RA Exchange Archive [Episodes 100-600]

A very smooth, delicate blend of dub, electro and downbeat from local DJ and @resonancenaarm curator Djane! For local Naarm folk/visitors - I highly suggest you to see her play in the clubs!
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MT Mix 006 - Djane

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Chicago's Lorelei (@lorelei_lorelei) put out a siren song through Daisychain last year (#109). Back in it, she's swirling through October's energy with a freaky mix for this month's installation on Daisychain's residency for Refuge Worldwide.

Laura Vicinanza (Lorelei) is a DJ, producer, and record collector/record store employee (Wild Prairie) who lives in Chicago, IL. This is a live recording of her DJ set from Midwaste Space People’s October Fundraiser on 10.1.21 in Chicago, IL.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

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Lorelei - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 007

i had originally wanted to play a 90% vinyl set but only one turntable was working at the station so my blends and selections were very off. fortunately i brought a usb but in line with the fate of this doomed session it only had 30 synthpop tracks that would work. uploading anyway as this is proof of me attempting to hold it together as best I could given the circumstances. no winning, no losing.

The Space Between Spaces 24 Ron Like Hell @ The Lot  Radio 11.04.2021

Franklin De Costa took things slow for another episode of our podcast and delivered a mix full of trippy twists and spacey tunes. It’s Monday, so why don’t we keep it slow too: let’s kick back, put on the mix and enjoy what Franklin has to offer.

Chat with the artist: https://bit.ly/3pc1EQz

Gravity Podcast #7 – Franklin De Costa

Just a whole lot of all time favorite tracks for a whole lot of favorite faces from 7 - 9:30 am on a beaut soundsystem at @lockedgroovebk back in November :')

cover 📷: Lindon Chen

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1. Nana Visitor - Fever
2. Rivet - Inside Looking Out
3. Heiko Laux - Fernweh (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
4. Edit Select - Ploy
5. Surt - Transposition
6. Planetary Assault Systems - Bear Bones
7. Svreca/Retina.it - Avenza (Wata Igarashi Remix)
8. Edit Select & Test - Ascend (Amotik Remix)
9. Archivist & Fugal - Far Horizon
10. Pris - Vanity
11. DJ Deep - Progression
12. Oscar Mulero - Color (Donato Dozzy Remix)
13. Juan Atkins, Moritz Von Oswald - Transport (Carl Craig Remix - DJ Deep & Roman Poncet Rework)
14. Konduku - Spiracle
15. Pacific Blue - Industry Part I
16. Ruhig - Mirror
17. Tin Man - Acid Swirls
18. Kas:st - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (747 Remix)
19. Ovend - Marathon 3
20. Artefakt - Weltformel
21. Ryan Elliott - Paul's Horizon
22. Cloudsteppers - Slinky Bork
23. Guava & Breaka - The Dolphins Are Back In Venice
24. fiyahdred - Da Mellowdee
25. Paul Fleetwood - Faces
26. Sam & Jack Brickel - Resurgence
27. John Tejada - Squillo
28. Tripeo - UC04
29. Surt - Omission
30. Alfredo Mazzilli - Enchanted Pathways
31. Architectural - Transparent
32. Etapp Kyle - Fake
33. Synthek - Disambiguation (ASC's Grey Area Remix)
34. 214 - Exposure to Winds
35. Lory D - PRV-HH3-X
36. Deadbeat - Acid Wash Genes
37. LNS & DJ Sotofett - El Dubbing
38. Calibre - Badder (Calibre & DRS v Mark Ernestus)
39. Sherwood & Pinch - Midnight Mindset
40. Joker - On My Mind (Instrumental)
41. Resoe - Demoon
42. sobolik - 2000 species of dub
43. Dan Only - Derealization
44. Artefakt - Delphic
45. Luke Hess - Platte
46. Borai & Denham Audio - Skrrrt
47. Ikonika - Bodied (Roller Mix)
48. Mary Yuzovskaya - Botanica
49. MA - Yume
50. Alan Backdrop - Hǎiyáng
51. Peter Van Hoesen - Axis Mundi
52. Primal Code - Vachir
53. Drafted - Elliptical Storm
54. Aos - What/Why (Fugal Remix)
55. Forest Drive West - New Day
56. Mathew Jonson - Marionette
57. Phon.o - Schn33

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Lychee ☀ Sunrise at Locked Groove ☀ 11.13.2021

Riding the wave from DIY hardcore to DIY dance music.

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"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]

@uziklip
@sunjiru

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

Noria Lilt At Home - January '22

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

For our first entry in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from half of @pprzrecords, Vancouver's @djhockey! DJ Hockey approaches techno by intermingling layers of contrasting elements. Defining characteristics for his selections are thick, encompassing atmospheres and moods on the introspective side. These sounds are often paired with nods to the Midwest wrapped in a single session, crafting a journey through spacious and full beats. A consistent overarching theme of DJ Hockey’s style in selecting and producing is incorporating a heavy hit of psychedelia in their projects.

This mix is a slow burning trip full of beautiful melody, floating atmospheres designed to captivate the listener and dissociate into another world for one hour.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to DJ Hockey's charity of choice Atira.  Atira Women's Society is accessible to anyone who identifies and lives full time as a woman and who experiences gendered violence and misogyny. This includes trans, two spirit and intersex women and or those who identify with a femme of centre non-binary gender. They offer critical programs from Legal Advocacy to daycare, low-barrier housing and outreach services. The services they provide are in multiple areas of our greater city, but are especially concentrated in the area that Vancouver's underground nightlife also occupies.

Learn more about Atiras impact here:
atira.bc.ca/who-we-are/

PPRZ Podcast 1 - DJ Hockey

Felix K – 17.7.2016 Rural Festival, Japan

Couple weeks ago an old buddy emailed me...  "Serge... I digitalized some old mixes you did back in the days... you interested in the files? They're pretty cool!  One has written 'Clone Store selection December 1996' on it".  Dude of course!!

Recorded in the very first Clone store location, the old Urban Unit skatestore garage... 23 years ago.  While my neightbours of Midtown records were selling shit and shit loads of gabber (which was at its peak and total mainstream in 1996), I was selling records to the freaks and recording mixes like this in the quiet hours in the shop.

The only Pioneer equipment used was the headphone, the classic SE450... mixed on a crappy Realistic mixer.....the tape had some glitches as it's probably a copy, or a copy of a copy, as the reach of such a mix was probably about 10 friends who all copied from each other...  Funny when you realize how easy is it to reach 1000's via Soundcloud and Youtube these days, while back then you only made these mix tapes for a couple buddies... :-)

 I can use some help with track id’s as I barely remember 4 of them... time screws up your memory 😂
(Goosebump alert at 55.30 minutes!!)

Clone store mixtape Serge, Dec. 1996

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