I have since doubled in age and this still gets me 🙂‍↔️

Quite possibly the best intro ever <3 <3 <3 automatic hype every time I listen to this mix - fire from start to end

This is so fucking dope- for years tried & true

Can't Punish meeeee! Blast from the past.

Love this … so glad you posted your CD mixes

Drum n Bass

Audio of a laptop live show from our fall 2009 "Unconditional Evol" tour.

Download it here on Soundcloud or grab it off of our website here: http://www.evolintent.com/blog/?p=139

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TRACKLIST: 
- Super sharpshooter - Ganja Cru
- A Brown Paper Milli - Roni Size vs. Lil Wayne
- SFX - The Upbeats
- Torpedo (tease) - BCUK
- My Name Is Fame - Ewun
- SMASH - Evol Intent, Ewun, and The Upbeats
- Screw Up (Upbeats remix) - Ewun 
- Champion Sound (Evol Intent edit) - Q Project
- Gunpowder Plot - Evol Intent
- The Nine (evol intent edit) - BCUK
- Messiah overload - Konflict vs. Computer Club vs. Le Castle Vania vs. Spor vs. Noisia
- Flipside (spor remix WIP) - Evol Intent vs. Blip
- Punish Me In The Middle Of The Night - Evol Intent vs. Dom and Roland
- Timewar - Evol Intent & Eye-D
- Ghost Town (Evol Intent remix) - Shiny Toy Guns
- Levitate Videotapes to Arm Ravens - Apex, Evol Intent, Ewun, Spor vs. Cypher Linguistics vs. Proxy
- I know you want me (evol intent edit) - Pitbull
- Calm Foreword - AC Slater vs. Evol Intent vs. Messinian
- The Rapture - Evol Intent & Ewun
- Real Deadline - Evol Intent & Arsenic vs. Digital
- Glock Party - Evol Intent
- 8 Bit Bitch (Spor Remix) - Evol Intent & Ewun
- Binge Drinker - the Upbeats
- Odd Number - Evol Intent & Ewun feat. Vicious Circle
- H.A.L. - SebastiAn (tease)
- I got 5 on it - Luniz 
- Natural Born Killaz - Dr. Dre feat. Ice Cube
- Street Knowledge live edit - Evol Intent
- Corrupt Cops (Evol Intent remix) - Pish Posh
- Binary Calling - Evol Intent & Ewun vs. Tech Itch & Kemal vs. Binary Finary
- The Reward is Cheese (Evol Intent edit) - Deadmau5
- Reality Check - Evol Intent & Ewun
- Bloody Halos - Evol Intent vs. Ewun
- Dead On Arrival - Evol Intent
- Get Your Glitchez On - Evol Intent vs. Missy Elliot
- Dead Wrong with a Double Glock (live edit) - Evol Intent vs. Notorious B.I.G.
- Horns 2009 (evol Intent edit) - Future Cut
- Maybe The Curtain Will Fall Tomorrow - Evol Intent vs. Sound Of Animals Fighting


website info

UNCONDITIONAL EVOL 2009 MIX

Here is the last thing from us for 2013!!! It was a great year again with loads of really good moments. We wanne thank all of you who supported us in each way. We are well prepared for 2014 and can´t wait to show you more of our new music. Till than enjoy the mix.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
With love from Leipzig,
Tobi & Jakob :)

all Booking requests to: mark@esp-agency.com 

ps: you can still grab our new release "Power Hour EP" (Lifted Music) here:

Shoplifted: https://shoplifted.co.uk/download/lftd017d
iTunes: http://lftd.net/lftd017itunes
Beatport: http://lftd.net/lftd017beatport
Amazon: http://lftd.net/lftd017amazon

Tracklist:
01) Neonlight - Power Hour (Lifted)
>>  Jade - Lazertag (Lifted)
02) State of Mind & Percieve - Mr. Cover Up [Neonlight Remix] (Blackout Dub)
03) Phace - Shitstorm (Neosignal)
04) Black Sun Empire - Breach [The Upbeats Remix] (Blackout)
05) Black Sun Empire & Eye-D - Brainfreeze [Neonlight Remix V2] (Blackout)
06) Audio - Mudshark (V!rus)
>>  Mefjus - Dissuade (Critical)
07) Dementia & Rregula - Timeline [Optiv & BTK Remix] (Citrus Dub/Turning Point LP)
08) Loadstar - Losing You VIP (Ram)
09) State of Mind & Black Sun Empire - Unconscious (Free Blackout)
10) Misanthrop - Deadlock (Neosignal)
>>  Misanthrop - Greed of Gain (Neosignal)
11) Neonlight - Sprech Funk [Rock & Roll Edit] (Lifted)
>>  Gridlok & Prolix - Mode-M (Project Trendkill)
12) State of Mind - Bigger Faster Stronger (Blackout Dub)
13) Rockwell - Detroit (Shogun)
14) Teddy Killerz & Receptor - New Message (Free NEST)
15) Aeph - True Motion (Lifted Dub)
16) Loadstar - Eat My Tears [Rene LaVice Remix] (Ram)
17) DC Breaks - Gambino (Ram)
18) Audio - Wildfire (V!rus)
19) Phace - Electronic Frontier (Neosignal)
20) Joe Ford - Instrument (Shogun)
21) Smooth - Drone (Viper Dub)
22) Neonlight - Basso Continuo (Lifted)
23) Neonlight - Computer Music (Lifted)
24) Zardonic & Playma - KickAss [Neonlight Remix] (Big Riddim)
25) Calyx & TeeBee - Strung Out VIP (Ram)
26) Epidemic - Alloy (T3K Dub)
27) Black Sun Empire - Arrakis [Noisia Remix] (Blackout)
28) Loadstar - Need You [Frankee Remix] (Ram)
29) Friction & K-Tee - Jupiter [Mefjus Remix] (Shogun)
30) Stealth - Nightfall ft. Codebreaker (Ram)
31) Mutated Forms - Wastegash [The Upbeats Remix] (Grid)
32) Teddy Killerz - New Drums [Neonlight Remix] (Bad Taste Dub)
33) Joe Ford - Stride (Shogun)
34) Dabs - Sniper (Eatbrain Dub)
35) Disphonia - War Bunker (Eatbrain Dub)
36) Neonlight - Power Hour (Lifted)

Neonlight - Promo Mix December 2013

01. DC Breaks - Lock In
02. Axiom - The Strangers
03. Jade -Audio Hypnosis
04. NC-17 & KC - Arboria
05. Nu4M - Behind the wolves
06. AnnGree - This World
07. Dose - Like This
08. Malsum & Sinoptic - Mangrove Swamp
09. Dose - What She Wants
10. Silent Witness - Looking Up
11. Dose - Nowadays
12. Telekinesis - Atlas
13. Qo ft Nuklear MC - Killcode
14. Dark Soul - Train to Nowhere
15. Audio - Stampede
16. Jade & Mindscape ft MC Coppa - Friday the 13th
17. Maztek & Cern - Multiverse
18. Hamilton - Fire
19. Silent Code - Pyathagoras Theorum (Shookz remix)
20. Axiom - The Damage Done
21. Wilkinson ft Tom Came - Half Light (Audio remix)
22. Dose - Experience
23. Maztek - Hyper Reality
24. Chris Su ft Kryptomedic - Underground Culture
25. Optiv, BTK & Cold Fusion - Void
26. Myselor - Forest Guide
27. Unreal - Sideshow Bob
28. Agressor Bunx - The Tearz
29. Chris Su ft MC Fedora & MC Stamina - Illusion of Choice

AnnGree @ BassPort FM (June 2014)

DIESELBOY - THE DESTROYER
KILLING IT is his business, and business is BOOMING!

HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS 

Dieselboy, a man who has spent over two decades finely honing the craft of mixing music to make people’s minds explode, now brings you his latest 85 minute, 93 track DRUM AND BASS THRILL RIDE. This release is Rated R for RUGGED AS FUCK - a dense brick of heavyweight bass meant to test sound systems, spike heart rates and melt speakers. Inspired by the wildly successful BLOOD SWEAT AND BASS tour with Downlink, THE DESTROYER brings the pain with a 70s grindhouse cinema aesthetic and features the insane level of detail that Dieselboy’s mixes are known for - Big intro. Big outro. Bad ass artwork. And layers and layers and layers of sonic flavor.

This is not your standard “DJ MIX”. This is a modern CULT CLASSIC. An experience designed for repeated listens. In the car. In the gym. In your headphones while you are straight kicking ass and taking names. Created to piss off your neighbors, scare children and hurt other DJ's feelings. CRANK IT THE FUCK UP!

And brace yourself for the WHITE HOT FURY that is... THE DESTROYER

LIKE THIS PAGE >> www.facebook.com/dieselboy

Recorded at D.Cell in Brooklyn NYC. Mastered by Mike Bell at Darkart. 

UNDER SEVENTEEN NOT ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT

(note : FACES OF DEF is a new collab project between DIESELBOY and MARK THE BEAST)

also check the companion mix to THE DESTROYER by DOWNLINK - https://soundcloud.com/downlink/downlink-planetary-punishment-dj-mix

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - The Destroyer (Feature Presentation)
Ajapai - Bass Godzilla // ROTTUN [CLIP]
Koronis - Collision // UPLINK AUDIO [CLIP]
Phace + Misanthrop - Nordwand // NEOSIGNAL
Emperor - Precursor (Mefjus Remix) // CRITICAL MUSIC
Audio - Heads Up // RAM [CLIP]
Knife Party - L Rad (The Prototypes Bootleg) // DUB
DJ Fresh Vs Jay Jay feat Ms Dynamite - Dibby Dibby Sound // MINISTRY OF SOUND [CLIP]
Hive - Neo (Audio’s Let It Roll Edit) // RAM
Optiv + BTK - Ground Shaker feat Nuklear MC // VIRUS [CLIP]
Mikal - Killa Soundboy // METALHEADZ
Misanthrop - Deadlock // NEOSIGNAL
Misanthrop - Catch 22 // NEOSIGNAL
Counterstrike - Rotterdam Sangomas VIP // PRSPCT
Frankee - Gully // RAM
Ulterior Motive - MIR // METALHEADZ
Camo + Krooked - Armageddon // HOSPITAL
Delta Heavy - Apollo // RAM
Spor - Kingdom // LIFTED
I Am Legion - Make Those Move (Teddy Killerz Remix) // DIVISION
Mefjus - Dissuade // CRITICAL MUSIC
Neosignal - Sequenz (Mefjus Remix) // DIVISION
Noisia - Oh Oh // VISION
Prolix + Mob Tactics - Transmission // TRENDKILL
Enei - Mosquito // CRITICAL MUSIC
D Minds - Blacker feat Strikez // D STYLE
Rockwell - Detroit // SHOGUN
Rockwell - 1 2 3 4 // SHOGUN
Mercedes - Full Tilt (Ulterior Motive Remix) // ASHLEY WESTLAKE
Subfocus - Druggy // RAM
June Miller - Empathy // RAM
The Prototypes - Pale Blue Dot // VIPER
Phace - The Set Up // CRITICAL MUSIC
State Of Mind + Chris SU - Above Earth // FATE
Enei - The Artefact // CRITICAL
TC - Into The Jungle // DONT PLAY
Maldini - Amazon // C4C RECORDINGS
Concept Vision + Sigment - Meteor // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Black Sun Empire - Don’t You (State Of Mind Remix) // BLACKOUT MUSIC
DC Breaks - Proton // RAM
Neonlight - Heavy Bettie // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Chris Lake feat Jareth - Helium (Rene Lavice Remix) // ULTRA
Rawtekk - Photone Recruits (Phace Remix) // HOSPITAL
Noisia - Stamp Out // VISION
Phace - Shitstorm // NEOSIGNAL
Jubei + SP:MC - State Of The Art // METALHEADZ [CLIP]
Noisia - Running Blind // VISION
Current Value + Nanotek - Code Of Chaos // PRSPCT
State Of Mind - No-Operative // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Lynx - Take Back The Night feat Newsome // RAM
NC-17 + Soulculture - The War Master VIP // VIPER
Culture Shock - Ohrwurm // RAM
Break - Love So True // SYMMETRY
TC - Vegas - DONT PLAY
Original Sin + Koo - Running Man // PLAYAZ
Cue - Rainbow Dub (Sub Zero Remix) // MOTION SENSOR
Funtcase - Out For Da Milli (Annix Remix) // CIRCUS
Noisia + Prolix - Asteroids // VISION
Critical Impact - The Illa feat Jakes // CLEAR SKYZ
Silent Witness + Break + Prolix - Haunted Stars // TRIPLE SEED
Wilkinson feat Becky Hill - Afterglow // RAM
Phace + Misanthrop - Sex Sells // NEOSIGNAL
Dimension - Pathogen // CYANTIFIC
S.P.Y. - Brooklyn Dub // HOSPITAL
Delta Heavy - The World Is Yours // RAM
Original Sin - Screamers // PLAYAZ
Rockwell - Back Again // SHOGUN
Gridlok + Prolix - Metalbrane // DUB
Emperor + Mefjus - Void Man Void // CRITICAL MUSIC
Black Sun Empire - The Rat (Gridlok Remix) // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Limewax - Arch Noisyum // PRSPCT
Loadstar - Eat My Tears (Rene Lavice Remix) // RAM
Mikal - Strictly Rockers // METALHEADZ
Dementia + Rregula + Disphonia - Doom Loop (Mefjus Remix) // CITRUS
State Of Mind - Fast Life // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Koncept - Breathe In // VIPER
Rise At Night - The Monumental feat Nikita Esco (Mediks Remix) // FIREPOWER
Ill Skillz + D Kay - Codename Zero // SMOG
Faces Of Def + Counterstrike - Blvck Celebration // SUBHUMAN
Gridlok + Prolix - Revenge // PROJECT TRENDKILL
Audio - Airbourne // VIRUS
Audio - Botfly // VIRUS
Hybris - Garbage Truck (Misanthrop Remix) // INVISIBLE
Teddy Killerz + Nphonix - Burnin // BAD TASTE
State Of Mind + Nymfo - Put It On // BLACKOUT MUSIC
Prolix + Misanthrop - Transcendent // TRENDKILL
Fred V + Grafix - Purple Gates // HOSPITAL
Sinister Souls - Tuh Tuh Duh (Faces Of Def Remix) // PRSPCT
Enei - Get Low // CRITICAL MUSIC [CLIP]
Gridlok + Dieselboy - MDMX // PROJECT 51
QO feat Nuklear MC - Killcode // EATBRAIN
Mayhem + Downlink + Faces Of Def - Carcosa // SUBHUMAN
Dieselboy - Blow This Motherfucker To Kingdom Come (End Credits)

The Destroyer



The 38th edition of the Blackout Podcast (formerly known as Black Sun Empire Podcast)

Mixed by Current Value
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Blackout Podcast 38 - Mixed By Current Value

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

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

GNARFFIELD

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

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

My fourth and final CD for Moonshine. Continuing the theme of titles beginning with "F" it was released in 2002. :)



TRACKLIST

DJ SS - Curtains	
Dom & Keaton - Twisted City	
Agent Babylon - Desert Planet (DJ Ecco & Sabotage Remix)	
Randall & A-Sides - Turn It Loose	
JB - Vizion	
Universal Project - Streetlife	
Universal Project - Jackhammer
Sonic - Even When It Rains (Super Disco Mix)	
DJ Ink - Mirage	
Asend & Ultravibe - What Kind Of World (Hazard Remix)	
Rascal & Klone - Galactic Jam	
Total Science - Squash	
Specimen A - Armed And Dangerous (Dylan Remix)	
Moving Fusion - Thunderball	
John B. - Five Times In One Night	
High Contrast - Global Love	



DJ Dara - Further

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

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

This label is for our more dubstep orientated beats. Make sure to check out our new album due in Nov 2010

black sun empire - hypersun

Drum n Bass, Techno, HipHop, Soul, Funk all in the mix!

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System Upgrade

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