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LIBEREZ LES POISSONS DE MONTEBELLO

Six years since his last album, the peerless electronic and club producer Djrum returns with “Under Tangled Silence” - marking the release with a rare guest mix on NTS. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/djrum-1st-may-2025

Djrum 010525

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

With this mix, I wanted to present el sueño sureño (southern dream) that has been with me since childhood. It is a path designed from memories of sounds heared at my family country's radio and in the streets; sounds that take their structure from the search for folk rhythms and enrich them with textures and effects that can be heard in the club.

I also puted some remixes and effects to emphasize that remembrance part of my personal-heart discografy, suggesting images of moments sharing a glass of arequipeña, in the smoke of the parillada. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/roots-2025/episodes/roots-2025-rocoto-vacio-w-cholitx-28th-september-2025

Rocoto vacío w/ cholitx 280925

MICK WILLS -  Positive Education 2017

Recorded live at Positive Education Festival # 2 - 9th November 2017 / Saint-Étienne, F

Intergalactic FM - Black Mixx@Sixx - 4th December 2017

TRACKLIST:
WHITE STAINS - Vada Ultra!
DEFICIT BUDGETAIRE - Blackened Statement (M.W. Cut)
BOURBONESE QUALK - Lies (M.W. Cut)
AUTUMNS - Faceless 
UNIVAC - A4 Untitled (M.W. Cut)
FOREIGN - Split (M.W. Cut)
I-F - The Search
PHASE FATALE - Hollow Flesh (M.W. Cut)
SYNTHS VERSUS ME - Harsh Winter Storm 
FOREIGN - Cold Blooded 
ANDROMEDA COMPLEX - Life Of Despair (M.W. Cut)
JOHN MAUS - Streetlight (M.W. Cut)
AU - Untitled

Mick Wills @Positive Education Festival - Saint-Étienne - France (09.11.2017)

I'm going to upload a series of 'mixes' over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly calming. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. The music here definitely helps me feel less anxious. I have just segued it together so the credit is really all due to the wonderful souls who made the tracks I used. It is also available as a 320 download. Tracklisting -

Takashi Kokubo - A Dream Sails Out To Sea part 1
Mkwaju Ensemble - Lemore
Hiroshi Yoshimura - 小川にそって
Yumiko Morioko - Rainbow Gate 
Haruomi Hosono - Fujitsubo
Inoyoama Land - Glass Chaim
Inoyama Land - Pokala (remix)
Popol Vuh - Ah!
Justus Köhncke and Fred Heimermann - Albatros
Nuno Canavarro - Blu Terra
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1
World Standard - Rozo, Du Pecoj
Testpattern - Souvenir Glacé

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 1

Here is the 2nd in a series of 'mixes' I intend to make over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly tranquil. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. The music here definitely helps me feel less anxious. I have taken a slightly different approach on this one and it does feature some beats later in the mix, so feedback welcome on whether this one has the desired effect. It is also available as a 320 download. 

Tracklisting -

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (piano version)
Bill Evans Trio - Peace Piece
Eden Ahbez - The Wanderer
Popol Vuh - We Know About The Need
Gaelic Psalms From The Hebrides Of Scotland - Psalm 62
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - 合唱刈干切唄
David Cunningham - Blue River
Inoyama Land - Anatano Yushoku No Tameni
Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time
Sheila Chandra - Quiet 1
Sheila Chandra - Quiet 6
Resili - Corrie Caves
Dettinger - Oasis A3
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 2

Here is the 3rd in a series of 'mixes' I intend to make over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly tranquil. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. It is also available as a 320 download. 

Tracklisting -

Popol Vuh - Aguirre I
Peter Gabriel - With This Love (Choir)
Nowicki - Ostrich Dust Bath
Dennis Young - Voices Within
Alice Coltrane - Om Shanti
Reinhard Flatischler - Angkor Wat (intro)
Elodie Lauten - Prelude
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Henri Texier - Luce D'Alba (edit)
Tony Hymas - Lullaby
Tomita - Clair De Lune
Kid 606 - Temptation 
Elodie Lauten - Flow
Ozo - Anambra

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 3

Here is the 4th in a series of mixes of music that I find particularly tranquil. It is an approximately one hour session filled with music that I think is beautiful and calming to listen to. It is also available as a 320 download. Tracklisting to follow.

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Ricky Minaj