The crucial UK DJ looks to the influence of South Africa.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/779

RA Podcast: @SCRATCHADVA

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RA.779 Scratcha DVA

Flava D brings us into her world of garage, bassline, grime and, now, drum & bass.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/818

@flava_d

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RA.818 Flava D

Dubstep-tech hybrids from one of 2024's most forward-thinking breakouts.

Born in France to English parents, Beatrice M. is a product of two environments. And like many third culture kids, this lends the Rinse France resident and Bait label head a knack for seeing the realm of possibility beyond arbitrary borders and binaries.

Beatrice M. is a part of a wider cohort of artists spearheading an elastic take on dubstep: take Carré and Introspekt in the US, EMA in Dublin and Mia Koden in London, to name a few. Collectively, they are not only pushing greater representation and diversity, but ensuring a broader palette of sounds find home within the genre's renaissance.

Where dubstep got trapped down a brostep cul-de-sac in the early 2010s, 2020s already seems to be all about a charming phrase Beatrice M. employs: siblingstep. Their RA Podcast, a "full femme, non-binary, trans productions set," is testament to that.

RA.961 finds Beatrice M. embracing the softer, more intimate edges of their sonic world. There's cuts from Grace Jones and rRoxymore, a fresh tech-house venture under the alias B. McQueen and heaps of siblingstep. All in, it's an hour of past reverberations, present rhythms and glimmers of future horizons.

@beatricemasters

Read more at ra.co/podcast/961

RA.961 Beatrice M.

A dubstep legend roars back.

When dubstep ruled the roost in the late '00s, electronic music had no shortage of icons and spinoff variants to rally around. But one rumble from  Bristol stood out: the Purple sound. Popularised by Joker, AKA Liam Mclean, with Guido and Gemmy in support, it hit like a beam of bright light flooding through the basement dank.

When America cottoned onto bass quakes in the next decade, Mclean's taste for chiptune-coded synths and maximum intensity kept his vision alive at arena level, even while he retreated from view as an actively touring performer.

In 2023, "Tears," a collaboration with Skrillex and Sleepnet, helped remind the world just how much Joker's juddering sound could put us in a headlock. True to form, this year's gargantuan "Juggernaut"—Mclean's first solo single in six years—crashes through the speakers with as much glorious crunch as earlier classics like 2009's "Purple City."

Mclean has kept busy in the studio applying his perfectionist streak as a producer and engineer to many sound system anthems, which means his influence is never far from a dance floor being turned inside out. The fact that Joker had never laid down an RA Podcast before was, being honest, a blemish in our copybook. RA.962 fixes that in style.

@jokerkapsize

Read more at ra.co/podcast/962

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RA.962 Joker

Upfront UK Garage and Bassline 

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DJ Q @ The Lot Radio 07-25-2025

Bell Curve - 09 August 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

Bell Curve is back with another EP of boundary-pushing bass sounds, Magick, dropping July 9th on her new Raspberry Rhythms imprint. A lauded producer of playful yet finely honed bass music, Bell Curve’s most recent releases have seen praise in Bandcamp’s “Best Electronic Music of the Month” columns, DJ Mag, and more.

This EP sees Bell Curve continue in her diverse and distinctive musical approach, while expanding into new territory incorporating her own vocals into her productions. Namely, “Crush”, a sultry sub-wobbling roller featuring sprinkles of her murmuring, and “Magick (butterflies in my stomach)”, a playful narration of a night out to DJ, replete with Uber rides, friend coordination, and music-induced journeys through self love and hatred, insecurity, dreams, haters, and more, all the while anchored by the thumping, heavy 160 bpm beat. The rest of the EP touches on similarly diverse territory, like “New Me”, a majestic, vaguely halftime electro roller with incisive punches of bass, “Rollercoaster”, a high-octane, candy-coated grime track, and “Off The Net”, a playful but ironic footwork jungle ode to the terminally online.

Bell Curve’s productions defy simple categorization, pulling a wide range of bass-driven genres through her prismatic lens, and Magick EP is a further flex of her dynamism and eagerness to color outside the lines. With inspirations ranging from soundsystem culture and the hardcore continuum to raving, sci-fi, and beyond, her music is full of familiar sounds conceived in a new and uniquely personal way. The New York-based, Texas-raised producer is a “vanguard of the modern bass movement in North America” (Inverted Audio), and her prolific and wide-ranging output has earned her spotlight features on BBC 6 Music, releases on labels like Moveltraxx, Seilscheibenpfeiler (SSPB), and Dome of Doom, a SWU FM / Rinse FM radio residency, and more. With a plethora of music coming down the pipeline from Bell Curve, fans of her work have much to look forward to this year. 

credits
released July 9, 2025

songs written, performed, and mixed by Bell Curve
mastering by Beau at Ten Eight Seven

Cover Art Credits
Creative Direction & Design - Jean Pierre Consuegra @jeanpiconsuegra
Photographer - Hannah Lasure @llasure
Lighting assistant - Santiago Vanegas @saceni
Compositor - Sethy @ilovemygirlsmind
Shoot assistant - lysn @lysn.music

Rollercoaster

The NYC-based 2-stepper mixes up the tempo on this week's RA podcast.

RA.170 FaltyDL

The reggaeton sound of Mexico City.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=713

@laura-puentes

RA.713 Rosa Pistola

Fresh UK garage from the scene's breakout star.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=724

@conducta

RA.724 Conducta

producer and dj of alien bass sounds, NY via TX. SWU FM Resident, 2nd Saturday of the month 8PM GMT 3PM EST
bookings/contact - contactbellcurve@gmail.com

my labels-
@raspberry-rhythms
@worstbehaviorrecs

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