If you haven't heard of Nikki Nair at this point, we'd invite you to come out from under that rock you're living in. But jokes aside, the last 12 months have been the Atlanta producer's year. He's toured seemingly endlessly, has found his way into a number of local scenes and has put out records for labels like Dirtybird, Lobster Theremin and Scuffed Recordings. If that weren't enough, he's also been putting out an illuminating series of monthly singles on his Bandcamp that show off both his restless muse and his seeming ability to both perfect and put his own stamp on any sub-genre or style he tries.

People usually use some form of the word "bass" to describe Nikki Nair, because of the way his music flits between dubstep, drum & bass, electro and more. One moment he's making staggering hip-hop instrumentals that would have fit right into the old LA beat scene, the next minute he's making pneumatic techno or uptempo stuff that would fit right in one Juke Bounce Werk. 

His voracious appetite for new sounds comes across on his RA Podcast, which is a sprawling two-hours-plus of genre hopping and careful mixing, hopping from mood to mood like a 2-D video game platformer. It starts off perhaps a little slower than you'd expect, but weaves through countless Nikki Nair tracks, older selections from Wolfgang Voigt and Drexciya and mind-melting club tracks from newer producers including DJ ADHD, Despina, Limewax and more. If you want to know what the hippest, most inventive dance music sounds like, bridging continents and oceans, this mix is it.

@nikki-nair

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/848

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RA.848 Nikki Nair

Dub Athlete is a multi-genre artist based in Brighton. With her roots in dub and dubstep, you can hear an affinity for the minimal, psychedelic and heavyweight in her selections which span from introspective ambience to hypnotic and tribal techno, deep dubstep and dark jungle. She is a resident DJ for The Mine, and since 2019 has organised the Fortune Sessions, platforming underground dance music genres and talented local DJs. Available on SoundCloud & Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

ITPS109 DUB ATHLETE

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

(Full recording) inspired by the Sea of Clouds in Alishan National Park (Taiwan)

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #14 Sea of Clouds @refugeworldwide

Original feature here > http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1802
All tracks available from the Houndstooth store: http://www.houndstoothlabel.com/store

01 - Akkord - Undertow 
02 - Special Request - Descent 
03 - Ghettozoid - Boy Toy (House of Black Lanterns Remix) 
04 - Special Request - Deflowered (Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup Remix) 
05 - Call Super - Black Octagons 
06 - _Unsubscribe_ feat Bear Who - Vox Spek Hondje 
07 - Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) 
08 - Akkord - Navigate 
09 - Second Storey - Still Seas / Just Mortal 
10 - Special Request - Capsules (Lee Gamble Remix) 
11 - Snow Ghosts and Blue Daisy - Covenant 
12 - Snow Ghosts and Dahlia Black - Covenant VIP 
13 - House Of Black Lanterns - Truth & Loss (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix) 
14 - House Of Black Lanterns - Truth & Loss 
15 - Special Request - Black Ops 
16 - Special Request - Broken Dreams 
17 - Snow Ghosts - And The World Was Gone (Roly Porter Remix) 
18 - Throwing Snow - Linguis 

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RA Label of the Month:  October 2013 - Mixed By Throwing Snow

DJ Plead - 19 May 2025

Well Street Records with Robert Fleck - 03 June 2025

Pariah (Arthur Cayzer) is a British music producer and DJ based in Amsterdam. Since his first releases in 2010, he has made a name for himself off the back of his eclectic take on dance and electronic music, both through his productions and his approach to DJing. He is the co-founder of the Voam record label alongside Blawan (Jamie Roberts), and the two have collaborated extensively for more than a decade, performing and releasing music together as Karenn and Persher.

C12 w/ Pariah @ Kiosk Radio 08.06.2025

Wisdom Teeth with K-LONE - Minibar Discography Special - 13 July 2025

A rare appearance from Bonobo, playing an hour of current favourites.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bonobo/episodes/bonobo-16th-july-2025

Bonobo 160725

Full tracklist & Video Mix: bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation, we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from DJ Food.

"A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP release. It then morphed into an Audio Video DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.

I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - @strictly

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)