A huge thanks to Paul and the team over at Spiritland, King's Cross. Here's a loungey, down-tempo all-vinyl, mid week set. Playing some of my favourite records and soundtracking the space with now iconic gold rotary mixer. Sit back and hit play. 

Tracklist: 

Alessandra & the Atomic Crocus - Ombilic Contact 
Seu Jorge & Almaz – Everybody Loves the Sunshine 
Barry Biggs – Love Come Down 
Jim – Phoenix 
Tom Misch – Gypsy 
Roger Roger – Safari Park 
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won’t Do For Love 
Peter & Patrik Jahn - 
Abenteuer Überm Schrank (P.J. Junior's 2020 Version)
Donna Summer – State of Independence 
Tristano Francesco – Stings of Life 
Jose Feliciano – California Dreamin’
Christine Lewin – Juicy Fruit 
Claudia Barry – Love for the Sake of Love (Mike Maurro Mix) 
Al Charles – Outstanding 
Fila Brazilla – Subtle Body 
Rosebud – money 
Rare Silk – Storm
Carly Simon – Why 
Allen Toussait – Night People 
Payfone – Sofian
Edgar Broughton Band – Mr Crosby 
Gloria Anne Taylor – Love is a Hurting Thing
Toto – Georgy Porgy 
Risque – Starlight 
Teedra Moses – Be Your Girl 
Will Powers – Adventures in Success 
Charlottle Adigery – 1,618 
Steve Riech – Electric Counterpoint 
Photek – Modus Operandi 
Tvonne Archer – Ain’t Nobody (Jura Soundsystem Edit) 
Pink Rhythm – Melodies of Love 
James Asher – Catwalk
Christian Bruhn - Wetten, dass...?
Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together (Pressure Drop Remix ) 
Out Cold – All I Want (Ewan Pearson Dub Mix) 
Simone – Mebsouta 
The Family Stand – Ghetto Heaven (Jazzie B & Nellie Hooper Mix) 
Minako Yoshida – Midnight Driver 
Dennis Parker – Like An Eagle 
Cymande – Brothers on the Slide 
The Jourbert Singers – Stand on the World (acapella) 
En-To-End – Money Talks (All-Dayer Mix) 
Sea-Level - Fifty Four 
Chilly Gonzales – Cut D*ck 
Jazztronik - Samurai (Piano)

Discothèque Credits at Spiritland - 3.5 Hours Recording

Christine Renée is a music curator and selector who's sets could be described in trippy textures, vibrant colors and enjoyed most by surrendering to their singular depth of field. (TX, NY, CA, BXL)

For the Birds w/ Christine Renée & Danny Wang @ Kiosk Radio 10.11.2023

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Gimme The Track (Doo Doo Brown)

Manu Archeo @ Mix Bistrò (07.06.2024).

Mixed & compiled by Manu Archeo.
      
01. George Solar - Moonbeams
02. Pablo Color & Berlin Lama - Solaris
03. Khartomb - Swahili Lullaby (Synkro's Balearic Dub Mix)
04. Sewell & The Gong - Better Words
05. Sewell & The Gong - Better Words (Wallace Remix)
06. Common Saints - Dreams
07. Fureby, Moscoso & Faber - Halcyon
08. Lexx Feat. Stimulator Jones - Right By My Side (JD's B Boy Fantasy Mix)
09. Lorenzo Fortino & Brody - Da Qui Al Mare
10. Mike Salta & Mortale - Bon Abantu
11. Bel - Ready To Die (Mudd's Extended Mix - Blank & Jones Edit)
12. Hear & Now - Chimaera
13. Gratts - Jour De Fête (Conrad Idjut's Quokka Dub)
14. hubbabubbaklubb - Eddie & Suzanne (Eddie C's Motorbike Remix)
15. Jona Jefferies - Es Camp (Max Essa Romantic Break Mix)
16. Achillea Feat. Luisa Fernandez – Vivir
17. Hole In One - Spiritual Ideas for Virtual Reality (Original Mix)
18. Hole In One - Spiritual Ideas for Virtual Reality (AW Mellow Massive Mix)
19. Enigma - The Rivers Of Belief (Extended Version)
20. Beaumont Hannant - Ormeau (Manu Archeo Extended Edit)
21. Cola Boy - Do You Dream In Cola? (Full Lenght)

Manu Archeo @ Mix Bistrò (I - 07.06.2024)

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

Before I Go

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Arthur Adams - You Got The Floor (dennis Jr edit)

Walking to Red Light Records is a trip in itself. The streets seem to growl as open mouthed tourists jostle with indifferent locals and shop windows proudly display the biggest dildos you can venture to imagine, the air is thickly scented with indicas and sativas. The velvet curtained doors are either closed for privacy or open for business, all enveloped by the ever present red glow. 

Next door to Amsterdam’s oldest building, the Oude Kerk, you will find Red Light Records. When inside much beauty will unfold, as your ears are treated to the most discerning sounds for your listening pleasure. 

This selection tries to capture the feeling of going on a trip to Red Light Records, featuring some favourite finds picked up in the shop over the years.   

Merry Christmas!

Din Daa Daa & Red Light Records

For more Din Daa Daa mixes check https://soundcloud.com/dindaadaa

December Jams 2018 - Guest Mix Din Daa Daa

+++ posted with kind permission of Marsha Stern (copyright holder) +++
...an epic 6.5 hour DJ set by legendary DJ Roy Thode at the even more legendary night club "The Saint" where dance music history was written. This is a special, so-called "morning music" set.

Quote from Tim Lawrence about this:
Robbie Leslie: "At around 6:00 AM, in a ritual that was not replicated in other venues, the DJ would let the final record of the peak set fade, accept applause from the crowd and acknowledge the work of the lighting person and the generosity of the crowd (if indeed the applause was enthusiastic, which wasn’t always the case). After that, the DJ would take the tempo right down and play a set that was commonly referred to as “sleaze” or “morning music”."
[taken from "The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84"]
http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/2/the-forging-of-a-white-gay-aesthetic-at-the-saint-1980-84-dancecult

...and Barry Walters on RBMA:
"As the night progressed, the tempo and intensity increased by tiny, nearly imperceptible increments until climaxing around 6 AM, when the DJ would stop the music and the still-sizeable crowd would applaud as if giving a Broadway cast their standing ovation.

Then the DJ would resume, but at a somewhat slower tempo, and in a more lyrical and romantic style known as “morning music.” In a morning music set, the tempo of the tracks might build again, but typically not their intensity. Instead, DJs programed morning sets to ease dancers off stimulants and take them down an ethereal, more relaxing and soulful path for several more hours. Then the jock would usually take another encore, henceforth playing what many call “sleaze.” Sleaze might be overtly sexual, like Skatt Bros.’ “Walk the Night,” but usually not; its foundation was openhearted R&B; songs of longing, or regret, or sorrow or unmitigated joy.

This misnomer – Leslie emphatically objects to it – was especially deceptive because quintessential “sleaze” selections like Sharon Ridley’s “Changin’” or Viola Wills’ “Somebody’s Eyes” ranked among the evening’s most sensitively arranged tracks. Even when club music lost much of its compositional sophistication as the decade progressed, a “sleaze” set always radiated class. "
[taken from: "Nightclubbing: New York City’s The Saint"]
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saint

Roy Thode - Morning Music at The Saint (6.5 hours!) NYE 1981/82

Given away as a promo CD in early 2004. 

A problem with the first upload of this meant there are dropouts in many of the copies, so here it is clean from the original CD.

A Slow Blow (2004)

This DJ set was streamed to Facebook Live on May 26, 2020 It covers the range of a typical end-of-night sleaze set after a long sweaty evening spent on the dance floor, in the tradition of many legendary NYC gay clubs.

Artwork courtesy of @tomozonyc_art (IG) 

===============Track Listing==================

Baby Let Me Kiss You (Album Version) - Fern Kinney [Malaco]
In Your Wildest Dreams - Tina Turner Feat. Barry White [Parlophone]
Love For The Sake Of Love - Claudja Barry [Salsoul]
Emotion - Merry Clayton [MCA]
Red Eye (DJ Spinna Blissed Out Remix) - KING [Wonderwax]
Right Here / Human Nature (Extended Mix) - SWV [white]
(They Long To Be) Close To You - Gwen Guthrie [Polydor]
Slave To The Rhythm (Don't Cry) - Grace Jones [Island]
Living in the Jungle - John Tropea [TK]
Jungle Talk - Bob Chance [Morrhythm]
Let Me Love You (Vocal) - Clausel [Up Right]
I Enjoy Making Love (Just Like You Do) [Extended Mix] - J.P. Rodgers Jr. [Inculcation]
Don't Stop Reaching for the Top - Jean Terrell [A&M]
On Our Way - Southern Exposure [RCA]
Jimmy's Theme - Jimmy Ruffin [Polydor]
Let's Stay Together (FK Remix) - Al Green [CD-R]
Funny How You Luv - Lil' Louis [Epic]
Don't Let Go - Tony Orlando [Elektra]
I Need Somebody To Love Tonight - Sylvester [Fantasy]
Low (RedTop Extended Mix) - Lenny Kravitz [Virgin]
Love Brought Me Back (12" Mix) - DJ Rogers [Columbia]
Crazy Love - Alton Mcclain & Destiny [Polydor]
Magic (instrumental) - Jeff Lynne [white]
Hot Butterfly - Bionic Boogie [Polydor]
Papillon (aka Hot Butterfly) - Chaka Khan [Warner Bros]
Free Me From My Freedom - Bonnie Pointer [Motown]
Standing Right Here - Melba Moore [Buddah]
Standing Right Here (Tom Moulton Remix) - Melba Moore [CD-R]

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