For the fourth edition of suoni,  Macadam Mambo label boss Sacha Mambo treats us to a gorgeous 1 and half hour mix.

suoni n.4 _ Sacha Mambo

Meshes Of The Afternoon

It got away! The hounds are back on the leash for another session, as Montel makes a bid for better days with this all-out charm offensive of serenades, blissed up patter and emotional blackmail, Palmer-style. 

The result is 12 tracks steeped in mind games, romance power plays and neurotoxin rollercoasters, with additional bonus strategies to dissociate with minimum dignity. 
Big up Kiwi’s Kiosk..

Written & produced by Montel Palmer
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Paintings by Peter Graf York 
Text by Fizzy Veins 

Release date around 03.06.2023

Pre-order at: https://southofnorthamsterdam.bandcamp.com

Pre-order

SONLP-014 - Montel Palmer - Love Getaway (snippets)

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

4 chop-outs from the Japan Tape. Edited and turned into full tracks. 

7" VINYL / 45 RPM
FOLD-AROUND RISO-PRINTED SLEEVE IN PLASTIC BAG
METALLIC GOLD LABELS

Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Distributed by Rush Hour

SON07-004 - NICOLINI - PIPISTRELLA (snippets)

Post-post-festive megamix from Amsterdam friend Dom aka Marathon Man here clocking in at the 2 hour mark. Scorched dub, noise, jazz, rock and tinges of seasonal melancholy conspiring to show once again the pretty singular taste that informs his work curating the @southofnorthamsterdam label (home to Devon Rexi, Nicolini, Maria, Fry Ry, CV Vision, Montel Palmer, Ronald Langestraat & more). If you find yourself in the Dutch city you can catch Dom slinging the good stuff at Red Light Records. Or, closer to home, make sure to swing past one of his now semi regular DJ sessions at our favourite East London haunt @thegunwellstreet. One love 2025

Forecast 075: Marathon Man / South of North

Crown Ruler Mix #34 - Kejeblos

Here at CR HQ we’ve been long time listeners and admirers of Zurich based, Kejeblos and we’re gassed to have him join our ongoing mix series. 

Kejeblos is a man of big taste and big ears that leaps through sounds from all around the globe.

A protegé of Lexx and Alex Dallas from Club Zukunft and Drumpoet Community, Kejeblos belongs to that invincible circle of friends, whose members CCO, Wavetest and Late Invitation are doing the wickedest Chicago House in Liechtenstein, sorry, Switzerland.

Some little treats await you as you press play, with two newbie tunes… one from Palace Pasador’s forthcoming release on Phantom Island and the other from Lexx’s new LP about to drop on the label. 

Enjoy the dive!

@kejeblos

Crown Ruler Mix #33 - Kejeblos

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

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