In October of 2021 I was given the opportunity to craft a 30 minute mix for Rene LaVice's pivotal drum and bass mix show on the UK's legendary BBC Radio 1. Somewhat unlike my other mixes I decided to take this one in a deep future funk direction with much less emphasis on dancefloor tunes. The final product was hopefully something that sounded good on the radio and also appealed to a wide variety of forward thinking listeners. 

It's a quick one for sure...and I hope you enjoy!

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 

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TRACKLIST

Dan Structure - Accellerator
The Caracal Project + Skylark - Run
Night Shift - Move Me
SLANDER + Kompany - Broken (Mefjus Remix)
Teddy Killerz - Interference
The Upbeats - Not Forever
The Upbeats - Realm
Nuvertal - Skarabei Room
The Caracal Project + Skylark - Quick Of Breath feat LaMeduza
Levela - Barnacles
DLR + Submotive - Blipped On The Head
Dunk - Sex Beat
Klinical - Over
SL8R - No Fuss (Kiril Remix)
Nuvertal - Presage
Klinical + Waeys - Framed
Alex SLK - Bombaclot
Lavance + Skepticz + Klinical - Crush
Mefjus + Camo + Krooked - Sientelo
Phace + Kemal - Mode 101
Enei - Sinking VIP
The Sauce - Ultrasonic
Future Cut - 2021 (DLR Remix)
DKN - The Peak
Agressor Bunx - The Offering VIP
ChaseR - Vanishing Point
Breakage - Valhalla
Machinedrum + Holly - Goji
Voltage - Congo Bongo
Rohaan - Laser
Parallel - Warped Entity
Apashe - Distance (feat Geoffroy) (Buunshin Remix)
Apashe - Distance (feat Geoffroy) (KOAN Sound Remix)

Drum & Bass Show with Rene LaVice Guest Mix // 10.11.21

Proton Kid - DARKSTEP | IMPLANTANT Podcast #107

▶ TRACKLIST:
01. Proton Kid - The Turning
02. Proton Kid feat. Hostile MC - Vampire
03. Proton Kid - Compulsion
04. Proton Kid - Goldilocks
05. Proton Kid - Darkside
06. Dextems - Boer
07. Dyslexia - Call Of The Ancient
08. Proton Kid - Neverending
09. Dyslexia - Oruzhie (feat. Abstractonia & Beterror)
10. Proton Kid - Ultimech Part1
11. Dextems - Monovalent
12. Proton Kid - Floaters
13. Blast - Sleepwalkers
14. Proton Kid - Evolve Or Die
15. Blast & Proton Kid - Aversion Therapy
16. Proton Kid - The Thick Of It
17. Dextems - Platomity
18. Proton Kid - Axial
19. Disphonia - Snapshot
20. Teddy Killerz - Tek No
21. Proton Kid - Boundaries
22. Proton Kid - Whistleblowers
23. Proton Kid - Space Debris
24. Proton Kid - Saved By The Bleeps
25. Current Value - Permafrost
26. Savage & Section 63 - I Hope You Like Acid
27. Proton Kid - Dark Drive 2020
28. Blast, Crawler & Tenebris - Sadists
29. Implant & Identity - Hell Of Techno
30. Dean Rodell - Ruin In The Dark
31. Carbone - Incoming (Katharsys Remix)
32. Proton Kid - Extremely Dangerous
33. Proton Kid - Xyborg
34. Proton Kid & Infamous - Amazing Machine
35. Sinister Souls & Proton Kid - Danger Time
36. Merikan - Black Antilope
37. Proton Kid - Scare
38. The Carnage Corps & Proton Kid - World Ends
39. The Carnage Corps & Proton Kid - Fire & Ice

Proton Kid (RO)
Links:
SC: soundcloud.com/proton_kid_law

PROTON KID - DARKSTEP  IMPLANTANT Podcast #107

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To celebrate the recent release of their new LP 'Snare Shower' Donny & Katharsys have put together this mix of their favorite snare heavy tunes from the last few years for your listening pleasure :)

Tracklisting:
Donny & Katharsys - Symptomless Bitch
>> Pythius - Arrival (Gydra Remix)
Teddy Killerz - Ego
Donny & Katharsys - Killer
Sinister Souls - Unleash The Beast (Counterstrike Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - Kronos
Burr Oak - Dryads
Donny & Katharsys - Reality
AMC - Nitro (Teddy Killerz Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - Nothing
Sinister Souls & Pythius - Ultimatum (Merikan Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - Inner Evil
Gyrofield - Gutenberg
Donny & Katharsys - Amputated 2024
>> Donny, Katharsys & Counterstrike - 3 Day Binge
Joe Ford - Unforgiven (feat KNARS)
Donny & Katharsys - Blackhole
Pythius & Black Sun Empire - Doctrine
Donny & Katharsys - Dog Eat Dog
Redpill - Shake It (Merikan Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - The One
>> 3RDKND - Cognitive (Katharsys VIP)
Limewax - Agent Orange (Pythius Remix)
Katharsys - Slippery Slope (Donny Remix)
Finalfix - Hypocrites (Joe Ford remix)
Donny & Katharsys - Devil Is Back
Noisia - Stigma (Billain Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - Order
Finalfix & Neolyth - Cerberus
Donny & Katharsys - Genesis
Task Horizon - Disintegrate (Burr Oak Remix)
Donny & Katharsys - The Question
June Miller & Mefjus - Saus
Donny & Katharsys - Timeline
Redpill Black Sun Empire  Virus Syndicate - Executionist (Burr Oak Remix)
>> Donny & Katharsys - Cause & Effect

Snare Shower

Filthcast 057

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DIODE - THE OOZE

Blue Sky (Featuring Kinetic Source)

One of my most personal mixes. For this one I really tried to go outside the box conceptually - who would have thought to do a fantasy role-playing themed drum and bass mix? Having been a life long Dungeons and Dragons fan, I thought it would be cool to basically let everyone know that I was into role-playing games. And for the intro I was able to lock down the voice of Optimus Prime himself Peter Cullen! During the recording process I was patched into his headphones when he was in the studio and was even able to direct him. It wasn't until later that I discovered he had voiced the character of Venger on the 80's cartoon series Dungeons and Dragons. Awesome! The artwork was once again handled by the legendary Akira Takahashi. One of the coolest parts of the art is the reoccurring image of a dragon which is an exact copy of the dragon tattoo on my back. I always thought Akira was very clever to incorporate that image so deeply throughout the design. Though you cannot see it here, I spent a lot of time working on the liner notes so that they kind of read like stuff you would find in Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. One of the coolest things about this project was being able to get remixes made of popular non-dnb artists like Tiësto, Sasha, Josh Wink and BT. It really sort of pushed this thing over the top at the time. Finally there is something that needs to be said about one of the tracks on here. The Paul B + Subwave remix isn't of the Tiësto tune "Flight 643". It is a remix of his track "Lethal Industry". I can't remember why this happened in the first place, but there you go! Enjoy :)

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Prologue
Cartridge - End Of The World
Break - Accelerate
Kaos + Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Soul On Fire (Concord Dawn Remix)
Basic Operations - White
Tech Itch - The Hand
Raiden - Infection (E-Sassin Remix)
Sasha - Immortal (Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Wink - Evil Acid (Gridlok Remix)
Teebee + Calyx - Follow The Leader
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Dub Faction - Flightpath
Usual Suspects - Doorway (Gridlok + Echo Remix)
Dom + Kemal - Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy + Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Tiësto - Flight 643 (Paul B + Subwave Remix)
Concord Dawn - Take Me Away (Ill Skillz Remix)
Decorum - Contrax (Weapon Remix)
Dumonde - Human (Ill Skillz Remix)

The Dungeonmaster's Guide

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

One of my favorite conceptual mixes. Back in late 2007 I was on track to have a new mix cd out by mid 2008 and I was kind of scraping my brain for cool ideas. Then one night after seeing the film “A Scanner Darkly” I knew right then and there that I was going to call my mix “Substance D”. In the film there is a psychoactive drug known as “Substance D”. I figured, why not make it seem like my mix was a new kind of drug, an “audioceutical” that you take by listening to it? I wanted the label art and liner notes to appear to be futuristic drug packaging. Since the music was intended to excite the brain of the listener I decided that a glowing neon color scheme would be appropriate (something essentially the opposite of what most modern medicine packaging looks like). When it came time to make the mix I was struggling with what the first track was going to be. Then one night I literally had a dream that I was going to use the SPKTRM remix of Demo for the intro and voila! That is what I ended up using. It was really cool to be able to get remixes made of some outside the box artists like MSTRKRFT and Meat Beat Manifesto as well (thank you Jack Dangers btw). This mix was supposed to feature a tune by myself and Gridlok called MDMX (which eventually came out in 2014) but we weren’t able to finish it in time for this. For the intro voiceover I was determined to find the most clinical and neutral person I could find and I spent a few months trying to convince Will Lyman (of PBS Frontline) to do it. In the end he refused. So I ended up working with Tom Kane, who has done tons of work including being the announcer for the Academy Awards. He nailed it. I asked my friend Jake (Ewun…now known as Kill The Noise) to add all of the necessary clicks and whirrs and FX you hear in the intro. The liner notes took me ages to work through. And when this was printed up I realized that the bright yellow text was almost impossible to read. The artwork once again was by the amazing Akira Takahashi. All in all a really fun and challenging project and something, in my mind, truly unique.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy + Ewun - Warning Label
Demo - Trauma / Cell (SPKTRM Duomix)
Limewax - One Of Them (Current Value Remix)
Technical Itch - Pressure Drop VIP
Technical Itch + Kemal - The Calling (Evol Intent + Ewun Remix)
Psidream - Death Sentence
Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Raiden Remix)
Dieselboy + Evol Intent + Ewun - Midnight Express
SPKTRM - Machine March
Current Value - Fear / Machine (Demo Duomix)
Demo - O.D.
The Upbeats - SFX
Counterstrike - Timewarp VIP
MSTRKRFT - Paris (The Upbeats Remix)
Computer Club - Load Rocket (Gridlok Remix)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter (Evol Intent + Mayhem Remix)
Dieselboy - N/V/D (Counterstrike Zentraedi Remix)

Substance D

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

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

Lethal & Exiva - Protos Defeat
Allied & Future Signal - Beta Wave
Allied - Event Horizon
Eiton & Exiva - Stasi
Allied & Treo - Exclusion Zone
Eiton - Malda
Allied - Voices In Exile
Eiton - Jealousy
Lethal - GBH
Absurd - Antiaircraft
Allied - Compulsion
Redco - Backworld VIP
Paperclip & Kano - Invisible war
Absurd - Rape
Ble3k - Into The Arch (Allied Remix)
Eiton & Amex - Never Ever 
Eiton & Kaiza - Qebab
Eiton - Prazno

N'SKY - TECHNOID-FUNK MIX

N'SKY