Name: chill beats to rot on the couch to - 7/6/25 DJ Mix by (Sandy)
Duration: 1 h 19 min 9 s
Description: A lazy Sunday at the end of a long weekend.

LIVE AT NOWADAYS NONSTOP NYC

B90 returns to NYC as part of their North American tour. Join them on the worksite for another session at the Lot with RAPRAVE. 

https://www.instagram.com/raprave 
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RAPRAVE with BAUGRUPPE90 @ The Lot Radio 05-15-2025

A veritable staple of the Japanese scene and founder of the Protection label, Haruka joins our series with two hours of delightful, liquiform groove recorded live from Kyoto. Expansive yet dialed in with tireless precision, Haruka’s set transitions between eyes-down introspection and buoyant, infectious energy with ease. To witness this level of craft enveloped by such a warm and vibrant aura is an absolute pleasure, and it’s easy to imagine oneself suspended weightless in Haruka’s element. Thank you Haruka!

@haruka_ptc

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 144: Haruka

A lazy Sunday at the end of a long weekend.

chill beats to rot on the couch to - 7/6/25 DJ Mix

From speed garage to Arabic pop, one hour of borderless club energy from the Saudi DJ and curator. 

"We're making history tonight," hollered the MC at the start of Nooriyah's London Boiler Room in 2022. Sat next to the decks was her <i>baba</i> (Arabic for father), dressed in traditional Saudi garb. He opened the one-hour performance by playing the oud, a Middle Eastern instrument similar to a lute. Surrounded by smiling faces and pumping arms, it's a picture of joy.

The set was a turning point—and not just for Nooriyah's career. Scroll through the comments on YouTube and you'll find notes of endearment, gratitude and teary appreciation, proof of how powerful it was for people to see Middle Eastern music placed at the centre of contemporary club culture. 

This speaks to Nooriyah's MO. Born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Japan and now based in the UK, her musical vision reflects her global upbringing. But her style isn't eclecticism for eclecticism's sake—she's spoken about the importance of carving out space for underrepresented voices in dance music. 

Her RA Mix makes that mission audible. The result is a breathless hour: 47 tracks darting between speed garage, amapiano, Jersey club, Arabic pop edits and percussion-heavy workouts from Cairo to Accra. But don't mistake pace for carelessness: RA.1002 never feels rushed. Each switch is considered, revealing a knowledge of how global dance traditions can speak to one another. 

All in all, it's not only a celebration of her own heritage, but an invitation to imagine dance floors unconstrained by borders.

@nooriyah
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1020.

RA.1002 Nooriyah

Live recording from my closing set @ Pawnshop, Taipei (July 2025)

Artwork: Event flyer

Blue Hour @ Pawnshop, Taipei (4hr closing set)

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

@camillemandoki de la Ciudad de México nos preparó para Septiembre un mix introspectivo e íntimo acompañado de una cita que lo identifica ⋆⭒˚｡⋆

“Como mujer y como amante, sin embargo, me conmuevo al ver a mi Amado. Donde Él está, quiero estar. Lo que Él padece quiero compartirlo. Lo que Él es quiero ser: crucificada por el amor.”

- Santa Teresa de Avila

Portada de Jackie Valadez aka Dollstar.

Camille Mandoki - Lapi + Filia Music Series 029

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

IDs: 
Expand -- Nitepunk 
Polite -- Anna Lunoe, Shanique Marie
Death By Love -- Walker & Royce
Factor -- Daktyl, Yip Yap, Benni Ola
Free Your Body -- Chris Lake, Solardo
Fancy $hit -- CID, Taylr Renee
CTRL -- Arundel
Psycho -- Chris Lake
WET -- Wax Motif
One By One -- Deeper Purpose, Jalja, LAZY JOE
New Religion -- Daktyl, Benni Ola, Yip Yap
London's On Fire -- Audio Bullys, Chris Lorenzo, Max Styler
Losing Control -- Odd Mob, OMNOM
HITZ 4 THE HOOD -- Charlie Shell

hitz 4 the hood

Originally aired on Rinse France April 4, 2020

Tracklist:
Jorge B - Orchid [unreleased]
The Sixteen Steps - Tales from the Old Country [Veyl]
Kovyazin D - Close the Distance [System 108]
Z.I.P.P.O. - Imagination (303 Mix) [Involve Records]
Mark Broom - Insta [Rekids]
The Leap (Tripeo & Doka) - Pollutocrats [The Leap]
Spencer Parker - Foreva (Dub) [E-Missions]
Joel John - Vape Trance [MSQ Records]
Fear-E - Puro [Dark Entries]
Sïnteze - Synthetic Dictionary [Synthethique Records]
Thomas P. Heckmann  - Release the Pain [AFU Ltd.]
Prosdo - Arpreciation [Beaufort Beats]
Brothers Black - Chained [Bade Records]
Rees - Bamboo of Kyoto (A Sagittariun Back From Rage Remix) [Me Me Me]

chill beats to rot on the couch to - 7/6/25 DJ Mix

(Sandy)

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