Name: BASHKKA (@bashkka)
Pronouns: SHE/HER
Location: MUNICH/BERLIN

Influences: EVERYDAY LIFE & PEOPLE

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: RESIDENT AT BLITZ CLUB, MUNICH

Favorite Quote: BE A VIBE.

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: IF YOU HAVE FUN WITH THE MUSIC YOU'RE PLAYING AND CREATING, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL. STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF AND YOUR CRAFT. ALWAYS REPRESENT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY BEFORE YOU REPRESENT FOR YOURSELF.

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Daisychain

Daisychain 231 - BASHKKA

Helena Hauff b2b Moopie at Miscellania

Recording of Identified Patient's set at Dekmantel Ten

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Identified Patient at Dekmantel Ten

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

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Bang (Original Mix)

Glitter and Gold - Extended Edit

I found my old files to one of my favourite albums I made called Rebitten By The Lizard when I went on Holiday to Lizard in Cornwall here in the UK. So I decided to reimagine all the main tracks into something a little more upbeat and covers rave genres House, Jungle/Drum & Bass and UK Funky. If you want to listen to the original album the links are below.

On Bandcamp

gasnolightprojects.bandcamp.com/album/rebitten-by-the-lizard

On Spotify

open.spotify.com/album/4SwPCPSMNXmazy4nf23FfP?si=xYHw9aX3SjONaMBslVCGFA

Helena Hauff - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 25/02/2017

Chris Wildblood