Brain machine - Alpha Moon, Bezier - Domination, Fortran 5 - Heart On The Line (Bassline Mix), Severed Heads - All Saints Day, Luca Lazano - Super Rhythm Track, Kasra V - Myth (Dream To Science Remix), Fantastic Man - Trance Sexual, Sugar - The Feeling (Powertools Acid Funk Mix), Xenon - Xenophobia, Jozef K & Winter Sun - Unconscious Rebellion, Paradise 3001 - Spiral Trippin, Fantastic Man - Rhythm Algorithm, The Hypnotist - Rainbow In The Sky (Natural High Mix), Marvin & Guy - Theme From "Fire! Fire!", AM Unit - Gotta Slow Down (Lauer Piano Dub), HVOB - Lion (Wolfram Remix)

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"Working my ass off, to be honest," is how Eli Escobar starts our interview  below. That basically sums up his vibe. The New Yorker might not have the same household name status of other DJs who have been soundtracking Manhattan clubs since the early '90s, but he certainly deserves it. Any New York resident worth their salt should have him near the top of the list of their favorite local DJs. He plays anywhere and everywhere in the city, and he can play pretty much anything he wants to, as his RA Podcast will attest.

When it comes to his own music, Escobar puts out records equally informed by disco, hip-hop and house—in other words, a very New York sound. He hasn't been producing as long as he's been DJing, but his albums and EPs for labels like Classic, Night People and Razor N Tape are full of the soul, humor and talent of someone who knows dance music inside out.

As Escobar says below, he doesn't really have any one type of sound. His DJing varies greatly from night to night, and he's always adding to his considerable collection, so no one set is quite the same as another. For his RA Podcast, put together painstakingly with many specially edited tracks and recorded in a hotel room in Colombia, he strikes a relatively reflective tone, but it's still eminently danceable. He moves gradually through two hours of house and disco that ranges from celebratory to muted, from minimalist to rich with live instrumentation. It's the sound of New York dance music as passed through generations, from one of its best and most beloved musical storytellers.

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RA.839 Eli Escobar

This mix is all music from 1984. It is a special live vinyl mix that I recorded on July 19, 2011 as a promotion for the A.D. (After Disco) series of parties here in Chicago.  The mix has been hosted for a few years on the Loves Podcast and I decided to upload it here to my Soundcloud for the first time.  Here’s a few words I wrote to go with the mix:  

1984 is an amazing year in music. At the time, "house" was still a colloquialism for the music played by Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. House was not yet a music form in its own right. "Fresh," on Vince Vince Lawrence’s fledgling label Precision, is the only house-qua-house track on the mix. The other tunes are properly considered proto-house -- the music which formed the milieu of dance music which we now describe (rather clumsily) as:

*Electro (e.g., Solo – “Girls, Girls” produced by John Robbie; JellyBean – “The Mexican”); 
*Garage (e.g., Circuit - "Release the Tension" a Timmy Regisford production; Colonel Abrams – “Music Is The Answer”); 
*Italo (e.g., Stop – “Wake Up”; Pancho Ballet – “Dancing Shoes”); 
*Synth and industrial dance (e.g., 52nd Street – “Can’t Afford” produced by New Order’s Stephen Morris; Palais Schaumburg – “The Beat Of Two” produced by Gareth Jones who also produced Depeche/Nitzer Ebb); and 
*Post-disco (e.g., Stephanie Mills – “Medicine Song”).

This music from 1984 is ‘proto’ in the sense that it was establishing the necessary elements of house – e.g., use of certain instruments (drum machines, synths, samplers) – but there are some stark differences.

Although much of the music in 1984 was released on small independents and remained quite underground, there were major successes for dance music at the time and investment in dance music by major labels. There was A&R structure at all record labels and radio play. "Trapped" (1985) by Colonel Abrams sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Earon’s “Land of Hunger” hit the top 40 on the soul singles chart. John “JellyBean” Benitez placed nine songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The democratizing force that would be house music had not been fully realized. It was still expensive to make dance music. For example, most of the tracks on the mix feature vocalists, session players or a full band. Although the epic ensembles of the disco era had long passed in fashion and economic viability, dance records were still recorded in professional studios and engineered by individuals like Bob Blank and Herb Powers. The E-max Sampler hit the market in 1984, but the studio standard were samplers like the Fairlight and Synclavier (which had more than $100,000 price tags), each of which were prohibitively expensive for use by most musician/producers.

By 1984 the relatively inexpensive Roland gear was just finding its way into the hands of Chicago, Detroit and New York’s new roots musicians. A year before, Larry Sherman acquired Musical Product’s pressing plant, the only one in Chicago. Ron Hardy was playing "Penthouse and Pavement" by Heaven 17 and "DumDum" at the Music Box. Dance music was about to fall off the edge, for better and for worse.

1984 Track List:

1. Citispeak Featuring Jeanne Harris – I Don't Need Your Handouts (Inst.) – Partytime Records 
2. Pancho Ballet – Dancing Shoes (Instrumental) – Best Record 
3. Jellybean – The Mexican (Funhouse Mix) – EMI America 
4. Nuance Featuring Vikki Love - Take A Chance (Dubapella) - 4th & Broadway  
4. Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away (Long Mix & Inst) – Saturn Records 
5. Hugh Masekela – Don't Go Lose It, Baby (Stretch Mix) – Jive Afrika 
6. Colonel Abrams – Music Is The Answer (Dub Version) – Streetwise 
7. The Earons – Land Of Hunger (Extended Version) – Island Records 
8. Wet – That's The Game (Instrumental) – Bellaphon 
9. Circuit – Release The Tension (Dub) – 4th & Broadway 
10. Stephanie Mills – The Medicine Song (Dub Version) – Casablanca Records 
11. Anne Clark – Our Darkness (Remix) – Ink Records 
12. Solo – Girls, Girls (Ah-Ah-Hi) - Next Plateau Records Inc. 
13. 52nd Street – Can't Afford – Profile (on license from Factory) 
14. The Bridge – Love Dance (Industrial Mix) - Second Vision 
15. Stop – Wake Up – Damabi International 
16. Fresh – Dum Dum – Precision 
17. Palais Schaumburg – The Beat Of Two (Extended Version) – Mercury


1984 After Disco (A.D.)

The Berlin-based DJ, producer and Panorama Bar resident turns in an emotional and era-spanning set saturated in psychedelic hues.

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DJ Shibata(探心音,THE OATH) - Tokyo/Japan

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Bio:
10代半ばバンドでDrumsを担当、流れでダンスミュージックの世界に足を踏み入れDJ活動を開始。
カルチャーのルーツへさかのぼり、House～Garage～LoftとNYスタイルの王道にのめり込む。
同時に日本そして東京という環境を活用しあらゆる音楽・スタイル・価値観を吸収し、次第に自分の感覚でそれらをフロアに落とし込むことに意味を見い出す。
今年初め惜しまれつつその第一幕を閉じたハウスミュージックの名店、青山LOOPで14年に渡って第2土曜のレジデントを務め、現在は渋谷KOARAの第4金曜“探心音”、青山OATHでの“THE OATH”第1金曜を中心に様々なパーティーで活動中。

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Axel Boman b2b Fort Romeau @ Aura, Lisbon

DC Promo Tracks #1751: "Magisa" by Hiroyuki Kato is part of the release "Life" on Flexi Cuts @flexicuts_wax  

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waiting for your return! (expanded edition)

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Here is my 2 hour mix from our Turbo showcase at Piknic Electronik Barcelona edition-- one of my favourite parties in one of my favourite cities. Big thanks to Thomas Von Party, Clarian and Shaded who created the vibe and laid down the foundations. Hope you enjoy it.....even got a bit trance at times. T. 

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Tiga At Piknic Electronik Barcelona 09.08.2015 (DJ Set)

Just before the moon yawned dawn and broke through the shadows of the night, we found ourselves reduced to silence drawn into the floating story of Afumati.

Recorded at Experiment Intrinsic 01
13 December 2014 - London
Water View Room

Water View Room • Afumati

Locked Groove's eponymous label comes forward with its third release, in the form of two-tracker End/Scherzo delivered by the label boss himself. On the flip, "Scherzo" brings forth a track of dark and lively techno. Peppered with forward-driving drums, broken chord synths and dreamlike pads rich in reverb, the track reaches tipping point as it crescendos at its halfway mark, only to fall back down and rebuild once more. A track of sustained euphoria that pre-empts the excitement of hearing it out fully, on a darkened floor.

End/Scherzo arrives on 11 December. On this same date, both previous Locked Groove Records releases will also be made available digitally for the first time.

Locked Groove "Scherzo" - Boiler Room Debuts

This week on the pod: A mix straight from Chicago's Boompty HeadQuarters by Derrick Carter.

RA.124 Derrick Carter

Recording of Pender Street Steppers and Beautiful Swimmers's back-to-back at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Dekmantel Festival 2016

Pender Street Steppers & Beautiful Swimmers at Dekmantel Festival 2016

LIVE FROM THE BOARD + CROWD MIC RECORDED MARCH 4TH 2017 FOR THE HYDRA LONDON

Avalon Emerson Live at Printworks London 2017

Kim Ann Foxman Live @ The Lot Radio 03_13_2017

Twitch & Wilkes' classic BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix from November 2006.

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Optimo Espacio - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Nov 2006

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