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A two-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, MC Yallah, and even New York's newly-elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In the process, the collective has reimagined what club music can be.

Kampala-based Kampire has been a core member of the collective since the label's inception. Her mixes often feel like a lesson in musicology: weaving together narratives, tempos and genres while losing nothing in dance floor vitality. These talents are reflected in her contribution to RA.995. A typically kaleidoscopic blend of tough percussive workouts, infectious edits and raw, unreleased gems, the hour-long mix spans batida, singeli, bruxaria and countless more urgent sounds from the global underground.

Then there's the enigmatic DJ TOBZY. At the tender age of 23, 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 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.

Presented together, as the first edition of a new format marking the countdown to RA.1000, this mix offers a bracing snapshot of a label that has redefined electronic music over the last decade.

Read more at ra.co/podcast/995

RA.995 DJ TOBZY & Kampire

Sets and mixes

Sef Kombo X Kitty Amor @ Sub Club Live

Sounds to move the dance from British-Ghanaian DJ and producer Hagan. Shared ahead of his debut album ‘Textures’, which lands on Friday (7 October), this one’s packed with “smooth cuts and contagious grooves” from KOKOROKO, Gina Jeanz, Karen Nyame KG and more.

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Crack Mix 469: Hagan

Charisse C takes us on a monthly journey through an electronic soundscape birthed by the melting pot which raised her, anchored by South African giants Amapiano & Gqom, featuring soulful, bass-heavy & playful selections.

https://www.nts.live/shows/charisse-c/episodes/charisse-c-14th-october-2022

Charisse C B2B Virgo Deep 141022

Our first official B2B set at the RE:mise club, Berlin.
We had  a freakin' great time, and we can't wait to perform on the next events!

WBCBBC at Re:mise Club Inavision 29.12.22

DREA - @HÖR SET II DREA II  10-5-2023

SCORPIUS

DJ PERIODT | Radio Rudina

MY X TY CY #1 ;)

Rinse FM Podcast

KILIMANJARO - 12 March 2024

Fierce, fiery and full of flavour, BONA LÉA is a DJ that co-founded the Brussels-based collective Bloom Hill 3 years ago. She is now a team member of Five Oh, a creative music PR agency in Belgium.

Bona Léa @ Kiosk Radio 04.05.2024

Introducing the 5th podcast of Disturbia, featuring the sounds of BENZA, an emerging talent originally from Madrid and a resident of the Symbole collective!

BENZA's rapidly growing reputation in the scene is attributed to his productions, characterized by a raw and rhythmically charged sound that ignites energy and movement on the dance floor.

After patiently refining his musical vision, BENZA's first productions emerged at the end of 2023, debuting with a solo EP featured by the renowned Dutch label K92's “One To Watch” series. Since then, he has made appearances on esteemed labels such as Akronym, Secta Collective, Beluga, and RI7MO.

Tune in now and experience the captivating journey curated by BENZA, exclusively on Disturbia's Soundcloud!

DISTURBIA/005 - Benza

DJ PERIODT #2 | Radio Rudina

DJ PERIODT, a 27-year-old Bahamian American born in West Palm Beach, Florida, has been officially DJing for 10 months. A professional ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer for nearly 10 years, and a classically trained cellist for 20, DJ PERIODT's music blends afro-futuristic, sexy, and hypnotic elements into a unique sonic experience. This summer, they also launched The King Rose Dance Collective, Berlin's first Black and Queer dance company and training program.

@user-177741020

Trackliste:
1. Canich- Emotional
2. Dahveed- Pipeline
3. Modem- Revenge
4. Stephen Disario (Ketch Remix)- Sixth Sense
5. Volster- EXPOSITION A
6. Timm Escher- UNRELEASED
7. Timm Escher- UNRELEASED
8. Ketch- Black Blood
9. Ketch- Waves
10. Ketch- UNRELEASED
11. Daniel Heinrich- Club VorteX [IHT016]
12. Yanamaste- 8 tone
13. Paul Hauck & IGLO- Red Fantasty
14. Ketch & Hertz Collision - UNRELEASED

FREMD Podcast 25: DJ PERIODT

This was made under the very clear new moon seal while venus was hanging even brighter right above it. Or so it seemed from earth. The track is built around the handpan and is a hymn to everflowing love. No less :)

AMare

Amare

Rinse FM Podcasts

DREA - 09 January 2025

Eclecticist: 100% Vinyl - 09 January 2025

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TRACK LIST: 
Tièmoko Koné- The Past Is The Past
Stephen Disario- Sixth Sense (Ketch Remix)
Arkan- Zokorein
FORUM- Alabaster
Jacen- Nocturnal Movement
Altinbas- Psychosphere
AMRTUM- unreleased
Concussion- 200 Hz
Urquiaga- Capacity
Mchvlsm- Medusa
Khas- Serana
Timm Escher- Unreleased
Ketch- Black Blood
Marcal- Dancing Pursuit
LØUCAS- unreleased
Taurus- Native Rhythm
Luca Maniaci- 23 (Linear System Remix)
John Reeves- Grief 
Ketch & Hertz Collision -Anechoic
Modem- Revenge
Yant- Contravention
Justyn Nell- Fracture
Altinbas- Venus Ballroom
Sinistermind- Aticisimo 3
VIVEZ- Coalescence 
3KZ- Not From Here
LØUCAS- Unreleased

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WUBA

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

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

On the B side mix is Kampire. The Kampala-based DJ has been a core member of the collective since the label's inception. Her mixes often feel like a lesson in musicology, weaving together narratives, tempos and genres while losing nothing in dance floor vitality. These talents are reflected in her contribution to RA.995. A typically kaleidoscopic blend of tough percussive workouts, infectious edits and raw, unreleased gems, the hour-long mix spans batida, singeli, bruxaria and countless more urgent sounds from the global underground.

The other half of this special release comes from the enigmatic DJ TOBZY, which you can find on the A-side. 

Presented together, as the first edition of a new format marking the countdown to RA.1000, this two-sided mix offers a bracing snapshot of a label that has redefined electronic music over the last decade.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/996

RA.995 Kampire

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from The Collapse Of Everything alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

From speed garage to Arabic pop, one hour of borderless club energy from the Saudi DJ and curator. 

"We're making history tonight," hollered the MC at the start of Nooriyah's London Boiler Room in 2022. Sat next to the decks was her baba (Arabic for father), dressed in traditional Saudi garb. He opened the one-hour performance by playing the oud, a Middle Eastern instrument similar to a lute. Surrounded by smiling faces and pumping arms, it's a picture of joy.

The set was a turning point—and not just for Nooriyah's career. Scroll through the comments on YouTube and you'll find notes of endearment, gratitude and teary appreciation, proof of how powerful it was for people to see Middle Eastern music placed at the centre of contemporary club culture. 

This speaks to Nooriyah's MO. Born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Japan and now based in the UK, her musical vision reflects her global upbringing. But her style isn't eclecticism for eclecticism's sake—she's spoken about the importance of carving out space for underrepresented voices in dance music. 

Her RA Mix makes that mission audible. The result is a breathless hour: 47 tracks darting between speed garage, amapiano, Jersey club, Arabic pop edits and percussion-heavy workouts from Cairo to Accra. But don't mistake pace for carelessness: RA.1002 never feels rushed. Each switch is considered, revealing a knowledge of how global dance traditions can speak to one another. 

All in all, it's not only a celebration of her own heritage, but an invitation to imagine dance floors unconstrained by borders.

@nooriyah
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1020.

RA.1002 Nooriyah

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

A rare mix from the critically acclaimed experimentalist.

Lucrecia Dalt isn't your typical electronic artist. The Colombian singer and composer approaches music-making in the way a fantasy writer builds worlds. Over the past two decades, she's produced a catalogue that reads more like a bookshelf of strange, interlinked novels, each with its own laws, characters and textures, extending the one before it.

Dalt's RA Mix is a fascinating entry into the series (and will sit comfortably with RA's recent archival playlist, <a href="https://1000.ra.co/playlists" target="_blank">Mixes From Artists Who Don't Call Themselves DJs, But Probably Should</a>). Take the opening track, "Cellophane," by Beak>, the band led by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. The lyrics set the tone for the hour to come: "Now the wind has blown down / Now the truth is laid out there." 

True to Dalt's oeuvre, RA.1005 has little regard for convention. Kick drums and beatmatching are nowhere to be heard; instead, she offers a collage of inspiration, drawing connections across eras, moods and geographies. 

The mix includes the work of close collaborators (David Sylvian, Juana Molina and Niño de Elche) as well as excursions into psychedelic jazz (Lloyd's Miller's "Gol-E-Gandom"), sombre downtempo (Muslimgauze's "Enchante, Monsieur") and Korean pop (Leenalchi's "Magic Pocket). Spanning just over an hour, it unfolds like another chapter in Dalt's ongoing project of world-building through sound. 

@lucreciadalt
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1023

RA.1005 Lucrecia Dalt

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Kampire | Boiler Room x Nyege Nyege Festival

Crack Magazine

Crack Mix 263 – Kampire

Kampire has been bringing the authentic sound of East Africa to Europe for a few years now. She was born in Uganda and raised in Zambia but paints a weird and wonderful musical picture that draws on Congolese rhythms, tropical bass and Afro-pop. Outside of music this core member of Uganda’s Nyege Nyege collective is a writer and activist who is fighting marginalisation and oppression and has an infectious energy that carries over onto stage as she platforms various underrepresented sounds, scenes and artists.

Her punch one hour mix is a succinct snapshot of her sound. It takes us direct to her African heartland through a series poly-rhythmic beats and tumbling basslines that cannot fail to get you pump up and wiggling your behind. From restlessly energetic tracks to sun-kissed township sounds via hyper-driven futurism it’s a white knuckle ride that will have you on the edge of your seat.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 228 - Kampire

Uganda's Kampire kickstarts the party with this global meltdown of bass-heavy dance pressure.

For more information and tracklist, head here: https://www.factmag.com/2019/07/24/kampire-nyege-nyege-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 718 - Kampire (July '19)

A celebration of East African club music.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=708

@kkaybie

RA.995 Kampire

Resident Advisor