In August, Ish, Rebs,I, Bettina, Robin and Elif visited Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre in Liverpool, UK. (thank you James Elsey for introducing us💕) We each did an hour long mix to listen together in our allocated slots and chosen spots.

I was down to play mine on Friday evening. After noticing that Friday evening immediately came with a certain (self-inflicted) Friday evening entertainment pressure, I wanted to make a mix to explore and challenge this initial expectation.

The drawing in the thumbnail image captures the feels and flow of it ~ it is a bit like a river, with streams coming in and out, at times without warning, quite abruptly, at times consistently, reconnecting with some previous threads.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Ps. In 2020, I came across an online event called “𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨: 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙉𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚” where I came across Adam Wolfond’s work.

It had left such an impression on me, that after 2 years, when reflecting on how time is conventionally perceived and structured due to reflecting on what a "Friday night mix" should be, I immediately, 🪨🌊🪨🌊🪨/recalled his poem: “𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣…”

I thank Adam and his mum for letting me use his poem at the start of the mix and you can find robin’s lovely mix on soundcloud (@𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙩). Others haven’t shared yet 🙃

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Trcacklist:

Fauzia - ‘When It's All Over’ (feat. Kelela)
Adam Wolfond - ‘Time is perceived by the appreciation of language, but I am pace of my body and not language’ read by Estée Klar at Neurodivergent Poetics: Four Nonspeaking Autistic Poets Reinvent Language

Zakir Hussain - ‘The Zen of Space’
Niagara - ‘Ano-A’

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Weliin - ‘I’

Codona - ‘Codona Moon Dog’
Okay Temiz Oriental Wind - ‘Dere Geliyor’ extract from Budapest Festival concert

Leafor Legov - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ (final track from Live at Studio R) 
Barbar Streisand - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
David Bowie - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
Billy MacKenzie, Steve Aungle - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
Wild Is The Wind movie intro

The Caretaker - Libet’s Delay

Cousin - ‘B Moon’

Sweet Exorcist - ‘Testone’
AN VOKAL - ‘Dere Geliyor’ 
Johanna Billing - ‘Magical World’

Transcendental Love Machine - ‘Hypnotica’ (Arms of Shiva)

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A mix from Apiento and Alex Kassian for the 2023 edition of Transmission to Tisno – a B2B mix series, shared ahead of Love International.

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Transmission to Tisno: Apiento b2b Alex Kassian

The breezy sound of the Canadian Riviera, from Mood Hut's Pender Street Steppers.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-10th-december-2024

Pender Street Steppers 101224

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

Hessle Audio with Pearson Sound feat. Richard Akingbehin (Live from Open Ground) - 21 July 2025

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

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

Flørist - 0500 Didube

A singular DJ crafts a bold three-turntable mix.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=679

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RA.679 DJ Marcelle

Uma profunda viagem musical por discografias de artistas que são parte da essência musical do DJ Eduard, um dos nossos favoritos. Todo mês um novo mix.

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Tracklist:

1. DJ Sprinkles ‎– Midtown 120 Intro [Mule Musiq, 2009]
2. DJ Sprinkles – Untitled [Comatonse Recordings, 2004]
3. Terre Thaemlitz – Raw Through A Straw [Instinct Ambient, 1994]
4. Terre Thaemlitz – Meditation On Wage Labor And The Death Of The Album (Sprinkles&#39;
Unpaid Overtime) [Comatonse Recordings, 2012]
5. DJ Sprinkles ‎– Reverse Rotation [Mule Musiq, 2009]
6. Terre Thaemlitz – Cry The Clock Said [Mille Plateaux, 1999]
7. Terre Thaemlitz – F/S (Fragment) [Caipirinha Productions, 1997]
8. DJ Sprinkles – Sisters, I Don&#39;t Know What This World Is Coming To [Mule Musiq, 2008]
9. Terre Thaemlitz – Canto IV: Two Letters [Comatonse Recordings, 2012]
10. Adultnapper feat. Big Bully – Low Point On High Ground (DJ Sprinkles Rock Bottom
Mix) [Simple Records, 2010]
11. DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs. by Rail From Missouri) [Mule Musiq, 2009]
12. Terre&#39;s Neu Wuss Fusion – Thirty Shades Of Grey [Mule Electronic Distribution, 2006]
13. Terre Thaemlitz – Trucker [Instinct Ambient, 1995]
14. DJ Sprinkles – Brenda&#39;s 20$ Dilemma [Mule Musiq, 2009]
15. Chugga – Theme For The Buck Rogers Light Rope Dance (Deep Space Probe Remix By
Terre Thaemlitz) [Mule Electronic Distribution, 2006]
16. Frank &amp; Tony With DJ Sprinkles – Companion [Scissor and Thread, 2014]
17. Terre Thaemlitz – Names Have Been Changed Names Have Been Changed (Sprinkles&#39;
House Arrest) [Comatonse Recordings, 2018]
18. Terre Thaemlitz – Admit It’s Killing You (And Leave) (Sprinkles&#39; Dead End) [Comatonse
Recordings, 2018]
19. DJ Sprinkles – House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own [Mule Musiq, 2008]
20. Terre Thaemlitz – Liberation Model [Mille Plateaux, 1999]
21. Terre Thaemlitz – Morgen Spaziergang [Mille Plateaux, 1999]
22. Terre Thaemlitz – Fat Chair [Instinct Ambient, 1994]
23. Nina Simone – See-Line Woman (Terre Thaemlitz Edit) [Comatonse Recordings, 2004]
24. Hardrock Striker – Motorik Life (DJ Sprinkles&#39; Mountain Of Despair) [Skylax, 2011]

Eduard plays TERRE THAEMLITZ

Hunee - 6 Tracks for Underground Paris

Waiting for our gig together in London on June 7th, http://www.ilovethenest.com/jeremy-underground-paris/, - 
I had this idea: I should record a mini selection of 6 tunes that I think he would love - and vice versa. So here we go! 

Cooking up a meal for a friend and fellow deejay, no one stays hungry!

6 Tracks for Underground Paris

1. Joki Freund Sextet - Yogi Jazz 
* The only jazz record in this selection (thanks MCDE for the heads up on this one...). A long german modal workout, a type of jazz i hope you will enjoy.

2. Pedro Santos - Desengano da Vista 
* Jeremy, being a certified brazil collector and lover, you are hard to impress. I still burned my fingers to include two brazilian cuts. This one here, being a very deep and hopefully unknown shortie to you.

3. Jorge Ben - Katarina 
* Jorge Ben, so many great albums, and probably an obvious cut, but so good and shifting the mix towards a more uplifting side. I think I remember we talked about this record while being stuck in classic parisian traffic and you didnt know "the one with him and the dog on the cover".

4. The Brief Encounter - Get A Good Feeling 
* A rare album, recently reissued from the Jazzman. A funky boogie cut, a good feeling, a band at its peak, a dancefloor set on fire. 

5. Jr. Tucker - Take A Message (From My Body)
* This has been an emotional rocket ever since I heard it (big up to Volcov). A one-dollar nugget, something i can see you might be putting on for all the bodies!

6. Mr. Fingers - Stars (1992 Version)
* A 1992 Version of this Larry Heard monster. An end of the night flight, had to squeeze in one house thing for you. Fasten your seatbelts, Underground Paris is about to take off!

I have no idea of what Jeremy selected for me, we agreed to upload the mixes at the same time :) excited!

Jeremy's answer: https://soundcloud.com/underground-paris/6-tracks-for-hunee

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