Welcome Priori to the BSR MIX!

Honoured to have one of our favourite producers on the BSRMIX off the back of his amazing new LP 'Your Own Power'.

Read a full interview with Priori here: https://buttersessions.com/blog/interview-with-priori

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BSRMIX #118 - Priori

DJ Nobu's exclusive mix for RDC 2024 podcast:

A rare house/disco set recorded back at RDC "Sound Horizon" 2023 by one of the most highly acclaimed techno djs from Japan who travels across the globe.

RDC 072 - DJ Nobu

New York hailing underground staple, Mutual Dreaming label head and founder of Sustain-Release Aurora Halal, takes to the tools on the latest Crack Mix with a warm, groove-laden 55 minutes

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Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

“I really love to do the opening set. It's a special responsibility to take an empty room and build the vibe, to prepare the audience for the night to come, to leave them wanting more. For this edition of Samhain, I began beatless and worked through organic creepers into techno slow jams, setting up BMG to shepherd us into the psychedelic techno assault to be wrought by Wata Igarashi.” — Erika @erikadotnet


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IT.podcast.s14e01: Erika opening Samhain XXIV

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. 
New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. 
Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School, and her home base, Nowadays, where she holds a residency. Alongside her international touring, she’s carved out her own vital space through the long-running Mutual Dreaming parties and Sustain-Release, the DIY-rooted festival she co-founded, which continues to push boundaries as it enters its second decade.
Her Phonica mix offers a vivid snapshot of her deep, intuitive approach to DJing—captured live at Mansions, a cozy NYC wine bar turned house party haven. Known for her genre-fluid sets that blend hypnotic techno, house, acid and experimental textures this is the perfect calling card to showcase why she can hold it down with a range of greats like DJ Nobu, Vladimir Ivkovic and more.
We had a chat about the mix with Aurora as well as touching off Sustain and some of her favorite moments at the festival.

Phonica Mix Series 134: Aurora Halal

This week, I delved into the Grain Delay filter of Ableton‘s Live 12. While the difference from last week again seems minimal, Grain Delay offers quite different possibilities compared to Filter Delay. I must admit that I haven't spent enough time exploring the full potential of the filter. In WAV52 | 45, I have only used the filter in seven out of ten track bars. However, most of my time is spent composing music. This weeks scale is C Super Locrian. And it seems that this scale is particularly used in jazz and fusion music for improvisation and composing.

WAV52 | 45

Top tier techno from one of Japan's underground favourites.

RA.294 DJ Nobu

Donato Dozzy played an immaculate, mind-bending two hours of ambient, hip-hop, acid, techno, drum & bass and lots more at our Alternate Cuts party in Manchester with Absolut and Meat Free.

Alternate Cuts: Donato Dozzy (No Boundaries Set)

Tripped-out trance and electro from Canada.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=667

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Alternate Cuts: Donato Dozzy (No Boundaries Set)

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