✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️😘

Everything's more beautiful in hindsight. 
IDK why that is.
 Here's something to mark 2022, to archive where I'm at on this hybrid- digital meets vinyl sound journey. 

Sometimes you listen to the recording and it reveals you had a real squeeze on the room and the vibes reflected are a pleasant surprise. As always listening back was a reckoning with my fIaws forcing me to deep listen and switch on some self acceptance til my mistakes become poetic mishaps meant to coax the message thru. I was touched seeing the divine feminine magnetizing in my sound and bringing the gurlz to the front of the dancing crowd at the Great Northern in San Francisco where this was recorded live - post-thanksgiving weekend in Nov 2022. Jazzy, sexy, manic, strange, grown, and very much me. Enjoy it!

Special thanks to @polyglamorous-club

I got the stuff that you want, the thang that u need.
More than enough to make you drop to your knees - Whitney Houston

TRACKLIST BELOW:

1. The Boss (Eric Kupper Extended Remix) - Donna Summer
2. Shelter (Ron Trent Remix) - musclecars
3. Gypsy Woman (Kaytronik Remix Extended Version) - Karizma, Nicholas Ryan Gant
4. Stop Playing With My Mind (feat. Darryl D'Bonneau) [Whiplash And Turner Vocal Mix] - Barbara Tucker
5. Sandman OG - Blue Boy 
6. (VINYL) Throb David Morales legendary club Mix - Janet Jackson 
7. Another Sleepless Night [David Morales Redzone Mix] - Mike 'Hitman' Wilson ft. Shawn
8. Do Ya (Sure Is Pure Remix) - Inner City
9. (VINYL) Hot Shot '97 (Da Techno Bohemian Hot Vocal Mix) - Karen Young 
10. Stolen Frequency - Nativesun
11. Motor City Madness (Underground Resistance Remix) (Edit) - Waajeed
12. Work (Extended Mix) - Honey Dijon featuring Dave Giles II, Cor.Ece & Mike Dunn
13. Desire (Fabrice Africa Pain) - Aural 
14. Work SOHA (DJ Gregory) Work the Walk Mix - Masters At Work Feat. Puppah Nas-T & Denise
15. Can We Live (Farley & Heller Roach Motel dub) - Jestofunk
16. (VINYL) Supernature (Danny Tenaglia's Twilo Club Mix) - Cerrone 
17.  Midnight Mouse (Revised) - Mighty Mouse
18. Reach (Basement Jaxx Firecracker Mix) - Lil' Mo' Yin Yang
19. (VINYL)  Last Rhythm  (Cammellato Mix) - Last Rhythm 
20. (VINYL) Losing My Religion (Apollo 440 House Remix) - Rozalla
21. It's A Raid ! (Original Mix) - Deep Elementz aka Dj Elementz
22. Sex Machine DJ Mix  - 20 Fingers feat. Katrina
23. Space Bass - Slick 
24. Peaches & Prunes (Ron Hardy Re-edit) - Nightlife Unlimited
25. Relight My Fire (ft. Loleatta Holloway) (Dimitri From Paris Remix) - Dan Hartman
26. My All [Morales "My" Club Mix] - Mariah Carey
27. Let’s Dance - Cajmere & Russoul
28. Hot In Herre Edit - Arma
29. I Hear The Music (Mondo Grosso Re-Edit) - Ralphi Rosario & Linda Clifford
30. (VINYL) Needed U Stereo Dub - David Morales
31. Ancestors (Deep Mix) - Delano Smith
32. Big Beat - LADYMONIX
33. Summertime (Kelvin's Summertime Afro Dub Mix) - Brutha Basil, Sacha Williamson, Kelvin Sylvester
34. Future Sonic (Original Mix) - Trinidadian Deep
35. (VINYL) Deep - Creation feat Fantasy & X-man
36. Couldnt Love Your Bounce - Sade Vs Todd Terry
37. Queen Of The Night (Cj's Master Mix)  - Whitney Houston

Poly Glam Live SF Recording - End Of 2022 Mix

Live at Battle Hymn (Brooklyn), Aug 2023

Recording of Suze Ijó's set at Dekmantel Ten

Pre-register for Dekmantel Festival 2025 here: bit.ly/4fyWKXc

Suze Ijó at Dekmantel Ten

Mike Servito b2b Justin Cudmore | Revival After Dark | Sept 1, 2024

This a recording of my set at Nowadays Nonstop from December 2024.

Shared this to commemorate the Voüch zine I was on the cover of for Valentine's weekend 2025 ~~~ (insta: @vouchwick)

Did you get your copy?
Gotta ask IRL 
when you see me or Zach <3

before it's out of our hands and into the archives.....

~Reflections~

My favorite moments in the mix are when a sense of urgency to play around, to switch moods, to linger and lean into experiments,  all of it riles up and smooths out the beat connection again and again. Just like the oceans tide, it comes in swells of beautiful music and risky stitching of all the messages together. It's not perfect, but I am living in these songs for this moment. Washing them through my being and my perspective, that's the fun part and the part I feel the deepest, that somehow I'm bringing this music to life through appreciation and reverence. 

Giving you something new at the end. The culmination of all the inspiration - is new music - sonically pushing to channel more light to this world.

Nowadays Nonstop Dec 2024 Closing set

This DJ set by Mike Servito was recorded somewhere on the astral plane (a filthy Detroit basement) on February 1, 2025, at Ritual Rave, a party celebrating the pagan holiday Imbolc, which signals the start of Spring.

Buckle up and get ready to crank that shit ‘cause you’re in for a wild ride. This set is laced with only the rawest, bitchiest, nastiest, sweatiest, most classic Detroit-basementiest @mikeservito cuts. The rave reviews are in and the critics are hailing it as “A masterpiece of Servito '95. Mike in his highest and most enlightened form. A set so transformative that it effortlessly and masterfully bends the time-space continuum. It's an aural bitchslap like no other. It’s quintessentially pureDetroitmoods."

Ritual Rave is an annual part of Imbolc: https://imbolc.cargo.site/

Know what we're up to at purefastmoods HQ (even before we do): https://purefastmoods.com/get-on-the-list

Mike's set was mastered by @Otodojo.

Mike Servito at Ritual Rave, February 1, 2025, Detroit, MI

two rave sweethearts explore their love for house music

https://www.instagram.com/tommy__hart
https://www.instagram.com/ketia4ever

https://www.soundcloud.com/ketia
https://soundcloud.com/tommyhartdj



ketia b2b Tommy Hart @ The Lot Radio 04-25-2025

For 135th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @ketia! ketia is an up-to-no-good self-assigned cyborg, has a keen ear for new and exciting music, alongside a curious, invested approach to community building within the Lisbon and Berlin club scene. Known for their infamous intimate invite-only kit ket events in Lisbon and one of the glitches behind the label and collective, 'kaptcha'. In Berlin, where they reside, they’re deep and sweetly entangled with the modern rituals happening at Berlin’s new ambient listening bar kwia – ketia helps hold space for a different way of connecting through high fidelity sound and intimacy outside of the usual club dynamics. 

Sonically enticed by syncopated drums and twisted rhythms, driven house with groove and breaks married with rave nostalgia. ketia thrives on genre-bending beats connected through vocal-infused tracks that allow for unique storytelling.

Honcho Podcast Series 135: ketia

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

Do it for the Love

DJ D.A.M.S.77 DICE Juicee 2025

say something//send me traxx: deediggs617@gmail.com
To book me, please contact these emails.
North & South America: ryan@liaisonartists.com
EU & Worldwide: Ilyas@minor-am.com
*
pronouns: she/her
a selectress with no inhibitions 
NO INHIBITIONS? //NO RIGID GENRE BORDERS IN THE BOOTH? //
YET FOREVER A STUDENT OF THE TENANTS OF 
BLACK AMERICAN HOUSE MUSIC
*
Thru sound I lose my metaphorical restraints and commit myself to a sonic landscape, not absent of outside influence, yet deeply seeped in my references & love of history & hunger for myths of parties I never went to. I live to uncover and share these temporal moments locked in recordings of music magic taken place before I was born. I fall strongly in favor of sounds that are a reflection of my mood in the moment. {there is a song tracking every feeling & thought} I practice alchemy mono to stereo seducing the collective 'we' into movement & memories & emotions.
*

Poly Glam Live SF Recording - End Of 2022 Mix

Dee Diggs

Recent comments

Tahliah Bento

LUNÁTICA

LUNÁTICA

LUNÁTICA

Related tracks