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This month's instalment of Out Of Office is provided by dynamic duo.... Sass and vibes.

An hour of intergalactic house and acidic minimal whompers. 

Enjoy.

Out Of Office w/ Sass and Vibes (1020 Radio 27/01/22)

Sass and Vibes - Aaja Channel 1 - 06 06 22

Sass and Vibes - Aaja Channel 1 - 20 07 22

Sass and Vibes - Aaja Channel 1 - 17 08 22

Lost in a foggy daydream while dancing with mockingbirds in El Avila's morning mist.

@mari_te

Spaced 34 | Mari.te

Jane Fitz took the stage twice with a B2B set this at rural 2024, and she appeared on the final day with her musical partner Jade Seatle, who co-hosts the DIY party “Night Moves” in their home, London. The final day started out rainy, but ended up with sunny skies. This set was deeply connected with such a dramatic ending. Enjoy this euphoric collection of left-field tech house gems.

2024年は、二度にわたるB2Bセットでの登壇となったJane Fitzが、最終日のクロージングを共にしたのは、彼女の本拠地であるロンドンで共にDIYパーティ〈NIGHT MOVES〉を主催する相方のJade Seatleでした。雨模様で幕を開け、最後には陽光差し込む晴天にまで辿りついたドラマチックな終幕と深く結びついた展開。多幸感溢れる珠玉のレフトフィールド・テックハウスコレクションを堪能ください。

Jane Fitz & Jade Seatle at rural 2024

Slow Life All Star @indizone247 sends us into double overtime for MMSU 35!

Please enjoy this absolute lesson in chill-mix-making from Santi. Thrilled to welcome him to the series.

MMSU 35 - Indi Zone

A fairly large mix by @brickel recorded live at Foul Play

The Sizeable Mix Vol. 42: Sam Brickel

Sass and Vibes - Aaja Channel 1 - 26 02 25

Coast 2 Coast [Gene on Earth & The Ghost] - Wildeburg 2024

Part two of RA.999: two NYC Downlow favourites go back-to-back for the first time with a jubilant homage to classic house.

The RA Podcast launched 19 years ago in 2006, making it one of the world's longest-running online mix series. As we gear up to celebrate the 1,000th episode, RA.999 lands with five mixes across five days with a cohort of artists who've left a singular mark on electronic music over the past few decades. The chemistry and legacy of these duos make for something very special—and worthy of such a huge milestone.

First up was 1morning and Regal86 with a live recording from New York's Bossa Nova. Next up? We move to NYC Downlow, and who better to capture Glastonbury's beloved queer utopia than Prosumer and Peach, going back-to-back for the first time.

If house is your thing, then Prosumer and Peach going one-for-one on the decks is nothing short of a treat. With Glastonbury still just about in the rearview mirror, this mix captures the spirit of NYC Downlow. If you're familiar, you'll know this means steamy euphoria all-night long, sweat dripping from the ceiling and an intoxicating feeling in the humid air.

And Prosumer is a true Downlow darling—a treasured custodian and storyteller of dance music who delivered his first RA Podcast way back in 2007. "If a record doesn't move me emotionally or physically, I won't play it out," he said at the time, befitting of the impeccable curation and irresistible body groove that became his trademarks. He is, in the words of the Johnny Dangerous track in the mix, the "King of Clubs."

For Peach, RA.999 marks a full-circle moment: Prosumer's 2019 closing set in the Downlow is one of her all-time Glastonbury memories. Since her first RA Podcast in 2021, the London-based artist has only grown more in-demand, with sets that typically traverse the house and techno lexicon—and occasionally R&B—with a distinctly peppy energy. "Neither of us are afraid to go deep," she said about playing with Prosumer. "We just had fun with it."

@ohpeach
@prosumer
Read the full interview at ra.co/podcast/1006

RA.999 Prosumer & Peach

Part four of RA.999: the sound of shared history, courtesy of two legends of minimal house in full flow.

A lot can happen in 20 years. Especially in dance music, where movements rise, collide and dissolve at dizzying speed. It takes conviction, dynamism and a formidable record collection to stay the course.

That’s why Margaret Dygas and Sonja Moonear have remained such enduring underground favourites. Step into one of their sets, solo or side by side, and an assured calm takes over the floor. You're in the sleekest, safest hands imaginable.

Recorded live at fabric's 25th birthday, their RA.999 captures that feeling perfectly. High-tempo, irresistibly groovy and full of quiet authority, it marks a return to the series for both: Moonear with RA.520, and Dygas with the fourth-ever RA Podcast all the way back in 2006.

They also gave rare interviews, reflecting on a deep musical connection that began in 2007, the legacy of minimal and lessons from a life spent in DJ booths the world over. 

"I felt excited and lucky to be invited so early in what I now see as a much longer journey," wrote Dygas. "Music holds memories in its frequencies, and the right track can transport you instantly to a past version of yourself. That’s powerful. That’s the kind of power I respect." Amen.

@moonear
@margaret

Read the full interview at ra.co/podcast/1008

RA.999 Sonja Moonear & Margaret Dygas

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

@coffeewithmo

"It’s been six years since I’ve sat down to make a mix, so I’m thankful for TINPE for the opportunity to think about a few of the places, eras, sounds, and traditions that have inspired me over the last few years and try to draw some connections between them. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy."


1. Theaster Gates & The Black Monks of Mississippi - Furthermore (Edit)
2. Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)
3. 2Lanes - Baby's Born To Fish... (feat. Kesswa, John F.M., Ian Fink & Shigeto)
4. Toussaint - Fighting Within (prod. by Universal Tongues)
5. Word Sound & Power Band - Dee-Keh-Dee (Tears) Part Two
6. Jody 'Fingers' Finch - Whistle Worm
7. Amp Fiddler - Love & War [Version]
8. Ghost Dubs - Hot Wired
9. Aaron-Carl - Crucified (Quantec Remix)
10. Round One - I'm Your Brother (Quadrant Dub)
11. Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations for World Peace
12. Trevor Dandy - Judgment Morning
13. Seba - So Long (feat. Lotek)
14. James Bangura - Famille, Amant et Ami
15. Leftfield - Swords (feat. Nicole Willis)
16. Prince Jazzbo - Replay (Version)

Episode 76 w/ Mo Yasin

Nizar Sarakbi - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Mr Sass & General Vibes aka Sass & Vibes
Expect the Unaccepted.
💜

After a decade long friendship, the newly formed South London duo Sass & Vibes are climbing the proverbial step ladder that is the UK club scene to become more of a staple than the half empty bag of rice at the back of your cupboard. Residents at Night Tales & Night Tales Loft, (the former crowned Best Small Club by DJ Mag’s Best of British Awards) and Wales’ longest running electronic club night CYNT Cardiff, 2023 will be a year that continues to cement Sass & Vibes’ place in the concrete jungles of both capital cities. 
 
With influences that range from DJ Harvey, Andrew Weatherall and Craig Richards, to Prince, Todd Terry and Diana Ross, Sass & Vibes’ genre-spanning, party starter style DJ sets are garnering them an enviable reputation to kickstart beating hearts from the word go.
 
Meeting at university in Cardiff in 2011, General Vibes and Mr Sass became fast friends, bonding over a shared love of “all things off kilter, but on groove.” From their first night out at a house party together, which ended with Mr Sass losing his then job at 00’s high street mainstay Hollister, to their formative clubbing experiences at seminal venue/clubnight Studio 89, the 100-cap venue under a city centre noodle bar, the pair got stuck into Cardiff’s nightlife and within a year were instrumental in reviving the legendary CYNT in 2013. Pushing the cities musical boundaries and continually pushing its sonic diversity, the duo remain residents to this day. Fast forward to May 2023 and the pair will support Krystal Klear and Dr Banana for their summer rooftop party.
 
This summer will also see the pair hit the UK festival circuit, with sets at Mighty Hoopla, Westival, In It Together and Into The Burrow, as well as their Ibiza debut at Pikes. Continuing to be mainstays in their home city, with shows at the Colour Factory and Dalston Roof Park, plus their continuing residency at Night Tales, you can ‘Expect the Unaccepted'. As well as their packed schedule of gigs, they can be heard on the likes of Balamii Radio & Rinse plus the duo host their monthly radio show on AAJA in Deptford from The Snake Pit, where they host their first ever party under the same one as their moniker of ‘Sass & Vibes’. Their monthly radio episodes showcase a range of Balearic, Italo, Acid, House, Detroit Techno and Disco edits, condensing the boundless energy of an S&V set.

Out Of Office w/ Sass and Vibes (1020 Radio 27/01/22)

Jerry Dobson

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