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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

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

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

Musical peregrinations from Gabi, guiding listeners through new wave, post punk and synth.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/gabi/episodes/gabi-18th-september-2023

Gabi 180923

Mike Tansella Jr - Mutants broadcast from Zweiners (berlin) [17.09.2023]

- DALLAS ACID'S BUBBLE CLUB - Peace III
 - CUMBAYA - Il n'y a pas de Raison
 - DECISIVE PINK - Voice Message
 - BO HARDWOOD & JOHN CASSAVETES - No One Around To Hear It
 - BEN CHASNY & RICK TOMLINSON - Waking of Insects
 - MARTYNA BASTA - Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering
 - BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL - Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom
 - JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN - Mole in the Ground
 - LA BARACANDE - Ce sont trois jeunes garçons
 - CHARLENE DARLING - Tout S'efface
 - SOURDURENT - Fuelha de Peira, Peira de Bost
 - Bless the Weak (AMOR FATI Extended)
 - FRANCE SAUVAGE - Otis Lélé
 - FROID DUB - Bass
 - NDOX ELECTRIQUE - Lëk Ndau Mbay
 - PESSIMISTE - Empty Words
 - ROTER STERN BELGRAD - Ta Ku Sey
 - LUST PATTERN - It's Right There in Front of You
 - PMXPER - Lavender Milk
 - CHARLENE DARLING - Une nuit sans amour
 - DWIGHT SYKES - You That I Need
 - SMAGGHE & CROSS (Version) - Eoanthropus Dawsoni 
 - RICK TOMLINSON - Final Sunrise Morning
 - FAUZIA - It's Ok

RIFF RUFF [Radio] #021 on LyL Radio - 12/12/23

SAGA #16 w/ Orwurm - 10/12/2023

Happy new year and happy new TAPE, by Aina Climent.

Aina Climent is a visual artist whose work is closely tied to music through album covers, videos, among other things. She is also a music selector and co-founder of the collectives Cercle Sonor and Fase REM, dedicated to deep listening and the promotion of experimental music on her native island, Mallorca.

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Dreaming awake at the end of time.

For this mix, I have curated a collection of recent favorites inspired by the concept and sounds of the label: a selection of ambient and experimental electronic music, with sonic nuances ranging from new age, leftfield, spoken word, through musique concrète, abstract, minimal, or sound collage, and even including more pop or rock sounds.

An interpretation of what could be the sonic landscape we traverse in our transition between sleep and wakefulness, from the hypnagogic zone to the REM phase. A space-time continuum where the world and time seem to pause, revealing the voices and images of our deepest fears and desires. A journey that spans from the most private dreams to the possibility of collective dreaming.

The title of the mix comes from a lecture by the polymath and psychonaut Terence McKenna, which has also served as the starting point for this mixtape:

It's not the black side. It’s not the white side. It's the interface. It's the edge. “While sleeping, watch”. And I've noticed that, while going to sleep, there is a barrier, a place in the process of going to sleep, that is like a mercurial edge. It’s a river. It's a zone of hypnagogia. You often pass through it post orgasm. It's a place of drifting, amoeboid, colored after-image lights, and then: true hallucination. Images. Strange, transcendental, or transpersonal images.

Tracklist
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Guillermo Cazenave – Mandala Fiel
Severine Beata, Javi Álvarez – Lume
Terence McKenna – Dreaming Awake at the End of Time (excerpt)
S.C. Sharma – After the War
Kevin McCormick – A Little Space
Alberto Lizarralde – Plegaria
Voice Actor – Daydream
Fatima Al Qadiri – Qasmuna (Dreaming)
Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen – Internal Logic II
Miradasvacas – VIII
Freundliche Kreisel – Traumlied
Fiesta en el Vacío – Canto de Ordeño
Svitlana Nianio – Episode III
Carla dal Forno – Slumber (feat. Thomas Bush) 
Careless Hands – Dream My Dream

TAPE 010 — Aina Climent

Lucy Park - Heads Radio 137 - 21.02.24

Heads Show 137 21.02.24

20h – 21h – Drogded LIVE
21h – 22h – Lucy Park
22h – 23h – Don Kashew

https://www.sameheads.com/headsradio

Lucy Park - Heads Radio 137 - 21.02.24

"They sprouted through my skull and suddenly I was no longer in control."  
Archive for Party Socks [here](https://www.nts.live/shows/party-socks) 
https://www.nts.live/shows/corticeps/episodes/corticeps-25th-february-2024

CORTICEPS 023 W/ MINUS KENDAL & SATAN CLUB (LIVE) 250224

Domestic Mind Wandering  w/ Carac 27.02.24

What makes community radio so crucial in times of crisis?

For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=513

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EX.513 The Hour: The Power Of Radio

Like the translation behind her solo project, Finnish sound artist Cucina Povera, real name Maria Rossi, uses simple yet high quality ingredients to create her beautiful, emotive compositions.

Formerly operating out of Glasgow and now based in Luxembourg, Maria released her first long player via Night School, a label who would become a home for two more albums, the most recent of which landed in March of this year. Matching her hypnotic choral vocals with electronic experimentation, field recordings and sparse minimal soundscapes, Maria sculpts haunting, stirring sounds that compel you to sit and listen.  

Off the back of her latest album Tynni, we invited Maria to take the reigns for this week's Monday Is OK mix. Titled Moskito's Daydream, the mix is breezy and meditative, and features demos from both herself and friends as well as favourites both old and new...

Cucina Povera: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

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EX.513 The Hour: The Power Of Radio

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