Reptant live set from a very special Saturday night 16th of April 2022 at Inner Varnika festival on magical Djargurdwurrung land.

Reptant Live Set @ Inner Varnika 2022.

A fairly large live set by @priori-ties at @thecraveofficial

The Sizeable Mix Vol. 16: Priori (Live)

Three sizzling hours from the mind behind one of the world's best labels, Kalahari Oyster Cult.

What you'll hear on this week's RA Podcast is the closing slot of 2024's Organik Festival—already a coveted moment. But as the sun dipped on Taiwan's north coast, something else was going on: Rey Colino was laying down quite possibly the set of his life.

We're big fans of Colino, AKA Colin Volvert, here at RA. Few do it better when it comes to the type of pacy, lysergic thumpers that have become synonymous with both Kalahari and the distro One Eye Witness. A quick glance over the Belgian label's impressive alumni confirms how deeply his work flows through contemporary clubs.

On RA.954, Volvert's sharp ear and swaggering DJ style are on full display. He locks in with many shades of his record bag, alongside a grip of new and forthcoming KOC cuts—some so fresh, the ink on the deal is barely even dry. We could go into the particulars, but it's best to just get stuck in: this one's a deep, deliriously effective trip.

@reycolino @kalaharioystercult @oneyewitness @smokemachinetaipei

Read more at ra.co/podcast/954

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RA.954 Rey Colino

Reptant @ The Lot Radio 11-04-2024

Batu closing Outburst on Saturday night at Houghton 2024.

Recorded at Houghton - Batu (2024)

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

Read more at ra.co/podcast/973

RA.973 Kia

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-345-sleep-d/

Soundcloud: @sleepd

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Sleep D

Truancy Volume 345: Sleep D

With the return of the lunar cycle, the Dream Software servers have been updated with the latest Virtual Utopia patch — now available on the etherweb. Edition 14, this time coded by London-based @ldazedj, consists of a 70-minute high-octane deployment of metallic trance and techno, with destination set for the outerverse. The travelling velocity will distort your reality, so the journey will be just as interesting as reaching the bounds of our known existence.

On the launch platform at the edge of Sector 9, the vessel stood ready — a gleaming silhouette of chrome and light beneath the arc of Earth. Designed in an era of peace and exploration, it embodied a retro-futurist ideal: sweeping fins, polished alloy, plasma coils humming with steady power.
Final inspection unfolded in perfect silence. Drones moved with clockwork precision. Sensors scanned every seam and circuit. Ion thrusters gleamed. Radiation shielding was pristine. Solar sails, folded and stowed, awaited the call of vacuum.

Inside, everything rested in perfect order. Gravity systems held steady. Nutrient modules were stocked and humming. Rest chambers floated in serene suspension. A neural archive shimmered quietly, filled with the memory of countless journeys. In the engine chamber, the core pulsed like a quiet star. One by one, green lights marked completion. No errors. No adjustments. Every system, aligned. 
Clearance was granted. The ship's coils began to glow — a slow, soft blue. Soon, it would slip into the void beyond here, bound for the unknown. For now, it stood still — flawless and luminous — a vessel of hope, built not just to travel, but to experience the future.

The mission has begun. Thankyou Ella for piloting this expedition for us <3

VIrtual Utopia 14: L Daze

Three hours of high drama, recorded live at Nowadays in New York.

We know what you're thinking: why did it take so long to get Binh on the RA Podcast? There's no easy answer, especially given that he's been a favourite of ours for over a decade now. So to make up for lost time, the revered digger lands on the series with a tantalising three-hour mix, recorded live at Nowadays in New York earlier this year.

Crammed with rare and unreleased gems spanning house, techno, and electro, RA.989 is heavy on drama, catching the Düsseldorf native in unbridled performance mode.

This is Binh in 2025. But rewind across the past two decades and you'll find a DJ who excels in pretty much any situation, whether warming up for Zip or Margaret Dygas, going back-to-back with masters like Nicolas Lutz or rolling out solo sets that stretch across ten or even 12 hours.

He's acted out all these scenarios most often at Berlin institution Club der Visionaere, the cosy canalside club that became a kind-of spiritual home. (He'd sometimes spend every night of the week there, before parenting duties got the better of him.)

To play for half a day you need a lot of records, and the backbone of Binh's craft has long been a freakish passion for vinyl. Along with Lutz, Vera, and others in CDV's orbit, he approaches the pursuit of wax, new and old, with next-level dedication and a fondness for blind buys. 

That's true of RA.989, although among the un-Shazamables are many tracks that are either out or coming out on Binh's popular Time Passages label. The mix finds him on a house-y tip, luxuriating in roomy basslines, driving 303s and twinkly melodies—with just the right amount of evil. Lock in and savour a one-of-a-kind DJ, completely in the zone.

@binh

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/989

RA.989 Binh

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