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Willow live from Dimensions 2024.

@willowmcr

Willow - Live From Dimensions 24'

The next podcast comes from London-based Will Hofbauer, a proud member of our roster.
Will has been releasing music on labels such as Third Place, Wisdom Teeth, Rinse, and Rhythm Section since his debut vinyl release in 2019. He also runs the playful Third Place label, which has showcased artists like Sangre Voss, Stones Taro, Nowt, maya q, and himself, among others. His music regularly receives support from influential figures such as Ben UFO, Bradley Zero, Shanti Celeste, OK Williams, Danielle, Moxie, and many more.

Mocongi - სქემა
Blotter Trax - Programmed Memories
Raheem The Dream - Hotel Motel
Will Hofbauer - Hiccups
Facta - Emeline
Simisea - Simi See, Simi Do
Suges - We Belong To The Night
Nice Girl - Mars
Soul Mekanik - C’est Robotique (2nd Version)
Will Hofbauer - The Shovel is a Shovel was a Shovel
Sangre Voss - Smyyre Myyrgu
Sneaker - Haunted Samba
Joe - Get Centred
RAC - STORM_UNR
Xes Noiz - A1
Jorg Kuning - dripgroove
Toumba - Hazzeh
Yaleesa Hall - 0244 (Simo Cell Remix)
AYA - a fflash gun for a ffiver
Konduku - Mantar Kaya
Ween - Pollo Asado

Left Bank 058 - Will Hofbauer

Oui à la sorcellerie, 
Des sorts sont jetés à coup de disques sur un dancefloor jamais vraiment prêt pour un set d’Int.Mac. 
Nous avons le grand plaisir de te proposer de te (re)plonger dans ce monde si particulier d’Int.Mac qui définit quelque part aussi l’essence du Chant des Oiseaux. Entre surprises et lâcher prise.

RECORDING LCDO 004 - International Mac, Oui à la sorcellerie

Oldboy & DJ Cosworth - Mastaz at Work (Deep Inside) (unreleased)

A little pre gig mix with Sinéad & Will Dimaggio before Public Records on July 5th. 

https://www.instagram.com/willdimaggio
https://www.instagram.com/sinead.dj

https://soundcloud.com/willdimaggio
https://www.soundcloud.com/sinead.dj



Sinéad x Will Dimaggio @ The Lot Radio 07-05-2025

Ahead of her Basement NY debut, Ciel stops by The Lot Radio to spin some of her favourite new vinyl digs. 

https://www.instagram.com/ciel_dj
https://www.soundcloud.com/ciel_dj



Ciel @ The Lot Radio 07-05-2025

Three figures - mischievous, untethered, and ancient in their bond. Comrades of this world or some other. Searching the sand for secrets, as shadows unveiled.

@felon5

Spaced 38 | Felon5

An hour from this year's Meat Rack set at the NYC Downlow!

Late-80’s and 90’s bumping, underground NYC and Chicago house. Grateful as always to play in this absolute institution.

T. Jacques LIVE @ The Meat Rack (NYC Downlow, 2025)

2 hrs taken from a dreamy closing set at Berlin's Hoppetosse for @theghost 9th Birthday celebration, June 7th 2025

This was one of my all time favorite sets on the boat. Hope you guys dig!

Live at Hoppetosse - Ghost 9th Bday Closing 7.6.2025

Alexandra takes us on a wild ride through her records in her signature style.

https://soundcloud.com/alexandraflowerpower
https://soundcloud.com/the_apricots

Ba Dum Tish Mix - Alexandra

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

Shanti is a veteran and expert in four to the floor dance music - tune in once a month for a considered two-hour selection of the best house and techno around, transmitting direct from the NTS studio. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/shanticeleste/episodes/shanticeleste-14th-august-2025

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Bank Holiday Mix

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

The next chapter of our series features a recording by the talented DJ Matthew Neequaye. An hour of meticulously selected tracks, woven into a musical journey where each beat is precisely placed and every transition is smooth and thoughtfully executed.

АБО 03 – Matthew Neequaye

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

Turn up the aircon and enjoy 59 mins of heaters currently bumping the Japanese Mercedes.

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MMSU 37

Dave Harvey live from The Olive Grove at Love International festival 2025

Live from the Adriatic 2025: Dave Harvey

@flavio-matafora

It's that time again, another Somecast!
This time around we have Flavio, also known as Albion Street Music, one of the most passionate diggers I've met, with a deep passion for West Coast House music, but it doesn't stop there.
A digger who eats & dreams vinyl, I got the chance to meet Flavio when I played at a renegade in San Francisco this past May and we connected right away with our love for digging and sharing our discoveries with the world. If you're not familiar yet, you should browse through his Albion Street Music YouTube channel with over 500 uploads of juicy cuts! You can also check his discogs, where he buys and sells and trades records from his vast collection. Happy digging!

Enjoy!

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