Ambient New Year 2025

Matthieu Fuentes and Aki Yamouridis team up for a new bi-monthly show on LYL Marseille meant to be heard in full stereo. Steep Panning summarises afternoon listening sessions and music talks with an emphasis on timbre, dynamics and bold panning choices.

Steep Panning w/ Matthieu Fuentes & Aki Yamouridis

Francesco Fusaro, the man behind MFZ Records and classical music recording series 19'40'', brings a considered and varied selection of baroque, classical and contemporary music for a full two hours each month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/francesco-fusaro/episodes/francesco-fusaro-10th-may-2025

Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro 100525

Broadcasted on Radio Relativa in Madrid on May 20th, 2025. 

For complete tracklist visit: 
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IA Radio Show #266 with Vladimir Ivkovic

The legend that is Andy Votel strolls into our Manchester studio once a month to play a portion of his record collection selected at random.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/andy-votel/episodes/andy-votel-17th-may-2025

Andy Votel's Randomonium 170525

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Break Mode (26/04/25)

Freak Out! w/ Wormbox: 30th May '25

This mix is from Palm Pilot and Break Mode under their moniker Freak Out! and it references a lot of things they play at their nights in Portland. They like to ride the wave where genres collide and create euphoric moments that can be exciting or excite them at least. They take the dancefloor along for the ride.

TP539 Freak Out! (Break Mode x Palm Pilot)

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

Mix of the Week #598 is "Psychelearic Dreamscape" by Zyron
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Mix of the Week #598: Zyron - Psychelearic Dreamscape

Mix of the Week #600 is "Full Spectrum" by JAZ
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A very special 4 hour mix from JAZ to help celebrate our 600th Mix of the Week!  Fresh from his recent record digging sabbatical in Holland & Belgium, JAZ has brought back some monster gems to play for you! Follow @j-a-z-1 and  https://www.instagram.com/johnzahl.jaz/

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Ambient New Year 2025

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