RA Exchange Archive [Episodes 100-600]

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RA.EX.586 Mark Clifford (Seefeel)

artist statement:

I don’t think it’s a stretch for me to say that I really enjoy making mixes. I like challenging myself while exploring different sounds and rhythms and mixes give me a chance to play around without the added pressure of the dance floor. Context is key and in this regard, I always try to take into the consideration the environment the mixes are consumed by the listener. So I tend to make more headier mixes due to them probably being listened to at home or maybe work. I started this one out coming in a little “hot” before getting into the headier bits about a third of the way in. I did this because I wanted the momentum to carry though the headier section of the mix before bringing it slightly up again. I feel it helps the listener stay focused and engaged to the very end. - @craig-gonzalez

Tracklist:

Elemnt - Octagon #3
Alternate Current - Suspended in That Silent Place
Varuna - Ney
Erik Luebs - Ascending Bubbles
Wata Igarashi - Mood of the Machines Part I
D’Marc Cantu & Danny Passarella - 080
Forest on Stasys - Neon Portal
Refracted - Neo Cavern
DYL + DB1 - ECOU #12
Amanda & Karim - Sqala 3 (Forest Drive West remix)
Nekyia - Vurrgh
PhonoTropismi - Saphileaum - Blue State
Crossing Avenue - Fucco Freddo
Ricardo Garduno - Took Smiles Away
Irazu - Enduring Form (Pessimist Remix)
kuf - Konflikt
Dino Sabatini - Icaro

Artwork by ACE

The Bunker Podcast 220

The Bunker Podcast 220: Craig Gonzalez

This year’s first edition of my Voyage de Lux radio show is now available for streaming from the 1BTN audio clouds.
A deep acid-laced exploration through Electronica, Hardcore loops, Techno-breaks, Electro rhythms, Dub-Techno & IDM. 
It features some tight remixes (one from from ERP, the other by Aphex Twin), a cosmic classic from Mixmaster Morris, more than a few punchy productions from the man like MOY, a timeless track from The Black Dog, the recent release on EON recordings from Brummie talent Jayson Wynters, a classy 90’s gem from Steve Rachmad, and a killer cut from another dutch maverick - Martyn,  plus the usual sprinkling of tracks from The Advent, Sansibar, 214 & Adapta.
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01 In Sync - Storm (E.R.P. Reinvention) | @last-known-trajectory
02 Saint Etienne - Your Head My Voice (Voix Revirement) | @heavenlyrecordings
03 @nothusworld - Sesso Orazio feat Delikwe | @midnight-shift Records
04 @moy - Megatherium | Batrachian
05 @theirresistibleforce - Space Is The Place (Intergalactic Ambient Mix) | @rising-high-records
06 @moy - Dream Coast | Emotec
07 @ruffien - Old Ways | @deeptraxrecords
08 @overmono - BMW Track | Poly Kicks
+ The House Crew - The Message | Production House
09 @moy - Chrysopoeia | Dynamics Of Acid
10 Sonar Base - The Journey Home | @deeptraxrecords
11 @siliconscally - Magnified | @scsi-av
12 Peak:Shift @simon-flower / Clone - Behavioural Contrast | Nurture
13 Martyn @3024world - EF40 | Dolly Dubs @dolly-records
14 Rich P & Lee - Ate My Heart | Deeptrax Jax @deeptraxrecords
15 The Black Dog - Virtual | Black Dog Productions
16 @shadowacid - Timescape | @exaltrecords
17 Sansibar @sunnysibar - Game Over | Avoidance
18 @adapta - Adapta 2 Untitled | Brutalist Sunset
19 CRISPR - Lamarckian Mechanism | Clone West Coast Series @clone-nl
20 The Advent @ciscoadvent - Vengeance | @kombinationresearch
21 214 @214_electro - Miami Nights | @frustratedfunk
22 Sound Synthesis @sound-synthesis-official - Love Drones | @spaceshepherdmusic
23 Jayson Wynters @jwynters - Filtered Xploits | EON @afuturedimension
24 @reedalerise - Coral | @innate-recordings
25 Rich P & Lee - Nergi Flo | Deeptrax Records
26 @merv-music - Enter | Kontakt Records
27 @monolake - Tangent II | Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
28 Parallel 9 @steverachmad - Quantico | Prime
29 Joey Beltram - Drome | Warp Records
30 Function @infrastructure-new-york - An Optical Illusion Of Consciousness | @tresorberlin
31 @conrad-van-orton, @vsk_crs - Interaction | @modularz
32 ADSX - DSL 25 (Original Mix) | Injection Records
33 @antigone - Lonely Places | Indigo Aera @aex-records @maarten_mittendorff

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Voyage De Lux with Alex Downey - 26.01.2022

"My real gift is arrangement." William Orbit opens up on his 40-year career. 
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Born in Hackney, London, in 1956, Orbit has been writing, producing and arranging music for four decades. With almost 1,200 credits to his name on Discogs, his vast and varied body of work spans classical, pop and electronic. He produced for some of pop music's most seminal artists—Madonna, All Saints, Blur, Robbie Williams, Pink—as well as being, as his interviewer Matt McDermott explains, "one of the most prolific electronic music remixers of the '90s." He released 11 solo albums and seven collaborative albums—as part of Torch Song, Strange Cargo and Bassomatic—and founded Guerilla Studios in the '80s, working with artists like Cabaret Voltaire and Gary Numan. In 1995, Orbit released the Pieces In A Modern Style LP, which paved the way for musicians like Nils Frahm and Jon Hopkins, who bring together classical arrangements with electronic production in revelatory ways. 

The journalist Kate Hutchinson described Orbit as "the Mark Ronson or Jack Antonoff of his day." But as this conversation with RA highlights, Orbit is once again enjoying his day. Having, in his own words, "spent 20 years becoming disengaged," he has just put out his first solo release in seven years—the Sunbeam EP on Anjunadeep—and things are feeling good. "I know how to have fun," he said. 

In conversation with McDermott, Orbit shares stories about his fascinating career, how to make a great record, working with Madonna and how to stay relevant in a fickle industry.  


Tracklist:
William Orbit - Diso [Anjunadeep]
William Orbit - Wordsworth [Anjunadeep]

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EX.596 William Orbit

Suzi Analogue spoke with Kadallah Burrowes about using her label Never Normal to champion innovative Black creators.  

Suzi Analogue is a loudspeaker for innovative Black creators. In this week's RA Exchange, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records speaks with trans-disciplinary artist, musician, creative technologist Kadallah Burrowes about championing art from across the African diaspora. This is the first of two Exchanges hosted by Burrowes, who, next week, will be exploring the term "Afrofuturism" in an audio documentary that forms part of our celebration of Black History Month in the US. 

Suzi Analogue first experienced club and electronic music in her hometown of Baltimore. Starting out in her teens as a songwriter and producer, her engagement with creative platforms online led to her involvement in events and community radio while studying in Philadelphia.  

It was when she moved to The Bronx in New York that Analogue first started to feel there wasn't space for young and innovative Black electronic artists to showcase their work. As she played shows abroad and across Europe, she felt encouraged to start a platform of her own, a space to build her own archive and celebrate fellow artists. In 2014, she launched her label Never Normal, a commitment to bolstering Black femme-identifying people to advocate for music, whether through running labels, parties or just shouting about the new music you love. Since its launch, the label has featured work from artists in Atlanta, Oakland, Chicago, Brooklyn, Miami and more. "They're originators in their cities," she explained. "Never Normal is a journey that's building over time." 

In conversation with Burrowes, Analogue discussed the politics of Black futurism, travelling to Uganda as a US state department cultural diplomat and the importance of capturing and echoing ancestral messages through art and sound. 

Tracklist:
Suzi Analogue - Slow [Never Normal]

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EX.597 Suzi Analogue

Kadallah Burrowes explores the term "Afrofuturism" with the help of Suzi Analogue, Neema Githere, Mia Imani Harrison and Jackie Queens.

This past Juneteenth, Burrowes held a digital event called A Moment In Between (after which this podcast is named) at COMMON, a digital club that forms part of Currents.FM. It was, in their words, "a digital pan-African celebration of Black liberation." The interviewees in this week's Exchange all helped make A Moment In Between possible: artists Jackie Queens and Suzi Analogue, plus cultural critics Neema Githere and Mia Imani Harrison. 

In this documentary-style podcast, which forms part of our celebration of Black Futures Month in the US, Burrowes et al. discuss the term "Afrofuturism. They discuss its imperfect, controversial nature (it was coined by a white academic), how it intersects with electronic music and its relationship to the legacy of the writer Octavia Butler. 

Last week's Exchange saw Burrowes in conversation with Analogue, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records. This week, Analogue delves deeper into her connection to the concept of Afrofuturism. "Afrofuturism to me is just being Black," she said. "It's a bunch of things. Self-determination, self-preservation and self-expression." 

Born in Nairobi and now based in Brooklyn, Neema Githere is a guerrilla theorist who works within the digital diaspora. In 2017, Githere coined the term "Afropresentism," which presents the idea that the Afrofuturism being theorised in the '90s and early '00s exists here and now. "Afrofuturism is concerned with space," Githere said. "Afropresentism is concerned with earth." 

Mia Imani Harrison is an interdisciplinary artist and conceptual creator working within dream technology. Her part in A Moment In Between saw COMMON, which had primarily been a space for music, become a place for Black people to come and talk about their dreams. Harrison's understanding of Afrofuturism began with "intergalactic Black folks" in music—Sun Ra, Grace Jones, Parliament-Funkadelic—and has grown into an interest in artists that build worlds and galaxies in their work. "I've always been interested in expanding our concept of the realities we exist within," she said. "Especially as Black people, because we're already told what we can and cannot do, and the perimeters of the spaces that we exist in." 

The final speaker is Jackie Queens, singer, songwriter, label and agency founder, and community member of Currents.FM and electronic music network female:pressure. Queens' thoughts about Afrofuturism tie in with Githere's Afropresentism. "People say Africa is the future," Queens said. "But I don't like to look at it that way. I always feel like we're the present."

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EX.598 A Moment In Between

The jungle and drum & bass pioneer—and captivating storyteller—unpacks his life, career and new book.

Alongside peers like Fabio, Grooverider, Jumping Jack Frost, Randall, Micky Finn, LTJ Bukem and Nicky Blackmarket, Ray Keith played a leading role as jungle took over London in the mid '90s. His new autobiographical book, Dark Soldier, is a reflection on his life: his personal journey, his career, the highs and lows, and the many people who have influenced him. It's also the story of how he and the scene moved from analogue into electronic music. 

"I was in the right place at the right time," he said in this week's Resident Advisor Exchange, referring to the many Monday nights spent at Heaven in London, catching sets from the likes of Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold and Paul "Trouble" Anderson. "I was a purist, absorbing the sounds." 

Keith has put out so many records over the years, under so many different aliases, that he's lost count. He's also had radio shows on Vibe FM, Kiss FM and recently Thames Delta radio, cofounded a booking agency and headed up several record labels. He's a legend in the scene with a wealth of stories to tell.  

In this week's Exchange, Keith talks about growing up in Colchester, the importance of record stores as a community hub, dubplate culture, how music saved his life and the thrill of watching his daughter, AKA LO Selecta, play her first DJ set.

Tracklist:
Dark Soldier - Need Me (Forthcoming)
Dark Soldier - Newman Elec (Forthcoming)

EX.599 Ray Keith

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Optimistic Decay w/ Silent Servant 080322

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

Chris Clark's music is hard to describe, but if you wanted to explain it to an electronic music fan, you might use the dreaded term "IDM" to encompass the many strange and alluring records, some frantic, some chill, the UK producer has put out through Warp over the years. We can be a bit more specific: he uses field recordings, out-there drum patterns and all kinds of hardware (seriously, there's a lot) to make make meticulously processed music, some of which you can dance to. Lately, though, he's turned his attention to classical music, scoring films and televisions shows and culminating in last year's Playground In A Lake for vaunted label Deutsche Grammophon, which featured guests like AFRODEUTSCHE and Oliver Coates and a member of Grizzly bear on a moving, string and horns-led suite about climate change.

You hear all these ideas at once on Clark's stirring RA Podcast, which features music, as he explains, from 1922 all the way to 2022. Classical rubs elbows with Burial and Ricardo Villalobos, as once familiar tracks melt into new (mis)shapes. It also features plenty of Clark originals—maybe some glimpsse of the new album? The best part isn't even the formidable selections, but the way he puts it altogether. Far from a seamless DJ mix, this one is full of peaks and valleys and clever transitions that'll make you check the tracklist and wonder what you just heard. It's the kind of all-over-the-place mix that captures the brilliance of Clark's in a DJ format. Maybe he should do this more often.

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Relaxer & mayilovesummer reprise their b2b / Earthen Sea celebrates the release of "Ghost Poems" on Kranky with a live set

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Dripping feat Relaxer b2b mayilovesummer + Earthen Sea live @ The Lot Radio 04 - 09 - 2022

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'Historically, music only really gets interesting when the British get involved and this was a very British musical revolution.'

1. Depeche Mode - Oberkorn
2. Xerox Girls - Erase Me
3. Human League - The Dignity Of Labour: Part 1
4. Soft Cell - Metro Mr. X
5. Naked Lunch - Slipping Again
6. Robert Rental & Thomas Leer - Day Breaks, Night Heals
7. Clock Dva - 4 Hours
8. Blancmange - Running Thin
9. Patrik Fitzgerald - One Little Soldier
10. They Must Be Russians - Nagasaki's Children
11. Chris & Cosey - Walking Through Heaven
12. Hula - Poison
13. Portion Control - Havoc Man
14. New Order - Temptation Of Evil Dust
15. Nitzer Ebb  - Warsaw Ghetto
16. Final Program - Protect & Survive
17. The The - Cold Spell Ahead
18. Cabaret Voltaire - Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself)
19. Vice Versa - Stilyagi
20. Duet Emmo - Heart Of Hearts (Or So It Seems)

High-Rise Living 78-86 [Part 1] - compiled by The Black Dog & Regis

It was local word of mouth that elevated Australian @katemiller from local to international notoriety. Her ability to fluidly jump genres and eras always leaves dance floors in a spin, and after emerging in Melbourne she followed the music to Berlin when she eventually became resident at the Oscillate party at ://about blank. Those sets allowed her the freedom to explore and pick up a fan base, and now she is someone who tells long and winding stories, with selections and feelings that define her sets more than tempo or technicality.

The 90 minute session Kate lays down for us is perfectly warm and rhythmic. It's united by rubbery kicks and deep, warm sub bass, but ever changing kick patterns and synths that range from absorbing and ambient to dark and paranoid always keep things moving. It is the sound of a DJ who is always in control, a masterclass in tension and release that means you're always on the edge, excited for what is to come.

Tracklist: 
FFT - Forward
Ulla - Leaves and Wish
D. Tiffany - 4leaf
DJ Sacom - Wisdom
DJ Python - ooophi 
Toma Kami - Unreleased
ITOA - Top Deck
Spooky - J - Pfer
YOUTH - Diamonds
Facta - 4C Loop
Cop Envy - Diving Board
Mr. Mitch - Need More Fashion Friends
SP:MC - Vintage
Low End Activist - 19STR8BK
Sepehr - Unfold Your Myth
Kush Jones - Pre-Club Workout (feat. DJ Swisha & James Bangura)
James Bangura - Broken Mind
Jana Rush - Midline Shift
DJ Fulltono - Melt into the Floor
Raime - Ripli
SNKLS - Isandula
Flore - Uncoded Language 
FFT - Fask
Toma Kami - Unreleased
El Trick - Ko ko dak dak
J. Majik - Hold You
exael - Composure
Kate Miller - Parker Street

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Donato Dozzy joins the Samurai Music Podcast for a purely 170 excursion. Renowned as a master of weaving deep, seamless, journey mixes across multiple tempos utilising vinyl as his preferred format, this contribution to our mix series explores the 170 tempo in a deliciously hypnotic fashion.

Donato Dozzy - The Tao [SMDE19] is released on 27.11.2020
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