Name: Robert Johnson Archive 0003: Midland by Live At Robert Johnson in DJs DJs
Duration: 1 h 51 min 46 s
Description: 111 minutes recorded at Robert Johnson on Saturday, 23 March 2019

This is really a “crashcourse in science”. BIG  UP from Antwerp mate, thru killer no filler extreme offkilter

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Recording from nitsa night on december 17th 2021

John Talabot dj set @Nitsa (17Dec21)

This mix is all music from 1984. It is a special live vinyl mix that I recorded on July 19, 2011 as a promotion for the A.D. (After Disco) series of parties here in Chicago.  The mix has been hosted for a few years on the Loves Podcast and I decided to upload it here to my Soundcloud for the first time.  Here’s a few words I wrote to go with the mix:  

1984 is an amazing year in music. At the time, "house" was still a colloquialism for the music played by Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. House was not yet a music form in its own right. "Fresh," on Vince Vince Lawrence’s fledgling label Precision, is the only house-qua-house track on the mix. The other tunes are properly considered proto-house -- the music which formed the milieu of dance music which we now describe (rather clumsily) as:

*Electro (e.g., Solo – “Girls, Girls” produced by John Robbie; JellyBean – “The Mexican”); 
*Garage (e.g., Circuit - "Release the Tension" a Timmy Regisford production; Colonel Abrams – “Music Is The Answer”); 
*Italo (e.g., Stop – “Wake Up”; Pancho Ballet – “Dancing Shoes”); 
*Synth and industrial dance (e.g., 52nd Street – “Can’t Afford” produced by New Order’s Stephen Morris; Palais Schaumburg – “The Beat Of Two” produced by Gareth Jones who also produced Depeche/Nitzer Ebb); and 
*Post-disco (e.g., Stephanie Mills – “Medicine Song”).

This music from 1984 is ‘proto’ in the sense that it was establishing the necessary elements of house – e.g., use of certain instruments (drum machines, synths, samplers) – but there are some stark differences.

Although much of the music in 1984 was released on small independents and remained quite underground, there were major successes for dance music at the time and investment in dance music by major labels. There was A&R structure at all record labels and radio play. "Trapped" (1985) by Colonel Abrams sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Earon’s “Land of Hunger” hit the top 40 on the soul singles chart. John “JellyBean” Benitez placed nine songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The democratizing force that would be house music had not been fully realized. It was still expensive to make dance music. For example, most of the tracks on the mix feature vocalists, session players or a full band. Although the epic ensembles of the disco era had long passed in fashion and economic viability, dance records were still recorded in professional studios and engineered by individuals like Bob Blank and Herb Powers. The E-max Sampler hit the market in 1984, but the studio standard were samplers like the Fairlight and Synclavier (which had more than $100,000 price tags), each of which were prohibitively expensive for use by most musician/producers.

By 1984 the relatively inexpensive Roland gear was just finding its way into the hands of Chicago, Detroit and New York’s new roots musicians. A year before, Larry Sherman acquired Musical Product’s pressing plant, the only one in Chicago. Ron Hardy was playing "Penthouse and Pavement" by Heaven 17 and "DumDum" at the Music Box. Dance music was about to fall off the edge, for better and for worse.

1984 Track List:

1. Citispeak Featuring Jeanne Harris – I Don't Need Your Handouts (Inst.) – Partytime Records 
2. Pancho Ballet – Dancing Shoes (Instrumental) – Best Record 
3. Jellybean – The Mexican (Funhouse Mix) – EMI America 
4. Nuance Featuring Vikki Love - Take A Chance (Dubapella) - 4th & Broadway  
4. Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away (Long Mix & Inst) – Saturn Records 
5. Hugh Masekela – Don't Go Lose It, Baby (Stretch Mix) – Jive Afrika 
6. Colonel Abrams – Music Is The Answer (Dub Version) – Streetwise 
7. The Earons – Land Of Hunger (Extended Version) – Island Records 
8. Wet – That's The Game (Instrumental) – Bellaphon 
9. Circuit – Release The Tension (Dub) – 4th & Broadway 
10. Stephanie Mills – The Medicine Song (Dub Version) – Casablanca Records 
11. Anne Clark – Our Darkness (Remix) – Ink Records 
12. Solo – Girls, Girls (Ah-Ah-Hi) - Next Plateau Records Inc. 
13. 52nd Street – Can't Afford – Profile (on license from Factory) 
14. The Bridge – Love Dance (Industrial Mix) - Second Vision 
15. Stop – Wake Up – Damabi International 
16. Fresh – Dum Dum – Precision 
17. Palais Schaumburg – The Beat Of Two (Extended Version) – Mercury


1984 After Disco (A.D.)

Shanti is a veteran and expert in four to the floor dance music - tune in once a month for a considered two-hour selection of the best house and techno around, transmitting direct from the NTS studio.

https://www.nts.live/shows/shanticeleste/episodes/shanticeleste-10th-november-2022

Shanti Celeste w/ Fafi Abdel Nour 10th November 2022

My set from  Telegraph Buildings, St.Patricks Day 2023.

Shouts to Shine, blk. & Reboot for the invite. The atmosphere was love from the get go front and back of stage. Full family vibe and a night full of amazing sets. Extremely honoured to have been a part of it, what an atmosphere. 

Tracks from Chlär, X-Club, Decadance & Genex, Taint, Erik Burka, GES, Cold Blue, Speedy J, Character 1, MRD,  Soundgrabber, Beau Didlier, Aquaplex, Junk Project & more

For any specific IDs leave a comment 👌

Aeron XTC @ Shine Telegraph Buildings St.Patricks Day 2023 [blk. Invites]

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HÖR, Berlin (9/06/2023)

a morning warm up in a sea of mud overlooking Mt Fuji. This was my first set of the day, to be followed a few hours later with a b2b, at the very first edition of Transcendence, a cute and cosy festival in Japan. Big thank you to Takumi Inamoto and DJ Maria for everything.

Jane Fitz live at Transcendence April 2023

Massimiliano Pagliara live from Barbarella's at Love International 2024

TASCAM DR-100

Live from the Adriatic 2024: Massimiliano Pagliara

The first instalment of the new Subculture format begins with this absolute banger of a mix from our first guest, Bradley Zero.

Bradley Zero - Live at the Sub Club (5th April 2025)

Back at the lot radio bringing some lesbian house.

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ISAbella @ The Lot Radio 05-10-2025

We’re thrilled to share the next Planet Paradigm Podcast, delivered by Dresden. Recorded live at Planet Paradigm 2025, where they played the Forest Stage. The duo, consisting of Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe, treated us to their signature sound: a mix of new tracks, nostalgic minimal grooves, and psychedelic layers that pulled us all into another dimension. Now it’s time to dive back in. Enjoy the ride!

Dresden live at Planet Paradigm 2025

starting to enjoy dnb alot. wouldnt call it my sound, but its fun to mix and bop about :)

DnB & Jungle SJ Mix part 2

Goodman (Original Mix)

(Scroll down for tracklisting) 
When i was doing my weekly DJ-centric web TV broadcast Overdrive Infinity in the last few years  i noticed a group of young Parisian DJs and producers forming around the show, kids who would come almost every week and who vaguely knew each other from online. They were all lovers of Grime, US Club styles, Ballroom, Kuduro, Global club music, you name it, just like me. They were the new generation of french underground music makers, but they were also quickly realizing that even though it brilliantly borrowed tropes from different dance music styles originated in various countries, their sound wasn’t specifically french-sounding if that means anything. As i befriended them, we got the idea to try and think of a new identity for a french club sound that didn’t exist anywhere else and that would be a confluence of some of the various electronic music styles which had an impact on the french audience. After a certain number of discussions online and IRL, during sessions in the same studios where Overdrive Infinity was taking place, an embryo of a new genre was slowly being born.

Out of the blue a severe explosion occurred in the building next door to the studio due to a gas leak, making the studio impossible to use and later on forcing parent company Dailymotion to sadly terminate the projects attached to it, Overdrive Infinity included. We no longer had a place to meet regularly but that idea of a new french sound kept flourishing, becoming more and more concrete as we all kept getting together at club nights and whatnot. Towards the end of 2016 the first Bérite Club music tracks (named after Rue de Bérite in honor of the street of the defunct studio) started appearing and being played at small club nights, and just like that a movement was born. 

Today i am collecting a lot of these early Bérite Club Music tracks and mixing them together with influences that were discussed during our reunions, trying to put together a sort of manifesto for what Bérite Club Music should, or at least could be, in the form of a sonic collage. It’s a starting point for a new generation of producers to build on, and hopefully take to the next level as the style matures and becomes more and more tangible. 

TRACKLIST:
Molaré - Boucan
De Grandi - 94120 Groove
MHD x OK Lou - Champions League Defeat (Detente Blend)
Aero Manyelo - Yoh
DJ Gregory & Africanism - Block Party
Sylvere - Emergency Call
Maddslinky - Compuphonic (Le Dom edit)
DJ Gregory, Sidney Samson & Dama S - Dama S Salon (Dub)
Bambounou - Dogon
De Grandi - BYE
L-Vis1990 - Ballad 4D (Sylvere edit)
Sunareht - Hyul 10
De Grandi - Cloud
Detente - Generation Assassin (refix)
Franko - Coller la petite
DJ Shoe - Poing
Le Dom - ???
ZaZa TWiNS - CouPer DCaler-OCTOBER 2008
French Fries - Senta (Bambounou remix)
Things With Wings - Yoruba Lesson
Sunareht - Main Sequence
Fréquences Fortes - Toi je sais pas si j'te bérite
Superficie - Cerol
Images - Les Démons De Minuit (Le Dom refix)
Gradur - Oblah ft. MHD & Nyda (Retina Set edit)
Zini - Sirenzz
Feadz & Douster - DJ Quik's Hair
Le Dom - Stamina
Modjo - Lady (Frequences Fortes raw chops and loops edit)
De Grandi - Sharp
Clubkelly - UDDS
DJJ - hard rum track
Martel Ferdan - Luz
De Grandi - Plans (le Dom edit)
The Phantom - Gothic (De Grandi edit)
De Grandi - Sapristi !
Maahlox Le Vibeur - Tuer pour Tuer
Sunareht & Sylvere - Vervain
Inkke - Pioneer
Thomas Bangalter - What To Do
Le Dom - Bayern (Le Dom & De Grandi refix)

Bérite Club Music

111 minutes recorded at Robert Johnson on Saturday, 23 March 2019

Robert Johnson Archive 0003: Midland

Bass, breaks and dreamlike soundscapes.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=702

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Rinse FM Boxing Day 2019 @ XOYO - Tickets: smarturl.it/boxingday_19

After a 2 year break, Rinse FM returns for their annual Boxing Day party on the
26th December at East London's XOYO

Bringing together some of the freshest and foundation talent over the past 25 Years,
our line up on the night will be:

Redlight
Geeneus + Katy B + Tippa
Novelist
Grime Originals [President T, Sharky Major & Discarda]
Logan Sama
Oneman
Slimzee
Marcus Nasty
The Menendez Brothers
Jetsss
IZCO
Jordss
Oblig
Eliza Rose
Rebel Clash
Manaré
FBR
+ more TBA

Tickets £10 - £22

Rinse FM Podcast

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Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO and Call Super - 16 December 2019

As the name states Live at Robert Johnson is the associated label of the respected venue in Offenbach and incorporates what the club stands for. The imprint has been establishing a solid ground for the new Frankfurt sound since 2009. By featuring internationally acclaimed artists LARJ has been providing DJs and audiences with essential tunes in an extensive range of high-quality house music. Laid-back dance-floor awareness with a sense for particularity in sound is what might describe best most of the releases and artists.

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