This time, we head to Tokyo to welcome Atsuki!
Since 2014, he’s been lighting up venues like Redbar and Mitsuki, and in 2023 he launched Freaky Fusion, gathering his fellow heads around a shared love for deep grooves.
Between gigs, Atsuki crafts his sound in his Tokyo studio, always chasing the next twist.
After podcasts for Just Us and Snapout, today he lands on our own serie and delivers a tightly mixed podcast, filed with tasty tech-house. Enjoy !

@atsuki-iino

Podcast Beau Mot Plage 7.06 - Atsuki

Pre-order available now: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finding-the-sky

Nearly thirteen years since the release of his debut album ‘Skylight,’ Seattle-based electronic producer and Hush Hush flagship artist Kid Smpl returns with his latest full-length album. A loose follow-up to his debut album, ‘Finding the Sky’ examines themes of awe, wonder, exploration, and, journey, and showcases Kid Smpl’s latest evolution in his atmospheric, drifting, hypnotic ambient world, distinguished by his intricate sound design and progressive, panoramic vision.

Profits for this album will be donated to Real Change.
www.realchangenews.org

A Sail, A Wind

Three hours of high drama, recorded live at Nowadays in New York.

We know what you're thinking: why did it take so long to get Binh on the RA Podcast? There's no easy answer, especially given that he's been a favourite of ours for over a decade now. So to make up for lost time, the revered digger lands on the series with a tantalising three-hour mix, recorded live at Nowadays in New York earlier this year.

Crammed with rare and unreleased gems spanning house, techno, and electro, RA.989 is heavy on drama, catching the Düsseldorf native in unbridled performance mode.

This is Binh in 2025. But rewind across the past two decades and you'll find a DJ who excels in pretty much any situation, whether warming up for Zip or Margaret Dygas, going back-to-back with masters like Nicolas Lutz or rolling out solo sets that stretch across ten or even 12 hours.

He's acted out all these scenarios most often at Berlin institution Club der Visionaere, the cosy canalside club that became a kind-of spiritual home. (He'd sometimes spend every night of the week there, before parenting duties got the better of him.)

To play for half a day you need a lot of records, and the backbone of Binh's craft has long been a freakish passion for vinyl. Along with Lutz, Vera, and others in CDV's orbit, he approaches the pursuit of wax, new and old, with next-level dedication and a fondness for blind buys. 

That's true of RA.989, although among the un-Shazamables are many tracks that are either out or coming out on Binh's popular Time Passages label. The mix finds him on a house-y tip, luxuriating in roomy basslines, driving 303s and twinkly melodies—with just the right amount of evil. Lock in and savour a one-of-a-kind DJ, completely in the zone.

@binh

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/989

RA.989 Binh

Mix number 14 in our series, and the first live recording from Bonanza 2025 from none other than Ivan Smagghe. 

Recorded on the Sunday night of the festival, Ivan ushered the terrace through the penultimate set, handing over to Unai Trotti just before the light began to creep in over the river for the final sunrise of Bonanza. This is Ivan in deep, trippy and bewitching mode, just how we like it. 

In his own words, “I am always unsure recordings translate what happens in the moment, but people like them”. Hopefully some of the electricity from what was an incredibly special experience at the time trickles though your speakers at home xx

Rio 014 - Ivan Smagghe (recorded live at Bonanza 2025)

Recording of Palms Trax's closing set at RDC Stage on Saturday night.

RDC 092 - Palms Trax at Rainbow Disco Club 2025

Two hours of EC1 regular Nicolas Lutz's off-kilter electro, trippy house and deep-cut techno recorded live at our 26th Birthday.

He returns to fabric on 17th January for an all-night stint with Craig Richards.

027 - Nicolas Lutz - Recorded live from fabric

The London-via-Bilbao DJ marks 15 years of Cartulis with two hours of punchy techno and electro, recorded live at FOLD.

When you think of London label and party Cartulis, dark, muscular electro and tough tech house spring to mind. But the name is more revealing than it first appears: in founder Unai Trotti's native Bilbao dialect, cartulis translates to "nerd." Like any labour of love, the project is driven by a deep, obsessive dedication, centred around sound, mood and community. 

Recorded at Cartulis' 15th anniversary party this autumn, RA.1017 captures why Trotti is such a compelling DJ. Playing only vinyl, he has a deft ability to balance functional club pressure with more leftfield selections, and as he outlines in his Q&A below, it comes from a belief in creative limitation, committing to a finite set of records and trusting instinct over abundance. 

Across the two hours, there are plenty of big, physical tracks built for the dance floor, but also some genuinely strange, confrontational stretches. Around the 15-minute mark, church bells ring out as a gothic female vocal looms overhead—David Lynch, if he needed an electro soundtrack. It's the kind of material you only hear at parties where dancers feel truly at ease, unafraid of the weird. That's Cartulis.

@unai-trotti
@cartulisday 
Read more at ra.co/podcast/1036

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