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

Taken from Frictions Radio 1 show on 3rd feb. Hardware label History Mix 95-05.

Tracklist:

1. Future Forces - Point Of Origin
2. Future Forces - Dead By Dawn
3. Genotype - Extra Terrestrial
5. Digital - Rocksteady 
6. Absolute Zero & Subphonics - The Code 
7. Future Forces & Kane - Morpheus 
8. Konflict - Roadblock
9. Usual Suspects - Killa Bees
10. Future Forces - Strontium Jazz (Dillinja Remix)
11. Ink & Dylan - Need You
12. Usual Suspects Spawn Punch (Future Cut Remix)
13. Konflict - Beckoning 
14. Keaton & Hive - The Plague
15. Cause 4 Concern - Skewer (Sinthetix Remix)
16. Raiden - Fallin’
17. Ink - Mirage
18. Usual Suspects - Shrapnel (Stakka & Skynet Rmx)
19. Future Cut - Horns 2000
20. Vicious Circle - Between The Lines
21. Loxy & Keaton - Haters
22. Keaton - invisible Man
23. Universal Project - Black Techno
24. Future Cut - 20/20 (Chase & Status Rmx)
25. Noisia & The Upbeats - Sacrifice
26. Konflict - Messiah

Radio 1 DNB60 - Renegade Hardware Mix - 95-05

SPOR Essential Mix @ BBC Radio 1 (14/03/15)

Promo mix to support the release of FABRICLIVE 82: Ed Rush & Optical. Buy from fabric store --> http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/fabriclive-82.html
Download from iTunes/Google Play --> http://found.ee/FABRICLIVE82dl
Launch party at fabric on Friday 21st August --> http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/1107

Premiered on D&B Arena --> http://breakbeat.co.uk/interviews/exclusive-ed-rush-optical-fabriclive-promo-mix/

Tracklist:

Signs - Clockout
Neonlight - Extrasolar VIP
Hypoxia feat Hypxyz - Suspicious Minds
ID - Frqncs
Neonlight& Wintermule - Influx
Bad Company - Nitrous (Audio Remix)
ID - ID
Medio - Frog
ID - Carcosa
L33 - Manipulate
The Clamps - Nerves
Noisia, Hybris & Mefjus - Clusterfunk
Machine Code - Pacify
Posij - Techplant
Mefjus & Inside Info - Leibniz
Current Value - Mastication
Neonlight - Extrasolar VIP
Zero Method & L33 - Frequencies
Teddy Killerz - Hawking Radiation

Download FABRICLIVE 82

Ed Rush & Optical - FABRICLIVE 82 promo mix

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dry paint, creaking floors, and yet it feels empty

Optical  & Mc 2Shy @  Renegade Hardware History Sessions - 2013

With no less than seven albums to his name, and a whole raft of releases on seminal labels such as Moving Shadow, Certificate 18, Metalheadz and his own label DRP, Dom & Roland is a certified pillar of the Drum & Bass scene, with his contributions undoubtedly shaping the music and it’s sound. 

His eighth LP is now on the horizon, and will be released on Metalheadz. This certainly promises to show a brilliantly crafted and no doubt technical side to his production, and is sure to be shaking dancefloors worldwide.

Check out his brilliant SUNANDBASS Podcast, which hosts a number of his tracks on this forthcoming album, alongside some of his firm favourites – this one goes off! 

SUNANDBASS Podcast #51

SUNANDBASS Podcast #51 - Dom & Roland

Full set from Optical at the Renegade Hardware Weekender RH#20 at the Coronet, London, 2016. I was asked to play strictly 1995-2005 DNB for this one.

Renegade Hardware Weekender

Optical [DJ Set] @ RH#20 Coronet 2016 ☣

A quick mix I did for the DJ Cookbook Dinner with chef Bryce Shuman on July 11th 2016. This was played as the guests arrived. Quite chill :)

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TRACKLIST

Anile - Wish List
Protone + Roy Green - Five Spot
Marcus Intalex - Steady
Technimatic - Perseverance
Lensman - String City
Duke Dumont - 100% (TC Bootleg)
Upbeats + Ivy Lab - Pharaoh
Metrik - Dream Sequence
Artificial Intelligence - What You Had Feat Steo (Lenzman Remix)
DJ Marky + S.P.Y. - Yellow Shoes (Calibre Remix)
Technicolour + LSB + Komatic - Rotary Motion
A Sides + Makoto - Resistance
Calibre - Rooftops
DJ Marky + XRS - Highlights
A Sides + Makoto - Searchin’ (DJ Marky Remix)
A Sides + Makoto - Searchin’
Pennygiles - Au Revoir Blackbird

DJ Cookbook Dinner DNB Mix - July 2016

QZB (@qbig-zenith-b) delivered a brilliant #DNB60 mix on behalf of Critical Music for the Drum & Bass show w/ Friction. The mix showacases some classics from the Critical back catalogue, present day releases and some future dubs!

Show recorded on 2nd October.

Track list:
[00.00] Ivy Lab - St.Clair [Critical Music]
[02:12] Noisia - Leopard Slug [Invisible]
[02:55] Disprove - In The Lab (Euph Remix) [Ammunition Recordings]
[02:55] QZB - Honya [Flexout Audio]
[03:40] Ivy Lab - Forex [Critical Music]
[04:46] Enei & EastColors & Noel - Cracker VIP [Critical Music]
[05:31] Hybris, Quadrant & Iris - Graphene [Dispatch Recordings]
[05:52] Alix Perez & Zero T - The Ladders [Dispatch Recordings]
[06:59] Coma ft. MC Sense - Dyonisus (QZB Remix) [Flexout Audio]
[07:43] Enei & Kasra ft. DRS - The Process [Critical Music]
[08:28] Ill Truth - After Hours [Symmetry Recordings]
[09:20] Skeptical & DBR UK - Hexton [Dispatch Recordings]
[09:33] Sense MC ft. Lynx - Disconnected [Diffrent]
[11:03] RoyGreen & Protone - Folded [Demand Records]
[11:45] Klax - Blackball [Critical Music]
[13:58] Emperor - Radar [Critical Music]
[16:11] Monty - Ectoplasm [Flexout Audio]
[16:55] Survey - Get It [Dispatch Recordings]
[18:45] Phase - Abundance [Demand Records]
[19:29] Grey Code - Taiga [Dispatch Recordings]
[20:57] Handra ft. MC Resc - Locket [Counterpoint]
[22:20] QZB - WYGD [Critical Music]
[24:16] Kije - Connect [Critical Music]
[25:00] Shyun & Cruk - Sentry [Critical Music]
[26:06] Signs & SKS - Ethereal [Critical Music]
[26:40] QZB - Turning Point [Critical Music]
[28:08] QZB & Handra - Orbit [Blendits]
[29:58] QZB - The Opposite [Flexout Audio]
[31:26] GLXY & QZB - Yes Jah [Shogun Audio]
[33:17] Icicle & Commix - Ultra Clean [Shogun Audio]
[35:07] QZB - Tanoke [Demand Records]
[35:29] Kiril - No Fightin’ [Critical Music]
[26:13] QZB - Apollo [Critical Music]
[37:25] QZB - Backstab [Syndrome Audio]
[39:37] Halogenix & Alix Perez - Broken [1985]
[41:55] QZB - 9 Marks [Flexout Audio]
[43:40] Synth Ethics - Dry Ink [Critical Music]
[45:14] Enei - Get Low [Critical Music]
[46:37] TC ft. Jakes - Rep (QZB Remix) [Free DL]
[47:21] Xtrah ft. Codebreaker - Set The Levels [Critical Music]
[47:43] Outer Heaven - Genjutsu [Proximity]
[48:49] Vromm - Level Up [Critical Music]
[49:55] Amit - Killer Drilller [Metalheadz]
[52:52] QZB - Hold Me Close [Flexout Audio]
[54:20] RoyGreen & Protone - The Healer [Spearhead]
[55:04] QZB ft. MC Fava - Science [Demand Records]
[55:48] Halogenix - Velvet [Critical Music]
[57:22] Tokyo Prose ft. LSB & DRS - Sunsets [Samurai Music]

QZB online:
FB - https://www.facebook.com/QZBMusic/
SC - https://soundcloud.com/qbig-zenith-b
INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/qzb.music/

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DJ Cookbook Dinner DNB Mix - July 2016

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