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As part of our celebration of 21 years of club culture, we're featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties and clubs most important to their lives in dance music. 

The Loft is one of the most storied and sacred spaces in dance music history. Founded in Manhattan in 1970 by the late David Mancuso, The Loft was a party unlike any other: relaxed and gently psychedelic, with pristine audiophile sound played at a medium volume level kinder to the ears. You didn't need to blast the music to appreciate the sonic perfection of the music and the system it was played on. Over the decades, Mancuso invented his own influential style of DJing, letting the records breathe rather than mashing them together. Mancuso, who died in 2016, had many acolytes over the years, perhaps none more prominent than Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, who provides our final 2122 birthday RA Podcast: a tribute to The Loft.

Murphy has an impressive resume without The Loft: she's a long-time radio DJ, founded the Classic Album Sundays series and started her own Lucky Cloud Loft Party in London, in collaboration with Mancuso. Her DJing style, slow, steady and respectful of the music, channels those years spent at The Loft, and her RA Podcast embodies the disco-influenced sounds that define the party, played with care, love and reverence.

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RA.859 Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Truth is, we’ve been dying to share this one. PSY X records' @buttechno aka Pavel Milyakov takes on the brand new Dekmantel Podcast. Buttechno's ability to manipulate sound and massage rhythm into new forms is laid bare in this week's mix. It starts off as deep and atmospheric - swampy dub, sub-aquatic bass, funky static electricity - and then slowly morphs into more fulsome body music. It's never less than a warm, elastic take on techno that is stripped back but packed with an inviting and playful charm.

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Dekmantel Podcast 417 - Buttechno

Festival season is around the corner. As we look ahead to GALA 2023, listen back to the legendary Move D's set from last year's edition.

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RA Live - Move D - GALA 2022

3024 Mentoring Takeover with uuklyph, No Sir, L1NH, MLG, Sheepshead , Martyn @TheLotRadio 01-20-2023

Martyn (TheLotRadio 01-20-2023 3024 Takeover)

People usually talk about Berlin, London, New York when discussing electronic music hotspots, and Paris doesn't always get its due. Case in point? It produced Jennifer Cardini, one of the most distinctive DJs to to ever come out of the city. (She's lived in Germany for a while, but the point stands.) Her sound lands somewhere between disco, house and EBM, rooted in a groovy, post-modern chug. You'll hear nu-disco, industrial, techno and electro too, usually built around big hooks. It's a sound that is not only instantly recognizable, but instantly likable.

As a producer, Cardini also deserves her flowers. She's been putting out records since the mid-'90s, and with her first label Correspondant, she's built up a rock-solid catalogue from artists like Fort Romeau, Man Power, Cormac and more. More recently she started the Dischi Autunno imprint, a place for more crossover-friendly music that indulges Cardini's tastes for all things melodic (and maybe a little goth).

Cardini's RA Podcast is a beautiful summary of all these ideas and influences. It's hard and banging, sure, but also lithe and athletic. There are plenty of tracks with the surge of EBM or the stab of industrial. Lots of reverb. Decadent melodies undergirded by tough drum patterns. And it's paced as expertly as you'd expect from someone who's been DJing for over 30 years. In the interview below, Cardini says she "loves how the young generation is digesting four decades of club / rave culture," and you can hear that history living and breathing in Cardini's DJing, too.

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Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/870

RA.870 Jennifer Cardini

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Misha Gutman — диджей и промоутер из Москвы, со-основатель стриминг-проекта «PROEKT» и экс-преподаватель диджей-школы «Uppercuts».

В своих сетах Миша гармонично сочетает музыку разных эпох, настроений и грува. В миксе для PRGRPHS он соединил винтажный немецкий нью-бит с характерным вокалом, броское трансовое звучание и эйсид-композиции разных эпох.
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Misha Gutman is a DJ and promoter from Moscow, co-founder of the streaming project "PROEKT" and ex-teacher of the DJ school "Uppercuts".

Misha harmoniously combines music from different eras, moods and grooves. His mix for PRGRPHS, consists of vintage German new-beat with characteristic vocals, catchy trance sounds and acid compositions from different eras.

PRGRPHS 023: Misha Gutman

@djassam known for some healing deep and smooth house tunes on the highly esteemed but sleeping Hamburg based @lehult label (2014 - 2019 ) and also our own imprint with 'Rachael' (Banana Split 12") is just about to release a beautiful multi layered LP called  'Shields In Full Sunlight' on @Smallville-Records this coming Friday Nov 24.  Here´s over an hour of his music collection for all of us – perfect for a longer ride from a to b, I can say.


KANNMIX 54 - Joe Davies - 71min

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KANNMIX 54 | Joe Davies

Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

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Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

1st album 'Horizon Drift' – 8 tracks of Progressive House journey with new remixes! Made over 4 months. Enjoy!

Garden -Cinematic Horizon Rework-

The Marias - Ruthless (NOSTA Remix)

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The Marias - Ruthless (NOSTA Remix)

Walter and Arno don their DJing caps for the 150th edition of the RA podcast.

RA.150 Booka Shade

Recording of Pender Street Steppers and Beautiful Swimmers's back-to-back at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

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Pender Street Steppers & Beautiful Swimmers at Dekmantel Festival 2016

All compositions written, produced &amp; performed (not DJ'd) by A Guy Called Gerald using Propellerhead's Reason only.
  
Recorded live at Labyrinth Festival 10th Anniversary, Naeba, Japan Sept 18th, 2010. 

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LIVE at Labyrinth Festival Japan

High-octane outlandish obscurities of decades past, courtesy of Berlin’s Nemo & Castro.

This power duo are the masterminds behind several creative outlets; from soundcloud.com/sound-metaphors - the renowned record shop, label, and its sub-labels (THANKYOU, MISSYOU, BLESSYOU) - to the infamous H.A.N.D. (Have A Nice Day) parties in Berlin. Their undying love for music and passion for digging up rhythmic masterpieces lost in time has manifested itself in their Kreuzberg record shop, which has become known for its exquisite selection of hand-picked releases. Their unique unfiltered style has earned them regular slots playing for esteemed steaming dancefloors like Cocktail D’Amore and Panorama Bar.

This 70-minute mix is jam-packed with fun fast-paced percussive selections, self-made edits, Hi-NRG guilty pleasures from Canada to China, and upbeat synthesizers. Dig in!

ZeeZout Podcast 142 | Nemo & Castro

Live recording from Dommune RDC show on May 3rd 2013

RA Live - Move D - GALA 2022

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