RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER B2B KIERNAN LAVEAUX (T4T LUV NRG)
RECORDED LIVE AT WHOLE
SAT, JULY 30, 2023
22:00 - 
ANTENNA STAGE
@russellelbutler @kiernan-laveaux @t4tluvnrg

RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER B2B KIERNAN LAVEAUX

Recorded live from @RefugeWorldwide - this show inspired by Mist, all things deep, atmospheric and spacious, with some warmth and soul -- dub techno, deep house, dub-wise tracks.

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #12 Mist @refugeworldwide

NYC Legend Hank Jackson (@@hjacksonnn) aka @ann0000 at the Effervesence night at iconic Bossanova Civic Club, NYC  June 23.
 
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ani/live Sixty Three: Hank Jackson @ Effervescence, Bossanova Civic Club, NYC

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

Akua is a Ghanaian-American DJ redefining North American techno with raw, high-velocity energy. Now based in Berlin, she bridges Detroit, Chicago, and NYC influences with a forward-thinking approach. Her no-nonsense style has earned her a place at Berghain, Movement Detroit, FUSE Brussels, Dekmantel, and beyond, solidifying her as a vital force in contemporary techno.

Akua @ Kiosk Radio 30.05.2025

"It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. Saphira is caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east, Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse. It is a city inside of want and outside of time." 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ccl/episodes/ccl-30th-july-2025

Invisible Cities w/ CCL - Saphira 300725

“i wanted to create something with a sense of anticipation, rising out of the deep building the listener up into a sense of relief as more functional and 4/4 forward takes heed like warming up a dancefloor. with so many influences i feel like my ideas can feel convoluted when planning and recording a mix but this i really took my time to move through different styles whilst them all being connected by a deep & trippy style which gels the mix together.” 

a heads down session from london-based dj, producer and label owner dyslecta who delivers this week’s 909 mix. a mix filled with tension, swirling rhythms and wonked-out drum patterns - it’s a masterclass in building pace and letting the restraint lock you in before the heaviness is unleashed. 

from the rolling fields of east yorkshire to the thrum of london’s dancefloors, dyslecta’s story is stitched together by tapes, family lore, and a deep, instinctive relationship with sound. raised on a steady diet of hardcore, techno, and trance blasting from his parents’ rave collections, his earliest encounters with electronic music were less about clubs or community than about atmosphere. his productions and mixes channel that same sense of place and texture: raw, shape-shifting worlds built from fragments of loops, hardware experiments, and a visual imagination that maps sound to colour, rhythm to landscape. with his label tenuous links, launched earlier this year, dyslecta continues to expand on this vision, with an aim to champion artists who thrive on curiosity and experimentation. 

in the interview below dyslecta talks about the constant learning and experimentation of being an artist, how growing up in yorkshire influenced his sound, and the process behind his productions - from starting with a sound to creating an atmosphere or world with it and being able to visual and feel the track he’s working on. 

interview:

@dyslecta

⋆˚࿔ untitled 909 podcast 235: dyslecta ⋆˚࿔

getting things lined out, this one flowed excellently. layered in some nice scratches as well for texture. 

Quintessential

Here is my dj set recorded at Freerotation 2017. I played on the first night of the festival in room 2. I can’t remember the last time i was that nervous... Freerotation means a lot to me !!

The first 15minutes were a bit difficult, but the vibe was super nice and after a few tracks, the magic happened. The vibe at freero is so cool, I had a lot of fun :) The crowd noise was recorded and i edited the file in order to avoid background noises. I edited the second transition of the mix too as i had a problem with my recorder. Everything else is recorded straight off the desk with no edits.

Massive thanks to Steevio and Suzybee for inviting me, and thanks to alex downey for recording my set. Big up Onyx aka Oxyd who took the picture.

As usual, don’t hesitate to ask for IDs.

RA.595 M.E.S.H.

Resident Advisor