Searching builds upon the scope of Showerhead releases to date, but takes a unique styling on the hallmarks on electro, ambient and breakbeat. As per the title, it could be typified as seeking something expressive, a somewhat tricky path to navigate in an IDM space more often than not characterised by an abiding coldness and austerity.

Perhaps one aspect of what has characterised Showerhead’s productions to this point is the layering of IDM, breakbeat and ambient sounds in a sonic space that retains depth and focus, even given the myriad details. And even though many of these gestures and ambiences bear nostalgic weight and nods to the past, there is still ample space and possibility for novel slants to be taken, if handled with dexterity and balance.

A truly neat miscellanea, every aspect of this remarkably spotless record bears the unmistakable aura of a Showerhead production. A thoroughly consistent continuation of Showerhead’s work til now and a vital extension to a growing catalogue, Searching is electronica at its most classically redolent: nostalgia-encoded and future-fixed, and glistening with detail and intrigue.

Produced by Alex Clayton
Words by Nico Callaghan
Photography by Pim Rinkes
Mastered by Loz Grover

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DE001 Showerhead - Searching clips

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Melbourne mainstay @emelyne-khor at crystallise in July 2025 - a party held at an epic DIY underground spot in Sydney/Eora. 12-2am

<3 

..catch Emelyne this Saturday on local warmup for Upsammy at Animalia x Steeplejack @ Miscellania :)

ani/live Seventy Three: Emelyne @ Crystallise

@tmrwbwrs

Yves De Mey – Particle Match	
Yves De Mey - Double Slit
Zov Zov - The Sands
Monolake - Crash
Cocktail Party Effect - Shattered Retina
Cocktail Party Effect - This is Science
Anthone - Destabilize
Broken English Club - Ghost
STP - The Fall (T++ Remix)
December - Bottom of the Food Chain
Silent Servant - Temptation & Desire	
Surgeon – Bad Hands 
Surgeon – Bad Hands (Monolake Remix)
Surgeon - Compliance Momentum
Regis / Ian J. Richardson - Untergang 2
Human Resources - Febreak
Hyph11E - Doppelgänger
Transits of Tone - The Computer
L/F/D/M - Cru
515 Connection - Positive & Negative	
Trends & Boylan - Norman Bates (Sir Spyro Remix)
Female - Exotica (O/V Edit)
Distance Dancer - Brain Dance
Kille809 - ERA 5
Leevisa - Three Shifts
DJ Emoe - Shirt
djpjmadedistrack - WORK
Diners Club International (Part 1) - Track 2
TRAXMAN - HE COLD AS HELL!!!
NPLGNN - Sirens Steppa
Mono - Phobos
B Key - Amnesia 
Dev/Null - Microjunglizm
Source Direct and Instra Mental - The Place
Alpha Omega – Deep Cover
Alpha Omega - Catburglar VIP
Hit Hz - 2.77Hz
Macc - Guttwrac
Mono - Consciousness
Martsman – Klikoucha
Les Rallizes Denudes – Field Of Artificial Flowers

TTT NTS 18.08.25 with Max Ball

Recorded on Wiradjuri land, NSW
Sunday 3pm - 5pm

@emelyne-khor
https://www.instagram.com/extr.emelyne/

Emelyne at Soma Festival 2024

115th Episode of the Unstable: Stable program curated by JD J aka Jaba Ujmajuridze.
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JD J aka Jaba Ujmajuridze — Tbilisi-born, now Berlin-based — has been a pivotal figure in Georgia’s music scene for over a decade, curating the Out Of Whack show on Mutant Radio and running a party series of the same name. A dedicated digger with deep historical insight, he weaves rare and unconventional sounds into boundary-pushing explorations of rhythm and texture.
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"Nearly 3 hours of spiritual/psych music I’ve been into lately. Had a lot of fun recording this one!"
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music by:
andreas trobollowitsch/alex kranabetter/martin eberle, angel bat dawid & naima nefertari, ape, arbore, beings, ben bertrand & manah depauw, bill laswell, cerpintxt, cherrystones x demdike stare, craig leon, deafkids, dickie landry, dope purple, dr. walker, eitr, elodie lauten, enxin/onyx, garth erasmus, hali palombo, helm, i-lp-o in dub, jigen, john duncan, john butcher & christian duka, john zandijk, jtc, kakushin nishihara, kemetrix, kuntari, les cartes postales sonores, magnétisme animal, maria bertel & nina garcia, metgumbnerbone, mooris, mopcut, myoptik, nash kontroll, nicole mitchell, pierre henry, rob mazzurek, roberto musci, salamat ali khan, sipaningkah, stave & karim maas, sult, sundialll, tax free records, the skull defekts, thuluth, uan0003, uran, v-neck, walter maioli, wukir suryadi, w.v., zegin bernatore, zov zov and more...
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links:
Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/jd_j
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jd_________j/
Out Of Whack – https://soundcloud.com/mutantradio/sets/out-of-whack-06-06-25

115 – JD J – Jaba Ujmajuridze

Prime Unity

Ricardo villalobos live 21 oct 06

Rolling Mass is Carolyn Schofield (Fia Fiell) and Max Kohane.

Debut 12" EP now out on Brain Dead Records and available from the bandcamp link below.