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1 hour of some music *not the same as the cassette*  made it just as special tho the mixing is ehh but give it a listen anyway ! 
big thanks to everyone who took a chance and bought a cassette i owe so much to you guys. so much love thank you x100
more music soon 2

tommy bohn on the art work
written, mixed + recorded at caprice recordings

not a fast trax.

track list

BANK OF AMERIKKKA prod fresco
3:16 
BOUT IT prod dj orange julius 
TEM'S FLIP prod 454
CASTS OF A DREAMER prod joy
MIKE CARROLL prod 454
PAIN prod joy
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL prod 454 
BETWEEN US prod chase alex
EXTRAORDINAIRE FT. PIG THE GEMINI prod 454
SPIKE’S HOTLINE... prod 454 
GLOBETROTTER prod dj rob a
OUTSIDE THE GAME prod 454 
COMMON DENOMINATOR FT. TUTU prod 454 
NIGHTMARE INTERLUDE prod 454
M.F.G FT. WOODYINTL prod 454
MOVING TOO FAST FT. PIG THE GEMINI
AMIGA prod gatorface

side b

HOW COULD YOU BLAME ME? prod 454
DUCK DUCK GOOSE (ALL LOVE) prod 454
MOTO CITY BAG
GUSHERS & GO KARTS
FYL FT. PIG THE GEMINI
WYWD 
CLOSE2ME prod 454
PAO DOCE FT. TUTU prod 454
BITTERSWEET 
OUTCAST 
LOST 43V3R prod 454
DR5 prod gatorface

CASTS OF A DREAMER [FULL TAPE]

Footwork (and a jungle track or two) to warm you up on a cold winter day -- recorded live at N-Between Bar in #thecity on January Seventeenth Twenty-Twenty-Five.

SNOWSTEPPER MIX ~*(mausam @ N-Between 2025-01-17)*~

For the yearners. Tracklist at: https://spinitron.com/WBAR/pl/20268814/Kuch-Kuch

KUCH KUCH S2 EP 1: ALL ABOUT LOVE

RUSHHOUR for ASTROTURF Spring Equinox @ Mood Ring *[(2025-03-21)]*

BLESS YOU.    06/06/25

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

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