Heads Radio Show 0073 - Malka Tuti Showcase

19:00-20:00 --- Khidja
20:00-21:00 --- Decha *Live
21:00-22:00 --- Alicia Carrera & Katzele

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Malka Tuti
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Alicia Carrera
aliciacarrera.com/LIO-PRESS
@aliciacarrera

Decha *LIVE
vickywehrmeister.de/

Katzele
@katzele

Khidja
@poor-relatives
khidja.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-mi…le-of-the-night

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Alicia Carrera & Katzele - Heads Radio 0073 - Malka Tuti - 21.07.2021 - @ Sameheads

Mika Oki at Positive Education Festival 2021

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Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

Read more at ra.co/podcast/973

RA.973 Kia

It's an honor to welcome Amsterdam's Loek Frey to our series, whose meticulous attention to detail and eminent experimentalism command the mind's attention like no other. The OQAD label head and Omen Wapta collaborator invites us to peer delicately beyond the edge, unveiling a hyperintense, subsonic blur through which a primordial palette begins to emerge. I've been looking forward to sharing this episode for quite some time, and to revel in this blend of artistry and precision was truly worth the wait. Thanks Loek!

@loekfrey

Artwork by Sofia Lambrou.

Sure Thing Mix 137: Loek Frey

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

Basel’s Timnah joins our series with a long-anticipated recording from last year’s inaugural pe:rsona, an intimate gathering from the minds at Positive Education. Over the years Timnah has established a reputation for expansive and visionary selections without equal, lending her voice to the beloved Amentia and A Walking Contradiction collectives and leading audiences into captivating unknowns worldwide. Recorded live in the French countryside at the peak of summer, Timnah’s set smolders with delicate tension, lacing outward like tendrils upon shattering glass. An intense, inward-folding moment graciously shared. Thanks Timnah!

@timnah-sommerfeldt

Artwork by Mei Oele - Boser Tritt.

Sure Thing Mix 142: Timnah

@kia-sydney & @livwutang
Photo: Carla Lubrano Di Sbaraglione & Raphaël Chêne

Kia & livwutang at pe:rsona 2025

Liquid Liquid ‎         Optimo 
https://www.discogs.com/fr/Liquid-Liquid-Optimo/master/79761

Dinosaur 	Kiss Me Again (A Pablo And Shoey Rejig)
https://www.discogs.com/fr/Various-DownTownSounds-Classics-Volume-2/release/4739131

Factory Floor         Two Different Ways (Original) 
https://www.discogs.com/fr/Factory-Floor-Two-Different-Ways/master/385086


William Onyeabor      When the Going is Smooth & Good  
https://www.discogs.com/fr/William-Onyeabor-Who-Is-William-Onyeabor/release/4997673

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Babe Roots guest mix
Sounds From The Well w/ Zam Zam Sounds
LYL Radio (France)
(25/09/2019)

Babe Roots guest mix - Sounds From The Well w/ Zam Zam Sounds - LYL Radio (France) 25/09/2019

SYSTM 032 - BABE ROOTS
https://systemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/systm-032-babe-roots

more BABE ROOTS music
https://baberoots.bandcamp.com/

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