Vibe Shift CC 102

Inspired by my recent sets for SATISFACTION w/ Spiñorita and STARDUST w/ Shaun Ross, Ashley Younniä, KG Superstar & more... both in DTLA. Deep, percussive, soulful house meant to inspire maximum JOY and HAPPINESS.

TRACKLISTING

WAJATTA - ALL I NEED IS YOU
STACY KIDD - NOBODY
KERRI CHANDLER - CORO (KAOZ 623 DARK MIX)
GEOFFREY C - THIS IS HOT (COFLO EDIT)
JORJA SMITH X DENNIS FERRER - LITTLE THINGS (JOSH PEACE ‘FISH GO DEEP’ EDIT)
LOUIE VEGA & NICO VEGA - HOW HE WORKS (COFLO REMIX)
BRANDY - FULL MOON (SOUL CLAP REMIX)
ELISA ELISA - WHISTLE ME
HONEYLUV & ROLAND CLARK - THIS IS MY LIFE (BONTAN REMIX)
DJ MORSY & KOKO DOZO - SHINE
JO PACIELLO - CONCENTRATE & RELAX (MO’CREAM REMIX)
BLAZE - BREATHE (LIQUID PEOPLE PRESENTS DANISM REMIX)
RUFF DRIVERZ - DREAMING (KNEE DEEP REMIX)
CRACKAZAT - BACK FOR YOU (MANA’S DUB - JP EDIT)
ERIC KUPPER - THE GOODNESS
MARC COTTERELL - DEEPHA (PLASTIK FACTORY VOX MIX)
RALPH SESSION & JULIET MENDOZA - FREAK
THE BELIEVERS - WHO DARES TO BELIEVE IN ME? (TOM FLYNN EDIT)
GIDEÖN & RUSH DAVIS - THE FALL OF ROME (RELENTLESS CNT DUB)
EARL JEFFERS & BYRON THE AQUARIUS - EIRA (TRU MIX)
ANITA BAKER - THE BEST THAT I’VE GOT (REGGIE STEELE REMIX)
KELELA - CONTACT (KAREN NYAME KG REMIX - JP EDIT)

STARSHINE - JULY 2024

1. Dreamin' - Kai Alcé (2015)
2. Take Life Easy - Bas Roos (2017)
3. The Feeling - Franck Roger (2016)
4. I Want - DJ Steaw (2018)
5. Move That Body - Danny Tenaglia & Cevin Fisher (2001)
6. The Number 1 (Harry Romero Remix) - Paul Darey, Joe Red (2022)
7. Tonight (Louie Vega Bronx Dub) - Musclecars (2024)
8. Apaga A Luz (Two Soul Fusion Remix) - Tony Touch (2023)
9. To The Baseline - Murk, DJ Sneak (2014)
10. Judy Russell Red - DJ Sneak (1999)
11. City of All - Makèz (2021)
12. High Notes - Ladymonix (2020)
13. Odyssey - Freestyle Orchestra (1991)

Butt Dial - September 2024

The smartbar affiliate talks to the Fool's Gold Records founder about climbing the ranks, DJ discourse and how to exist in commercial and underground scenes simultaneously.

This week's RA Exchange takes us to Chicago, where two big names—The Blessed Madonna and A-Trak—have a chat ahead of their back-to-back set at underground institution smartbar last month. These are two DJs who have been around the block. The Blessed Madonna (FKA The Black Madonna) is originally from Kentucky, but made her name in Chicago. She started out as an intern at smartbar and working at the local label Dust Trax, later becoming lead A&R and an established DJ in her own right. 

A-Trak is a Canadian artist who cut his teeth as head honcho of Fool's Gold Records. He's known for having developed the careers of artists like Kid Cudi and Danny Brown, and he also formed Duck Sauce with Armand Van Helden, a project synonymous with the bloghouse era. 

The two have a long history with Chicago, and they engage in a discussion about how they think the city looks from the outside. As one of the most segregated cities in the US, they say, what the rest of the world sees as one cohesive and unified hub for house music is instead divided by genre and area code. They also debate the complexities of existing in commercial and underground music worlds simultaneously, our collective over-fetishisation of the past, the stupidity of DJ discourse and Europe's tendency to impose its view of America—and American dance music—on the Midwest. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.734 A-Trak & The Blessed Madonna

1. Believe (feat. Jocelyn Brown) - Ministers De La Funk (1999)
2. Believe (Ministers Beats Mix) - Ministers De La Funk (1999)
3. So Lonely (Original Mix) - Harry and Alex (2000)
4. Magnon (What About Our Love) - Constipated Monkeys (1997)
5. World Changes (Bitch in Boots Big Mix) - DJ Sneak (2024)
6. Nuff Weight - Demuir (2024)
7. Sunday School (Extended Mix) - Bushwacka! (2023)
8. I Heard It Through The Bassline - Tiger Stripes (2024)
9. Byrdman’s Revenge (Remix) - Mike Delgado (1997)
10. Luv Drug (Hatiras Remix) - Jay Vegas (2014)
11. High Over You (feat. IMMA/MESS) - Hannah Holland (2018)
12. Early Days of House - Raffaele Ciavolino (2024)
13. Kill Frenzy - Fouk (2017)
14. Gratitude (Original Mix) - Makez (2020)
15. To Be in Love (Full Intention Edit) - Masters At Work (1997)
16. Where Love Lives (Classic Mix) - Alison Limerick (1991)
17. If (Brothers In Rhythm House Mix) - Janet Jackson (1993)

Butt Dial - October 2024

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

Tim very kindly asked us to come on Beats In Space and we took the chance to do something a little different and record a live mix of some of our unreleased material from the past 4 years, really to just give people an insight into some of the other bits 'n' bobs we work on but don't actually put out. The mix does include a few forthcoming tracks and remixes too. 

The mix has been mastered by Kevin McKay

BICEP'S SPECIAL UNRELEASED LIVE MIX

01. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 1 (Feat. Sheriff)
02. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 2
03. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 3
04. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 4
05. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 5
06. Bicep - Unreleased Remix No.1
07. Bicep - Unreleased Remix No.1 (2nd Version)
08. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 6
09. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 7 (Lost In The Harddrive Failure)
10. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 8
11. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 9
12. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 10
13. Bicep - Unreleased Track No. 11

An' you can listen to us talk a loada aul shite before an after on the show here:
http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/646

BICEP | BEATS IN SPACE (BICEP'S UNRELEASED TRAXX)

Butt Dial is the transatlantic sound of deep house and soul, brought to life by Eugene Parks (NYC) and Rob Devlin (Manchester). Forged in the dimly lit basements of Manchester and the underground clubs of New York, our sound is a blend of everything we’ve loved and lived over 25 years of crate digging, DJing, and promoting. Butt Dial is our love letter to the DJs and producers who’ve shaped our journey, a celebration of peace, unity, and the deep grooves that connect us all.

Butt Dial - September 2024

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