Name: we need to talk by maukook
Duration: 6 min 21 s
Description: a raw, unmastered dump of dusty files captured in one perfect, techy-dubby lo-fi moment

Reset The Room

Coming up next with a solid two hours of shape-shifting electronics and exploratory techno-scaping, Giegling alum ATEQ pulls out the kaleidoscopic vision and minute sound design on this truly hypnotic ride. Known for his elegantly balanced mixes and hauntingly immersive productions, the Pale Product co-founder treats us to a heavenly mind-trip, brimming with eerily opaque floor narratives, non-formulaic rhythms and abstract-leaning grooves from outer space. Hold tight for gravity-defying, sonic stunts and deeply cinematic submersion, here comes ATEQ with a serious slice of otherworldly techno escapism.

soundcloud.com/ateq

Reclaim Your City 

Reclaim Your City 616 | ATEQ

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

This is my final entry to the Dub Mix series and my final project as 
"DJ HENTAI". 

New project coming soon...


Special thanks to @kaya_hybrid for mastering

ＤＪ ＨＥＮＴＡＩ - 𝑫𝑼𝑩 𝑴𝑰𝑿 𝑰𝑰𝑰

a collection of gems from the mind of Eletun Selona

Eletun Selona - before we reach the end (Mix)

A recent sonic memoir from a beautiful evening, playing a vinyl only (almost) set. Recorded under a snowy winter morning somewhere in the outskirts of Stockholm in December 2024.

This was by far one of the best Stockholm underground events that's happened the past 10 years. Massive props to the Stilio crew for their excellent effort.

www.instagram.com/stilio.music
 
Photo by Emil Larsson

Anthony Linell at Stilio, Stockholm 2024-12-14

part 1 of the 3rd release on the +infty series https://infty.bandcamp.com/

mastering by eric plovier
artwork by emilie phan

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somatized [+infty03.1]

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

part 2 of the 3rd release on the +infty series http://infty.bandcamp.com/

mastering by eric plovier
artwork by emilie phan

firedance [+infty03.2]

True to their deep, widescreen approach to both production and live-performing, Parisian outfit Atomic Moog clock in with a helluva sleek and lushly relief’d mix, recorded on the occasion of their latest live performance at Outre Bleu on March 29. Through their releases for the likes of Delsin, Appian, Lowless or Monument, the French duo has been carving a niche for itself at the fringes of the dubbed-out techno tradition and abstract-leaning experimentality. This 90 minutes jaunt into their reverb and delay-heavy imaginarium has us moving across narrow corridors and cathedral-large spaces by turn, exploring the concept of spatialization in dance music under a new, boundary-pushing light. Through focal-shifting jumps between acid-drenched beds of rippling analogue sine waves and sizzling machine circuitry, the constant angle shifts from macro to micro tell a tale of vibrant sound research, not quite picking a side between the dance floor’s sense of purpose and genre-unbound, creative unintentionality. 

soundcloud.com/atomic-moog

Reclaim Your City 649 | Atomic moog Live

a raw, unmastered dump of dusty files captured in one perfect, techy-dubby lo-fi moment

we need to talk

25/01/2025 - KARMEN CAMINA (Strasbourg, FR)

for those who know

maukook@playlabs.fr

we need to talk

maukook

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