With mix 249 Perko delivers a potent blend of scattered breaks, beats and bass-lines, effortlessly exploring a range of tempos and genres throughout. His singular brand of electronic music draws as much from sound art as it does modern club music - his off-kilter productions and remixes having attracted the attention of revered labels such as Numbers and Posh Isolation, on which he released his album Galerie last year. We delighted to welcome him to our series.

https://soundcloud.com/perkopair

DIM249 - Perko

For the 103rd entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome  Seattle-based DJ, @tiffwanee (she/they)! Tiffany has a few words about the incredible mix she's put together for us, 'When I was working on this mix, I thought about a trippy but also euphoric set I would play for my friends at a forest rave. In Seattle, summer is the most beautiful time of year. It’s also when everyone gets excited about throwing outdoor parties.

Lately I’ve been drawn to a lot of more bass-driven and polyrhythmic tracks, so I explored that part of my sound with this mix.'

Honcho Podcast Series 103:  T.Wan

You know what time it is! 

Been looking forward to sharing the second episode of Safe Radio in 2021. It consists of music that I've been playing and listening to over the past few months. Four hours, seven minutes and twenty eight seconds. 53 tracks in total - old, new and forthcoming. You might even find a classic or two in there as well ::) Classics that a lot of people know and in-my-bag-classics that I have played a lot over the years due to the fact that its simply just god damn good music!!

I'm still super fortunate and grateful to have very talented friends around me that make fantastic music. So thank you for being you. You all know who you are ::)

Enough writing. No one cares about this stuff.... Sit back and enjoy what I've made for you!

C.K - Safe Radio S05E02

"I think that this feeling of reflection runs through my life, where it’s like you catch a reflection of yourself in some part of life and it allows you to see yourself in a new light and understand who you truly are, and which intrinsic values you do have that have always been in you and always will be. What is that thing inside you that feels timeless yet intimately connected to the experience of being here and now?"



@ronan-music ( @eternalocean ) joins us for our 27th instalment, to celebrate his first full length album, ‘Reflections On Intrinsic Value’ that came out earlier this month!

Full interview with this wanderer below: 
https://www.hueandsaturation.net/blog/2021/ronan

Hue & Saturation Mix 027: RONAN

40.6995888°, -73.9201592°

So thrilled on this day to say…

@livwutang gives lots of life sowing other and underworlds. Aqua waves, ray beams, fertile grounds, warmth and light all in balance. Bump it on the street and..

Happy earth day 🌎🌍🌏

d o w n 2 e a r t h 40 - livwutang

Time for the first Safe Radio episode in the brand new season six. This one marks the longest episode I've done so far in the series. 5 hours, 7 minutes and 50 seconds to be exact. 

So yeah... The mix contains a lot of different music and styles as you might be able to tell. Old to new to unreleased stuff from myself, friends and beyond. 

Agst, Jls, Nls, Mln, Ntl, Mths, Frdrk, CC, Mds, Jk, Est, Smn, Mtt, Thms. The list continues - I see you all. Thank you for being you!

ENJOY!

C.K - Safe Radio S06E01

For our 905th RA Podcast, we're proud to welcome Goldie, one of the most famous, talented and important electronic music artists of all time. Starting out as a graffiti artist, he eventually made music under the name Rufige Kru, helping push the then-nascent genre of jungle forward with tracks like "Krisp Biscuit (Power)" and "Terminator." The latter was released under the name Metalheads, which would later become the name of his label (with a z instead of an s). Metalheadz—which he cofounded with DJ Storm and the late Kemistry—celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and remains the defining outlet of drum & bass, the genre that grew out of jungle that Goldie helped invent with records like 1995's massive crossover album Timeless (alongside countless other classics). He's a producer, DJ, actor and all-around celebrity, a huge personality in UK electronic music.

Goldie is also RA's guest curator this month, and his tenure starts with this mix. We'll have more to come starting this week—check our editor's letter later today for more information—but for now, here's a survey of drum & bass past and present from a man who helped invent the genre. With plenty of new Metalheadz material plus a healthy dose of older tracks, these two hours lay out the history of Metalheadz, drum & bass and its various subgenres, from twinkling liquid to rumbling techstep. It's the first part of a month celebrating Goldie's legacy, and we can't wait to show you the rest.


@goldie-official

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/905

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RA.905 Goldie

It would be no exaggeration to say that 33EMYBW is one of the most original club music producers we've heard in recent years. In addition to being a talented visual artist and a bass player in the experimental band Duck Fight Goose, her solo productions are a highlight of Shanghai’s bustling underground scene—home to forward-thinking artists like Tzusing, Osheyack, Swimful and Hyph11e—moving with their own rhythmic language. She has a lexicon of drum sounds borrowed from all over the world, including tablas, bongos and mallets. As 33EMYBW, she puts together strange, multi-limbed rhythms that bring to mind images of dancing spiders and insects, something she addressed directly on 2019's showstopping Arthropods LP, released on the influential SVBKVLT label. As she says in the interview below, you basically need more than two legs to dance to her music. Maybe even eight.

Her music deals with creatures that vary from the mythical to the everyday (her first album was called Golem). On her latest record Holes Of Sinian, also out on SVBKVLT, she imagines the mostly-unknown organisms from the recently discovered Ediacaran period. It's more esoteric, atmospheric and arguably even funkier than her previous work, with Marina Herlop on one hair-raising track that you can hear in a demo version on her RA Podcast. This mix is actually a version of her live set—a favourite at influential festivals like Unsound and CTM—featuring plenty of productions from across her career in mutated and improvisational forms. It's creepy, crawly and undeniably danceable. If you can keep up with it.

@33emybw

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/912

RA.913 33EMYBW

Two familiar names https://soundcloud.com/applescal & https://soundcloud.com/daviddouglasmusic step up for our next isolated mix, with a highly conceptual approach that matches their new (and similarly conceptual) collaborative album, ‘Démarrage’.  More info and download: http://asip.me/isolatedmix12701. Chihei Hatakeyama - Calm Sea
02. Tomaga - Intimate Immensity 
03. Kyle Hall, Kero - 19FT 
04. Unit Moebius - Dolfinarium 
05. Tambo’s House - Jhe Gu Jye
06. Dusky - Metropolis
07. C.A.R - Idle eyes. (Roman Fluegel Remix) Applescal body Edit
08. The Paradise - In Love With You (Alan Braxe Remix)
09. Fasme - Sweet Flux
10. David Douglas & Applescal - Galibier
11. David Douglas & Applescal - Galibier (Gruppetto) 
12. ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(ƟӨ)ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ(ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ✧✧✧✧✧✧ළඕั࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂ
13. Eversines - Vlaag
14. Eversines - Vlaag (Beatless Version) 
15. Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter from Home 
16. Bersarin Quartett - Verflossen ist das Gold der Tage
17. Skúli Sverrisson - Instants

isolatedmix 127 - David Douglas & Applescal

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NK6aH3QzwbAgdbc7Ea65V?si=PvQCsU31TEu-OdiIbKOv6A
WEBSITE: https://lazerface.art/pages/ultrasonic-future-outlaw

All tracks by Ultrasonic Future Outlaw

Ambient Techno (Live Set)

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

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