42...and it's a mighty long time

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

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RA.917 Purelink

New York trio Purelink give us an exclusive peek of what they have planned for the upcoming summer live music season in this weekend’s Sunday Mix. As the creators of Signs, one of the best ambient and dub techno albums of last year, their 80-minute mix shows off their advanced ears for soundscapes and texture, while adding on head-nodding grooves and dubby four-to-the-floor beats.

It’s as dancefloor suitable as it is Sunday sofa ready. “This new year has mostly been spent in our studio prepping new music and live set ideas,” they say. “A lot of these songs reflect the dancier side we’ve been inspired by lately. Hope to see you on a dancefloor soon.”

Sunday Mix: Purelink

Tracklist here: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/2015-01-02_-_Floating_Points_%26_Four_Tet_@_Plastic_People_Closing_Party,_London

Over the past 8 years or so we have had, along with Theo Parrish, the honour of playing the monthly residencies at a small basement club in Shoreditch, London with an impeccable sound system. After 20 years of operation, it was time to move on and close the doors on a place that has a lot to answer for in shaping modern club culture. To say this space along with the owner Ade’s singular vision was fundamental in our personal musical formation would be a complete understatement. 
 
On the day of their closing, manager Charlotte asked us if we’d put the system through its paces for the last time that the club would be open to the public. We set about packing the anthems from our respective residencies and on the night once the people were through the doors played 2 records in turn for the rest of the dance. We included tracks of our own and of friends that were made with that place in mind. Records like Daphni - Ye Ye and Four Tet - Pinnacles were made to first be played at Kieran’s nights there, and the Floating Points - Vacuum EP was born out of the CD-R night at the club, and its launch party was the trigger for Sam’s monthly residency.
 
We set this recording up just before the start of the night and unfortunately it distorts in places, but we make no apology for how joyfully noisy people get! The vibe in the room this night was typical of the club on any given night and we hope this recording captures just a fraction of the spirit of a Plastic People night.
 
A massive thank you from us to everyone that has come down to the nights over the years and supported our music there. We are truly humbled to have shared the music we love with people at this place, and your energy in turn has influenced the way we make music on an unfathomable scale. We also thank the bosses Charlotte Kepel and Ade Fakile for inviting us to the club and having faith in us over  these years! All the best for the future!
 
 
See you in the dance
 
Much Love 
 
Sam &amp; Kieran

Floating Points & Four Tet - Final Plastic People 2 1 2015

Recording of CCL & Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

CCL & Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Final hour: zweikommasieben DJs lead us into the night.

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We’re closing out OOW season with Dane//Close at the helm

Dane//Close [06.06.25]

Live from rainy Berlin: first up is NY Graffiti!

NY Graffiti [10.06.25]

I remember my first encounter with Dominik very well. For some reason, I was driving three quarters of the band All Xs, in which Dominik was playing drums at the time, through the city, and I remember thinking to myself during the drive that Dominik was a very funny person. Since then, we have become friends, and I have learned that Dominik is also a vital force in Lucerne's music and cultural scene. As a drummer in various bands, as a contributor to the cultural magazine 041, and as an incredibly loyal and enthusiastic fan. 
But let's hear from Dominik what episode 50 is all about.
XXX
LOOD

Good things take time: Perhaps this personal mix just needed the summer holidays to come together – and the lovely folks at Light Of Other Days gave me the space and time to do it.
These tracks might not drip with summer vibes, but the sense of calm and relaxation that comes with each passing day is definitely in there: doomy ambient, grime, dub, folk, RnB, rap, some guitar strumming and a British all-time.

LOODcast 50 ~ Dominik Bienz

Recorded at Kaffee Kind, Lucerne by @kind&kegelbahnaudio

MUD: Heidi Hurni und DJ 1901 @ Kaffee Kind, 250608

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. Full send — 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, chronicling a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than potentially any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, and 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 a racecar.

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. We sought to render an accurate picture of DJ culture in 2025 for the longhaul.

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

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Crazy limited 7" dubplates - 30 copies worldwide.

The first wave of buyers have already been contacted.

Both tracks are taken from BKV012 Glacial Dancehall 2 (coming out on cassette real soon).

Time Cow - Yellow and Purple Equals Yurple (7" Dubplate Edit)

Time Cow – Exclusive End of Summer Mix for zweikommasieben.

http://www.zweikommasieben.ch/en/time-cow-exclusive-mix

September 2017. 

Tracklist: 
AIDONIA - ART OF WAR
MOVADO - STIFF NECKED FOOLS
VYBZ KARTEL FT TOMMY LEE - BLOODBATH
TOMMY LEE - SPARTA DON
AIDONIA - BANGA
DEABLO - BAD COMPANY
TOMMY LEE - MANIAC
TOMMY LEE - DARK CLOUD
AIDONIA - DEM BADNESS FRAUD
SHOKRYME - RUN GO
VYBZ KARTEL - DEM FRAID A MI
AIDONIA - DARK CLOUDS
DEABLO - SPAIN TOWN
SUHVERTO - STEP PON BWOY
AIDONIA - BOLT ACTION
VYBZ KARTEL - BUSS MY GUN
SHOKRYME FT FRISCO - DROP
MUNGA - DOUBLE TROUBLE
DEVA BRATT - WAR START AGAIN
AIDONIA - NUH EMPTY GUN
VYBZ KARTEL - GUN SESSION REMIX
VYBZ KARTEL - READY FI BUSS IT

Time Cow - End of Summer Mix for zweikommasieben

0.00 Mind:Body:Fitness - Unfinished Ritual
4.55 Fraencis - Black Hair, Mind:Body:Fitness Edit 
7.26 Mind:Body:Fitness - Untitled ft Cha Cha 
9.40 Mind:Body:Fitness - Eternity Without Weight ft Cha Cha
13:20 Mind:Body:Fitness - Taken 
15:50 Mind:Body:Fitness - Neiga Neiga ft Cha Cha, Live @ Creamcake 
21:00 Mind:Body:Fitness - #B01 Live @ Creamcake
24:50 Mind:Body:Fitness- Waiting Rooms 
27:50 Mind:Body:Fitness - Yu ft Cha Cha 
31:25 Mind:Body:Fitness - #Rainforest part 1, Live @ Creamcake 
34:50 Mind:Body:Fitness -  #Rainforest part 2, Live @ Creamcake 
39:55 Mind:Body:Fitness - Body Work 
44:47 Mind:Body:Fitness - Leaving You
48:39 Mind:Body:Fitness - Serpentine Haze
51:22 Aisha Devi - Mazda, Mind:Body:Fitness Remix 
55:48 Mind:Body:Fitness - #V1.0self

MBF 2017

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Präsens Editionen was founded in 2011 to give home to zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since a bunch of magazines, books, zines, records, tapes and oddities have been published.

zweikommasieben is a Swiss magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sounds since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays and columns as well as photography, illustration and graphics. In addition zweikommasieben curates and organizes a variety of events—for example Ebbing Sounds, a symposium that initially was held in the summer of 2018 in San Francisco, or the biennial London-based festival Oto Nove Swiss.

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