Long 7

Mezclas II

Influences

House

Resident Advisor

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles: Pt.I & II

ReaLWorlD

On Deck

Please meet London based DJ and producer, former Cafe Del Mar resident, and our long time close friend Phil Mison (@cantomamusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Phil, many know you as one of the DJ's who has played all the best sunset spots across the globe. How did your summer look this year, still been scoring sunsets here and there?

PM: My summer was great. I travelled to Amsterdam, Cork, Copenhagen and Barcelona and had some nice gigs in the UK. My friend Deke has opened a bar on the seafront in Margate, you get pretty epic sunsets down there. I played a few records one evening and managed to fit in a few old cafe classics as the sun disappeared into the sea. 

MFM: Please tell us a bit about how it all started for you?

PM: I grew up in the 70’s, so there were quite a few different influences. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’ was an early memory, and I was obsessed with Blondie. Parallel lines was the first album I bought. Later it was Northern Soul, Electro, nothing really that mellow! In 87 I met a couple of people who were really into House. I started going to groove records in soho to buy records like Adonis - No Way Back, Ten City - Devotion. Then as 88 rolled around I got into the more Balearic side of things. Later in 89 I’d pop into Reckless Records for second hand stuff and started to browse the New Age section where I got things like Kitaro  ‘Tunhuang’ and Paul Greaver ‘Joy’. Those records were the starting point really. 

MFM: DJing in clubs to make people dance never really attracted you?

PM: I’d say pretty much most of my DJing has been in clubs. I started at the Milk Bar in Soho in 1992 after giving Darren Emerson a tape. Even though I was doing the warm up and playing mellow stuff at the beginning, you had to build it up to a full dance floor by the end. In 1996 and 2000 I was the tour DJ for Lefttfield, playing in front of 1000 odd people. ‘Just get it going before we come on!’ Alongside Ross Allen and Rob Da Bank, I was resident at Bar Rhumba for our Next Level night in 1997. It lasted a year and we opened with Harvey and closed with Andrew Weatherall. I Have to mention Moonboots and Jason Boardman’s night Aficionado too. I always enjoyed playing to a dancefloor there, they’ve kept the Balearic flag flying since 1998. 

MFM: At what point did you got into making music on your own? 

PM: I’d worked on a project for Kenneth Bager in 1994. Then later on he started his Music For Dreams Label, and asked me if I would be interested in making an album.  So the first Cantoma album was started in Copenhagen in 1999, and finished in London in 2003. 

MFM: How do you come up with a new song, is there a certain Phil Mison way to it? Do you write the parts for the musicians?

PM: It usually starts with an idea that pops into my head. Sometimes a memory or travelling will get a melody going, and I’ll sometimes hum it into my phone and use that as a starting point. Ive worked with Engineer/Producer Robin Twelftree on all the Cantoma albums. I’ll go into Robin’s studio and usually start with some basic keyboards, then I’ll play a bassline in. I’ll take the demos away and think about what would work on the tracks. For some musicians the music is written down. Ive worked with Robin Lee from Faze Action on a few Cantoma tunes, and he usually transcribes my basic melodies onto sheet music. Other times I’ll play the melodies on a keyboard or hum the tunes for the musicians to follow along to. On some tracks I’ll write the lyrics too and get a singer to record on a track. There’s a lot of going back and forth until I’m happy with the final cut. The music rarely ends up sounding like the first version.

MFM: Making a mix must have been a piece of cake for you :) What is this mix like?

PM: I went back through my 92-94 selection and picked a selection of the lesser played records. Memories of magic times at the Milk Bar and warm summer evenings at the Cafe del mar.

MFM Mix 044: Phil Mison

Dr Banana is a name that commands a lot of respect in certain corners of the dance music world. The man has his Ph.D in record digging—not literally, mind you, but play along—and key to his success is the sense of fun, joy and ecstasy he brings to his DJing. UK garage historian? Sure. Blinding DJ? Definitely. He likes to play records you've never heard before, records that not only make you dance but might remind you of some of your favourite, formative records of yore.

The UK artist started out with a fashion line and some records and ended up an influential label boss, collector and DJ. He made his name with skippy, retro UK garage—sometimes from new producers and sometimes unearthed from the archives—and nicely coincided with the genre's explosion in popularity. Since then, he's highlighted everything from old-school German garage to new-school producers like K-LONE. His DJ sets have only become more adventurous and, crucially, even more bumping. Jungle, R&B, tech house, you name it. His RA Podcast zeroes in on a vintage-sounding, rollicking kind of house music, full of seismic disco basslines and quirky vocal samples. It's as celebratory as it is mysterious.

Once, Dr Banana was a not so well-kept secret for the heads—the kids in Berlin and London who were starting to realize the similarities between UK garage, minimal and tech house. Now, he's for everyone, and starting to earn the wider recognition he deserves.

@dr-banana

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/916

RA podcast

RA.916 Dr Banana

Misc; with Keyrah - 24 January 2024

Happy 2015 to all of you, and what better way to see in the New Year but with a new SUNANDBASS Podcast of the highest quality. The words sublime, special, forefront and unique are often banded about, but this mix truly has it in spades.

Podcast #32, our first for 2015, comes from one of the masters of our music, and this mix is nothing short of superb. A lesson in the creation of sound - no names, genres, pigeonholes needed, just genuinely fantastic music.

Up steps Calibre for the SUNANDBASS Podcast, and what a perfect start it is to 2015.

The tracklist is below but check this out first…

SUNANDBASS Reunion Party - Saturday 14th Feb 2015, Berlin

One of our favourite things about SUNANDBASS is the way it brings people together, so we’re very excited to announce the SUNANDBASS Reunion Party on Saturday 14th February 2015. 

Taking place in our home city of Berlin, we invite you to join us for a get together of friends, family and loved ones and the chance to share an evening of music, fun and memories.

As well as the possibility to catch up with some of your people from around the globe, we have bought together a line-up that guarantees to bring the SUNANDBASS vibe to one of Berlin’s most exciting and intimate venues.

We hope you might make the journey to come and join us, and very much look forward to welcome those of you that do.

DJs:
Calibre
Marcus Intalex
FD
Delicat
Soulsurfer
Rumba

Hosted by MC Soultrain

Ohm, Köpenicker Strasse 70, 10247 Berlin

23:00 – 07:00

KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE FACEBOOK EVENT COMING SOON

SUNANDBASS Podcast #32 – Calibre - Tracklist:

calibre     ---    sant
vangelis    ---   the sleeping beauty
bremen    ---   sun son  
calibre     ---  lost
dominick martin    ---    beyond  
iasos    ---   the winds of olympus 
calibre    ---    so right
mary lattimore    ---    pluto the planet
calibre    ---    sand promise
calibre    ---    collision
calibre    ---    waiting for you
calibre    ---    thunder front
calibre    ---    poke
calibre    ---    don’t watch this
calibre    ---    heute
mi:sti:cal    ---    secret love
calibre    ---    error errant
duane pitre    ---    section I

SUNANDBASS Podcast #32 - Calibre

Incredible night at Macarena club Barcelona

Funk D'Void B2B w/ Pig (Pig&Dan)

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

Read more at ra.co/podcast/973

RA.973 Kia

054 - Ghoulish - fabric podcast

Wake up with NTS... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/breakfast/episodes/breakfast-leon-vynehall-11th-february-2025

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ LEON VYNEHALL 110225

🔊 https://youtu.be/akpYR_9Tveo
https://soundcloud.com/eluize: This mix is an invitation to let me lead you through my world of beauty in electronic sound. Things I love to play or hear at sunrise, as the moon shows her face, on a train, watching rain on a window, having those early moments with friends warming up for a night ahead, bleary-eyed swaying with new connections on the dance floor as the day starts to crack through the windows of the club, on a long drive home, or as a backdrop to cherished, deep and sometimes nonsensical chats somewhere around a kitchen table or sunk deep in a lounge relishing in the night that was. A lot of these have been closing tracks, or openers, hidden on a B2 or snuck into a compilation, so to put them all together as a special tribute to the sparkly, deep, sometimes acidic, sometimes soaring things that make my heart swell and I can’t help but move my body to. It’s sentimental, joyful, introspective and hopeful, I hope you find something you that speaks to you here. All my love, Eluize xo.

https://soundcloud.com/nighttideaudio
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/oniss

Eluize approaches her DJ sets and productions, creating and playing music that evokes spectrums of emotion, resonating viscerally through the meticulous interplay of elements.

Whether through delicate, reflective production on her latest LP “Believe”, disco drenched elation on “Curious Bliss”, gritty EBM on “Lucidity” or the orchestration of decadent escapes on dance floors when DJing, the Australian’s artistry speaks to the senses.

Eluize drenches brisk house with a prog touch in acid. In her sets, selections entwine and move together, rather than succumbing to excess, the rave locks into flow. Listeners will find themselves drawn inwards time and again, guided by ethereal breaks, often lead by Eluize’s vocals, the breathing space she creates for dancers, and the energy of the tracks themselves.

Whether in the cavernous depths of fog filled clubs or dusty plains of heat hazed festivals: Eluize grounds her music in something psychedelic and hypnotic, a place of security where lively, bubbling melodies have room to unfold. She shapes a comforting sanctuary, whether you feel completely alone or enveloped in the energy of the crowd. Rave, that is.

Play on YouTube

LAYER #413 | Eluize

a solid blend of uk bass, techno, breaks and jungle, jay carder returns to foundation.fm with a specially curated, 3-deck mix.

jay carder - 11.02.2025 - foundation.fm

Will Hofbauer - 17 February 2025

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

#13

Artist: Quadrant Soundscape [Dub Explorations]

For the 13th episode of the Frontier we have decided to step up and present our own interpretation of what the series is. The Frontier is a series that means a lot to us, it's something that we have talked about wanting to do for a long time and have been very careful in how we want to curate it. From the music, to the artwork, and to the artists we've invited on, every decision has been carefully thought about. 

So with that being said we are proud to present our own mix, coming in at just over 2 hours. We feel this is a good representation of our sound and how we like to develop and build things up over the course of a few hours. 

As with all our Frontier mixes we have not included the tracklist. Feel free to comment below and we will let you know what is being played.  

We hope you enjoy. 
QS

The Frontier 013 - Quadrant Soundscape

Next up in our mix series is Ron Trent 🩷

We know many of you have been waiting for this one...

We're overjoyed to finally be able to share the recording from a night in The Bowl with the pioneering DJ, producer, and architect for much of today's house music; Ron Trent.

Known for sets that embody the essence of soul, his performance from last Summer was undoubtedly a highlight for many.

Ron Trent at The Bowl [ Live from We Out Here 2024 ]

Mihail Petrovski, better known musically as Mihail P, hails from Vinica, a small town in Eastern Macedonia. As part of a new generation of artists redefining classical techno, he is carving his own path through the genre. Mihail's musical taste was shaped early on by the sounds of pioneers like Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Pink Floyd, whose melodies filled his childhood home.

His journey into electronic music deepened after discovering UK and Detroit Techno through Timeline Radio and the Estimuloshow. Over the past few years, he has built strong connections and friendships with figures such as Paul Rimbaud of Distant Worlds, Domenic Cappello of Seventh Sign Recordings, and Andy Green of Verdant. These collaborations have provided Mihail with opportunities to develop his sound, while also exposing him to a wider range of genres and musical influences that continue to fuel his creativity.

@earthboundrecordings

Exclusive Mix 006 - Mihail P

A mixed genre session this one..
hope you like it..

please check out my you tube channel for more mixes. 

www.YouTube.com/@DjSideways

DJ Sideways - Session 201

@colonelgatito live at Sunday Service on December 1st - a moment suspended in the haze of an infinite afternoon, somewhere in a foggy room in Montreal…

Ivan Smagghe ༄ Live from Sunday Service (December 2024)

Let NTS brighten up your lunchtime hours. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts/episodes/soup-to-nuts-eclair-fifi-1st-may-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ Eclair Fifi 010525

Sugar Free and Fonte are a Madrid-based DJ duo known for their deep personal and artistic connection. They first met ten years ago, bonding over a shared passion for music—a spark that led to a lasting collaboration both on and off stage.



Sugar Free & Fonte @ Kiosk Radio 10.05.2025

Ziggy Devriendt is the DJ behind Nosedrip. Tune in once a month for an expert selection of any or all of the following: new age, new wave, French psych, minimal synth, post-punk and a whole lot else... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/nosedrip/episodes/nosedrip-12th-may-2025

Nosedrip 120525

A bimonthly assemblage of moving sounds from London-based producer object blue. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/object-blue/episodes/object-blue-12th-may-2025

MAKE-BELIEVE w/ object blue 120525

Chicago formed experimental outfit blends atmospheric ambient, pulsing percussion, and deep dub flourishes to create thoughtful rhythms and immersive music

https://www.instagram.com/pureliiink



Purelink @ The Lot Radio 05-13-2025

A new studio set from one of the foundational icons of drum & bass.

Few names in drum & bass carry as much history as Peshay. Paul Pesce came up in the crucible of early rave and left fingerprints on labels like Mo' Wax, Good Looking and, most obviously, Metalheadz. By the time drum & bass was surging in the mid-'90s, he was bolted as one of the scene's most distinctive voices. 

Where others were pushing clinical austerity or waves of dark pressure, Pesce's ear drew him to featherlight, jazzy chords instead. The atmospheric drum & bass movement—or intelligent, as it's sometimes known today—cohered in his hands with timeless staples like "The Piano Tune" and "Miles From Home."

To a contemporary generation, he may now be best known for Studio Set, which caught alight as a prime slice of algorithm fodder on YouTube in the late 2010s, racking up millions of plays. Alongside Bailey’s Intelligent Drum & Bass, the mix has taken on a second life as a seminal document of a genre in flux. All of which made its removal from the internet, based around a spurious copyright strike, a hot concern.

Although a little tad reserved than some of the scene's most dominant names, Pesce has remained a loyal custodian and historian of the sound. While Studio Set was down, we offered him a crack at making something fresh, and though it's thankfully back up, the Kafkian nightmare galvanised his commitment to preserve recorded history.

Known as a DJ for his dynamic way with a groove, extended blends have long been Pesce's signature. You’ll hear plenty of those on his RA Podcast, as golden-age rollers and contemporary vocal cuts push in and out for up to four minutes, painting a portrait of the genre’s vitality from someone who helped define its terms. True to form, RA.993 carries the touch of a jazz conductor and the assured cool of a veteran who's been deep in the culture for over 30 years.

@peshay-official

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/993

RA.993 Peshay

The first half of RA.996 is Ron Trent's take on luxurious house.

As part of our countdown to RA.1000, a milestone in the 24-year history of RA's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format. The next few editions will pair two acts who complement each other's strengths, offering a fresh take on a particular community, scene or style. 

This week, we're zeroing in on Ron Trent and Ash Lauryn, two names who fly the flag high for old-school US house—a foundational pillar of the electronic underground. 

Trent takes the A-side. Hailing from Chicago, the birthplace of house, the pioneer is a master of finding the sweet spot where machine music meets organic instrumentation.  Listen to any DJ set or record in his extensive back catalogue and you'll find a wealth of exquisitely expressive melodies and deep, spiritual frequencies, making him the ideal narrator for any survey on house. (If you've only got a moment, sink into "Morning Factory," nine minutes of perfection.) 

Trent's return to the RA Podcast, 19 years after his debut in 2006, represents his many decades of expertise in fusing funk with gorgeous musicianship under the umbrella of heart-stirring house. Some may call it a masterclass but to us, it's just Trent doing what he does best.

Listened to as a whole, RA.996 is a powerful snapshot of house's elegance, class and most importantly, understated yet innately euphoric joy.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/997

RA.996 Ron Trent

Part two of RA.996 comes from a modern-day house luminary. 

As part of our countdown to RA.1000, a milestone in the 24-year history of RA's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format. The next few editions will pair two acts who compliment each other's strengths, offering a fresh take on a particular community, scene or style.

This week, we're zeroing in on two names who fly the flag high for old-school, US  house—a foundational pillar of the electronic underground. The first half comes from Ron Trent, which you can read more about here. 

On the B-side is Ash Lauryn. Hailing from Detroit, she's a modern-day house savant. Her comprehensive understanding of the genre's history—knowledge gained from the Detroit greats who that inspired her—and her own inimitable blend of old-world soul meets new-school grooves make her a force to be reckoned with. 

A former RA contributor, Lauryn keeps it <i>real</i>, whether in the booth or beyond. A role model to a new generation of DJs, she can just as easily be found teaching workshops at Underground Music Academy in Detroit or sharing tricks of the trade in the green room at some of the best clubs in the world.

An unwavering champion of Black dance music, the Atlanta resident makes it a point to play as much Black American music as possible, as she told us in her 2019 podcast. Not much has changed since then. Her contribution to RA.996 spans favourites like Larry Heard, Mood II Swing, Byron The Aquarius, Moodymann, Ron Trent and plenty of Detroit heavy-hitters.

Listened to together, both mixes are a powerful snapshot of house's timeless elegance and, most importantly, understated yet innately euphoric joy.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/998

RA.996 Ash Lauryn

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

This is Pt.I, from 1989. The mix is provided courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to https://ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles Pt.I (1989)

For the penultimate RA.1000, we take it back to the source with unreleased tapes from the private collection of Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House.

This is Pt.II, from 1996. The mix is provided courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

For RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles in full and all information on this unearthed audio, head to https://ra.co/podcast/1018 or 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles Pt.II (1996)

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

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

Established in 1973, King Original became East London’s most prominent sound system for two decades. Footsie continues his father’s legacy, bringing the King Original sound back in a hybrid format from the dub & reggae movement that underpins all UK bass music.

Footsie of King Original, delivering a sound system music lesson, live from the Dutchie - Coalesce Festival 2025

King Original Sound (Footsie) - Coalesce Mix Series 008

Tracklist:

Hareton Salvanini - Quarto de Hotel 
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man 
Westside Gunn - 327
Los Gatos Blancos - El Chacarero
Sure Thing - Atoms 
Hareton Salvanini - You Can't Run Away from Your Destiny
Reprezent -  Watching Windows/Brown Paper Bag (Nuyorican Soul Remix)
Nuff Pedals - Heavily Invested 
Zed Bias and Fyza - Ride Or Die 
Wynton Marsalis - Skain's Domain / Karen Young - Hot For You Acapella 
MIles Davis - Rated X
Zombie Apocalypse Shit - Seven Ate 
4 Hero - Loveless [feat. Ursula Rucker]

DJ DIE - WHAT IS JAZZ?  Mix For Jenna G on Reform Radio

Jazz-influenced deep house from a French legend.

Download and tracklisting: http://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_StGermain