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car culture remissions vol. 4

The Denmark-based neo-R&B star marks the release of her new LP "Still" with a welcome broadcast on NTS - an hour of mostly unreleased and exclusive productions from her friends, new remixes, and original music.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/erika-de-casier-23rd-february-2024

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Live recording of the Sound Metaphors Boat Party at Love International 2024 with Palms Trax and Castro & Nemo.

Palms Trax b2b Sound Metaphors DJs at Love International Festival 2024

Car Culture, the not-dance-music alias of long-time NTS resident Physical Therapy, collages fuzzy folktronics, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing soundscapes.   
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/car-culture/episodes/car-culture-23rd-april-2025

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"Over dinner, the promoter mentioned how hard it was to play disco at the club, which made me smile, given the party was called “Bye Bye Disco.” She asked if I could play something that would help people understand and appreciate disco in a fresh, modern way, so that’s exactly what I set out to do. "

Recorded live at Bye Bye Disco in Beijing.

H.A.N.D. MIX 075  - Trent

Recorded at Radio Relativa Studio on 21.07.2025


Sound Metaphors Djs @ Radio Relativa (Madrid), 21.07.2025

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

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Car Culture, the not-dance-music alias of long-time NTS resident Physical Therapy, collages fuzzy folktronics, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing soundscapes.   
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/car-culture/episodes/car-culture-6th-november-2025

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► Bon Iver teaming up with longtime friend Sharon Van Etten for a heartfelt performance of Van Etten's “Love More” from David Lynch's Festival of Disruption at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel. 

► More here: blrrm.tv/fodla

Curated and led by David Lynch, Festival of Disruption follows his vision of meditation and creativity's ability to heal the individual and society from within. He believes that sharing the power of art in a communal setting is the purest way to raise awareness and funds for the festival's charitable mission. 

100% of net proceeds from the Festival support the 501(c)(3) non-profit David Lynch Foundation to address the epidemic of trauma and toxic stress amongst at-risk populations through the implementation of the evidence-based Transcendental Meditation technique. 

Boiler Room is donating 100% of the associated ad revenue from the Festival footage to DLF - by choosing to watch the ads on this video, you support the Foundation and its mission. 

Find out more about DLF: https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
Donate here: https://donate.davidlynchfoundation.org/give/130902/#!/donation/checkout

Thanks to the Ace Hotel for their extended support.

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John Cletus Wilcox