Y'all I can't stop listening to this, the number of rrrrrinses is getting a little ridiculous at this point. 😂💜🤗👽🤝

thissssss frickin transition 🥵😤 legends only

still cant'f figure out precisely what is going on here [techknicallyYyy]? and tbh I love that. Regardless, it's phenomenal; seamless, smooth, fit as a fiddle, ready for love. 👽

this too. absolutely bonkers. I love a transition O cannot hear and do not expect 👽🫟

this is in top 5 builds-->drops of 2025, don't @ me. ruthless.

good sets in general

If you haven't heard of Nikki Nair at this point, we'd invite you to come out from under that rock you're living in. But jokes aside, the last 12 months have been the Atlanta producer's year. He's toured seemingly endlessly, has found his way into a number of local scenes and has put out records for labels like Dirtybird, Lobster Theremin and Scuffed Recordings. If that weren't enough, he's also been putting out an illuminating series of monthly singles on his Bandcamp that show off both his restless muse and his seeming ability to both perfect and put his own stamp on any sub-genre or style he tries.

People usually use some form of the word "bass" to describe Nikki Nair, because of the way his music flits between dubstep, drum & bass, electro and more. One moment he's making staggering hip-hop instrumentals that would have fit right into the old LA beat scene, the next minute he's making pneumatic techno or uptempo stuff that would fit right in one Juke Bounce Werk. 

His voracious appetite for new sounds comes across on his RA Podcast, which is a sprawling two-hours-plus of genre hopping and careful mixing, hopping from mood to mood like a 2-D video game platformer. It starts off perhaps a little slower than you'd expect, but weaves through countless Nikki Nair tracks, older selections from Wolfgang Voigt and Drexciya and mind-melting club tracks from newer producers including DJ ADHD, Despina, Limewax and more. If you want to know what the hippest, most inventive dance music sounds like, bridging continents and oceans, this mix is it.

@nikki-nair

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/848

RA podcast

RA.848 Nikki Nair

Recorded live at Observe Los Angeles, November 25, 2023

Live @ Observe: Los Angeles

Dustin Zahn x Truncate Live @ Observe Los Angeles (11/25/23)

In late 2023 I was chatting with a musician friend about labels, and whether they're really all that necessary these days. As someone mainly focused on self-releasing my music through Bandcamp, I think for the most part the answer is no. One should focus on passionately creating things and being involved in their local music community. Over time, label or not, things will hopefully start to take care of themselves on their own. I did however mention that there was one label I thought was really cool, and would definitely be interested in working with: it was Nous'klaer Audio. Incredibly, the next day I received an email from Sjoerd Oberman, who runs Nous'klaer, inviting me to join for a release and performance at Draaimolen. Of course, I was delighted to be involved. This would be my first show in the EU. I spent about 3 months preparing a new set. Having grown rather bored of CDJs and DJ mixers, I opted to prepare a live set, in which I control 8 channels of audio tracks along with drum machines and FX. This setup gives me a lot of freedom to explore new arrangements of my catalog, and better command the dynamic energy on the dance floor, pushing and pulling things forwards to capture the mood of the crowd. To prepare for Draaimolen, I organized several shows across Japan (where I live), further refining the setup after each performance, and deciding what tracks would be the best fit for the 60 minute peak time set I was scheduled to perform. I was very nervous about how my set would be received, but it ended up working very well, and was the highlight of my year. From the very start, the positive reaction from the crowd put me at ease, and Draaimolen's focus on sound and stage design gave me peace of mind, knowing that every frequency was being perfectly reproduced on the floor. I'm so grateful for the opportunity Nous'klaer and Draaimolen provided me. Long live Nous'klaer and long live Draaimolen. Thank you Sjoerd and Milo and Kani and Hannah! 
- Erik Luebs

Erik Luebs live at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Recorded live at Villa San Michele during 53100 festival 2024. Photo by Teo Giovanni Poggi

Garçon @ 53100 - 2024

There was impressive scenery on the second floor on the last day of the festival. The time for Sunju Hargun, who was to take the stage with two different sets, dancing and listening, to heal the bodies of the dancers who had been dancing so long in the rain. Deep dub echoes, Layered drones, and healing sounds echoed through the room, melting listeners' consciousness and guiding them into a deep meditative state.

フェスティバル最終日、セカンドフロアの朝の光景は印象的なものでした。ダンスとリスニング、二種のセットで登壇することになったSunju Hargunが、雨で踊り続けたダンサーたちの身体を癒した時間です。とろけるようなダブエコー、ドローン、ヒーリングサウンドが室内に響き渡り、リスナーの意識を融解させる深い瞑想をガイドしました。

Sunju Hargun-Alternative Set at rural 2024

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

Read more at ra.co/podcast/973

RA.973 Kia

Originals, edits, bootlegs, and reworks from 2023 to present. 
100% Unreleased.

Tracklist:
1. virtue_signal - Grounding Presence
2. virtue_signal - Tlielexian Order 
3. virtue_signal - Storm Song
4. virtue_signal - Getchu
5. virtue_signal - Disassembly
6. virtue_signal - Self-Care Lobotomy
7. ID - ID [V_S Remix]
8. virtue_signal - Breathe Deep Tool
9. virtue_signal - Rumbl
10. virtue_signal - Dark In Here
11. Inner City - Till We Meet Again [V_S 2-STEPPER]
12. virtue_signal - Cosmic Wanderer
13. KiNK - ID [V_S Rework]
14. Moonchild - V.O.A.T. [V_S 2-STEPPER]
15. virtue_signal - Rogue Agent Tool
16. Runa Laila - Suno Suno [V_S TWEAKMIX]

100% UNRELEASED - virtue_signal All-Producer Mix

xfiles:minimal

From the Bayou to your bass bins, Nile Ashton and Virtue_Signal have fixed up 2.5 hours of kickin' Louisiana flavor for Flow State Mixtape 006

The New Orleans duo behind the burgeoning Premonition party have also given us a peek behind the curtain on themselves and their scene. Flip through the slides on our Instagram to learn more about these two while listening to their mix

Flow State Mixtape 006 - Nile Ashton b2b Virtue_Signal

My Slowtempo opening 11pm Saturday set at Bass Coast Music Festival 2025. We went real deep, heady, meditative, dubwise, percussive with IDM flavourings, interwoven with psychedelic euphoria. Thank you for everyone who was there and shared that beautiful moment with me ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 

Tracklist:
Le Motel - Chàm Islands (feat. Hoàng Tuấn) [Balmat]
Sunju Hargun - The Golden Triangle [Siamese Twins Records]
goo - skullghostalien
Juan Moreno - Exp. Dub 1 (Ambient X) [Móatún 7]
Blazej Malinowski - Hideaway [The Gods Planet]
Al Wootton - Facing The Horses Tail [TRULE]
phil in a maze - Hell or High Water
Sunju Hargun - Pigeon Attack (Shjva ॐ dub) [Siamese Twins Records]
Sunju Hargun & GiGi FM - Lens of Time [Siamese Twins Records]
Blazej Malinowski - Dark Awakenings [The Gods Planet]
Emily Jeanne - Đồ Sơn At Night [quỳnh]
Nic Ford - Cyberd (Jonathan Kusuma Splinter Mix) [Siamese Twins Records]
Kolomensky - The Last Speech [Electric Shapes]
Iza Basia - Formant [Kinesis Recordings]
monosym - Raincell [Oomycota]
shjva - Resorain
Đ.K. - Sequences [WORSHIP]
Maara - Splash On Mi [NAFF]
Desh - Systole [Secuencias Temporales]
Overturn - Aerials [Indefinite Pitch]
Topdown Dialectic - A4 [peak oil]
shjva - Subatom
Laima Adelaide - l (Atomic Moog Re Interpretation) [Secuencias Temporales]
Desh - El Pasar del Condor [Secuencias Temporales]
noorj - y [Gravity Pleasure]
Igor Dyachenko - Melted Reality [appendix.files]

Lite mastering by https://soundcloud.com/michaelred

Live at Bass Coast 2025 - Slowtempo (Saturday Opening Set)

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Flosstradamus - Soundclash [ALPHA ROSA DUB] [FREE DOWNLOAD]

We’re excited to share the full recording of @djdissolve playing on the @canyonvibration main stage!

dj dissolve is 4th generation Portlander, Producer, DJ, and cofounder of the artist collective Soul House. Inspired by the hypnotic and connective power of electronic music, he uses dance, DJing and production as tools for community healing and social activism.

While he is a big proponent of supporting the local scene, his taste for the underground was heavily shaped by a 2019 academic semester spent abroad studying in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was finally able to grasp the global influence of Chicago house and Detroit techno.

He is inspired by music’s power to heal and connect, and he draws inspiration from the diverse sounds, dances, and spirits that have been emitted from the Willamette Valley for millennia, he views his time on earth as a continuation of this ancient tradition and through every set he seeks to honor the selectors, dancers, and spirit guides who have come before him.

Whether he's behind the mixing board, putting on a record, or cueing up with CDJs, dj dissolve's singular goal remains unchanged: to make his call to the dance floor irresistible.

https://djdissolve.bandcamp.com/

Photo by @maxbenedict.photo

DJ Dissolve @ Canyon Vibration 2025

EVERYONE

makin it up

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?s1c29wdipiq9zk4

Original article and interview here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=307

Tracklist:
Chris Watson - The Blue Men Of The Minch 
Murcof - Una 
Pangaea - Memories 
Frozen Border - 3.1 
Sleeparchive - Papercup 
Djrum - Mountains pt.1 (Live) 
Djrum - Mountains pt.1 (Pedestrian's Pirate Radio Remix) 
Djrum - Mountains pt.2 
Beatless (ft. Quasimoto & Mablib) - Dominant 
Herbie Hancock - Goodbye To Childhood 
Andy Bey - Celestial Blues 
Untold - Kingdom
Chris Watson - River Mara At Dawn. Maasai Mara 
Djrum (ft. Shad[]wb[]x) - Lies 
Perc - Tension 
Chris Watson - The Blue Men Of The Minch. Moray 
Djrum - The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn (Undercoat pt. 2) 
Djrum - Honey 
Richard Skelton - Noon Hill Wood
Marcel Dettmann - Shatter Proof 
Daughter - Landfill 
Andy Stott - Handle With Care 
Chris Watson - Oceanus Pacificus (10m) 
Indigo - Snowfall 
Chris Watson - Oceanus Pacificus (3m) 
Vashti Bunyan - Here Before 
Elephant & Castle - I Will 
Alix Perez (ft. Sabre) - Hemlines 
Chris Watson - The Blue Men Of The Minch 
The Drop - Looking To The Sky (Djrum Remix)

DjRUM - Imaginary Movie Mix for Resident Advisor

Chicago based party series

Upcoming: 
23. Flow State x Sensory Signal at Podlasie Club with Olsvangèr, Capes, Adult Hits, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
24. Flow State x Sensory Signal at Better Tomorrow Studio (Los Angeles) with Olsvangèr, deep creep, Etari, fun2bjane, Hot Take, Jack Galactic

Past:
22. 06/20/2025 Flow State x Green Machine x Night Logistics at secret location with Nono Gigsta, Agraybé, Mithra, Hot Take and Steve Noah.
21. 05/10/2025 Flow State x Green Machine x Humboldt Arboreal Society at secret location with Reptant, Shaun LaCosta-Sinclair, flower food, Josh Aaron and Sean Taylor
20. 04/26/2025 at Podlasie Club with Lis Dalton, Icey Bby, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
19. 02/08/2025 at Earthly Delights (Brooklyn, NY) with Sister Zo, DJ Deadname, Hot Take, Jack Galactic and Shareen
18. 12/14/2024 at Podlasie Club with DJ Deadname, Eva Loveless and Eros
17. 11/01/2024 Psyde Quest (Flow State x Green Machine X Club Hospitality) at secret location with Adam Pits, Brendan Lemkin, Club Chow, Cqqchifruit, Glamour Cadaver, Hot Take, Jaggy, Linquency, Loqum, Sold
16. 10/25/2024 at Smartbar with HAAi, Ariel Zetina, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
15. 9/20/2024 at Podlasie Club with Etari, AK, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
14. 08/17/2024 at Schubas Upstairs with Ali Najdi, DJ Chia Pudding
13. 07/20/2024 at Podlasie Club with DJ Voices, Leesh
12. 05/18/2024 Flow State x Green Machine at secret location with Anderson, Greg Webb, Madeline, Jaggy b2b Hot Take
11. 04/05/2024 at Punch House with Tony G, D-Bars
10. 03/02/2024 at Podlasie Club with Darwin, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
9. 12/09/2023 at Podlasie Club with DJ Fuckoff, Maara, Rinas
8. 10/21/2023 at secret location with Nothingnice, Alejandro Marenco, Kips
7. 09/29/2023 at Primary with X-Coast, Hotpretty, Steve Noah
6. 08/19/2023 at secret location with Club Chow, Jaggy, Jayah
5. 06/10/2023 at Podlasie Club with Farsight, Deepsmith, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
4. 03/10/2023 at Debonair Social Club with Jialing, Chachi Guerrero, Hot Take, Jack Galactic
3. 02/16/2023 at The Listening Room with Mattheo, Extrn, Kips
2. 11/18/2022 at Primary with Lauren Lo Sung, Inphinity, Bigtings
1. 11/03/2022 at The Listening Room with Nik Ranieri, flower food, Steve Noah, Hot Take, Jack Galactic

Flow State Mixtape 006 - Nile Ashton b2b Virtue_Signal

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