For our 10th show we set up our turntables, mixer and speakers (a.k.a. the Head In the Clouds Sound System) at the Konscht Am Gronn art fair in the Grund, Luxembourg City, and had a great little street dance party in spite of the drizzle.

Track list:

1. STEVEN HALPERN – The light in your eyes
2. MAYA – Lait de coco
3. SURPRISE – Ogoue
4. UNDER COVER LOVERS – Gonna fly now
5. CASSIANO – Onda
6. CAMELLE HINDS – Let it flow (Sausalito calling)
7. BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Human
8. TOMMY McGEE – Now that I have you
9. DEEP SOUTH BAND – Deep south is
10. PETE VICENTINI Y SU GRUPO GUANABACOA – Tus labios
11. CLAUDY – Extra-terrien
12. MICHEL GODZOM – Tristesse et joie
13. EVASION 85 – Van la ka vante
14. EXPERIENCE 7 – Bel toubonman
15. LUCKY MEREKI – Your lips
16. KARRIEM – I love you
17. GARFIELD FLEMING – Don’t send me away
18. ALICIA MYERS – I want to thank you (KON’s Shine your light remix)
19. FRAGILE ON THE ROCKS – La vie continue… (elle est longue)
20. CLAUDIA PHILLIPS – Donne-moi du feu (Dimitri from Paris Summer nights disco mix + bonus dub extension)
21. MAUREEN – Tu me tues (JKriv remix)
22. RHYZE – Just how sweet is your love
23. BECKIE BELL – Music madness (Tom Noble remix)

This show was recorded @VinsFins in Grund!

Vive la FRANZ!!

Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 10 // 21.06.2022 // @VinsFins

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-marker-starling-20th-may-2024

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez & Marker Starling 200524

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-3rd-june-2024

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez 030624

Ahead of Phonica's trip out to Kala festival this week, we reach out to one of their longest running residents to display his wares for the Phonica mix series. Music From Memory affiliate, NTS host and all round deep digger John Gómez pays homage to Phonica with a dive into his more clubby collection of records. John gives us an hour of some of his favorite releases in the realms of house, disco, acid and breaks showing why he stands as one of the UK's most respected collectors. We had a brief chat with John about the mix and what he has coming up. Get over to offtherecord.net to check that out now

Mix / Interview Here

Phonica Mix Series 120: John Gómez

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-26th-august-2024

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez - Carnival Special 260824

I have a friend called jazz

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-10th-february-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez & Eternal Love 100225

Next in our Mr Bongo’s Record Club mix series, we are excited to welcome Mexican-French, DJ, radio host and deep digger, Sabor A Mi (Sophie Legay Peñaloza).

With a culturally rich well of lived experience through her Mexican and French roots, Sophie’s borderless approach to DJing sees her join the dots through all manner of genres. Underpinned by a love of Afro-Latin rhythms her sets tell stories that link anything from salsa and cumbia, to Latin house, Dembow and beyond, all with a motive to make you dance. Her Rinse France residency is one to check and with DJ sets across Europe and Latin America including Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival, people have been fast turning onto her talents.

This two hour mix showcases Sophie’s signature style:

“This mix was conceived in two parts, an introspective part where the intention was to transport you into a conscious listening experience, then gradually show a more danceable, groovy atmosphere, showing us the richness of Latin, Afro-descendant and mixed music across its genres and eras. It includes many genres that, in the end, were carried by racialized communities. Some tracks carry profound messages, whether through lyrical or musical composition, this mix is full of little details where I share a part of my soul with you. The songs selected are melodies that have influenced my childhood, and my personal development right up to the present day.

They're all favourites of mine, but if I had to pick just a few..:
- Lucia Gutierrez - Morena: This song is particularly close to my heart, as it denounces the problem of classicism and race facing Mexico, my country of origin.

- Richard Bona - Bilongo: One of the finest examples of fraternity between Africa and Cuba.

- Alain Peters - Rosée su Feuilles Songe: A treasure of Maloya music from Reunion Island, whose origins lie in slavery.

- Natalia Lafourcade - Maria La Curandera : A song composed from a letter written by Mexico's greatest healer, Maria Sabina. It has become the feminist anthem of all Latin America."

Big thanks to Sophie for the mix, be sure to give her a follow to keep up to date with her gigs and radio shows.

Mr Bongo Record Club Guest Mix - Sabor A Mi

A wildly exuberant moment in the oddest of timelines. One of my first gigs after a year of global Covid lockdowns. We needed this. A step back into the light. Thanks for the energy!

To re-live a dream is to live forever.

Much Love to all the dreamers out there - let's keep this thing alive!
Hunee

Ps. Thanks to all my friends sending me the most beautiful music - u know who u are! ❤️

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 - Beach Stage Closing

Agra ft. Deepak  - Gandhi’s Prayer (Dub)
Filippini - Listen To Your Heart (Instrumental)	
Chandra Simmons - We Can Dance (Manhattan Club)	
Maldwyn Pope - Altered State
Jean Jacques Gaston - Nadia
Annick Et Jean-Claude - Remember (Tracksuit Edit)
Vincent Fortuné - Bouc Emissaire (Tracksuit Edit)	
Articulat - Badaouiah
Ko Saba - Douga (Praktika Remix)	
Daniele Baldelli - Gandharva (Original Mix)	
The Soundstealers - Steal It An' Deal It (Sahara Dub Mix)
Elkie Brookes - Rising Cost Of Love (Prins Thomas Mix)
Herb Alpert - Red Hot
Bahia - Meu Amigo (Instrumental)	
Argentina - Let’s Play Sexy Games (Instrumental)
Double Face - Tengo La Sangre Caliente (Base Version)
Hugo Moolenaar - Big Man Cry
Caribbean Sextet - Caribbean Sextet_Gomez Edit
Optimo - Optimo (Mike Wilson Edits)
4X4 - Miss Doctor (Original Mix)
Shohjo-Tai & Red Bus St Project - Electric City
Aashid Himons - Gods & I (extended remaster)
Sha' D Underground Trax - Scalpel Track 01
Stevie B - In My Eyes (Radio Edit)
Larry Tee - What Am I Gonna Do? (MLiR Extended Edit)	
Combi - I’m Feeling Excite
Bastedos - Sit On Dub
Eiswolf - Der Hexer
Manouch-Ka - Diabolo (Instrumental)
Hi-Tension - Objects (Slam Jam Edit)
3 Winans Brothers & The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louie Vega Latin Soul Version)		
Lars Bartkuhn - Transcend	
Isolee - Mad Marauder	
Instant House - Awade (Vocal Part Three)
Mount Liberation Unlimited - Lord Of The Floor
Latin Force - Leyla (Deep Underground Dub)
Jonny Rock - Same As It Ever Was - Mashup One Acid a Life Time			
Isolee - Pisco
Theo Parrish & Carl Craig - Falling Up (Carl Craig 2013 Remaster)		
Pris - Vanity
Jump Source - Empathy Dub 1
Frequency - Panic Mode (1993 Version)
Frequency - Panic Mode (2020 Version)
Santiago Salazar - Arcade (SG Remix)

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 (Beach Stage Closing)

HUNEE live from Giant Steps at GALA'22. 

A precious recording lifted from our archives ahead of Ten Years of GALA.

HUNEE live from GALA'22

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

We are two Luxembourg-based record diggers who love warm, organic, analogue, eclectic and deep sounds which bring to mind tropical sunsets, campfire parties on the beach, humid jungle nights and star-filled skies. Maracas, vintage synths, saxophones, drum computers and echo machines are common ingredients. 

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @editionsdelux.

Head in the Clouds is a monthly show on Radio ARA focused on new, rare, and rediscovered underground music, 100% on vinyl records from our own collections. Genres covered during the show could be labelled Balearic, electronic, deep house, jazz, Brazilian, funk, Japanese, African, folk, cosmic disco, boogie, Afro-Caribbean, ambient, New Age, dub reggae, soul, downtempo, vaporwave, Fourth World…

Overlooked records, forgotten gems, or classic masterpieces, no bias and no limits when your head is in the clouds!

Artwork by @JanineCharlotte (Instagram).

Hear more music from Editions de Lux at 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/sWhnp and https://www.ara.lu/shows/head-in-the-clouds/

Playlist with songs played in the shows: 
Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JNn2QD5ckILm7PEpaKjvB?si=148b7670a89646d6