Name: All kinds of joy w Ays - 2nd August 2023 by Ays in ⭐️!!!!!
Duration: 58 min 21 s
Description: Selection of Soulful House music I've played during the first hour of my set at Futur Kappa in Torino.

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The newcomer 恵杜(keito)'s first Operator appearance, selecting feel-good disco and electronic tunes from all over the world that brightens your day.

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KEITO - 4th February 2023.mp3

Selection of Soulful House music I've played during the first hour of my set at Futur Kappa in Torino.

All kinds of joy w Ays - 2nd August 2023

Together with the female and non-binary collective Aan Tafel! deejay & interdisciplinary maker Zena-Rae will attempt to infect you with her joy for music. Her sound is genre fluid with bouncy basslines and surprising vocal samples. The selection ranges from ghetto house to upbeat hard grooves and whatever her little heart desires in between. Get ready to bounce along :)

Aan Tafel! w/ Zena Rae / 15-12-2023

Hailing from Brussels, Zouzibabe has quickly become a key actress in the city’s flourishing scene. This mix weaves through vivacious house and breaks tunes. Zouzibabe's music radiates optimism and spontaneity, always staying on the warm and funky side.

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Zouzibabe - 5th January 2024

Italorator is back on the Operator airwaves for one last time in 2024. This time, this in for an all-day special with guest mixes from the early sunrise to 4PM, followed by DJ sets live from the container with Italorator affiliates. All the action's in the chat!

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Italorator Special w/ Richelle Soigni - 30th December 2024

05.24.25 Ashton Swinton movement detroit stage

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

Part of the NTS family since day dot, Moxie has held her Wednesday show since the stations first broadcasts. Inviting esteemed guests for interviews & mixes and breaking new, unreleased music, she’s got your Wednesday afternoons covered... Tune in to hear anything from Soulful House, Garage, Afro beats and all the way through to rolling techno. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-27th-august-2025

Moxie w/ David Elimelech  270825

With great joy, we present the live recording of @massimilianopagliara, captured during 4 YEARS of PAX-ROMANA.

A true craftsman of sound and emotion, Massimiliano’s performance was the perfect soundtrack for sweaty upstairs vibes! We welcomed 'techno massi' already twice at PAX-ROMANA, however this time he showed also being a true master of blending house. A radiant journey through dance music at its finest.

Set time: 02:00 – 05:00

Enjoy listening! <3

Massimiliano Pagliara @PAX-ROMANA | RADION AMSTERDAM 2025.07.05

Recording of Palms Trax's closing set at RDC Stage on Saturday night.

RDC 092 - Palms Trax at Rainbow Disco Club 2025

Recording of HUNEE's set at the Selectors stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

HUNEE at Selectors - Dekmantel Festival 2025

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Murguía - Do You Dream (Original Mix) | Stripped Digital

Proud champions of community and inclusivity, Lakuti and Tama Sumo are long-time Dekmantel favourites and true underground bastions. Deep diggers and lifelong collectors, the iconic Panorama Bar dup built a reputation for sets where pretty much anything goes, as long as it has soul. And the way they mix it, with a rare instinct that pull their crowds in deep is what makes them one of the most revered back-to-back duos in the scene.
This week’s mix is yet more evidence of that: over 80 minutes, they blend old and new. Rooted in house but shaped by global travels, it moves through soul-soaked broken beat, classic US depths and Afro rhythms – always carried by an emotional rawness that resonates. A masterclass in both selection and flow from two of the best.

Dekmantel Mix 497 - Lakuti & Tama Sumo

Silicon Oasis

Elemental Vol. 1 moves through earth, air, fire, and water not as metaphors but as emotional states. The songs drift like weather systems, mixing tenderness with atmosphere - acoustic guitars and field-warm vocals meeting the pulse of understated techno rhythms. The production is deliberately porous: wood and wire breathing alongside soft synths and spectral drum-machine traces. It's an "acoustic techno" album in the sense that rhythm and resonance share the same dirt. The songs carry the physical textures of wind in rafters, gravel underfoot, or rain on a roof, yet they shimmer with digital light. This meeting of folk intimacy and electronic timbres gives the album its peculiar gravity - part back-porch confession, part after-hours heartbeat.

Lyrically, Elemental Vol. 1 abandons conventional pop architecture. Instead of verse–chorus–bridge repetition, each piece unfolds as a field poem - free-form, continuous, and responsive to its own inner weather. The writing treats structure as tide rather than grid: refrains return when they need to, not when they're told to. This openness lets the language breathe in sync with the natural imagery that drives it - storms, light, stone, silence - and invites listeners to inhabit the songs as evolving spaces rather than predictable forms. Across the various mixes of its six song poems - We Learn the Sky, Don't Sightsee This Heart, Be a Storm in Me, Til the Heat Is Gone, You Happen Like Weather, and Wild Gifts - the album traces the cycles of intimacy and impermanence, finding in their motion the same quiet power that turns seasons, wheels, and hearts.

Be a Storm in Me (IV)

- co-host Love Transmission Rotterdam 
- bi-monthly radioshow ‘All Kinds of Joy’ @ Operator Radio.
- crewmember Focus Listening.
- bookings: carlos@pontoonbookings.com

Ays's heartfelt selections blur the lines between dancefloor devotion and deep listening. She can play across an eclectic mix of disco, boogie, jazz, house, Afro and Brazilian or play straight up house sets, always guided by a love of musical storytelling and captivating vocal tracks. As a predominantly vinyl DJ, she skilfully traverses sounds and scenes while feeding off the energy of the dancers in front of her.

From her base in Rotterdam, Ays began her DJ journey through the world of listening sessions where she found inspiration in the quiet intensity of attentive audiences. She eventually leaned into more danceable sounds without sacrificing
musical richness and quickly gained recognition, landing her first bookings in 2022. Since then, she has doubled down on her craft and now plays notable events around Europe like Rainbow Disco Club, Drift Festival, Nuit Sonores, Lowlands Festival,
Kappa Futur, and North Sea Jazz.

Alongside Kuriosa, Ays organises Love Transmission, an intimate bi-monthly disco
night in Rotterdam that is dedicated to digging deep and amplifying soulful, foundational dance sound from the 70s and 80s. She also hosts All Kinds of Joy on Operator Radio, which is another chance for her to delve deep into a wide array of the music she loves, and occasionally works at the well-respected Offbeat Records.

Through her always eclectic but coherent sets, Ays brings a subtle celebration, unforgettable warmth and deep sense of joy to every space she plays.

All kinds of joy w Ays - 2nd August 2023

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