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Tycho sunrise DJ set on the Disco Space Shuttle at Burning Man on Friday, August 29th, 2014. Thanks to everyone who made this morning special and of course all my love to everyone at Apogee Camp, best burn yet!

Special thanks to: Nitemoves (Rory O'Connor), Heathered Pearls (Jakub Alexander), Rob Garza, Christopher Willits, Kiyoka, Katie B. , DJ Dane, Clark, the Dusty Rhino crew, Seth, Tobias, and the whole Disco Space Shuttle crew.

Track Listing:

>> SET BEGINS - APPROX 5:40AM 
Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Remix)
Boards of Canada - Olson
Clark - Tooth Moves
Manitoba - Dundas, Ontario
Atoms For Peace - Dropped
Tycho - Dye
Photek - Pharoah
>> SUNRISE - APPROX 6:20AM
Ulrich Schnauss - In All The Wrong Places
Tycho - Awake
Bibio - À tout à l'heure
Airbird and Napoleon - In The Zone
Tycho - Awake (Com Truise Remix)
Psychemagik - Cosmic Forest
Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
Leon Vynehall - Time
Leon Vynehall - Be Brave, Clench Fists
Fort Romeau - Jetée
Dauwd - Lydia
Mirror People - Kaleidoscope (Psychemagik Remix)
Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)
16 Bit Lolitas - Deep Space Girls (DAVI Remix)
Dauwd - Heat Division
Tycho - L
Lancaster – Beachy Thing
Panama - Destroyer
>> EMBRACE SCULPTURE BURN BEGINS
White Denim - A Place to Start
Washed Out - Amor Fati
Little Dragon - Little Man (Tycho Remix) 
Moths - Heart
White Denim - Street Joy

Black Sunrise - Burning Man Sunrise 2014

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

A wintry collage from one of 2024's breakout stars.

As far as crossover electronic success goes, Barry Can't Swim's 2024 scorecard would take some beating. His singles have racked up hundreds of millions of streams, he bagged a Mercury Prize nomination and has the range to both pack out festivals as a DJ and sell out tours worldwide with a string-accented live show. 

Barely 12 months on from the release of debut album "When Will We Land?", it's fair to say Josh Mannie is one of the most in-demand artists working in dance and electronic music right now, with a follow-up LP nearly done, he says.

For RA.968, he pulls in the complete opposite direction from any of that. Sure, there are nods to Mark Leckey and late-night jazz haunts throughout his catalogue, and the ruminative clouds drifting across his signature golden-hour glow do suggest an artist with a sharp grasp on meteorological melancholy. But a beatless collage featuring Suso Sáiz, Slow Attack Ensemble and Lorenzo Senni? It's a surprise, and a welcome one at that.

Speckled with exclusive airings of brand-new ambient material, Barry Can't Swim's RA Podcast charts a path from This Mortal Coil to Ryuichi Sakamoto, with a detour through some Linkwood and Anthony Naples deep cuts we've not heard for a good while. (He even includes a Stars of the Lid favourite which namechecks Fulham's home ground, an act of mid-table grace for the diehard Everton fan).

RA.968 has the crackle of a frosty night walk set to tape—a holiday gift from one of the most popular acts in the game. 'Tis the season.

@barrycantswim

Read more at ra.co/podcast/968

RA.968 Barry Can't Swim

Ibiza Chill House  Session 2015, mixed by PANDA

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

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

Part two of RA.999: two NYC Downlow favourites go back-to-back for the first time with a jubilant homage to classic house.

The RA Podcast launched 19 years ago in 2006, making it one of the world's longest-running online mix series. As we gear up to celebrate the 1,000th episode, RA.999 lands with five mixes across five days with a cohort of artists who've left a singular mark on electronic music over the past few decades. The chemistry and legacy of these duos make for something very special—and worthy of such a huge milestone.

First up was 1morning and Regal86 with a live recording from New York's Bossa Nova. Next up? We move to NYC Downlow, and who better to capture Glastonbury's beloved queer utopia than Prosumer and Peach, going back-to-back for the first time.

If house is your thing, then Prosumer and Peach going one-for-one on the decks is nothing short of a treat. With Glastonbury still just about in the rearview mirror, this mix captures the spirit of NYC Downlow. If you're familiar, you'll know this means steamy euphoria all-night long, sweat dripping from the ceiling and an intoxicating feeling in the humid air.

And Prosumer is a true Downlow darling—a treasured custodian and storyteller of dance music who delivered his first RA Podcast way back in 2007. "If a record doesn't move me emotionally or physically, I won't play it out," he said at the time, befitting of the impeccable curation and irresistible body groove that became his trademarks. He is, in the words of the Johnny Dangerous track in the mix, the "King of Clubs."

For Peach, RA.999 marks a full-circle moment: Prosumer's 2019 closing set in the Downlow is one of her all-time Glastonbury memories. Since her first RA Podcast in 2021, the London-based artist has only grown more in-demand, with sets that typically traverse the house and techno lexicon—and occasionally R&B—with a distinctly peppy energy. "Neither of us are afraid to go deep," she said about playing with Prosumer. "We just had fun with it."

@ohpeach
@prosumer
Read the full interview at ra.co/podcast/1006

RA.999 Prosumer & Peach

Tweaking the knobs on the Roland TB-303 this week are Transparent Sound with a live set of straight-up electro and squelching electronics.

RA.023 Transparent Sound

One of house music's true originals, Maurice Fulton, graces the RA Podcast with a mix that connects the dots between soul and experimental electronics.

RA.021 Maurice Fulton

Blowing up your headphones and speakers this week on the RA Podcast is German sound surgeon Chris de Luca.

RA.016 Chris de Luca

White hot live act and remix duo Digitalism provide the latest Podcast.

RA.011 Digitalism

The tenth edition of the Resident Advisor podcast is brought to you by former Radio Slave member and edits specialist Serge Santiago.

RA.010 Serge Santiago

Our ninth Resident Advisor Podcast comes from the Vampire von Dusseldorf, Oliver Hacke. 

RA.009 Oliver Hacke

The eight edition of the RA Podcast is from Parisian Dan Ghenacia. 

RA.008 Dan Ghenacia

Our fifth Resident Advisor podcast comes from Finnish talent Kiki.

RA.005 Kiki

Our fourth Resident Advisor Podcast is provided by Fabric and Panorama Bar regular, Margaret Dygas.

RA.004 Margaret Dygas

The third Resident Advisor podcast comes from Jay Haze.


RA.003 Jay Haze

The second Resident Advisor podcast comes from DJ and production duo Pig&Dan.


RA.002 Pig & Dan

Our debut podcast comes from Berlin resident Troy Pierce.


RA.001 Troy Pierce

warming up Saturnite @ Golden Pudel Club 9/10/2015

Arnaud Rebotini from Black Strobe puts the needle on the records in this week’s RA Podcast.

RA.028 Arnaud Rebotini

This week Swedish techno artist Adam Beyer weighs in with a peaktime techno workout.

RA.030 Adam Beyer

Innervisions CEO Dixon steps up for this week's podcast.

RA.048 Dixon

This week's selection comes from Connaisseur recordings head chef Alex Flitsch.

RA.103 Alex Flitsch

Gritty house and techno from the Russian underground.

RA.296 Nina Kraviz

 Om Lounge no es la excepcion de esos grandios  tracks,en este CD encontramos desde un buen downbeat, jazz house, electronica, house, trip-hop. Esta es una creacion magnifica que nos relaja, definitivamente un Cd para crear una atmosfera tranquila para nuestro estar, muy recomendable como todos los Vols. de OM lounge. Super Relajante.

Acid jazz - thievery corporation - om lounge

Lean house and techno from one of the best in the business.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=520

@moonear

RA.520 Sonja Moonear

Lush house loops from a Parisian favourite.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=529

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RA.529 Lazare Hoche

This year's Gottwood could almost have been renamed Gottwood 2016 With Move D. The German artist played three times across the weekend and hosted a wine bar at Ruffy's Lab. This set, though, was the centrepiece, an almost four-hour session to close out Secretsundaze's takeover of The Curve. It had all of the ingredients we've come to know and love about David Moufang's sets: fun, infectious, a little bit ramshackle and always memorable. (Consider the occasional needle skips in this recording as part of the experience.) 

RA Live - 2016.06.10 - Move D, Gottwood Festival, Anglesey

Spacey sounds from a rising DJ.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=531

@evan-baggs


RA.531 Evan Baggs

House music for the end of summer.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=535

@kornel


RA.535 Kornél Kovács

Sharing the last two hours via Fluxfm from our Sum Over Histories X Muting The Noise Instore Session. You hear Trikk with his ethnic & rhythmic sound in first hour then Frankey & Sandrino for the second half while Lazaros couldn't resist to drop Pink Floyd´s Shine on you crazy Dimond as last song. Thanks to the Muting The Noise ravers and crew for a wonderful first edition of our Instore Session & Mathi at fluxfm for a proper signal. Yours truly F&S!