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February 2024

Emerging talent, @manami-b delivers a punchy summer club mix for number 16 in the Junction 2 series.

Bursting on the scene just a few years ago, Tokyo-born Manami has been making serious waves across the UK with standout sets at Motion Bristol,  XOYO and The Warehouse Project. Her first single ‘Plastic Italo’, released in late 2020, was selected by Jaguar as her Dancefloor Moment on BBC Introducing and she has followed up with top releases on Alfresco Disco and Soothsayer. With Bicep, HAAi, and Joy Orbison making up just a few of Manami’s ever growing roster of support artists, she is definitely one to catch at the Junction 2 Inner-City showcase at Tobacco Dock this August bank holiday weekend.

Junction 2 Mix Series 016 - Manami

Celebrate the month of love with @aci.dsister while they're both apart on the road. Enjoy @chucheewa 1st hour set with some vibin house, chill & happy rave to the 2nd hour from @smkyprincessnotyour with her energetic house, minimal and groovy tunes to bright your saturday up.

Acid Sister - 11th February 2023

Manami – live from Boiler Room in Bristol.

Manami | Boiler Room: Bristol

Acid Sister – live from Boiler Room in Bali.

Acid Sister | Boiler Room: Bali

Berlin Apartment Mix_Oct 2023

Scuba shares a special club recording. Live from Room 2 on 21st October 2023 for part two of the SKREAMIZM Weekender.

015 - Scuba - Recorded live from fabric

Votre DJ préféré revient sur votre radio préférée numéro 1 dans le Multiverse !

Rinse France Podcast 

Teki Latex - 29 Novembre 2023

All time favourite Aurora Halal @itsallhalal warming up for D-Dan 12th December 2022 11.00-1.30am at NYC's legendary Nowadays.

ani/live Thirty Three: Aurora Halal @ Nowadays

Playlist for 6th December 2023 episode of Deep Space Helsinki with Samuli in the studio.

1. Voal - Take My Hand - ISOTOOP
2. Ojskog - Snow Silence - Southern Lights
3. Ojskog - Mulurin - Southern Lights
4. Alex Dolby - Cosmo - Sequenzial Shift
5. Havsmörker - Sjörök (The Allegorist Rework) - Supertraditional Records
6. PRG/M - Garuda - Semantica
7. Astrover - Depositional Waves 
8. Pulso - Materializar Los Deseos - EVOD
9. Tammo Hesselink - Haven't Read - Midgar
10. Dj Nobu - Iris - NON Series
11. Luigi Tozzi - The Deer Hunter - Mental Modern
12. Pulso - The Question Number - EVOD
13. Atomic Moog - Programm - Delsin
14. Skjöld - Erkennung - NON Series
15. Stefan Goldmann - Mare Monstrum - Macro
16. Naan Boys - Surgical - It s A Love Song
17. Jonas Kopp - LIM 8D - Tremsix
18. Zadig - Crystal Boy - Illegal Alien LTD
19. Ricardo Garduno - Strange Communication - Parallel Thoughts: Two
20. Kølpøs - Red Planet - Nachtstrom Schallplatten
21. CONCEPTUAL - In silence we pray - Stand Alone
22. ORBE - 36º02´12¨N - Semantica
23. D-Leria - Transport - NON Series
24. Kalumet - Outer Clock Signal - Giggling Hedgehogs
25. Dryad - Internal Vortex
26. Metapattern - Cleansing - Silicone Cell
27. Arkan - Health Break - Drawner Records
28. PTTRNRCRRNT - Boundary 2 - Crossed Boundary EP
29. Crossing X - Rango - AVION
30. Ruman - Where The Ring Ends - Warm Up
31. Oscar Mulero - Figures Of Light - Illegal Alien LTD
32. Alexander Kowalski - Synaptic Sirens - Illegal Alien
33. Jonas Kopp - LIM 8E - Tremsix
34. Alex Dolby - Togheter - Sequenzial Shift

Deep Space Helsinki - 6th December 2023

@ccl-url blasted us all into space in their closing set atThe Grove on Saturday night.

Campout Mix Series: CCL

Recording of Paquita Gordon's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Paquita Gordon at Dekmantel Festival 2023

BSRMIX #150 by our dear old friend https://soundcloud.com/tornadowallace

All Australian Techno/Prog/Trance artists from 90s/early 2000s. Dedicated to Phil K.

Enjoy!

www.buttersessions.com

BSRMIX #150 - Tornado Wallace

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

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RA.916 Dr Banana

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

RA.917 Purelink

Tracklist
1. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - ID
2. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Lucid
3. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Moving Air
4. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Celeste
5. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Saturn
6. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Takerimba
7. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - It's Over
8. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Noah
9. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - ID
10. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - ID
11. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Haze [Anjuna Deep]
12. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - ID
13. Jon Gurd & Reset Robot - Twelve [Space Between]

We Are The Brave Radio 298 - Reset Robot (Guest Mix)

Ariel Zetina is as charming as she is talented—one of the many reasons she was named "Chicagoan of the Year for Pop Music" by the Chicago Tribune last month. A straight shooter with strong principles, her witty personality shines through on social media and in person. She radiates both best friend and boss energy.

Musically, she wears her heart on her sleeve, infusing her personality into her DJing and production. Her sets and mixes are adventurous, moving from hard to soft to playful with precision. From producing theatre shows and opening for Beyoncé to releasing her RA-recommended debut album on Local Action in 2022, the smartbar resident approaches each venture with meaning and depth. That LP explored the complex experience of being a Belizean-American trans woman, using fiery house and techno to express vulnerability and triumph. 

Ariel Zetina's multifaceted personality is on full display in her RA podcast. There's baile funk-infused techno, crisp drum & bass and plenty of tracks from queer producers from all sorts of scenes, including Michael Cignarale, StrikeStone! and Perfect Lovers. It's a grand statement of power, flow and seriously good taste.

@arielzetina

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/919

RA.919 Ariel Zetina

https://soundcloud.com/intr0beatz

Recorded live in Reykjavík: https://youtu.be/eThkEeEB25U?si=whpoK6A7F5xpXCls

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DRIFGAFFE002 - Intr0beatz / DRIF (17 Nov 2023)

Full wav download of the guestmix for DJ Moxie

https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-15th-november-2023

Deetron Guest Mix for Moxie

Whoever Client_03 is—their official bio says "neither human nor machine"—they certainly love electro. In the interview below, they say making it is "all I do." The stubbornly anonymous project has been making waves across continents and scenes, introducing audiences used to dubstep, drum & bass and trap to the distinctive joys of electro. Through a series of self-releases dating back to 2019, Client_03 has earned a fanbase with simple graphics and wonderfully jargon-y titles—"Prosperity Stream Divider," "Interpersonal Relationship Assessment"—that more than live up to the genre pastiche with genuinely funky electro grooves. Pitched between loose and robotic, their tracks are what we call rollers: stackable, interlockable and reliable.

This RA Podcast was recorded live at last year's Bass Coast Festival, where the masked producer's set was among the most anticipated. They—or it—didn't disappoint, and here we've got 60 minutes-plus of smooth and occasionally raucous electro that eventually mutates into dubstep, jungle and beyond. There are several spinbacks, tons of Client_03 material new and old and a few select tracks from artists like Sam Binga, Nikki Nair and Fixate. It's the sound of a certain kind of future, as refracted through its past.

@Client_03

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/920

RA.920 Client_03

Australian duo @in2stellar serve up one hour of deep space minimalism for number 009 in the mix series 🌀

XKM009 | In2stellar

tim-sum w/ Timor & Lora Mipsum - Aaja Channel 2 - 19 01 24

Notte Infinita - Affair 130

The first hour of Fumiya Tanaka's set from the last night of Dimensions 23' is here! One of our most requested recordings from this past summer, the Sundance founder / Perlon artist had the Beach Stage eating from the palm of his hand. Listening back at HQ brings up all the special feels.

Fumiya Tanaka  - Live From Dimensions 23'

Exclusive mix by @ofayyad
Cairo-born, Dubai-based Omar Fayyad is known for his subtle, spatial and complex simplicity both in the studio and behind the decks. Resident for Analog Room and Noctuary, the Egyptian selector delivers 1h of deep and rhythmic selection. Boss size.

TRACKLIST
Innermood - What is House (Organomic Dub)
Fresh & Low - Take your Time
Presence - Feelin’ Lifted
Kelvin K - Mypal
Gari Romalis - Start the game (Detroit on the move)
Mark Ambrose - Signs n Lights
Mettle Music Collective - Lounge Lizard (Attaboy Mix)
Natural Rhythm - Fundamental
Telephones - Aquatrak (FM AM Mix)
Bone City - Monkey Tennis
Hashman Deejay - 184
Eastern Strategy - Adventures in Blue
Paul Mac - Another Chain in the Link

DURE VIE
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207 • OMAR FAYYAD

pi pi pi with deep creep @ The Lot Radio 01-30-2024

Part of the NTS family since day dot, Moxie has held her Wednesday show since the stations first broadcasts. Inviting esteemed guests for interviews & mixes and breaking new, unreleased music, she’s got your Wednesday afternoons covered... Tune in to hear anything from Soulful House, Garage, Afro beats and all the way through to rolling techno. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-31st-january-2024

Moxie w/ Partok 310124

Mogwaa is a Seoul-based DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist who can seemingly do no wrong. Since his debut EP in 2017, he's developed a stellar track record of releases and live performances that have made him an in-demand name across East Asia and beyond. And he's only just getting started.

The South Korean artist's multi-genre palette and hardware expertise have earned him the description of boy wonder from peers and collaborators. His work is awash in bright textures and dreamy moods, whether it's electro-fused techno for Peggy Gou's Gudu Records, limber jungle for Klasse Wrecks or dubby dancehall for Sound Metaphors. At Wonderfruit festival in December, he played a thrilling live set of spacey techno and loopy acid, infusing rich sound design into elastic groove. His stamina and enjoyment of music is tangible—he could probably play all night long and still be raring to go.

After learning classical piano, guitar and trumpet in his early years, he taught himself to compose and produce. He's now determined to work with South Korean producers through Walls And Pals, a label he runs alongside Jesse You.

Mogwaa's RA Podcast offers a glimpse into his multi-faceted sound. It's full of club-ready heaters, from trippy house to breakbeats, that pack a serious punch.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/922

RA.922 Mogwaa

Bangers from around the globe. Dar Disku launched with a question: how to channel heritage into dance floor elation? Well, when your name translates to 'home of the disco,' the brief feels pretty self-explanatory.

In the first few years, that meant crafting edits of Khaliji hi-NRG and Bollywood soundtracks to fit contemporary 'crates. They took off as DJs through a run of radio and parties in the UK—where they currently reside—flexing deep finds from across the SWANA region. Their vibrant debut album, out in September on Soundway, furthers the mission.

True to form, their RA Podcast is stuffed with heaters from all over the map: Algeria, India, Chile, Jordan, Australia, Turkey, Libya and Morocco get a look-in, as well as a few staple acts that betray the kind of high-wattage European festivals the duo increasingly frequent. It's not hard to see why—this mix is 90 minutes of sunshine.

@dardisku @soundway-records

Read more at ra.co/podcast/946

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RA.946 Dar Disku

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

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

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

The first-ever live recording from an elusive icon of dubby electronic music.

Lore is an underrated quality. Neuroscientists have mapped that music elicits similar feelings in the brain to when we satiate cravings, but what about the psychological impulse that drives listeners of a certain disposition toward everything they don't know?

It's tricky to put your finger on, but artists able to conjure intrigue without overhawking the backstory can really cut through—just ask SAULT, [ar:pi:ar] or Gerald Donald. Then there are those who don't try whatsoever. These are the ones who stay in mind the most.

In 2001, a striking 12" called Ship-Scope emerged through Chain Reaction, credited to Shinichi Atobe, with no other info available. Okay, mulled fans, this is probably a cat-and-mouse game dreamed up by someone on a label with a fine line in foggy obfuscation. Vainqueur on a wind-up? Another Moritz 'n Mark alias?

But no: Atobe was real, and really had posted a demo to Hard Wax. It was that simple. Then he went back to his day job—until, after 13 years of silence, an even better follow-up emerged.

From the near-perfect Butterfly Effect onwards, Atobe has built up one of the most revered catalogues in underground circles. A steady clip of elegant, transportive dub techno and deep electronics has arrived on Demdike Stare's DDS, complimented by the launch of his own label, plastic & sounds, earlier in summer 2025.

Atobe has also made strides into the public domain, DJing intermittently, as well as performing live for the first time in 2023, gracing WWW at the tender age of 52. It's that debut 2023 show heard on RA.1009: a hypnotic yet comparatively pumping set full of Atobe staples, as well as material you won't find anywhere else.

Contact with the big man, as you might anticipate, is glacial: since we first reached out, the RA Mix has changed name, look and rolled over into its second millennium. Still, patience pays off. This is a one-off we're stoked to run. – Gabriel Szatan

@shinichiatobe

Find the interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1028

RA.1009 Shinichi Atobe

DJ and label head Hannah D (the space between us) has crafted Vervemix 017, full of lush ambience to get lost in. Hannah D has just moved to Narrm (Melbourne) from Meanjin (Brisbane), already getting stuck into live gigs with a recent appearance at Neurocrank.

RA.922 Mogwaa

Resident Advisor