Name: 121124 by A.M. Dancer
Duration: 1 h 19 min 55 s
Description: Your favourite Dancer playing the records that make you happy

Get Ya

Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-ambient-americana-16th-february-2023

Dust To Dust: The NTS Guide to Ambient Americana 160223

Your favourite Dancer playing the records that make you happy

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Next up in our mix series is Ron Trent 🩷

We know many of you have been waiting for this one...

We're overjoyed to finally be able to share the recording from a night in The Bowl with the pioneering DJ, producer, and architect for much of today's house music; Ron Trent.

Known for sets that embody the essence of soul, his performance from last Summer was undoubtedly a highlight for many.

Ron Trent at The Bowl [ Live from We Out Here 2024 ]

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Ron Trent channels ancestral traditions and sacred wisdom through his music, guiding listeners into deep, transformational spaces. With his project WARM ~ DJ set ~ he weaves ambient, jazz, and experimental textures into a cosmic, free-flowing sonic journey. Each set becomes an immersive experience, where timeless rhythms meet futuristic soundscapes. 

www.instagram.com/noushh.bln

Ron Trent · WARM Deep Listening | Nou:shh @ OSD, Berlin | 13 Oct '24

Recording of Pender Street Steppers and Beautiful Swimmers's back-to-back at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Dekmantel Festival 2016

Pender Street Steppers & Beautiful Swimmers at Dekmantel Festival 2016

Solid Steel (2nd December) With the recent passing of The Loft founder David Mancuso, we wanted to pay tribute on Solid Steel to the man who led the way in club culture with his legendary New York parties. We invited Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, his close friend who starting going to The Loft parties in the early 90's and was one of the few people he would trust to play there. For this special 2 hour show, Colleen told us;

"In this show I pay tribute to my mentor, collaborator and close friend David Mancuso who recently passed to the next realm. He was one of the most significant people in my life and inspired so much of what I do.
In the programme I try to dispel the myth that David was the 'Godfather of Disco' - a moniker he didn’t like and one that is inaccurate, as in his long musical journeys he also channeled music that pushed far beyond four-to-the-floor. His esoteric musical choices were one of the several reasons I got so involved with The Loft parties as we spoke the same musical language. 
My life won’t be the same without David, but I feel blessed to have closely shared 25 years of my life with him. I only hope hat I can help carry on his musical and sonic legacy through the parties and with the larger Loft community as he wished. Love saves the day."

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy
A musical host at The Loft and Lucky Cloud Loft Parties, co-producer of David Mancuso presents the Loft compilation series and founder of Classic Album Sundays. http://classicalbumsundays.com

Bernie Krause	_	Festival of the sun	_	Takoma 
King Sunny Ade	_	Ja Funmi (Paul Groucho Smykle Waka version)	_	Island Records
Jimmy Cliff	_	Roots Radical (Francois Kevorkian remix)	_	CBS 
Jan Wobble, Jake Liebezeit & Holger Czukay	_	How much are they	_	Island Records
Cat Stevens	_	Was dog a doughnut	_	A&M Records
Brian Eno & David Byrne	_	The Jezebel Spirit	_	Sire
David Astri 	_	Dancing Digits	_	Award Records
Man Jumping	_	Aerotropics remix	_	Cocteau Records
Barrabas	_	Woman	_	RCA
Passport	_	Loco-Motive	_	Atlantic
Torch Song	_	Prepare to energize	_	I.R.S. Records
Gypsy	_	Fun De Fino	_	Limbo Records
House of House	_	Rushing to Paradise	_	Whatever We Want Records
Rinder and Lewis	_	Lust	_	AVI Records
Pat Metheny	_	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls	_	ECM Records
Ozo	_	Listen to the Buddha	_	DJM Records

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