Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

NTS's own Giulia Tess pulls us leftfield once a month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/giulia-tess/episodes/giulia-tess-30th-april-2025

Giulia Tess w/ Oscar Farrell 300425

New explorations in sounds from one of the most esteemed selectors in Europe, Lena Willikens.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/homunkuli/episodes/homunkuli-17th-july-2025

Homunkuli w/ Lena Willikens - Live @ Abyss, Open Ground 170725

RYKER from NYC

https://www.instagram.com/rykerallen
https://www.soundcloud.com/rykerallen

 

Ryker @ The Lot Radio 07-19-2025

My Nowadays Nonstop set from Juneteenth weekend is now available to listen back to.

For it, I considered Black Excellence in a moment where the US and many institutions quickly - though certainly not surprisingly - cast aside their annual Pride and Juneteenth virtue signaling to capitulate to the current administration’s authoritarian and racist agenda. This context makes it urgently necessary FOR US to take charge of preserving narratives BY US. This “DEI Mix” is made up of 99% Black voices who have inspired me, are a part of my daily life, and/or, importantly, Black artists, like myself, who are constant participants in and contributors to the New York dance music/nightlife scene. Often without proper recognition. We all collectively make up the history of now. From my experiences in positions of distinct convergence in this community, like my tenure at The Lot Radio, I’ve come across so many voices that deserve to be heard and preserved.  

Tonally, I’d say the set is mercurial and seething, brimming with tension and mindful of the state of the dance floor at the beginning of the night. Starting with an empty dance floor and pacing the rise to a euphoric club was top of mind. Yet, my tongue-in-cheek sensibilities, ever present in my productions and selections, poke through too…Future of course. Truly a dream of mine to play that track in that room. 

Thank you to everyone who came out to support me, sent me kind messages, and danced through my first set inside one of my favorite clubs. 

www.instagram.com/p/DOGq69ZgNmn
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Recorded in Ridgewood, NY 6-21-25 10-1am

"This round of Nonstop features cutting-edge dance music from many pockets of the scene, from vintage-inspired Los Angeles techno to stylish hardcore.

Spurge, the head behind the forward-thinking label Eto Ano, opens the room. Their sets bridge the underground, experimental sounds that their label is known for with dancefloor functionality with a thoughtful curational eye."

Nonstop: 1morning, ADAB, DJ Bone, Goth Jafar, Shyboi, Spurge 
ra.co/events/2164919

Thanks Eugene for the pic xx

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Bad Brains - We Will Not_EDIT 
Dreamcrusher - Syva Valo 
TYGAPAW - Ownland Interlude (ft. Mandy Harris Williams)  
Detroit Escalator Co. - The Inverted Man (Falling)
The Josh Craig - LIFE LOG #99  
Klein - say black power and mean it 
Linton Kwesi Johnson - If I Waz a Tap Natch Poet (Acapella)
Theodora Laird & Caius Williams - Language (nearly there) 
Chunky - Verudela Squad 
Parris - Skeletal 
Ursula Rucker - Untitled Flow (Pressur-Pella Mix)
Darqwan - Warrior Stance 
Speaker Music - Experience Saturation 
Princess Peggie - Pound 69
Ramses - Thieving Magpies 
Jeff Mills - Cubango 
Sweater On Polo - Slap Box 
Third Self - Pop It
Scan 7 - Black Wall 
Leonce - Light Groove
TAH - Turning Points
Abdu Ali - No, I Ain't Doin Dat  
K. Hand - Messenger 
Nazareth Hassan - the river (ade kassim remix)  
063N13 - Neurotypical 
Leila (Starring Donna Paul) – Feeling 
MALA - JAH POWER DUB 
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Sine Of The Dub 
Mia Koden - Sludge 
Equiknoxx - Urban Snare Cypher 
DJ Spanish Fly - Alright
Escaflowne - Holding you  
Cooly G - Weekend Fly
Shaun J Wright - I Pray How My Ancestors Prayed
Missy Elliott - I’m Really Hot (Various Production Remix) 
Der Zyklus - formenverwandler 
Aux 88 - Aux Mind 2005 
Devoye - Move To The Bounce 
Spurge - Glossolalia 
Swami Sound & gum.mp3 - BLKHISTORY (feat. kamaal) 
Future - Percocet and Stripper Joint 
Spurge - (Bring Me) My Tool
TLIM SHUG - Toting Mine 
Hyper-On Experience - Lord of the Null Lines (Foul Play Remix) 
NIGELTHREETIMES - ROAD2RAILS 
DJ LINDA - Untitled 02 
Bad Brains - We Will Not_EDIT
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 
Awesome 3 - Don't Go (Kicks Like a Mule Mix)
H3LL NAH - (((0))) 
duendita - htp (healing the pain)  
Otik -  Ghost Mole
Keita Sano - You Can’t Save Me    {{*not black...でもそれは素晴らしかった!!}}
Spurge - WIP 
Equinoxx - Brooklyn  
Cities Aviv - BLACK PLEASURE  
Linton Kwesi Johnson - If I Waz a Tap Natch Poet (Acapella)

Spurge @ Nowadays Nonstop: 06-21-25 - DEI Mix

Regular techno, electro, and house missives from the Against Interpretation labelhead and powerhouse-club selector Courtesy…
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/courtesy/episodes/courtesy-15th-august-2025

Courtesy 150825

Dj Saliva curates a special mix of favorite tracks by Burial and works from affiliated artists. 

https://www.instagram.com/salivasollidha
https://www.soundcloud.com/djjsaliva



Dj Saliva - BURIAL & Co @ The Lot Radio 09-12-2025

one hour of deep house and dub techno from my collection. all vinyl. a warm hug if you please x

pure water

✨🤲✨ Here’s a set recording at one of the last of a festival-filled summer: @sustain-release-nyc

No set theme/mood, just a journey thru a bunch of tunes I really do love and hoped people would enjoy; but to quote my girl @livwutang, it was rooted in a love for Black music (this mix cover was taken by her during the set <3). Stitching together threads of dubstep, jazz, house, breaks, garage, hip hop, dub, etc.

At some points this kinda feels more like a beat tape with selector style mixing + no long blends. A lil fusion of tired/nervous/letting the tunes shine

Thank you @itsallhalal + the rest of the team for the opportunity to close The Gym on Fri night and for looking after me. And ofc out to the amazingly welcoming dancers inside ❤️

MK closing set @ Sustain-Release Festival [NY, Sept '25]

@jordee-2

A year ago, as we prepared our line-up for our 2016 Pride party, we took out the magnifying glass and searched for the artists representing new and promising ideas for the queer dance-floor. An abundance of powerful players came to light, but Jordee, the spinner behind HNYPOT 229, floated to the top of that list. Jordee not only has the touch but an untouchable spirit. A personality that only got more powerful as they began transporting 60hz packets onto Bay Area dance floors. That calm, cool, and collected persona also comes through by way of the pacing of this mix. Although things eventually get rowdy and tough, Jordee takes us to darkness unscrewing one bulb at a time. Aside from the occasional vocal flourishes and hints of jazzy instrumentation, the pulsing hypnosis of this mix is persistent, the final track seemingly suggesting there is neither a begin nor end to this composition. "Captain, we are picking up a transmission from a distant queerdorgy planet." Given the speed sound travels there is no telling how long ago this message has been waiting for you. Before the ships scanners intercepted these extraterestrial beats they were entertaining a panoramic of stars and galaxies. Will these frequencies influence you for good or evil? Will they fry your engines or gift your mainframes with the alien code bringing you to unseen solar systems. You're locked in now, so only time will tell. Be brave for your world has always been unknown.

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 229: Jordee's Non-binary Transmission

An iconic UK duo craft a hip-hop mix.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=687

@autechreofficial

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.687 Autechre

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