Name: SEAN JOHNSTON ALFOS HOUGHTON 22 by Hardway Bros in Mixes
Duration: 2 h 59 min 14 s
Description: Sean Johnston (ALFOS) closing out the Old Gramophone Stage Houghton Festival 2022

Man love to have a track ID for this one… 🔥

Mixes

The sequel to the mix which started it all, and Wax’o Paradiso Recordings’ first release on cassette. Presenting WPT001: Wax’o Balearico Vol. II.

Selected and mixed by Edd Fisher and Simon TK, recorded at Motom Studios, designed by Milly Davison.

Cassette available now via bandcamp.
https://waxoparadiso.bandcamp.com/album/waxo-balearico-vol-ii

Wax'o Balearico Vol.II

Wax'o Balearico Vol. II

Recorded live at back to basics at The Garage in the Waxwerks - 2013.  
This is part one of a 5 hour mix that started at 95 bpm and never got faster than 118bpm.  
A pure Weatherall masterclass in mixing indie dance, balearic beats and tripped out slo-mo at it's best.

Andrew Weatherall Live at Waxwerks Part 1

Recording of Suze Ijó's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Suze Ijó at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Sean Johnston (ALFOS) closing out the Old Gramophone Stage Houghton Festival 2022

SEAN JOHNSTON ALFOS HOUGHTON 22

Clandestino 178 - ALFOS / Sean Johnston

Picture This w/ Glen S - 17.02.23

https://www.nts.live/shows/rahill/episodes/rahill-20th-february-2023

Rahill 200223

Barnaby Bennett presents the Lavender Kite Audio Research Hour.

https://www.nts.live/shows/lavender-kite-audio-research-hour/episodes/lavender-kite-audio-research-hour-27th-february-2023

THE LAVENDER KITE AUDIO RESEARCH HOUR - Zen Country w/ Alexander Grawoig 270223

Like most multi-genre music fans, London-based Ruby Savage approaches DJing through a wide-angle lens. Whether she's touring, playing her post-punk disco party, In Flames, or hosting her monthly show on NTS, the Amsterdam native opts for warm, bouncy tunes that traverse dub, jazz and '80s proto-house. As she once Mixmag, she isn't beat-matching but "heartbeat-matching." For her, a dance is a means to feeling the full spectrum of emotions in a healthy way.

Years spent behind-the-scenes at influential institutions have added to her understanding of energy and flow. She's worked the counter at Honest Jon's Records, managed Theo Parrish's Sounds Signature label (plus created the Wildheart Recordings sister label) and Gilles Peterson's Brownswood imprint, in addition to helping the Worldwide FM don launch Arc Records. When she's not DJing, Savage is spearheading community initiatives like Don't Be A Creep, an educational platform about club safety, as well as Artist Recovery Club for creative growth among music-makers.

For her RA podcast, the vinyl enthusiast crafted a house music odyssey through soul, disco and gospel-inflected cuts like "Glory" by Waajeed and Dames Brown. It's an uplifting excursion through joy, catharsis and self-affirmation, relayed straight from the heart.

@kwasiba3000

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/895

RA podcast

RA.895 Ruby Savage

Optimo live from The Beach Stage at Love International 2023. 

First 3 hours of their 6 hour set on the Beach.

Live from the Adriatic 2023: Optimo

Sean Johnston Christmas ALFOS at Phonox Dec 23

Sean Johnston ALFOS Phonox Dec 23

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

A glass elevator rising through a neon hotel, the city glides under a runway of endless headlights, all riding a patient tide.

Sampled Tracks
Sirius (Undercatt)
She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
Self Control (Laura Branigan)

People Say I'm Obsessed (Crazy Control)

Wave

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Coconoize & Del Piero - Wave (Short Play)

A Love From Outer Space - Phonox 21.02.20

"Fail We May, Sail We Must".

Sean Johnston playing a musical tribute to ALFOS partner Andrew Weatherall, who passed away earlier in the week.

Thanks to everyone that came, it was a fiercely beautiful evening that will stay with me forever.

Thanks to Dylan, Jules and all at Phonox. 

If you wish to mark his memory we would be grateful for any donations made to charities that were important to him:

Amnesty International
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Crisis
Thrombosis UK

Profuse thanks to Jules Hicks @ Phonox and Chris McCormack @ Blacklisted Mastering.

Track Listing

Joe Jackson Steppin' Out Live	Joe Jackson
Journey Home (Original Mix)	Patrick Cowley	
Union Mistica (Rodrigo Gallardo Rmx)	Discoshaman & Lemurian	
Mustat Varjot (Original Mix)	Roberto Rodriguez	
Saturnus (Ghost Vision Theme)	Ghost Vision	
The Cube (Acid Pauli's Papito Remix)	Oceanvs Orientalis, Idil Mese
What Edit Is This (BG MSTR) 44-16		
Andrew Weatherall - YATOOL3		
Scott Fraser - Together More (original mix)		
Mandrake -Georges Chatelain & Getaroom!	
Mopedbart (Original Mix)	Hubbabubbaklubb	
Four Walls-No Use. (Bratleys Bootleg mix)		
Simion, MD X-Spress - God Made Me Feel It (Claptone Edit)		
HEY GRINGO	BRIOSKI	
Slow (Chemical Brothers Remix)	Kylie Minogue
The Asphodells - Never There (Hardway Bros Remix)		
Primal Scream don't fight it (ALT cut)	
Mugwump Boutade 2008 original		
Andrew Weatherall Walk of Shame		
MANFREDAS - MANI FROM THE BLOCK		
PAUL SIMON - Diamonds - Terje dub		
If You Want Me - Jay Shepheard Remix	Cisco Cisco
Invisible College- Gatto Fritto		
Edit Service 8 Pete Wylie Story of The Blues pt 2  - by It's A Fine Line		
None (Original Mix)	LAARS	
Chris Carter - Moonlight_ndb_remix		
Depeche Mode - Painkiller (Ballistic Brothers Mindshaft Dub Mix)		
TB - Invitation to Love	 	
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea [Andrew Weatherall mix] ALT edit		
Cheaters - John Talabot's Classic Vocal Refix	Teengirl Fantasy
Electrica Salsa (Roman Fluegel Remix)	Sven Vath, OFF - Organisation For Fun
LOS NINJOS female Re-Cut	matt.moroder@web.de 	
Blancmange Living On The Ceiling (Pete Herbert Mix)		
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Fuitless mix)	FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Money Money Money (Original Mix)	Re-Tide
Sometimes - Sexican Version
All A Dream (Original Mix)	Misiu	
Phylyps Track 2	Basic Channel	
What's A Girl To Do	Group Listening	
DJ Hell CAR _ PK AUTOBAHN REMIX		
Do Da Doo - Plastikman's Acid House Remix	Robotman
Serenade (Original Mix)	Tom Demac
Hardfloor Hardtrance Acperience		
Camino Del Sol - Joakim Remix	Antena		
PARDON MOI - INSIDE THE OUTSIDE (Cotton Bud Kick Trick)		
Prepare To Energize (Baldelli & Dionigi mix)	Baldelli, Dionigi, Torch Song	
The Warriors (Deckard Rework)	Deckard	
PARANOID LONDON - DO YOU WANNA TOUCH THE YELLOW MAGIC_		
Spaceship (Superpitcher Space Trip) Paulor
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (Shield Re Edit)		
Loverboy (Acid Pauli Retouch)	Steve Bug	
CitiesInDust_LongVersion_Amy Douglas		
Stars (Original Mix)	Mr. Fingers
Calling 626	Brioski	
Sell (Curses Remix)	Jennifer Touch	
You Gotta Believe Acapella (Acapella DJ Tool)	Fierce Ruling Diva, Koen Groeneveld
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Lefside Wobble Edit)	
What Time Is Love? (Intro Mix) Kris Menace & Lifelike		
Relax Your Body - Another Version	D.F.X.	
Bass Doctor - Peza Edit	
The Slam (Gerd Janson Edit)	Westworld	
Der Alte (Original Mix)	Kolsch	
Mama - Unmask Me - Ashley Beedle Vox Mix		
Nana (Original Mix)	Acid Pauli
Smokebelch II (David Holmes Mix) The Sabres Of Paradise
Primal Scream Come Together Andrew Weatherall Mix		
Primal Scream Uptown Andrew Weatherall (Long After The Disco Is Over Mix)

ALFOS  Phonox 21/02/20 Sean Johnston

CENTER YOURSELF is a podcast series curated by Robert Johnson. Each episode is created by one of our regulars—some are made for this occasion and some are hand-picked from the club's own archive.

@andrew-weatherall
@roman-fluegel

In loving memory, we are happy to share this excerpt from Andrew Weatherall & Roman Flügel's all-nighter recorded at Robert Johnson in 2017.

Center Yourself 05 – Andrew Weatherall & Roman Flügel

Sean Johnston has been DJ'ing since his formative years in the frozen North. Acid House Veteran, Techno Survivor, Hardway Bros, Beard Scientist and Freelance Disco Consultant he has played at some of London's landmark clubs including The Promised Land, Sabre Sonic, Club UK, Final Frontier, Disco Bloodbath and was one of the founding residents at London Super Club Cable. He also plays regularly at Voyage Voyage in up and coming Berlin venue Salon Zur Wilden Renate.
His productions, alongside fellow Hardway Bros, Jake Davies and a mysterious South Londoner known only as Rico have graced Sabres of Paradise, Third Mind, Flashcomm and more recently Beard Science, Pointless Edits, Aniligital, History Clock, Astrolab and cult Norwegian act Mungolian Jetset's label Luna Flicks. 
 
Sean's DJ'ing style described by FACT Magazine as "Future Disco" is hard to pin down to one convenient genre, taking in house, disco, re-edits, techno and frankly anything else that takes his fancy. 
 
Alongside Andrew Weatherall he runs and DJ's at A Love From Outer Space, a cult monthly residency at The Drop in North London. The night's manifesto is to never knowingly exceed 122bpm and is home to a multitude of genres including ambient, balearica, dub, krautrock, post punk, proto house, un-disco and other curiosities from the pair's extensive record collections.

Bookings

http://www.spunoutagency.com/

SEAN JOHNSTON ALFOS HOUGHTON 22

Hardway Bros

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