real nice mellow dilla-style vibe, good work dude

Radio 1, London, ENG 16 January 2000

Drexciya - Intro: Temple Of Dos De Agua (Tresor - TRESOR 129)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - The End Of Europe (Plexus - ILPS 9656)
Dj Rush - Session (Session Recordings - SESS 994003)
Adam Beyer - Untitled B1 (Conform - CNFR 012)
Mike Dearborn - Battle (The Advent Remix) (Majesty Recordings - MAJ 107)
Alan Barratt - Untitled A (Red Frame - RF 007)
Chris McCormack - The Maximalist (Space DJz Remix 2) (Materials - MTZ 002)
Richie Hawtin - Untitled A1 (M_nus - M_NUS ORANGE)
Underworld - King Of Snake (Dave Clarke Remix) (Junior Boy's Own - JBO 5005826 P)
Joey Beltram - Arena (STX Records - STX 001)
Technasia - Cyclone (Tempest) (Sino - SINO 01)
Jamie Ball - Moonlight (Turning Point - TURN 001)
Aphrohead - In The Dark We Live (Dave Clarke 312 Mix) (Re-load - REL 94 02)
Jamie Ball - Moonlight (Turning Point - TURN 001)
Underground Resistance - The Seawolf (World Power Alliance - WPA 002)
Dj Rush - Smoke (Force Inc. - FIM 178)
Lighter Thief - Zippo King Two (Ifach - IFACH 020)
Jeff Mills - Tango (Purpose Maker - PM 009)
Russian Roulette - Look'n Like A Woman (High Octane Recordings - HOR 014)
Dj Funk - Run (Telephone Stalker Remix) (Pro-Jex - PROX 014)
Recycled Loops - Six Is Nine (Primevil - PRVL 013)
Samuel L Session - Shakin' Bootsy (Primevil - PRVL 014)
G Force vs D-Selector - Vigo (Zync - ZYNC 008)
Oliver Ho - Untitled A1 (Blueprint - BP 014)
Mike Humphries & Glenn Wilson - At The Post (Punish - PUNISH 3)
Defenders Of The Ghetto - My God (Vocal) (Black Nation Records - BNR 330)
Aztec Mystic - Knights Of The Jaguar (Underground Resistance - UR 049)
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches (Throw - 9230250)
The Hacker - At Night (UMF - UMF 05)
Anthony Rother - Don't Stop The Beat (Psi49net - PSI003)
X-Ile - Color Blind (Dub Mix) (Direct Beat - DB4W-039)
Dj Di'jital - 360 Degrees (Direct Beat - DB4W-047)
Keith Tucker - Speaker Worshipping (Dreamhunter - DH K011K)
Aaron Carl - Down (Electro Mix) (Metroplex - M-035)
DreBrown - Rejuvenated Rhythm (Mix 1) (Direct Beat - DB4W-043)
Dj Godfather - Via Satellite From Detroit (Intuit-Solar - ITU 003)
Mr. Velcro Fastener - Assassins (I220 - J 220)
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (Dave Clarke Remix) (Data Records - DATA 11T)
Dj Hyperactive - Reptillian Tank (Morpheus Productions - MPROD 001)
Dj Bold - Lunch Cutters (High Octane Recordings - HOR013)
Dj Rush - One Two Zero (Pro-Jex - PROXPRO 1)
Space DJz - AK-47 Remixes (Gaetek Remix 2) (Potential - POT 006)
Surgeon - Over Kosovo (Phuture Trax - 4KLP)
Ignition Technician - Ergonomix Part 3 (Ergonomix - ERGO-PART3)
Leftfield - Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) (Hard Hands - HAND 057 T)
Surgeon - Untitled A1 (Dynamic Tension - DTR 004)
Space DJz - AK-47 Remixes (Inigo Kennedy Remix) (Potential - POT 006)
Dj Rush - Russian Roulette (High Octane Recordings - HOR 014)

Essential Mix 2000

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The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 020425

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

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

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

i have now lived in ireland longer than anywhere else in my adult life. this was not something i planned, nor something i expected i would do. 

wether we plan it or not, the land around us influences and shapes us. the sounds you hear within the music and sound recordings in this compilation are now becoming a part of my identity. 

wherever i am lead next, this will still be home. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/roots-2025/episodes/roots-2025-this-place-i-now-call-home-29th-september-2025

this place i now call home 290925

Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday. 
 
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The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 021025

Recording of Hervé's set at Lentekabinet 2025.

Hervé at Lentekabinet 2025

VRIL is one of the most reliable artists in techno. He emerged with a style that was his own and has pretty much stuck to it ever since. Eight years after his debut, that loopy, dubby take on the genre sounds as vital as ever, and most often comes on labels like Delsin, Dystopian and Giegling. A live set from the German is just as floor facing and effective. It will veer from deeper moments of intensity to trippy, off kilter drum patterns that are designed to keep you moving. 

Here he serves up a perfectly mix that syncs perfectly with the changing season: it’s all warm and cuddly from the off, with cosy dub techno cocooning you in an inviting sound world that slowly transitions into more twisted and straight up techno. Whether the drums are thumping or laying more horizontal, there is an absorbing intensity to VRIL's work that proves he is someone who has a real mastery of his art.

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