Lauren Duffus finds the feeling in loose summer club sounds, giddy edits and some of her own stunning unreleased productions.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/08/14/fact-mix-lauren-duffus/

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Fact Mix 921: Lauren Duffus (Aug '23)

Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom, AKA Big Gay Idiot DJ, AKA Bobby Beethoven, is one of the best and most influential DJs of the 21st century. Starting out at pioneering parties like Mustache Mondays and Wildness (which he cofounded with Wu Tsang)—and a regular at GHE20G0TH1K—Mines helped to define the style that would become known, however cringe-inducingly, as experimental club or deconstructed club, directly inspiring fellow visionaries like Arca. 

Like some of the best DJs before him, Mines uses the CDJs as an instrument, but that doesn't mean just fancy tricks and looping. Instead, he artfully throws together clashing sounds—effects, samples, monologues, pop and R&B acapellas, and beats that run the gamut from dancehall to kuduro to breaks and techno. He's not afraid of the grotesquerie of human life and movement (just check out the monologue at the beginning of this mix), and he likes to push buttons. Once he put on a party where dancing wasn't allowed. Some of his sets are intentionally anxiety-inducing, evoking horror movies and modern classical composers like Penderecki, while others are bouncy and ebullient, weaving between genres and tempos like an old-school platformer. The best are both.

On Mines's RA Podcast—a milestone 900th in the series—he shows off this inimitable style, sharpened and reinforced over a decade-and-a-half of playing some of the world's best parties, fashion shows, you name it. He's the kind of DJ who creates his own music as he goes along. He makes you hear old tracks—especially pop music and R&B—in a whole new way. Titled "Cursed Piercing," this is a near-hour of controlled chaos that'll confound you at one moment and deeply move you the next.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/900

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A mix beamed in from the future by singeli's young star.

If singeli has a new era, DJ Travella is its leading light. At just 23 years old, the Tanzanian producer is pushing the genre into fast, frenetic and unmistakably futuristic territory. And while there aren't too many entries in the RA Podcast's 20-year history where you can say, "this has no parallel whatsoever," RA.984 shatters that assumption in style.

Singeli emerged from Dar es Salaam's underground in the early '00s, forged from limited resources and unlimited creativity. Producers looped and sped up taarab instrumentals using basic software like Virtual DJ, creating a sound that was chaotic, witty and lightning fast. With support from local studios like Sisso and Pamoja, singeli took root as the breakneck pulse of Tanzanian youth culture.

Travella—real name Hamadi Hassani—came up outside that infrastructure. He began producing music aged ten, self-taught and internet-savvy. By 2022, he was touring Europe with Kampala-based collective Nyege Nyege and gaining global attention for a distinct style he's dubbed "cyber-singeli." 

Like gabber, hardcore and jungle before it, singeli is unapologetically go hard or go home. It's unique and utterly infectious. After all, what could possibly connect pop provocateur Arca to the late president of Tanzania? Not much—except singeli. 

Travella's RA Podcast is a white-knuckle ride through this blistering sonic universe. It's wild and joyful yet controlled—a window into one of the most exciting young minds in global club music.

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Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/984.

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Our latest Center Booth episode brings together two bombastic DJ's for their first ever back-to-back after many years of friendship and collaboration. The result is an unpredictable, free-wheeling set that goes wall-to-wall with unrestrained energy.

The legendary Bobby Beethoven needs no introduction, but we’ll indulge you: the globetrotting DJ formerly known as Total Freedom is a well-decorated multidisciplinary artist, daddy of the iconic GHE20G0TH1K night alongside Venus X, and a visionary mixing maestro whose inventive style defined a decade of young, inquisitive artists keen to unravel the conventions of DJ'ing through the limitless tools of the modern CDJ. You’ll find him playing a wide range of parties around the world, from fashion afters in Paris like Ciccolina, underground nights in Tokyo or Istanbul, festivals like Draaimolen or Honcho, his ability to work his sound into any setting is unparalleled.

Brooklyn’s HMX (fka Hitmakerchinx) is a producer and DJ cut from the same cloth: a
wildly talented dancer and flex dance music force pushing energetic, innovative rhythms that fuse cultural influences and forge new sounds. His current obsession is flex dub music, an offshoot of the original FDM genre that reconfigures dance battle music for a global audience.

The two established and emerging talents join forces here for an hour of pure heat; a rollicking ride through a dizzying range of low-slung, bass-heavy music loaded with soul and sass. The chemistry between the two is palpable and adorable as they tee up everything from amapiano to shatta to busted ballroom to post-punk and much, much more. Watch out for TheOneRj into Eurythmics mix that is truly chef’s kiss.

https://youtu.be/zoeq9DwCRV0
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@Crystallmess (Christelle Oyiri) is a French DJ, producer, writer and interdisciplinary artist whose music immediately stands out for its abrasive dancefloor feel. Oyiri’s creative approach has always been rooted in the audience, originating from her early days in the Parisian club scene of the 2010s. Over the past ten years, she has established herself as a significant artist in the global electronic music scene, releasing music on labels like PAN, self-producing her EP Mere Noises (2018), and performing at iconic venues such as Berghain as well as major festivals including Dekmantel, Primavera, CTM, Terraforma, and Coachella, where she shared the stage with Frank Ocean.

Yet her use of sound has long transcended the musical context, transforming sonic experimentation into a forward-thinking artistic practice. As the inaugural recipient of Tate Modern London’s 2025 Infinities Commission, she is recognized as one of the most experimentally minded and visionary contemporary artists. In her work, music becomes a vessel for political resonance, entwined with affective memory and collective identity. She draws extensively on the ideas of decolonial thinkers, both past and present. Across live performances and installations alike, her musical interventions function as deliberate disruptions, challenging linear, Eurocentric narratives of music history and confronting the enduring legacies of colonial violence.

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Last Unleashed show of the year - originally aired on NTS Radio on December 21st. 

Tracklist : https://www.nts.live/shows/crystallmess/episodes/unleashed-21st-december-2020

UNLEASHED VI | CRYSTALLMESS | NTS

A show dedicated to the legendary composer, actor and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto. 

Originally aired on January 18th on NTS RADIO : https://www.nts.live/shows/crystallmess/episodes/unleashed-w-crystallmess-18th-january-2021

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