My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

Having crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat and toured all over North America by bus and train, Nono Gigsta attempts to translate the adventure through music. 

https://www.instagram.com/gigstab
https://www.soundcloud.com/gigstab



Nono Gigsta @ The Lot Radio 06-27-2025

DJ Papaya - The Ever Afters Campout 2025 - Yurt

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PLO Man and Physical Therapy @ The Lot Radio 07-16-2025

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Netherlands legend DJ Marcelle's sets are as eclectic as they get. At this year's Horst Arts & Music, she brought two hours of experimental punk, dub, techno and everything in between.

@marcelle
@horstartsandmusicfestival

RA Live - DJ Marcelle - Horst Arts & Music 2025, Belgium

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Tracklist: bit.ly/3JchQiC

a.k.a. "box takes a year off festival season" roadtrip mix
Safe travels!

lubs,
box

boxofbox - drinking oxygen through the dust

@aele___
@como-se-dj

Our description ahead of the party below, and it was everything we hoped it would be: sexy, romantic, sweaty, intimate, but we know they could've played for another three hours.  Let's call it part one...to be continued...
"We were so impressed by the b2b set that aka-Sol and como se DJ  played at the last Dripping club night at Nowadays – dubby, mysterious, sexy, full of a patient tension as if they could do this all night – that we wanted to hear it again, on the intimate scale of Fiber, in this space with our favorite freaks."

como se DJ & aka-Sol live at Fiber vol. 10

The recording is from a night at Ohm back in March put on by Kontinuum and New World Dysorder. I remember feeling so comfortable with the space and the crowd who were up for good sound system pushing fun going freely through everything from d&b and elektro to freetek and jungle. Also shoutout to Ohm for always providing a solid vinyl setup!
---- @abnama

subglow/Live 5: Abnama @ Ohm

pi/live: Mike Midnight @ Ballet in NYC 05-18-2025

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(recent past)
2024/02/29 NYC Tower @ Bossa w/ Tristan Arp, Surgery & DJ Deadname
2024/02/28 NYC. Boydzone w/ Nick Boyd
2024/01/13 PITT Transit @ Hot Mass w/ John Ricci b2b Joey Kilona
2023/11/19 NYC Sorry Recs @ Bossa Nova b2b Nick Boyd w/ Physical Therapy
2023/06/10 NC Rise From Your Graham w/ Bill Converse, Loner.9, etc.
2023/03/18 NYC Good Room w/ C.Powers, Sav.g, Escaflowne, Fleet Dreams, Third Self, Nick Boyd
2023/03/16 NYC Market Hotel w/ T.Wan, Precolumbian, Joni, Permission Crew, emme, Celes
2022/09/11 NYC Public Records w/ NSA & Boo Lean
2022/06/11 Stream Informer IRL @ Glen Falls House, NY
2022/05/14 Slingshot Festival, Durham NC
2022/04/30 Unrivaled Groove, Durham NC w/ Paàl, Sunmoonstar
2021/12/17 Throb @ Kremwerk, Seattle, WA w/ Ro & grymnk
2021/11/13 Chapel Hill, NC Schmancy @ The Nightlight
2021/10/14 Sweet Escape II
2021/03/11 BOX MASS for Not Mass/Hot Mass PGH w/ T.Wan, gymnk, Ro, XC-17, Ebb
2020/07/04 Club Matryoshka on currents.fm COMMON w/ Donkey Milk, DV-i, belle-stardust, fica
2020/05/30 Baby Rave II (Insugeography twitch) w/ DJ Gretta, Grymnk, Scztt
2020/05/03 Baby Rave (Insugeography twitch) w/ Ro, Grymnk, Scztt & Ben Kudler
2019/11/16 Carouse 8 Afterparty, NC w/ Ellen Degenerate & nicoes
2019/10/05 Drift vs Volume @ The Nightlight, NC w/ Nadia Khan, Spongebath, Gallimaufry, DJ Ladyfingers, Vitamin G