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Voices from The Lake hybrid live at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

The artists we've hosted have left their mark, and what better way to immortalize their sound than in our sonic diaries?

Kicking off BXL 001 is maestro Diskonnected, who took over our floor in February with a masterclass in deep, hypnotic techno for discovery's Metamorphosis. Now holding it down at Pawnshop in Taipei and 宀 in Hong Kong, his rolling, atmospheric grooves are pure immersion. Up next, he gears up for Organik Festival, Taiwan’s revered coastal gathering known for its visceral soundscapes.

BXL 001 : Diskonnected (TAI) - Metamorphosis x 15th February

INTERVIEW: https://www.ayli-sf.com/2025/06/06/ayli-ground-level-020-dj-hockey/

AYLI Ground Level 020 - DJ Hockey

DJ set from Communion (with some live bits)

1	Liquid - Dream 2 Science
2	Can You Dance - Kenny 'Jammin' Jason	
3	Psy Vs Psy - Passarani		
4	Numero 4 - Passarani	
5	Wake Up Shake It - Passarani
6	Shoeshine (Original Mix) - Efdemin	
7	Dienstags Disco - RR	
8	Test Drive - Passarani	
9	81.12 - RR	
10	Marcel Dettmann - Suffice To Predict (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)		
11	Scorpion - Dave Angel	
12	A1. Steffi - Yours feat. Virginia (Original Version)	
13	Belly Jolie Movements - Quelza	
14	Don't You Dare - Quelza
15	Atlas Express	 - Quelza	
16	Orange Du Ciel - Quelza	
17	Hunger - Surgeon	
18	Low Key - Quelza			
19	Pensa Poetico	 - Quelza	
20	Stringent - Surgeon	
21	We'll Never Be Friends Again	 - Quelza	
22	Andromeda (Part 2) - ORBE	
23	Falling	- Psyk	
24	The Ballad of Willy Stompers	- Quelza	
25	Voiceprint - Psyk	
26	A1. Hypernova - ORBE	
27	Triple Threat - Surgeon	
28	Unreleased - XXXX					
29	B2. Atonement - Elias Garcia	
30	Toner - Takaaki Itoh	
31	Panic Button - Skee Mask		
32	No matter what you do in life, always keep death by your side - Surgeon	
33        Silhouettes - Rrose 
34	Origami - Quelza			
35	Sleep (Ultra Violet) - Surgeon 
36	Left Hand Path - Commodo x Gantz		
37	Badder	 - Calibre & DRS v Mark Ernestus	
38	What A Dub - Annette Brissett		
39	God Only Knows - The Beach Boys	

Kit List : 3 x CDJ3000, Xone 96, Eventide H9, Boss RE20, 
Elektron Digitakt 2, Elektron Digitone 2, Bass Bot TT-303,
Zoom L6

Centrific Communion 2025

Smoke Machine Podcast 155 DJ Tool

Recorded at 428 stage at Wonderfruit Festival in 2024.

Diskonnected is a Taiwanese DJ, the creative mastermind, and the lead DJ of the well-known Smoke Machine collective. He was a resident at the legendary Taiwanese club Korner. These days he is a resident at its successor, Pawnshop,
and at one of Asia’s leading venues, Hong Kong’s famed 宀 club.

Throughout his decade-long career, Diskonnected has been the foundational person developing, shaping, and sculpting the Smoke Machine sound and is the musical nucleus of the legendary Organik festival in Taiwan. A musical chameleon, and relentless explorer of new music, he has toured widely across Asia, Europe, and the USA, and played across the continents leading venues such as Berghain, Panorama Bar and Robert Johnson.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diskonnected_tw/

Diskonnected at 428 Wonderfruit 2024

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/polygoniacovermix
Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/polygoniamixmag

@polygonia shares a mind-melting and expansive mix accompaniment to her new album 'Dream Horizons' on @dkmntl, on which she flexes full creative freedom.

"A reflection of shifting dreamscapes, this mix traces the arc of 'Dream Horizons', my new album on Dekmantel. It mirrors the album’s wide stylistic and tempo range — traversing pulses, textures, and energies, swelling into a feverish rush before breaking apart and exhaling into a halftime echo. Genres dissolve and reemerge not as contrasts, but as fragments of a shared vision."

The Cover Mix: Polygonia

Recorded live from our FOLD takeover with Transmissions, this one comes courtesy of softi who opened Room 2 with a two hour set we simply couldn’t keep to ourselves. Weaving through glitchy, swamp-soaked textures and deep, hypnotic rhythms, she laid down a trippy journey that set the perfect tone for the night ahead. Dial in and drift!

@jazz_brown

Harmony Rec. podcast | softi

The Medellín maverick opens RA.997 with another mind-altering home run.

As part of our countdown to the 1000th edition of the RA Podcast, a milestone in the 18-year history of Resident Advisor's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format.

This week, following heady excursions through Lagos, Kampala, Detroit and Chicago, our focus shifts to Latin America—arguably the story in underground electronic music since the pandemic.

After years of being all but overlooked internationally, the explosion of distinctive club sounds emerging from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and beyond has finally begun to get its due.

Among the movement's great success stories are two artists who exemplify its refreshingly undogmatic energy: Verraco and Bitter Babe, and the former handles the A-side of RA.997. 

Is there a more compelling electronic artist around right now? Both in the studio and behind the decks, the Medellín-based DJ and producer currently sits in that coveted creative sweet spot, where every fresh musical morsel feels like a moment. To bask in any of his singular tracks on VOAM, Timedance and now XL Recordings, is to be bowled over by their rhythmic brilliance, madcap hooks and whirlpool basslines. ("Basic Maneuvers," anyone?)

His mix is tough to pin down—a blend of dubby techno, tribal atmospheres, slanted bass and sharp edits. Or, as he puts it in the accompanying interview: “an intersection between dub-infused techno but with some flow, reduced atmospheric tribal, edgy bass cuts, mental emo-tek.”

There’s plenty of unreleased TraTraTrax material here, alongside tracks from artists like Virginia, A Made Up Sound and a euphoric flip of Ploy’s “Ramos.” Slippery, emotional and surgically precise, it’s Verraco doing what he does best.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1001

RA.997 Verraco

For the newest instalment, i'm really happy to welcome the incredible Brussels-based AliA (@aliamusicc). The local mainstay is a regular on Kiosk radio and runs her own label - @artisjokrecords. Alyah, better known as AliA,  has an exciting & unique approach to dj'ing. She is known for her blend of contemporary club music with jazz, classical and experimental sounds. 

I find AliA's musical outputs incredibly refreshing - the kind of artist who reminds you what a really good DJ can do - they can present genres & sounds to you that you'd otherwise maybe not typically explore, in a new and exciting way. For her Animix, Alyah has gone for an intensely chill blend of ambient & immersive music, with minimal, glitchy, dub techno, jazz, classical sounds and more.

Thank you so much for the mix Alyah <3 

Downloads enabled

Animix One Hundred & Seventy Seven: AliA

Fergus Jones live in the studio for two hours.

https://www.instagram.com/perkopair
https://www.soundcloud.com/perkopair



Fergus Jones @ The Lot Radio 07-17-2025

Ciao tutti 💖
So happy to share the recording from my last set at Open Ground from December 2024. 

It was an emotional journey ~ I wanted to tell a story of diving into underwater dream lands, where spirit guides and glitchy creatures meet and send us messages from the other side... where sound takes over the brain and opens something in the heart and body.
I waved through many genres ~ ambient, jungle, electro, dubstep, drill, jazz, techno and the wonky in-between. It felt like I had the chance to express a fuller spectrum of who I am as a music lover. 🙏

That night, I had the honour of opening for the legend Surgeon ~ someone who’s deeply inspired my path since the very beginning. Sharing that moment with him and connecting was just wow. 🥹

Open Ground truly is one of the most special places on earth ~ the care, the sound, the freedom, the community, the crew… just perfection. 

So grateful to be invited back this saturday ! (26.07.2025) 
Don’t skip ~ come sweat and feel with us 🌀💎💦

~ with love & gratitude ~ 
GiGi🧜‍♀️

GiGi FM at Freifeld / Open Ground 14.12.2024

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. 
New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. 
Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School, and her home base, Nowadays, where she holds a residency. Alongside her international touring, she’s carved out her own vital space through the long-running Mutual Dreaming parties and Sustain-Release, the DIY-rooted festival she co-founded, which continues to push boundaries as it enters its second decade.
Her Phonica mix offers a vivid snapshot of her deep, intuitive approach to DJing—captured live at Mansions, a cozy NYC wine bar turned house party haven. Known for her genre-fluid sets that blend hypnotic techno, house, acid and experimental textures this is the perfect calling card to showcase why she can hold it down with a range of greats like DJ Nobu, Vladimir Ivkovic and more.
We had a chat about the mix with Aurora as well as touching off Sustain and some of her favorite moments at the festival.

Phonica Mix Series 134: Aurora Halal

innocence

Euphoria

Sometimes sleepy, mostly an insomniac 🫠

Diskonnected at 428 Wonderfruit 2024

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