The part where they talk about negative reviews starts here. (Btw, I give this RA Exchange 1 out of 5 stars (or a 1.346 in RA terms) for clear indication of audio chapters.) ;)

Documentaries

Gabrielle Kwarteng on Refuge Worldwide: 12/10/21

The 600th episode of the Exchange marks a pivot in Resident Advisor’s audio coverage. Source Material, one of our new series, moves towards in-depth, documentary-style reports on the electronic music community and beyond. For the inaugural edition of Source Material, we invite perspectives from Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis with over 1.5 million displaced refugees.

Starting in 2014, Kyiv became a global dance music destination, due to its world-class venues and festivals, plus the government’s relatively hands-off approach towards enforcing social gathering regulations during Covid. Many flocked to its dance floors during a time when other countries operated under stringent lockdowns, and interest in the city only continued to grow. But the promise of Kyiv’s fertile club scene has been completely decimated by the war.

Those who made the community so vibrant are now faced with  the unimaginable decision to either flee or fight. The voices within this episode include Timur, known as the producer John Object, an affiliate of CXEMA, who is defending his country as part of the Territorial Defense Force, and Margareeta, RA’s City Manager for Kyiv, who discusses the emotional toll of fleeing from the war. Woven throughout are also interviews with anti-war protestors in the streets of Berlin and the volunteers helping refugees at the city’s main train stations.

Guests: John Object, Margarita Evi
Interviewer: Whitney Wei

Tracklist: 
John Object - Draft (2010)
John Object - Xanax & Silk (Live) (2016)
John Object - Kiss (2018)

EX.600 Source Material: Kyiv’s Club Community, Fractured By War

Collaboration is intrinsic to creative jobs. Whether you're a lone wolf or a team player, it's impossible to avoid partnerships and group coordination. But working with other people can get messy, especially when ego is involved. As part of Resident Advisor's ongoing collaboration with Black Minds Matter, this episode of the Exchange explores how alliances affect an artist's craft and wellbeing. In separate conversations with UK singer-songwriter Aluna and Hamburg-based DJ crew SLIC Unit, host Vanessa Maria asks them about the challenges of building collectively versus individually.

For SLIC Unit, being part of a network is all about mutual trust. Each person brings different talents to the table so it's important to reinforce each another while streamlining the decision-making process, founding members Nissa and SENU describe. "Being together or being in a collective always means more work," they say, referring to the need for clear communication, empathy and making time for everyone's projects. SLIC Unit practices what they call "radical solidarity," a support system that reduces chaos and stress while enabling them to have fun while working.

Aluna, on the other hand, has a solo career in addition to being one-half of the duo AlunaGeorge. For her, going solo meant confronting her relationship with fear. Being in a band provided her with a sense of safety but that ultimately became a warning bell, she explains. "I knew that I was using it as a safety net from a place of either displacement or fear," she continues, alluding to her issues with racism and sexism. At the end of the day, it's important for artists to establish stability and security within themselves before they can join a group, she notes.

For more insights on how creatives can preserve authenticity and self-worth in a team environment or on their own, listen to the hour-long podcast.

EX.612 Source Material: Collaboration & Mental Health

Faced with shrinking margins and higher rents, event organisers are finding new ways to keep the party going.

As the cost of living crisis continues to eat into club land, promoters around the world are increasingly being forced to adapt to shrinking margins. This new episode of Source Material, our documentary-style podcast series, shines a spotlight on Glasgow, Taipei and Chicago, where local organisers are testing out unconventional forms of inclusive promotion in response to widespread economic uncertainty. 

In Glasgow, Han Read runs a monthly night called Events Research Programme that operates off a Patreon subscription model. Bonjour, meanwhile, is a queer venue in the Scottish city that runs as a co-op, sharing a minimum 50 percent of its profits among staff in an effort to acquire more financial freedom. In Taipei, venue 23 Music Room is using its non-traditional business model to bolster the next generation of promoters while RA contributor Steve Noah describes the state of DIY parties in Chicago.

Listen to the full conversation for details on each of these scenes.

Producer: Rose Manson
Executive Producer: Martha Pazienti Caidan

EX.637 Source Material: Sustainable Promotion

Sacred Pools is a monthly show, rotating between DJ October, Faso and Toshiki Ohta. All three hosts showcase a varied and intriguing combination of music on the Sacred Pools show - from harshly metallic noise rock, unhinged post-punk, chillingly minimal synth, breakbeat rave and pervy wedding disco.

https://www.nts.live/shows/sacred-pools/episodes/sacred-pools-15th-december-2022

Sacred Pools w/ Faso 151222

Since at least the 1970s, artists have composed music for plants. From Mort Garson’s Plantasia to dublab's Plant Music compilation, albums recorded with nature in mind often intend to stimulate growth or simply entertain leafy creatures. This episode of Source Material, a documentary-style series, explores the symbiotic links between electronic music and house plants.

Diving into the world of frequencies and root systems, @martharadio speaks to various experts to learn how nature responds to ambient tunes and synthesisers. Among them are biotherapeutic musician Imka, Joe Patitucci of PlantWave, an app that translates plants' biorhythms into music, sound artist Karine Bonneval and composer Erland Cooper.

To discover how bass frequencies mimic bees and why festivals are adopting sonic soil pollution, listen to the episode.

EX.641 Source Material: Plants and Electronic Music

For the first time in a decade Tr One performed live , on the Sunday evening of OE '22 delivering an hour of machine soul, slowly but surely heating up the dancefloor as we went into the closing stretch of the festival.

Tr One Live @ Open Ear '22

In honour of World Radio Day—which landed on February 13th—this week’s RA Exchange celebrates the power of radio in a documentary-style deep dive. UNESCO inaugurated World Radio Day in 2011 in order to commemorate its efficacy in reaching remote communities, connecting with people everywhere regardless of their education level, and providing a platform for positive and democratic discourse. It's also critical in spreading critical information during times of crisis or emergency. According to UNESCO, "increasing radio's journalistic standards and capacity should be considered as an investment in peace."

On a more modest level, podcasting and radio, especially in the world of underground music, can help forge in-person and virtual networks and celebrate and spread new and lesser-known music. During the pandemic, it also held together underground music scenes when people couldn't be together in the club, and sustained a kind of intimacy and connection by letting people share music over the airwaves and community platform chat rooms. 

In this episode, we hear from various radio producers around the world—including Jamz Supernova, Hana Walker Brown, Dublab Barcelona and Hong Kong Community Radio, among others—about why radio resonates so strongly with them. "Good radio is always an exercise in connection, especially host-led radio,” says Rory Bowens, NTS’s Head of Radio Production. “The fact that it's a live experience is really crucial. People can listen to something in real time with a huge audience of other listeners at the same time, and that intrinsically connects them to each other." Take a listen to the episode in full.

EX.648 Source Material: The Power of Radio in Times of Crisis

1   G-Prod — Biomatic
2   ESS — Thermo Drive
3   Cignol — Echus Chasma
4   DGT — Ephemeral
5   LEGACY — Black Cemet
6   G-Prod — Boiling Bubble (Reedale Rise Remix)
7   Nullptr — Reunion
8   Rekab — Too much time
9   Splitradix - 3350 Beach Electronic
10  Obergman — Seemingly Coincidental
11  Armec — Zeal
12  Kalcagni — It Knows Me Bad
13  Resocode - Parallax
14  Hex Editor — Pop n Lockdown
15  Nørus, Dj Whipr Snipr — Gravel Or Grovel
16  Sound Synthesis — Necessary Order
17  Versalife — Altered Perception
18  aroma pitch — Portal
19  Relpek — Celestial
20  Haron — Rotate
21  Featherstone — Amber
22  Kosh — Special Delivery
23  Locked Club - Baikal Boogie
24  Hermeth - Berlin Sunrise
25  Boulderhead - Framework
26  Aloka - XTX3
27  Bottle Pop TMSV Bottle Pop
28  Client 03 — Compliance
29  Ben Pest - Robotic Sales (Acid Redux)
30  My Style (The Exaltics Alternate Remix - Digital Bonus)
31  Madteo — We Doubt (You Can Make It)
32  James Shinra — Interstellar
33  Ed Chamberlain - Somefind

Electro Inspired Goodness - August 2023

This set was recorded using two organic ipa-soaked v-neck t-shirts and an analogue sourdough rotary mixer in a craft-beer co-working vintage bike repair shop söder om söder.

01. Mind Over MIDI - Words Come Later [Beatservice Records - 1998]
02. Two Lone Swordsmen - Bim, Jack And Florence [Emissions Audio Output - 1996]
03. Sun Electric - Eya (Flow Mix 2) [Apollo - 1997]
04. Two Lone Swordsmen - No Red Stopping [Warp Records - 1998]
05. Stephan G - Nowhere To Go [Svek - 1997]
06. Uusitalo - Between Kate And Naomi [Force Inc. Music Works - 2000]
07. Closed Circuit - Seawulf [Raw Elements - 1996]
08. AR006351 - Riding On A Plane [Logic Records - 1996].
09. The Horrorist - One Night In N.Y.C. (Ricardo Villalobos Remix) [Superstar Recordings - 2000]
10. Rotortype - Be Yourself (Robert Leiner Be Myself Mix) [Planet Rhythm Records - 1995]
11. Age - Near Dark [Force Inc. Music Works - 1998]
12. Seducer - Download [M-Track - 1996]
13. Abstract Arts - Musik Aus Strom [Lyrical Robot Records - 1997]
14. A.D. - Not For Release Traxx [Loop Records - 1995]
15. Octave One - Modernism [430 West - 1997]
16. Ken Ishii - Echo Exit (Jeroen Verheij Remix Edit) [R&S Records - 1997]
17. Air Liquide - Live In New York City 1994 Part 3 [Rising High Records - 1995]
18. Hardfloor - Beavis At Bat (Swag Touch 2nd Base Mix) [Harthouse - 1996]
19. Joel Mull - Läsk 001 [Läsk - 1997]
20. Japanese Telecom - Rising Sun Game Player (John Selway Remix) [Intuit-Solar - 2000]

Hjärngymnastik 254: Cryoterapeutisk V-ringning

Stellar OM Source is a producer who never sits still. Always growing with each new release, the French woman arrived on a wave of dreamy and evocative synth pieces then went on to make Drexcyian techno and acid laced sci-fi soundtracks. She’s done so over the course of eight albums and a handful of EPs mostly on Rvng Intl. and though quiet on the release front for the last couple of years, she still serves up compelling club sets. 

Her mix here is a short, snappy and freaky one that leaves you wanting more. It’s a  selection composed entirely of Belgian music because, she says, "I wanted to give back some love to the people of the country where I live. So many great talents and so much inspiration. Most tracks have been given by the producers themselves." From frazzled industrial techno to haunting EBM, sparse atmospheric tracks to groaning electronics, it packs a lot in over a short time and is utterly refreshing.

Dekmantel Podcast 144 - Stellar OM Source

Among other things, this month's show will be asking: what are negative reviews good for? 

For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=377

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EX.377 The Hour: Psychology of raving, Sydney, negative reviews

Club Chai co-founder FOOZOOL turns in a crushing blend of club pressure and head-twisting experimentation.

For more information head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/09/17/foozool-club-chai-lara-sarkissian-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 671 - FOOZOOL (Sept '18)

29set2018 @ LAUT

Huerco S (DJ set) 29.09.2018 @ LAUT Barcelona

Rinse FM Podcast

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Cocktail d'Amore with Juan Ramos - Friday 7th June 2019

A pillar of dance music history reflects on thirty years of Inner City.

For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=462

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EX.462 Kevin Saunderson

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EX.377 The Hour: Psychology of raving, Sydney, negative reviews

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