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Symbiosis resident DJ Alcane blends a trademark mix of high octane tough and techy beats for Episode 6 of Symbiosis. A true veteran of Scottish drum and bass, Stu Alcane has releases scheduled for 2012 on the Sound Artillery and Automate imprints.

Hosts YellowB and Calaco Jack present the best and most innovative new digital releases.

YellowB In the Mix

1. Total Science, S.P.Y & DaM FunK feat Riya – Piano Funk – Toolroom
2. Kjell – Dependence – Rubik Digital
3. Nuage & Gerwin – Back in the Moments – Fokuz
4. Robert Manos – Trouble – Secret Operations
5. Commix – Bear Music – Hospital
6. Dub Phizix – Scum – Commercial Suicide
7. Planas & D-Bridge feat Ed Thomas – Breathless (D-Bridge Soul Steppas Remix) – Exceptional Records
8. Technicolour & Komatic – The Secret – Fokuz
9. Kasra & Foreign Concept – Show You – Critical
10. Anile – Straights – Commercial Suicide
11. Command Strange – Mirage – Rubik Digital
12. Amit feat Rani – You Look Better Dead – Exit

DJ Alcane Guest Mix

1. Klute – Shirtless – Commercial Suicide
2. Flame – Fuckin’ Robot – Unknown Label
3. Meth – Put Up – Vampire
4. Secret Society – Rise Against – Broken Audio
5. Morphy feat. 2Shy – Speakerbox – dub
6. Raiden – Roentgen – Architecture
7. Meth & Digital – Brutal – Vampire
8. Meth – Switch Blade – Vampire
9. Spirit – Mayhem – Phantom Audio
10. Klute – Take A Breath – Commercial Suicide
11. Ricky Force – Take No More – Voodoo dub
12. Graphic – I Am Metal – Offshore
13. Adi Sharma – Rudra – Voodoo dub
14. Hive & Echo – Catalyst – Commercial Suicide
15. Klute – Evo Sniffer – Commercial Suicide
16. Q Project – Trouble – Advanced
17. Noisia, Mayhem & Verse – Choke – Vision
18. Raiden – Aquarius – Renegade Hardware
19. Third Rail – The Last Apprentice – Covert Operations
20. Trisector & Creep – Hollow – Alphacut
21. Klute – Buy More Now – Commercial Suicide

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Episode 5 of the Symbiosis Show features DJ HEX, the newest resident DJ at our monthly club night, with an upfront 30-minute mix of neurofunk and techstep tracks. Check out the selection for a flavour of what you can hear at the club, plus an exclusive chiptune track from his alter-ego H3XALITE.

YellowB and Calaco Jack bring the usual blend of classics and fresh cuts.

YellowB In the Mix

1. D.B.R – Fortress (VIP) – Dispatch LTD
2. Kodo – The Jackal – Ingredients
3. Need For Mirrors feat Stapleton – Valentino – Zoltar
4. Commix – Envious (Original Demo Version) – Metalheadz
5. Sub Zero – Protection – Ganja
6. Total Science & S.P.Y feat Kevin King – Past Lives – CIA
7. Protone & Roygreen – Off The Wall – Celsius
8. Underworld – Bird 1 (Derrick & Tonika remix) – Fokuz
9. Enei – Zeus – Avantgarde
10. Phobia & Baron Von Alias – Voyager – Ingredients
11. Random Movement – Dropping the Chips – Rubik LTD

DJ Hex

1. Ulterior Motive feat. Codebreaker – It’s On – Subtitles
2. Noisia – Block Control – Moving Shadow
3. Manifest – O.G. Returns – Renegade Hardware
4. The Funktion – Fear of Life – Run DNB
5. Data – Compassion – Metalheadz
6. Skeptical – Transfer – Ingredients
7. Ulterior Motive – Tesla – Subtitles
8. Noisia & Foreign Beggars – Contact (Noisia Remix) – Dented
9. Prolix – Static Shock – Ganja Tek
10. Break – No Company – Shadow Law
11. Bulletproof & Phace – Wreckage – Cyanide
12. Special Forces – Sidewinder – Photek Productions
13. DJ Zinc – The Star of Polaris – Bingo
14. Technicolour & Komatic – We Were Always One – SGN:LTD
15. Sabre, Stray & Halogenix feat. Frank Carter III – Oblique – Critical
16. H3xalite – Let’s Roll – Dub

Calaco Jack

1. Concord Dawn & Trei – Wipeout – Uprising
2. Moving Fusion – Mystery Stranger – Viper
3. D-Bridge – True Romance VIP – Metalheadz
4. Dabs – Skullbowl – Syndrome Audio
5. Commix – Envious – Metalheadz
6. Moving Fusion – Tear Your Soul – Viper
7. Gridlock & Jamal – Tuscan Raider – Commercial Suicide
8. Optiv & BTK – Insight – Renegade Hardware
9. Matrix & InsideInfo – Quattro – Metro
10. Concord Dawn & Trei – Hellbent – Uprising

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Symbiosis is proud to present SPECIAL ED (Special Records, HOMEGROWN, JakN, PANGEA, Split) as this month’s guest. Ed is a scene stalwart in Edinburgh, with several residencies. His label Special Records has a slew of releases from quality artists such as the Soundphreakers and The Infekted, and is pushing the so-called “riotstep” sound – tough, techy, upbeat drum n’ bass and breakbeat with a punk edge. Check out his mix of excellent beats.

Yellowbenzene in the Mix

1. Rene Lavice – Spile (Rubik)
2. Technicolour & Komatic feat Jayma – Vermillion (Rubik)
3. Decoder & Substance – Heat (Moving Shadow)
4. Subwave & Enei – Rainbows (Metalheadz)
5. Need For Mirrors – Columbia (Metalheadz)
6. Eastcolours & Nuage – Live in Lie (Translation)
7. Need for Mirrors feat DRS – DFTF
8. Krakota – Scraper (Ingredients)
9. Komatic – Make the Most of Now (Spearhead LTD)
10. Subwave – Bring Me Down (Metalheadz)

Special Ed Guest Mix

1. State of Mind & Trei – True Stories (Samurai)
2. Phace – Strange Science (Shogun Audio)
3. Kantyze – Caprica (Mindtech)
4. Quadrant – Manipulated Living (Renegade Hardware)
5. Psidream & Concord Dawn – Got Me Down (Uprising)
6. Cern & Dabs – Oh the Horror (Dispatch)
7. Telekinesis – Cortex (Red Light Digital)
8. The Upbeats – Tor (Audio Remix) (Bad Taste)
9. Kantyze – Memories of Tomorrow (Melting Pot)
10. Trei – Justify (Commercial Suicide)
11. Dose & Menace – Pick Up (Samurai)
12. Arp XP – The Equation (IM:Ltd)
13. Arp XP – Surrealism (IM:Ltd)
14. Mindscape – The Vulture (Dose & Menace remix) (Syndrome Audio)
15. Dose, Menace & Trei – Valium Express (Commercial Suicide)
16. Die & Break – Coming From the Top (Symmetry)
17. Chase & Status – Music Club (Ram)
18. Camo & Krooked – Let’s Go (Mainframe)
19. Break & Die – Slow Down (Symmetry)
20. Dekka & Foreign Concept – Babyfaced Battleaxe (Critical, digital exclusive)

Calaco Jack in the Mix

1. June Miller – Half Top Feelings (Amoss Remix) (Horizons)
2. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden (Calibre Remix) (White)
3. Miridex – Arabian (Lifestyle)
4. Loxy & Resound – Declaration (Exit)
5. Morphy & Ges E – 27 Million (Voodoo)
6. Morphy – Myrrh Dub (Voodoo)
7. Loxy & Resound – Fall (Exit)
8. Sapphire – Flying High (Echowide)
9. June Miller – Tundra (Horizons)
10. Sapphire – Story About Nothing (Echowide)

Symbiosis enters 2012 with a whopper of a show – 135 minutes to be exact – featuring an exclusive mix from Leeds UK heavyweights LD50 and Ruckspin.

Part of the Central Beatz collective, the duo have toured up and down the UK in support of some of the biggest and best names in drum n’ bass, as well as promoting club events in Leeds and London. Ruckspin has a burgeoning discography encompassing releases on labels such as Tectonic and Broken Audio, with more in the pipeline. Known for their cerebral and techy take on drum n’ bass, and uncompromising professionalism and skill behind the decks, expect big things from this pair in 2012. Residents Yellowbenzene & Calaco Jack form the vanguard with fresh mixes of tough and funky drum n’ bass.

Yellow Benezene Mix

1. Wilkinson – Tonight [Ram]
2. Holdtight – Lounge [Rubik]
3. Culture Shock – Protection [Ram]
4. Triad feat. Elina Monova – Persistence [Sunandbass]
5. Blu Mar Ten feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Whisper [Blu Mar Ten]
6. Atlantic Connection – Alliance Amen [Sonorous Music]
7. Nuage & THRN – Don’t Exist – Anile Remix [Translation]
8. BAU – Whakit – Dan Habarnam Remix [Sonorous Music]
9. Mindscape & Jade – Orion [Commercial Suicide]
10. Panic Girl – Burn & Rise – Phace Remix [Shadybrain]
11. Enei feat MC DRS – Obsession [Critical]

Calaco Jack Mix

1. Black Sun Empire & State Of Mind – Pitch Dryfter
2. Command Strange – Miracles [Fokuz] – Kazahstan, Episode 91 Album, first release age 16
3. Optiv & BTK – Mind Over Matter [Frequency]
4. DLR & Octane – Back In The Grind – Cern & Dabs Remix [Dispatch]
5. Noisia & Phace – Micro Organism [Neosignal)
6. Misanthrop & Phace - What's Wrong [Neosignal]
7. Gridlok – Insecticide [Project 51] – Gridloks 8 year leftfield album, also Dead in Detroit/Frankenfunk SOM
8. Prolix & Dose – No One Else [Uprising] – Concord Dawns label, releases from the Ausralasian SOM, Pendulum,
9. State Of Mind – Sleepcreep [SOM Music]
10. Axiom, Dementia & Rregula – Spacerace [Black Divine]
11. Phace & Rockwell – NO! [Neosignal]
12. Concord Dawn – Ion [free release on Souncloud] – other free tunes from Special Ed, cable, Evol Intent, Data (Overflow), Raiden (Fallin revisited),Morphy Three Wise Dubs (G,F,M)
13. Menace, Dose & Trei – Valium Express VIP [Commercial Suicide]
14. Optiv & BTK – Let It Hit ‘Em [Frequency]
15. Strategy, Dub Phizix, Skeptical – Marka [Exit]
16. DatA – Prowl [Inside]

LD50 & Ruckspin Central Beatz Mix

1. Cause 4 Concern – Dead Weight [Invisible]
2. Radien – Danzon [Voodoo Music]
3. Loxy & Resound – Depth Excess [Exit]
4. Loxy & Skeptical – Engage [Renegade Hardware]
5. June Miller – Neurosis [Horizons Music]
6. Calibre – Steptoe [Signature]
7. Isotone – Hold On [Alchemy Audio]
8. Blu Mar Ten Ft. Rochelle Parker – Sweet Little Supernova [Blu Mar Ten]
9. Need For Mirrors – LoWalk [Dispatch LTD]
10. Jubei & Ulterior Motive – Snoretooth [Metalheadz]
11. Morphy – Shackles [Voodoo Music]
12. Subterra & Dekko – Bonzai Run [Invisible]
13. Seba & Method One – Heavy Traffic [Secret Operations]
14. Jumpat – Enowen [Basswerk Files]
15. Phobia – Severance [Coded Music]
16. D-Kay – Monolith [Moving Shadow]
17. Alix Perez – Exemption [Shogun Audio]
18. Morphy – Supply Reel – Temper D Remix [Temper D Productions]
19. Panic Girl – Burn and Rise – Phace Remix [Shadybrain]
20. Optiv & BTK – Inception [Renegade Hardware]
21. Noisia & Phace – Floating Zero – Icicle Remix [Invisible]
22. Current Value – 2012 [Tech Freak]

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The second Symbiosis drum and bass exploration with hosts Calaco Jack and Yellow Benzene plus guest interview and mix courtesy of Glasgow based DJ Producer Y2D (Lifestyle recordings, Resident DJ at Xplicit Edinburgh). Yellow B kicks the show off with a selection of the most innovative and highly engineered tunes from the past month including new releases from the Dispatch, Metalheadz and Shogun Audio camps. This months history lesson with Calaco Jack focuses on the new breed of Jungle which emerged at the start of the millennium.

Crank it up and enjoy!

Yellowbenzene mix

1. Marcus Intalex – Virgo (Dispatch)
2. Spectrasoul – The Gift (Shogun Audio)
3. ST Files & Calibre – The Void (Grey Audio)
4. Break – Heal Me (Symmetry)
5. D-Bridge – Since We’ve Been Apart (Shogun Audio)
6. Seba & Paradox feat Kirsty Hawkshaw – The Light (Critical)
7. Icicle – Alien Groove (Shogun Audio)
8. Need For Mirrors – Lofar (Metalheadz)
9. Komonazmuk – Translation (Metalheadz)
10. Phace and Rockwell – Rat race (Shogun Audio)
11. Detail – I Need You (Proximity Recordings)
12. Distance & Icicle – Exhale (Shogun Audio)
13. Dom & Roland – Rollstar (Commercial Suicide)
14. Foreign Concept & Bringa – Cemetary (sic) (Shogun Audio)
15. Nymfo – Conscious Minds

Exclusive Y2D Interview

Y2D guest mix

1. Dub Phizix – Narrow eyes feat. Fox and Chimpo (Soul:r)
2. Amoss – Astrodome (Horizons)
3. Fracture and System – Yea but… (Subtitles)
4. Optical – High tek dreams (Prototype – 1997)
5. Icicle and Commix – Ultraclean (Shogun Audio)
6. Sabre, Stray and Halogenix – Askari (Invisible)
7. Ed Rush – Skylab (Metalheadz – 1996)
8. Phace and Rockwell – Rat race (Shogun Audio)
9. Special Forces – The end (Photek Productions – 2002)
10. Dom Y2D – Idolatry (Lifestyle Recordings)

Calaco Jack – Drum & Bass Classics Mix

1. Ryme Tyme – We Enter (Optical Remix) (No U-Turn 1999)
2. Krust - Warhead (Ram Trilogy Remix) (V 1999)
3. Digital – Deluxe (Function 2001)
4. Total Science – Jungle Jungle (Metalheadz 2001)
5. Nosia – Block Control (Moving Shadow 2005)
6. J Majik – Tell Me (Total Science Remix) (Infrared 2001)
7. D Bridge – China Blue (Liquid V 2004)
8. Digital – Spacefunk 2000 (Nasty Habits Remix) (Timeless 2000)
9. Dillinja – Tronik Funk (Test 1998)
10. Cybotron – I Wanna Know (Valve 2000)
11. Mampli Swift – The One (Charge 1997)
12. Influx Datum – Back For More (Formation 2002)
13. Fresh – Signal (Ram 2003)

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Welcome to the first episode of the brand new Symbiosis show on Radio Magnetic. A cross-sectional exploration of all things drum and bass, with your hosts Yellow Benzene and Calaco Jack. Join us as we move through the genres and eras of this music, with exclusive new tracks, guest mixes and interviews from around the UK and beyond.

This month, a 90 minute drum and bass workout with hosts Yellow Benzene & Calaco Jack, introducing our monthly ‘history lesson’ – tunes from the turn of the century and before.

Tracklist

1. DJ Marky & S.P.Y. – Brainstorm (Innerground)
2. Hybris – Please Exist (Metalheadz)
3. Bcee & S.P.Y. – Diagnosis Murder (Spearhead)
4. Friction – Someone feat. Mclean (Shogun)

Yellow Benzene mix

1. June Miller – Drowning Man, Jubei remix (Horizons)
2. Enei feat Riya – No Fear (Critical)
3. Logistics – Reality Checkpoint (Hospital)
4. Nfm – Punch Drunk (Integral)
5. Amoss – Last Minute (Horizons)
6. Lenzman – Mass Effect (Metalheadz)
7. Sinistarr – Mainstay (Methalheadz Platinum)
8. Rockwell – BTKRSH (Shogun)
9. Nfm – Poison apple (Big Bad Heavy)
10. Decoder – pgm5 (Tech Itch 1998)
11. Rascal & Klone – Twister (Shadow 2000)
12. Rascal & Klone – Get Wild (Audio Couture 2000)
13. Tech Itch – The Crystal (Moving Shadow 2000)

Calaco Jack mix

1. Linden – Letting Go (Horizons)
2. Spinline – Dyslexia (Horizons)
3. DLR & Octane – Transition (Renegade Hardware)
4. State of Mind – Quasars (State of Mind)
5. Amoss – Locked In (Inside)
6. DatA – Formless (Horizons)
7. Jade – Audio Hypnosis (Eatbrain)
8. Receptor – Princess (Beta)
9. Temper D & Prolix – Doppleganger (Viper)
10. Bulletproof & Alvin Risk – One (Black Sun Empire)
11. Trei – Day Away (Obsessions)

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