The longtime Perlon affiliate goes for big basslines and big grooves. 

It's 1996, and a young Fumiya Tanaka is shelling out hefty yet minimal percussive techno at Club Rockets in Osaka to an audience enraptured. Released as Mix-Up, the 90-minute recording captures Tanaka sounding rather like Jeff Mills or Surgeon. It's far cry from the sound he's known for today.

Fumiya Tanaka's creative arc has seen him move away from these thunderous sounds to warmer shades of house and minimal. Since 2016, he's found a home on the inimitable German minimal label, crafting out a distinctive sound within the labels roster with an affection for tumbling basslines and spooky atmospheres. 

From 1996 to 2023, Tanaka ran a party series in Tokyo, Osaka and Berlin called "Chaos," which encapsulates the ethos of freedom Tanaka brings to a party. "When you hear music you've never heard before and encounter unknown territory, you will be so happy and totally absorbed," he told us back in 2019. "I want to keep that feeling."

RA.964 achieves exactly that. Nearly three decades removed from his burst onto the scene, and after a good few years of asking, Tanaka's RA Podcast captures him in full house mode. Recorded at a Slapfunk party in Manchester, the Perlon maestro keeps the vibe funked-up, chunky and warm, punctuated by the occasional big breakdown and the odd lick of garage rudeness. No tracklist for now—but as Tanaka knows well, half the fun lies in the mystery. 

@fumiyatanaka_official

Read more at ra.co/podcast/964

RA.964 Fumiya Tanaka

More Soup DJs - 15 June 2025

Track Listing:

1	Lynchtro
2	Wacko Animal - Asa Tate / Tech Support	
3	Random Method - Asa Tate / Tech Support	
4	Ugly Mood - Tuning Off
5	Boytronic - Bryllyant
6	Renegade Soundwave - Cocaine Sex (Sub Aqua Overdrive Dub)
7	Code 61 - Drop The Deal (Tech Support Edit)
8	Duncan Gray - Raspberry Jellyfish V2 
9	Time Very Near (Sasa Crnobrnja Remix) - Becker & Mukai	
10	Give It Away (Greg Wilson & Derek Kaye Club Dub) - Blind Arcade	
11	Inquiry (Original Mix) - Amatteuur	
12	Venice_Arms_-_A_Promise_To_Be_Les_Yeux_Orange	
13	Mushrooms Project - Old School Dreamer		
14	Duncan Gray - Fractal Flaws 
15	H Beats - Peza Edit
16	Pete Shelley - Witness The Change (Dub Version)	
17	Galactic Ride (Feat. Gabriella Kaye) (Original Vocal Mix) - Gordon Kaye
18	Gunther (take it sleazy) - Mass Density Human	
19	Tellaro (SIRS Remix) - My Friend Dario	
20	That Trippy Sound - Iñigo Vontier	
21	Del Boy - Michael son of Michael	
22	Inspiration (0224 Mix) - Alfredo	
23	Zombies in Miami – Take Control (Simple Symmetry remix)

#007 Mark Cooper's Social on Vocal Booth Radio 17th October

A Classic Mix by the late great Claudio Coccoluto recrded at Hard Times In Huddeersfield in 1994. A True Masterpiece

1994 Mixtape - Claudio Coccoluto @ Hard Times (Recorded in Huddersfield)

Robbie and Abby Martin catch up after Thanksgiving to talk about the latest developments of our dystopian late stage capitalism hell-scape, including the reality behind the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Gaza.  

Subscribe to Media Roots Radio at patreon.com/mediarootsradio to hear Pt 2 of this episode in full. 

Happy Holidays From Late Stage Capitalist Hellscape Pt I: Gaza

Diaspora 216 Radio Show December 2025 with Phil Robertson aka Arbilla

TRACKLIST:


01 Day-Twah_After Dark (unreleased)
02 Ladymonix_It's A Party Dammit! (Frizner Electric)
03 Mike Grant & Trackmaster Lou_Remember (We Play House)
04 DJ 3000_Shote (Motech)
06 Strand_Quantum Game Engine (Reprise) (Harbonder)
07 Tunis Diaspora_7th City (Diaspora 216)
08 Arbilla_The Fear Of Failure (Claude Young Remix) (Xistence)
09 Biblical Proportion - Comeback City (Suburban Knight Remix) (Biblical Proportion)
10 Soul Saver_Lifted Soul (Rawax)
11 DJ Compufunk_Tarz (unreleased)
12 Arbilla_Homecoming (Xistence)
13 Orlando Voorn_Control (unreleased)
14 Arbilla_Resilience (unreleased)
15 Mark Williams_Full Circle 3 (Subject Detroit)
16 Biblical Proportion_Turn Out (DJ Godfather Remix) (Biblical Proportion)
17 Soul Of Hex feat. Mike Banks_Amen (Kilometro 4.5)
18 Beroshima_Detroit Tragedy 24 (Muller)

PHIL ROBERTSON (Arbilla_Xistence Records) - DEEP SPACE RADIO - DIASPORA 216 SHOW-EPISODE 415

After a tussle with an unforgiving analogue mixer versus Audacity situ, this offspring of a few hours of digging through the vaults is ready to see the light of day.
Records by:
Bobby Analogue
The Daou
Roach Motel
The Outsider
Heller and Farley
Womack and Womack
Rick Wade
Claudio Coccoluto
The Innocent (Derrick Carter)
DJ Romain
Amongst others
"If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space" A.Weatherall


VOODOODOWN

Jane Fitz b2b Paquita Gordon - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Featuring Tracks From: Arbilla, Biz, Beroshima, DX-9, DJ Compufunk, DJ Dali, DJ Mourad, FBK, PolyRhythm, Strand and Sean Deason.

Phil Robertson_The Boundaries Of Imagination Mix_(XIST006-M1 (2026)

Andrew Weatherall 

live at the Heavenly Sunday Social @ The Albany, London 
Sunday 4th September 1994

RIP to the greatest x

VOODOODOWN

THE TAO OF NOW - Chris H

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