Clandestino 178 - ALFOS / Sean Johnston

4th in a series of mixes while in in Korea and Japan. Mixed live from the NAGI Hotel and Lounge in Hiroshima Japan. This mix is a straightforward harder house mix reflecting time spent watching folks hustling through the main train terminal and around this wonderful city. Being privy to such a wide variety of people going about their daily lives riding trains, buses and taking ferries to various seaside, inland and island towns. Walking about, soaking up the towns history, shopping, eating and watching the Hiroshima Carps fans flood the train terminal after the ballgame, inspired this mix. Please enjoy!

Hiroshima Mix

Episode 5 of the podcast comes from Sean Johnston AKA @hardwaybros.

Ahead of his debut release for Rekids (a stunner that features Beth Cassidy on Vox and a huge remix from Beyond The Wizards Sleeve), Sean Johnston aka Hardway Bros has delivered a 1.5-hour journey through house, acid, and chugging sounds - if you’ve ever been touched by Sean’s work behind the decks at his and the late Andrew Weatherall’s A Love From Outer Space nights, then you’ll know what to expect. If you’re yet to check Sean out, then you really need to have a word with yourself. 

Pre-order the 'Murky EP’ now (out late June).

Enjoy.

HOUSE OF REKIDS MIX SHOW 05 | Sean Johnston (Hardway Bros)

2 hours of all vinyl cosmic disco! chugs along with funky, electro acid vibes. as heard on the NIGHT MOVES radio show. Please enjoy!

Cosmic Disco Mix as heard on the NIGHT MOVES radio program

Live 4 hour all vinyl set at The Airliner in Los Angeles. All breakbeat set! please enjoy!

Live at the Airliner 8/16

"three hour layover" recorded live at the historic Airliner bar in Lincoln Heights Los Angeles CA. 

Live at the Airliner 3/20

live, all vinyl, chill brunch set at the historic AIRLINER bar in Los Angeles

Naked Brunch Live at the AIRLINER 3/30

2 1/2 hour mellow summery mix. Recorded live at the Airliner bar in Los Angeles 7/17

Balearic summer mix

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

Radio Soulwax- Celestial Voyage Part 1

Radio Soulwax - Celestial Voyage Part 2

House, Techno, disco, slow electronic

Vinyl and digital dj and record collector 

Based in Los Angeles California 

Husband, father, artist
Owner, designer and fabricator at Horse and Anchor bags and clothing

For booking- horseandanchor@gmail


Laree Love's passion for music started in the 1980's. Buying punk, Alternative, New Wave, Goth, Industrial, EBM and dance music. In the late 80's A friend took him to Kris Clark's now legendary ZOOTZ  nightclub in Portland Maine and it was love at first sight. Weekly visits to ZOOTZ and adjoined club, The WAREHOUSE led to exposure of new music played by local heavy hitter DJs. 
  DJ OVERLOAD, Dale Charles, Deb Dufresne and Dale 'DA DRED" Dorsett were all major influences.  
   In 1992 Kris Clark gave Laree his DJ break. Laree went on to have various weekly nights at ZOOTZ for almost 10 years, playing house/techno/breaks at raves, parties and clubs all over New England and beyond during this time. 
   Laree also had residencies at the now defunct UNA lounge and Mercury bar in Portland's Old Port. After moving to NYC in the 2000's, Laree had a short residency at MARLOWE and SONS in Brooklyn. Laree is based in Los Angeles and still collects music and plays house parties and guest spots.