Mix #01

At Field Maneuvers 2023, Optimo (Espacio) played the final set in the Sputnik tent as part of the Watching Trees takeover. "We expected everyone to be on their final reserves of energy," they said. "But it was instantly apparent that there was electric energy in the tent. It ended up being one of the most joyous, life-affirming gigs of [the year]."

@optimo-music @fieldmaneuvers

Find out more about Field Maneuvers 2024: https://ra.co/news/80472

RA Live - Optimo (Espacio) - Field Maneuvers, UK

Punctual trance & progressive house

http://www.instagram.com/spray.forever

@sprayforever

Spray @ The Lot Radio 07-29-2024

Tracklist:

Paula Tape – Panamericana
Steele-Up – Waiting For You (Fabrizio Mammarella Rework)
Zerocks – Margin / Industrie
Iro Aka – Olafon
Dave Aju – Telekuneko
In Flagranti – Raw Substance (Eric Duncan Remix)
Cowboy Rhythmbox – Rock Music (Erol Alkan Rework)
Miss Represented – Crack That Habit (Johnny Aux Remix)
Open Secret – Chatterbox
Amor Fati - Snow Cupboard (Matt Cowell Edit)
Idjut Boys – Schlagstock (Vacant Gaze Version)
Babes In Love – Bonus Babes Dub Reprise
Benedikt Frey – Dominatrix
Cute Heels – Third Skin (Steffi Remix)
Nova Materia – Aparence en Suenos

FMB MIXTAPE 251 | Tia Cousins

Broadcast on Triple J on Sat 7 Dec 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/mix-up/jennifercardini-djest-2024/104672244?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared

Jen Cardini - Triple J Mix Up

Flying away from the Typhoon Kong-rey with the last plane from Shanghai, arriving straight to Miki Abe, his inaugural wonderful Picnic People Panic to the DJ booth at Womb Tokyo to take over from the superb Alien Sex Friends.

Here is the live recording.

Ryosuke Tsuchiya, who also served as PA, mastered this mix. He used a unique approach, including IR reverb, to simulate the environment of the day with an immersive feel.
WOMB is a club with a very high ceiling and wooden floor. The subwoofer, with its large horn, gives the kick a rich ambience.

Enjoy!

Vladimir Ivkovic Live at PICNIC PEOPLE PANIC - November 1st 2024 at Womb Tokyo

John Talabot @ MakingTime 2024

@oprofessionell
@alpha-tracks-official

In the spring of 2017, we hosted our first open-air gathering. Now, eight years later, we’re celebrating the 8th anniversary of Ute. We are starting the jubilee year with this first anniversary release, compiled by our co-founder Marius Bø - a CD celebrating our past, present and future.

Buy: https://ute-rec.bandcamp.com/album/utecd0041-8-years-of-ute

Release date: May 19

Artwork by Ross Paul McEwan
Mastering by Nik Kozub

Kineta - Aqua Drifter [UTECD004.1]

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 masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and 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 rare combinations playing start-to-finish. 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 a 385-minute marathon 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. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers 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 practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

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

Mix #01

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