Every month RA Live heads to Brilliant Corners, a cosy listening bar in East London equipped with a Bozak mixer, McIntosh amps and huge wooden Klipsch speakers. In this intimate setting, DJs take the opportunity to play their favourite leftfield records, showing a side to their tastes not usually heard at clubs and festivals.

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No big deal: it's just Kerri Chandler playing records in a sushi restaurant.

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RA Live - 17.10.17 Kerri Chandler at Brilliant Corners

Promising Australian selector Lauren Hansom played us some of the records she's picked up on her travels.

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RA Live - 25.11.17 Lauren Hansom At Brilliant Corners

Barcelona-based selector Daniel Baughman played some killer new age, ambient and folk records at East London listening bar Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 25.11.17 Daniel Baughman At Brilliant Corners

Otherworldly percussion and sublime dance-not-dance music from John Talabot at London's Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 25.11.17 John Talabot At Brilliant Corners

rRoxymore dusted off some leftfield records from her collection for a 90-minute RA Live set on a cosy night at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 17.12.17 rRoxymore at Brilliant Corners

Synth-laden sounds from across the globe, from jazz fusion and street soul to lover's rock, zouk and calypso, courtesy of London-based DJ and radio host Zakia.

RA Live - 17.12.17 Zakia at Brilliant Corners

Hunee stopped by Brilliant Corners on a cold Sunday in February for an unannounced six-hour set. Decked out with hanging ferns, floor cushions, an oil lamp and visuals by Cherrystones, the East London spot was even cosier than usual, and Hunee started out playing some of his favourites field recordings and experimental records, before slowly building the dance floor with his collection of music from around the globe. 

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RA Live - 11.02.18 - Hunee at Brilliant Corners

Whether it's in the club or on the radio, Eclair Fifi has always deftly woven her way through different styles and sounds. For this RA Live event at Brilliant Corners she did just that, but with a twist. The Scottish DJ presented a different side of her musical personality, playing a selection of the jazz, prog and disco records she likes to listen to at home.

RA Live - 18.03.18 - Eclair Fifi at Brilliant Corners

Sofay, who works in a Glasgow library by day, played a mesmerising batch of records during March's edition of RA Live at Brilliant Corners in London.

RA Live - 18.03.18 - Sofay at Brilliant Corners

London-based Ece Duzgit pulled together a singular collection of music for the April edition of RA Live at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 22.04.18 - Ece Duzgit at Brilliant Corners

Palms Trax's set at Brilliant Corners gently ascended from slow soulful jams to joyous disco—the perfect soundtrack to a spring evening in London.

RA Live - 22.04.18 - Palms Trax at Brilliant Corners

Vancouver artist Yu Su wove together a batch of records she'd picked up on her travels around Europe.

RA Live - 20.05.18 - Yu Su at Brilliant Corners

On a sweltering July evening at Giant Steps (Brilliant Corners's summer hangout), we recorded an intimate session with All Our Friends, AKA Tim Lawrence, Cedric Woo and Jeremy Gilbert.

RA Live - 15.07.18 - All Our Friends at Giant Steps

The Canadian DJ showed her mellow side on a bank holiday Monday in Hackney Wick.

Tunes from The Other People Place, Young Marco and New Order are sprinkled throughout this 90-minute RA Live set recorded at Giant Steps, a listening and party space in East London overseen by the team behind Brilliant Corners.

Watch the set here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3336

RA Live - 27.08.18 - Peach at Giant Steps

One of the year's most exciting DJs joined us at the airy East London space run by the team behind Brilliant Corners.

As part of our monthly RA Live series, Gou took the opportunity to play some records she doesn't usually get to spin in clubs, weaving together a selection of hip-hop, disco and slow-mo jams, from The Roots and Slum Village to Clout and Patrick Cowley.

Watch the set here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3291

RA Live - 27.08.18 - Peggy Gou at Giant Steps

The Lullabies For Insomniacs founder played some of her deepest records at our third and final RA Live event at Giant Steps for 2018.

RA Live - 16.09.18 - Izabel at Giant Steps

Music From Memory cofounder Jamie Tiller showed off his enviable collection of pretty ambient records on a cosy Sunday evening at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 03.02.19 - Jamie Tiller at Brilliant Corners

Trippy, arpeggiated tunes from the likes of Scribble, Oceanic and Pump were on the menu as Red Light Radio's Orpheu The Wizard stopped by the latest RA Live session at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 03.02.19 - Orpheu The Wizard at Brilliant Corners

On Sunday, April 7th, we returned to Brilliant Corners for another evening of music discovery with Lukid and Gigi FM. 

Lukid has been a consistently inventive artist for more than a decade, releasing his first album on Actress’s Werkdiscs label in 2007. Since then he’s released another two albums under that alias, put out a string of unclassifiable EPs, remixed Radiohead and formed one half of Rezzett. On this drizzly Sunday afternoon he took us on a trip through the a world bunch of sounds that inspire his various monikers.

RA Live - 07.04.19 - Lukid at Brilliant Corners

On Sunday, April 7th, we returned to Brilliant Corners for another evening of music discovery with Lukid and Gigi FM.

London-based DJ Gigi FM has a knack for weaving club tracks with trap and UK drill as well as plenty of other shades of music. She has a deep record bag, making the Netil Radio host a natural fit for Brilliant Corners.