Sound Metaphors DJs at Solstice 2024

Tornado Wallace B2B Telephones All Night Long. Recorded live at Savage in Hanoi on 01.11.2024. Huge thanks to the Savage and (RE)TREAT Festival crew 😍

Tornado Wallace B2B Telephones All Night Long @ Savage, Hanoi - 01.11.24

Running Hot is producer and DJ Mark Newman. He discovered rave when he was 13 via a tape from his mate at school which has led to a lifelong love affair. He is is orignally from South Wales and now resides in Berlin running with the Love On The Rocks crew... This mix is based on his love of Italo-house. It's a nice one... Enjoy.

"I recorded this one in the middle of another frosty and grey morning in Berlin so I wanted to try and conjure up some of the spirit of summer. I’d had the idea for a while to try and do a mix with a lot of very pitched down Italo-house stuff so that it almost starts to sound a bit like kwaito and has a nice laid back feel… So here it is! Hope you enjoy!"

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Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

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Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

| LIVE FROM HIGH NOTE | w/ Myles Mac & DJ Possum

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The sweetest Eurotic, founder of the lovely collective AZOTH in Nijmegen, brings this week’s mix! Eurotic is the fierce embodiment of a tantalizing energy that runs within the veins of his music. Staying true to his name Eurotic is the reflection of every facet of his artistic expression. From commanding dance floors with immersive, but sensory-charged sets to playfully teasing the crowd with house, progressive and trance elements. With lovely memories, we look back at the party we hosted last March with AZOTH in Mesh, and as a cherry on top, a lovely closing B2B with Eurotic and Carlos Valdes.

Track highlight:
Fitalic - No Way Out

With this mix I delve deeper into the more late 90's early 2000's deep and progressive house era. One of my favourite tracks here undoubtedly is No Way Out from Fitalic. This track with its warm and deep chords depicts this sound perfectly. The break is made to bring everybody to the front of the dancefloor. It keeps on building after which it breaks down into this warm, lush and uplifting chorus. If used in the right way it can really get the dance floor going. It's minimal but has just the right elements to do the job flawlessly. I've been playing this out in the sun a lot lately that's why this is my highlight.

Sound Metaphors DJs at Solstice 2024

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