DDR Shows

Variant Sound 12th January 2019

Variant Sound feat. Baliboc from Club Comfort!
Originally meant to be just us mixing for the first hour and then Baliboc taking over the second, a technical issue made it so that it was an all out b2b2b (b3b?) session in the second hour. Mad fun as expected!

Variant Sound w/Baliboc 9th February 2019

Our 3rd show with the the cousin of Nihilist and son of a gun, the one 'n' only DJ Biblical Plague! He was also known as DJ Lipsetti, bfalcon9000 and probably some other cool names that we're unaware of, but the main thing is that he's on this mix in the second half of the show doing his thing with the vinyls and it's lovely.

Variant Sound Mix w/DJ Biblical Plague 9th March 2019

Our fifth mix as Variant Sound on DDR, on May the 4th, no Star Wars tracks to be heard on this mix though. Perhaps a random droid on Coruscant tuned in? Maybe. We'll just say one did. Or two. Or fifteen, maybe they had a droid party while listening to us mixing. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just say that happened.

Anyway, it's just the 2 BoYz on this mix, with one hour of b2b footwork in the second hour. Enjoy!

Variant Sound 4th May 2019

Our sixth Variant Sound show on DDR, this time with special guest Rob Ickis Mirolo!

Rob was indeed a very special guest as he treated us to a psych-rock set, a set that is quite distant from the usual sounds we play on our show. We loved every minute of it.

Also, fun fact, there were some technical difficulties with playing USB's for Rob(i.e., we didn't have a linking ethernet cable for the two decks), so our work-around was to have one deck using Rob's USB, while the other was hooked up to Rob's phone playing tunes off Spotify. It went surprisingly smooth!

Anyway, hope you enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound w/Rob Ickis Mirolo 1st June 2019

This time, WE were the guests!

Our guest mix on @donrosco 's show "Burn 'Em All", which is nothing but 160 the whole way through.

First 20 minutes is the main man himself with ourselves coming on after that, then a 3 way b2b for the last 30 mins. One of our favourite mixes that we did!

Burn 'Em All w/Variant Crew 27th July 2019

Our mix with the one and only @roohoneychild!

Plenty of breaks and Jersey club in the mix from Roo's end, with a 3-way b2b for the last 45 minutes.

(Also, this was the evening before Roo and DJ Egg played in the Sound House later that night, back when actual gigs actually existed. Nice li'kl promo for it over the mic at around 1hr 28m in the mix.)

Variant Sound w/Roo Honeychild 24th August 2019

That time when Falx was MIA and was reported to be on a remote Greek island hunting down inflatable flamingoes for unknown reasons. In place of him, @Baliboc stepped in as he was deemed closest in resemblance to Falx, mainly when it came to his natural scent.

So for the whole two hours, it's relentless tune4tune b2b between Nihilist and Baliboc!

Variant Sound (sans Falx) w/Baliboc 21st September 2019

Our mix with Dublin's drum 'n' bass dad Executive Steve!

We were very proud to be able to bring such a great figure in the Dublin D'n'B scene onto our show. As expected, the Executive's half of the mix is a needle-sharp delivery of 170 BPM grooves. Could it have been anything less? (Answer: No, not at all)

Also, I think this is the first mix that features our li'l Speak 'n' Spell intro.

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Variant Sound w/Executive Steve 19th October 2019

The second Variant Sound mix where Falx was off galavanting somewhere, possibly embarking on an epic in order to obtain a spoonful of sacred mustard, and so his spot was filled in by none other than everyone's favourite cuteboi @baliboc. 

At this point, B. Boc may as well be regarded as the third member of Variant Crew. He's like the special guest that gets a shout out in the credits at the start of the sitcom for the episodes he stars in, and the crowd always goes "WOOO!" when he enters.

Anyway, t'is another b2b mix between Bboc and Nihilist. Some say Falx was telepathically mixing from afar, however, this rumour was actually spread by Falx himself after he had some of the sacred mustard, and scientists are still unsure of its contents. So that claim is still very much so up for debate.

Enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound (sans Falx) w/Baliboc 16th November 2019

It's the Variant Sound mix with Sias!

This was a very special one to us as we're big fans of Sias' productions. Also, our first mix on DDR was Repeater Radio, which took place in December 2018, so it was only fitting that we got a member of the Repeater crew onto our show for this month!

Also please forgive us, we know it's the month of the Yuletide cheer, but we forgot to add a 2 hour version of sleigh_bell3.wav over the whole mix. Please don't tell Santa, and Santa, if you're reading this ('cos I know you listen to the odd mix on DDR), please forgive us. If you mix, we'll have you as a guest on our show sometime. Maybe during the summer when things aren't so rushed for you. No worries if not.

Anyway, enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound w/Sias 14th December 2019

Variant Sound's 1st Birthday Mix!

Still hard to believe that we've been doing this for a year, nevermind the near two years it is at the time of writing this. This mix is just us boiz, no guest, so just pure Variant b2b stuff. Listening back to the mix, there are a few mentions of us having been out the night before, and I think even if we didn't outright mention that fact, it would still be very evident otherwise. Whoops.

To be fair, this was the month of our first birthday, us playing in Jigsaw for the first time, AND Falx's actual real-life birthday.

Also please enjoy the accompanying pic of myself and Niall enjoying a night at Jigsaw. A very sweaty one at that.

Enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound 1st Birthday Mix 11th January 2020

Variant Crew X Iron Crew, 2 crews 2gether in the 1 studio mixing 2nes. What WILL happen? (Answer: A mix, obviously.)

This was the first time we mixed with a collective on our show, and it was great craic mixin' with da boiz Fraq 'n' YuteReach. This was also our first time in the new DDR studio (for all four of us, not a seasoned studio goer among us), so there are one or two hiccups in the mix. I just never added any "ba dum tsh" noises over them or anything so apologies for that more so than the actual hiccups themselves.

Anyway, enjoy!

Variant Sound w/Iron Crew (Fraq & YuteReach) 8th February 2020

The mix that added the highest amounts of paprika to our catalogue of mixes, t'is the mix with SoHotSoSpicy!

Jersey club, footwork and genres in and around those tempos dominate this mix, so enjoy!

Also (not so) fun fact, this is our last mix in the studio before Covid hit.

Anyway, enjoy!

Variant Sound w/SoHotSoSpicy 7th March 2020

The first Variant Sound mix that's recorded straight from the VC HQ!

Obviously, because of Covid, we've been restricted to our gaff (luckily we live together), so all of our quarantine mixes are recorded from home.

However this ALSO means that we get introduced to the sweet finishing touches of the Pioneer XDJ-RR. Oh boy. The rest of the quarantine mixes are recorded on this sweet piece of device, along with that sweet, SWEET compression (sorry DDR studio, no hard feelings).

Anyway, hope you enjoy a straight up "Just2Boiz" Variant mix!

Also, the image is actually a pic of us in our gaffs taking the restrictions very seriously.

Variant Sound w/COVID-19 5th April 2020

Our 2nd quarantine, and as the title suggest, it's just ourselves again. Had to keep in line with the ol' Covid restrictions 'n' all that.

BUT that doesn't mean it's any less of a mix compared to our previous mixes. Not at all. Still got that strong Variant energy, whatever that energy may be. Some say it is "turbo", some say "very cool, thank you boiz", some say "hi dinner will be at 7 hope to see u then x".

As always; enjoy!

Variant Sound w/No-One Else, It's Just Variant Crew Again 2nd May 2020

Third quarantine mix, by us boiz, once again. Running out of things to say about these mixes in particular, not gonna lie.

Let's see, what can we say. It's a mix. Recorded by us. In our home. Unfortunate that these mixes did not contribute to the eradication of Covid, which was contrary to what both ourselves and Pfizer believed initially. However, our mixes have proven to not accentuate symptoms of Covid-19, so, in a way, it's good against the virus. In a way.

Anyway, enjoy!

Variant Sound w/These Strange & Unsettling Times 30th May 2020

The restrictions may have lightened enough to allow groups of five people to be able to congregate indoors, but the vibes certainly did not follow suit... by which I mean the vibes stayed heavy. As in good heavy. As in heavy music. Hefty vibes 'n' all that. Ya get the point.

ANYWAY, this show features one of our favourite guests and mixers, Guerillaman, AKA Erlyfly. 45 mins of us at the start, then 45 mins G-Man, then 30 mins b3b at the end. You know exactly the sorta vibes to expect (heavy ones of course, as mentioned earlier).

Enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound w/Guerillaman 26th July 2020

Yet another mix where we were guestless thanks to a certain virus that has been causing a bit of a kerfuffle worldwide, not too sure if you've heard of it, Coven or something? Coven 18? Something like that.

Anyway, usual Variant business in this mix, except THIS time, our accompanying image is in Japanese (literally just translates to "Variant"). How cool. Reason for that is 'cos we had watched Wicked City around the time of doing the mix (the background is a still from the credits scene), so we thought "Why the hell not".

Enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound w/Ourselves 22nd August 2020

Ah yes. The mix with Lumigraph. A mix we had been wanting to do for quite some time. We wanted to get him for our December 2018 mix since it was he that invited us on to mix on Repeater Radio on DDR in December 2018, alas, we were unable to get him. No sleight against Sias, loved doing that mix as well! Fast forward 8 months and we were finally able to nab The 'Graph (or just Gareth, whatever ya wanna call him).

Anyway, expect some seriously cool beats from Lumigraph's end. His mix starts 45 mins into the set, followed by a 30 min b3b. Enjoy!

Variant Sound w/Lumigraph 19th September 2020

Selectors @FalxVariant and @NihilistVariant based in Dublin, Ireland.

Monthly radio show Variant Sound @DublinDigitalRadio

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