released Jan 26 2022
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Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

(Full recording) inspired by the Sea of Clouds in Alishan National Park (Taiwan)

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #14 Sea of Clouds @refugeworldwide

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

"this transmission is a calibration device

i found it in the springtime under a shower of pink blossoms
my spirit, an ooze seeping out onto the floor
in this state of sub-being, words passed through untethered—
unintelligible, and touch was void

the device sent rippling waves through the air,
arranging it into mutating forms
they traveled inward and rebounded, inverting inside and out
wisps of feeling newly embodied pushed boldly from every pore

i watched as the shapes of people grew unimaginably
the glimmering swells were interspersed with pearls
which gradually came loose and fell
unlocked, my innermost madness unfurled into a spiraled conch

as the day darkened, the sounds became grim and hoarse
emotions scraped against each other with serrated edges
disintegrating madness into a fine lunar silt
voices came flooding, and in unison whispered: trust"

@enereph
IG: @_enereph
https://gravitypleasure.bandcamp.com/album/water-bodies
https://soundsofnaga.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-mirth

enereph fell through at least three dream worlds looking for sounds to send their nervous mind spinning.

Tracklist:
Mown - An Endless Sweet Sweet Storm
A Strange Wedding - Wormhole Breaker
Simone Bauer - Ego Hacker
Ettore Rigadello - Ooteca
Biocym - Vanishing Point
Souzo - A175 Levit8
Beatrice M. - Crossing the Rubicon
Circular Square - L - 80BN (Soa420 Remix)
Ettore Rigadello - Keratin
Smogo - Submit To The Forest
Khey Mysterio - Basalte feat. Under/Standing
AJO - Kawanone (La Serpiente Remix)
RM Estali - Pitfalls
Prieste5s - Golden Hour
SNKLS - Stir
Sytrjv - Vexomorphis
Nathan Ho - Immodality
Herbalistek - Sentium
Otik - Lightyear Dub
dBridge - Filtered Scenes
Laraaji - Universe
perila - Fallin Into Space
Aisha Vaughan - Campfires
Comechelet & ϙue - Forbidden Love

Distant Signals 080: enereph

Post Rave Cocoon is mix series for a soft landing, where artists soundtrack the slow drift back into your body after a weekend in motion. 

A tender and transportive companion. 

Alongside the music, they share their own wind-down rituals, grounding gestures that calm the nervous system after days of overstimulation and sleepless nights.

“When I get home from a rave, I always start with a shower. I imagine that I rinse off the night while I’m focusing on the sensation of water falling onto my skin. Then I slip into fresh, comfortable clothes for bed—a signal to my body that it’s time to start winding down.

After plenty of sparkling water and a nourishing snack, I ease into the thought of resting. I make sure my bed feels super cozy, and I keep my little dog, Mario Jonson, close for emotional comfort - my mind often feels very restless after a big night. 

I tune into any areas of tension and give myself a gentle massage. My shoulders and feet are my favourite places to slow down and release into feelings of pleasure. Resting a hand on my chest and another on my belly, I keep coming back to the quiet rhythm of breathing in and breathing out.

Sometimes, I recall a memory of deep peace—like falling asleep at the beach. I remember the sound of the waves, the warmth of the sun on my feet, and the gentle breeze cooling my face… until, almost without noticing, I feel my body soften and drift into sleep.”

Post Rave Cocoon 001 - tamyslow

The recording is from a night at Ohm back in March put on by Kontinuum and New World Dysorder. I remember feeling so comfortable with the space and the crowd who were up for good sound system pushing fun going freely through everything from d&b and elektro to freetek and jungle. Also shoutout to Ohm for always providing a solid vinyl setup!
---- @abnama

subglow/Live 5: Abnama @ Ohm

you know when you’re underwater, and you can hear your own heartbeat play through the wall of liquid?
driving to the beat of your body’s tempo, filling out the bathwater until it’s sloshing over the edge of the tub and rippling through the cracks of the tiled floor.
leaking through the soundproofing of your chest, a heartbeat playing like a funktion-one to an crowd of toothpastes and dressing gowns and collapsing candles.
a heartbeat spreading all over the floor. skipping and stopping and stretching and expanding and seething.

- yeah, that. to me, are the sounds for this episode. not gonna lie I really let rip on this radio instalment > a bit of a trip and a skit and a bit.

tracklist :

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept / Wicked Game 
Doc Scott / Far Away (Fourteen Flavours of Funk) 
DJ Plead / Shush (Overdubbed with an excerpt of Werner Herzog Interview From Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams 1982)
Badmarsh & Shri / Lament 
Salmonella Dub / Drifting 
Nelly Furtado / I’m A Bird (Nelly vs Asha Remix) 
Groove Theory / Tell Me 
DJ Python & Isabella Lovestory / Besos Robados
‘rraine & edna / Joy Orbison 
Octo Octa / My Body is Powerful 
Torch Song / Blue Night 
Soulwax & Chloë Sevigny / Heaven Scent (Deeweedub) 
Marie Davidson & L’OEil Nu / My Love (Young Marco Remix)  
Oklou & Casey MQ / Lurk 
Calm & Jimi Tenor / Big City Takes (Tapes Remix 5) 
Vegyn / B…Arp Forever V3 (109.613BPM) 
System Olympia / 6am Romance 
James Blake & Normani / Tantrums 
ASA Moto & Aleksandir / Yamaha (Asa Moto Remix) 
Riton & Kah-Lo / Rinse & Repeat 
Cousin / B Moon
Little Dragon / Twice 
Off The Meds / Karlaplan 
ANSZA & Minny Juno / Some Kind of Blue
Flight Facilities & Emma Louise / Two Bodies (Lido Remix) 
Fergus Jones / Heima 
Kelsey Lu / I’m Not In Love

Skylab: Porcelain Pool Ep. 37: the heart goes dub dub dub

my dj set (with crowd noise) from the Gym, Friday 10PM-12AM at Sustain Release Year Eleven (2025) :) 

Huge thanks to @sustain-release-nyc and everyone on the dancefloor - it was such a special time <3

Photo by the amazing @rl.ct.btrs

Ma Sha @ Sustain Release Year 11 (2025)

Soothe their dreams with every note to help reduce dog anxiety and separation anxiety for stress relief, to calm dogs, for nervous dogs and overall dog relaxation.

Dream of Paws

just the digitakt II and Korg MinilougeXD

Wide

Reimagining the rave landscape through sensory rebalance and wellbeing 🌀

Post Rave Cocoon 001 - tamyslow

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