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31 10 21  Weird Uma by Paolov
Wizards, Witches and Magic Potions...

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2021

Weird Uma 31.10.2021- Kingsizebed Magic Potions mix

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

intonation 15 (Techno Episode)

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

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

My current mindset translated into handful of strange and uncontrolled vinyl blends through the landscape of moods. Recorded during pandemic. No edits. One take only. 

Exael - Rond
Grumptronix - Dub Sea
Absis - Sara
Big Hands - Boliviana
We will fail - Night (Eomac remix)
Blu Terra - Person Sans
Luxus Varta - Unclean
Cygnus - Deep Analysis
Assembler / Jensen - Drive Shift (The Hacker Remix)
Ayln - Victim
kirilik - Distant Call
Absurde - Wet Mallets
Laurel Halo - the light within you
Exahertz - Cygonic System

Trip To My -1

Next up on #BackDoorRadioshow guest mix, it's Colombian DJ/Producer and head of Estudio Sesion, Aurum (@aurumm). The dub techno enthusiast invites for an almost two-hour ride with a selection of old and new influences going from that dusty sound to a more fresh acid/electro vibe. Play it to explore his strained but well-curated mix.

Tracklist:
Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum - Modulareic [Polymath]
Dive Craft -Silent Storm [Space Launch]
Session Victim - In And Out [Rythm Section]
Rhauder & Paul St. Hilaire - Sidechain (Dub Version) [Ornaments]
Luke Hess - Evidence is Everywhere [Echocord]
SIT - Layers [Sushi tech]
Brian Kage - Lake FX [Michigander]
Tuneon - Mask [Envy Music]
Lunate - Los Dias Oscuros [100% Silk]
Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum - Modulareic (Nøkken 303 Remix) [Polymath]
46554E - Love Songs [COD3 QR]
Mario Penati - Dispense de Prévais [Coquelicot Records]
Subset - Pattern Juggler [Space Launch]
Mark Broom, Steve O’Sullivan - Midnight Special [Sushi Tech]
Delano Smith - Free To Explore (Makam Remix) [Sushi Tech]
Ash Lauryn - Dancin in the D [FWM]
Marco Lazovic - Missing Detroit [Snippets Music]
Renaissance - Rebecca Goldberg & Sickbok [Detroit Underground]
Alfred - Double Slit Experiment [20_20 Vision]
Fasme - Sweet Flux [Nocta Numerica]
Parallel 9 - Helix [Delsin Records]
Extrawelt - Zu Fuss [Cocoon Recordigs]
Dsum - Estratosfera [Back Door Records]
Sol Ortega - Lonley Walker [Detrit Classic Galery]
Mint Huus - Luftuberlegenheit [Cheezy Crust Records]
Conforce - Kawai [Sungate]
Khogak - Romance en el Valle [Play Function Issues]
John Tejada - Isolate [Palette Recordings]
Liam Mour - Douro (Mathew Jonson Remix) [Ode To Youth]

#BackDoorRecords

Radioshow: Episode 37 / Aurum

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

We celebrate 400 Exchanges with the Hamburg assassin. 

For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=400

@helena-hauff

RA Exchange

EX.400 Helena Hauff

This month's edition looks at one of the most controversial recreational drugs in existence.  

For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=413

EX.413 The Hour: The GHB issue

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 283: Mike Starr's Makings of a Gemini Mix

American born queer artist @kim_anh draws her roots from the underground trifecta of New York, Detroit and Chicago.  Her influences pierce through her production and song-writing, with releases on labels like Robert Johnson Live, Berlin’s own Gigolo International and Afro Acid.

Photo by Ema Discordant

Radio Buttons #66 - Kim Anh

Malta: Known for his deep take on techno (with a spicy hint of trance), its Voiski and his orchestra of machines - live from our Glitch Festival stage!

Voiski (live) | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival Day 2

Polifonic Podcast 024  - Z.I.P.P.O

Insatiable, sometimes too perfectionist, hungry for knowledge and full of resources.
This is how Z.I.P.P.O used to describe himself: the young talented producer is a well known name to Polifonic's crowd. He's one of the pivotal figure of the scene in the region and beyond.
Based between Puglia and Berlin, Z.I.P.P.O's podcast is made by deep, thoughtful electronics which weaves between elements of IDM and electro.
Check it out to explore the world of the eclectic much loved local figure he is.

Polifonic Podcast 024  - Z.I.P.P.O

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The weekly RA Exchange is a series of conversations with artists, labels and promoters shaping the electronic music landscape.

EX.413 The Hour: The GHB issue

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