https://oroko.live/radio/guest-mix-dub-patternist

Dub(wise) stylings across decades and genres. Recorded in Accra in April 2024 the evening before an Oroko party I played at Jamestown Boutique alongside Nico Adomako and Cozyshrt. Special thanks to Nico and Rojeh for helping with the logistics of recording this one <3.

Tracklist:

Yao Bobby + Edgar Sekloka - Intro
Rhythm & Sound with Jah Cotton - Dem Never Know (Sleeparchive remix)
Torei - RRR #1 (Element Remix)
Stefan Dubs - Lion Last
International Observer - Now A Major Motion Picture
Sheriff Lindo - Continuing the Saga… of Dub
Bandulu - Agent Jah
Doof - Baba, We Love Dub So
Capetini - Rei dos Reis
No Smoke - Righteous Rule (Dub)
Slab - Weather Smasher
Geiom - Reminissin Kode 9 refix
Karen Nyame KG - THE PSA
Oliver Ho - Island
Bandulu - Loose Interlude
Unitone HiFi - Natural Selection
Smith & Mighty - Closer

Oroko Radio Guest Mix: Dub Patternist w/ livwutang

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/1ec95196-66ba-45d9-91d0-3b1031fc5c42

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

Emissive (@emissive) is a Toronto DJ and producer.  They form one half of the production duo Active Surplus and run the net-label earthNetwork.

Sparkling 06 | Emissive

"Stunning guest mix from one of my fav selectors from Melbourne/Naarm: [miscmeg](https://www.instagram.com/megmldrm/?hl=en) delivers an hour of dreamy 2000s vibe, glitchy minimal, dubbed out electronica including 90s deep cuts from down-under. Real miscmeg delicacy." 

Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dj-fart-in-the-club/episodes/dj-fart-in-the-club-31st-january-2025

DJ FART IN THE CLUB w/ miscmeg 310125

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

@napmusick

Photo by D. Tiffany (@d-tiffany)

pi/live: NAP @ Nowadays Nonstop 12-07-2024

TikTok

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

KRISTAILISH

Beats, tracks, and ideas from the COVID years and after. Much work went into compiling and selecting, happy to have them out here. Enjoy.


niks werkt (130 bpm)

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> NA bookings, luv notes: klutseolivia@gmail.com
> UK/EU/worldwide: ilyas@minor-am.com
> promos: livwutang@gmail.com