead (TC Rmx)&#13;
17. Chris SU &amp; State Of Mind - Above Earth&#13;
18. Dimension - Crowd Reaction VIP&#13;
19. The Prototypes - Humanoid&#13;
20. Slang Banger - Labyrinth&#13;
21. Annix - Take It Back&#13;
22. Philth &amp; P-Fine - Tired&#13;
23. AK1200 - Drowning (Terravita Rmx)&#13;
24. Digital - Deadline Loop&#13;
25. Erb N Dub - Mosh Pit&#13;
26. BCUK - Torpedo Loop&#13;
27. Dose - Something's Wrong&#13;
28. Dcision &amp; Shot ft. RMS - Reality Check&#13;
29. Gridlok &amp; Dieselboy - MDMX&#13;
30. Ed Rush &amp; Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum Rmx)&#13;
31. Gridlok &amp; Hive - Violence Sound&#13;
32. Rockwell - 1,2,3,4&#13;
33. AK1200 &amp; Gridlok - Long Weekend&#13;
34. DJ SS - The Lighter (Piano Loop)&#13;
35. Gridlok &amp; Jamal - Concrete&#13;
36. Q Project - Champion Sound (Total Science Rmx) Loops&#13;
37. Callide &amp; Intraspekt - Noise Disturbance&#13;
38. Optiv &amp; BTK - Shredder&#13;
39. VLTRN - Dirt Signal&#13;
40. Stealth - Smash It&#13;
41. Hive &amp; Keaton - Bring It On&#13;
42. Metrik - Want my Love ft. Elisabeth Troy&#13;
43. Callide &amp; Intraspekt - Judgement&#13;
44. Stealth - Homage (Back to you) Ft. Stylus&#13;
45. The Prototypes - Just Bounce VIP&#13;
46. Future Cut - Whiplash Loops&#13;
47. Noisia &amp; Prolix - Asteroids&#13;
48. BCUK - The Nine&#13;
49. Isaac Maya ft. Papa Michigan - Killa Dubplate&#13;
50. DMinds - Blacker ft. Strikez&#13;
51. NC-17 - The War Master&#13;
52. Pleasure - Danger Close&#13;
53. Mob Tactics - Unbalanced&#13;
54. Mob Tactics ft. Lauren Johnson - The Answer&#13;
55. Serum - Big Loader&#13;
56. Dr. Meaker ft. Sian Evans - Right Back (Break Rmx)&#13;
57. Double Helix - Cue&#13;
58. AK1200 &amp; NC 17 - Summer Funk&#13;
59. Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down&#13;
60. Foul Play - Renegade Snares

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AK1200 Live at Whiskey Bar July 18th 2014

One of my most personal mixes. For this one I really tried to go outside the box conceptually - who would have thought to do a fantasy role-playing themed drum and bass mix? Having been a life long Dungeons and Dragons fan, I thought it would be cool to basically let everyone know that I was into role-playing games. And for the intro I was able to lock down the voice of Optimus Prime himself Peter Cullen! During the recording process I was patched into his headphones when he was in the studio and was even able to direct him. It wasn't until later that I discovered he had voiced the character of Venger on the 80's cartoon series Dungeons and Dragons. Awesome! The artwork was once again handled by the legendary Akira Takahashi. One of the coolest parts of the art is the reoccurring image of a dragon which is an exact copy of the dragon tattoo on my back. I always thought Akira was very clever to incorporate that image so deeply throughout the design. Though you cannot see it here, I spent a lot of time working on the liner notes so that they kind of read like stuff you would find in Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. One of the coolest things about this project was being able to get remixes made of popular non-dnb artists like Tiësto, Sasha, Josh Wink and BT. It really sort of pushed this thing over the top at the time. Finally there is something that needs to be said about one of the tracks on here. The Paul B + Subwave remix isn't of the Tiësto tune "Flight 643". It is a remix of his track "Lethal Industry". I can't remember why this happened in the first place, but there you go! Enjoy :)

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Prologue
Cartridge - End Of The World
Break - Accelerate
Kaos + Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Soul On Fire (Concord Dawn Remix)
Basic Operations - White
Tech Itch - The Hand
Raiden - Infection (E-Sassin Remix)
Sasha - Immortal (Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Wink - Evil Acid (Gridlok Remix)
Teebee + Calyx - Follow The Leader
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Dub Faction - Flightpath
Usual Suspects - Doorway (Gridlok + Echo Remix)
Dom + Kemal - Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy + Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Tiësto - Flight 643 (Paul B + Subwave Remix)
Concord Dawn - Take Me Away (Ill Skillz Remix)
Decorum - Contrax (Weapon Remix)
Dumonde - Human (Ill Skillz Remix)

The Dungeonmaster's Guide

My first cd for Moonshine. If memory serves, I needed to do a last minute tracklist change as I wasn't able to license a couple of tunes I wanted. Having known SS for a few years at this point, I knew he would let me have any tunes I wanted so I replaced the tunes I couldn't get with the Matrix and Executive tunes. As it turned out, they worked better than the tunes I originally wanted. :) This mix holds a special place in my heart as it was my first official mixed cd and I still really like all the tunes on it. 

TRACKLIST

Matrix - Fluid Motion
The Return - Basic Rules
Ed Rush & Optical - Funktion
Pascal & Phantasy - Terradaktil (Future Forces Remix)
DJ SS - Symphonic
Pascal - Who Can Draw
MA4 - Bull Terrier
DJ Zinc - Bring The Danger
Decoder - Circuit Breaker
Mampi Swift - Hi Tek
Special K - Pressure Roll
Decoder - Dazee Age
Majistrate - Retry
EZ - Rollers - Tough At The Top
Executive Outcomes - Sirocco
PFM - 11th Hour

DJ Dara - Full Circle

Hornz For ‘25 (DJ Persuasion Reprise)

The third CD I did for Moonshine. Released in 2001 it contains the classic track "Suicide" by Kosheen and was also the first mixed cd to feature a then little-known artist called High Contrast. :)

TRACKLIST


1 Teebee - Blue Rose	
2 Nico & Rukkus - Defender!	 
3 Universal Project - Bleach	
4 JL - Dust (Total Science Remix)	
5 Ink & Dylan - Need You	
6 Future Cut - The Specialist	
7 Decoder - Hord 39	
8 Stakka, Skynet & Friction - Altitude	
9 J Majik	feat. Kathy Brown - Tell Me   
10 Skeptic - Tear	
11 Decoder & Substance - Icon	
12 EBK - 2000/2000	
13 Dylan & Ink  - Kali Kurse	
14 N.Code - Traction	
15 High Contrast - What's The Story	
16 Kosheen - (Slip And Slide) Suicide	

DJ Dara - Future Perfect

One of my favorite conceptual mixes. Back in late 2007 I was on track to have a new mix cd out by mid 2008 and I was kind of scraping my brain for cool ideas. Then one night after seeing the film “A Scanner Darkly” I knew right then and there that I was going to call my mix “Substance D”. In the film there is a psychoactive drug known as “Substance D”. I figured, why not make it seem like my mix was a new kind of drug, an “audioceutical” that you take by listening to it? I wanted the label art and liner notes to appear to be futuristic drug packaging. Since the music was intended to excite the brain of the listener I decided that a glowing neon color scheme would be appropriate (something essentially the opposite of what most modern medicine packaging looks like). When it came time to make the mix I was struggling with what the first track was going to be. Then one night I literally had a dream that I was going to use the SPKTRM remix of Demo for the intro and voila! That is what I ended up using. It was really cool to be able to get remixes made of some outside the box artists like MSTRKRFT and Meat Beat Manifesto as well (thank you Jack Dangers btw). This mix was supposed to feature a tune by myself and Gridlok called MDMX (which eventually came out in 2014) but we weren’t able to finish it in time for this. For the intro voiceover I was determined to find the most clinical and neutral person I could find and I spent a few months trying to convince Will Lyman (of PBS Frontline) to do it. In the end he refused. So I ended up working with Tom Kane, who has done tons of work including being the announcer for the Academy Awards. He nailed it. I asked my friend Jake (Ewun…now known as Kill The Noise) to add all of the necessary clicks and whirrs and FX you hear in the intro. The liner notes took me ages to work through. And when this was printed up I realized that the bright yellow text was almost impossible to read. The artwork once again was by the amazing Akira Takahashi. All in all a really fun and challenging project and something, in my mind, truly unique.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy + Ewun - Warning Label
Demo - Trauma / Cell (SPKTRM Duomix)
Limewax - One Of Them (Current Value Remix)
Technical Itch - Pressure Drop VIP
Technical Itch + Kemal - The Calling (Evol Intent + Ewun Remix)
Psidream - Death Sentence
Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Raiden Remix)
Dieselboy + Evol Intent + Ewun - Midnight Express
SPKTRM - Machine March
Current Value - Fear / Machine (Demo Duomix)
Demo - O.D.
The Upbeats - SFX
Counterstrike - Timewarp VIP
MSTRKRFT - Paris (The Upbeats Remix)
Computer Club - Load Rocket (Gridlok Remix)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter (Evol Intent + Mayhem Remix)
Dieselboy - N/V/D (Counterstrike Zentraedi Remix)

Substance D

The first in a series of budget mixed CDs we put out. 

TRACKLIST
1. ICR - Rock The Sky
2. DJ Abstract - Confidence
3. Kaos & Karl K - Street Knowledge
4. Dune - Vertical Drop (Decoder Remix)
5. ICR - Stolen Symmetry
6. G13 - Together
7. JL - Dust (Total Science Remix)
8. Kaos, Karl K & Siren - Rush!
9. Datcyde feat. Ill-Esha - Social Skills
10. Psidream - Solar Waves
11. Juju - Tribal War
12. Illformants - Artifact
13. Psidream - Identity
14. Dune - Oracle
15. Pieter K. - Under The Radar (Remix)

DJ Dara - Breakbeat Science Exercise 01

recorded live at America's legendary DnB weekly, RESPECT Thursdays in Los Angeles, California October 29th 2015. photo courtesy of R3GAL D

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AK1200 Live RESPECT LA 10 29 15

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

Dieselboy - UNLEASHED!
A Shocking New Vision Of Bass Destruction

This is one of those moments.

Dieselboy - Unleashed! is his most layered and nuanced studio mix to date. Returning to his old school mixtape roots where he isn’t limited to what tracks he could use or license, Dieselboy has used the opportunity to take Unleashed! to another level. 

56 tracks were used to craft a deep and extensive 73-minute mix that reveals itself only after repeated listens. Steering away from banging out an "of-the-moment" forgettable dancefloor rinseout, Dieselboy throws down a wide variety of current and classic tracks and edits, wrapping up the mix with 25 minutes of finely diced dubstep that showcases his current taste in the genre and forthcoming tracks from his dubstep label, Subhuman. Finally, the project is given a tongue-in-cheek graphic treatment that references the exploitation sci-fi fantasy movie posters of of the 1970s. It looks  and sounds hardcore.

Here it is - the mix he considers his best to date...

Get  ready to test your speakers. 

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Break feat Calyx + Teebee - Don't Look Down // SYMMETRY
Icicle feat SPMC - Dreadnaught //  SHOGUN
Phace + Misanthrop - Desert Orgy // NEOSIGNAL
Optiv feat Rymetyme - Run It Red (Neonlight Remix) // RED LIGHT
Pixel Fist - Horrible (Audio Remix) // PIXEL FIST
Terravita - And The Beat Goes On // ROTTUN
The Upbeats + Trei - Wear & Tear // NONVOGUE
The Prototypes - Work It // FORMATION
Noisia - Friendly Intentions // VISION
Dose - Squander // HUMAN IMPRINT
Audio - Prototype // DUB
Breakage - Fighting Fire feat Jess Mills (Loadstar Remix) // DIGITAL SOUNDBOY
Delta Heavy - Space Time // RAM
Xtrah - Amazon // PROXIMITY
Blokhe4d - The Way Life Used To Be // HOSPITAL
Dub Foundation - Time to Burn // TECHNIQUE
Eric Prydz - Niton (Metrik Remix) // MINISTRY OF SOUND
Dieselboy + Blokhe4d - Get Back // BAD TASTE
Soul Intent - Be Strong // SAMURAI
Culture Shock - The Bypass // RAM
Generic + The Fix - Suicide // HUMAN IMPRINT
Sigma - Stronger // BREAKBEAT KAOS
Dose - Martyrdom // HUMAN IMPRINT
Gridlok + Prolix feat Fats - Tru Born Playa // TRUE PLAYAZ
Demo - OD (Counterstrike + Gein Remix) // HUMAN IMPRINT
C4C - Stranglehold [clip] // VIRUS
The Upbeats - Big Skeleton (MOJX VIP) // NONVOGUE
Break - Destiny Comes Ringing // COMMERCIAL SUICIDE
The Upbeats - Untitled // DUB
Uman + BTK - Generator // UPRISING
Zardonic + Numbernin6 feat Messinian - End Of Days (Dieselboy VIP) // HUMAN IMPRINT
Zardonic - Nexus Polaris // HUMAN IMPRINT
Jubei + S.P.Y. - Project One // METALHEADZ
Gein + Counterstrike - Pentagram VIP // BAD CHEMISTRY
Muffler - Heavy (Search + Destroy VIP) // SUBHUMAN
Zardonic + Mumblz - Systems Activated (Pixel Fist Remix) // SUBHUMAN
Liquid Stranger - Robot Rox [clip] // ROTTUN
Current Value - Indivisible Force (Cybakotic Remix) // FREAK
Emalkay - Powertool // DUB POLICE
Bare - Synthetic // BUYGORE
Mark Instinct - 15 Karat (Bare's 16K VIP) [clip] // DUBLINE AUDIO
Bare - Droid // SUBHUMAN
MOB - Lifted // SUBHUMAN
Bare - Bring It Back [clip] // SUBHUMAN
Liquid Stranger + Sluggo - Human Implant // SUBHUMAN
Liquid Stranger + Sluggo - Stalkers VIP // DUB
Bare + Muffler - Bloodsport // SUBHUMAN
Truth - The Emperor // DEEP MEDI
Flecta - Guts Ya // DUB
Numbernin6 - Menace // SUBHUMAN
Dieselboy - NVD (Numbernin6 Remix) [clip] // SUBHUMAN
Asking Alexandria - A Single Moment Of Sincerity (Bare Remix) // SUMERIAN
Pixel Fist - Fire // SUBHUMAN
Excision + Downlink - Reploid [clip] // ROTTUN
Downlink - Factory [clip] // ROTTUN
Skrillex + Bare Noize - Scatta (Dieselboy VIP feat Armanni + Messinian) // MAU5TRAP



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