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Juan Forte with Sub Basics - 02 April 2023

A set of the most heavily played tracks on BTTO over the history of the show. 
Most of these are set staples for us.

Tracklisting:
Coco Bryce - Adventures In Perception
On Remand - Controllin' (Tango Remix)
Original Vibes - Music Is My Life (94 Remix)
Badd 102 - All Crew
Flatliner - No Boundaries
Lemon D - Feel It
Virtigo - Chemical Warfare
Rev-P - Rythm Process
Dillinja - You
Wriggler - Untitled
DJ Infinity - Eternal
DJ Pulse - Stay Calm (Bounty Killaz Remix)
Eze-G - Worlds Of Confusion
DJ Seduction - Solid Bass
Dwarde & Tim Reaper - Globex Corp Vol. 4 B2
Liquid Aliens - Trip Toon
DJ Fokus - Vexxed
DJ Y - My Bizz
Alex Reece & Wax Doctor - Frequency
Appaloosa - Unplugged (Chaos & Julia Set Remix)
Babylon Timewarp - Changing
JB & Asend - Let It Go
Kloke - Artificial Memories
Darkman - Now Massive
Phineus II - Sheg
Rotating Heads - Dark Secrets (Wishdokta's Mash Up Mix)
Dwarde & Tim Reaper - London Stomp
DJ Seduction - The Twist
Gwange & Spinback - The Execution
DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini - Stop The Beat
Dwarde, Gand & Tim Reaper - Globex Corp Vol. 5 B1
DJ Wax - Thunderbirds Are Go
Bounty Killaz - Brighter Future
FBD Project - The Core
DJ Ruffkutt & Formula 7 -  Jodi's Theme (94 Remix)
Sy-Uss & Reality - Missing Link
Electronic Experienced - I.Q.
DJ Kid Twist - Live And Direct
DJ Ruffkutt - Heavyweight Vol. 2A

Tim Reaper - BTTO Radio April 9th 2023 (most played BTTO set)

Peshay - Represent [Metalheadz]
Wishdokta - Subliminal Satisfaction [2001]
Hidden Agenda - The Sun [Creative Source]
Tim Reaper - The Cosmik Connection Track [Unknown To The Unknown]
Leo J - Foothills [Bandcamp]
Lee & Tango - Solutions [Legend]
Randall & Andy C - Feel It (Stakka & K.Tee Remix) [RAM]
Ricky Force - Konono Riddim [Criminal]
DJ Fokus - I Want [Lucky Spin]
Wax Doctor - Cool Breeze [Creative Wax]
Soeneido - Treef [Future Retro London Dub]
Dwarde - Globex Corp Black Label Track 3 [Globex Corp]
Johnny Jungle - Killa Sound [Suburban Base]
Coco Bryce - Night On Earth [Fresh 86]
Jack Horner - After Midnight [Spectrum]
Dead Man's Chest - Haunted Dub (DMC & Josimar's Ruffneck Version) [Lo Freq Soul]
Sully, Coco Bryce, Dwarde & Tim Reaper - Synergy (Sully Remix) [Future Retro London Dub]
D.O.P.E - Travelling Pt. 2 [Good Looking]
Mental Power - Red (Remix) [Formation]
Phineus II - Woodland Stomp [Future Retro London Dub]
Photek - The Water Margin [Photek]
DJ Fokus - Watch Out [Suicide]

Tim Reaper On NTS Radio - 12th April 2023

blue turtle

Today, we share with you Mandarín's perception of Far Blue. Besides being an artist who puts together beautiful selections, we got familiar with Mandarín as a pivotal part of the community in the first place. A name who always pops up everywhere, and someone who has a vast musical knowledge by being so invested in everything that is put out by other artists and platforms. It only made sense to ask her to create a mix that represents her feelings of Far Blue, as she has been part of the process for a long time now. An artist that truly understands where Far Blue comes from, which she showcases in a versatile one hour and thirty one minutes mix.

'Yet, in a stillness a flicker of hope,
a promise of solace, a way to cope.
For even as red skies fade and elope,
new dreams emerge, with boundless scope'

ᐁ ᐁ ᐁ ᐁ ᐁ ᐁ 
@manndarin

Instagram.com/farblue_ 
Facebook.com/farblueconcept

A Far Blue concept by Mandarín - 'Red Skies Disappear'

Ari Goldman (Beautiful Swimmers / World Building ) live at Bar Part Time April 5, 2024

Ari Goldman Live @ B.P.T. April 2024

62번째 vurt podcast는 네덜란드 로테르담을 중심으로 활동하고 있는 딥테크노 디제이 Rosillon의 90분 디제이 세트와 함께 합니다.

Rosillon (Embodiment / Rotterdam)
Rosillon은 로테르담 출신의 바이닐 DJ이자 Embodiment 이벤트의 공동 설립자이다. Rosillon은 다양한 음악에서 받은 영향과 영감을 결합하여 진정성 있고 개념적인 접근 방식을 개발, 청중에게 다가가고 있다. 그는 풍성한 앰비언트 패드와 추상적인 드론 텍스처, 다양한 리듬 등 딥테크노의 여러 요소를 매끄럽게 혼합하며, 바이닐을 사용한 DJ 세트를 통해 이러한 예술적 접근 방식을 아름답고 헌신적으로 전달하고 있다.

@rosillon
https://soundcloud.com/embdmnt

The 62nd vurt podcast features a 90-minute vinyl DJ set from Rosillon, a deep techno DJ artist based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Rosillon is a vinyl only DJ from Rotterdam, and co-founder of the event organization Embodiment. 
Combining influences and inspirations from a wide variety of music, Rosillon has developed an authentic and conceptual approach to reach his audience. He seamlessly blends elements varying from lush ambient pads, and abstract droning textures, to complex and more straightforward rhythms. 
 His choice to DJ using vinyl only fits this artistic approach and allows him to make people more aware of the beauty and the commitment it takes to play this audio format in a digital era.

vurt podcast 62 - Rosillon

Young partygoers might know Man Power, AKA Geoff Kirkwood, as the earnest geezer going back-to-back with DJs like Ewan McVicar, Paul Woolford, La La and Skream—peak-time specialists with a fine line in boofy bangers and ravey techno. Kirkwood is also a dab hand at the kind of elliptical house and deep cut detours favored by '00s labels like DFA and Optimo.

In spite of a long track record as a producer and promoter, if you had to boil Kirkwood's work in recent years down to a single quality, it might be altruism. He hails from North Shields, a small town fringing the boundary of Newcastle in England's oft-neglected North East, and wears his heritage proudly. The Me Me Me label boss's involvement in a flurry of civic restoration, and no-filter paeans to the importance of working class involvement in culture, have become as central to his life as music-making itself. For an accomplished DJ who has played at nearly every good club you could name, that’s no small feat.

So which side of Man Power were we in for? The answer on RA.940 is: both. '60s free verse poetry, Zebra Katz, Gesaffelstein and John Carpenter in the opening stretch? Makes sense. Octave One punching through Rozalla? You got it. An extended Joe Claussell workout atop Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place"? Why not. In Kirkwood's hands, it all goes down as smooth as a pint of Newcastle Brown.

@manpower-1

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/940

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RA.940 Man Power

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

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 real, 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

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from The Collapse Of Everything alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

From speed garage to Arabic pop, one hour of borderless club energy from the Saudi DJ and curator. 

"We're making history tonight," hollered the MC at the start of Nooriyah's London Boiler Room in 2022. Sat next to the decks was her baba (Arabic for father), dressed in traditional Saudi garb. He opened the one-hour performance by playing the oud, a Middle Eastern instrument similar to a lute. Surrounded by smiling faces and pumping arms, it's a picture of joy.

The set was a turning point—and not just for Nooriyah's career. Scroll through the comments on YouTube and you'll find notes of endearment, gratitude and teary appreciation, proof of how powerful it was for people to see Middle Eastern music placed at the centre of contemporary club culture. 

This speaks to Nooriyah's MO. Born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Japan and now based in the UK, her musical vision reflects her global upbringing. But her style isn't eclecticism for eclecticism's sake—she's spoken about the importance of carving out space for underrepresented voices in dance music. 

Her RA Mix makes that mission audible. The result is a breathless hour: 47 tracks darting between speed garage, amapiano, Jersey club, Arabic pop edits and percussion-heavy workouts from Cairo to Accra. But don't mistake pace for carelessness: RA.1002 never feels rushed. Each switch is considered, revealing a knowledge of how global dance traditions can speak to one another. 

All in all, it's not only a celebration of her own heritage, but an invitation to imagine dance floors unconstrained by borders.

@nooriyah
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1020.

RA.1002 Nooriyah

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

Hostal La Torre - Volumen Uno [Hostal La Torre Recordings]
Compiled by Pete Gooding & Mark Barrott 2016.

01. Francis Bebey - Forest Nativity
02. Domenique Dumont - Comme Ca
03. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air A Danser
04. Ahmed Fakroun - Nisyan
05. Spooky - Orange Coloured Liquid
06. Cantoma - Tabarin
07. Finis Africae - Managua
08. Andras - Gold Coast (Surfers Paradise Mix)
09. Barry Forgie - Dawn Mists
10. Il Guardiano Del Faro - Disco Divina
11. Tri Atma Und Gyan Nishabda - Naturliche Liebe
12. Planet Funk - Inside All The People (Harvey's Ibiza Sleepy Mix)
13. Mark Barrott - Deep Water
14. Gryningen - Frun Andra Hand Till Strnnderna I Nice
15. Hatchback - White Diamond

Compiled by Pete Gooding and Mark Barrott
info@hostallatorrerecordings.com

La Torre Ibiza 'Volumen Uno' (album preview)

The masterful Japanese digger Chee Shimizu showcased his singular taste in music during the June 2017 edition of RA Live at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live

RA Live - 08.06.17 Chee Shimizu at Brilliant Corners

Love International mix 009 comes from ESP institute label head Lovefingers. The label are taking over Barbarellas Discotheque this year in Tisno with Powder & Roman Flügel joining Lovefingers and Heidi Lawden. 

Listen to this incredible selection, dream of Tisno and see you at Barbs for the sunrise in June. 


Tickets for all Barbarellas Discotheque shows are available here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/club.aspx?id=58189

Love International Mix 009: Lovefingers

Chris Coco is compiling the 7th 'Music For Dreams Best Of' compilation, he has picked his faves and including a brand new exclusive Chris Coco track. The compilation will be released the 20th of April 2018.

Pre-order the compilation: https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/music-for-dreams-best-of-vol-7-compiled-by-chris-coco/1362471136?l=da

Connect with Chris Coco
FB : https://www.facebook.com/DJChrisCoco/
YT : https://www.youtube.com/user/chriscocomusic
IG : http://instagram.com/djchriscoco
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iFBCM9EuHMsWytEVnplIP
Home : http://www.chriscoco.com/

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Best Of Vol. 7 - Compiled By Chris Coco (Mini Mix) - 0142

planet lonely
- - - -- --- -----*
autodestruction. 
whereever u are. 
sublimation. 
i got to hit the streets. 
the blue. 
ta reine. 
familiar light. 
hiphop experiments. 
daemmerung. 
everything is everything. 
done. 
base sweep. 
run from. 
head in the clouds. 
sweet bye and bye. 
piano poem. 
a view from above. 
time goes by. 
geminiden regen. 
rem. 
wonderland. 
dreamland. 
sofarawai. 
end of the world. 
interior renovations. 
where the place for me was. 
meaningless space. 
come closer. 
love.
a lot of freedom. 
loosing touch. 
i'm alright. 
departure. 
find me peace. 
back home.

RA.940 Man Power

Resident Advisor