We are thrilled to announce the next addition to our mixtape series: Gerd Janson✨
Known for his deep love for house and disco music, Gerd Janson has taken a bold departure into the mesmerizing soundscapes of techno for this special set he recorded for us. 🔊 The selected music has a unique mood and energy that will keep you entranced from start to finish. 🏁
But don't let the intensity fool you - Gerd Janson is one of the nicest guys in the industry and a true legend in the global scene. He has been known as a prolific music journalist writing hundreds of articles for Groove Magazine and got a residency at Frankfurt’s Robert-Johnson club since 2000. 🎶

Let this mixtape set you on a different angle and get ready for an immersive journey through sone entrancing rythms and pulsing synthesizers - discover why he's considered one of the best in the game! 🙌

SPND20 Mixtape by Gerd Janson

DJ Nobu's exclusive mix for RDC 2024 podcast:

A rare house/disco set recorded back at RDC "Sound Horizon" 2023 by one of the most highly acclaimed techno djs from Japan who travels across the globe.

RDC 072 - DJ Nobu

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

‘Run it Red’ sees bona fide techno legend Ben Sims showcases 2 hrs of the finest new house and techno he can lay his hands on. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ben-sims/episodes/ben-sims-15th-june-2025

Ben Sims Presents: Run It Red 150625

Recorded at SOUNDIT Plaza in Barcelona on 5 April 2025.

“IF THIS ISNT RA MIX OF THE DAY WE’LL STOP PRESSING PLAY 🤪"

Blasha b2b Allatt b2b Steffi b2b Virginia @ SOUNDIT Plaza (Barcelona)

TOTAL SURRENDER

Post Production by Pozek

https://soundcloud.com/pozek

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Ling Ling - Syntax Error

Top tier techno from one of Japan's underground favourites.

RA.294 DJ Nobu

The latest export from Japan's techno scene offers a deep, hypnotic mix.

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2016/11/podcast-462-wata-igarashi/

Tracklisting:

01. Mike Parker “Three Golden Heads” [Spazio Disponibile]
02. Daniel Avery “Clear” (Abdulla Rashim Remix) [Phantasy Sound]
03. Conforce “Reverse” [Delsin Records]
04. Post Scriptum “Donbelief” [Infrastructure New York]
05. Boris Divider “Re_framed” (Svreca Remix) [Artificial Domain]
06. Mosam Howieson “Untitled” [Forthcoming on Silent Season]
07. Beau Wanzer “Oklahoma” (edit) [BW01]
08. Zemi17 “Zipper” [The Bunker New York]
09. Aleksi Perälä “UK74R1409107” (edit) [AP Musik]
10. Von Grall “A Bad Reputation” [Forthcoming on Midgar]
11. Ombossa “The Blinding Flares of 61 Virginis” (ASC Grey Area remix) [Fracture Label]
12. Inland “Acidalia” [Infrastructure New York]
13. Wata Igarashi “Untitled” [Unreleased]
14. Marco Shuttle “Flusso Dinamico” [Spazio Disponibile]
15. Ruff Cherry “Endless World” [Midgar]
16. Vromb “Entité” [Ant-Zen]
17. Daniel Avery “Sensation” (Rrose Remix) [Phantasy Sound]
18. Acronym “Escape” [Semantica Records]
19. Jeff Mills “Stellar Black Connector” (edit) [Axis]
20. Mental Model “Derealisation” [Mental Trax]
21. Marsen Jules “Beautyfear IX” [Oktaf]

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XLR8R Podcast 462: Wata Igarashi

'Surgeon - Food For Thought' 
63 min.  320kbps 143.9MB

Recorded January 2004, Food For Thought changed the parameters of the techno DJ mix.
For years there has only a 128kbps version available that had been subjected to over zealous 'mastering'. 
Here for your pleasure is a 320kbps version encoded from the original DAT recording of the set.

Tracklist-

Shiver - Subsonic Soundscape
Autechre - Clipper
Surgeon - Exhibit
Scorn - Twitcher (Surgeon DNA remake)
Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Etre ... Pas
AFX - Mighty Force
Monolake - Polaroid
Photek - Trans 7
Renegade Soundwave - Phantom
DHS - The House Of God (DHS remix)
Monolake - Cern
Autechre - Second Scepe
Tony Rohr - Lofishizzy
65D Mavericks - Earthbound (Surgeon remix)
Cane - Fall
Curve - Falling Free (Aphex Twin remix)
Dom and Rymetyme - Iceberg
Horace Andy - Money Money
Monolake - Stratosphere
British Murder Boys - Live Ritual No.1
Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel
Phantom Power - Can D
Nitzer Ebb - Smear Body
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream (Aphex Twin remix)
Autechre - Cipater (Surgeon remake)
Denis Rusnak - Working Sister
British Murder Boys - Don't Give Way To Fear
Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce - Alien Girl
Autechre - Second Peng
Surgeon - Shaper Of The Unknown

Surgeon - Food For Thought

Rinse FM Podcasts

Ostgut Ton Takeover: Steffi x Virginia - 03 August 2019

UK electronic music performer and recording artist. 
Bookings: michael.matuschek@triangleagency.com