Showdown (Original Mix)

A selection of downtempo and laidback grooves for your listening pleasure! 

Collective Memory w/ Hamdi Ryder (Radio El Hara) [23-12-2024]

Nightmares on Wax  — Solar Stage — Wonderfruit 2018

Charles Green: Nu Skool UKG Special (2004-2008) - 07 July 2025

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

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 masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and 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 rare combinations playing start-to-finish. 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 a 385-minute marathon 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. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers 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 practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

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

Snad (live) - Live From Dimensions '25

I bring you DRBCHILLERS a new series dedicated to the more downtempo, easy listening, sunny afternoon side of things. This kind of music has played a big part of soundtracking my life from growing up on the likes of Mark Farina's Mushroom Jazz series to Josh Tweek's delightful MMSU podcasts. I wanted to throw my hat in the ring and curate a collection of selections to compliment the chilled times in life. 

Kicking things off we have our good friend and digger extraordinaire Flavio Matafora aka Albion Street Music. I first met Flavio when playing a Texture Summit party in San Fran some years ago, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to go for a dig at his place and the rest is history. Here is 80 minutes of straight up chillers from the homie, enjoy.

@flavio-matafora

DRBCHILLERS01 - Albion Street Music

Seeing in the second edition of our chillers series we have  2 hours of thunder from down under courtesy of our good friend Andy 'Achy Breaky' Hart. Label boss of Voyage Recordings and master selector if you don't know Andy you best acquaint yourself. Here we have a beautifully blended house party selection which is bound to be doing the rounds this festive season. Enjoy and let's av it!

@andyhart

DRBCHILLERS02 - Andy Hart

Hamdi Ryder returns to Eddisco imprint with Breezy EP, a four-track package of high-energy dance floor weapons. Rolling basslines, futuristic funk, dreamy pads, and acid-driven broken beats come together across a versatile release built for peak moments. Featuring a collaboration with FIN on Alaize, this EP highlights Hamdi’s playful touch and forward-thinking sound, made to move bodies, day or night.

Hamdi Ryder - Breezy EP [EDD10] (Preview)

#hsmpremiere
Artist: Hamdi Ryder 
Track: Whale Dubs 
Release title: Breezy EP
Label: Eddisco
Buy: https://eddisco.bandcamp.com/album/breezy-ep

PREMIERE: Hamdi Ryder - Whale Dubs [Eddisco]

Founder of Downtown Vibes World.
Co-Founder and Label manager of Eddisco Records.

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