Introducing Natural Selections Radio—your go-to destination for exclusive DJ sets and studio mixes from our roster and label friends.

Episode 01 features a true icon: the legendary Justin Strauss. With a career that spans the very heart of New York’s music scene, Justin has graced nearly every iconic dance floor you can imagine. As one of the most in-demand remixers of the past three decades, we’re thrilled to have him join us for this inaugural episode. It’s an honor to kick things off with such a pivotal figure in dance music.

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NS Radio/ EP 01 - Justin Strauss

Live hardware recording, performed at the Tea Temple Lounge stage at the Sunset Campout (Belden, CA 06.22.25).

Live @ Sunset Campout 2025

my official summer mixtape contribution
recorded at the wonderful fidelity for subject dublin on july 4th 2025 - what a night - thank you!! <3<3<3

move d @ fidelity, subject dublin 25-07-04

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Karnak on Acid is back for the eleventh chapter of their weekly after-hours transmission, this time diving deep with a two-hour sonic voyage curated by Gui Machado.

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For this month’s echo garden mix, I laid down a 100bpm progression of ethereal downtempo cuts building up to a string of balearic ballads. Exactly the kind positive, sunny and steady energy I’ve been soaking in the past month leading up to Canyon Vibration this week! 

Echo Garden - July 2025 Mix

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Justin Strauss with Margee @ The Lot Radio 07-31-2025

Libercio - Samurai Of Love

Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. We fight out in the open. Welcome to City 17.
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City 17       [Free Download]

"Random Forest is a journey through the lush soundscape of organic house, where the tones of ethnic instruments meet the pulse of the modern electronic beat. With tropical warmth, melodic textures, and uplifting spirits, each track leads into the random rhythm of the forest." - Masrit

Written and Produced by Roei Merom
Mastered at Ohxala Records Studios
[OR94]

Storytelling

Masrit - Storytelling (Original Mix)

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. Full send — 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 series' 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 scintillating 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. A masterclass, and entirely self-contained in audio form.

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 electronic music, 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)

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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 https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

This week on the pod is the disco vibe of New York's Tim Sweeney.

RA.046 Tim Sweeney

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