Live recording from my Boiler Room Set in Frankfurt 11/23/24.
Enjoy xx

0megavybe | Boiler Room: Frankfurt

yungfya brings a fresh energy to Berlin’s clubs, with a playfully dynamic sound that has earned her a fast following in the scene. Her highly percussive, playfully dynamic sets explore bassy atmospheres and bring a positively destructive energy to dancefloors.  Expect bold blends and daring switch ups through gritty electro, freaky dub, and sinister jungle.

yungfya @ Kiosk Radio 20.12.2024

Next up in Mr Bongo’s Record Club mix, we’re delighted to welcome Meanjin (Brisbane) based DJ, digger and promoter, @benny_chiu.

A key member of Meanjin’s scene, Benny has been putting on events in the city as part of the A Love Supreme collective since 2012. From small laneway get-togethers, to warehouse parties and club nights, live shows with legends Marcos Valle and Azymuth, to showcases with dancefloor icons like Theo Parrish, Marcellus Pittman and Gilles Peterson, Benny has had a hand in bringing a full spectrum of greats to the city that might not otherwise have made it.

That diverse and eclectic outlook is reflected in Benny’s DJing. As at home spinning jazz and soul, as he is broken beat and house, his ability to weave styles and genres together in a cohesive journey is a real talent. It’s one that has seen him sharing the bill with the likes of Hunee, Theo Parrish, Floating Points amongst many others.

For this two hour mix, Benny has put together a fittingly broad selection of favourites:

“This mix has a lot of elements that I'm really into. It’s on the brighter side for a ‘club’ mix but thought it would go down nicely for Mr Bongo. We got some jazz and Latin flavours mixed through the housey stuff. Fellow ‘Australian’ crew Oyobi with ‘Mi Ritmo’ is a fave. And I know this one has been getting plenty of play around but ‘Oyelo (Atjazz Love Soul Remix)’ by Sunlightsquare is such a tune. Musclecars latest album has been getting plenty of love lately as well, though ‘She Raised Us In Sunset Park’ from their earlier EP Street Dreams is a fave.”

Big thanks to Benny for the mix, he’s touring round SE Asia at the minute but keep an eye for his next movements.

Mr Bongo Record Club Guest Mix - Benny Chiu

Selection by Baya Deliciosa

Today is International Women’s Day and for this most wonderful day of the year I made a 2-hour mix with some favourite tunes selected by the love and light of my life Loes aka "Baya Deliciosa". Just like so many other women on this planet, she has many talents and skills to do crazy stuff in her life and overcome challenges that we men will never be capable of. Before evil brainless male dictators make plans to omit the day we celebrate our women, we need to use this time to support our loved ones and all the women that are still put down and abused worldwide.

Tracklist:

1. The Take Vibe EP – Golden brown
2. Pagona Athanasiou - Epitagi sti mana
3. Voula Palla – Ntilperaki
4. Poly Panou - San Tzigana Tha Se Ntyso
5. Betty Daskalaki - Tou naftikou o ponos
6. Maria Korderá - Ola Sou Ta Syghoráo (To Trellópaido)
7. Claudio – Maria Dolores
8. Claudio - Mo assize mo mazine
9. Michou - Maloya Ton Tisane
10. Olmedo Torres Y Los Gatos - Si Tú Me Olvidas
11. Grupo Selva - El Sabor De Mi Selva
12. Dora Lopes - Estourou No Norte
13. Betty Harris - What'd I Do Wrong
14. Band Nada Kentjana – Djaleuleudja
15. Bing Slamet - Gendjer Gendjer
16. Stan & His Experimental Chorus - Men Ware Bio
17. Stan & His Experimental Chorus - Eno Brebre
18. André Rédo Et Les Guitar Boys - La Royauté Des Crustacés
19. Šaban Bajramović - Maruška
20. Orkestra Roma - Proleten Tanz
21. Filio Pyrgiaki - I diki mou den se theloun
22. Vangelis Papas - Toumbata toumbata
23. Annoula Tsachálou - San Náme Xéni
24. Los Belking's - Empujando Fuerte
25. Cyril Diaz Orchestra - Mme. Kilio
26. Conjunto Combo Puruha - Mi Sueño
27. Derrick Morgan - Greedy Gal
28. Dillinger - John Devour
29. Bend'Nobo 83 – Prigoso
30. Chico Montenegro - N'Ga Maria
31. El Cieguito De Nagua - La Aspirina
32. Francis Rodriguez - Ven Cariñito
33. Franck-Lassan - Mbili-mbili
34. Orchestre T.P.O.K. Jazz – Kinsiona
35. Juka Maluleka And The Gazankulu Queens - Kokwana Wame
36. Reverend Gary Davis - I heard the angels singing
37. Nouara – Nemfaraq
38. Mohamed Rashid – Hayartini
39. Awada Al Sulayamani - Wajudi (Pt.1)

Image: Egyptian actress and dancer Samia Gamal showing her dirty feet.

Jumble Jam Sweet Caramel

It was early June. Berlin summer was still full of promise. We had cherries 🍒 and we had fun. Raphaël Top-Secret soundtracked the night perfectly and the room was beaming with good nrg. Listen back ;)

IDs: @raphael-top-secret

Live From Orbita - 001 - Raphaël Top-Secret

Seven and a half exhilarating hours from one of modern club's sharpest.

Tim Reaper's mammoth entry for RA.1000 is all about range. You thought the Future Retro London boss was just a jungle and hardcore head? Think again.

The mix's infinite-scroll tracklist (the longest we've ever published in full!) includes a who's who of top-rate producers, from A Guy Called Gerald and Cari Lekebusch to Batu, Mia Koden and the one and only Shackleton.

Opening with weighty grime and ending on head-spinning drum & bass, the mix journeys through US club, wobbly dubstep, classic techno and, of course, many shades of jungle. Rather than go the easy route, the Londoner approached the assignment with the curiosity, integrity and vulnerability of fellow shapeshifters like dBridge, Calibre and ASC.

"The idea was to represent other styles of electronic music that I've been a bit self-conscious about openly expressing my interest in," he told RA.

RA.1000 isn't just another side of Tim Reaper's artistry: thankfully for us, it feels like only the beginning.

@tim-reaper

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1012. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Tim Reaper

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

private parts

one two three / what if the sun is not a star [unmastered]

Art, Text, Performance:  Alexandra Karpilovski
Art, Sound, Performance: Danilo Colonna

one two three / what if the sun is not a star - [unmastered]

private parts 

On Love / Tower of Sadness [unmastered]

Art, Text, Performance: Alexandra Karpilovski
Art, Sound, Performance: Danilo Colonna

On Love / Tower Of Sadness - [unmastered]

Bekemühle 2025

Boogie all along with some of the best jamz you ever imagined.

Tracklist
00:00 BadBadNotGood - IV
04:16 Kamasi Washington - Change Of The Guard
07:22 Steve Kuhn - Trance 
11:45 Cortex - Pourquoi
14:15 Claude Morgan - Le Sherif Qui Danse
16:07 Indeep - When Boys Talk
17:53 Focus - Moger
19:45 James D. Hall - I Wanna Get Into You
22:19 Rah Band - Shadow Of Your Love
24:17 Acayouman - Si ou ladje moin
25:55 Crystal - Funky Biguine
28:30 Dane - Space Up Your Life
31:30 Donna Summer - I Feel Love
33:22 Gary's Gang - Makin' Music
35:28 Smith N Hack - Falling Stars
39:32 SBTRKT - Sanctuary 
42:35 Magic Mountain High - Spacepod
45:25 Cybe - The Running Water
49:00 Gaussian Curve - Breathe

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Weekend Diary:

The Night & Waking Up
00:00 Dreaming bout last night at the bar.. Jazz was playing as far as I remember, liked the piano and saxophone tunes. Man, the girl I met… am I still dreaming? 07:30 sun starts rising, but didn't wake up before 11:45, maybe alone maybe not, who knows.. 

The Day
14:15 Let's start the Morgen with Claude Morgan. Hit the shower, get back my man power… but Coffee first. Le sherif danse! Noticed at 16:05 that someone is in the shower already, and it's not my flatmate. Sweet. Good morning!

The Evening
Left the house at 22:15 and ran into a friend at 24:20 further down the dancing road. Right after 28:00 we got lost in a bar again because of 31:18 and I found myself back on the dancefloor drifting off way before 35:30. 

The Night & Falling Asleep
Somewhere around 40:52 I denied that this won't end good and called it a night. Stumbled out the club and texted the girl from last night at 42:40 if she wanna come back. She replied 'get here dummy... let's get high'.. so I hopped back into my spaceship, went off at 43:00 …..  and was happily dreaming again somewhen between 45:30 and 49:10.. .

The End

Weekend Diary

DjOlb