One of many shows from Ed Rush & Optical for Kiss FM London, packed full of classics and exclusive plates from that era...

Ed Rush & Optical - Virus On Kiss FM 22 June 2000

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

Originally appearing on the Palm Pictures label back in 2000, "The 6ixth Session" was my best selling mix CD. It features Konflict's super awesome "The Messiah" which is one of my favorite drum and bass anthems of all time. The amazing graphic design is by Akira Takahashi and showcases 3D modeling of my head from Rene Garcia aka "Hyperform" who went on to do 3D work for the Matrix and Transformers movies. Suffice it to say, I have always been extremely proud of this particular work. It really helped push drum and bass music to a larger audience in North America.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy vs. Atlantiq - Initialize
Kemal & Rob Data - The Messiah
Technical Itch - Heavy Metal
Signal to Noise - Nanobugs
Underfire vs. Negative - Bios Fear
Future Cut + Futurebound - Homicide
Usual Suspects - Shrapnel (Stakka & Skynet Remix)
Andy C + Shimon - Firewire
Bad Company - Toxin
Dieselboy - Invid (E-Sassin VIP)
Dieselboy - The Descent (Phunckateck VIP)
Technical Itch - Pusher
Loxy + Dylan - Eclipse
Facs + B-Key - Plimsoul VIP
Teebee - Space Age Remix
Dylan - Dominion
J Majik - Solarize

The 6ixth Session

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

prisoner of your own mind

lucerfarian

My second mix for Moonshine. Released in the summer of 2000. 

TRACKLIST

1 L Double & Serena - Crazy
2 DJ Dara - Duplicity (Klute Remix)
3 Profound Noize - Luminous
4 DJ Hype - The Big 30h	
5 Monty & Pascal - 4D99	
6 Decoder & Substance - Hazardous	
7 Biostacis - Menace
8 Cyba Space Feat. Shanie - I Bless The Day
9 Future Cut - Whiplash
10 John B. - Prowler	
11 Usual Suspects - Doorway
12 Blue Sonix - Devil Inside
13 Kenny Ken - Project One
14 Fresh 'N' Vegas - Shades Of Sound
15 John B. - Progress
16 Fallen Angels - Biophonic

DJ Dara - From Here To There

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

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

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

Welcome to Episode 1, Season 1 of the SUB-CLUB.  

Enjoy
-Tee