These are mixes made by the current members of Research & Development, Makeen and JS Alvarez

Mixes by R&D members

Read our interview with Krisztián Puskár Splatter and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/SplattPod

Groove Podcast 332

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Groove Podcast 332 - Krisztián Puskár Splatter

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Sonic Revelations #2 w/ Acidic Male 19.05.22

Our final premiere of the week comes from Minneapolis based techno producer Lonefront, who’s supplied a deep and hypnotic techno cut, perfect for murky basement clubs.

An artist out of Minneapolis by way of the Bay Area, Lonefront produces explorative techno cuts as well as his performances as a live modular act, appearing on bills alongside DVS1, Volvox and Planetary Assault Systems. Now, the Minnesotan producer brings his dynamic take on the genre to Kajunga Records with two tracks pressed on wax across ‘Additive Spectra / South Of Forever’.

Lead track ‘Additive Spectra’ is a loopy affair awash with alarming bleeps, moody low-ends and sharp percussion, before B2’s ‘South Of Forever’ provides a twisted, eerie soundscape as shadowy synths churn throughout this slice of modular grooves.

‘South Forever’ is deep and grimy, reminiscent of the classic Klockworks releases and cathartic dances at Berghain. Trippy melodies play off misty atmospheres, causing chilling and fine-drawn tension. This is modern day minimalism at its finest.

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Osmanbas's 'A Way with Music' is a lively hour-long radio show about language examined through music.

A Way With Music [121] - 1st September 2022

This is a GO HIYAMA remix of the track "FEMALE" from the album "I AM GOODBYE". It is available for free download.

I AM GOODBYE / Parachute records
https://parachute.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-goodbye

[free download] FEMALE - GO HIYAMA remix MP3

Grittygun

With an aim for versatile, high energy DJ-sets, grittygun's 2022 quickly lined up with Dutch club nights and radio shows, such as Garage Noord, MONO, Grey Space In The Middle, Echobox Radio, Stranded FM, Future Intel, and Malmö-based station Retreat Radio. Working at record store 3345, a place where many different scenes come together through live events and a very varied selection of presented music, Gunnar takes an active role in the local music industry.

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/gunnar01

Tracklist
Multiplex - 000 return
sobolik - exigence
Lårry - Nines
Toumba - Lil Amam Sir
GANJ & Nathalie Froehlich - CRWDY 
N-Type - Square Off (2004 Edit)
Mm - Tompocalypse
T5UMUT5UMU - Death Blossom
iakovos - 140
GILA - NANAO feat. Kloxii
Crisis - de Excesos
Nidia - Nunun
Ekzander - Hypnobody
Kincaid - E
Clay Wilson - DSO 2
DJ SLIP - SKETCHES VOL 1 - TRACK 2 
LOKA - ENERGY WORK (ANYANWU)
Liliane Chlela - Swordfish
Low End Activist - Amphibious Centurions (Logos Rebuild)
Blawan - Fizz City

DUSK251 By Grittygun

No Soap Radio: every second saturday evening of the month on Operator Radio.
March 2023's edition with the one and only @ritamaomenos. Enjoy :)

Aïsha Devi - O.M.A.(Abul Mogard Remix)
Age Coin - Monday 
Talker - Cross Purposes
Atsushi Izumi - Sylvan
Eusebeia - principle
Luke Slater - O'Ton Reassembled 2
Second Spectre - Before It Disappears
Karim Maas - Saturn Return
T5UMUT5UMU - Bottomless Valley
Sherwood & Pinch - Midnight Mindset
DJ Overdose - Comfort Killer
Faunes - Looting
Batu - I own your energy 
Fiend - Fixation
Sene - Swoon
T5UMUT5UMU - Fireball
Enayet - Chokkor
Dybbuk - Choose life
UNF41[r].io - run syqosis.exe while (1<2)
Malcolm - Final Boss (ft. Gil.Barte)
Low End Activist - Exotic Possibilities
Mercy System - Fade Away
Terminal 11 - Eyes Pressed Against The Glass
MELANIN FREE - LinkedIn Park (ft. Freaky)
Low End Activist - Afflicted
Arkwright - Shinjuku
Atsushi Izumi - Vivification
Zyryab - Total Sinister
Conceptual - Healing dance 
Leese - Skree Stem 
vonal_64 - as below, so above
DJ Boss - Atmolam
re:ni - Reverse rave
Leese - Sag
MVVM - Material
Iceboy Violet - DEATHDRIVE
Ebb & Akcept -Wild Wood
Juha Mats - Kolea
Last Days Of S.E.X. - Fnord (Morah Remix)
FOR. - Transparent Flags 
AQXDM - Ballad 02
Quartz - Mountain 
Eszaid - Meet The Top Boys
Maoupa Mazzocchetti - UXYTalking App©
Nomine, 9er & Digital - Run from It (Boylan & Slimzee Remix)
SRAMAANA - Downloading Consciousness
iker ormazabal martinez - Crowd Pleaser
Kalathos - Voyage
Torana - Acrid
Torn Relics - Hundred Heade Cobra
Last Life - Cannibal Wish
Mønic - Regret Was Never So Sure
YOUTH - I WANNA BE BETTER NOT GET IT
Kemperton - TnA

No Soap Radio w/ Rita Maomenos (b2b) - 11th March 2023

For mix number 18 in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from Chicago's @makeensound

Chicago based producer and DJ Makeen is focused on groovy textural techno
with a dark edge. He co-organizes the party series Research & Development
with J.S. Alvarez and founded the parties Spent and Near Dark.

His electronic music obsession began when he started performing live sets
on tables full of gear. With an interest in sound design and synthesis, Makeen
spent the early part of his artistic life composing and performing
experimental music more focused on acoustic instruments. The latest leg of
his journey has brought him back to electronic music with an elevated
passion for dance floor-focused beats.

Mix Description:
I decided to take a playful approach to this mix— playing some lighter and
groovier tracks with an emphasis on trippy sounds and atmospheres. This
mix was recorded with 3 x CDJs and an Allen & Heath Xone 92 mixer. The
focus was on long continuous blends, while shifting between new and
unexpected sonic worlds.

Tracklist:
Oktobr - Sleepdancer
Dj Hyperactive & Jason Patrick - Harrier Env (Original Mix)
BLANKA - Howl
Atonism - Back And Forth
Temudo - P is For Paula
Karo - Uväll
Vladw - Aou Mallku
Augusto Taito - High Trip
Ohm - ASKE
CRAVO - Innerversion
Tsibo - M25
Takt - Groove Chaser
Orbe - Post-Cycle
Toru Ikemoto, bw - Don’t Play 050r
Amotik - Saat
Zisko - State of Rhythm
Seigg - Secondary Options
Planetary Assault Systems - Raww
Speedy & Steve - Rotor
Temudo - Susto
Gaetano Parisio - Klytia

PPRZ Podcast 18 - Makeen

This mix is from a very special at night November 09 2024 at Smartbar with my dear friends Nikki Nair, Madeline and Pen Pals. I was tasked with closing out the evening and was an honor to do so. Thanks to everyone who came out and stayed till the lights came on.  Hope yall enjoy!

Live mix at Smartbar Nov 09 2024 - Dan B Hood

We are so lucky to release this mix for our 37th entry, recorded live at SmartBar (Chicago) by our friend and excellent DJ Shanti!

From the artist:
I am so grateful to be able to share this mix with you all through PPRZ! This is a mix that was recorded at Smartbar in Chicago when I opened for Lady Starlight as part of Justin Aulis Long's series, Flowers of Romance. It was a 3-hour long set from 10pm-1am on a Pioneer V10 Mixer with 3-4 CDJ 3000s. 

What I love about opening sets is having the ability to set the tone for the night as people are arriving and making the transition from wherever they came from to the communal embodiment of dancing. The other fascinating element about an opening set is the dramatic contrast between the beginning and end as one first experiences an empty dance floor and sees the gradual process of it growing with energy and feeling even though I can really only see beautiful silhouettes moving in the darkness. I take an opening set to be about the gradual cultivation of energy but also an opportunity for creative tension and exercising restraint for the headliner and rest of the night.

Bio:
Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who explores philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity through surreal, foreboding, and atmospheric soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition. 

While she is thoughtful about curating multifaceted energy and emotion within her sets, she also co-curates events such as Otherworldly Ambiguity as Evanti, a conceptual experience centered around the phenomenon of hybridity, occupying the spaces in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a part of Chicago-based DJ collective and label, Research & Development which is a mix series and curator of multifaceted music-centered experiences. 

Mix mastered by: Umair Chachar

Tracklist:
Part 1:
Lemna - Memories
Lemna - Hallucination 
Voices from the Lake - Mika 
Donato Dozzy - Aquatica
SHXCXCHCXSH - A Sunny Day in Ostrogothia 
Dan B. Hood - Ode to Drome
BMG & Derek Plaslaiko - Ghost Ship 
Rrose - Signs 
Alexskyspirit - The Travelers (Polygonia remix)
Etapp Kyle - Source 
Mike Parker - Heat Inducer 
Love Letters - Morse (BMG mix) 
Club Drippy - Crashed
Ryogo Yamamori- Zw
Marcel Dettman - Rush (Deep Release mix)
Pause - Crater  
SHXCXCHCXSH  - HHHHHHHGGKS 
Part 2:
Rrose - Solaris 
Lonefront - Stera
Modes - M52 
NØRBAK - Luyr 
Allana Letm - Tempos Multiplos (Centrific Remix)
Nubbles - Reflect 2 
Maedon-X - Caged Animal 
Perc - Milk Snatchers Return
Ritaffein - Laiva
Regis - Body Unknown 
Jamaica Suk - Tes Levrés
British Murder Boys - We Will Show You 
Uun - Junkspace 
Kanding Ray - Dark Barker 
Peter Van Hoesen - Vola Flash 
Surgeon - The Golden Sea 
Alexskyspirit- SNCTR2 
Decoder - Falling Flat 
Part 3:
Quelza - Plastic Waves 
Neel - A Thought without Time 
Oscar Mulero - Tormenta 
Regis - The Theme from Street Walker
DASH3D - Neuropulmonar
CRØG - Fire 
Oblivion & Uranya - Bassa Marea 
Sorcery - Dark Scan
GiGi FM - Amadamushies
Neel- Riflesso 
Quelza - We’ll Never Be Friends Again 
J. Blofeld - Uranus 
Cej- Itchy 
Char - Free 
Psyk & Orbe - Tunnel Diode
Surgeon - Convenience Trap Pt.2

Donations if you enjoyed this mix from Shanti's recommended organization: https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/ - creating a just and sustainable food system for all through education.

PPRZ Podcast 37 - Shanti live at SmartBar Chicago

ZONA CINCO - MICTLAN - VOL 4

We are thrilled to present this mix by Chicago based JS Alvarez for our 39th entry in the series. Both Adam and I admire what Jeremy contributes to the music scene with their podcast and event series Research & Development.

JS Alvarez is a shape shifting lizard that has learned human behavior from living in cities such as Chicago and Miami. He succumbs to no one genre and can be found exploring the depths of mutant techno and unruly bass music alike.

He is the founding member of Research & Development which ignited in the iconic Chicago mainstay of Smartbar. The event series has moved on to host community focused events centered on a wide variety of often cutting edge electronic sounds at venues like Podlasie Club, The Whistler and various DIY spaces. R&D also hosts a biweekly podcast 100+ episodes deep ranging from rising talents, hometown heroes and well established DJs and producers from North America and around the world.

He's shared the booth with artists such as DVS1, Veronika Vasicka, D.Dan, Hodge and others. His mixes have been featured on NTS Radio, Mutant Radio and SutroFM among others. Catch him at The Great Beyond this July! 

I was trying to find a very textured sound within the first quarter of the mix. My attempt at some sort of atmospheric sci-fi horror score followed by something a bit more hypnotic. By the end of the mix I wanted those vibes to explode into something highly rhythmic. Something to shatter what came before and get the sweat dripping off the walls. 

If you enjoyed this mix, please consider donating to JS Alvarez' organization of choice:
https://www.organizedcommunities.org/ 
https://www.organizedcommunities.org/donate

PPRZ Podcast 39 - JS Alvarez

Inescapeable Impulse

FUCKFUCK BITCH FGUIKC KKKKK

TECHNO / UNDERGROUND / CHICAGO

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Send your demos to: format.fm.radio@gmail.com

Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen
Shanti Chu - Shanti
Dan Hood - Dan B Hood
Kona Mazariegos - Zona Cinco

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