She is whispering in your ear some voodoo sh*t, a journey to some other place, hold onto your hat!!

Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Alien Girl (Prototype 1998)

My first ever remix in collaboration with MJ Cole for Intense. 1993, Drum & Bass was not even coined yet and I didn't even have an artist name! Jungle vibes were just becoming big in that year.

Babylon Timewarp - Durban Poison (Little Mats Remix) 1993

stargaze shelter spring / summer song
「オプティカル」
色を帯びた光への讃歌。

the anthem for colored glare
stargaze shelter spring / summer song
"optical"


アイボリーの光とレンズの瞳が捉えた、
ヴェイルで包んだフィルター。

アイビーが伝う；緑の線が彩度を取り戻して、
凍てついた昨日の

シルエット、
ゆらいだ濃度を確かめるような青。

響いた、雪解けのデシベル。
光源は透明に鳴いた！

日々は、うららかだった。
融点の閾値の針が震えた。


「アイボリーがアイボリー色を思い出せば、解けた合図です。」
(……きらめいていた。)

反射した光を読み解いた細胞のざわめき、リフレイン。
拡がるファイバーの鼓動。

響いた、倍音の向こうのヘルツ。
熱源は透明に凪いだ！

木々は、穏やかだった。
木漏れ日の黄金比を。


駆け出した止めどない春色は、
凍てついた、この氷を散らかしてゆく。

遠い目がほどけては光を帯びて、
ほの暗さに包まれた明日を照らしてゆく。

息吹が、色とりどりの顔を出して、
そっと微笑みをプレゼント。写真機で収めた。

オプティカル

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

Ed Rush & Optical Essential Mix 07-02-99

Live recording of Ed Rush and Optical DJ set from Let-It-Roll Festival, Prague 2014.

Ed Rush & Optical @ Let It Roll 2014 (01.08.2014)

My entry into the https://soundcloud.com/liquicityrecords 2025 DJ competition. Enjoy!

A mix based on the book War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978) [Remastered 2012]. 

This is a remade, shortened version of this 1.15 hour mix here: https://soundcloud.com/zabathefrog/waroftheworlds

Track list:
The Eve of the War (Hybrid Fire in the Sky Mix) - Jeff Wayne/Hybrid
Space Time (VIP) [Zaba the Frog Edit] - Delta Heavy
Vybez [Zaba the Frog Edit] - Tantrum Desire
Stoppit [Zaba the Frog Edit] - Spor
Return to Jedda (VIP) - Aphrodite
X-Ray - Sub Focus
Acid Test - Sub Focus
Eternity - Ed Rush/Optical
Chubrub - Ed Rush/Optical
T-1000 - Metrik
The Spirit of Man (Max Mondo) - Jeff Wayne
Space Monkey - Ed Rush/Optical
Laserbeam (AEON:MODE Remix) - Ray Volpe/Blanke/AEON:MODE
Laserbeam (Eliminate Remix) [Zaba the Frog Edit] - Ray Volpe/Eliminate
Talking to God [Zaba the Frog Edit] - NERO
Artificial Evolution [Zaba the Frog Edit] - Malsum
Epilogue, Pt. 2 (NASA) - Jeff Wayne/Jerry Wayne/Lewis MacLeod

Audio footage used from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978) [Remastered 2012]. Samples used from Splice and the official soundtrack.

Name: Zaba The Frog – Liquicity Festival 2025 – DJ Contest

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[08.04.2007]

01 Turntable Terranova – Precipice (DJ Krust Remix) – Compost
02 Laibach – God Is God (Optical Instrumental Mix) – Mute
03 Ed Rush – Killamanjaro – Prototype
04 DJ Krust – The Last Day – Full Cycle
05 Matrix – Double Vision – Metro
06 Optical – Zoner – Virus
07 Nicolette – Beautiful Day (Studio Drum Mix) – Talkin’ Loud
08 Matrix – The Message 96 – New Identity
09 Optical – Cut Throat Flow – Bear Necessities
10 DJ Krust – Soul In Motion – Full Cycle
11 Bliss ‘N’ Tumble – Lethal But Steady (Optical Reshape) – Addictive
12 Matrix – Fluid Motion – New Identity
13 DJ Krust – Future Unknown – Talkin’ Loud
14 Optical – Can U? – Virus
15 Towa Tei – GBI (German Bold Italic) (DJ Krust Rekut) – Arthrob
16 Optical – To Shape The Future (Remix) – Metalheadz
17 Adam F – Music In My Mind (DJ Krust Inside Out Mix) – F-Jams
18 Ed Rush & Optical – Syringe – Virus – The Creeps CD
19 Ed Rush & Optical – Medicine – Virus
20 Roni Size – Watching Windows (Ed Rush & Optical Rmx) – Talkin Loud
21 Jonny L – Moving Thru Air (Optical Remix) – XL
22 Matrix – Crossfire – Ad Hoc
23 Carlito – Spirit – Moving Shadow -Trans-Central Connection II
24 Foul Play – Synthetic Bitch (Omni Trio Remix) – Partisan – Partisan Volume 1 (Album Sampler)
25 Spinback & Q Project – Telemetry – Moving Shadow -Trans-Central Connection II
26 DJ Addiction – Tempo – Moving Shadow -Trans-Central Connection II
27 ??? 1.52.01
28 ??? 1.55.23

DJextreme – Ed Rush, Optical, Matrix & Krust Special [Jungletrain Mix EXT053]

Dutty Audio presents REWORKS, a new project bringing back some of BTK's most important tracks in updated and refreshed forms.

And now we come to part 3, four of the biggest and most dangerous remixes you’ve heard. A great collection from a great artist, BTK’s tracks has yielded classics of many types, with the remixes bringing new flavours to the tracks which’ll last far into the future!

BTK - Be Yourself (Klute Remix)
BTK & Cold Fusion - Not Your Idol (Current Value Remix)
Optical & BTK - Infection (Hanzo & Randie Remix)
Optiv & BTK - Inception (Gydra Remix)

Release date: August 19th 2016

REWORKS Part Three

Optiv & BTK - Inception (Gydra Remix)

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The Brazilian Job

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531 - DJ Marky - The Brazilian Job (2001)

welcome to the swamp

grab a saxophone

feel the bass

have a boogie

DJ/Producer from London.
Co-owner of Virus Recordings & head henchman of Piranha Pool Recordings.
One half of Killbox. Bookings : mark@esp-agency.com 
USA/Canada : saleem@amodeagency.com

An artist synonymous with Drum and Bass, Ed Rush has become a byword for cutting edge, forward thinking
beats. Moving through the sounds of hip hop and electro in his early musical years, Ed Rush soon became
interested in the emerging London jungle scene.
Showing his innate ability to manipulate chopped breakbeats and piles of sub-low bass, it wasn't long before Ed
Rush and Nico dropped the huge 'Bludclot Artattack'. The first classic to Ed Rush’s name, this proved to be a
platform for another collaboration with DJ Trace. Simultaneously developing his own style whilst pushing the
boundaries of a genre, classics such as ‘The Mutant' and 'Guncheck' put Ed Rush’s attitude injected productions
firmly on the map.
One of the pioneers of new sound dubbed Techstep, Ed Rush soon teamed up within another leading light,
Optical; to form what would become one of the most progressive production teams in the scene. In 1998, Ed
Rush & Optical released an album universally recognized as changing the landscape of Drum and Bass forever
with the legendary, ‘Wormhole’ on Virus Recordings. Still regarded as one of the main catalysts for the Neuro and
Techstep sound, ‘Wormhole’ paved the way for household names such as Noisia, Bad Company and many more.
Since then Ed Rush has released a plethora of genre-defining tracks and albums, both solo and with his partner in
crime, Optical. Still busy at work on a new Ed Rush & Optical LP due in late 2013, Ed Rush is not merely content
with helping shape the scene and remaining one of its most consistent producers. Beginning his own venture, he
now looks to the future with the birth of Piranha Pool. An outlet for showcasing new talent and veterans alike,
Piranha Pool represents what will be the future of Drum and Bass.

Optical is owner of Virus Recordings, Music Producer and DJ from England.
Bookings: UK/ROW: mark@esp-agency.com
USA: saleem@amodeagency.com

This page is dedicated to my sons: Aidan and Solomon, they are the inspiration for everything I do in life now.

"He is best known for his work with Ed Rush, fellow head of the Virus Recordings label, and as a pioneer of the techstep and neurofunk sound. His first single for Metalheadz, 'To Shape the Future'/'Raging Calm' (1997) and his collaborative material with Ed Rush, such as the Wormhole, album (1998) were archetypal developments in the style. The duo followed this debut album with The Creeps (2000) and The Original Doctor Shade (2003), as well as countless singles and remixes. More recently, the duo have returned to form with their (2009) LP 'Travel The Galaxy' containing the modern classic 'Chubrub' and 'No Cure' LP in 2015."

"He also notably did all of the engineering and production work for Grooverider's album Mysteries of Funk, and work on Goldie's 'Saturns Return' LP. In addition, he has produced solo for many labels including Virus, Metalheadz, Prototype, 31 Records, Metro and released in collaboration with many artists, including Ed Rush, Trace, Dom and Roland, Fierce, and his brother Matrix. The first Optical release was in 1996."

"Matt Quinn's savage dance floor productions as Optical (for, among many others, Groove's own label Prototype) have earned him a place in drum'n'bass's premier division.”

"Optical's pure, unchallenged talent shines through on his solo tunes, showcasing an artist well ahead of his time. No doubt the modern sounds of the likes of D-Bridge, Instra:mental and the rest of the minimalist dark revival heads, draw heavy influence not only from Optical himself, but from his inspirations in Jazz, such as Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. His ability to blend Jazz, Funk and futuristic, technical soundscapes is masterful. From his early work on Metalheadz and Prototype Recordings to his collaborative work on Virus Recordings and the classic Mysteries of Funk (Grooverider's landmark LP), Optical can perhaps qualify as one of the most underrated musicians of the modern era. His mind has crafted sounds which were never before heard, moods which were completely original, and his vision of the future, although ultimately dark and disjointed, is beautifully vivid and addictive. Its a world he pulls you into with each and every track and only a handful of artists can begin to dream of being this successful in their work."

Virus Recordings has become a DnB scene favourite and continues to release the ultimate in DnB vibes, with artists like C4C, Audio, Optiv & BTK, The Upbeats, Noisia, Gridlok, Ram Trilogy, Matrix, Rymetyme, Sonic & Silver, Pendulum, Mefjus,  InsideInfo

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Hey, Gareth here, I'm a graphic designer who start designing for clubs, parties, and labels in the late 90s. Back then, mix CDs were the holy grail of both design and music. I loved them.

But I wasn't the only one, mix cds were the soundtracks of our nights, our days, our afterparties and lives, for everyone. Yet in today's internet age, the art form has been lost (or just changed) to 2-3 hour online mixes and streaming videos, which just don't create the same magic your CD collection did. Just 60 minutes of music and incredible artwork.

The Classic Mix CD Series celebrates these discs, their soundtrack, their box art and your memories. We hope you enjoy it.

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