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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

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

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘 - Today we premiere "Insecta" from Luigi Tozzi, part of his new split EP with Rrose, out on beautiful white vinyl on Technokunst Records. True to the Italian producer's legendary reputation, the track builds the perfect type of hypnosis: constant microscopic changes, icy textures, it is the time of building block that transports any set to a different place. Enjoy.

Artist: Luigi Tozzi
Track Name: Insecta
Record Label: Technokunst Records
Catalog Code: TKST001
Mastering: Gio @ Artefacts Mastering
Buy Link: https://www.technokunst.hu/technokunst-records/#purchase
Release Date: 2025.09.19 (vinyl), October, 2025 (digital)

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𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘 | Luigi Tozzi - Insecta [TKST001]

Episode 106 of the MindTrip Podcast is here. Pfirter welcomes Stephanie Sykes, the Uk born, Berlin-based producer, DJ, and selector. Known for her raw, hypnotic sound, Stephanie has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary techno, with performances at iconic clubs all over and a residency at Tresor Berlin.
Enjoy 1 hour of uncompromising music exclusively crafted by Stephanie Sykes.

This is MindTrip!

01.Bjarki - A Guide To Hellthier Lifestyle [Differance]
02.Decoder - Sunya [Delsin Records]
03.Linear System - Bottom Left. [Room Trax]
04.Radar - XxxX [Logia Sound Collective]
05.adner_no.name - SMK [Fides]
06.Cirkle - Shadows Of The Past [Sublunar]
07.DJ SUN - Layers Of Emptiness [Otium Records]
08.LUAR - The Locked Room [Observant]
09.Vekh - Akiko (Jonas Kopp Remix) [Virescence Records]
10.Mary Yuzovskaya - Ittiologia (CONCEPTUAL Remix) [Monday OFF]
11.Temudo - Meteora [Fuse Imprint]
12.Augusto Taito - Endless Flow
13.Vxlr - Splitter [EVILGROOVE]
14.dc11 - Florus [TH Tar Hallow]
15.Augusto Taito - Jaws [ K S R ]
16.Antic Soul, OFF / GRID & Jancen - Powerglide [Planet Rhythm]
17.Sigvard - Temporal Flux (Danny Rabbit Remix)[Evilgroove Records]
18.Luar - Echo [Observant] 
19.Norbak - Sinto [Clergy]
20.Introversion - Burden [ARTS]

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MindTrip Podcast 106 - Stephanie Sykes

Here is our full premiere of track B2 from the first release of Technokunst Records. This is Luigi Tozzi's rework of Rrose's original track 'Elastic Flame', a club-tested weapon that already made waves on dancefloors.

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Split Series 01 | Rrose & Luigi Tozzi | Technokunst Records (TKST001)

Release Date ─ Vinyl: 2025.09.19
Release Date ─ Digital: October 2025.

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Release Info:

Format ─ Limited edition 12” 180gr white vinyl in full colour sleeve and including a 12" insert.
Catalogue Number ─ TKST001
Number of Copies ─ 350
Writing & Arrangement ─ Rrose & Luigi Tozzi
Mastering ─ Gio @ Artefacts Mastering
Lacquer Cut ─ Simon @ The Exchange
Pressed By ─ Record Industry
Distributed By ─ Triple Vision
Artwork ─ Dorka Berkes & Skeamworks

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘 | Rrose - Elastic Flame (Luigi Tozzi Rework) | Technokunst Records (TKST001)

Born and raised in Rome, Luigi Tozzi is undoubtedly one of the most prolific and outstanding talents of his generation to come out of Italy. Slip into any record store worth its salt, or clubs from Tbilisi to Lisbon and you’ll find traces of his work there; his signature sound has sold its share of records true, but also deeply influenced the work of many of his contemporaries. His expansive compositions intimately tied to the space they’re heard in, circling in perfect arcs below the water’s surface, where sunlight becomes scarce and a connection with sound paramount. Reformulating not only dub. techno and ambient, but a trove of memories diving off the coast of Sicily’s neighbour Salina (and with the help of analog digital tools, VSTs and controllers during live performances), Tozzi has developed a mastery for hypnotic rhythms like nothing you’ve heard before. His close working relationship with Swedish output Hypnus, as well as Outis and Non-Series have pushed his aquatic sound to it’s absolute limit, creating a world of poignant textures that have given his genre the gift of new horizons. Here he visits the Podcast for an epic 128 minutes that delve into his abyssal world, haunting rumbles and immersive techno, a ghostly, shimmering live-set recorded at Bassiani.

@luigitozzi

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