Yoyaku instore session with Bruno Schmidt

Room 303 ・三○三号室 
https://instagram.com/room303radio

14:30-16:00 JST
2025/03/27

Chicago House informed by the past, for the future

Through the mentorship of Chez Damier, studying behind the desk at Gramaphone records, and being at the helm of Smart Bar Chicago’s wildly successful party “Queen!” Garrett has spent the past decade developing his unmistakable style and ability to hypnotize the dancefloor. His meticulous approach and underground attitude shines through his production, releasing lush and skittery tunes on prestigious labels such as Courtesy of Balance, Smallville, Residual, and his own imprint, Global Swing.

Garret David 
https://instagram.com/itsgarrettd

@ WPÜ HOTEL SHINJUKU 
https://wpu-shinjuku.com

Garrett David

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

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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

1		Down By The Cove	Chaos In the CBD	
2		First Time Ever (Extended Mix)	Joanna Law	
3		Fluid	Jestofunk	Love in a Black Dimension	
4		Midnight Dub	Joanna Law	Midnight Blue		
5		Watermelon Woman (Dub)	Yu Su	Watermelon Woman	     	
6		Too Hot (Red Hot Mix) (feat. Woolfy)	Lexx		
7		Sex Tabou	Plastic Bertrand	
8		Josiane	        MC Sultan	Super Ethno Astronaut
9		Go Away Dream   Delroy Wilson
9		China Doll	Leon Thomas	Blues and the Soulful Truth	
10		Life Is Something Special (Special Edition)	Peech Boys	
11		Bloody Hell	The Emperor Machine	
12		All Woman	Kathy Diamond	
13		Woman to Woman	Joe Cocker	
14		Miss	Erika de Casier	Lifetime	
15		Elastic - Phase II	Opal Sunn
16	        Dream Reggae    Jean Michel Bertrand
16		Illegal	Swayzak
17		Try	Smith & Mighty
18		Heaven’s Here (Middle East Mix)	Larissa
19		Chien & loup (Version longue) (Nouveau rip)
20		Get Down (We Can Get Down)	Groove Chronicles (Noodles)
21	        Step on  Harry Mosco
21		Take Me As I Am Now	Eko
22		Calling me crazy (Garrett David's Zenzitiv Mix)	Ohm Hourani	
23		Illegal	PinkPantheress

Mixed Signals radio 005

Nice and Deep represents the signature style of Jerey Stevenson, a former radio host who has transformed his passion for dubbed-out sounds into a seamless blend of genres like amapiano, afro house, ambient, dub, deep house, and dub techno. With a focus on providing listeners with a sound that is smooth, yet deeply engaging, Jerey delivers a soundscape that strikes the perfect balance between minimal, repetitive beats and just enough groove to keep listeners hooked.

Piñata Radio is an online community radio & broadcasting 24h/7 from Montpellier, South Of France.
More music, events & podcasts : pinataradio.com

Piñata Radio est une radio en ligne qui émet 24h/24 et 7j/7 à Montpellier, dans le sud de la France.
More music, events & podcasts : pinataradio.com

Jerey Stevenson | 18.09.25

On Thursday night Behrang Mohmmadi (@behrangmohammadi) delivered a texturally screwed mix of 4x4 club sonics. Setting a well paced momentum into the night, its 3 hours blending warping techno and generally off kilter dynamics into a cohesive and effortlessly eccentric ride. A mix-as-expression of diverse methods in movement.

photo by @torfithr

Kune Festival 2025: Behrang Mohammadi @ Space Stage

Space stage to a T, Lentza (@lentzaa) and Christina Evangelista (@christina-evangelista-cph) deliver 2.5 hours of proggy-techy-romanian house. Deep and charged in equal part, it's got both the 4x4 attitude and brain tingling weirdness so often found in some of the best in the style. Straight to the point.

Kune Festival 2025: Lentza & Christina Evengelista @ Space Stage

Recorded live at the Lion and Lamb at our 1st Birthday on the 12th May 2018.

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Jake McKay

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