Name: Soundbyte (Open Decks) - 8/7/25 Live Recording by Nondough
Duration: 4 h 28 min 39 s
Description: another open decks! thanks to those that came to hang and play :)

Freaky Ahh Ho (GHETTO HOUSE MIX)

A cross-genre mix of everything from experimental synth pop and new wave to downtempo and disco, with an emphasis on creating a distinct focus for each show.

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This week's theme: songs that are named after girls

Billie - Fragile on the Rocks
Lysa - New Délit
Willow - W.A.T.
Marie - Elli Medeiros
Jeanette - Robert
Ana - Videosex
Ariane - The Honeymoon Killers
Evelyne - Laurent Maltese
Aurora B. - Chrisma
Laeticia - Miharu Koshi
Rosalyn - Nadieh 
Sabrina - Bruno Nicolai
Regina - Ansy
Joyce - The Solicitors 
Francisca - Espiritu
Caroline - Majority

Selective Listening with Alyssa Stowers @ The Lot Radio 02-16-2025

another open decks! thanks to those that came to hang and play :)

Soundbyte (Open Decks) - 8/7/25 Live Recording

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

episode 98 of summer school radio, recorded live on the lot radio on august 5, 2025.

(tracklist)
A Wilderness - Laura Nyro
Scene 1: Street Corner (Get Up) - Blaze
Didn't You Know - Patrice Rushen
Love Is All I Need - DJ Rogers
You And Me Will Stay in Love - Sapphire
It's My House (12" Promo Mix) - Diana Ross
Lucky Fellow - Leroy Hutson
The Plan (Planet Mix) - Outside
Free Wheel - Hard Meat
Wired For Games - C-Brand
Life's Just A Ballgame - Womack & Womack
Share My Joy - Jo Ann Jones
Introlude - Nefer
Estar Dentro de Ti - Aguilar
Chega No Segue - Seu Jorge
When It Rains (Restless Soul Peaktime Vocal) - Jeymes Samuel
In Time - Ron Trent
Naturally Unnatural (Naturally Flowing Thomas Fehlmann Remix) - Altone
Lorraine - Dambala
weather - jada
If You Ever Need To Cry - Brainstorm
Everything I Do With You - Jasmine ft. Cassandra Wilson
You're Leaving - Parlet
Ivory Fantasy #1 - Alan Kaufman
You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams
Dial 999 - Loose Ends
Hot Disco Night (Are You Ready?) - Sweet Potato Pie
Spanish Joint - D'Angelo

summer school radio (98)

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 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: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, 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 an F1 car.

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. Full send.

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)

@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 https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

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

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 https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

POW Fest 2025* Track List:

Afrofuturism - Carlos do Complexo
LITE SPOTS - KAYTRANADA
Nobody Khan (Ain’t Nobody) - Austin Millz & Chaka Khan
Rock Your Baby- Pontchartrain
Ke Nako - Bokani Dyer
Deep in the bottom - Monique Bingham & Black Coffee
Forever Sade - Paradiso Rhythm
Jamming (FISHER Rework) - Bob Marley & The wailers & FISHER
Beloo Horizonte - Wealstarcks
How great I am - Lamchopz
Move your body - Marshall Jefferson & Solardo
Douha (Mali Mali) - Disclosure & Fatoumata Diawara
Dream - Sparrow & Barbossa
At All - KAYTRANADA
Divine - Jamie Antonelli
The Power - David Penn & Roland Clark
Ubomi Abumanga - Sun-El Musician & Msaki
Sonini - Sun-El Musician (feat. Simmy & Lelo Kamau)
Les Gout - Rampa, chuala & Keinemusik
Siguila - Dj Galio, DJ Satelite & Peter Rodrigues (feat. Seres Produceos
Nkosi - Darque, Kabza de Small & Dlala Thukzin
After the rain - Lebza TheVillain (feat. Amukelani)
Equilibrium - Darius & Wayne Snow
Yes God - Oscar Mbo, KG Smallz, MÖRDA, Thakzin & Mhaw Keys
Wololo - Babes Wodumo
Wristbands - Galcher Lustwerk
Spiritual Thing - Marvin Aloys & PvssyCat (feat. DJ Roland Clark)
Places - Elderbrook & Shimza

Kutâputush, thank you, to @marcusworldsoul for accompanying me and to Divine Times Collective for organizing such an intentional, love-filled day...

Flyer by @mythsooka
Sound by Karlala

*POW Fest is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also proudly supported in part by RESIST. 

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POW Fest 2025 *

Caliventura Remixes

Un Canto a Mi Tierra (Cut Chemist Remix)

Duster Valentine UK Street Soul Mix (TTT)

Duster Valentine – UK Street Soul Mix

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

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Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

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