ACT! - Block Stream

Jan 6 2023: Perepelochka, Wingie1, Norns w/oooooo, Baoding Iron Balls, random gallery ambience 

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(The Airfix Tape is a 2nd gen bootleg from a demo tape given initially to Ian Harrison by Richard James that was later dubbed for Kevin Foakes on this TDK D90)

Additional thanks and addition main credits to @toffo (cultofoil) for being the ears and brain of this operation from tracklisting and helping with mastering.


Tracklisting & Notes

Testosterone (A):
1. Cylob and AFX 1 (Tidflume) (1993-1994) - has DAT glitches. dirty head/damaged tape?
2. Cylob and AFX 2 (1993-1994), Joyrex Tape 11
3. Unreleased jungle AFX (1993) - Joyrex Tape 10
3.5. unknown AFX track intro?
- three tracks bellow ripped from an unknown demo tape below -
4. Epic Breakbeat (1991) - CW reject, possible name is "sonic engineer 91"
4.5. ghost track residue on originating tape of Doc Scott - Surgery (Ordinary Mix) (1991)
5. Humanoid Must Not Escape (1991)
6. a micro part of .0180871L (1991) - name unknown.
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7. Noises interlude
8. Bob Morgan Interlude (diff pitch)
9. Giant Deflating Football (1994)
10. Phlangebeat (with noise intro) (1993-1994)
11. NgaiModu (with extra postfx on LPF not found on released vinyl, alt mix?)
12. Phone Pranks (smooth transition)

Oestrogen (B):
1. Utopia (1993-1994) - longer than SC upload, has a proper ending
1.5. DAT Rewind
2. Cylob and AFX 3 (Hodgesplodge) (1993-1994) - uses percs from my teapot/phlid
2.5 - nav katze - ziggy (afx rmx 1) intro
3. dulcimer dub  (1993-1994) - not full
4. ab5 trk5 - 1994 - has vinyl scratches on top, shortened mix (no tail)
5. consta-lume (1993-1994)
6. Dance2TheBeat (1989-1991) - original master tape speed
7. Fresher And Cleaner And Very Smooth And Not At All Dry (1990)
8. AFX + Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert) (Difhifadafi Hissy Mix) (1993-1994)
9. unknown bell snippet (?)

Airfix Remastered - Testosterone Side

To get things started on my Soundcloud, thought I'd figure I slap this mix on for starters. I had lots of fun putting it together. It doesn't feature any music by me, but I have included a bunch of tracks that inspire me to make music. During the time I've created this mix, I was listening to a lot of mixes from the archives of Solid Steel (Ninja Tune/Coldcut), which is quite possibly some of the smartest, craftiest mixes I've heard in my life, no matter if it's a mix by Coldcut, DJ Food, DK or any of special guests. I wanted to create something almost like what you would expect from those mixes. So the music switches up a bit to different genres, but I also peppered in some samples from the NASA Apollo missions to place you on a journey, as well as some Simpson's clips for a few laughs. 

Featuring music by Zackey Force Five, Aphex Twin, The Avalanches, Modeselektor, Frits Wentink, I:Cube, Add N To (X), Red Rack'Em and more. 

Hope you enjoy!

DONUT JONES JR. MIX01

My highly anticipated album, "Rebirth" is out now!

Break the Wave

JK live in Roubaix

Part of the slowly releasing EP called Rough and Tumble
https://guidewire.bandcamp.com/album/rough-and-tumble

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Enjoy this journey, to whatever it may be that you're doing: Sipping coffee, enjoying the sunset, house cleaning, filing taxes, workout routines, car tunes, prepping/cooking meals, late night party jamming, etc. 

\\ TRACKLIST //
Suzanne Kraft - DJ Safety Track
Liberty City - If You Really Love Someone (MURK Strikes Again Mix)
James Holden - A Break In The Clouds (Beat Tool)
The Miracles Club - Summer of Love
Ruf Dug & Lovescene - Make This Right
S3A feat. Mika Blaster - Presentiment
Âme - Tonite (Dub)
Nelson of the East - Phase Alternating Lines (Extended Fix)
Yaleesa Hall - Harriet Brown
Dream Cycle - Afters (3AM Mix)
Lee Webster - Wax Your Body (HNNY Edit)
Vegyn - Makeshift Tourniquet
Donut Jones Jr. - Enjoy Yourself
Kornél Kovács - Babasonic
Delone - Scale (Medlar Remix)
Real J. - Greetings from Bordeaux

Enjoy the Mixtape (DJ Mix)

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

Experimental vocals incorporated into a high energy electronic track. 
Mastered by KillMIDI

The Line

planet lonely
- - - -- --- -----*
autodestruction. 
whereever u are. 
sublimation. 
i got to hit the streets. 
the blue. 
ta reine. 
familiar light. 
hiphop experiments. 
daemmerung. 
everything is everything. 
done. 
base sweep. 
run from. 
head in the clouds. 
sweet bye and bye. 
piano poem. 
a view from above. 
time goes by. 
geminiden regen. 
rem. 
wonderland. 
dreamland. 
sofarawai. 
end of the world. 
interior renovations. 
where the place for me was. 
meaningless space. 
come closer. 
love.
a lot of freedom. 
loosing touch. 
i'm alright. 
departure. 
find me peace. 
back home.

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