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Saturday, August 2⋅3:00 – 6:00pm
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Doo in NYC Excalibur, DJ Frog, DJ Spence and Sentena @ The Lot Radio 08-02-2025

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

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Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Lee Gamble in his ‘Motor System’ moniker bringing you the sound of his forward facing, club ready DJ sets exploring contemporary dance floor-mechanics. Expect futuristic club bangers.. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/motor-system/episodes/motor-system-14th-august-2025

Motor System 140825

Our special guests for this show are New York's own Queen Majesty & Barcelona-based Kaidara in anticipation of our upcoming takeover of the Nonstop series at Nowadays this Saturday!

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GROOVY GROOVY with Akanbi feat. Queen Majesty & Kaidara @ The Lot Radio 08-15-2025

enjoy this recording from 11pm - 1am at a party called "Floor Freakout" in Vancouver, Aug 9th 2025 that was rebroadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM via "You Need A Heart To Live 2" 

playlist and lots of info here: https://ckut.ca/playlists/shows/25652
thank you, Spencer, Zoe, and Rai

love you 

Big Zen in the mix - You Need A Heart To Live 2

Jaywalking with Yumi @ The Lot Radio 09-01-2025

Current Material is a mixtape (C60) recorded by C.K and released in '25. It contains 90% unreleased material.

In total 50 copies were made. The cassette tapes were distributed through Safe Distribution and in various (offline) record stores worldwide.

*Update 15/09/2025: Still a few copies left!

C.K - Current Material

New York's beloved party rockers bring the groovy energy to The Lot Radio for their monthly residency. Perspective expansion & nourishment of the spirit guaranteed. More groovy magic: https://www.groovygroovy.club

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GROOVY GROOVY with KATA & D3NIM @ The Lot Radio 09-20-2025

A mix of mostly R&B/boogie stuff featuring my favorite song about the dangers of freebasing cocaine and a bizarre Italo cover/mashup of Steely Dan's 'Do It Again' and Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean.' No real theme to the mix, but I think it captures a certain mood... Very lightly mixed, I mostly just let the records play. 

Ellis, Beggs & Howard ‎– Big Bubbles, No Troubles (Bubble Mix)
Paul Laurence ‎– Strung Out 
Loose Ends - Hanging On A String (Contemplating)
High Fashion ‎– Make Up Your Mind
Patrice Rushen - Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)
Club House - Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean
The Style Council - It Didn't Matter
Bell Towers - You Got Me Running
Krisp (Bjørn Torske) - Lovestomp
Telephones - Amerikadegåri (453-459 Mix)

It Didn't Matter

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