Original air date ~ 2nd May 2024.

We gab to Brooklyn's groove-laden post-punkers Gustaf about their just-dropped second album, the on-point "Package, Pt. 2".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-2nd-may-2024/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 2nd May was as follows ...

CORRIDOR "Jump Cut" (Sub Pop)
FAT WHITE FAMILY "Work" (Domino)
PARSNIP "Monument" (Anti Fade)
BULLION featuring CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY "World_train" (Ghostly International)
IRON & WINE "Sweet Talk" (Sub Pop)
CLOUD NOTHINGS "Daggers Of Light" (Pure Noise)
GUSTAF "What Does It Mean" (Royal Mountain/[PIAS])
MUSEUM OF LOVE "After Us" (DFA)
CULTS "Crybaby" (Imperial)
EMMA DONOVAN "Liquid Gold" (Jindahood/Cooking Vinyl)
CORNELIUS "Sketch For Spring" (Warner)
ST. VINCENT "Big Time Nothing" (Total Pleasure/Virgin)
JUSTICE featuring CONNAN MOCKASIN "Explorer" (Ed Banger/Because Music)
BABEHOVEN "My Best Friend Needs" (Double Double Whammy)
RAINDOGS "Disintegrate" (www.raindogsrain.bandcamp.com)
BODYWIRE "Alive" (www.bodywire.bandcamp.com)
ROYSTON VASIE "Time Inside" (Brain Fade)
HOVVDY "Bad News" (Arts & Crafts/Cooking Vinyl)
LUNCHBOX "New Year" (Slumberland)
FAT WHITE FAMILY "John Lennon" (Domino)
JON HOPKINS "RITUAL (evocation)" (Domino)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://2ser.com/episode-archive-page/?show=static

Gustaf ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

Barry Can’t Swim, SBTRKT - Different (SBTRKT Sirens Remix)

Different (SBTRKT Sirens Remix)

Barry Can't Swim - All My Friends (ATRIP Remix)

All My Friends (ATRIP Remix)

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 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz (AKA DJ Sprinkles)

The arena-conquering duo glide from gritty rave to skyscraping arpeggios on RA.1000, a mix many years in the making.

A new name undeniably entered the pantheon of major electronic live acts over the past decade: next to Faithless, The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers, now sit @feelmybicep.

The Belfast duo's music doesn't half reach for the stars: a melodic blend of ambient, breakbeat, trance and tech house, able to turn the biggest arenas into intimate affairs.

If anything, mainstream success, BRIT Award nominations and mammoth dance crossovers like "Glue" have only hardened Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar's resolve to keep innovating.

Their prized blog, running for nearly as long as the RA Podcast, regularly platforms upcoming artists. And you won't find many festival headliners releasing climate change-themed records with Indigenous artists, as they did recently on Takkuuk.

RA.1000 exists in that spirit. After many polite declines, and before a year off to usher in the next era, Bicep come through at the last: from dub techno and screwface breaks to São Paulo garage, before a tide of signature synths floods the zone. Stadium-sized intimacy at its finest.

@feelmybicep 
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1015. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Bicep

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. Full send — this one's special.

Gabriel Szatan, Editor (RA): 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, chronicling a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than potentially any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, and 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 a racecar.

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. We sought to render an accurate picture of DJ culture in 2025 for the longhaul.

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.⁠

@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 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Pre-order: https://amity.bandcamp.com/album/chrome-abyss

@amityclub presents 'Chrome Abyss', the anticipated debut solo EP from London's @beaabea - arriving as a distilled and deliberate statement, channeling a sound palette that is shiny, metallic, and fluid yet grounded in rhythmic force.

Across four tightly constructed tracks, Beaabea unveils a world of glistening surfaces and low-end pressure - bass-heavy, refined, and built for maximum club potency. 'KNOCK OUT!' kicks off the EP with sharp, clean impact.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Beaabea 'KNOCK OUT!'

Pre-order: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/prallel/parallelTheMissingPart

South London’s @kadeemtyrell unites with @p-rallel and @wilfy-d for their first joint project, 'The Missing Part', a celebratory and soulful five-track EP landing via @second-phase-910974729.

The EP’s focus track, 'LYBI (Let You Back In)', sees Kadeem’s rich, velvety vocals glide across Wilfy D’s rhythmic palette and p-rallel’s deep production textures.

Kadeem Tyrell, p-rallel & Wilfy D 'LYBI (Let You Back In)' (Extended Mix)

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Dublin's @kayleighnoblemusic returns with ‘All Night’, a sweat-slicked, pulse-quick rave hymn that shimmers with intimacy beneath its hard-edged euphoria.

'All Night' is Kayleigh's most explicitly rave-coded aesthetic yet, a sweaty love letter to the scene born out of her performance at this year’s Forbidden Fruit Festival, a heady blend of lo-fi textures and raw behind-the-scenes energy.

Premiere: Kayleigh Noble 'All Night'

Static is a weekly new music program on Sydney public radio station 2SER-FM, which debuted in 1992.
For over 30 years, hosts Berko and Mick have been at the forefront of championing new bands and music trends, with up-to-the-second fresh releases from around the world.
Each week's show blends everything from alternative pop to underground rock, eclectic electronica, post-everything and much more.
Every week Berko speaks in-depth to an artist on the show ... these are those interviews.
Stream full programs at www.2ser.com/static

Gustaf ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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