Episode 105 of your new favorite Friday night radio show, IDEAL Radio on @subfmradio

Originally aired October 25, 2025.

This week we welcomed Bay Area artist @tha_nxxt_step for the featured guest mix. They took us on a unique journey through bass and footwork in hour 2. Hour 1 resident mix with the hard hitting 160bpm bangers from @highblood.

Support Tha Nxxt Step: https://thanxxtstep.bandcamp.com

Highblood Tracklist:
MoonDoctoR & FreshtillDef - AT IT
Chango - ZUKO
MoonDoctoR - Get on My Level
Samotek - Gunman Business
Samotek - Poison
Juic-E - Golly Gosh
Janet Jackson - Someone to Call My Lover (Drowncast Remix)
SWV - Rain (Drowncast Remix) 
Lone - Ascension.png
NRG - I Need Your Lovin (Neekeetone Jungle Rework)
Qemist - Make U Please U
Qemist - Oh Its Jumpin
Nikes - OMW
DJ SWISHA - TYPESHIII
DJ EARL, King Agee - Weonsumnushit
DJ EARL - Bang It Out
RP Boo - Bang'n On King Dr
MIGGY - Just Like That
D'TCH - No Good
Itoa, Nakamura Minami - Oh No

Tha Nxxt Step Tracklist:
Tha Nxxt Step - Trip to Cuzco [Art House Alumni]
Y3llO - Chikato (Color Funk)
Guy Akimoto - I Want You Big Girl
Santo - Little Things (Funana - Gqom - Baile edit)
Tha Nxxt Step - Nauryz and Chill [Art House Alumni]
Micheal Jackson - The Lady in My Life (Josh Bracy jersey club edit)
Stereoman - Summer Syndrome
Saint, Salako, K4Y - After Party
DJ Rashad - Shake & Drop [Juke Trax Online]
Saint - All I Do + Let You Go jersey club edit
Tha Nxxt Step - Mash Mandem [forthcoming Joog Music]
Cesrv - Back2U [Black Marble Collective]
Tha Nxxt Step - Electrokinesis [forthcoming Industrial Parasite]
DJ Ends - Side [Juke Bounce Werk]
Tha Nxxt Step - Neo-Urban Warfare [forthcoming Joog Music]
DJ Ends - Do Me Wrong [Black Marble Collective]
Mint Condition - Breakin My Heart\Pretty Brown Eyes (Fazo Beats jersey edit)
Drummy - SMN Dub [Juke Bounce Werk)
JTRA - Robo Fighter [Industrial Parasite]
Morwell - Like Liquid [Juke Bounce Werk]
Tha Nxxt Step - Remembering Qaghan [Art House Alumni]
Surly - The Future [Juke Bounce Werk]
Tha Nxxt Step - Sufi for the Soul [Art House Alumni]
Mars Kasei - Dark White (Tha Nxxt Step remix) [forthcoming Joog Music]


IDEAL Radio EP105 - Tha Nxxt Step

Established in the Summer of 2015, IDEAL Music Collective, is a multi- Genre music collective based out of Ventura County, CA.

IDEAL Radio archives posted monthly. We return to SubFM on July 4th!

Our current roster includes:
DJ Highblood - @highblood
DEMOTIVATOR -@mrdemotivator
Ant Snow - @antsnow
& Moral Support

booking agent:  melissa@armige.com
contact Jess direct:  jphlip@gmail.com

After 25 years behind the decks, J.Phlip still hasn't figured out how to crush the art of pretending she's doing something when she's not-so she just keeps busy actually mixing. She has built her rep on fearless, genre-melting sets packed with bass, acid, punk-electro, bootytech-whatever she damn well pleases. She flips the script-and sometimes the bird-as easily as she flips from 4/4 kicks to breakbeats, taking you on a sonic joyride with zero regard for speed limits. A founding Dirtybird original since 2006, J.Phlip didn't just help shape the label's sound-she nurtured its ride-or-die community, fiercely protecting its scrappy, open-hearted ethos. From the legendary SF Golden Gate BBQs to building Dirtybird Campout from the dirt up, she's been central to one of dance music's boldest and most beloved collectives. She's lit up everything from Movement Detroit to EDC, Fabric London to Space Ibiza, Coachella to your grandma's basement.

But screw the industry name game - sometimes Jess just wants to jump rope like it's middle school. She'll show up with ropes at festivals and kick off a Double Dutch session open to anyone. Her favorite spot is the Friendship cruise where shes backed by her East Bay ride-or-dies, the Twerkaholicz. Their booty-powered madness nearly broke Dirtybird Campout as they rolled in on a gold-plated "Twerkulator" bus, after J.
Phlip herself brought them into the flock in 2019. At Outside Lands, they co-created a show so far outside the box of today's "Dance Music / DJ culture" it shoved it off the rails - colliding fast-BPM beats, ass-jiggling acrobatics, and pure absurdity into a crowd-screaming blowout. Treefort in Boise got it! - the dancefloor snapped into two hours of unfiltered mosh-raving. Jess isn't here for your sunny-day vibes or safe dance moves. After far too many lost years-dragging herself through pandemic fallout-she's back to start some shit.

THA NXXT STEP also known as J.T.R.A.(Justin Theodore Robert Archer) Born in 1986 in Yakosuke, Japan, his tastes of music and culture vary greatly.

A multi-talented artist with varied fields of interest. His music career started off in 2005 when he joined the heavy metal group The Crashing Falcon as their bassist. During the years since, he has filled positions in jazz, funk, country, blues, and rock bands. Because of his history of producing, which he started at the age of 16, he now ventures back into the electronic world. 

After a long two years of holding down the mic for a varied assortment of headliners, JTRA has finally worked his way to being the one behind the decks. Brandishing his style of experimental production mixed with his love for 808 bass, he brings a different flavor of sound.

After dabbling around in different sounds, as well as different social groups, artistic loves, and nerdy obssessions, JTRA realized the symbology of water in co-respondance to life and reality. In addition with his love for the production styles of artists like Eskmo, 
Amon Tobin, RP Boo, Africa HiTech, Heavee, JLin, and Aquadrop, this ideal became applied to his sound and persona.

After years of experimentation, education, and procrastination, he's emerged from a flower bud, blossoming a new form, like a butterfly taking flight. The only choice that made sense in this new form was to be dubbed Tha Nxxt Step. Flexibility, tangibility, and sensuality is the new focus on this. Travelers and ramblers are all welcome on this journey.

IDEAL Radio EP105 - Tha Nxxt Step

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