Closing set on Friday @ Sustain-Release Year 7

DJ SWISHA & Kush Jones LIVE @ Sustain-Release Year 7

It’s Lisbon’s Nídia, stepping out for the Crack Mix series with over an hour of glorious club heat. Urgent, charismatic and heavy where it counts, this one’s essential listening – and a rapid-fire example of Nídia playful, rhythmic production style to boot. 

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Crack Mix 546: Nídia

The singular Príncipe artist showcases her shapeshifting sound. 

Before she was simply Nídia, Nídia Borges was Nídia Minaj. Modelled after a musical idol of hers, Nicki Minaj, in 2017, she shed the borrowed surname. As she later said in an interview with The New York Times, "Today I have my own identity. I'm not going to imitate something that someone has done already."

And Nídia couldn't be further from an imitator. As one of Príncipe's two non-male members, her body of work stands apart even within Príncipe's unique sonic universe. She traverses a broader emotional territory and extends to collaborations with Fever Ray, Kelela and Yaeji.

Her RA Podcast is a restless affair–60 minutes of pushing, pulling, tiptoeing and gliding through the sounds of the Príncipe universe. True to the label's communitarian foundations, the mix contains predominantly original and unreleased material from her colleagues. 

In 2014, DJ Lilocox told RA: "Whatever your age, skin colour, sexual orientation, money in the wallet, clothes on: Noite Príncipe is for all who come to dance... forgetting the outside world." A decade on, RA.957 echoes this sentiment, a celebration of Príncipe's enduring magic: delirious, transcendent dancing for all.

@nidiasukulbembe

Read more at ra.co/podcast/957

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RA.957 Nídia

DJ Nigga Fox masterfully bridges Europe, Africa, and South America with subtle Middle Eastern influences in this stunning exploration of global sonic textures. Blending research with creativity, he crafts a lesson in ethnomusicology through tribal, indigenous, and primordial sounds. This set links international heritages, geographies, and cultures, all converging on the dancefloor as a pulsating nerve center. Expect a rhythmic and dynamic mix of dark, percussive club beats and atmospheric melodic crescendos, interspersed with raw, syncopated rhythms. Whether vocal or instrumental, the performance is a unique fusion of African and Angolan roots with cutting-edge contemporary electronics.

DJ Nigga Fox - Climate of Fear - October '24

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

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DJ SWISHA B2B Nick León @ The Lot Radio 05-14-2025

Infinity Club 2 is imminent – modern Toronto club royalty BAMBII returns to the London studio for an hour long party session.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bambii-6th-june-2025

BAMBII 060625

Monterrey-born club producer extraordinaire Regal86 presents 'El Sabor de la Ciudad', or 'The Taste of The City' laying out the sounds that have inspired him and his regular guests, past and present. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/regal86/episodes/regal86-21st-june-2025

El Sabor De La Ciudad w/ REGAL86 210625

Kampire's half of a double-sided mix by two Nyege Nyege all-stars.
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Nyege Nyege is synonymous with radical sonic innovation. Since 2015, the boundary-pushing Ugandan festival and its associated label have become a vital hub for adventurous, experimental sounds emerging from East Africa and beyond. Its alumni roster includes some of the past decade's most thrilling and forward-thinking artists—DJ Travella, Nihiloxica, Juliana Huxtable, MC Yallah, and even New York's mayoral frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani. In the process, the collective has reimagined what club music can be.

On the B side mix is Kampire. The Kampala-based DJ has been a core member of the collective since the label's inception. Her mixes often feel like a lesson in musicology, weaving together narratives, tempos and genres while losing nothing in dance floor vitality. These talents are reflected in her contribution to RA.995. A typically kaleidoscopic blend of tough percussive workouts, infectious edits and raw, unreleased gems, the hour-long mix spans batida, singeli, bruxaria and countless more urgent sounds from the global underground.

The other half of this special release comes from the enigmatic DJ TOBZY, which you can find on the A-side. 

Presented together, as the first edition of a new format marking the countdown to RA.1000, this two-sided mix offers a bracing snapshot of a label that has redefined electronic music over the last decade.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/996

RA.995 Kampire

Original Ableton file: "Pink Suit - 07.04.18 [2018-04-07 230413]"
Date of Creation: 7-APR-2018

At the time I was living in a studio flat, I remember making think on a big circle shaped sofa, that was very comfortable. During the day, I saw someone wearing a two piece pink suit, which I have never seen before, so I titled the Ableton project "Pink Suit". I normal label my projects of something I done that day or something memorable from the day.

ELTORR - GALAXIES (REWORK)

Rough kuduro and gqom from Hyperdub's breakout star.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=749

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RA.957 Nídia

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