Trenches

Ian has been playing music to people at parties, in clubs, bars and on radio for over 30 years. An avid collector of funk, soul, hip-hop and electro records, he eventually became absorbed into the nascent acid house scene in East London and Essex. Throughout the 90’s and into the 2000’s, he trod the well worn path of DJ residencies and promoting parties eventually making and releasing his own music, remixing and running a record label spanning the evolution from big-beat to NuSkool breaks.

After a move to South East London, Ian secured a residency at Deptford institution bar and radio station, AAJA, playing slots live at the bar and online, spawning the long-running Dark Disco Radio show, now broadcasting monthly on Mixcloud. 

Recent DJ bookings include iconic venues the Social in London and the world famous Golden Lion in Todmorden. As a producer and remixer, his output can be found on scene-favourite labels like Paisley Dark, When Disco Goes Wrong, Hottwerk and the seminal Nein Records, also spawning his breaks and acid collaboration with Nein head-honcho Neil Parnell as PARVALE. 

Tracklist:
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Kiakí - Northern Solar
Sandro Bianchi & Stylic - Voynich (Original Mix)
Harbringer Kurt - Solid State
Azaria - Pensando (Tyu Remix)
Niev - Crystal Play (Tronik Youth Edit)
Azaria - Like an Invasion
Kabinett - Power/Freedom (Jason Peters Remix)
PAN - Unusual Suspects
Sam In Space - Late Night Conversations (Original)
Doechii - Nissan Altima (THE NGHBR$ Edit)
Bruce Wine - Solventes (Ian Vale Remix)
Yomi One - Static Drift (Original Mix)
Jenner - Audeo (Ranj Kaler)
LUCYE - The Factory (AFFKT & Kiko Remix)
Darlyn Vlys, Panthera - Come With Us (Musumeci Remix)

Follow:  @ian_vale

Support the Artist: @kiakimusic @sandro-bianchi-taramona @stylic @harbingerkurt @azaria-musik @theroommatesweb @niev-music @tronik-youth @kabinett-scmusic @jasonjppeters @constadine-marousopoulos @saminspace-music @/the-nghbrs @yomione_official @djjenner @lucye_fr @affkt @signaturebykiko @musumeci @darlynvlys @pantheradiscoclub 

Support the Label: @sprechenmusic @boite-music @neinrecords @logicalrecords @espaciocielo @roam-recordings @janne-berglund @strippedmusicmgmt @sincopat

Links:
www.mixcloud.com/ian-vale

Counterterraism Guest Mix 366: Ian Vale

All Overdubs/Additional Programming 
Frankie Foncett 
for Hardbody Mix

Marvin Romantically Yours Hardbody Mix

TIA COUSINS 17.6.25

Part 2 of The Pilgrimage Carcassonne. Warm up to Convenanza

Simon Spencer - The Pilgrimage -Carcassonne 2

not uploaded a mix in a while so thought it was about time. Do enjoy. 

Feed Your Head Scott Hutchinson: No Running by the Side of the Pool Mix

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 scintillating minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. Full send.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

BILL BREWSTER | Live at Armadillo stage, Houghton Festival, Aug 9th, 2025

We hosted a free party to celebrate 'Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume Two' at Stranger Than Paradise Records on Thursday 21st August.

The Midlands/Southern contingent from the Flightpath Estate (Barry and Mark) will be playing the album and DJing and our very special guest Richard Fearless will be doing a two hour vinyl set.
Richard has an incredible exclusive track 'Haywired' on the album which will be available to purchase on the night and will come with a limited edition print by our creative director @personality___crisis for the first 50 purchases.

Flight Path Estate DJs & Richard Fearless @ Stranger Than Paradise Records | 21.08.2025

Langenberg - Shadows Feat. Blakkat

MKS001
This white label is the result of a smooth session between Sasse, Langenberg & Sandrino.

MKS - Rough Trade (Basic Reshape MIx)

Smokebelch Dub （Sabres Of paradise Cover）

Alena - Changes (Ron Basejam remix)

Blakkat - In This World (Langenberg Remix)

Langenberg - Past Present

Released by: Dessous Recordings
Release/catalogue number: des112
Release date: Dec 3, 2012 

Langenberg has been busy releasing his distinctive brand of knowledgeable deepness for well over half a decade now. As co-founder of the Essen-based label Mild Pitch, the man otherwise knows as Max Heesen has been responsible for some sublime moments in house, both on his own label, and for imprints such as Liebe*Detail, Drumpoet Community and Poker Flat.

Here, Desseous Recordings get their hands on the sumptuous release The Finisher. Informed and influenced by the classic Detroit sound, Langenberg produces yet another exceptional transmission. The title track is a smooth like liquid gold, yet contains a dub-tinged techno edge reminiscent of Langenberg’s Ribn project with Manuel Tur. The soulful piano interplay is pure Detroit meets Essen, and combines to produce one of the year’s standout moments.

Next up is Wait State, a bouncing groove featuring Langenberg’s trademark crisp drums and percussion, and a fantastic revolutionary vocal sample.

Sun and Sorrow is on a more driving tip, but maintains a familiar minor key motor city deepness. Also present here as a digital bonus is Sun and Sorrow Dub, an essential rework and a dub-wise dancefloor excursion for the heads.


Alena - Changes (Ron Basejam remix)

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