Back in the day, drums were used as signals for festivities and war because their sounds travelled the furthest. Azu Tiwaline has long understood that. A master in the dark arts of percussion, she makes deep and profound percussive music that seems to communicate forgotten rituals from centuries past. Her sound is dense, as if pulled from the depths of the Sahara desert in Tunisia, yet still feels spacious thanks to polyrhythmic contortions and sparse, elegant melodies.

Her productions largely fall into the confines of percussive techno, but unlike the genre's springier variants, her dubby textures and psychedelic rhythms command seriousness and move with immensity. Her Livity Sound debut, the Magnetic Service EP from 2020, connected Amazigh music with dub and techno and is a masterclass in restraint and hypnosis. Her latest release, The Fifth Dream, continues to showcase her skills in balancing light and dark tones using field recordings from her home in Tunisia's El Djerid desert, minimal ambient techno and haunting notes.

Mirroring her discography, this RA Podcast features plenty of twisted rhythms, trippy techno and straightforward club cuts. Created for movement rather than hypnosis, these selections show off a different side of her drum palette—perky breaks and syncopated kicks—wrapped in her usual weighty atmospheres.

@azu-tiwaline

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/906

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RA.906 Azu Tiwaline

Sean Johnston Christmas ALFOS at Phonox Dec 23

Sean Johnston ALFOS Phonox Dec 23

TRACK LISTING FOR NINA SONIC NU YEAR SHOW

W.R.F
YATOOL_11
YATOOL_01

NINA & THE FIREFLIES:
FREEDOM - ANDREW WEATHERALL REMIX
ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
OUT OF THE LIGHT
FREEDOM
SMOKIN'
JE TE VOIS
GET OUT OF TOWN
TIME TO GO
CAROB TREE
HEIDI
WE DON'T DIE
ORION
GET OUT OF TOWN - ANDREW WEATHERALL REMIX
JE TE VOIS - ANDREW WEATHERALL REMIX
SHE'S MY WITCH - VDCR REMIX
SMOKIIN' - ANDREW WEATHERALL REMIX
WE DON'T DIE - DAVID HARROW REMIX

FIREFLIES FEAT ANDREW WEATHERALL - ACID TRIP
NINA WALSH & ANDREW WEATHERALL - SOUND & LIGHT
W.R.F - VOUS DU


NYD SONIC TREASURES
Here's some worms from Kris:  Now a much-anticipated new year’s tradition, Nina Walsh’s fourth annual Sonic Treasures mix might be expected to celebrate hard-won triumphs such as finally releasing Phonox Nights, the final album she recorded with lifelong creative partner Andrew Weatherall, which hung precariously in the ether as 2023 dawned. Now with that mission accomplished, and after this stunningly evocative new mix blasts off with two previously unheard Phonox Nights sizzlers that didn’t fit on the album, Nina unveils All That Bluster, the long-awaited Nina and the Fireflies album that will be her next major release in 2024. Partly comprising her lost soundtrack to Killing Eve, the album’s supernatural psych-folk gumbo emerges as a companion set to Phonox Nights, simultaneously recorded with guitarist Franck Alba at Facility4 and coming with four remixes that were among the last completed by Mr Weatherall before he passed away nearly four years ago. This highly personal odyssey climaxes with three unreleased gems from the bulging Walsh-Weatherall vault, starting with legendary 20-minute epic ‘The Acid Trip’ built around Andrew’s hilariously vivid account of his first LSD experience, captured at rehearsals in 2016. Once again, Nina has gloriously pulled off highlighting past achievements with both eyes set firmly on the future. Happy new year!

         Kris ‘Wild Squirrel’ Needs, December 2023

NINA WALSH MIX NU YEAR SONIC TREASURE MIX

Feed Your Head Guest Mix: Craig Bratley 'Ashigaru Sounds Vol 2'

David Holmes ft. Raven Violet	Blind on a Galloping Horse (Sons of Slough Remix) [Heavenly]	0:00:19
Golden Bug, The Liminanas, Vega Voga	Hi No Tori (Original) [LA BELLE RECORDS]	0:07:32
John_Talabot,_Velmondo,_Mioclono	Disobedience	0:11:27
Liquid Liquid 	Zero Leg (A-Tweed x Oltrefuturo Edit)	0:18:43
OBOST	Take the Message	0:22:03
Mondocane	Rik_The_Freak	0:27:23
Sigward	Triptych	0:31:59
Anatolian Weapons	Desert Sun	0:42:35
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 	MAKE IT WIT CHU - LEO ZERO EDIT	0:47:49
Steady State	The MultiKlang	0:54:20
Henry Saiz	The Nothing	0:59:59
UMO	PeaceMaker	1:07:53
Dare	Balalaica___Wind_(Hoani_Teano_remix)	1:16:34
The_Dude_of_Stratosphear	Yogumata__Krokakai_Dub_Remix	1:22:08
Zillas On Acid	Should_Must	1:25:44
Zillas On Acid	Ceremonial Slab	1:30:53
Ben Hunt	Namaqua	1:35:53
Flash_Atkins	Who_Am_I__(Flash_dub)	1:40:52
Daichi Edits Vol. 01	See of Cosmic	1:45:31
Juan_MacLean_Man_Power_aka_Juan_Power	Another’s_Wings	1:50:17
Steady State	Voices Of Krypton	1:57:55
You_Man_	Birdcage_(Rigopolar_Version)	2:03:42
Duncan Gray	Astronomy [Cotton Bud Master]	2:08:55
Duncan Gray	Full Blag [Cotton Bud Master]	2:14:00
Kenneth_Bager___Tolga_Boyuk	Re-Arrange_Your_Face_(edit)	2:19:01
Ayala_(IT)_	Prehispa_Psychedelia_(Original_Mix)	2:24:58
Spatial Awareness 	Dream_Food_SA_Dub	2:30:51
Acida_Dominga	Lost_Highways	2:40:43
tronik youth	dance with me	2:44:26
Chug Norris	New Man (Instrumental)	2:47:53
Hema Wolfe	No Doubt [K-Effect Master]	2:54:26
Talee	Be_Here_Now_(Cantor_Sunrise_remix)	2:59:43
Nadav_Dagon,_Nurieli_	_Dahola_(Simple_Symmetry_Remix)	3:06:06
Róisín Murphy	Can't Replicate (Hernan Cattaneo & Mercurio Remix)	3:20:13
Bronski Beat	Smalltown Boy (Irregular Disco Workers Working Class Remix)	3:29:54
Radio Slave vs Audion	Mouth To Mouth - Rekids	3:35:06
Raxon_	Your_Fault_(Original_Mix)	3:39:07
Buran	Alnitak	3:44:42
Kimshies	Spiders_in_My_Head_feat_CLO__Modular_Project_Rave_Mix	3:50:18
Jay Son	Divine_Journey_of_Souls__Parissior_Remix_	3:54:03
Tronik_Youth_	Wrong_System__Jay-Son_Remix	4:00:11
Simple_Symmetry_	I_Must_Not_Fear__Iñigo_Vontier_Mix	4:05:12
John_Tejada,_Plaid	Bittersweet	4:11:26

Feed Your Head Right Tunes Wrong Disco Mix

DUBCOM048D - The Blue Mountains EP. 7 track digital release out now on @dub-communication.
Buy release here: https://www.junodownload.com/products/frenk-dublin-the-blue-mountains-ep/6776012-02/

https://www.facebook.com/FrenkDublin.DubCommunication.ECHOLTD.SNDandRTN

Kessel (Original Mix)

Jane Fitz live from Tantrum on Friday night at Houghton 2024.

Recorded at Houghton - Jane Fitz

Voigtmann recorded live at the Earthling at Houghton 2024.

Recorded at Houghton - Voigtmann (2024)

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

My remix of Billy Niko's Sky Dive (in Acid)

Billy Niko - SkyDive (in Acid) - if i had a hi fi's ManHigh remix

if i had a hi fi