Mysterious artist STARTFROMSKRATCH drops his latest club-ready weapon ‘Of Yesterday’.


Branded as a ‘bedroom producer’ by his fans, STARTFROMSKRATCH is an exciting Chicago-based talent going from strength to strength with a well-crafted and growing discography of jazz, house and hip-hop infused electronic music productions. ‘Of Yesterday’ welcomes another multidimensional and glistening house affair this February.


Of Yesterday’ fuses dubby low-ends with euphoric pads and energetic builds, while the track is grounded by the bittersweet and heartfelt vocals which flow throughout the cut. Elevating piano melodies and chunky basslines add rich depth and complete an elivened dancefloor affair equally suited to Ibiza sunsets and festivals alike. 


“Of Yesterday showcases the emotional complexities of every relationship and focuses on the conflicting emotions one feels when seeing someone they once had a toxic relationship with. I can relate to this in a romantic way and platonic way. Most of us have people in our lives that make us feel many different ways when we see them. In this song specifically, the singer refuses to get sucked into that bad relationship again and refuses to live in the past. This is especially powerful to me and the song reminds me to live in the present and always move forward away from bad people and bad habits, not backward towards them.” - STARTFROMSKRATCH



STARTFROMSKRATCH has produced over 100 pieces of music with an exemplary ear for sound and production. Throughout his younger years he grew up listening to the sound of jazz music whilst being in New Orleans, attending regular opera performances and discovering his love for hip-hop all amounted to the multi-genre talents love for electronic music. With a busy release schedule this year, the sky’s the limit for the exciting name of note STARTFROMSKRATCH.

Buy https://music.apple.com/album/1608182151?app=itunes&ls=1

‘Of Yesterday’ is slated for release on February 25th, 2022.
https://soundcloud.com/start_from_skratch
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6rMqiME9ho0vl4ck7F8huC?si=et58uguoRmWHHdMeJ0qkBA&nd=1

PREMIERE: STARTFROMSKRATCH - Of Yesterday

''Breezy presents its seventh release with Migues, delivering a deep, groovy, and danceable track built on striking atmospheres, hypnotic basslines, and refined details that drive the dancefloor with energy and sophistication. It’s a sound designed to keep the momentum alive and captivate listeners from start to finish.

The remix comes from Eli Maret, who adds his unique signature and an extra layer of depth, transforming the composition into an even more immersive and polished experience.

An EP that highlights the artistic identity of the label, reinforces its commitment to quality, and ensures the groove remains vibrant in every beat.''

https://breezyrecs.bandcamp.com/album/brz007-migues-time-to-go-home-incl-remix-eli-maret

https://soundcloud.com/breezyrecs
https://soundcloud.com/miguesdj

PREMIERE: Migues - Atomic Hood (Eli Maret Remix) [Breezy Records]

Tshxlx Irl, Kiavi - dubbed it down
EP - dear, yours truly
Release date - 15/08/2025

Buy https://tshxlxirl.bandcamp.com/

Spotify 
Tshxlx Irl -  https://songwhip.com/tshxlxirl
Kiavi -  https://linktr.ee/Kiavi?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=eee78343-fc7f-4b0c-82d0-4ff2478dc34b

PREMIERE: Tshxlx Irl x Kiavi - Dubbed it down

Gladstone Deluxe is one of the most exciting musicians in the US right now. They make futuristic, deep, percussive yet smooth techno, deep house and electro. They also play timbales in NYC queer and trans salsa band Las Mariquitas, and are a frequent collaborator with fellow East Coast sonic trailblazers Kiernan Laveaux, Johnny Zoloft, and Mira Mira. They have released on Black Techno Matters, Data Disk, Misc, Innocent Music, How Things Are Made, and now Fixed Rhythms is excited to add to the Gladstone lore with their new offering, “No Haterade EP”.

https://gladstonebutler.bandcamp.com/album/no-haterade-ep

https://soundcloud.com/fixedrhythms
https://soundcloud.com/gladstonedeluxe

PREMIERE: Gladstone Deluxe - Cleanse [Fixed Rhythms]

Tomi Kokki, a producer and a DJ hailing from Helsinki, Finland. His productions, as well as his DJ sets, explore genres ranging between Trance, Breakbeat, Rave and Progressive-House, while blending the classic dance music soundscapes with modern. Lost In Time is a 4-track descent into raw euphoria and hard-edged emotional control. Avoiding trance clichés, this record leans into repetition, tension, and pressure over easy payoffs. It's trance for the emotionally exhausted — functional, unromantic, and weaponized.

The creation of the EP "Lost in Time" was heavily inspired by the beginning of the Finnish summer. But it was also thematically inspired by the current state of the world, leading it being a mix of the opposites: hope and worry, happiness and sadness. 

“Or just the truth: packed away my whole studio a bit too early and I just love to make trance in a DAW environment”

Pre-orders on Beatport & Bandcamp go live on 30th July 2025
Releases on all streaming platforms on 13th August 2025

Artwork & Visuals by HalfDiminishedSeventhChord
Buy Link: https://go.protonrad.io/rlTbP8DMAEFnM

Label Links:
https://www.boneheadbangers.com
https://www.instagram.com/bone.fm
https://www.facebook.com/bonedotfm
https://www.beatport.com/label/bnefm/118560
https://boneheadbangers.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/boneheadbangers
https://www.youtube.com/@boneheadbangers

Artist Links:
https://www.instagram.com/teekokki/
https://soundcloud.com/user-394274214


PREMIERE: Tomi Kokki - Don't Worry [Bøne.FM]

In “Structural Disruption”, Ground16 crafts a deeply textured journey that blends breakbeat-infused grooves, hazy pads, and dubwise atmospheres. Across five tracks, the Lausanne-based producer explores the space between introspection and dancefloor tension — where raw percussion meets dreamy harmonics.

From the gritty energy of “Disruptive Error” to the misty melancholy of “Horizon Fumé”, the EP reflects Ground16’s distinctive approach to rhythm and space. It’s a release that resonates through both body and mind.

https://ground16.bandcamp.com/album/structural-disruption-ep

@sofamovementsrecords
https://soundcloud.com/ground16

PREMIERE: Ground16 - Dusty Nightmares [Sofa Movements Records]

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the RA Podcast's history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes, chronicling a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than potentially any comparable point in the 21st century.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like a racecar.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. We sought to render an accurate picture of DJ culture in 2025 for the longhaul.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will DJ sets—or any of this—be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan, Editor (RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

This is Pt.I, from 1989. The mix is provided courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to https://ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles Pt.I (1989)

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

This is Pt.II, from 1996. The mix is provided courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to https://ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles Pt.II (1996)

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection, the Godfather of House.

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 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

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PREMIERE: STARTFROMSKRATCH - Of Yesterday

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