Full Tracklist here: https://www.nts.live/shows/james-k/episodes/trip-lick-w-james-k-15th-december-2021

James K - Trip Lick w/ DJ Snafu - NTS December 2021

For as long as there has been footwork, there has been Jana Rush (@jaru-1). The Chicago-born pioneer started on the decks aged just 10 and was producing not long after. Since the mid-nineties, she has put out music that endlessly innovates within the juke and footwork framework. Her coiled rhythms and stripped-back drums are the vehicles for emotions that range from anguish to empowerment. Last year she dropped her second album Painful Enlightenment on Planet Mu and it was a frank listen that spoke of her struggles with depression.

This week's mix is a controlled but chaotic fusion of all elements of footwork from the silkier and more melodic side to heavy jungle rhythms and on through electro-tinged bangers. It is brilliantly hyperactive as it ducks and dives through so many emotions, and it finds Jana packing so much in over the course of an hour that it feels like you have been locked in all night long.

Dekmantel Podcast 395 - Jana Rush

SLINK (@simisea, @turiyarrao, @itsenayet, and @kwatakwata) went b4b all night at our favorite club Nowadays on Jan 21st. Without a doubt, one of the most fun sets we've ever played and the dancers were riding the wave with us the entire night.

This is us in peak party mode! We couldn't figure out where to start and stop this recording, and ultimately decided, let's just post the whole thing :)

With love,
Simisea, rrao, K Wata, Enayet

SLINK All Night @ Nowadays - Jan 21st 2023

Relaxer live from The Inn at Dripping 2023

@relaxerelaxer

Relaxer at Dripping 2023

"Idyllic, moody cusp season drift" 
Featuring music from Laurel Halo, Voice Actor, Movietone, Meredith Monk, Ouri, Simon Fisher Turner, Don Cherry, TLF Trio
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/arp/episodes/arp-18th-september-2023

Arp - Autumn mix 180923

@upsammy
Recording of upsammy's set at PURE G 2024.

upsammy at PURE G 2024

this was my closing set for @the-carry-nation in the bad room!!! thank you will and nita and @goodroombk for having me i had a blast!!!

live from the bad room -- carry nation july '24

"We made something we could dance to." The Chicago juke and footwork pioneer reflects on 40 years of Dance Mania and his longtime collaboration with the late DJ Rashad.

Anyone with a passing interest in footwork and juke will know of Traxman. Corky Strong has a long history in the world of Chicago dance music, first releasing on the legendary Dance Mania label—which is now celebrating 40 years—in the mid-'90s. He's since split his productions between ghetto house, juke and footwork, releasing alongside titans of Black American music like the late DJ Deeon and DJ Rashad. Strong went on to become a member of DJ Rashad's renowned Teklife crew, and he was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes that became a prototype for juke and footwork's evolution. 

In this Exchange, Strong speaks with RA's Kiana Mickles in New York about how he first became introduced to this world through his cousins, with whom he'd listen to funk and slow jams, Parliament Funkadelic, Farley Jackmaster Funk, James Brown and a variety of hip-hop throughout the '80s. The pieces eventually fell into place, he recounts, when he met the "mysterious kid" DJ Rashad in 1997. Together, they helped shape the music scene in Chicago, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Over the last few years, Strong has been celebrating footwork's past by putting out a series of albums called Da Mind of Traxman on Planet Mu. He's just released his third volume, and his first since 2014, which was crafted with the help of fellow Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke. Strong took on A&R duties to collate the best from hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. The series is notable in part because it's a catalogue of footwork and its Chicago lineage—juke and house—as well as these genres' soul, funk and rock roots.  

Strong talks to Mickles about what Chicago's music scene was like in the '80s and '90s, why footwork was so rooted in dancing and where the genre is heading in the future. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula

EX.753 Traxman

Outsider sounds with one of the station OGs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/debonair/episodes/debonair-9th-april-2025

DEBONAIR w/ MIRA MIRA 090425

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The Space Between Spaces with Ron Like Hell and BLISCORD @ The Lot Radio 04-15-2025

Andreas Palmer, a key figure in Athens’ electronic scene, crafts ethereal, trippy sets blending house, bass, and ambient soundscapes. Influenced by his architectural background, he explores the connection between space and sound, curating DIY events in unconventional locations for immersive experiences.

EX.753 Traxman

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