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Neck - Modulator (1999)

Hello and welcome to episode 304 of The Stress Factor Drum & Bass Podcast. We have Ste-J back with a 90 minute studio mix for June of 2023 with loads of great tunes to get The Summer Season started off right! Loads of the usual Ste-J style inside for those of you who have been waiting 6 months for a new show since his last one, number 300. We hope to see Ste-J back for another wicked show ASAP. 

Artists and labels included in this episode are: Calibre, Signature Recordings, LSB, Footnotes, SPMC, Carbon Music, BASSHUNTERZ, Holographic Audio, Formula, CruCast, Klinical, Critical Music, Dom and Roland, Over Shadow, Quartz, Metalheadz, Seba, Secret Operations, Loomis, Ink, Kaybee, Nova, Architecture Recordings, Neve, Thirtyone Recordings, Black Barrel, Zero T, Dispatch Recordings, OB, Precinct, Scar, Phase, Particle, Skeptical, DNB Arena, Rockwell, Obsolete Medium, DLR, Nicky Blackmarket, Liondub, Navigator, Critical Impact, Liondub International, DRS, Tyler Daley. 

Tracklist
01. Calibre - Breather [Signature Recordings]
02. LSB - Find A Way [Footnotes]
03. Calibre - No Sense [Signature Recordings]
04. SPMC - No Escape [Carbon Music]
05. BASSHUNTERZ - Deep Hollers [Holographic Audio]
06. Formula - Vindicator [CruCast]
07. Klinical - Forbidden [Critical Music]
08. Dom and Roland - Dutty Drum [Over/Shadow]
09. Quartz - Blacklist [Metalheadz]
10. Seba - Are We Dreaming? [Secret Operations]
11. Loomis and Ink ft. Kaybee - Resolution (Nova Mix) [Architecture Recordings]
12. Neve - Heartless [Thirtyone Recordings]
13. Black Barrel and Zero T - Deep Inside [Dispatch Recordings]
14. OB - Say Your Name [Precinct]
15. Scar - Losing Your Mind [Metalheadz]
16. Phase - I need A [Metalheadz]
17. Particle - Fall 2 Fast (Skeptical Remix) [DNB Arena]
18. Rockwell - Rocognise [Obsolete Medium]
19. Black Barrel - Fabric (DLR Remix) [Dispatch Recordings]
20. Nicky Blackmarket and Liondub - Lifestyle ft. Navigator (Critical Impact Remix) [Liondub International]
21. DRS, Tyler Daley and Calibre - I Remember [Footnotes]
22. Seba - Interstellar [Secret Operations]

Stress Factor Podcast 304 - Ste-J - June 2023 Drum & Bass Studio Mix

For my final mix of 2023, here's a special present from me to you - my tribute to my favorite artist of the last decade ... @omunit! I recorded this mix in literally our last night in our old flat in Wilmersdorf before we moved out after ten years - it seemed like a nice bit of synchronicity to record this specific tribute as a final farewell to our home of so many years.

Om Unit (aka Jim Coles to his mom) has been probably my favorite electronic music producer of the last ten years I love how he integrates his distinctively synth-heavy, melodic, bass-forward sound into all kinds of musical frameworks. He's done everything from 110 bpm (and slower) dub / downtempo beats to 140 bpm breaks and dubstep and then all the way up to 160 bpm footwork and 170 bpm jungle and drum n' bass. What's really cool about his work is that even though he works at different tempos and in quote-unquote different genres, his music always sounds like him. In this day and age, it's hard to find artists with a clear and distinctive sound, and he really has that. I love that he doesn't compromise his musical vision, that he bends the genres to his sound, instead of the other way around. 

This mix is focused more on his faster stuff, and I've tried hard to pay appropriate homage ... enjoy!

Read more about the mix here: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2023/12/pearsall-presents-one-last-night-an-om-unit-tribute-mix/

Recorded in Berlin, August 2023
100% Vinyl
(58:23, 134 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. Blocks & Escher - Broken (Om Unit Remix) [Narratives]
02. Om Unit - Runes [Om Unit]
03. Digital & Spirit & Om Unit - Skull [Function]
04. Pawn & Calculon - Larchmont (Om Unit Remix) [Shoot]
05. Kid Drama - Grind feat. Om Unit [Exit]
06. Om Unit - Righteousness [Om Unit]
07. Om Unit - Rubberneck [Om Unit]
08. Om Unit - Ulysses (The Unreleased VIP) [Om Unit]
09. J:Kenzo - Ruffhouse (Om Unit Remix) [Tempa]
10. Machinedrum - Gunshotta (Om Unit's Rollers VIP) [Ninja Tune]
11. Om Unit - Underground Cinema (feat Krust) [Cosmic Bridge]
12. Seba - External Reality (Om Unit Remix) [Secret Operations]
13. Philip D Kick - Hyperspanner [Astrophonica]
14. Philip D Kick - Bleach [Astrophonica]
15. Dream Continuum - Set It [Planet Mu]
16. Host - Survive (Om Unit Remix) [Hoover Sound]
17. Om Unit & Sam Binga - Transatlantic [Bunit]
18. Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing (Om Unit VIP) [31 Recordings]
19. Om Unit - The War (feat. Jehst) [Metalheadz]
20. Om Unit - Timelines [Metalheadz]
21. Mahakala - Tomahawk [Om Unit]
22. Mahakala - Tomahawk VIP [Om Unit]
23. Om Unit - Joyspark [Om Unit]

www.sonicrampage.org/blog

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One Last Night: An Om Unit Tribute Mix

A mix I did a while ago of some tunes that define y2k futurism for me, tunes with detailed trippy drum patterns and lush otherworldly pads that could've come from the year 4000. This sound was pioneered by artists like Pariah and Future Engineers, and made waves on labels like Partisan and 720 degrees into the early 2000s, but eventually faded away into obscurity. Nonetheless sit back and reminisce at a future that never was. 
Tracklist:
1. Free4orm - Space
2. Eat Static - Hybrid (PFM Remix)
3. Justice - Polaris
4. Pariah - Sub Zero
5. Pariah - Censure
6. Future Engineers - Shattered
7. PHD - Cyber Genetics
8. Tertius & Deep Blue - Affirmative
9. Q Project & Spinback - LED (V.I.P. Mix)
10. Tertius & Professor Smalls - Wolf
11. In Deep - Electro Solution
12. Forme - Moonraker
13. Pariah - Living Cell
14. Twisted Anger - Exquisite
15. Pariah - For Real
16. Parallax - ...Evolves Through Different Stages
17. Aural Imbalance - Aural Soundscapes (Blame Rework)
18. PHD - Beneath The Surface

Y2K Visions - Late 90s Atmospheric Drum n Bass Mix

American in Berlin! I've been a dj since 1997, playing across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the variety of mixes. I love it all! 

Want recommendations? Drop me a DM and I'll hook you up. 

I sometimes play at Berlin clubs, but mostly I am a hardcore vinyl collector and bedroom mixer. Check out my blog at www.sonicrampage.org/blog

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