Recording of Soft Break's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Soft Break at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

"If a record is falling apart at the seams, I'll probably like it." Recorded live at Houghton 2024, our latest Playing Favourites episode sees the London artist discussing the beautiful leftfield music that's soundtracked his life.

British DJ and producer Call Super brings some colour to the depths of winter with this week's RA Exchange. The multifaceted artist has released music on Houndstooth, Hessle Audio, fabric, Dekmantel and the label he co-runs with Parris, can you feel the sun, becoming known for a deep yet always party-ready sound that combines house, UK funky, tech house and plenty more besides.

In this interview, recorded at last year's Houghton Festival, he talks to RA's managing editor, Carlos Hawthorn,  as part of our flagship live series, Playing Favourites. Among his choices are the music he listened to as a child; the record that inspired his passion for DJing; an artist who changed his perspective on music at large; and more practical songs he deploys in sets to refresh a crowd. The territory he covers is huge, from tech house and acid house to contemporary classical, experimental leftfield, abstract percussion and choral music. There are some tracks, he claims, that only work in certain contexts, but if played at the right time, "they send people." Listen to the episode in full. – Chloe Lula

EX.750 Call Super

For this set I played on 4 CDJ 3000’s and a V10 mixer, using both of its internal effects processors. For every No Way Back set, and for most sets, I try to prepare new hardware remasters and edits of things that I think would be fascinating recontextualized in this setting. But for NWB, it is even more special, a peak moment, so I try to have new records I’m working on in the studio to test out. For this set that means the hardware mixes I’ve been working on for Torrvo and for Andy Toth can be tested, I’m working on this hardware mixing and remastering tone palate, so I spread that to some edits to give them a whole new power. Playing at No Way Back cannot be put into words, though we try every year, it really is inexplicable without experiencing it. It’s the environment you most want to be in, the space is totally transformed, the sound is dialed in, the audience is so ready, very giving and open, and the feedback you get is incredible. People are up for a ride – we start at the Tangent and end up going to the other side of the universe. Freedom within and without. There’s no place I’d rather be, so I thought I’d share this much sooner than we usually do. Enjoy the ride. 
– BMG @bbmmgg

Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine (BMG edit)
Refracted – Beneath The Surface
Torvvo – Carrier (BMG NWB Mix - forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
Pause – Exode X
Sciahri – Glow
Shed – EMCZ
Amotik – Peela
Erika – Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Translate – Shifted Communications
Dino Sabatini – Peuceus
Feral & Luigi Tozzi – Enigma
PALEMAN – Quarry
D-Leria – Voodoo Magic (Polygonia Remix)
Lory D – Mantrosax 2
Surgeon – Forgotten Gods
Peter Van Hoesen – Definition by Absence
Steve Bicknell – Easing Info Tomorrow
Resonance – Yellow Train (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
The Fantasy – Soft Space (2025 Hardware version) forthcoming
DJ Funk – House The Groove
Ottagone – Ottagone 021
Andy Toth – Mind Lock (forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
AgainstMe – Into The Dome
Giordano – Electric Stardust
Alex R – z50
808 State – Flow Coma (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Wee Papa Girls – We Know It (KMS mix) (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Aphex Twin – Isopropophlex (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e04: BMG at No Way Back 2025

Skee's insight through his daily listening habits, from guilty pleasures to casual recommendations and in between... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/skee-mask/episodes/skee-mask-20th-june-2025

Feierabend w/ Skee Mask 200625

@kia-sydney is @mixmaganz's July Cover Artist.

In just over an hour, one of Australia's most exciting talents presents a mix made up entirely of new and forthcoming material on her equally influential @animalia-label.

Tracklist:
1. @okegmusic - 'Spirit' (Forthcoming)
2. @sub-basics - 'Signal' (Forthcoming)
3. @okegmusic - 'Veil' (Forthcoming)
4. @sub-basics - 'Lobby' (Forthcoming)
5. @zaraolsen - 'Whirl' 
6. @sub-basics - 'Residual' (Forthcoming)
7. @o-utlier - 'Pulse' 
8. @andy-martin - 'Skye Spirals' (Forthcoming)
9. @aedis-aedis - 'Ortogon' (Forthcoming)
10. @o-utlier - 'Ionic'
11. @sub-basics - 'Proportion' (Forthcoming)
12. @shoall - 'Median'
13. @aedis-aedis - 'Vaen' (Forthcoming)
14. @www-coloursound - 'Sierra' (Forthcoming)
15. @andy-martin - 'Afrofuturism' (Forthcoming)
16. @shoall - 'Temporal Blend'
17. @www-coloursound - 'Locus' (Forthcoming)

Kia: Mixmag ANZ Cover Mix 06 (100% Animalia)

Long embryo stage but it hatched!🥚
Finally putting out this recording of last year’s set at Waking Life - it's been a quiet spell for me recently, but following the closure of Planeta Manas feels good to break it with this release.

Playing between Nídia and Cormac, I was faced with a mood and genre-defying challenge, ending up playing from 80 to 170bpm including polyrhythmic drums, gushing psychedelia, conjuring both luminous and ominous soundscapes. Graced with a critical mass of enthusiastic stompers getting lost against the most beautiful sunset at Praia stage.

Thank you WL for inviting me to play, and thank you Ivan for inviting Planeta Manas crew to attend this year - a sweet moment to replenish our energy to say farewell to our planeta.

Thanks to everyone for the flattering words and who convinced me to release - my dear friend and agent Keira for the encouragement and patience, to my bug in crime Sasha, the amazing sound and light technicians, some sweet strangers at the festival, and in particular Sybil, the most prolific mix maker whose dedication to craft is ever inspiring.

see you next year hopefully 🍃

TRACKLIST:
Maya Al Khaldi - ترويدة لسامي - Sami's Lullaby bijū - Arkan		
CP1 - Ayarmeyra	 Jafadan	- Apoc
Sindh - Quake	
Ina Kacz- Sequoia	
Rolphëus Gheo - Release the Peace
Temudo - Tough To Say
Three Point Turn - Kamouflage
Igneous Sauria - Skip Insect	
D.Dan - Surfacing		
Hysteria Temple Foundation - Shyrokyi Lu	
Sobolik, Ma Sha - Liftoff
Perdu et Retrouvé & Shonen Bat - TribeAdvisor	
Forest Drive West - Creeper
Floid - Simr 
Sobolik - As A Metaphor
Aitch - Pathfinder		
Vel - Do You Pseetrance	
Mac Declos - Trust your eyes
Ezy - Strange Soup
Spekki Webu - 00.4FG (Temple version)		
Ma Sha - Beat Goez Off	
Myako - Night Of The Liana	
Property - Counterclockwise
Ayuji - The Lost Lagoon	
Priori - Pareidolia		
Lacchesi - Eckmül Staircase
Hysteria Temple Foundation - Gamesh (Gabriella Vergilov Vocal)		
Numa - Mapinguari		
AWHM - Drowning In My Own Skin (
DJ G2G & Marilao - Swift		
Neribon - Pacific Lotion	
Heliobolus - Introspective (presented by Spekki Webu)		
Slowglide - Ikeda Map		
Nigm - Rift Of Spirits	
Øbsidiaän - Fracta	
DJ G2G & Marilao - Tunnelvision	
Overlook	 - Who Is This Who Is Coming	
Overlook - Down The Rabbit Hole	
Objekt - Bad Apples		
Lemna - Datura		
ASC - Lost to The Void		
Max Duret - Introspective	 
bijū - annihilation	
Merrin Karras - Dominions

marum at Praia - Waking Life '24

For #180, and in conjunction with his brand new Animalia EP that is officially out today - here's Sub Basics, UK based producer, with a mix made up of 100% of his own productions.

Tom aka Sub Basics has been humbly putting music into the world via Temple of Sound , Modern Hypnosis and more, for the last few years.  Personally, when I first discovered his tunes a while back, it was a no brainer to work with him on an EP. His  music somehow sits at the perfect junction of so many different genres, moods and styles I enjoy. A versatile and prolific producer. Super happy to welcome him to the Animalia family.

Thanks so much Tom.

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Animix One Hundred & Eighty: Sub Basics

@kia-sydney & @livwutang
Photo: Carla Lubrano Di Sbaraglione & Raphaël Chêne

Kia & livwutang at pe:rsona 2025

The first-ever live recording from an elusive icon of dubby electronic music.

Lore is an underrated quality. Neuroscientists have mapped that music elicits similar feelings in the brain to when we satiate cravings, but what about the psychological impulse that drives listeners of a certain disposition toward everything they don't know?

It's tricky to put your finger on, but artists able to conjure intrigue without overhawking the backstory can really cut through—just ask SAULT, [ar:pi:ar] or Gerald Donald. Then there are those who don't try whatsoever. These are the ones who stay in mind the most.

In 2001, a striking 12" called Ship-Scope emerged through Chain Reaction, credited to Shinichi Atobe, with no other info available. Okay, mulled fans, this is probably a cat-and-mouse game dreamed up by someone on a label with a fine line in foggy obfuscation. Vainqueur on a wind-up? Another Moritz 'n Mark alias?

But no: Atobe was real, and really had posted a demo to Hard Wax. It was that simple. Then he went back to his day job—until, after 13 years of silence, an even better follow-up emerged.

From the near-perfect Butterfly Effect onwards, Atobe has built up one of the most revered catalogues in underground circles. A steady clip of elegant, transportive dub techno and deep electronics has arrived on Demdike Stare's DDS, complimented by the launch of his own label, plastic & sounds, earlier in summer 2025.

Atobe has also made strides into the public domain, DJing intermittently, as well as performing live for the first time in 2023, gracing WWW at the tender age of 52. It's that debut 2023 show heard on RA.1009: a hypnotic yet comparatively pumping set full of Atobe staples, as well as material you won't find anywhere else.

Contact with the big man, as you might anticipate, is glacial: since we first reached out, the RA Mix has changed name, look and rolled over into its second millennium. Still, patience pays off. This is a one-off we're stoked to run. – Gabriel Szatan

@shinichiatobe

Find the interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1028

RA.1009 Shinichi Atobe

nosensenosense

“In the lead up to the due date for our No Way Back sets, I fell ridiculously sick with the flu. I barely was able to get out of bed for about 6 days. As soon as I was able, I rushed to my friends Will & Sarah Joy's flat here in Berlin to lay down this recording. There wasn't much time to prepare, so I just picked the tracks I wanted to use, and as the great Claude Young once said "I just turned on the machines and they told me where to go!" On my mind the whole time was the utter turmoil going on in the U.S, maybe even more than what we were living through here in Germany, which heavily influenced my selections of music. I knew for sure that I wanted to open with that nthng track, but the decision to play "This Is America" at the end was made only a minute or 2 before I played it. I had wanted to play it 2 years earlier at NWB, but chickened out for some weird reason. Now felt like the perfect time. Magically, it matched the energy of the global protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd only about 18 hours later. The note I wrote at the end was also straight from the heart. At the time, I was betting we would all be descending onto Detroit for Memorial Day 2021. Unfortunately, I don't know if that is something to bet on now — only time will tell, I guess. Until then, enjoy this set (and all the others that I.T. is releasing from this broadcast!) and hopefully we will see each other safely on a dancefloor somewhere and sometime in the future — the sooner, the better in my opinion. XOXO.” — @plaslaiko

video: https://youtu.be/lF7R3dpOhUg

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT.podcast.so9e07: Derek Plaslaiko at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

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