Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

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Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

Club Culture Dance Music Community is a reality founded in late 2007 with the desire to create a forum whose centerpiece was House music and life from clubbers.
Sharing files with recordings of the sets of the best artists
for many international has been the magnet which led to CLUB CULTURE,
that over time has become an increasingly popular place
people "sick" of music, especially the music that we love
call "dance floor".
The evolution and growth of Club Culture has been constant, and in landscape
of sites devoted to the world of music in 4/4 has clipped a role
definitely important, regarding especially the great passion and
competence fielded by all components of the community.

The magic of this place is really great, because in addition to the appearance
musical note purely the familiar climate in
create with the passing of years, with reports that have resulted in real
their friendships. From this feeling the need to take
meet periodically with an evening that will bring together young boys
and old under the sign of Club Culture and under the sign of good
House music.

The only dress code that we ask for is a smile and comfortable shoes, to rest
We think we are.

CLUB CULTURE FORUM
"The Loft set it all up and the Garage made it real." Frankie Knuckles

今後は、こちらにup　loadします！
In the future, we will upload it here!
（2021.　oct.）

http://www.mixcloud.com/minamixx/21723minamixx%E4%B8%8B%E5%8C%97%E6%B2%A2arena/

Inspired by the desire to create spaces where partygoers and pro house dancers connect, groove and sweat together.

RA.986 Suze Ijó

Resident Advisor