Split Zizz for Colony Collapse - 8-12-24

Enya juke

It was my first Draaimolen and no one knew it which was great. 
It was also my first encounter with Addit Audio and their sound system installed for the first time in its full glory. I can't recall being brought to tears during one soundcheck.
So there were no news, no algorithms, no expectations to be disappointed. The pit was not announced. It felt like a curious manifestation of something paranormal.
Wonderful sound system, records and sweetest weather.  
Those who found us in the small pit in the middle of the forest most likely didn't know what was going on. 
For the most part of the first 5 hours I figured out that it would be great to play for and with the sound guy, playing right and wrong records and figuring out which one sound good. Research and development mission for Addit Audio.
After 5 hours ISAbella joined for a brief back to back session. Everything can happen in the realm of paranormal. Luckily she stayed and we played together for the next 3 hours until the last song, the one for the deceased. Probably as close as it gets to transcendence. 

Thank you all. You know who you are. 

Vladimir Ivkovic

Vladimir Ivkovic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Watercolour Haze

You Must Find The Princess

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

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Young Male, Galcher Lustwerk, DJ Richard, Alvin Aronson in the mix

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White Material Records @ The Lot Radio 08-31-2025

Excerpt from "Unprompted Trio Movement or Some Timbre Transfer Sequences"
c-40 cassette. 

"Unprompted Trio Movement or Some Timbre Transfer Sequences" (excerpt)

Excerpt from "Searching for Good Company" c-40 cassette

"Searching for Good Company" (excerpt)

A love letter for a place I have never been, but that I've received lots of tapes from. Some other version of me probably lived there in the mid 2010s. I think this tracklist is right....

Zika Boys - Crab Den
Dogon Lock - Untitled
Purple Circles - The Dancers
Korea Undok Group - Gone Again
Kandekt - Vredens Dag
B.P. - Cruiseline Night
Deaf Squab - I
Barn Sour - Cloaco Professional
Fresh Water Girls - Terracotta Lake Floor
Victorine Meurent - Ecole Martine
Zika Boys - Wattieza
Interlake Psalm - I Am Grateful
OS Grid Reference - TQ6663
Corpa Zen - Lifestyle Of...
Angel's Egg - Bully
Liberation Cell - Untitled
Dogon Lock - Pulp/Lore
Korea Undok Group - Breakfast in Bed
Una Lasemé - Associate
Barn Sour - Plum Track
Korea Undok Group - Fontainhas
Zika Boys - Goldeye Regional Pond
Korea Undok Group - October Loop
B.P. - Coed
OS Grid Reference - TQ6663
Corpa Zen - Lifestyle Of...
Angel's Egg - Cult
Barn Sour - Gouch Call
Purple Circles - Sex and Power
Deaf Squab - II
Korea Undok Group - Fell in a Well
Silent Partner - 16 May 1990
B.P. & Undveld - Entrance to the Wilderness
B.P. - Ste. Anne III
Sargasso Sea - Patria
Korea Undok Group - Long Weekend, Pt. 1
Korea Undok Group - November Sketch
Sargasso Sea - Health Sciences
Sargasso Sea - Winnipeg Downtown Skywalk
Sargasso Sea - Richardson Centre
Korea Undok Group - There Is Always Somewhere Else

Apraxia for Somewhere Else (My Own Private Winnipeg)

Speech Patterns