Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

Jamie M @ 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖙  💦

Om Unit & TM404 - Thursday
Luke Hess - Hidden Dimension - Patrick Russel Dub Version
Calibre - Sump Dub
OFF/GRID - Consequences
Satoshi Tomiie - Un Peu
Krotone - Duplicity
Matt Thibideau - Serge 5.0 (Rework)
Chaos In The CBD & Jon Sable - Mahia Madness
Dubfire - Swerve - Mathimidori's Fukai Chikara Remix
Deniro - Malamute
Conforce - Octave Echoes
Small Solar System Body - Juno343 - Skudge Remix
Matt Thibideau - Glow
Havantepe - Muon
Vanisher - Leipzig Underground
Simoncino & Merwyn Sanders of Virgo Four - On The Dance Floor - Dub Mix
Satoshi Tomiie - Hauz Muzik
Red D - Scatted Dub
Tripmastaz - Real Quick Dub
Silver Ash - Calantas - Shed's Wax'ed Dub Mix
Levon Vincent - Double Jointed Sex Freak
Skudge - The Wind
Frits Wentlink - Nimrod
Gari Romalis - Scatter Dance
Genning - Window To The Dub - Radio Version
Traumer - District
Metric System - Soul 440 - Vril Remix
Taupe - Escape
Spencer Parker - You're Now Under My Control - Fadi Mohem Remix
J.S. Zeiter - JS-02 - Mark Broom Remix
Sterac - Darkness In M Life
Luke Hess - Gratiot Ave
DJ Deep - Progression
Sixtyone - Zelo - Stojche Remix
Convextion - Miranda

Nez Presents ... Circuit Echoes

Live recording at the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live every Thursday and Friday on YouTube and futureintelradio.com. For more info, visit our website.

Ozzo ╚═ Future Intel x PODD ═╗ 21 08 2025

The second week of September 2025.
Oslated Special Mix 081 - cj Rusky

Augsburg & Munich
Germany

Born and raised in Munich, cj Rusky started to discover his passion for music in the early 90s after visiting several Afro-Cosmic events as a teenager. The wide range and style of this underground music, as well as the skilful mixing of Italian DJs such as Daniele Baldelli, Beppe Loda and DJ Yano, had a profound influence on him, and he took his first steps as a DJ in 2000 when he started playing at student parties. 

The emerging Balkan Beats boom at that time, followed by a growing interest in Electro Swing, was Rusky's ticket to enter the club scene – first locally in his adopted home of Augsburg, then throughout Germany and finally internationally, mixing these genres with other global music styles. 

As his musical development progressed, he increasingly focused on the broad variety of electronic subgenres that were rapidly evolving. This is how he discovered his passion for Organic House, Slow Techno and Slow Psy – always combined with elements from global and world music. 

When the pandemic hit, Rusky used the time to discover new music and expand his spectrum. He currently focuses on Hypnotic Techno, Minimal, Dub Techno and Indie Dance, while always continuing to follow his own motto: music has many genres, but no boundaries.

https://soundcloud.com/cj-rusky
https://www.facebook.com/people/cj-Rusky/100063477705259
https://www.instagram.com/cj_rusky

- Artwork by Clément Davout

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Oslated Special Mix

Oslated Special Mix 081

Oslated Special Mix 081 - cj Rusky

Recording of Elena Colombi & Lena Willikens' set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Elena Colombi & Lena Willikens at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

@shoall

Today’s Deep Mind Music entry is a trip through the depths of the earth from Shoal 🌘🌙

Listening to this set I was transported into another realm of being, taken by the hand through the mists of time, into the molten core of the earth. A transmission from the collective unconsciousness of mankind, sinking into the faded memories of our ancestors. Megalithic drones contrast with intricate moments of delicate celestial harmony, as iridescent shimmers of light glint into a shadowed cave. As the mix concludes, we softly re-emerge, floating on a blanket of rainbow-hued clouds ✨🤍

This mix is a live set made entirely of music composed by Shoal, formed from a series of recordings. It features field recordings captured in Japan, as well as a jam session with flute (Urosh), contrabass (Julian Tjon Sack Kie), and sound exploring a tam-tam gong, all collaged together. Thank you Shoal for this moving and evocative journey taking listeners through the primordial beyond 🌌💠🌀

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Downloads Enabled ~

Shoal ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.35

We still remember Takumi Inamoto’s Berlin set, defined by its unique style and sound.
In an age of growing sonic homogeneity, the Japanese artist’s deep, multi-layered approach stands as a vital counterpoint, a reminder that progress thrives on divergence.
His new one hour recording, created for this podcast, unfolds into a soundscape shaped by nature and the depths of the subconscious.

ICKPA 009 - Takumi Inamoto

Immersion

Campfire Stories 57 (Inside the Imaginarium) by Silent Wanderer for Stephen Hitchell

~ About The Story ~

Campfire at the edge of the woods, close to the beach. All begins with a rain shower but suddenly the sky becomes cloudless. Lying on your back, watching the starlit sky, listening the campfire crackling, the sound of waves crashing to shore. You enter the imaginarium, dreaming of distant galaxies. Beyond starlit skies, beyond gravity, right to the point where the music takes over…everything.

~ Chapters ~

01 cv313 - Cloudburst
02 Variant - Pallas
03 Variant - Apogee
04 Variant - Aurora’s Dream (Astral)
05 Intrusion - A Gentle Embrace (Variant Redution)
06 Radius - Oscilliation Range (Variant Redesign)
07 Radius - Interpolation Eight
08 Intrusion - Amongst The Stars (Original Tape Session)
09 Variant - Return to Auratia (Enchantment)
10 Variant - Vortexual (Element Three)
11 Radius - Interpolation Fifteen
12 Radius - Soul Rotation (cv313 Reshape)
13 cv313 - Lost Sequence (Intrusion Dub)
14 cv313 - Beyond Dreams
15 cv313 - Serenity Thru Sorrow
16 phase90 - Targum (Intrusion’s Sedation)
17 Variant - Perihelion
18 Radius - Etherscapes (Variant Reform)

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Patrick Miyaoka

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 57 (Inside the Imaginarium) by Silent Wanderer

Guys, it's been a while since I made a new dj set, buttt, here it is: A brand new Matthias Ambient Dub-Techno mix. Like to hear your opinion in the comments! 

Smoke a big sigar, and enjoy the trip! 

Playlist:
1. Faded - Warhawk
2. grad_u - Alexanderplatz Station
3. Federsen - Rolling
4. CV313 - A World Apart
5. grad_u - Evening At Vikshtelee
6. Echospace - Firefly
7. Echospace - Liumin
8. DeepChord - Point Reyes
9. DeepChord - Devil Ray
10. Lapien - Moonset
11. Forest Drive West - Drift
12. CV313 - Subtraktive
13. Dorisburg, Efraim Kent - Tecken III
14. Forest Drive West - Parallel Space
15. STL - Spy Vs Spy
16. Deepchord - Voice of Guyana

I will be posting a new set soon, stay tuned! 

Matthias Klein

MIX08 | CV313, Echospace, DeepChord, STL, Lapien, grad_u | 2020

MATTHIAS KLEIN | Dj / Producer

Thx for all the support! :)