Name: Null Rider by Richard Haig in Computer Playthings
Duration: 7 min 30 s
Description: From the 'Domestic Violins' EP on YYZ Records

Computer Playthings

Roller Mobster

Tracklist:
Surg(Be) - Nevrotic [Conkordance]
Korzi - Stinging Nettles [Bone Idle]
Beyond the Black Hole - Protonic Flux [Nebleena]
Galtier - Augment Thud [Nostro Hood System]
Morken - Van Cleef [brokntoys]
Ekzon - Shadow Dancer [S.Lab Ltd]
Ninechecker - Create A Scene [CHP Recordings]
Franz & Shape v TenGrams - Quantum Drift [Bass Agenda]
Fleisher - Fangs [Tripalium Corp]
CALAGAD 13 - Unconscious Self (Erhalder Remix) [Cosmic Tribe]
Grow - My Bionic Hand [Ovelha Trax]
Synthetix - Serial Data Collision [ZerosAndOnes]
AXIS3340 feat. Akkaelle - Brain Connection [Zodiak Commune]
ADJ - Gremlinzzzz [Strange But Dance Music]
Marco Resmann - Destination [Kompakt]
Interweave Electronics - Alpherg [forthcoming on Strange But Dance Music]
Cocktail Party Effect - EGG [Shephard Tone]
Panama North - Duck & Cover [New York Haunted] 

@mikaregards

Strange But Dance Music #199: Mika Regards

Radio Jiro is the two hour show of artist Jiro Bevis, every 4 weeks, Monday 2-4pm. The show features a wide variety of sounds from across the globe with previous specials covering themes such as Meditation, Italian, UK punk, Japanese Techno-Pop, Library and French. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/radio-jiro/episodes/radio-jiro-12th-june-2025

Radio Jiro 120625

A meandering fuzzy daydream brought to you from the sun soaked city by the sea. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/tana-yonas/episodes/tana-yonas-20th-june-2025

Wabi Sabi w/ Tana Yonas 200625

Optimo is JG Wilkes & JD Twitch; record label, and longstanding Glaswegian party. You can expect a lot from their new monthly slot, sure to dig up some obscurities from post-punk, new wave, EBM, house and techno. Bags of unreleased stuff, too. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo/episodes/optimo-8th-july-2025

Optimo w/ Yu Su 080725

From the 'Domestic Violins' EP on YYZ Records

Null Rider

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. 
New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. 
Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School, and her home base, Nowadays, where she holds a residency. Alongside her international touring, she’s carved out her own vital space through the long-running Mutual Dreaming parties and Sustain-Release, the DIY-rooted festival she co-founded, which continues to push boundaries as it enters its second decade.
Her Phonica mix offers a vivid snapshot of her deep, intuitive approach to DJing—captured live at Mansions, a cozy NYC wine bar turned house party haven. Known for her genre-fluid sets that blend hypnotic techno, house, acid and experimental textures this is the perfect calling card to showcase why she can hold it down with a range of greats like DJ Nobu, Vladimir Ivkovic and more.
We had a chat about the mix with Aurora as well as touching off Sustain and some of her favorite moments at the festival.

Phonica Mix Series 134: Aurora Halal

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 scintillating minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. Full send.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

"Having freshly touched down in Bristol for the day, Introspekt comes through with an all vinyl mix centered around 2nd wave Dubstep classics from the Bristol scene. Loads of heavy dubwise steppers inbound!" 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/introspekt/episodes/introspekt-12th-september-2025

Spaces In Between w/ Introspekt 120925

Special guest shows from around the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/empty-w-lowdy-25th-september-2025

EMPTY W/ LOWDY 250925

Composer and modular synth expert Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith presents her recent releases and musical inspiration.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith/episodes/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-3rd-october-2025

Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith 031025

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO (Recorded At Sustain Release 2025) - 06 October 2025

Daft Punk - The Grid (Alcala Remix)

Pre-Order: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/adult-shari-vari-122-hours-of-fear

Release info: http://www.ghostly.com/releases/resuscitation

Buy Now

ADULT. - Minors At Nite (Still Sick) (2001)

get the unmixed track for free here https://vestronvulture.bandcamp.com/album/waxwork

Original Mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RKsy1MhBTcvAWIFpdUgvj?si=a60V38pHRc-nZLpFjShP5w

Streets Of Vengeance Remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/2YEtCvSft4kVXAgz4g4GWN?si=xx7XUCFdT7GK52PxZ3I9KA

1 - New Wave Hookers

Name Your Price

Perturbator - Technoir (Feat. Noir Deco)

fka Panic Bomber
1/3 of @perfectstrangerssf
1/2 of @beyondtheblackholeband
1/2 of @kurtzandbomber

Richard Haig is a San Francisco-based electronic musician who primarily focuses on a dark dance floor foundation with a sinister songwriting sheen. His recent output is club-oriented in form but excels on a stage with energetic performances featuring live vocals and occasional instrumental guests. Fans of Hot Chip, Nine Inch Nails, Maceo Plex, Röyksopp, Radiohead, and Depeche Mode would feel right at home with his output. He is equally comfortable as a performative front man on a festival stage as he is being elusively tucked away in an underground DJ booth.

Having previously released under the name Panic Bomber, Richard Haig is a Scottish-born expat who originally developed his sound in Miami. There he played in multiple touring bands and honed his DJ chops during the annual Winter Music Conference festivals. He stepped away from releasing albums for a few years and returned with a new sound in 2020 with multiple self-released albums under his own Art Heist Records label.

Richard’s previous releases include music on the UK’s Anjunadeep Records, John Digweed’s Bedrock Records, and the Canadian YYZ Records. He has composed for and performed with the New World Symphony Orchestra in 2014 and 2015. Richard has licensed music for Michael Kors and Volkswagen, and was included on an official TRAX Magazine CD (France’s biggest electronic music publication). He has ghost-produced Hype Machine Top 10 remixes of Kanye West, Metronomy, and Phantogram. As a live performer he has played alongside Skream, Skrillex, The Juan Maclean, and MGMT and appeared at festivals such as EDC, Ultra, SXSW, Electric Forest, Hudson Project, Sunfest, Pride Toronto, as well as performing on the Yo Gabba Gabba and La Roux live tours. As a DJ, he was previously a resident and partner of the Slap & Tickle Miami collective and has spun alongside Disclosure, Duke Dumont, Chus & Ceballos, Kaytranada, John Talabot, Detroit Swindle, XXXY, Aeroplane, Jackmaster, Moonboots, Jonas Rathsman, Kaskade, and Ke$ha.

Null Rider

Richard Haig

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