Here's a 5+ hour set from a beautiful night in Vancouver with the Soul Hop crew.  The soundsystem at Vantek was singing, the crowd were getting down and it was one of those nights where 5 hours felt like 1 hour.  Big love to James and Soren and looking forward to doing it all again with Ladymonix on 31st May at Industrial 236.  

Jimpster @ Soul Hop - Vantek (06.01.2024)

Today we payed tribute to our dear friend Benjamin Crantelle aka Ben Zeiky aka Dj Shaman, gone way too soon.
Thx to @ericvonapfelstrudel for sharing Ben’s « The Jungle of Shaman » mix, recorded circa 2003, « Impeccable mix drum & bass bien old school par le grand Dj Shaman, notre ami Ben Zeiky. Repose en paix, mon pote le dj. »

Tigersushi in loving memory of DJ Shaman - The Jungle of Shaman - 16 Avril 2025

restonsflex - ZOOM IN MY USB : BRUK - 20 Mais 2025

NIKS (@niksbad) is as dedicated as anyone to furthering dance music culture. Hailing from south-east London via Bath, NIKS has long proven her curatorial skills with radio shows on BBC Radio 1, Rinse, and NTS. Her idiosyncratic blends of ‘90s groovy, rhythmic sounds and forward-thinking, underground-leaning soundscapes have brought her to some of the world’s most revered clubs. After contributing music to various compilations, last year she explored bass-heavy sounds with her first solo EP on Or:la’s Céad label. Beyond her work as a musician, NIKS also co-founded the Black Artist Database, a crowd-sourced list of Black-owned labels, artists, and producers designed to amplify and uplift talent.

Ahead of her debut at the Dekmantel Festival this year, NIKS serves up a 90-minute window into her current musical world, including her own forthcoming productions in a deep, dub-infused journey into hypnotic techno and house rhythms that intertwine to create a warm, supple soundscape. Its seamless flow takes in sounds from the past, present, and future, and they all encourage you to move and meditate in equal measure."

Dekmantel Mix 490 - NIKS

The French bass scene is on the rise and we've put the lens on two of the emerging artists within it, carin kelly and Hyas - captured from our recent return to Paris.

Hyas | Boiler Room: Paris

Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters
Artist - Title (Mix) [Label]
Medlar - Dot The T's ft. Deevoenay  (Ron Basejam Remix) [Delusions Of Grandeur]
Black Loops - Pleasure Ride feat. Harvey Sutherland and Marlena Dae [Freerange Records]
Craig Smith - Follow The Light
Danny Howells - Thrunk [Rekids]
Tema Due - La Danse De L'Esprit (feat. Lalin St. Juste) [Schema Records]
Franck Roger feat Ree Morris - Thrumenti (Franck's Dub)
Black Loops - Detroit Love Letter feat. Byron The Aquarius [Freerange Records]
Adina Howard - Freak Like Me (Fouk Remix)	[Papa Records]
Belcampo - Love & Affection (Manuel Tur Remix) [Lazy Days Recordings]
Jimpster & Ash Lauryn - Feel Me - (Freakin Club Mix)  [Freerange Records]
Session Victim - Pulse of Memory ft. Viken Arman (Frits Wentink Remix) [Delusions Of Grandeur]
Red Rack'em - Secret Banger [Bergerac]

Freerange Records Radioshow No.276 - June 2025 With Matt Masters

Fresh off a killer remix on Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep In Sound, Avision takes over our Select Cuts series with a mix recorded in Los Angeles for Factory 93 Records pop-up show at Homage Brewing. A mix full of gritty, groovy, and pulsing music to honor the city that never sleeps. Enjoy!

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Select Cuts 348: Avision (Live @ Factory 93 Pop-Up LA)

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

This is Pt.II, from 1996. The mix is provided courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to https://ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles Pt.II (1996)

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

K M A R T S H O P P E R S

D.J. Mankiewicz