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

RA podcast

RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mobilegirl-15th-february-2024

Tracklist:

Ouri - Boucles
Arca - Manners
Entrañas - Fisura
Destiny’s Child  - Through With Love (mobilegirl edit)
Toma Kami - Mzecal
DJ Pitch - Genelle
Suda - Inner Monologue
Ca$h Bandicoot - N.C.
bambinodj - Stick Shift (pt II)
Firaas Beats ft (Kareem Lotfy) - AVG
DJ Manny - I Can Luv U
M.I.A. - Capslock (mobilegirl edit)
Koji Kondo - Great Fairy Fountain (Pakun Jaran Jersey Flip)
Toma Kami - Ritmo Actual
Amor Satyr - Quer Dancar
Disaffected - Can’t Compare
OSSX - Blast Baile
Lemon D - Going Gets Tough
Kelela x Janet Jackson - Would You Mind Sorbet (mobilegirl edit)
Soichi Terada - Shiko Stepper Rumblin
DJ Swisha  - Mind Went Blank (RIP Screw)
Tirzah -  Gladly (mobilegirl edit)
Rye Rye - Art School Boys
Low Jack - Grqss 29
Shay - Ich liebe dich
Kaval - Free Doggos
DJ Alfredo - Kumbia Retro
Adam F - Circles
Jurango - Before Meander
Akash91 - Dahi Caught Out Here
Dj Cirofox - Moments
Tinashe - Talk To Me Nice A Capella 
DJ Playero - Beat #14
Neana - Crop Top Drums
Eris Drew - Hold Me Synthapella
Wisin Y Yandel - Pampam Instrumental
Ikonika - Kicks Count
Ultra Naté - Free
Dj Narciso & Endgame - Sem Limites (Severin Glance Remix)

NTS - mobilegirl 15th February 2024

PAPER <3s NY and PAPER <3s the DJs that keep us moving. That’s why we’re proud to present The Tear, our new mix series highlighting the best DJs spinning in the city we call home.

THE TEAR: DJ Miss Parker

Sydfalls | Mar. 17 DÉC. 2024 Rinse France

Bobby Beethoven b2b CRYSTALLMESS at Draaimolen Festival 2024

JAMES DASHOW - OEDIPUS ORCA
@FLAERMUSIC - FOLLOW
STEVE REICH - MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS - PULSES
@LARAAJI - THE DANCE #2
GIOVANNI VENOSTA - FIVE, SWEET 5
@MAYA-SHENFELD - VOYAGER
@FLORAYTW - BITTERNESS
@IRENAANDVOJTECHHAVLOVI - VANITY OF WINGS
@CATERINABARBIERI - FANTAS
@OHLIVEOSUN - SNOWING!
@PAULINEOLIVEROS - BYE BYE BUTTERFLY
@VIDNAOBMANAOFFICIAL - NIGHT-BLOOMING
@LYRA_SONGS - WITNESS
NOT WAVING & ROMANCE - TROPIC OF DESIRE
@MSMSMSM - IS IT COLD IN THE WATER?
@VIAAPP7 - FATAL ERROR
@DIEGOVNAVARRO - PROMETHEUS
@RICHARDDJAMES - 4X ATLANTIS TAKE1
@SKY_H1 - BLUE
@JULIANAHUXTABLE - WORLDSTAR MUSIC 2
@KIDSMPL - RIVEN
@GEDIMINASZYGUS - SPIRIT
TONGUE IN THE MIND - PLASMATIC YEARNING (FOR THE HORIZON'S KISS GOODNIGHT)
COH + COSEY FANNI TUTTI - MAD
ROBERTO MUSCI - WATER MUSIC
SUGAI KEN - MUKASHI
@KAMARUJOSEPH & @AHOSSAN - RESURGENCE
@CHINOAMOBI & @EMBACI - HARD STACCATO (FOR ELYSIA AND BOYCHILD)
@MHYSA301 - DIAMOND (LOVELY FREESTYLE)
@TERRY-RILEY-OFFICIAL - HAPPY ENDING
@DREWMCDOWALL - AGALMA VI
@ABYSSXXX - HUMILIATION
@GABBERELEGANZA - JUNONICA
@SENNILORENZO - DIGITAL TZUNAMI
JAMES DASHOW - SEQUENZA BOSCO
OLIVER COATES & JOHAN NILSSON - SCORCH GRASS
@SONMI451 - PROBE
@R-I-P-DJ - SYN STAIR (NO FOUNTAIN)
@BENDIKGISKE - CRACKS
@LARAAJI - THE DANCE #2
@AYYA14 - SECOND MISTAKE
WHITE NOISE - LOVE WITHOUT SOUND

nor love without sound (WIRE FESTIVAL AMBIENT 2024)

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.

RA.984 DJ Travella

Got to play some wonderfully experimental tracks and sounds for a party about experimentation, I had a blast playing for this party!

Ori The Ghost [LIVE] Liquid Dreams 041925

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@neanatrax – Live at SPROCKI 2025
Recorded Saturday, 5th July 2025
Inside Stage · Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Germany

A high-voltage session from longtime friend and UK club innovator Neana. Known for razor-sharp, percussion-heavy selections and boundary-pushing blends, Neana brought deep bass and relentless energy to the belly of the beast on Saturday night.

neana @ sprocki festival 2025

When visionary electronic producer SOPHIE passed away in 2021 aged only 34, it felt like the extinguishing of a future path for music, the one down which she was lighting the way. Few musicians in 21st Century have diffused their influence throughout pop music and beyond as inexorably as SOPHIE. 

She created sounds that tore music – and by extension her own identity – down to its molecular constituents, alchemising them to thrilling effect, in a way that spellbound both the avant-garde and the poptimists alike. Since her passing, her devoted fanbase remains as active as ever, cataloging and archive SOPHIE's vast discography of officially and unofficially released music. 
 
Selected and mixed by Jennifer Walton.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-sophie-12th-september-2025

In Focus: SOPHIE 120925

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