OK but all in all wont last the test of time. Wish he stuck with his roots

beautiful mix and a great intro to amapiano.

Ahead of her Basement NY debut, Ciel stops by The Lot Radio to spin some of her favourite new vinyl digs. 

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Ciel @ The Lot Radio 07-05-2025

Interstellar Funk - 05 July 2025

Introspective mind realignment from the deepest depths, Mike Buhl engages the senses with poise and purpose, lifting the spirit while carefully dialling up the pressure over two-plus hours of tension filled hypnotic techno and soaring interplanetary rhythms. 

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Q. What sounds or feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for this mix, and what listening environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. My inspiration was driven by the urge to showcase lots of artists who have been on heavy rotation over the years. Somewhat cliche, but it was really important to blend genres and energies that represented every aspect of what I listen to, am inspired by alongside how and when they were experienced. Tracks I’ve loved listening to on my own, while entertaining friends, during lock in record nights and those tracks designed to be shared in public spaces and events. 
 
Finding a cohesive path through those different styles, genres and energies was the adventure in this mix. Distilling a sonic mountain of records into something that flowed seamlessly and translated well when listening back in all of those moments felt most authentic. A mix best consumed while moving, sharpening that assignment, at the tail end of a dinner party as the vibe shifts to next gear or while embracing the magic of a lock in with the crew. 

This has translated into snapshots, across a timeline stitched together from records new and old, capturing a weekend drive, early floors through to closed doors, spilling onto the street, the afterhours and beyond. Almost two and a half hours of ambient ear candy, arm chair burners, peak melters and thought provokers that attempt to relive moments and feelings from our past years listening, curating and creating electronic music.

Q. I know you’ve developed a close kinship with some modern pillars of the dub techno scene, mastering and editing .VRIL’s 2025 Edit of his classic tune ‘UV’ and being tasked with closing out his recent Melbourne show. Tell us how that connection came about, and what other studio projects have you got bubbling away that you’re excited to share?

A. I first reached out to .Vril ahead of a past tour to Australia. His music resonated with me so much that I wanted to meet him for a coffee. Since then, we’ve hung out a few times, shared music, and bounced some tracks off each other. It was an absolute highlight, when he asked to be a part of reshaping ‘UV’ and he's kindly returned serve with a remix for my follow up EP, 'Modern Explorer II' on local imprint Denude. We’ve had some very early conversations around a collaboration next time he’s out here and I would really like to continue pushing creativity here.

In the background, I've been spending a good amount of time in my studio. Focusing on creating for myself and helping others. Improving my abilities as a mix engineer has been a big focus and I’ve been fortunate enough to work on a number projects with artists locally and abroad. Whether that be mixing, providing creative direction, arrangement work or mastering. I really love working with others and often find it more enjoyable than working alone. In saying that, I’m building a volume of new music that needs an outlet and will focus on that over the next few months.

MDC.313 Mike Buhl

Ladiez Drink Free [@ladiezdrinkfree] presents you with our magnum opus… four hours recorded live from Nowadays Nonstop on June 14th, 2025 from 10pm-2am.

Join us as we warm your feet up with sultry, stripped-back downtempo, all the way to climax. 

Three people playing as one come comes with its challenges, but the reward is triple the energy, triple the music, and triple the fun ;)

Ladiez Drink Free Live @ Nowadays Nonstop 6.14.25

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PLO Man and Physical Therapy @ The Lot Radio 07-16-2025

New explorations in sounds from one of the most esteemed selectors in Europe, Lena Willikens.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/homunkuli/episodes/homunkuli-17th-july-2025

Homunkuli w/ Lena Willikens - Live @ Abyss, Open Ground 170725

the 10th mix in our naffcast series comes from Jasmín. An incredible Amsterdam based dj and producer Jasmín. Here's a few words from the artist herself :

This mix was recorded at home during a heatwave in Amsterdam. The faint voices and warm, slightly distorted drums echo the hazy, feverish heat of humid summers in a city for me. Most of these tracks are older, have been with me for years, and I keep coming back to them. Others are more recent discoveries, found in digital back catalogues.

naffcast010 ⦾ Jasmín 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 ୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ

For the 137th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @fleet_dreams! Texas-born, Brooklyn-based producer and DJ, fleet.dreams is crafting raw, immersive club music that resists easy classification. Drawing from deep musical roots in Texas, Detroit, and Brooklyn, his sound fuses leftfield rhythms, the immersive echoes of dub, and deep hypnotic techno into something entirely his own. 

This mix is 2 hour journey through hypnotic house, deep techno, sultry electro & leftfield dub.. Enjoy the ride! 

TRACKLIST: 



Roach Om - Side B	

Susumu Yokota（横田進) - Zenmai	

Levon Vincent - Double Jointed Sex Freak (Part 2)

DJ Jes - Time is comin

Presence - Gettin' Lifted

Downlink - Mesh

Spiral Tribe - Untitled

Dub Taylor - Opium Reality + Destroy

David Alvarado - Oracion	

Whirlpool Productions - In The Land Of My Birth

Spacer IV - Dust

Unknown Artist (Primitive) - Urges 3 (Dub)	

P-Dog - Get Ya Hands Up

Space Bunny - Space Dub

Basement 5 - Paranoiaclaustrophobia: Dub	

Rockers Hi Fi - Destination Unknown

King Midas Sound - U	

African Nightflight - Brubaker's Skank

fleet.dreams - iLL Enargeia

Xes Noiz - [untitled]	

T. Millar - Gemini Wing

Terence Fixmer - Electric Vision

Prince Of Denmark - Neoclassicdub

K-Alexi - Take 'Em All

Planetary Assault System - Forms

Jay Denham - Alien Nation

Madrid Inc. - My Sunday's Love

Keith Tucker - (Techno) It’s On My Mind	

Black Electric - Come To Me

The Flying Lizards - Postscript

J A ft. Donato Dozzy - Eclisse Indolente

Controlled Bleeding - After the Rain

La Cienda Honduras - Tid Hos Doktor Pepper	


Unity Dub - Pastoral Journey (intro)	

Honcho Podcast Series 137: fleet.dreams

"the records and music have been around for most of the time. i live with them, they travel with me. we’re close. they’re tools, tools for building. they build relationships between me and strangers, and deepen bonds between me and people who are already close to me. in a space is sound; a physical sound built with a picture and a shape, and the records are the tools that look and sound and feel like a space. i find them in buildings. they keep people together."


Beautiful Freaks w/ PLO Man @ Kiosk Radio 02.08.2025

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

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