00:00 Mhysha - Special Need
02:06 266sx - Spartaco (Edit)
03:30 Alpha Maid - Harry Wants To Imagine A World Without You
05:50 Kai Althoff - Weihe Und Schau
09:00 Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy - Everythingsnothing (1974)
13:08 AMET - You Had Me
16:52 Musarc & Neil Luck - Misty
20:10 madanonymous - Borks Bowel Movement (YTP)
21:25 Klein - BALLER ALERT
24:00 Slaucon Malone - Two Thousand Eighteen, Bye
25:37 Russell Haswell feat Sue Tompkins - Special Long Version (Edit)
27:37 Wu Tsang - Excerpt from Sudden Rise Dub
31:48 Robert Ashley - Excerpt from Atlanta
34:31 Dean Blunt - Stone Island
35:31 Anne Bean & Paul Burwell - Low Flying Aircraft (1978)

CHELSEA SOUNDCLOUD

909 is a special number for us at RA—the name of one of the most hallowed drum machines in all of music, and one of the foundations of techno music—and we're more than happy to offer it up to a DJ who has been a long-time favourite of our team: Glasgow's Bake. In fact, we commissioned this mix roughly ten years ago, but you can't rush perfection. 

When Bake emerged as one of the heads heads behind the label All Caps—a relatively short-lived but influential imprint that released massive tracks like Flørist's "Marine Drive" and Kowton's "TFB"—he also quickly became one of the most impressive DJs in the post-dubstep access, appearing frequently at Hessle Audio events and sharpening his skills behind the decks at the country's best parties. Now he runs his own, Spirit, at Sub Club.

He has a wide-ranging style that touches on all kinds of leftfield techno and broken drum patterns. His nearly two-hour RA Podcast finds him at the end of a sort-of comeback year, and it touches on tracks from Shackleton, Laksa, Batu, Karima F and Levon Vincent, to give you an idea. It's the kind of mix that oozes expertise and practice without feeling showy—the signs of a truly great DJ. If you don't know Bake, then now you do.

@bake-all-caps

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/909

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RA.909 Bake

P!nk M!nce crafts a mix around the lead melody from Nancy Sinatra's ‘you only live twice’ using it as both guide and protector through weird feelings, gurgling ambience and modern-day fuckery. It’s P!nk M!nce in search of a P!nk myth.

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Formant Soundsystem w/ P!nk M!nce (*Glasgow) - 02-Nov-23

Moin - Paste

Listen in full/Buy here: https://m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com/album/paste-2

Mastering and cut: Noel Summerville
Mixing: Hackney Road Studios
Artwork: Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead

Moin - Paste

'The mixes for the Soundsystem’s radio show help us weave together so many disparate types of recording that get hoarded or that we can’t stop watching for one reason or another. This one has it’s many roots in youtube’s, tik tok’s, vinyls, cd’s and field recordings that all lean towards the odd, manic and hyper emotional. See how it sits!'

June Mix for Threads Radio ------> https://threadsradio.com/en

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Formant Soundsystem Threads Mix June '24

Miche

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

BANDCAMP

Surgeon - Dying

Public Broth: Stir The Pot (Piano Special) - Radio Buena Vida 25.07.25

Sounds from the Formant 

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Debt & Refuge w/ Nymity b2b Grady Steele 010825

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Get in touch - Olivierjulien50@yahoo.co.uk

Formant Soundsystem Threads Mix June '24

Olivier Julien

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