This DJ set by Mike Servito was recorded somewhere on the astral plane (a filthy Detroit basement) on February 1, 2025, at Ritual Rave, a party celebrating the pagan holiday Imbolc, which signals the start of Spring.

Buckle up and get ready to crank that shit ‘cause you’re in for a wild ride. This set is laced with only the rawest, bitchiest, nastiest, sweatiest, most classic Detroit-basementiest @mikeservito cuts. The rave reviews are in and the critics are hailing it as “A masterpiece of Servito '95. Mike in his highest and most enlightened form. A set so transformative that it effortlessly and masterfully bends the time-space continuum. It's an aural bitchslap like no other. It’s quintessentially pureDetroitmoods."

Ritual Rave is an annual part of Imbolc: https://imbolc.cargo.site/

Know what we're up to at purefastmoods HQ (even before we do): https://purefastmoods.com/get-on-the-list

Mike's set was mastered by @Otodojo.

Mike Servito at Ritual Rave, February 1, 2025, Detroit, MI

Jacob Meehan's set at Lecken was the talk of the Play Pit. The WHOLE Ambient stage curator and Kwia mainstay shared a more intimate side of his collection with us. Dubbed out electronica merge with smooth throwbacks while ethereal jazz gets sprinkled with 80s synths, making us nostalgic for the age of our lost innocence. We swayed and swooned down memory lane, counting our blessings beneath the inverted crosses of the Play Pit sky, only to emerge again in the warm embrace of trusted friends or strangers, all within the breadth of @jacob-meehan's expertly concocted seance. Here you can finally revisit a slice of our upside down heaven recorded at Lecken Unholy on Easter Friday 2025 at Kreuzwerk.

Jacob Meehan

For 135th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @ketia! ketia is an up-to-no-good self-assigned cyborg, has a keen ear for new and exciting music, alongside a curious, invested approach to community building within the Lisbon and Berlin club scene. Known for their infamous intimate invite-only kit ket events in Lisbon and one of the glitches behind the label and collective, 'kaptcha'. In Berlin, where they reside, they’re deep and sweetly entangled with the modern rituals happening at Berlin’s new ambient listening bar kwia – ketia helps hold space for a different way of connecting through high fidelity sound and intimacy outside of the usual club dynamics. 

Sonically enticed by syncopated drums and twisted rhythms, driven house with groove and breaks married with rave nostalgia. ketia thrives on genre-bending beats connected through vocal-infused tracks that allow for unique storytelling.

Honcho Podcast Series 135: ketia

@faited b2b @octoocta
Coming at you direct from the Little “T” LUV NRG Soundsystem truck radio! All the galloping and rolling late 90s tech step and proto-neurofunk that Octo Octa and Faited blast out of a tiny bluetooth speaker inside the cab of an Isuzu NPR HD.

This set was played live at Envelope Soundsytem’s 2024 Ēostre ritual deep in the redwood forest within the Oakland, CA hills. The intention behind this ritual: 

“Ēostre marks a period of rejoining with queer family and community, and of setting intentions towards the approaching sun-drenched days. We celebrate this ritual to conjure the collective dream, and to see the fractal paths toward our individual dream’s first concrete forms. But dreaming alone can not dispel living nightmares—we must speak our dreams aloud and act towards them in anger. Come, you and yours, come weave your hopes with ours.”

Eostre 2024 - Faited b2b Octo Octa

In an era of everything at once, Gabrielle Kwarteng is a DJ who weaves stories that often look to the past, while always focusing on possible futures. Dip in to hear a range of dance music from downtempo to deep house to techno rollers - and everything in between.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gabrielle-kwarteng/episodes/gabrielle-kwarteng-13th-june-2025

Gabrielle Kwarteng 130625

Episode 5 of the Sixth Sense mix series brought to you by Peach. This episode by Toronto based Ciel (@ciel_dj). little blurb, interview, tracklist >>>>>>>>>>thisissixthsense.com<<<<<<<<<<

Sixth Sense 005 - Ciel

DAMMIT JANET with Lauren Flax @ The Lot Radio 06-19-2025

One of the enduring powerhouses of our era returns for RA.1000 with a riotous mix.

When Helena Hauff made her first RA Podcast appearance back in 2013, she was on the eve of releasing her debut production on Actress' Werkdiscs imprint. In the 12 years that have elapsed, she's become not just a household name within electronic music, but the kind of rare talent that lives in seclusion from industry tumultt.

(Hauff, enviously, has never even owned a smartphone.)

Her calling card continues to be her penchant for rough and ready EBM, electro and new wave. Her unique ability is creating a singular listening experience from disparate or out-of-favour tracks, with a raw immediacy that functions as a redress to over-choreographed modern DJing.

Her outsider approach is on show once again for RA.1000. Threaded together by strobe-lit DIY electronica, old-school acid house and corrosive machine funk that chews up the ear, the nearly two-hour set raises the bar once again.

In the sci-fi themed first half, Hauff drops two Cybotron tracks, nodding to Juan Atkins' blueprint for electro. You'll also hear "Riot" by Underground Resistance, the definitive mission statement for a world ablaze. This is musical anarchism, executed to the highest degree.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1017. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Helena Hauff

SMUT Press presents the 48th mix in the sounds of SMUT series by Lucky Lube who weaves together the playful, the sexy, and the unhinged. Groove is in the heart, percussion in the soul and queerness is the perspective. 
Co-founder of Group Therapy, a non-profit DIY queer party rooted in care, sensuality, and collective release, and resident at Den Anden Side, Copenhagen’s most vital underground club, he plays with a sensitivity that melts the emotional armour, guiding dancefloors into states of shared feeling. Lucky Lube doesn’t just play music. He lubricates the room.

Navigating the full arc of house music in all its deviant subgenres, from sultry minimalism to sweat-soaked euphoria, he guides rhythm and mood with a light, intuitive touch. Deep, sexy, and percussive, with rolling basslines, crisp beats, and queer-coded edits that are blended with emotional precision, always tuned to the energy of the room. Every set is an exercise in tension and release: music chosen not to dominate, but to connect and transform.
Lucky Lube brings an intention to the booth that prioritises the room: reading it, teasing it, and slowly melting its edges. With many years of experience curating queer nightlife, his approach goes beyond technical skill. His sets reflect a sensitivity for pleasure, for expression, for unity.

He carries fragments of Group Therapy beyond its home base: traces of care, ecstasy, and queer joy, reassembled in real time. Appearances include sets at Maricas Boiler Room (Vienna), Radiant Records (Copenhagen), Cuddles and Lecken (Berlin), Outra Cena (Lisbon), TES (Tbilisi), and tours in Australia and Mexico. He has played b2b with party starting auteurs like Jennifer Loveless and Angel D’Lite and his recent mixes for Maricas highlight his distinct sound.

048 - LUCKY LUBE

For the 25th entry of the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Chicago's Eris Drew!  Eris has an impressive resume in the underground dance music world; she is a co-founder of Hugo Ball, a Smart Bar resident DJ, and the singer/songwriter for her one-woman pulsing synth band. We are honored to welcome her to the Honcho family! We hope you enjoy this absolutely twisted mix that she has prepared! 

Tracklist:
1. Direct 2 Disc - Excuse Me (Stab Mix) (1993 Cleveland City)
2. Aphex Twin - CHEETAHT7b (2016 Warp)
3. Daniel Wang - Dr. Beat (2016 Excellent)
4. The Epitome of Hype - Let the Freak (1991 Pure Bhoomie)
5. Zem117 - Rangda (Patrick Russell Remix) (2015 The Bunker New York)
6. Niagra - Sangandongo (Edit by Mr. K) (1970/2015 UAR/White)
7. DMS - Love Overdose (the Happs Mix) (1991 Production House)
8. Detboi - The Hunt (2016 Metalheadz)
9. ICP - Free & Equal (Leftfield Tribal Mix) (1992 Polydor)
10. Akkord - Obelisk (megalith) (2015 Houndstooth)
11. Alpha 606 - 808 Trax (2016 Interdimentional Transmissions)
12. Dig The New Breed - Who Is No. 1 (1993 Cleveland City)
13. Special Request - Undead (2013 Houndstooth)
14. Will Ward - Bad Company (2016 Detour)
15. Tessela - Bottom Out (Kowton OTT mix) (2016 R&S)
16. Eq-Lazer - The Heartbreak (Female Version) (1991 Groove Kissing)
17. Orbital - Fahrenheit 303 (1991 Warner)

Honcho Podcast Series 26 - Eris Drew

@lupe

Recorded live @ Buttons
Easter Weekend
April 20, 2019



Artwork by Carlos Garcia-Sancho

Radio Buttons #61 - Lupe

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