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Recorded 4am-6am – the wacky hours of the night. This set was meant to be an encapsulation of the different sounds of Hot Mass – the tiny club that has had an enormous impact on me as a DJ and on nightlife in Pittsburgh.

Tracklist:
Random Factor - Broken Mirror (Freaks Turning Orange Mix)
Benny Blanko - All The Way Down
Boris Dlugosch - Never Enough (Ian Pooley's Raw Dub)
Nina Kraviz - Love or Go (KiNK Mix)
Freaks - 2 Please U (Standing On A Cloud Dub)
Corrie - Blast 
Robert Dietz - Nostaljack
Anthony Shake Shakir - My Computer Is An Optimist
John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Hip Breaker
Move D - Sandmann (Maetrik Treatment)
FCL - Its You (MK Mix)
Lee Webster - Sick of the Same Thing (Jef K Mix)
Sauce81 - I See It (San Soda Remix)
Pirahnahead - AboutDat
Spektrum - Freakbox (LoSoul Mix)
Glenn Vernon - Tell Me (Norm Talley's Late Night Creeper Mix)
Gavin Herlihy - Krypton Factor (Delano Smith's Deep Space Mix)
Bedford Falls Players - Ballad of Hardrock (Ashley Beedle's Housin Vocal)
Sean Dimitrie - Close Enounters
DJ Hell - Take A Shot
Corrie - Stars
Blaze - Season of Love (Blaze Club Mix)
Playgroup - Number One (Black Strobe Instrumental Mix)
Austra - Painful Like (Peter Van Hoesen Mix)
Johannes Volk - Desert Labyrinth (XDB Mix)
Soul Phiction - Cheerleader (Poets of D-Ism Mix)
Tom Taylor - Theory of Everything (Dub)
Clayton Steele - Lost Sometimes

Aaron Clark - Love Letter To Hot Mass (Live At Honcho - Sep 2013)

Our landmark 700th episode in partnership with Detroit’s Blueprint presents the first in a new three-part series exploring the untold history of Detroit techno from the perspective of the women who built it.

The history of Detroit techno is often recounted in waves. First there was the Belleville Three—Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May—closely followed by a second cohort of artists who further developed the sound in the '90s. Names like Carl Craig, Octave One, Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and Mike Banks are among those that have been codified in the official annals of techno history.

But there's another, lesser known story that is seldom told about the women who grew the scene right alongside them. Equally esteemed artists like DJ Minx (the founder of Women On Wax Recordings), K-Hand, DJ Cent, Stacey Hotwaxx Hale and more ran labels, collectives and DJ nights that aren't bestowed with the same credit as those from their male counterparts, and have consequently been lost in the chronicles of time. For the 700th episode of the RA Exchange, we counter correct this gender inequity with the first episode of a three-part series hosted and produced by the all-female Detroit collective and party series Blueprint. 

Alanna Greenlee, Janisa Nelson and Crystal Mioner embark on interviews that illuminate an alternative history of Detroit techno that unfurled alongside these better-documented techno waves, tracing the birth of a woman-led community that put mutual support at its heart and fought to earn respect from their male peers and the scene at large. Listen to the episode in full.

Credits:
Produced by Blueprint
Hosts: Alanna Greenlee, Janisa Nelson, Crystal Mioner
Guests: DJ Minx and DJ Cent
Writer/Researcher: Crystal Mioner
Technical Production: Janisa Nelson
Consultant: John Collins
Consultant: Conor Anderson

EX.700 Detroit's Blueprint: Episode 1

Bogotà to Montréal transplant DJ Hermano delivers an hour of vibrancy on the fourth edition of Ramatanga Mix Series. It's a lush journey through a variety of sunny soundscapes.

Artwork by @ssserdeluzzz (IG)

Ramatanga Mix Series #004: DJ Hermano

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

Head of Grimy Edits, Zernell Gillie's style can range from the heart of disco to the soul of Chicago house - he heads up a 2 hour slot once a month from our LA studio.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/zernell/episodes/zernell-17th-february-2025

Get Grimy w/ Zernell 170225

This DJ set by Mike Servito was recorded somewhere on the astral plane (a filthy Detroit basement) on February 1, 2025, at Ritual Rave, a party celebrating the pagan holiday Imbolc, which signals the start of Spring.

Buckle up and get ready to crank that shit ‘cause you’re in for a wild ride. This set is laced with only the rawest, bitchiest, nastiest, sweatiest, most classic Detroit-basementiest @mikeservito cuts. The rave reviews are in and the critics are hailing it as “A masterpiece of Servito '95. Mike in his highest and most enlightened form. A set so transformative that it effortlessly and masterfully bends the time-space continuum. It's an aural bitchslap like no other. It’s quintessentially pureDetroitmoods."

Ritual Rave is an annual part of Imbolc: https://imbolc.cargo.site/

Know what we're up to at purefastmoods HQ (even before we do): https://purefastmoods.com/get-on-the-list

Mike's set was mastered by @Otodojo.

Mike Servito at Ritual Rave, February 1, 2025, Detroit, MI

Not every morning is the same, and sometimes it only starts at 5:00 in the afternoon. (Not) Every Morning, But Every Afternoon is a monthly show that provides an hour of experimental space to be filled with Calmness, with Fun, with Quirkyness and Emotion. As there will be different guests invited to join kk4rbon on this show regularly, it is safe to say that (not) every show will be the same. 

In the fifth episode, kk4rbon and xir1miri dive into Basque music from northern Spain. From folk music like Trikitixa, which revolves around the diatonic accordion, to Basque post-punk styles. An attempt to show the beauty of this mysterious language that was temporarily oppressed under a dictatorial regime, this set shows music as a means of resistance and underlines the strong and powerful sound from Euskadi.

(Not) Every Morning, But Every Afternoon #5 Basque edition w/ xir1miri & kk4rbon

Eazy-breezy dancefloor eclecticism from the DC wonder duo... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/beautiful-swimmers/episodes/beautiful-swimmers-28th-march-2025

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SirQueen at Dante's Disco Inferno | St. Vitus, Tulsa, OK | 4 Apr 2025

Terre Thaemlitz – Aging Core, Aging Periphery
Erik M. – Rug
Wilson Tanner – Cherry
Friz Be – Elegant But Very Fast
Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 32
Macaroniq – Demensions Freelance
Von Spar / Eiko Ishibashi / Joe Talia / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – III
Ehua – Rea
Phoenecia – Dilido
Pink Elln – Cycle 8
Commodity Fetish – Back East
Pornosect – The Lie Becomes Truth
La Rat - Crab Dish
Even - The Shades
S.W. - kinu94ATAR!8
dj_2button - Underwater
usof - fat belly (Ben Bondy’s version feat. Yves & Shy)
Yetsuby - aaa1
Skylab - Ghost Dance
Trans-4M - Arrival
Gombeen & Doygen – Prada
Liv.E - $$$$ $
Madteo – Metrazol (4 Art Ind Epil Cons)
DIN - U.S.A. (Original Mix)
Boof - One Little Oyster
Convextion – Stiletto Caress (For Yvette)
J. Albert - Alm
Uwalmassa, Yann Gourdon - II
Silverlining - Devotion

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | May 14, 2025

Thom Parris comes from London with a dancefloor ready bag of vinyl.

https://www.instagram.com/thomparris?igsh=MWt0cnFvaHE4cDRo&utm_source=qr



Thom Parris @ The Lot Radio 05-25-2025

Just your neighborhood disco diva, working to bring beautiful people together through music. 👑❤️🌈🎶

SirQueen at Dante's Disco Inferno | St. Vitus, Tulsa, OK | 4 Apr 2025

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