live take, no post edits, bounced through MP EQ -> MBP

sh-101, p5, expander, ms20, tempest

04-07-22

Hey y’all! We’re back! This one has been a long time coming. I’m extremely excited to present to you the latest Idle Cellars mix, made by Melbourne’s Jazz-Funk-Cosmic-Disco masters Mildlife! A bit of a hail-mary pass, it was a dream to ask these guys to give us a mix for the series and I’m so happy they said yes! Kev McDowell, who sings and plays synths, put the mix together on the heels of re-starting their excellent Very Fantastic Radio podcast (which you should go subscribe to immediately) and he’s handed in a stone-cold-killer of a mix, a 90-minute journey through more genres than you can count. Which is well-Balearic in our book! 

I have been a staunch advocate of this band since hearing their defining single “The Magnificent Moon” back in 2017. Their music has been a revelation to me and, after seeing them something like five times I can safely say they are one of the best live acts in the world at the moment. Do not sleep on them, and if you haven’t heard their albums Phase, Automatic or Chorus, get thee to a record shop, stat!

Many thanks to Kev for creating a fantastic mix for us and Mildlife management Benny & Will for making it happen! 

Mike Bee
San Francisco 
July 2025

https://www.mildlife.com.au/
@mildlife


Mildlife - Idle Cellars Mix

Berlin-based Producer/DJs and Tresor residents, LNS & DJ Sotofett, bring the warehouse vibes with a 3 hour x 3 turntable all vinyl set recorded on June 7th 2025 at the release party of their latest EP on Tresor Records "Globus Trax"

Stream/purchase Globus Trax: https://album.link/globustrax

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About Tresor Berlin
At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future.

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

LNS & DJ Sotofett | Live At Tresor - June 7 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 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

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His  RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from <i>The Collapse Of Everything<i> alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.09.26.html

@jt-2000...
808 State - Pacific State
LFO - LFO
Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds to Comply (Instrumental)
Orbital - Chime
Stakker - Humanoid
Tyree Cooper - Turn Up the Bass
Doug Lazy - H.O.U.S.E
Adonis - No Way Back
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Future Sound of London - PapuaÂ New Guinea
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
Prodigy - Wind It Up (Remix)
Urban Hype - Trip to Trumpton
Mark Summers - SummersÂ Magic
Krush - House Arrest
Fresh 4 - Wishing on a Star
Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
KLF - 3am Eternal
Adamski - NRG
Richie Rich feat Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Hold Me (Instrumental)
Adamski - Killer
Coldcut - People Hold On
Bomb the Bass- Don't make me Wait
Nitro Deluxe - Let's Get Brutal
Nomad – Devotion
D--Mob - We Call It Acieed

@m50... (1h 16m)
Baby Ford : Chikki Chikki Ahh Ahh : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Future Sound Of London : Accelerator : Jumpin' & Pumpin'
Baby Ford : Oochy Koochy : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Speedy J : Ping Pong : !ive : Hardhouse
Orbital : Impact USA (The Earth Is Burning - Diversion) : Diversions : FFRR
Plastikman : Glob : Sheet One : NovaMute
Baby Ford : Flowers : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Giorgio Moroder : The Chase : Rusty Egan presents: Blitzed : Demon
Speedy J : Ginger : Ginger : WARP
Mouse on Mars : Die Seele von Brian Wilson : Vulvaland : Too Pure
Orbital : Input Out : 2 : Internal
The Orb : Toxygene : Orblivion : Island
The Orb : Molten Love (Berlin Session Film Mix) : Orbscure Trax / The Rare Excursions : Island
The Orb : Rose Tinted : Toxygene : Island
Speedy J : The Fun Equations : !ive : Hardhouse
Spacetime Continuum : Flurescence : Flurescence : Reflective
Plastikman : Ovokx : Sheet One : NovaMute
Mouse On Mars : Katang : Vulvaland : Too Pure
Tobias Freund : Uhh : Studio Works 1986-1988 : Non Standard Productions
Universal Indicator : [8] : [red] : Rephlex
Plastikman : Vokx : Sheet One : NovaMute
Spacetime Continuum : Subway : Sea Biscuit : Astralwerks
Gescom : Sciew Spoc : Gescom : SKAM
LFO : Simon From Sydney : Frequencies : WARP
Spacetime Continuum : Q11 : Sea Biscuit : Astralwerks
Universal Indicator : [10] : [green] : Rephlex
Baby Ford : New York : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Gescom : [b2] : Motor : SKAM
Amorphous Androgenous : Fat Cat : Tales Of Ephidrina : Quigley
Mouse On Mars : Frosch : Vulvaland : Too Pure
The Sabres Of Paradise : Smokebelch II : Sabresonic II : WARP
The Sabres Of Paradise : Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix) : Sabresonic II : WARP

streamed live at
@datafruits, ICN
@sphere_radio, LEJ
Wax n' Cats, CHI

Jim Thompson + m50 @ etc 2025.09.26

Journeys through the past, present, and future of dance culture with The co-founder of techno and elevator of house music, Kevin Saunderson. Expect deep blends of house, techno, electro, and disco alongside stories of the scenes and sounds that shaped them. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kevin-saunderson/episodes/kevin-saunderson-26th-september-2025

Origins w/ Kevin Saunderson 260925

For Your Love  new mix 2014

For Your Love Suite 2014 full version (Chilly Remix)

Tracks posted here are live studio takes.  Movements in times I think that are worth sharing. 

All with no post edits, no computers, all hardware and in the moment unless noted.  Equipment used can be found in the track notes.  Any and all feedback is welcome.

04-07-22

if.then.else