Chopped Chapters EP - this EP contains six previously unreleased instrumentals from Funk Bastard. 
These beatstrumentals are produced in different studios, with various equipment (MPC1000/MPC2500, many effect pedals, different synthesizers) and well, also in diverse life situations, between 2011-2013. 

Feel free to download the EP and telling your beathomies about it. Thanks for the support! 

One Love, 
Funk Bastard

Time Square Jazz


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Didier Studer | Pace in Stereo #20  - Radio Bollwerk - 27.04.2025

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Dieter mit Platten | Pace in Stereo #23  - Radio Bollwerk - 27.07.2025

back in the studio! episode 95 of summer school radio, broadcast live from the lot radio on July 15, 2025.

(tracklist)
Bloom (Live at Brewery Studios) - Abase
God's Prayer - Ian o'Brien 
Slow Hot Wind - Eri Ohno
Amina - The Circling Sun
Together We Are - Kokoroko 
You Bring The Sun Out - Janet Kay
There's Music In The Air - Letta Mbulu
Stepping Stones - Patrice Rushen
Stella - Norman Connors
Variation 1 - Qu'Ran Shaheed
Sinaya - Super Djata Band
Say Goodbye - El Michels Affair ft. Florence Adooni
flowers - dreamcastmoe ft. NAPPYNAPPA
A Song - Ad Libitum
This Cold Cold World - The Force
Children of The Night - Ahmad Jamal
Good-Bye My Love - Art Carey & Magnum Force
(Canales) Love Will Pave The Way - Manolo
Mizu - The Circling Sun
Fly - Os Gatos
Lovely Ones - Blaze
Together (Pampered Landscape Mix) - Taurus
Nuclear - Destiny's Child
Say Something (Solo Star Remix) - Mariah Carey
Anywayz - Esthero
Flylo Tweet - Yazmin Lacey
No Cross, No Crown - Gloster Williams & Master Control

summer school radio (95)

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

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

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Recording of the live radio community event at Studio Bounce, 2nd of August 2025 with Josh FB.
https://soundcloud.com/josh_fb

Underground Soul Radio | Josh FB - 02.08.2025

Next up in the Mr Bongo Record Club mix series we invited Norwich-based DJ collective and party purveyors Soul Stew to give us a taste of what they're all about. Firmly rooted in the city's scene for over 9 years, they've been throwing some of the finest parties Norwich has to offer. Alongside championing local talent they’ve also hosted a real range of some of the top international selectors from far and wide, including Sassy J, Volcov, Mark Grusane, Sadar Bahar, Floating Points, Ash Lauryn and Ge-ology to name only a handful.&nbsp;

As a DJ duo Bill and Jack are a real joy to see behind the decks. Effortless blends of unforgiving, unquantized disco, boogie, house, techno and beyond. Their style, skill and passion led to them being signed to Sounds Familiar earlier this year and has seen them play at Fabric, KOKO, Pickle Factory, We Out Here, Lost Village, Field Maneuvers and many more great dancefloors.

To accompany the mix we caught up with Bill and Jack to get an insight into Soul Stew from the duo themselves. Read the interview here - https://www.mrbongo.com/blogs/news/mr-bongo-record-club-soul-stew

Mr Bongo Record Club Guest Mix - Soul Stew

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Hanson | Pace in Stereo #26  - Radio Bollwerk - 26.10.2025

Live recording of the radio session 25th october at Studio Bounce.

Leaps Radio | Sana - 25.10.2025

Simon is known for organic grooves from past decades and a faible for dance music in it’s actual meaning - music to dance to. Simon started collecting records over 15 years ago. As his collection has grown during the past years, his style has evolved too: you can hear Soul, Funk, Disco, Jazz but also House and Broken Beat in one of his sets. His passion and his understanding of DJing led him to found the brand VARIA INSTRUMENTS, where he started building high quality DJ mixers together with a friend. The result is a high quality rotary mixer as an alternative to cheap mass produced mixers for the consumer market. Today, the renowned ‘RDM20’ and ‘RDM40’ has found its use in clubs and record stores spread all over the globe and sometimes it’s even Simon himself who travels to those places to do what he loves the most: PLAYING OUT GOOD MUSIC AT GOOD PARTIES.

Time Square Jazz

Simon J. Frank