Mixes 2024

Two years ago Indianapolis' beloved Duck Trash (@ducktrash) gave us all a hefty dose of Chemical X (#136). For this month's installation on Refuge Worldwide, they're bringing their genre-spanning sound for a very electric journey through house, techno and electro 📡🌐🌼

Indianapolis-based artist Duck Trash is a queer techno & electro selector who believes in the healing powers of the dancefloor. They illustrate the full range of human emotion in each otherworldly heavy dance mix. They are passionate about the queer roots of rave culture and strive to ensure that raves remain a space of queer liberation.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

Duck Trash - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 020

You never know what you're going to get if you see the name Hieroglyphic Being on a record or a flyer, but there's a good chance it'll be some of the best, most jacking house you've ever heard. Jamal Moss embodies the the spirit—and the past, present and future—of Chicago's house music scene, but he also carries the torch for Afrofuturism, free jazz and avant-garde music. He follows in the footsteps of important figures like Sun Ra and Ron Hardy, his work blending these traditions with a healthy dose of post-punk, too. 

For over two decades, Moss's Mathematics Recordings label has been one of the premiere sources of raw, analogue house music, helping put producers like John Heckle on the map. He has a sprawling solo discography, encompassing projects like I.B.M., Members Only and The Sun God. He also put out one of our favourite albums last year with Thank U 4 The Tracks U Lost, released on Modern Love under his given name.

Live, Moss usually jams on a few pieces of gear, to fantastic and sometimes bewildering effect. This RA Podcast is a two-hour recording of a live set from public records in New York. It features all the raw, powerful house music you'd expect—made with two iPads and a MIDI controller—but it's also loaded with gorgeous, ghostly melodies and an opening section that touches on trance, trip-hop and '90s electronica. This is a rare live recording that captures a genius at work.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/888

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RA.888 Hieroglyphic Being

Lena Willikens and Moopie at A Colourful Storm, Berlin

"When I was asked to play Hot Mass with Vladimir Ivkovic, I felt a genuine sense of honor and trust. I knew that with 3.5 hours I could really DIG in and curate a set that would express a broad range of my musical influences, while also setting the stage for his masterful and multifaceted style, which I have always deeply admired him for. 

From the stark reality of Muslimguaze's Khan Younis, the hypnotic sounds of Tolouse Low Trax, a 90's Holger Czukay remix, Danny Brown instrumental, 3rd CDJ psychosis, a Madonna edit, loooong blends, industrial rhythms, interludes, jack trax, happy accidents 😅, psychedelic Bay Area bangers, and resetting the room at peak time—this mix is a sonic tapestry that I'm incredibly proud to share.

Immense gratitude to the Detour crew - Alex, Gusto, Naeem, and Allison for embracing my vision, Hot Mass for hosting, all the friends who showed up, and the talented producers/musicians whose work is embedded in this mix!" -@teeyam

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Recorded live at @hot-mass - November 18, 2023
Mastered by @m-parent

DETOUR Podcast 25: Teeyam (Live at Hot Mass)

@officiumofficium
Our next mix is by Officium. We get a proper long trip over here, with almost reaching 3 hours of music. 
Officium is a multi-instrumentalist, knee-deep in the forward pushing underground scene of France. Navigating the Wreckers Ov Civilization radio serie at Lyl Radio. 
Last year, he released the amazing album ‘lazybones’ at Teenage Menopause Records, from Paris.
This story is taking us from Cindy Lee to Coil and helen island to Special Guest DJ, while Boris is playing alongside Missy Elliott. 
“There are lots of clues about mystical thinking, emotions, winks to people I love and friends' musicals projects in here. All mixed up and resulting in a strong narrative.”

Knekelhuis # 109 - Officium

✨ 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓋𝑜𝓁. 𝟧  ✨

*downloads on*

I started listening to ambient music properly during lockdown as a way of trying to heal from heartbreak as well as a coping mechanism to deal with what was going on around the world. I was pulling together playlists of tracks that made my heart sing or weep, to soundtrack my daily walks around the canals of berlin or the quiet residential area where i grew up and ended up moving back to. These playlists were the start of the sounds of healing series and my journey of digging deeper into ambient soundscapes via my refuge worldwide residency. It’s a genre that I probably would say I have the biggest emotional connection to right now, in the way that it has helped me through some really difficult times in the last four years. So it was an honour to bring this to the club space for the first time for playbody 002, a party run by some of my wonderful  friends. Sounds of healing vol. 5 is a glimpse of what I played during that after hours set, in what became one of the most beautiful settings with the lights dimmed, a candlelight by the decks, people curled up with each other on various platforms, kissing, or deep in conversation. It was touching to witness people have the same emotional reaction to the music as me; people coming up and saying how a track or artist had saved their life or that they just wanted to have this personal moment with the music, away from the conversation. It was deeply vulnerable to play some of these tracks to a group of people, some being strangers but it very much aligns with the journey I’ve been on recently. And with this mix, I’m not only sharing that moment with you but I’m bottling up this feeling and keeping it close to me forever. 

taylor e burch - you gotta start somewhere 
jonny from space - slip 
pugilist - alignment 
hysterical love project - i hope i see some of my haters out tonight 
command d & gi - bleary
purelink - stadium drive 
jonny from space - hearing colors
astrid sonne - say you love me 
erika de casier - the flow 
hyperdawn - maybe 
pontiac streator - time flies (shena’s loop edit) 
nala sinephro - space 1
kelela - far away 
davis galvin - loved 
anthony naples - orb two 
the durutti column - requiem again 
ml buch - high speed calm air tonight 
ot to, not to - new york city 
laila sakini - that wave, that line 
command d & gi - align 
spooky - the river (ambient) 
donato dozzy - vaporware 07 
secede - foliage pathway 
julianna barwick - pyrrhic 
takashi kokubo, andrea esperti - gaia’s love theme 
foam and sand/robot koch/delhia de france - circle 27 
coral morphologic - endless love 
nick león - dolphin 
soria - mary madrugada
julianna barwick - labyrinthine 
rosalía - sakura 
jake muir - tonic 
special guest dj - panoramic deep love story 
mu tate - me when u 
mazzy star - fade into you

sounds of healing vol. 5

Waves Of Change - re-mixed. Stay deep.
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl
Setup breakdown: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vc-118a-live-21-98991279

VC-118A - Liveset Tresor - 20.01.2024

In very loose terms, James K's (@jamesk_1) music operates at the fringes of the pop world. It is experimental and industrial, packed with hooks and riddled with dreamy textures that show off her mastery of synths. She has released it in album form with Dial and Incenso, dropped EPs on AD 93 and collaborated with the likes of Drew McDowall and Stefan Maie, and always manages to imbue her adventurous arrangements with real-world emotions and anxieties. This year she will join us at Dekmantel Festival but not before serving up this week's podcast.

It's the sort of rhythmically thrilling workout that has always stood James apart: jittery drum patterns and kinetic grooves that unfold at 100 miles an hour as a barrage of caustic motifs, hypnagogic melodies and hyper-real colours all bounce about the mix. There is an ever-present sense of tension in the way things are assembled - it's as if they might implode or explode at any minute, and it all sounds fantastically futuristic.

Dekmantel Podcast 460 - James K

The fourth entry in a series of living documents of momentum

Euphoric kinetic connection embraces disorder inside the void, as we smile & dance toward anamnesis together

Primarily manifested live at UFO CAMP festival 2024, in Guanajuato Mexico, on May 18 2024 as the vibrant golden hour solarity melted into dusk, further and further into the celestial embrace of night. Some sonics were added into this mix later on by me for deep listenability at home :)

Gratitude to UFO CAMP crew for having me play, a special set in a special place on a special day of life <3

ENCAPSULATED JOY 004: LIVE @ UFO CAMP 5/18/2024

This DJ set by Mike Servito was recorded somewhere on the astral plane (a filthy Detroit basement) on February 1, 2025, at Ritual Rave, a party celebrating the pagan holiday Imbolc, which signals the start of Spring.

Buckle up and get ready to crank that shit ‘cause you’re in for a wild ride. This set is laced with only the rawest, bitchiest, nastiest, sweatiest, most classic Detroit-basementiest @mikeservito cuts. The rave reviews are in and the critics are hailing it as “A masterpiece of Servito '95. Mike in his highest and most enlightened form. A set so transformative that it effortlessly and masterfully bends the time-space continuum. It's an aural bitchslap like no other. It’s quintessentially pureDetroitmoods."

Ritual Rave is an annual part of Imbolc: https://imbolc.cargo.site/

Know what we're up to at purefastmoods HQ (even before we do): https://purefastmoods.com/get-on-the-list

Mike's set was mastered by @Otodojo.

Mike Servito at Ritual Rave, February 1, 2025, Detroit, MI

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

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This mix was recorded live during an All Night Long session at Mansions in Queens, NY on November 15th, 2024. Consisting of primarily vinyl selections ranging from dub tinged electronica, sultry progressive, percussive tech house, funky pumpers, deep techno & psychedelic electro. The room was electric, sweat dripping from swaying bodies. Thrilled to share a 2 hour section from one of my favorite sets in recent memory. I'll be releasing a new record "Limbs of a Lion" on April 4th, 2025 & celebrating with a release party going b2b with the inimitable Kiernan Laveaux.

“Limbs of a Lion” arrives in a dazzling array of shimmering psychedelia, the newest offering on fleet.dreams’ own Vinezza records. Following “Echoes of Ego” his acclaimed inaugural 12”, “Limbs of a Lion” sees fleet.dreams’ artistry and form blossoming into realms of kaleidoscopic cadence & textural buoyancy. The production flows through a classically dubwise live analog mixing setup, new spheres of delays & echoes evolving fleet.dreams’ process to embody a unique & fully realized intersection of live instrumentation & dynamic synthesis.

TRACKLIST:
Playgroup - Make It Happen (Extended Dub)
Terry Francis - Hello, Acid Dathera
Juan Iborra - House Rallante (Hipp-E’s Dub)
Banda Sonora - Guitarra G (Warren Clarke Dub Mix)
Hydrogen Rocker - Musica (Vocal Mix)
Basco - The Beat Is Over (Sure Is Pure Mix)
Jess Mindt - Urban Tap
Alëem - Profit Leave
Razoof - Girl Dem Look Good
Plug - Indian Summer (ATT Remix)
Gat Decor - Passion (Do You Want It Right Now Mix)
DJ Dan - Put That Record Back On (H Foundation Mix)
Superfunk - Untitled
Funk 198 - Funk 242
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (Hani Club Mix)
Angel Alanis & Rees Urban - Long Island (Drunk Remix)
Anoesis - Heavy Water
Hawke - Party People (Robbie Hardkiss Mix)
BOD - Disco Lounge (Look At Your Monkey Remix)
DJ. D-Love - Beats And Lines…
Serene - Cool Strut
Nathan Coles - The Shack
Turbulence - Come Home (Thinkhead's Mix)
Cousin - ~T8_8T~
Jeremy Robin & DJ Franck'O - Long Deep Decay
Wax - Untitled
Hollis P Monroe - I’m Lonely (Addy’s Dark & Lonely Mix)

Acid Camp Vol. 158 — fleet.dreams

Es un viaje entre la precisión técnica y la intuición creativa. Su estilo, centrado en el techno groove, busca generar un pulso hipnótico que conecte directamente con el cuerpo y la pista de baile.

Insp - Crior Daquin (Original Mix)

The Scion and Hard Wax man gets low on this week's RA podcast.

RA.147 DJ Pete

Alright alright, here we are with another installment of Live and Direct after a few months off. Our first recording for 2020 comes from a memorable night last November when our resident Aurora Halal invited Pessimist in to share the booth. 

Aurora provided the opening (and closing) moments, which is a side of the beloved techno we are really enjoying getting to know. Known for her meticulously programmed sets that build with both patience and intensity, this opening stays true to her hypnotic style. Taking us from cinematic dub techno to pitched up club favorites and back again, it's a subterranean and psychedelic ride leading us to the surface just before Pessimist's dnb stylings took over for the night.

Aurora is back in our booth on March 28 alongside Wata Igarashi, DJ Python, Juliana Huxtable and more for Nowadays Nonstop. Tickets for that are available on Resident Advisor now.

RA.888 Hieroglyphic Being

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