https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lres7mm7k8

Eden Burns Boiler Room X Beacon Festival

In the mix at the Midnight Lovers X Making Shapes open air party in downtown Los Angeles on April 29 2023

Shapes X Lovers, open air DTLA, April 29 2023

Detroit dance music thrives on intergenerational connections. In the late '70s and early '80s, the late Ken Collier mixed disco, soul and early electronic dance music in eye-opening DJ sets that left a mark on up-and-coming artists like Delano Smith. Once Smith established himself in the city's explosive techno community, he, in turn, influenced soon-to-be legends like Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, Jeff Mills, Norm Talley, Mike "Agent X" Clarke and others.

Now an elder statesman, Smith is etched into our history books as a crucial contributor to Detroit dance music, both house and techno. He's known especially for the Detroit beatdown sound he pioneered alongside Talley and Clark—slower, sexier records than what Detroit techno is generally associated for. (The trio even put out an RA Podcast under the name in 2010.) 

It's more recently that Smith has become known as a producer. He started his own label, Mixmode Recordings, and became a regular on Berlin imprint Sushitech, where he released many of his albums, including the jazzy deep house masterclass An Odyssey. His style has evolved over the years to incorporate ambient, dub and more contemporary techno influences.

More recently, Smith's career has been sidelined by an ongoing battle with a rare and untreatable form of cancer. He's hosted livestreams throughout his ordeal to keep in touch with his fans. His RA Podcast, which he calls his "Legacy Mix," is a celebration of his favourite sounds: euphoric chords, jacking drums and deep-space melodies, the elements that have and will continue to reverberate through Detroit and beyond. It also marks the beginning of a more hopeful period for Smith, as he gets ready to travel again, especially with his Legacy Detroit series, which celebrates the lineage he's an indelible part of, and always will be.

@delano_smith

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/914

RA podcast

RA.914 Delano Smith

www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=462

"A few eyebrows may have been raised when Job Jobse snuck into our top DJs of 2014 list, but for those who have seen him play over the past few years it won't have come as a surprise. Jobse gradually built his name as a resident DJ at the much-loved—and now defunct—Amsterdam nightclub Trouw. He was a regular at its predecessor, Club 11, and his party Drukpers was the first-ever event at Trouw when it opened in 2009. Five years later, Jobse brought the house down when he span the last-ever set at the club, something he describes below as "the biggest honour I can think of." In the intervening years he played a significant role in establishing Trouw as one of Europe's best clubs. His melodically rich mix of house, techno, disco and Italo soundtracked countless parties, and as the club's booker he helped shape the broad-ranging music policy that defined Trouw. Until recently he was also the label manager at Life And Death, the label that along with Innervisions has popularised a style of dance music that Jobse himself calls trance—or at least a form of it. In our recent Thoughts on 2015 piece, we said this style has become the dominant force in underground club music; with his international bookings stacking up, Jobse looks like he's now a key name in this movement."

Job Jobse - Resident Advisor Podcast / RA.462

Back in September, Erol Alkan joined us for a one-off OffBeat at Pikes, marking his debut in Freddies. Listen back to an hour from the night — Erol in his element, recorded live in one of Ibiza’s most iconic rooms.

Erol Alkan - Live @ OffBeat, Pikes Ibiza (04/09/2025)

https://www.beatport.com/release/dublucid-friends-vol-3/5634684

Every Time I Lose

That Feeling (Extended Mix) - [Free Download]

Recording from Tom Trago's set at Dekmantel's Lente Kabinet Festival 2016

Tom Trago at Lente Kabinet Festival (28/05/2016)

Recording from John Talabot's set at Dekmantel's Lente Kabinet Festival 2016.

John Talabot @ Lente Kabinet Festival (28/05/2016)

CENTER YOURSELF is a podcast series curated by Robert Johnson. Each episode is created by one of our regulars—some are made for this occasion and some are hand-picked from the club's own archive.

@andrew-weatherall
@roman-fluegel

In loving memory, we are happy to share this excerpt from Andrew Weatherall & Roman Flügel's all-nighter recorded at Robert Johnson in 2017.

Center Yourself 05 – Andrew Weatherall & Roman Flügel

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726 - Dixon - Live At Robert Johnson Volume 8 (2011)

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Shapes X Lovers, open air DTLA, April 29 2023

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