The Hornets Nest

Hi friends welcome to Season 13 episode 14 - my 45th birthday special. If I am honest there has been a few times in my life where I didn't think I'd make it this far and these days every passing year is met with happiness rather than a feeling of sadness that I'm a year older. Embrace your spins round the sun and think of your friends or family who didn't make it as far as you...

I put this stream together to toast the contribution made by the ladies of the Drum and Bass world. Wether it was records produced by women, collaborated by women or sang on by women. Their contribution to this music is often overlooked with producers constantly omitting the name of singers from the titles of their tunes and lineups being stacked with a dude heavy selection. More power to the ladi...

Touching down on Western Australian soil I made a beeline for my record collection and that's what this stream was all about. Digging back through the stacks and loving the vinyl once again! Kicking things off with a swag of Klute records I weaved my way through 2 hours of 2000's era DNB. It was a fun session, vibes were transcribed!

This stream was my last hotel session from New Zealand. After a fantastic tour alongside Reini from Camo + Krooked and Chris from the Prototypes which saw us play in Auckand, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch and Hamilton it's time to head home to Perth. One last rinse in the land of the long white cloud first though!  Recorded on the 5th of August, this is a solid 2 hour dnb sesh with a bit...

This was a massssive stream. Recorded on the 4th of August between 1 and 3am in a hotel room on tour in Wellington, New Zealand. Thanks to Beardyman, Dj Romantics and daddyjackls for 3 massive raids. We almost hit 300 viewers on this one with 97 in the chat going crazy. This mix is everything CLUB from 90's commercial bangers to speed garage to tech house.  Absolutely loved this session and y...

Possibly the longest session I've done on Twitch in one hit. This stream is a solid three hours and change! Lots of new dnb, old dnb and a few doofers towards the end.  Recorded between midnight and 3am in a hotel room in Wellington, New Zealand on August 1st, 2021.

This one comes from you from Dunedin in New Zealand. Finally after 497 days I am back on tour with a series of Pendulum DJ Sets around NZ. This recording is 2 streams back to back recorded with my mobile setup.  I said I was gonna stream on the road and here it is! A good long session of nice tunes, the usual chat banter and good times. Enjoy!

Recorded July 5th, this stream was a solid DNB rinse. Thats it! 

Hi friends. Well if you're still tuned into the Nest and reading this you are most definitely not doing it via Spotify! Sadly they have decided to delete any music based podcasts and that includes the Hornets Nest. No warning, no notice. Just gone! I guess I'll keep uploading these though, you can get them via Apple Podcasts or on apps like Podcast Addict. This mix was a nice evening rin...

A nice quick rinse on a Wednesday arvo? NOICE. Also at the end I debut a new Mountain Terrace HHC tune called 'Give Me Your Love' and break down all the parts of the tune and how I made it. Solid session, good times!

I started streaming in May 2020 as a way to keep myself connected to the world I left behind when Covid destroyed the music industry and my career. I didn't really have a plan for it but a year later I have finally made partner on Twitch. What does this mean? I am not entirely sure but my stream has evolved from something I did every so often into a really important part of my life. The Horne...

Time to take a trip down Tranthem Avenue with my alter ago Martin Terrance. He's a world famous melodic Trance DJ and he's here to deliver 2 hours of the finest hands in the air anthems ever made. Geweldig!

Season 3 continiues with a solid 2 hour rinse of some of the finest uplifting and feel good jams the DNB world has to offer.  If there was ever a modern day soundtrack to hugging strangers in the dance, I think this would be it. My DJ sets have always focused heavily on this kind of tune so sit back while we take a trip through the come up. Beautiful music from Flowidus, Ekko and Sidetrack, B Moti...

A stream comprised entirely of DNB bootlegs? Yes! There has always been a wealth of producers in the DNB world who have shown their love for other genres of music by making a Drum and Bass bootleg of their favourite tunes. Quite often the end result is a version that is miles better than the original record! This stream touches on some of my favourite ones from the last decade or two and thankfull...

The North American DNB special! Digging back through the sands of time to resurrect some of the finest tunes from the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. People seem to think there isn't much DNB in USA/Canada? Well historically there has always been a swarm of producers making the music, you just have to look back through history a little.  This session features tracks from UFO, E-Sasssin, Gridlok,...

T W O - H O U R - T R A N T H E M - E D I T I O N ! ! ! Hardly any chat on this one. Just full on trance anthems. It was an amazing session!!

A marathon stream, nearly 2.5 hours of sweet sweet music. I was in a bit of a funk so I just rolled out tunes that made me happy. A bit of Jcore, Jpop, DNB and a few slabs of Pendulum.  Much better now!

Brand new DNB promos and dubs. Thats it. 

This stream was a 2 hour session where I unashamedly dived into my favourite records regardless of genre. Electro House, French House, Disco House, Progressive, 90's Dance Pop, Happy Hardcore, Hardcore Breaks, Old School Hardcore and I even debut a new Mountain Terrace tune. Loose as! Yes there is 5 minutes of silence at the end, sorry!

A 2 hour rinse of brand new Drum and Bass promos, dubs and VIP's with a couple oldies thrown in for good measure. Does what it says on the tin!

Sit down....and dance. A glorious selection from the record collection of those tunes you might have forgotten about. The ethereal and melancholic vibes in these records is immeasurable. Selected at random from my vinyl stash this stream features wonderful sounds from Polar, Blu Mar Ten, Doc Scott, Blame, Condrad, Exocet, Roni, Solid State, John B, Breakbeat Era, Marcus and ST Files, J Majik, Fell...

Breaks, Electro, Electro House, Disco House, UK Hip Hop, Pop, DNB and...Kate Bush? Yes!!! I covered all these things and even wheeled out a couple of solo El Hornet demos from the mid 2000's that nobody has really heard before.  Vibes!

Bashing them out at a lightning pace this week! This stream was focused on the dubplate game of the mid 2000's. The AOL messenger days, the days where the world started to open up and producers from some of the more unlikely corners of the globe started to put out amazing records. It all boiled down the the internet opening doors for those of us who came from outside the UK and it was a great...

More DNB action from the vinyl collection. This episode features records by wonderful humans such as Makoto, Matrix, Nu Tone, Klute, Carlito and Addiction, Peshay, Kosheen, Dj Die, Roni Size, Tali, Dillinja ... all the legends! Had a great time with this one, a real casual stroll back through the golden years. Enjoy!

I am SO behind in uploading these stream rips, my bad! This one was recorded on the 14th of April and there is 3 more coming straight after this. A full stream of the happiest hardcore straight from the record collection. Full 2 hours of vinyl hardcore 93-98, the best years I think.  All the good stuff from Hixxy, Storm, Brisk, Styles, Force, Luna C, Dougal, Slipmatt, Ham, all the top boys...Oi oi...