RA Exchange Archive [Episodes 100-600]

A selection of my favourite new Garage House/ House & Garage tracks. I hope you enjoy, please feel free to share the sound x
 
Track list:

1. Seduction - Disclosure
2. Allure - Maxim Sinclair
3. Florida Keys - Niles Cooper 
4. In My Dreams - Crackazat
5. All I Wanna Do - Smokey Bubblin B, WZ
6. Ah - Bellaire
7. Paradise Garage - Ian Carrera
8. Do You See Me - Dem 2
9. End This Hate - Tensnake remix
10. A Decent Day - DJ Para 
11. Lets Get It - Stab Mechanics
12. That 90's Groove - Finest Wear
13. Luchini Forever - Warwick
14. Let Your Love - Dem 2
15. Where You Are - Teflon remix
16. Real Heads - Saturday Night Rush 
17. Tramonto - Katemurr
18. Plastik People - Marc Cotterell
19. Yeah Yeah - Demarkus Lewis
20. Everything I Say - Cinthie
21. Box Clever - Huxley
22. The Feeling - Liquid Phonk remix
23. 90 AA - Alex Aguayo

Fresh Garage House/ House & Garage

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EX.587 Steven Cee

GASS CLUB MIX -  DJ ROSSY CEE FT MC CREED

From the vaults and where it all started! 
Collaboration #5 with DJ Wonder. 1995 - 1997 London Underground UK Garage vinyl only mix.

'95-'97 London Underground UK Garage.

"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]

@williamorbit

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

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

Mainly late 90’s UK Garage with a few newer garage bits in the mix. Some rare and hard to find tunes that I have loved over the years. Hopefully it brings my own flavour to you and I hope you enjoy it! 😎🥳

#ukg #ukgarage #vinyl #garagemusic #undergroundmusic #mix #houseandgarage

UK Garage Slammers Vol 1 *Vinyl Only*

Originally posted here: http://www.thebeatsanctuary.co.uk/archive/sunday-gass-the-gass-club-london. I'm reposting on soundcloud in the hope that someone can id some of these tracks. If that isn't cool I will take it down.

DJ Hermit Mix circa 1995

Mixed By Ricardo 'Da Rhythm' on 13/07/2010

All Tracks Released in 1995.. Includes choons from Grant Nelson, MAW, Tuff Jam, Smack, Todd Edwards & More

If you're feeling the vibes please give it a re-post... Thank you!!! ;)
 
And don't forget to catch me live in the mix every Tuesday 5-6PM (GMT) on WWW.D3EP.COM

1.   Cherie Lee - Love Me Or Leave Me
2.   Grant Nelson – Track 101
3.   Sanza Digabla – Midnight Calling
4.   Kenlou – Gimme Groove
5.   Alex Tepper - Just For Sweat
6.   4th Measure Men – The Need (MK Original Mix)
7.   Deep Sensation – Better Love
8.   The Ambassadors Of Swing - Coming Up (Halfway Dub Mix)
9.   Smokin Beats - Jazz House
10. MAW Feat. India – I Can’t Get No Sleep (Her Fantasy Mix)
11. Tuff Jam Feat. Tyree Cooper – History Of House Music
12. The Ride Committee – Accident (Todd Edwards Remix)
13. Darryl D’Bonneau – Say You’re Gonna Stay (Smack Mix)
14. Barbara Tucker – Stay Together (G Funk Mix)
15. Blak Beat Niks – He’s The Man
16. Danny J. Lewis - Work It
17. Karen Pollard – Reach Out To Me
18. The Jam Experience - U Gotta Reach
19. DJ Disciple – When The Music Stops (Todd Edwards Remix)
20. Soul II Soul – Love Enuff (Mike & Matty Remix)
21. Chicago People – Love Changes (Smack Club Mix)
22. Kalani Bob & Remegel – Deep Breath
23. Gruv’n Disco Affair  – You Don’t Want To Lose It (Todd Edwards Remix)
24. DJ Disciple – Keep On Moving

Back to '95

More Underground House & Garage in the mix.... Strictly 1993-96 Vybes

Features Tracks from Grant Nelson, Tuff Jam, 95 North, MK, Jazz-N-Groove, MAW, Todd Edwards, etc... ENJOY!! :))

Don't forget to catch me live in the mix every Tuesday 5-6PM (GMT) on WWW.D3EP.COM

Underground Grooves Vol. 4

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Garage Hour: Ramsey & Fen (100% Productions) - 13 April 2020

A 50 minute one-on one-off mix of Undertone Vs. Ice Cream Records releases. Includes two exclusive previews of trax from the new Undertone "Cycles EP", due out on Ice Cream in July.

1. R.I.P. Productions "Mellow Works" [Ice Cream]
2. Undertone "Flashback" [Breaking Down]
3. Andy Mowat "Give Ya Funk" [Boom City / Ice Cream]
4. Undertone "Sexy Thing" (Original) [Breaking Down]
5. R.I.P. "Burning Up" [Ice Cream]
6. Undertone "I Can Make It Right" [Breaking Down]
7. R.I.P. Productions "Obsessed" (R.I.P. Dub) [Ice Cream]
8. Undertone "Jerzzey Dub" [Breaking Down]
9. R.I.P. "Take A Chance" [Ice Cream]
10. Undertone "What?" (DJ $ki remix) [Ice Cream]
11. R.I.P. "Oh Baby" [Ice Cream]
12. Undertone "Amaretto Sour" [Breaking Down]
13. R.I.P. Productions "Move To Jersey" [Ice Cream]
14. DJ $ki "Touch Me" (NW7 Hardstep Dub) [Breaking Down]
15. R.I.P Productions "Special Groove" [RIP]
16. Undertone "The Jump" [Ice Cream]

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Undertone Vs. Ice Cream

Back to the early, mid and late 90's for some favourites slices of vinyl.

Underground House & Garage Pt II - Oldskool vinyl mix '92-'97

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EX.587 Steven Cee

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