Name: DJ Barticus - Hip Songs For Snails by barticus
Duration: 1 h 20 min 19 s
Description: Photo by @joelprince | Courtesy of @AthensOhio

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Another "labour of love". I so LOVE this song. Spent a few months on this taking my time slicing n' dicing all the original multitracks & quantizing them all pretty much note by note, therefore "tightening up the band". It's now an even 114 BPM with a new intro and outro and a lot of 'me' type of programming and embellishments. Now updated to a 2022 version using 99% of all the original multi-tracks (except the kick).

DL 320 .mp3

"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" (Barry Harris Directors Cut 2022 Remix)

Live Recording. A b2b freestyle with @Metatmorphose. Direct support for the legend Opiuo at Otherworld Columbus, Oh. 2022

Opiuo2022 - SlothLove B2b Metamorphose

Liar

Vinyl set for Ecstatic Dance Athens, Ohio 11/10/2024

Ecstatic Dance Athens 11/10/24

This song is a collaboration between Justin Deremo (apple juice is a verb, ajiav) and M Deremo, performing here under the artist name "Ark-Ok-Kan-Mo Community Christmas Children's Choir", or AOKMCCCC if you prefer. This is a special song written just for the 2024 holiday season. 

Here are the lyrics if you'd like to sing along:

"It's Christmas again.
Again, it is Christmas.
Snowflakes and Christmas air everywhere.

A laughter. A song.
A reindeer. A pony.
All the year long,
it's all Christmas Day.

Bright lights and the crossfire of eggnog and cheese;
Sleep tight by the log fire, say 'thank you' and 'please'.

Open your presents, may the spirits all seize
on the idea and the feelings that the holidays bring."

christmas again

Ecstatic Dance Athens II 3/9/25

Ecstatic Dance III 5/10/25

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

4-track cassette recording of a guitar instrumental I wrote/recorded somewhere in my late teens or early twenties.  It's worth it to stick through to hear some of the faster bits.  The bigger influences on my guitar playing were:  spaghetti westerns, surf instrumentals, Frank Zappa, and Robert Fripp.  It probably had a different name at one time, but it was always kind of arbitrary.

Evening Surf

Photo by @joelprince | Courtesy of @AthensOhio

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