Most underground movements in the arts can be boiled down to one key ingredient: friends doing dope shit together. Childhood BFFs Luca Medici and Delbert Perez have been doing just that with INVT (that's "innovate"), a multidisciplinary art project that spans club music and streetwear. Before exploding onto the international stage and playing to massive crowds in Ibiza and Tulum, the Miami natives built a solid community at home through electrifying DJ sets, releases and fashion. They might be globe-trotting artists now, going back-to-back with artists like Skream and playing Panorama Bar, but their raw DIY spirit stays strong.

Their tunes and live hardware shows fuse jungle, techno, East Coast club and dubstep—and lately, tech house and tribal house—with bass-heavy Latin genres like cumbia and guaracha. A reflection of Miami's diverse demographics, their genre cross-pollinations bring together skaters, dancers, artists and various subcultures. Their clothing lines are equally cross-cultural: repurposed vintage items made from screen printing and acid washing, using photos and designs that represent their home city's vibrant street culture. True to their grassroots ethos, everything's done in-house, from mixing and mastering tracks to embroidery.

The next-gen duo's ultra-rhythmic productions, characterised by deep, swinging drums and trippy textures, is delivered to the world at a rapid-fire pace, testament to Medici and Perez's seemingly insatiable hunger. Their explosive career has helped bring fresh shine to Miami talents who feature heavily in their sets, including this RA Podcast. Featuring DJ Babatr, Coffintexts and plenty of their own unreleased heaters, INVT's mix represents their friendships, community and Miami's thrilling melting pot of dance music that they're still a core part of even as they move across the globe.


@invt305

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RA.930 INVT

Three hours of high-intensity heaters from the trio lighting up US club music.

"If the baby boomer generation had the three from Belleville, millennials can say…we have Black Rave Culture." Lofty praise from Spain's WOS Festival, and yet the undeniable buzz surrounding the Washington, D.C. trio of Amal, James Bangura and Nativesun makes it feel merited.

The Black Rave Culture experience is physical from start to finish. The trio's glide through the rich canon of Black dance music is, naturally, a huge chunk of the appeal. You can hear them slamming ghettotech into gqom, threading UK garage through East Coast club, stitching antic juke and swung techno, and landing the odd Mad Mike all-timer with flair.

Their productions mine a similar store of energy, and you'll find plenty of those on RA.974 too. Perhaps most importantly, their tangible chemistry and sincere, undimmed enthusiasm for tunes are what makes this group so magnetic. 

While their RA Podcast is split threeways, it could just as easily be a round-robin session behind the decks. RA.974 is an exhilarating exercise in creating serious dance floor pressure while having a ball in the process.

@black-rave-culture @jamesbangura @dj-nativesun @ama_l

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RA.974 Black Rave Culture

Love to all the friends and new faces dancing right up front and beyond with me during my set. Was a pleasure to play my style of music at peak time before https://soundcloud.com/ccl-url shut down the sup.

Shouts to the Golden Plains organisers for creating such open minded and fun festival!

Zjoso Live @ Golden Plains Festival March 2025

*recorded live in Field, ON at Best Out of Town Year 4 (08/31/24)

Jordan sure flexed his stacked sticks at the Saturday day party last year. He’s been at it since the days of CDJ1000s, and the technicality and flow shows here as he bounces across genres to lift up everyone within earshot. A humble legend of the 401 corridor.

@jordangardner

Jordan Gardner // Best Out of Town Year 4 (08/31/24)

Mouataz & Farah at Ring, Horst Arts & Music 2025

The Recording Angel w/ The Avalanches & moktar (NTS) 4th June 2025

Hi all,

Heart Somersault Radio is a new personal mix series from me ft unreleased music, club tracks, new productions, and DJ sets I’ve recorded live at shows.   I’ve been in more of a dance floor headspace for a while, so decided to do something with that energy.

Enjoy,

Tom

Heart Somersault Radio 01 (Tom VR)

Rhythm Section Radio was founded in 2009 and moved to NTS in 2012, and has since pulled out the stops breaking new music, promoting independent labels and paying homage to the greatest music from the past, through a perhaps unhealthy obsession with record digging. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rhythmsection/episodes/rhythmsection-17th-september-2025