Name: Tom Trago b2b Cinnaman at Dekmantel Festival 2016 by dekmantel
Duration: 2 h 6 min 53 s
Description: Recording of Tom Trago and Cinnaman's b2b-set at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

As part of our celebration of 21 years of club culture, we're featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties and clubs most important to their lives in dance music. 

The Loft is one of the most storied and sacred spaces in dance music history. Founded in Manhattan in 1970 by the late David Mancuso, The Loft was a party unlike any other: relaxed and gently psychedelic, with pristine audiophile sound played at a medium volume level kinder to the ears. You didn't need to blast the music to appreciate the sonic perfection of the music and the system it was played on. Over the decades, Mancuso invented his own influential style of DJing, letting the records breathe rather than mashing them together. Mancuso, who died in 2016, had many acolytes over the years, perhaps none more prominent than Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, who provides our final 2122 birthday RA Podcast: a tribute to The Loft.

Murphy has an impressive resume without The Loft: she's a long-time radio DJ, founded the Classic Album Sundays series and started her own Lucky Cloud Loft Party in London, in collaboration with Mancuso. Her DJing style, slow, steady and respectful of the music, channels those years spent at The Loft, and her RA Podcast embodies the disco-influenced sounds that define the party, played with care, love and reverence.

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RA.859 Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

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John Talabot B2b Oberman at Draaimolen Festival 2022

Sunrise set for Gerd's after party filled with emotional morning vibes.

OHBE (Gerd Janson All Night Long After Party) @ Secret Location

A live recording of David Moufang at Brussels club La Cabane last month. 

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Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

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Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

Llego el recreo

Dangerous

RA.241 Maya Jane Coles

Recording of Tom Trago and Cinnaman's b2b-set at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Dekmantel Festival 2016

Tom Trago b2b Cinnaman at Dekmantel Festival 2016

All compositions written, produced &amp; performed (not DJ'd) by A Guy Called Gerald using Propellerhead's Reason only.
  
Recorded live at Labyrinth Festival 10th Anniversary, Naeba, Japan Sept 18th, 2010. 

(C) 2010 A Guy Called Gerald 
info@guycalledgerald | http://guycalledgerald.com

LIVE at Labyrinth Festival Japan

my last allnighter at moog. thanks to everyone that came for another fun night full of friends and heavy dancing.

John Talabot - Allnighter @ Moog (Barcelona, 21-08-19)

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Tom Trago b2b Cinnaman at Dekmantel Festival 2016

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