:o que paso? La versión demo sonaba muy chingon, rocker! 

My opening set from 10pm - 1am on 3/22/25 at Nowadays Nonstop @nowadaysnyc

Live recording mastered by Maxime Robillard @askloveletters

Live at Nowadays Nonstop — March 22nd, 2025

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

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Presentamos el arranque de nuestra serie: FASCiNOMA MIX 001 — Alo, @alo-sound reconocido amante de la música que ha dedicado más de la mitad de su vida a la investigación, colección y difusión, colaborando y creando diversos proyectos relacionados al quehacer sonoro en México. 

El vinilo es su formato predilecto y en su práctica como DJ explora su amplia colección libremente, seleccionando el sonido adecuado en cualquier ocasión. Alo extiende su práctica por diversos caminos donde la escucha activa es origen y destino. 

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FASCiNOMA Mix 001: Alo | Vinilo, Dub, Down Tempo, Techno & Underground México

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