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July, July, July; we're sweating, we're dancing, we're going deep. 

The twelfth installment of Radio Samt rounds out our first whole year of guest mixes. I'd like to thank everyone for their contributions from every community and across every genre gap, and I mean honestly across creative universes entirely.

NYC is no stranger to alternative dance spaces however there are few quite like the one that DJ concon has been working on this year. "dance practice" is almost a dance class, almost a club moment, almost a meditation, a chance for people to set some intention with their moving+listening experience.

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'dance practice' explores the therapeutic role of the dancefloor through 90 minutes of sound-driven free movement in a stunning Bushwick loft turned dance studio.

Ambient sounds turn slinky and loose, warming into heavy rhythms and finally melting into a sound bath. In the tradition of ecstatic dance, each set explores mood, texture and tempo, as dancers engage with a range of feeling and movement.

This mix is a showcase for the incredible spectrum of NY-based artists making music right now. Please reach out if you'd like to participate!

The next dance practice is Tuesday, July 30th 8-9:30pm

Join the mailing list for location info: www.dancepractice.nyc

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1. Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither (Photay Remix)  

2. rrao & Clay Wilson (w/ William Selman) - Thick Description  

3. Photay (w/ Carlos Niño, Randal Fisher) - Echolocation  

4. K Wata - What Do U Want? (Soft Mix)  

5. Sister Zo - Bubbly  

6. Doctor Jeep - Reso Danz  

7. Sobolik - Closure Step  

8. downstairs J - Solid Air City  

9. fleet.dreams - Deep Respire  

10. Love Letters - I Call Upon ... (Mike Servito Pump Mix)  

11. DJ SWISHA - FREAKBODY  

12. Beta Librae - Weavers  

13. Despina - Ex-Patriot  

14. ronan - En La Malla  

15. musclecars - Running Out Of Time  

16. Conclave (Toribio & Sharin) - All That I Need (Photay Remix)  

17. Donis - Majick  

18. Panooc - Chem Trails (Fatherhood's Cloud 9 Mix)  

19. Devoye - If You Dance Once...  

20. Klein Zage & Joey G ii - A Little Dissonance  

21. Color Plus - 5  

22. Sphente - Live at SR (Part 3)  

23. Purelink - We Should Keep Going



All tracks are available on bandcamp: https://www.buymusic.club/list/concon-concon-dance-practice-for-radio-samt

Radio Samt [12] - concon - "dance practice"

Jaw Bread - Different Fountains
Sample Heavy Dub - Cottam	
Shelter - Mark E
4.44 - Sau Poler
Voice of Command (Chekov Re-Edit) - Varoshi Fame
Woodwork - Randomer
Nothing is Perfect (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Field Of Dreams	
Ventolin - Tech Support	
Sine 'O' The Tymes - Dreems
Curvature - Organit
Liquid Summer (Martin Buttrich Sub Fire Dub Remix) - Guido Schneider & Daniel Dreier	
The Fifth Planet (Evigt Mörker Remix) - Artefakt

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Deepsystems Joint Ventures- Episode 4

Guest mix by Deenamic (Madrid/ Neroli/ Mate)

Check him out here- https://soundcloud.com/deenamic

Check out Deenamic's discography-
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7106606-Deenamic

0.00 - 2.58 - Deenamic
2.58 - end - Matt Pond

Hope you enjoy, and if you like it please give it a share! Thanks


DEEPSYSTEMS JOINT VENTURES EPISODE 4 DEENAMIC

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and if we have to clock it, so do you.)

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around rare combinations playing start-to-finish. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is a 385-minute marathon of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

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