As a thank you to everyone who came to our second 80s Vs 90s night last weekend, I've put together a mixtape of some of my favourite 80s synth pop 12"s, all lovingly mixed together on vinyl (of course) and just long enough to fit on one side of a C90.

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80s vs 90s mixtape: Side 1 - 80s

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Transmission Central

Tracklist:

Paula Tape – Panamericana
Steele-Up – Waiting For You (Fabrizio Mammarella Rework)
Zerocks – Margin / Industrie
Iro Aka – Olafon
Dave Aju – Telekuneko
In Flagranti – Raw Substance (Eric Duncan Remix)
Cowboy Rhythmbox – Rock Music (Erol Alkan Rework)
Miss Represented – Crack That Habit (Johnny Aux Remix)
Open Secret – Chatterbox
Amor Fati - Snow Cupboard (Matt Cowell Edit)
Idjut Boys – Schlagstock (Vacant Gaze Version)
Babes In Love – Bonus Babes Dub Reprise
Benedikt Frey – Dominatrix
Cute Heels – Third Skin (Steffi Remix)
Nova Materia – Aparence en Suenos

FMB MIXTAPE 251 | Tia Cousins

We are excited to share the recording of the great opening set of @tiacousins at our January edition. Enjoy the music journey!

Nothing Special Live: Tia Cousins Opening (18.01.25)

Live recordings of all sets from the Paisley Dark event @ The Imaginarium in Leeds on 10th May 25. Line up included, Richard Sen, John Paynter, Templehead, Marie Avril and Airsine.

Richard Sen @ The Imaginarium 10.05.25

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)

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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

Full tracklist & Video Mix: bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation, we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from DJ Food.

"A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP release. It then morphed into an Audio Video DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.

I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - @strictly

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food

Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Sean Johnston live from The Olive Grove at Love International festival 2025

Live from the Adriatic 2025: Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Sean Johnston

Our first mix together, from way back in 2006, at the time of party bootleg and mashup frenzy.  Killer tunes, and still sounds fresh.

1. Ravi Shankar – intro
2. Redman – Smoke Buddah
3. T. Love – QMS
4. Nextmen ft Dynamite MC – Blood and fire
5. Skee-lo – I wish
6. Marcelo Dz – Pilotando O Bonde de Excursao (Lovely edit)
7. Mark Ronson – Oooh Wee
8. ODB ft Kelis – Got your money
9. Krafty Kuts and A-skillz ft Real elements – Simple Things
10. Chic – Chic Times (Collective Discharge edit)
11. Prince – Black Sweat
12. Mark Ronson – Just
13. Syl Johnson – Different Strokes
14. Lisa Lisa & cult jam – Let the beat hit ‘em
15. Bob James – Shamboozin’
16. James Brown – Sex Machine (Readymade jazz defector mix)
17. Collective Discharge – Slave to my Codpiece
18. Eric B & Rakim – Juice (know the ledge)
19. Justice vs Simian – We are your friends (Radioslave mix)
20. Talking Heads – Psychokiller (instrumental)
21. The Raconteurs – steady as she goes
22. Hoxton Whores vs Collective Discharge – Sunshine of your love (Spanky rerub)
23. Soulwax – E Talking (Nite version)
24. Christina Aguilera – Ain’t no other man
25. Datarock - Fa fa fa
26. Happy Mondays – Step on (Twistin my melon mix)
27. Massive Attack vs Marvin Gaye – What’s goin on (Unfinished futuro mix)

Block Party

Collective Discharge - Block Party

I mixed this in October or November 2001 in Vienna, where I just moved for a job at UNAIDS. After buying TractorDJ on Saturday, I recorded this on Sunday night. Mellow, Latin, Loco. at the end I have two tracks running together for minutes. Anyway, it was fun!

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