IDA Helsinki 1 Year Birthday Bash - Eric Filipus

"This mix is a celebration of cultural diversity and unity, weaving together sounds and rhythms from various traditions, cultures, times and genres from all around the world. Experience a small glimpse into the inexhaustible beauty of our planet's rich and vast musical heritage, all united in one harmonious collection." - @Saphileaum

SAPHILEAUM - ALL IN HARMONY MIX

Live recording of Crust's DJ Set at the Good Morning Tapes x High Note party on 24/01/25 in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. @crustext

Crust - Good Morning Tapes x High Note DJ SET

We’re so honoured to welcome Refracted to The Observatory, whose sonic explorations have inspired us deeply over the years <3

This spellbinding set was recorded live last month during Astral Industries’ takeover at Resør Listening Room in Berlin.
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https://soundcloud.com/refracted-music
https://refracted.bandcamp.com
https://titrate.bandcamp.com/album/in-veil
https://ra.co/dj/refracted
https://www.instagram.com/refractedmusic/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Refracted @ Astral Industries, Resør Listening Room, 2025

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

There’s something profoundly healing in the music of French duo Javier Salazar, whose output embodies the true medicinal power of sound. 

This mix takes our mind’s eye into the sunshine - grass between our toes, spliff in hand - as we get intimate with the scoops, wrapped in a warm, enveloping blanket of sound.

We hope this beautiful contribution brings you an hour of peace, just as it has for us many times over the past month. Thanks, Leo & Simon <3
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https://soundcloud.com/javrsalazar
https://soundcloud.com/klapenunsen
https://www.klapenunsen.com/
https://klapenunsen.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/javrsalazar/
https://www.instagram.com/klapenunsen/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Javier Salazar

Carrying Eden where grace flows.

Read more: https://www.orbmag.com/music/podcast/orb-podcast-096-son-of-chi/

@sonofchi

Tracklist

Orb Podcast 096: Son Of Chi

The day after our first night at Club Raum, we hosted a listening session at our Amsterdam home base Noord Space to softly land. In an intimate setting, Erik Luebs offered listeners a unique live performance created for this moment. Seated in front of his instruments, Erik made time stop and created communion. This recording captures perfectly what we experienced, and we hope that you will feel it too.

Sunday Aftermath with Erik Luebs Live at Noord Space

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 scintillating minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. Full send.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Beyond the fabled chill-out room and into the field we go...

Joe Muggs has lived and breathed 'electronic music culture' for many, many years... like a lot of us probably for more than he'd care to imagine.  From journalist and observer to active participant and curator, beyond his celebrated writing career spanning publications like The Wire, FACT, The Guardian, and his co-authorship of  Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture. Muggs has built many bridges across the worlds of the electronic and handily, for us, ambient.

Experimental, ambient, and leftfield sounds to the fore, get horizontal. Something's feeling quite full circle here.

So it is with some excitement that Joe agreed to don his ambient trousers again and step up for part 4 of the Seeds mix. "Music to Smell the Jasmine Whilst Watching for Bats in the Twilight" encapsulates what is often a poetic approach to ambient curation - clearly less about the dancefloor and more about creating an experience that enhances the environment around you.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-4-joe-muggs-music-to-smell-the-jasmine-whilst-watching-for-bats-in-the-twilight/

@loosefm

Tracklisting: 

Dr Rod Octopus vs Kirsty Hawkshaw – Ghost Town

Cobey Sey – Eve (Anwummer)

Om Unit – Springdub Meditation

Wombo – Spyhopping

Ada – 25 or 6 to 4

Omara Portuondo – Tabu

Aswad – Ethiopian Rhapsody

Nwando Ebizie – Shadowland (In the Dreams of Others)

Muito Kaballa – Like a River

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes – Theem Prototype

Ego Ella May – The Morning Side of Love

Minnie Riperton – Minnie’s Lament

Julee Cruise – She Wold Die for Love

Ennio Morricone – Messico E Irlanda

Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado – Tonada De Luna Llena

Resavoir – Sunset

Durutti Column – Grace

Scrimshire, Stac – Pep Talks

Brandee Younger – Dust (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello)

D’Angelo – Unshaken

Sabrina Bellaouel – Clémence

Bill Frisell – Sing Together Like a Family

Bobbie Gentry – Something in the Way He Moves

Frederic Galliano – Niamien Kinkeling (feat. Cissé Diamba Kanouté, Koko Ouadjah)

Underworld – Dune

Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (SuperMayer Lost in the Tiergarten Mix)

Talaboman – Dins el Lit (Superpitcher Remix)

FULL INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix #4: Joe Muggs' Music to Smell the Jasmine whilst watching for Bats in the Twilight

Corum presents 'Waterways' mix part 1, an audio exploration to celebrate our station transmissions by-the-bay & oceanic kick-off coastal premiere of Lost Discoveries Radio.  Follow all the Lost Discoveries Radio at: https://www.mixcloud.com/lostdiscoveries/

"Grant Corum  is a visual & recording artist.  He is best known for his design & screen prints for music labels such as Sublime Frequencies, Psychic Sounds, Mississippi Records, Sahel Sounds, Feeding Tube, Lullabies for Insomniacs, Pacific City Sound Visions, and Time-Lag among others.  Since 1990, he has created & collaborated on many audio releases, installations, performances & exhibits throughout the United States, Guatemala, Japan and Europe.  He currently resides and works in mid-coast Maine.
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"Corum brings a psychedelic atmosphere, one not culled from a traditional sense, but of a deeply innate ability to transform a space sonically creating a more spiritual, or visceral affair."
 
He is a member of the group Million Brazilians and runs the record label Psychic Sounds." 

Playlist: 
Gaston Borreani - 'Bathymorphoses (part 1 & 2)' 
Alan Hawkshaw - 'Underwater Voyage'  
David Wise - ‘Aquatic Ambience’ 
Eric Vann - ‘Gulfstream / Underwater Reflections ‘
Joanna Brouk - ‘Sounds of the Sea' (excerpt) 
Franco Tamponi ‘Stelle Marine’ 
Armando Sciascia ’Shipwreck’ 
Vanuatu Women's Water Music
Atmo - 'Sub Uno Ittiologia' 
Alessandro Alessandroni -  'Ittiologia'
Franco Tamponi - 'Acquamarina'
Paul Williams - 'Seahorses & Mermaids'
 Egisto Macchi '- Rettili di mare / Balene'
Walt Rockman ‎- 'Dangerous Deep Sea 1'
Graham De Wilde - 'Underwater World'
Dominique Guiot - 'La Danse Des Meduses'
Jesse Woodroffe - ‘Sunken Tombs of Truk Lagoon’ 
Alexander Cherdron - 'Snorkel Trip'
Pauline Anna Strom - ‘Emerald Pool’  
K Leimer - 'Water Music'
Eric Vann -'Dancing Plankton' 
IASOS - 'Pleiadian Healing Cycles' 
Joel Vandroogenbroeck ‘Marine Fauna’ 
Folkways Sounds of the Sea ’12 Miles out 48’ Deep, Atl. Drum Fish (Bastard Trout) / Black Croaker'
 Orphan Fairytale - ‘Never-Ending Waves’ / ‘Glacial Meltwater’ 
Ralph Lundsten - ‘Descending Nude Virgo’ 
PREMEIRE TRACK!: Idaho Joe - 'Mermaid Song' (forthcoming 2020)

More info on Corum / Million Brazilians: www.planesofcorum.com  / www.millionbrazilians.com

IDA Helsinki 1 Year Birthday Bash - Eric Filipus

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