Recorded at Japan's Dommune in December last year. Thanks go to the esteemed music space for allowing us to share the set.

Craig Richards is fabric's musical director and resident DJ. To see his upcoming dates head to www.fabriclondon.com 

Craig Richards - Recorded Live At Dommune 09.12.2013

May 27th 2023 I was opening the DEEP IN THE BOX night at Tresor´s Globus. It was a great pleasure to building up the floor slowly for @DanaRuh´s wonderful live set, followed by Dj sets of @RogerGerressen and @Julie-Marghilano.

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@edward live at outro lado

The first track is an unofficial remix of Dimension 5 - Network. Check out the artist if you don't know them already :)

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Edward live at Outro Lado - Waking Life '24

John Talabot live from the Patio at #GALA24.

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Live from the Patio – John Talabot

Wrapping up the year in style, we’re happy to share the 2nd pieces podcast: a recording of Ivan Smagghe at Houghton Festival last August. 
“Everything has been said about Houghton and yet, nothing gets close to what it actually is and means. Playing at Outburst has become something of a regular occurence and I get goosebumps every year. Recordings are not the actual moment but some have been asking for the memento so here it is. Huge thanks to Craig Richards and Bobby. for their continuum of love and support”

pieces 002 - Ivan Smagghe - Live from Houghton 2024

This mix is ​​an energetic excursion of songs from the past, highly appreciated by the audience, and from the present. Wonderful experience in this club, which always knows how to give strong emotions. with its wonderful and warm audience.  This not exactly experimental set also offers several of my productions, almost forgotten, in collaboration with J.Kitikonti and also some demos that will be released soon on Musek rec and other labels.

Francesco Farfa @ LION & LAMB 8.2.2025

We’re thrilled to share the next Planet Paradigm Podcast, delivered by Dresden. Recorded live at Planet Paradigm 2025, where they played the Forest Stage. The duo, consisting of Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe, treated us to their signature sound: a mix of new tracks, nostalgic minimal grooves, and psychedelic layers that pulled us all into another dimension. Now it’s time to dive back in. Enjoy the ride!

Dresden live at Planet Paradigm 2025

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

In The Sky

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Shout out to Drew once again for this one, Ohio in the house!

Ricardo Villalobos

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298 - Ricardo Villalobos - In The Mix: Taka Taka (2003)

The fabric resident drops three hours of heat.

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RA.554 Craig Richards

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