In the midst of another chilly, shut down and largely eventless Berlin-winter, Telephones kicks off 2022 with some much needed warm, positive and soulful vibes: Street Soul, Breaks, Hip-House and smooth downtempo favourites to get you good and heated up.

Broadcasted 12.01.2022
https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/telephones-12th-jan-2021

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back on air on NTS! thanks to the dungeon master Jamie Tiller for allowing me the privilege - cooked for an “italian special”, dedicated to the golden days of Rimini n’ Riccione and PSI’s finest Gianni de Michelis 🌹✨

TRACKLIST |
OttaEdits20 - Demichelis
Pizarro - Perdona Me (Original Vocal Mix)
Gas & Le. B - Tabu (H. 4 Suave Al Impetu)
OttaEdits3 - S'express
Marmalade - Mi Piace (Cluv Version)
Something - That I Really (Can't Tell You Mix)
Cisco Ferreira - Cisco's Groove
D H Pinhas - Babaji (Alex Version)
Paradise - Ay Que Rico (J-U-R Mix)
Another One - That I Really Can't Tell You (I'm Sorry Mix)
2 For Joy - In A State (Tropical Mix)
Master Freez - Get On The Move (Hip-House Mix)
Rainbow Intervention Of Sound - Journey Into The Night (Vocal Mix)

Jamie Tiller w/ Simone de Kunovich (4th July 2022) - NTS Radio (Channel 1)

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1h30 closing at After Mood in Bogota, Colombia
23/10/22

Antho - After party closing set @After Mood Bogota - 23/10/22

For someone who has been digging for obscure records, books and movies since his memory can remember, Simone de Kunovich still transmits the enthusiasm of the beginner.
In the past decade he’s managed to travel the globe far and wide, always on a hunt for blind rarities for his label and YouTube channel Ultimo Tango or playing shows in iconic clubs between London, Tokyo, Paris, New York or his home Milan.
His vast multi-disciplinary knowledge has made him an acclaimed tastemaker, who moves at the crossroads between cinema, music and design, always with a sharp taste for the unconventional.
Glimpses of this life-long research can be heard in his studio project “Mondo Nuovo”, inspired by 70s Exploitation movies and early electronics, or in his mixes for NTS Radio, fueled by 90s house gems – but still, in a world of cultural standardisation and predictability, the best way if you want to experience the wonderful tension of the unexpected is to catch him doing his thing beyond the decks.

Gop Cast 106 - Simone De Kunovich

My show for The Lot Radio recorded on the 31st of August 2024.

All tracks are unreleased from myself and friends.

Thanks to the people at The Lot for having me and to FH, August, Natal, Scott, Julius and Andy for sharing their fantastic music <3

xoxo 
c

C.K @ The Lot Radio (August '24)

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 masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and 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 rare combinations playing start-to-finish. 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 a 385-minute marathon 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. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers 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 practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

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

Recording of DJ Koolt's set at the Selectors stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

DJ Koolt at Selectors - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Spanning music, community and activism, Syrian-born, Holland-based Fafi Abdel Nour brings a voice that’s as shaped by Arabic heritage as his queerness. In this space between two worlds, his sound combines a host of influences from 90s house to breaks to body music, and dares to imagine better futures through an affirmation of community and those who live on society’s margins. Upbeat and rolling at steady stride, his sets pull off the kind of sonic miracles you’d hope for on the best of nights, euphoric and sensual house with a heavy measure of lucid percussion. He’s a Club Raum resident and the mastermind behind some of OOST, Groningen’s most hyped and queer-focused nights, HOMOOST and later, BUTTS, further vehicles for human connection, spaces for dreaming. Otherness is the fuel that fires his mission, a need to contribute his voice and create inclusive and safe spaces for people to come together. From Dekmantel to Panorama Bar, Lowlands to Bassiani, Fafi brings his positive message to world, a sure testament to music’s radical power for change. For Bassiani Podcast 286, this rising star delivers 67 minutes of transcendent and soaring house, a journey through shimmering synths and liberating melodies, a peak-time studio mix and firm reminder that for Fafi, ‘love is the message’.

@fafi_abdel_nour

Bassiani invites Fafi Abdel Nour / Podcast #286

Fafi Abdel Nour  - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Ch. 1 - A Long-Expected Party | The Fellowship of The Ring
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien

A Soundscape Audiobook by Phil Dragash
Root & Twig Studios

Find more masterworks read as full production audiobooks at:
https://soundcloud.com/rootntwig

Ch. 1 - A Long-Expected Party | The Fellowship of The Ring | The Lord of The Rings Audiobook

Block rockin’ beats 

instagram.com/combo_cornelia

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