Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO, RHR & Leod - 04 March 2024

My set from Dekmantel 2023 @ The Nest stage. 

Also available for streaming on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dj-swisha-at-dekmantel-festival-2023-dj-mix/1725576866

DJ SWISHA at Dekmantel Festival 2023

On Saturday evening, São Paulo favourite RHR turned Vesshcell upside down with a storming two hours of dancehall, techno, drum & bass and his beloved baile funk.

Read our new Breaking Through 2025 feature on RHR here: https://ra.co/features/4423

@rhrmusiq

RA Live - RHR - Horst Arts & Music 2024, Belgium

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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RA Live - RHR - Horst Arts & Music 2024, Belgium

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