Name: DJLP - Low Light Vol.18 by Left Side Clouded
Duration: 1 h 4 min 34 s
Description: DJLP presents a fifth volume of lo-fi soul, private press, new age, boogie, dub, euro wave and more, from the ambit and beyond.

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

Tracklisting:

1	Pressure Dub	- Ability 2 (Bassic 1990)
2	Deborah Dub (Version Idjut)	- F.I.T.S vs. The Idjuts (Session Recordings 2003)
3	Surfin The Cuban Waves - Paradise 3001 (ESP Records 1993)
4	E-Motions X-Pressed - The Morning Glory Seeds (Djax-Up-Beats 1992)
5	Fixed Our Love (feat. queenie) - Eli Escobar (Permanent Vacation 2024)
6	Gargantuans - DJ Plant Texture (Jericho One 2016)
7	Body Power - Ricardo Baez (Polifonic 2024)
8	On My Mind - Maruwa (Lobster Theremin 2019)
9	Eurodancer (Dances For Euros) - Mano Le Tough (Mirau 2010)
10	Tanzen (feat. INA) [Paula Tape Remix] - Hidden Spheres	(Rhythm Section 2023)
11	Lose My Mind - Valerio Vaudano	(803 Crystal Grooves Collective Cuts 2025)
12	Weekend - SONNS & Hammer (Unknown To The Unknown 2025)
13	Evil Omatsu - Fantastic Twins (House Of Slessor 2023)
14	Rot - NIKKNAME (Live At Robert Johnson 2024)
15	Moving Shadows - DC Salas (Correspondant 2024)
16	Uitzicht - Eversines (De Vlieger 2022)
17	Last Rhythm (Tom Middleton Remodel) - Last Rhythm (Renaissance 2009)
18	Drive My Body (Rolling Thunder Mix) - Slackjaw (Brute Records 1992)
19	Passion (Naked mix) - Gat Decor	(Effective Records 1992)
20	The Horn Ride (USL's Deep Horn) - e-N (TRIBAL United Kingdom 1995)
21	Freedom Defines House - Tal Fussman (Rekids 2024)
22	Boy Is Banging - TAFKAMP (Paling Trax 2016)
23	Planet Earth - Don Rimini (Dirtybird Select 2017)
24	The Ha Dance [Edit] - Masters At Work (Defected 2012)
25	Fly Life (Todd Terry Remix) - Basement Jaxx (Freeze Records 2019)
26	Alarm (Chirp Mix) - LA-4A (Unknown to the Unknown 2016)
27	Wake Up Shake It - Passarani (Studiomaster 2025)
28	Crime Control - Marcus Paulson (MOS Recordings 2023)
29	Lack Of Love - Charles B (Desire Records 1988)
30	Lost In Music - DMX KREW x DVDE (House Of Underground 2025)
31	Wonderline (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - Like A Tim (Running Back	2023)
32	Charge - DJ JM (Nervous Horizon 2024)
33	TTDUB01 (Chambray Remix) - Huxley	(Hot Haus 2019)
34	More Heroin - Superpitcher (Kompakt	2002)
35	The Power - Rosa Red (Permanent Vacation 2024)
36	The Glow - Rachmad Project (Spiritual Records	1995)
37	Phantazia - Shan (Running Back 2024)
38	Oh jeee - Felice (Permanent Vacation	2022)
39	Things Can’t Go On Like This Forever - Chrissy	(Misfit Melodies 2024)
40	Hey Mr Shy One (Not Too Shy 2 Sample Mix) - Dj Tools & Co. (Cleveland City 1994)
41	BB - Wallace (Rhythm Section International 2024)
42	Come Together - Todd Edwards & Golf Clap (Country Club Disco 2017)
43	Bax - Mosca (Numbers. 2011)
44	Saved My Life (Large Joints Remix) - Todd Edwards	 (Locked On 2000)
45	Hurt You So (Garage Mix) [feat. Lynsey Moore] - Grant Nelson (Swing City 2023)
46	Sweet Eve (Johnny Blackouts Ravers Redux) - Ivan Fabra (Whiskey Pickle 2024)
47	Too Tired To Sleep/Awake - Eli Escobar (Night People NYC 2024)
48	Waterfalls (4 A.M. Mix)	- After Hours (Strictly Rhythm	1991)

Groover Klein Mixtape 2025-03-08: E-Motions X-Pressed

Get Groovy with @eliescobar every month at House of Yes. Get tickets to the next party: houseofyes.org/houseofgrooves

Eli Escobar @ House of Yes 8.8.25 ☆ House of Grooves

DJLP presents a fifth volume of lo-fi soul, private press, new age, boogie, dub, euro wave and more, from the ambit and beyond.

DJLP - Low Light Vol.18

Full tracklist & Video Mix: bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation, we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from DJ Food.

"A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP release. It then morphed into an Audio Video DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.

I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - @strictly

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-wevie-stonder

Earlier in 2025, Wevie Stonder returned to Skam with their first album in 16 years, and such an occasion requires further celebration, no? Sure Beats Living delivers more of the collective’s signature cheekiness, and this mix for Bleep unravels all of the wildly eclectic sounds and styles that have powered over two decades of iconoclasm.

This is probably the only mix you’ll find that travels from drill and bass to Ecuadorian synth cumbia to 40s jazz. Constant stylistic U-turns are the name of the game, and as the group recontextualise tracks with comedic skits and spoken word pieces, you never know which little sonic nugget is going to be the jumping off point for a completely opposite yet cleverly connected world of sound. Wevie Stonder’s own strange crossing between avant experimentation and punkish irreverence sits between the jangling bass guitar of Gary Le Strange, whose reclusive hikikomori-induced paranoia is delivered in an ironic nasally britpop voice, and the wonky synth funk of Devonwho with lush crisp beats and thrumming jazzy keys.

Bucolic Moog wash and lounge piano tiptoe beneath a Radiophonic Workshop-esque segment testing out the possibilities of synthesisers; “Finally, an example of rhythmic electronic music,” says the posh presenter, introducing a full and proper rinsing with some classic Squarepusher chops. Amen breaks are chucked in the shredder and glued back together with thick jungle bass, then dissipate into Hiroshi Yoshimura’s birdsong bliss. With these disparate tracklist transitions, each track in itself brings together unlikely combinations: further melodrama from Gary Le Strange pairs southern crooning with jaunty harpsichord, bass punches and cascading pianos flow between J Dilla’s slow hip hop hits, and Polibio Mayorga merges accordion and cowbells with the theatrics of expressively vintage synth sounds, brass and electronics trading lines on ‘Muñequita Blanca’.

Bleep Mix #309 - Wevie Stonder

Fred P - 01 October 2025

Cassy - 18 October 2025

I returned to Triple J’s Mix Up for an hour-long DJ mix including a load of new things heard for the first time. The wheels of the studio have been turning mighty heavy lately.

Tremor, my new album, arrives 31.10 on Domino Records. Pre-order here: https://danielavery.ffm.to/tremor-store

Track list 

1.⁠ ⁠The Cure - Drone:Nodrone (Daniel Avery Remix)

2.⁠ ⁠DIIV - Raining on Your Pillow (Daniel Avery Remix)

3.⁠ ⁠Mirwais - Disco Science

4.⁠ ⁠Dust-e-1 - U and Me

5.⁠ ⁠Peter Benisch - Waiting for Snow

6.⁠ ⁠Daniel Avery ft Art School Girlfriend - I Feel You (Midnight Version)

7.⁠ ⁠Daniel Avery ft Cecile Believe - Rapture in Blue (Midnight Version)

8.⁠ ⁠Introversion - Found Footage

9.⁠ ⁠Ben Kaczor - Punchbag

10.⁠ ⁠Neinzer - Voil

11.⁠ ⁠Schwefelgelb - Ay

12.⁠ ⁠Nastia Reigel - Xoirce

13.⁠ ⁠Marco Bailey - Hollow Cry

DJLP - Low Light Vol.18

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