10th and final volume of The Pan Africa Series. 48 mins of jazzy, groovy and private school Amapiano. From vocal to instrumental. Stream the complete Pan Africa series at soundcloud.com/momanyc/sets/pan-africa-mixes

PAN AFRICA VOL 10 mixed by DJ MOMA

recorded straight off the mixer to your ears. this was one of the most magical nights with The Patchouli Brothers at their long running, honest-to-goodness disco party Beam Me Up!

the last time I was in Toronto was 2019! we always make the best memories. 

big thank you to the dancers and thank you boys <3

PLANET B @  BEAM ME UP 3 11 2023 TORONTO

Some people say "DJaying" is an art form, but for WILLIAM ROBBINS, TOMMY CASTRO and PLANET B it is more like a spiritual exercise. Their sets which are inherently something ephemeral, but through the manipulation of knobs and buttons, create unforgettable timeless masterpieces. These are their stories. Executive Producer Dick Wolf.

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GRAND STREET SOUNDS @ The Lot Radio 05-30-2023

“Sammy Bananas is back with “massave”, his second EP on Bastard Jazz. 3 syncopated, groove-heavy originals and a stellar remix from Bad Colours cover a range of moods and dance floor energies, laced with pianos, live bass, saxophone and a touch of nostalgia. Sammy cut his teeth in music busking with his sax on Mass Ave in Cambridge, and each track on the EP is named after a now-closed business on that street: a burrito spot, a video rental store, and the first club which gave this seasoned DJ a residency.”

Buy EP Here

Sammy Bananas - Enormous Room (Bad Colours Mix)

Sammy Bananas - Enormous Room

Sammy Bananas - Hollywood Express

Sammy Bananas - Boca Grande

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)

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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

Pitch In Ona Party (Sammy Bananas Bootleg)

@aquarian x @deapmash
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/aqxdm-aegis/

PREORDER:
Digi: https://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aegis
12": https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/AQXDM/release/Aegis

Aquarian and Deapmash debut on Bedouin records with their first collaborative EP, "Aegis" as "AQXDM"

Despite living on two separate continents and having never met in person, they bonded over a love for breakbeat techno, grime, jungle, breakcore, and immediately wrote their first EP.

Merging Deapmash's high energy, industrial grooves with Aquarian's idiosyncratic, genre-blending approach, the result is highly effective peak time techno infused with massive kick drums, spastic breakbeats and soaring atmospherics

Track List
A1. Aegis 
A2. Ballad 002
B1. Roam

Aegis EP

PREORDER

AQXDM - Aegis

Brooklyn producer and party maestro Sammy Bananas lives up to his name. This Fool’s Gold OG has proven himself as a master of the club jam, writing tunes that pay respect to dance music’s past while simultaneously charting it’s quirky, funky future. After a decade of singles and EPs, he welcomes his debut full length “Someday” to the world.  Through a diverse array of songs featuring 13 guest vocalists, he leads the listener on a journey which Billboard says “Drips in summer perfection…flirty, grown and sexy, hype and hella fun. It’s a must have for your rotation.” 

Outside of original tunes, he crafts official remixes for big names like Chromeo, Tinashe and even Maroon 5 while his acclaimed and tasteful bootlegs of tracks by Miguel, JT and Anderson .Paak are DJ staples which transcend narrow subgenres.  Sammy Bananas has rocked dance floors in over 100 cities across the globe, sharing stages with the likes of A-Trak, Kenny Dope and Hayden James. Whether it’s an all-wax set in LA at the Do-Over, cutting edge house at Durrr in London and Rhonda in LA, traveling further afield on a recent Asia tour, or his appearance at MOOG fest, he always delivers with his uniquely funky yet focused style.

Pitch In Ona Party (Sammy Bananas Bootleg)

Sammy Bananas

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