Name: Snorkelling w/ Gabriel Hops & Ben Wrong - 14th February 2025 by Netil Radio
Duration: 1 h 59 min 25 s
Description: Gabriel Hops + @ben-wright-1 , Alto Radio resident. 2h of ambient-leaning sounds, and a few drums, inbound

This episode of the RA Exchange originally ran in 2022.

Shanti Celeste is one of those artists whose personality matches her DJ style. Her fun-loving nature and breezy demeanour always light up a room, as do her vibrant sets that span sunny house music, slow-burning disco and emotive techno—just revisit her RA podcast for a reminder. Fresh off her Hessle Audio debut, the London-based artist sat down with Martha Pazienti-Caidan for an honest chat about track selection, bad gigs and her approach to production.

During DJ sets, the Peach Discs co-founder doesn’t like to focus on genres. Instead, "I think about, like, building and releasing tension and making sure that I stay in a specific energy level," she explained. "Whereas before, I think I knew the energy I wanted to bring, but I didn't know how to do that cause I was just thinking about everything in terms of genre."

Reaching this holistic stage, however, took time. It was a process of acquiring knowledge and experience but also confidence, she described, adding how she previously had "really bad imposter syndrome." Learning to recognise that certain factors might be outside an artist’s control is essential to self-realisation, she continued. Recounting her experience of playing big festival stages, she noted the importance of "learning what side of yourself to channel" rather than compromise on music.

For more details on her experience playing with fellow women DJs, her lockdown romance and recording her vocals, listen to the discussion in full.

EX.662 Shanti Celeste

the OoN mix

In their words:  I’d say it’s heady with a lot of range. Definitely tapped into the spiritual realm with lots of dance and rhythms but also moments to sit and kinda reflect on the world. Every mix I make, song I choose to play or set I I’m booked for is almost always going to give the energy that I’m feeling about the world, culture and politics. Lots of fight and lots of love cuz love is what we’re fighting for. 

Bio for me, ummm… I’m Afro Caribbean born in NYC w/roots in London and Miami. I come from a musical background and have been in and around sound boy culture since youth w/ roots in dancehall, jungle and pretty much all sounds of the Afro Caribbean Latin
diaspora. I started djing vinyl while working in nightlife, producing shortly after and haven’t looked back.

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Gabriel Hops + @ben-wright-1 , Alto Radio resident. 2h of ambient-leaning sounds, and a few drums, inbound  



Snorkelling w/ Gabriel Hops & Ben Wrong - 14th February 2025

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rRoxymore’s music exists in the murky territory between house and techno. It is music you can dance to, but that never seems to be its primary intention. Shifting synth sequences bring rhythm, exotic percussion bring worldly feelings and her rugged and deconstructed drum machines bring inventive grooves. The Berlin based French artist herself calls it “mercy-less house” and has put most of it out on Don’t Be Afraid, including her Face to Phase album later last year, which was an album full of intriguing and exploratory sound scapes.
 
In the past, rRoxymore has played percussion in a rock band, played hip hop and rare groove and soundtracked art installations, so she brings that widescreen understanding of groove to this week’s mix. It’s a leftfield selection of humid and tropical rhythms that dangle like vines in a jungle before morphing into broken and syncopated beats with a heavy low end. It’s compelling, stripped back rhythm music that seems to takes cues from UK funky, EBM, disco, techno and plenty more besides.

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