Coming through with over 3 hours of fun to close out the year, Kuta serves up an extended delight packed with treats for the whole family. Loaded with B-side goodies, Street Soul to Dancehall, alongside Brazilian, Ghanaian and Indian tips with a healthy dose of Boom-Bap all effortlessly looped in together. This finely mixed bag is smooth enough and long enough to keep you entertained for the entire silly season.

@anthonyc_kuta

LIFE CLASSICS 61 KUTA

Extasy Gate is a unique artifact: a one-of-one boxset, the only copy worldwide.
It contains 12 dubplates, 2 tracks each, 24 tracks in total.

Complete Boxset Tracklist (24 tracks):
a. You Are My Partner
b. My Mind, Your Mind
c. We R 9
d. I Lied Before
e. Playthis
f. Medi
g. Extasy Gate
h. L∞st
i. Electropical
j. Let’s Find Out?
k. Xcam
l. Devilshift
m. No Security
n. Psychotic Disorder
o. Within
p. Under Hypnotic Regression
q. PsychedelX
r. Newskin
s. Elam (Trance Mix)
t. The Human Control (Dub)
u. IMB [Trance Mix]
v. Tek–a–way
x. Everything We Could Be
y. Second Chance

All music & design by Inner Lakes (2020–2024).
Cover discovered in Leiden, October 2022.

Extasy Gate [clips]

Chez has a style that is hard to put your finger on, as Rio 017 well demonstrates. Recorded on the opening night of Bonanza, Chez kicked the terrace into action with a chuggy but cheerful selection of swampy groovers. 

Moving seamlessly from heads down tech house to breaks and EBM-ish numbers, Rio 017 is peppered with flecks of acid, swaying basslines and plenty of character. 

One to keep the summer flowing xx



Rio 017 - Chez de Milo (recorded live at Bonanza 2025)

Playlist:
Prelude (Original Mix) - Los Fulanos
The Healer - Uber Blanca
Look Like That (Ugo Banchi Extended Remix) - Sneaks
Fresco Beach (Franz Matthews Remix) - Flave
Bad Behavior (Original Mix) - Renato Cohen, Third Culture
Bounce (Original Mix) - Kiko, Olivier Giacomotto
Love On The Rocks (Extended Mix) - Corine, Daddy Squad
Kitkat Anthem (Seiun Remix) - Mystery Kid
Nostalgia (Original Mix) - Jordan Nocturne
Cosmonaut - My Secret Playground
Like That (Original Mix) - Borey, Oppaacha
Post Disco Italo Rave (Doctr Remix) - Tending Tropic
Fallen (Darlyn Vlys Remix) - Panthera
I Will Do It Again (Original Mix) - AFFKT, Brigado Crew

Compufunk Osaka 2025

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

Strange Cadence is an independent record label and event series run by @Middle-James, dedicated to showcasing the intersection of jazz, deep house, techno and leftfield electronic. Based in Sydney, the label is driven by a passion for groove-rich productions and live performances where musicality takes center stage.

This new mix series shines a spotlight on the vibrant Australian underground music scene, following with Eora/Sydney-based producer and DJ @nicche_music. Blending beautifully tuned techno frequencies with meditative, complex rhythms, this mix is both a sound bath and a dynamic exploration of genre fluidity. Nicche seamlessly weaves through techno, bass, house, dub, UKG, breaks, indie dance, jazz, funk, rap, and - most importantly - his own original productions. The result is a lush, intricate journey that’s unmistakably his. Dial in the low end, settle in, and get ready for over 2.5 hours of genre-bending soundscapes. Goosebumps guaranteed.

@nicche_music

https://www.instagram.com/strange_cadence

9:00 – 10:00pm
Monthly on the fourth Friday

www.blooplondon.com
www.facebook.com/blooplondon
www.youtube.com/blooplondon
www.twitch.tv/blooplondon
www.mixcloud.com/blooplondon
@blooplondon

Strange Cadence Radio #003 w/ Nicche - 22.08.25

Drum grooves left behind on the disk drive of an old SP1200, a rusted spring reverb and crates of dusty records, all boxed up in a distant relative’s workshop. @commandd has uncovered the first tracks in a series of forgotten gems of a distant relative, a craftsman inspired by the raw style of 90s house and techno.

On a mission to keep dancefloors moving, this long-lost relative’s productions find new life, with a hope to travel from city to city, deejays responsible for carrying sounds forged in the fire of an undeniable groove. 

The Vibesmith is the work of an alchemist with the freedom to embrace imperfection and find solace in tradition.

With no concern for passing trends, the Vibesmith went about thankless work at the forge, the fruits of their labour finally available for all to taste.”

Command D presents ‘Fever’, the first in a series of releases under his no muss, no fuss imprint ‘The Vibesmith’. Taking inspiration from Junior Byles’ 50s era joint, also called ‘Fever’, the track is a reinvigoration of an inescapable vibe sure to capture the attention of any willing dance floor.

The smith forges on, with no doubt many more to come.

‘The Vibesmith 001’ releases as a double single via Command D’s Bandcamp this Friday, August 29.

PREMIERE: Command D - 'Fever' [The Vibesmith 001]

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

fka boursin is the sort of musician we like. Understated, doesn’t take himself too seriously yet manages to channel real emotion and depth through music.

The sounds speak from themselves with Henry drawing upon influences from the likes of Dj Sprinkles, Basic Channel, old NY House music and after hours sounds.

The end result is a puzzle made up of pieces from each – all with evocative undertones throughout.

The latest release is out on Scissor & Thread – a suitable home for an eclectic, long playing selection of pensive tracks which leave food for thought.

This is music for late night moments alone, for foggy mornings and reflective moments.

fka boursin: The Ransom Note Mix

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DJ set at 'Electric Counterpoint' party, Compufunk, Osaka [15.07.18]
Flyer design by Yusuke Fukuda ( Compufunk Records / Deeperama )

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wada yosuke
mitsuki
dj compufunk

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