Where Do We Begin

Inspired by the poem Prometheus
BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)

Extracts:

"The rock, the vulture, and the chain
The sufferings of mortality,
Seen in their sad reality
Pain"

RELEASE DATE 2014-04-28
LABEL Multi Vitamins
CATALOG MVD46

Prometheus (MDV46)

Kiazma - Countermeasures

Bugged Out turns 30 next year, and this mix is made up of 30 records which represents each of those years from 1994 to 2023.

Myself, Johnno and Lemmy from Bugged Out all reflected on various points in the clubs history and the artists who have helped shape it, and chose records which felt are a representation of the sound of the club, not just historically, but where it stands now. 

Pulling together music from different eras and sounds was a bit of a challenge, and whilst some may not be the biggest track of their respective year - a few will be seen as classics and a healthy amount are perhaps obscure in relation - but to my ears they still sound as brilliant now as they did upon release. 

In a bizarre twist of fate, the oldest record from 1994 is mixed in with the newest from this year, which wasn't intentional. Clocking in at 2 and a half hours, the mix was recorded live in a single take, here in London.

I spoke with Mixmag about my relationship with Bugged Out! which you can read here: https://mixmag.net/feature/erol-alkan-30-years-bugged-out-mix-drumsheds

I play for Bugged Out at Drumsheds this Saturday, set time: 7pm in the 'Y Room'. Hope to see you there, looks like it's going to be a good one.. Final tickets: https://bit.ly/3LBDtY4

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EROL ALKAN / BUGGED OUT 1994-2023 / LIVE MIX

1	[1998]	Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass (XL Version) - I-F
2	[2000]	Coatnoise (Dave Clarke mix) - Midfield General	
3	[2004]	Rocker (Dub) - Alter Ego	
4	[2017]	Do You Really Think Like That? - Helena Hauff	
5	[2019]	Hjemme Erotic - Charlotte Bendiks	
6	[2012]	Girlz - Kitten	
7	[2007]	Phantom (Soulwax Nite Version) - Justice	
8	[2010]	Yeah - Boys Noize	
9	[2022]	They're Here (Matias Aguayo Remix) - Paurro	
10	[2014]	Put Your Weight On It (Chicago Mix) - Todd Osborn	
11	[1999]	La Mouche (DJ Falcon Metal Box Remix) - Cassius	
12	[1996]	Chord Memory (Daft Punk Remix) - Ian Pooley	
13	[2003]	Nude Night - The Chemical Brothers
14	[1997]	Crispy Bacon - Laurent Garnier	
15	[2005]	Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Glam Remix) - Franz Ferdinand	
16	[2011]	Body Acid (KiNK’s on Acid Remix) - Gingy & Bordello	
17	[2008]	Midnight Request Line (Switch Remix) - Skream
18	[2018]	Bone Sucka - Pangaea	
19	[2020]	Spectral Frequency - Special Request	
20	[2021]	Alien 3 (Daniel Avery Remix) - Mandy, Indiana	
21	[2016]	Bang The Box (Slam Remix) - Jack Master	
22	[1995]	Flash - Green Velvet	
23	[2001]	La Rock 01 - Vitalic	
24	[2006]	Mouth to Mouth - Audion	
25	[2009]	OAR003-B - Oni Ayhun	
26	[2015]	XTC - DJ Koze	
27	[1994]	Desire - 69	
28	[2023]	Chez Moi (Club Mix)  - CC Disco	
29	[2013]	Der Alte - Kölsch
30	[2002]	Silver Screen Shower Scene (Thin White Duke Mix) - Felix Da Housecat

RECORDED LIVE IN A SINGLE TAKE / LONDON SEPTEMBER 2023

Bugged Out! 1994-2023: A Periodic Selection, Mixed by Erol Alkan

For years now, an old recording of Jeffrey Sfire at Cocktail D'Amore's one and only cosmic hole was one of the highest references for us in terms of downtempo Italo sleaze - an almost 6 hours recording serving more like a PhD aural dissertation specialized in some of the most remarkable dancefloor digs (mainly Europe) had to offer in the 80s at under 115BPM. To be able to share it publicly on the HAND Mix Series as we reach number 50 is a huge honor and we're greatly thankful to Giacomo and Giovanni, the two cuties behind Discodromo that made this possible. We hope you can appreciate it as much as we have over these past years. Here it is HAND #50 featuring the unique sleazy wizardry of Jeffrey Sfire captured in a special moment in time during the moist and lubricated atmospheres of Cocktail, now online - listen carefully! Big thanks to Jeffrey for all the amazing research and excellence in cosmic Jockeymanship ❤️❤️❤️

H.A.N.D. MIX 050 Jeffrey Sfire

The Sky Swallowed Them

Track was originally recorded around 2006, here is a rework and a remastered version

Bored To Work (Rework:Remaster 2024)

The closing set happened @ Beursschouwburg in Brussels the 04.05.24

No brake slamming for this absolute steamroller of a b2b. @adipurplepitch and @k-atou came, saw, and delivered a magnificent set full of heavy kicks, electrifying synths and razor sharp rhythms

___𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝘽𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 ♡ is a party and city link project. A dynamic platform between Athens and Brussels and their relevant connections, facilitating music & dance floor activities and encouraging connection, self-expression and artistic exploration.

Check IG ---> bit.ly/FROMATHTOBRU19

Art/Designer by pametjenny www.pametjenny.be/ ♡

Big thank to Beursschouwburg for the invite ♡ & Céline Ottenburg for the edit

From Athens to Brussels with love ♡ Beurrschouwburg Mix #16 w/ Adi B2B K.atou 04.05.24

First up in our new mix series is the one and only, Terry Francis! 

bubble.ldn mix001 - Terry Francis

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

BEAUMANOIR. - SUBSTANCE (FOTOAPPARAT REMIX)

Part one of Alex Tsotsos, aka GummiHz, vinyl set at Sugar x Claap records. The event took place in May at High On Sugar in Thessaloniki and featured dj performances by GummiHz and Yapacc.

GummiHz live at Sugar x Claap pt.1

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

Dark electronica
Music L00kye &amp; Chef D
Vocals Chef D & Selena


Crakney Duo - Told me twice

Männlein im Walde (Parma Remix)

and please this is a music platform: not a pornographic site
THANK YOU. le ragezze che mi seguono mandandomi la foto della loro figa possono evitare -
anche perche non sono interessato.grazie

Thanos is from Greece but lives and works as a computer engineer in London. He 
likes, plays and makes music on his spare time so he can relax his soul and have fun with people close to him..
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