If you haven't heard of Nikki Nair at this point, we'd invite you to come out from under that rock you're living in. But jokes aside, the last 12 months have been the Atlanta producer's year. He's toured seemingly endlessly, has found his way into a number of local scenes and has put out records for labels like Dirtybird, Lobster Theremin and Scuffed Recordings. If that weren't enough, he's also been putting out an illuminating series of monthly singles on his Bandcamp that show off both his restless muse and his seeming ability to both perfect and put his own stamp on any sub-genre or style he tries.

People usually use some form of the word "bass" to describe Nikki Nair, because of the way his music flits between dubstep, drum & bass, electro and more. One moment he's making staggering hip-hop instrumentals that would have fit right into the old LA beat scene, the next minute he's making pneumatic techno or uptempo stuff that would fit right in one Juke Bounce Werk. 

His voracious appetite for new sounds comes across on his RA Podcast, which is a sprawling two-hours-plus of genre hopping and careful mixing, hopping from mood to mood like a 2-D video game platformer. It starts off perhaps a little slower than you'd expect, but weaves through countless Nikki Nair tracks, older selections from Wolfgang Voigt and Drexciya and mind-melting club tracks from newer producers including DJ ADHD, Despina, Limewax and more. If you want to know what the hippest, most inventive dance music sounds like, bridging continents and oceans, this mix is it.

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RA.848 Nikki Nair

This past February, Tesfa Williams released his debut album—over 20 years into his career. Raves Of Future Past distilled decades of experience on London dance floors into a potent and powerful blend of grime, house, rave and techno. Made with an Elektron Digitakt to imitate the rough textures of early '00s UK dance music, the LP is an anachronistic history lesson that throws everything in a blender, imagining what gqom might sound like as an Eski track and giving new life to the short-lived "sublow" sound Williams helped invent with classic tracks like "Invasion," released under his earlier alias DJ Dread D.

Since the sublow days, however, Williams has become a torchbearer for UK house music and African diasporic sounds like Afro house and gqom in London. He's put out soulful hits like "Heartbeat"—recently reissued by Local Action—and released a steady stream of dance records for PMR and Strictly Rhythm. He's what you might call a jack of all trades, except for that he's actually a master of them all.

His RA Podcast charts his musical journey in reverse chronological order, starting with smooth, African-influenced sounds and winding through grime and dubstep, eventually landing at jungle. He threads a needle through diverse genres (and eras), and posits that the traditional UK hardcore continuum is a bigger spectrum than you might think, with gqom's heave and amapiano's log drum equally important in the musical equation. It's nearly two hours of UK dance music past and present, from a DJ who has lived it all.

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Munich meets Miami in a B2B that's a dream come true. A perfect brew of DnB, hip hop, techno, ambient, and bouncy mesh brings together two of the scene's most innovative forces. Skee Mask, the master of acoustic manipulation and dark atmospheric textures, teams up with childhood friends duo INVT, with their hypnotic, trippy Latin-scented audioscapes and intricate drum programming. An immaculate blend of INVT's gritty rhythms and Skee Mask's otherworldly sonic engineering.

INVT b2b Skee Mask - Climate Of Fear - April '24

Recording of Goldie's set at Dekmantel Ten

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Hessle Audio feat. Le Motel Recorded live at Horst, curated by Ben UFO - 03 March 2025

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO & Joe Delon - 07 April 2025

Original mix desk recording straight from source - ie Soundboard / Tongless

Djrum - Waxcap [Houndstooth]
A Made Up Sound - Ahead [A Made Up Sound]
Paradox - Octa4 [Sneaker Social]
AFX - Phonatacid [Rephlex]
Indian Ocean - Treehouse / School Bell (Part 2) (Short Version) [Sleeping Bag]
Subhead - Mod-U-Like [Subhead]
Walton - More Cowbell [Tectonic]
Conforce - Grain [Clone Basement Series]
MC Shy-D - Shake It (Remix) [Luke Skyywalker]
Kritical Audio - Krupp [Detroit Underground]
Shabaka Hutchins - Explore Inner Space [Impulse!]
Dario Zenker - Quantized Rise [Ilian Tape]
Spacer - Villiger [Pussyfoot]
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Pres. Derek & Clive - Bo Duddley [Island]
Neotropic - Beached [NTONE]
Atrice - Backrooms [Ilian Tape]
Homelife - Buffalos [Ninja Tune]
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood And The Fantom Band [CBS]
Martsman - Impending [Hidden Hawaii]
Floral Resources - Botanic Panic [Tech Startup]
Beatrice Pollard - Episode 1 (B2) [MRR]
dgoHn - Invisible Sandwich [Love Love]
Some British Accent And Dialects - Isle Of Man [BBC]
Noise Abatement - Hearing R-Zac In 1997 Made Me Want An R8 [Dance Trax]
Mecanica Popular - La Edad Del Bronce [DRO]
Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - To Elsa [Freedom]
Hieroglyphic Being - The Language Of Strings: Audio Memoirs Of Electronic Etudes & Nocturnes (10) [Mathematics - MATH 105]
Vaccine - Rhyme Related [VACCWHITE001]
Loxy & Resound - Heritage [CNVX]
Logos - Seawolf [Keysound]
DJ Vadim - Morning Prayer [Ninja Tune]
Logos Feat. Dusk & Blackdown - Alien Shapes [Keysound]
Black Dog Productions - Otaku [Rising High]
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music [ECM]
Soundmurderer & SK-1 - Telembodanustyle [Rewind]
Sixteenarmed Jack - King A De Jungle [Sweet Sensi]
Family Of Intelligence & Vernon Smith - The Fruit Version [3rd Party]
Sister Nancy - Bam Bam (Original Bam) [Big Beat Reggae]
Aroma Nice - Containr [YUKU]
Terrorrythmus - Suicide [BRKN]
Lester Bowie - Rose Drop [ECM]
FFF - World Is Closed [Vibez' 93]
Bala Bala Boys - Sieta [R&S]
E.K.U.D.C.M. - Ultra Jungle (All Nite) [Hard Disk]
Penderecki, Don Cherry & The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra - Humus - The Life Exploring Force [Philips]
Aleksi Perälä - NL-L56-18-07385 [Dub - 037]
EQ Why - Whybot & Whystien [Orange Milk]
J:Kenzo - Dub For Bashenga [Cosmic Bridge]
The Government - How Many Fingers? [The Government]
Hihats In Trees - C=N [Maloca]
Kid Lib - Mental State [Fresh 86]
Lester Bowie - Rose Drop [ECM]
Paradox - Drum Throne [Paradox]
The Jackson Five - Hum Along And Dance [Motown]
Barker - Birmingham Screwdriver [Smalltown Supersound]
Roswell Return - A Goldbach Vibe (Clean Cut Remix) [SD]
Djrum - Sycamore [Houndstooth]
Aphex Twin - Diskhat All Prepared1mixed 13 [Warp]
Kincaid - Slow Stumble Home [Banoffee Pies]
Bass Butches - Loose Lips Sink Ships [Step Ball Chain]
Zenzizenz - Returning From Home [Banoffee Pies]
Affie Yusuf - Equator [Ferox]
Menace Makes 3 - Keep On Comin' (Brainstorm Remix) [Danse City - DC 1205]
Autechre - Maphive 6.1 [Warp]
Mantra - Stomping Ground [Ilian Tape]
Yunis - Preview Of Tomorrow [YUKU]



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A soulful energy hour with Ehua, exploring the bounds of 140bpm.

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Modern-day jungle from an old soul.

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