TITTA VAD JAG FANN! #1

Live @ Växthuset 12/10 2024

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

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UPDATED WITH FULL TRACKLISTING

Never have I needed it more than this winter & spring. Just to stay sane & get by.

Music at its best is a spiritual practice. Dance music even more so. I wanted this extended, eclectic set to highlight strong songs that have offered me small rays of inspiration & solace among the newscycle.

Some are new/recent, some are old but still new (for me) and some are eternal classics (life is too short not to play them at every opportunity).

Hope you enjoy the 4-hour journey ❤️

TRACKLISTING:

Instant House: The Beginning (1998)
Rakoto: Ry Vorona (Ocean People Edit) (1990/2025)
Aurra: Baby Love (Shep Pettibone Instrumental) (1983)
Depeche Mode: Policy Of Truth (Francois Kevorkian Capitol Mix) (1990)
Love Quartet: Kiss Me (Ethos Mama Survives In Dub 1) (1992)
Axel Boman: Paid By The Rhythm (2019)
Space Ghost: Dream Tool (2024)
Mark Seven: My Caesar (The Message) (2025)
Neuronphase: Duckface (2018)
Gilb’r: Rue Killer (2025)
Vick Lavender: Wish (1998)
Chicago Underground Council: 2 Days (1996)
The Honorable Mr. Top: That Happy Day (2017)
The Attendants: Hmmm Love (Arturo’s Test) (2006)
Bluemoon Productions: D (1990)
Rhythm Masters: Spanish Ritual (The Bass Hit Mix) (1993)
Tommy Bones: South Africa Deep (2007)
Theorem: Cinder (1998)
Steve Tang: Visions Far Away (2001)
Gene Hunt feat Cei Bei & The Funk Farmicist: Skeemin Bohemian (2003)
Black Crowe aka Abacus: Gabrielle’s Horns (1996)
Wax Fruit: Just A Party (1994)
Circulation: Memory (1996)
Moodymann: Dem Young Sconies (1997)
Spencer Kincy & JT: Get Up (1996)
Gemini: Ooze (1996)
Crustation: Flame (Borderline Insanity Dub) (1997)
The Fog: Been A Long Time (Habana Mix) (1993)
Pleasure Dome: Here We Go For 8 Minutes (1994)
Inner City: Pennies From Heaven (Kevin’s Tunnel Mix) (1992)
Ron Trent: Sensual (2024)
Masco: African Love (Dub) (1986)
Jolynn Murray: It’s Time To Party (1996)
DSK: Feel So Free (Murkatronic Dub) (1993)
Stacey Parris: Feel It In My Heart (Underground House Mix) (1989)
Lovechild: Sweet Ambience (Deep Dub) (1990)
Kym Mazelle: Useless (Ivana Mix) (1990)
Elias: Selce Nights (2001)
HNNY: TLC (2013)
S.D.A.P.: Don't Go Lose This (Dub) (2019)
Alice Smith: Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix) (2006)
Madonna & Massive Attack: I Want You (Ocean People Edit) (1995/2025)
Stephane Sevérac: Hold On (1987)

SONGS NOT TRACKS #5 /// eclectic 4-hour house mix

"It was so difficult to become someone." The house hero talks about Chicago's competitive scene, developing a sound and letting go of his ego. 

Theo Parrish is one of dance music's most influential DJs and producers. Raised in Chicago, he's become synonymous with slow-burning, immersive grooves and sets that mix classics with obscurities. He began DJing in 1986 aged 13, eventually earning a degree in sculpture and moving to Detroit, where he hit his stride as an artist and became a member of the collective Three Chairs alongside Moodymann, Rick Wilhite and Marcellus Pittman. He also started the label Sound Signature, which uses the language of soul, jazz, disco, Chicago house and Detroit techno.

A few months ago, Resident Advisor teamed up with London institution fabric to host Parrish for an eight-hour set—his first time playing the club. While he was in town, he also spoke with CDR's Tony Nwachukwu. In the Exchange, Parrish talks about the intensely competitive scene he grew up in. He DJ'd for 13 years before he was ever paid or had his name billed on a lineup. It took years of passion and hard work to break out of his local scene and build the career he's become known for. 

"At five years, you're dealing with the technical part [of DJing], at ten it's finding your sound and at 15 it's dealing with the ego of it all," he says. "It's not until much later that you actually start to play for and with people."

Parrish also reflects on the ongoing dearth of diversity in the dance music industry and posits whether some of the most popular music in the US—such as trap—reinforces counterproductive racial stereotypes. He asks: did house music ultimately survive because it left where it originally came from? Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula

EX.763 Theo Parrish

Vanvior @ Stilio 24.06.12

Your favorite mixtape is here! Makemake is for your ears as much as for your hips and we decided to put it onto tape, to float out and blend some music that inspires us without the haste of the conventional “DJ mix” breathing down our necks.

Third chapter of the series is curated and mixed by Manú Nilsson of Makemake Tapes. Starting out slow and beatless, emphasizing tone and atmosphere, he goes on building tension with some seriously dubby beats. An artistic selection of leftfield sounds with humorous interludes.
Taking beautifully unexpected turns, the percussive ambient sounds demand your undivided attention. This trip will make you feel like this is the one right way onward.

@mannnuuu

Makemake Tape #3 - Manú Nilsson

Tracks selected from:
Octave One: Conquered Nation
Population One: Two Sides of Every Story
Andre Holland: City of Fear
Red Planet: RP-13
Osmetix: Minimal Regime EP
Scan 7: Resurfaced
Population One: Unknown Black Shapes
X313: Interferon
K Hand: Global Warning
Aux 88: Electro/ Techno RMX
Underground Resistance: Windchime

Summer Laundry / Sommartvätten Mixtapes #3 - Grief Tracks from Detroit with Jessie & Oisín

Environments - English Meadow

André Taylor - Cosmic Dawn

John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Played at 1 bpm)

Environments - Pacific Ocean

Larry Edward Gordon - Betlehem

Lloyd Miller - Gol E Gondom intro

Mehdi Halib - Volume ill base c

TeTe Noise - Invisible Monsters

Victor Gama - Mensagem a Luanda

Freddie Hubbard & İlhan Mimaroğlu - "Interlude II"

Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman - iota mikro

Mehdi Halib - Orientales

Ujjaya - Jengi

Omar Raafat - Egyptian Heritage

AMET - Waiting

P_SH – Beyond The Wave Image & Synthetic Terrain

Matana Roberts - Enthralled Not By Her Curious Blend

Sun Ra - Sun Song

Ju Ju – Soledad Brothers

Environments - Caribean Ocean

Miles Davis - So What (Played at slow bpm)

André Taylor - Cosmic Dawn (Played at slow bpm)

Summer Laundry / Sommartvätten Mixtapes #4 - Slow Steps with André Taylor

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

Live @ Växthuset 12/10 2024

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