R&B SZN

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

deep listening lounge | entek | march 15

DJ Caru Tilted OFC Demo 202503

Recorded live at Chill:In on 29/03/2025.

A reflection on a life: wonderment, love, interdependency, familiarity, shame, fear and saying goodbye.

00:00:00 Unwelcome - Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts
00:07:30 Soft Meadow - Green-House
00:12:30 Fjogur Piano - Sigur Ros
00:19:47 Ivana - Koreless
00:23:08 Social Engineering 5 (The one-off opportunity) - Jan Jelinek
00:26:21 Midnight - Mouse on the Keys Tokyo
00:30:40 Canopy - KMRU
00:33:27 Ad Astra - Beatnok
00:37:55 View From My Window - Hiroshi Yoshimura
00:44:00 New Life - Wild Beasts
00:47:58 Hold My Hand - I7hvn
00:51:52 Disintegration (Alva Noto Remodel) - Ryuichi Sakamoto
00:56:38 Colors - Yanako
00:59:18 稗海/Miscanthus Ocean - 破地獄/Scattered Purgatory w/This Old Guitar - Neil Young (run through a bunch of Ableton effects)
01:07:40 Circuit Pusher - Jalusi
01:12:03 The Dark Before the Light of Dawn - Mr. G
01:16:25 交織/Jiaozhi_Heart to Heart - 梁孝慈/Angu Liang
01:22:40 Black-collared Starling 烏領椋鳥 (Hong Kong) - An-Ting 安婷 w/Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel and Angela Morley

Floating out on the Tide - Live @ Chill:In - 29.03.2025

Xan Bishop (US) and RAVETOMBS (UK) may be separated by 5,911.46 kilometres, but distance means nothing when souls are bound by the pulse of broken beats and dark, dynamic energy.

Together, they’ve fused their creative forces into a sonic entity—a banshee born over the depths of the North Atlantic, hellbent on delivering an auditory experience like no other.

Xan Bishop brings the grit of Detroit’s underground, blending modern and old-school electro into a fresh, hard-hitting sound. Meanwhile, RAVETOMBS infuses the second half of the project with an uplifting yet uneasy mood, perfectly encapsulating and rounding off this edition of XP.

All profits from this release will be donated to Pay The Rent

paytherent.net.au

BPS acknowledges the vast history of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the original custodians of the unceded land on which we live and work and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Track: Turnover (RAVETOMBS Remix)
Artist: Xan Bishop / RAVETOMBS
Genre:  idm / bass / minimal
Label: Backpocket Slammers
Format: Digital
Release Name: BPS:XP:2
Release Date: 24th September 2024
Release Link: https://backpocketslammers.bandcamp.com/album/bps-xp-2

https://soundcloud.com/xanbishop
https://soundcloud.com/ravetombs
https://soundcloud.com/backpocketslammers

PREMIERE: Xan Bishop - Turnover (Ravetombs Remix) [Backpocket Slammers]

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-8th-may-2025

United In Flames w/ Oklou & Malibu 080525

deep listening lounge | om dream | may 10

LEXXI - 14 May 2025

spclb | dj programma | may 17

Tracklist 

Too Good – Christian Kuria
Caught Up (feat. Phony Ppl) – VanJess, Phony Ppl
Chosen One – Layton Greene
Teach Me – SiR
Gravity (feat. Tyler, The Creator) – Brent Faiyaz, DJ Dahi, Tyler, The Creator
telepatía – Kali Uchis
Golden pt. 2 (feat. Mereba) – Berhana, Mereba
Too Good – Arlo Parks
Pine – Unusual Demont
Out The Window – Lo Village
The Don – Mr Eazi
We Got Love (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill ) – Teyana Taylor, Ms. Lauryn Hill
Health Food – Berhana
Wild Herb – Jehst
Good Hearts (feat. Aida Lae) – Ghetts, Aida Lae
Medium – Logic1000
Nine Dollar Beer in Bushwick – DJ Swisha
Sunset Yellow – Emissive
You Know – BenjiFlow
(301)341-7207 – dreamcastmoe
Friendships – Figub Brazlevic
Children Of The Internet - Ezra Collective Remix – Future Utopia, Ezra Collective, Dave, Es Devlin
Middling – Move 78, Aver
Apple Bobbing - Four Tet Remix – Joe Goddard, Four Tet
OAR003-B - Original Mix – Oni Ayhun
We are the Future - Original Mix – Gemini
Frankfurt Main – Stimming
Nein König Nein – DJ Koze
DJ Logic Please Forgive Me – Logic1000
Pink Noise – Brendon Moeller
Fair Chance - Floating Points Remix – Thundercat, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil B, Floating Points
Love Shy - Tuff Jam Dub Mix – Kristine Blond, Tuff Jam
Believing – Yumna Black
Mothra - Edit – Leon Vynehall
Melaleuca – Yu Su
Where's Leon? – Taraval
Pree Me – Roska, なかむらみなみ
Walk Talk – Boddika
Your Mind – Adam Beyer, Bart Skils

23.02.21 | SIR | LAURYN HILL | BRENT FAIYAZ

In 2021, was one of the winners of Beatport's global DJ talent search, beating off the competition with a melodic house set.

Recognised by the BBC, Beatport and Pioneer, Programma has a reputation for crafting sets that take his audience on a journey through the genres that inspire him, effortlessly bringing together everything from dub, house, techno, global club, afro, percussive deep bass driven electronic.

Having played on respected London stations BBC 1xtra, Flex FM, Worldwide FM, Balaami, Voices, Subtle Radio and Rinse FM, he is known for his smooth blends and transitions matched with an ever evolving selection. You're not going to hear the same set twice.

Programma has performed at venues such as We Out Here Festival, The Cause, Somerset House, Colour Factory, Jumbi, Soho House, Grow, Peckham Audio, The Social, The Southbank Centre and The Jago to name but a few.

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: Cross Genre, Afro, Percussive, Bass, Electronic
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐬: Bass, Ambient, Nu-Jazz, House, Global Club, South African, Alt-Techno, Deep Dubstep, Breaks

Current Residencies
𝐁𝐁𝐂: Official Guest Mix DJ
𝐒𝐨𝐡𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞: Resident
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐠𝐨: Resident
𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐢 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: Resident
𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨: Gifted Show every 3rd Tuesday
𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐢: Ad-hoc
𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐅𝐌: The Eternal Mix

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 / 𝐁𝐢𝐨: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/djprogramma
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𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚: http://www.instagram.com/djprogramma

23.02.21 | SIR | LAURYN HILL | BRENT FAIYAZ

DJ Programma