Account admin Sampo aka Ocean People (www.instagram.com/sampoaxelsson)
back in the HRD booth, offering you 4 hours of strong songs & expansive, emotional dance music. I love selections that travel across genres, tempos & decades and this set does just that, with a passion 🧡

Mix features a bunch of hot edits that I haven't heard in circulation yet, including two brand new Ocean People edits of down/midtempo soul jams. 

The whole thing was recorded late one night & some records were subsequently misplaced – therefore there are some gaps in the tracklisting. Will try to fix that.

The production of this recording was kindly supported by Bioviini www.bioviini.fi

ENJOY!!!

TRACKLISTING:
Julien Neto – Voy
Kevin Moore – Speak Your Mind
UB40 – Don't Break My Heart – Edit
Janice McClain – Passion & Pain – Dub
Stella – Détends-Toi
Isabelle Antena – Laying On The Sofa
Sade – Paradise – Ronin Remix
Unknown Italian downtempo – Can't recall it
The Family Stand – Ghetto Heaven – Remix
Tamia – Leave It Smokin' – Ocean People Subtle Edit
Cesaria Evora – Angola – Pepe Bradock Get Down Dub
Gloster Williams & Master Control – No Cross No Crown – Edit
Goody Goody – Let Me Work On You – Reprise
Sylvester – Give It Up (Don't Make Me Wait)
Dave Valentin – Pana Fuerte – Smooth Steve Edit
Jephte Guillaume – Ibo Lele – Ginen Tet Red
Mark E – Magazine
Shanti Celeste – Felix
Unknown Italian house – Can't recall it
Deep Dish – Wear The Hat
Quincy Jones – Stuff Like That – Danny Krivit Edit
Underground Housing Authority – Tribal Warfare
Theo Parrish – Solitary Flight
Nature Boy – Tobago
Urban Liberation – Celebrate – Party Dub
The Hayden Andre Project – Tribal Life 
Leon Vynehall – It’s Just (House Of Dupree)
Chic – Chic Mystique – Club Dub
Moy Boy – Notte Divina – Divine Version
Dr Rhythm – Hit The Vibe
New Musik – Warp – Delusio Edit
Sports Casual – A Higher Place
Ability II – Pressure Dub
Enrico Mantini – U Can Use It
Photek – T-Raenon – Version
The Return – New Day – Reprise
The Hayden Andre Project – Tribal Life
Marcus Turcotte – Echoes And Vibes
Daphne – When You Love Someone
Womack & Womack – Love Wars – Extended Mix
Muscle Cars – She Raised Us In Sunset Park
Africano – Open Your Hearts – Mark Grusane Edit
Plunky & The Oneness Of Juju – Always Have To Say Goodbye – Ocean People Edit

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Songs Not Tracks #2 /// Expansive 4-hour mix live from HRD

Thanks to Nozo https://soundcloud.com/nozo-diskomo BETAMAX TYO . Was back at Forestlimit's adventurous Wed night's K/A/T/O MASSACRE for # 483

MADTEO at K/A/T/O  MASSACRE Vol. 483, Forestlimit, Tokyo 2024.07.03

Samp&hol

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 marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... 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 start-to-close combinations. 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 385 scintillating minutes 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. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

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

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

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

Next up in the series we welcome another long time Croatia regular Eric Duncan. Part of things since the early days of the Garden and an old friend of Nick and Eddie's from their San Fran days, Eric's been around the block, a couple of times. Out of Los Angeles but calling NYC his home for the best part of two decades before deciding to live out of a suitcase and give it the proper rock n roll vibes touring the world for the last couple of years. From running the legendary Rub N Tug parties to being described as the best editor on the planet right now by a certain DJ Harvey, Eric knows what's what when it comes to peak time party selection. Here he goes a bit wider, it's a real treat for us to have him up next...

Samp&hol

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