Mars Does Vinyl - Specter•Mario•Damon

SensuCast / 45 / Dan Piu 

Dan Piu is a DJ/Producer that has commanded so much of our attention in recent years. And quite right, too. 

He seems to have an unlimited supply of new material and rediscovered dusty dat tapes. His release of EP’s and Albums has been relentless. Track after track of high quality house music.  

As a DJ you can hear a lifetime of digging experience with each set, often selecting music that would be hard to acquire had you not been active in “the scene” at the time it was made. 

It was a huge treat to receive a mix from Dan. Here he presents an hour of rare sounding music from a dimension left of centre. I cant wait to dig in again and again and discover the labels and producers selected for this mix and go down the rabbit hole. 

Big up Dan. Good music always!


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SensuCast / 045 / Dan Piu

This is a mix was done in the Mid-Late 90's. Mixed By Mark Grusane.

Awe Baby (90min Disco & House Mix)

 Mars aka HeathenBEAT 50th Bday - Podlasie Club Chicago

Mars / Specter / Jose Rico - Podlasie Club Chicago

Some trippy, minimal stuff I dug out from the racks. Hope you enjoy!

Trip City Pt. 2

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

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

Recorded for your pleasure on Monday 25th into Tuesday 26th Aug

Deep House and Disco mainly ....  Inspired by my new Paradise Garage neon light, I cracked open a bottle of red, and laid out a mix exploring and releasing everything in this 2 hour mix that goes deep into deep house before rising like a phoenix in a disco splendour.  Just stuff of old and new that have inspired or entered my head recently.

Stranger in a Strangeland Mix (Deep House and Disco)

Sunday Session

A chill is in the air, welcoming hoodie weather season after a long, hot summer. Aggressive punk and hardcore vibes match it perfectly. Industrial and experimental finish things off representing for underground culture. 

IG link:

https://www.instagram.com/pipecock/

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