Miami dream team Bitter Babe and Nick León jump aboard crackaud.io with an hour of high-energy club music, Venezuelan raptor house and hard drum rudeness.

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Crack Mix 455: Bitter Babe & Nick León

@tomsobolikmusic at The Grove on Friday night.

Campout Mix Series: Sobolik

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

@lorisms
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Description: A bunch of tracks from the vault that came out to make this mix. A percussion-heavy vibe to make you feel hot and whimsy at the same time. Recommended to enjoy with drinks and friends.
Tracklist:

Asphalt DJ & Gzardin - Capsule Drought
Roaming Data - 106 Regulate
Coffintexts - 88 ST Original Mix
131bpm - F*ck Me Up
PLUS ONE - Sweaty
Radiate - Joe Milli
eoin dj - The Pleasure Factor
Tsepo - Perc Track
Dayzero - Bass
Deetron - Monophone Dub
XL Regular - Anderlecht 
Toura - Salamander
YM x Ovid - Unreleased
Mr. Ho & Mogwaa - Bail-E
Kepler - Bloom
1OO1O - Génesis Video Disco
iti - Saffron
Mutable Mercury - Vexation
Merca Bae - Double T
Mabel - Dionysus (Red Wine Rework)
jtamul - Hadi Ikile
La La - She Can
iiO, Nadia Ali - Rapture

MARICAS n.85 - LORIS

DJ SWISHA b2b OK Williams at Draaimolen Island X Sustain-Release 2024

DJ TOBZY's half of a double-sided mix by two Nyege Nyege all-stars.

Nyege Nyege is synonymous with radical sonic innovation. Since 2015, the boundary-pushing Ugandan festival and its associated label have become a vital hub for adventurous, experimental sounds emerging from East Africa and beyond. Its alumni roster includes some of the past decade's most thrilling and forward-thinking artists—DJ Travella, Nihiloxica, Juliana Huxtable, MC Yallah, and even New York's mayoral frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani. In the process, the collective has reimagined what club music can be.

The enigmatic DJ TOBZY is one of the freshest voices in this ever-expanding ecosystem. At the tender age of 23 years, he's at the forefront of the effervescent cruise scene in his adopted hometown of Lagos. Breakneck, unpolished and fiercely DIY, it's a sound journalist Giulio Pecci described as "a delirious blur of vocals and drums, influenced by other African dance music styles but moving only to its own strange, internal logic." TOBZY's mix captures the frenetic energy of a scene evolving in real time—bold, street-born and completely unfiltered.

His contribution to RA.995 sits alongside that of Kampala-based Kampire, a core Nyege Nyege member since the label's inception, and she takes the B-side. 

Together, the two-sided mix forms the launch of a new series marking the countdown to RA.1000—offering a bracing snapshot of a collective that has redefined electronic music over the last decade.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/995

RA.995 DJ TOBZY

Live at Tossd 007 - DILUVIA

Nervous Horizon with TSVI - 14 July 2025

CLUB EDEN 001: RHR

The EP explores the inner world of someone living in today's society, with a subtle approach to the possible dystopian outcomes of the future.

1. White Lies
Living in a city where all of us are both prisoner and warden.
Too occupied with thoughts of fear and uncertainty toward our fellow humans, we have strayed from the path of co-existence and become inclined toward mere co-survival.

2. Imposter Syndrome
The harshest opponent, is our own inner self-judgmental voice.

"You don't deserve this"
"You're not meeting your potential"
"There are far more talented people out there than you"

A toxic relationship with our inner drive, both the enabler and the punisher.
Victory against it is mandatory, if you want to reach for what you truly are.

3. Manticore
The beast, the source of everyone’s dark side.
There is no light without shadow, but it is the light’s responsibility to conquer and contain its shadows.

4. Eye Can See - The Truth: the unstoppable strength without force. It exists; therefore, it is enough. You only need to accept what is, with nobility.

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The sketches on Moretin are an homage to Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944)

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

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