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Live and direct from Barbarella's on Sunday night, this week we're sharing CCL and DJ Voices' excellent b2b from last year. Part of MARICAS' much-celebrated takeover, get locked for two-hours of shapeshifting and highly atmospheric electronic music.

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CCL b2b DJ Voices - Live from Dimensions 23' (MARICAS Takeover)

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livwutang at Praia - Waking Life '24

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

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Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

For her set at the 25th anniversary edition of MUTEK Montréal, Toronto-based producer, DJ, presenter and classically trained pianist Ciel performed a live set built around her debut album, 'Homesick'.

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Ciel

NIKS B2B livwutang - 26 March 2025

The lovely @pascaleproject setting the perfect mood at the Grove stage, during last year's edition of Sustain Release. 9-11pm, 14th September 2024.

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ani/live Sixty Nine: Pascale Project @ Sustain Release Year 10

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

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Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

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Manchester duo MINDLESS. are wasting no time. Just months after launching the project, they’ve landed on Jamie Jones’ Hottrax with their second release, the ‘Turn It Up’ EP. That’s right, the pair are levelling up fast, and we’ve got the premiere of MINDLESS.’s ‘Taste It’ right here.

Formed by Harry Carvell and Kieran Dearden, the UK duo have gone from after-work jam sessions to catching the ear of one of the most influential names in house. Now they’re stepping into the Hottrax catalogue, a space reserved for records that push the floor into overdrive.

The title track ‘Turn It Up’ is all about crisp drums, a snaking bassline, and a hypnotic groove that just keeps rolling. But it’s MINDLESS.’s ‘Taste It’ that flips the switch, locking you into darker textures and low-end pressure built for sweaty basement moments and 4am rooftops. This is house music with no let-up, no compromise, and plenty of bite.

We’re hyped to premiere MINDLESS.’s ‘Taste It’ on Data Transmission. This is a label debut that signals big things ahead, and you can already hear why tastemakers are jumping on board.

MINDLESS. ‘Turn It Up’ EP drops 22nd August on Hottrax.
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MINDLESS. - Taste It [Hottrax]

Being a long time resident DJ somewhere teaches you the sort of skills that stand you out from the pack. Cologne’s Lena Willikens is one such special selector who has very much made Salon Des Amateurs in Dusseldorf her own. As well as serving up singular sets there, she is also a key part of the Comeme Records crew with the likes of Barnt. For them she hosts a regular radio show, and for them she has released her brooding, industrially bleak techno sounds. 

Lena’s influences come from well outside the normal cannon - proto techno, industrial boogie, synthesised disco, outlier house and robot jack all characterise her work, and the set she has served up here. It is one hour of unusual grooves, unsettling atmospheres and metallic textures that are abstract and dehumanised and take you to a raw and visceral place that is hugely intoxicating. Easily one of the best mixes this year so far in our humble opinion!


Dekmantel Podcast 070 - Lena Willikens

Recording of Lena Willikens's set at Dekmantel Festival 2017.

Dekmantel Festival 2017

Lena Willikens at Dekmantel Festival 2017

Two hours in the middle of 7 hours live from Good Room, Brooklyn, BK. Recorded on the 20th anniversary of the historic Daft Punk album "Homework" release!

Please listen and enjoy. Many thanks to Josh and Daniel for hosting and recording us ;)

PEAK TIME - A Mix by DJ Python and Anthony Naples

Lena Willikens served up typically singular sonics during her Dekmantel Festival 2018 set at the Selectors Stage.

Dekmantel Festival 2018

Lena Willikens at Dekmantel Festival 2018

@DanielAvery and @AlessandroCortini team up for an ambient Dazed Mix as they release their collaborative album, Illusion of Time.

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1. Resident Evil 2 - The Front Hall
2. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Sun
3. Final - Flow River Flow
4. Deathprod - OCCULATION 5
5. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Inside the Ruins
6. Steve Hauschildt - Cloudloss
7. Ulla - Leaves & Wish

Dazed Mix: Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini

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PEAK TIME - A Mix by DJ Python and Anthony Naples

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