Dream Big w/ Delphine 03 March 2023

Bubble World w/ Delphine (Doc Sleep Album Launch)

Expansive 4 hour mix courtesy of one of my recent fav youtube channels floor length skirts (thx for the tip Florence !) ~ one for really spreading out 2 <3

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Motion Cast Vol. 93: floor length skirts

PDA MIX 14 ♥ Public Display of Affection Live @ PDA XXXL

The latest edition of the PDA mix series is a live recording of the XXXL closing set by Tam Tam & Jonah Considine otherwise known as Public Display of Affection. This three hour excerpt of the final surge, as the party spilt into the next day, is a sonic memoir of our hedonistic social gathering drenched in sunlight and sweat.

If you know you know, if you don’t - have a listen!

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PDA MIX 14 ♥ Public Display of Affection

𓂃 Morning Mantra invites┈┉ Der Opium Queen @djopiumqueen ꒱꒱
exploring ¨·.·¨·.·
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"- a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words.

Released on vinyl in 1968, Turn on Tune in Drop Out is a spoken word but with sparse haunting  guitar and tabla music over it. Unlike anything that came before the narration here sounds as if the voices are beamed down from somewhere in the stratosphere. On this lengthy album, Leary can be heard speaking in a monotone soft voice on his views about the world and humanity, describing nature, Indian symbols, "the meaning of inner life", the LSD experience, peace, and many other issues.

The mix draws from some of those spoken passages, reworking them into a collage-like, immersive listening experience. It captures the rebellious spirit of the late '60s and contrasts it with distilled contemporary echoes of that very energy, filtered through a modern, digital, and dissociated lens.

Der Opium Queen is a Berlin-based musician, DJ, and visual artist running that voodoo inna down-you-will-get-up style. Deeply entrenched in the murky psychotropic inzwischen, they're no stranger to conscious trudges that leave the unprepared behind in the dust. With a lifelong dedication to the crossed wires that keep culture moving, their music seeks to explore depth, provoke curiosity, and break the mold at every turn.

Many thanks to Sean for taking care of this episode and for their music ♡

Broadcasted on Radio Alhara ━┈ 16.07.2025━═

Morning Mantra invites Der Opium Queen ✧ Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

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

Dream Big w/ Delphine 03 March 2023

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