@four-tet, live from an isolated woodland retreat.

Four Tet | Streaming From Isolation – #8

Another late night listen, broadcast on radiowaters.co.uk, live and direct from SE26.  Some old, but mostly new tracks that have tickled my fancy this month, hope they tickle yours too.  Join me next month if you can. x

Lo Five - Persistence of Love
Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s - Door at Your Moon
The High Llamas - Homespin Rerun (The Space Raid Mix)
Moody Boyz - July
Lenodd - Ossify
ReKaB - Moving Octaves
The Future Sound Of London - Calcium
Konformer - Hardway Brothers Remix
WAX - WAX40004A
Pearson Sound - Russet
Actress - X22RME
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Whirlpool Dub - Adrian Sherwood 'Reset in Dub’ Version
Trupa Trupa - Against Breaking Heart of a Breaking Heart
Telefís - Falun Gong Dancer featuring Jah Wobble - Dub
Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo)
zzkillme - Mega Drive Zone Act II
Goat - Under No Nation (12" Extended Dance Mix by John Mark Lapham)
Vanishing Twin - Phase One Million
Richard Norris - BIRTHDAY DUB
Up, Bustle & Out - Sane Men Surround
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Man and Manufacturing
Mattiel - Cultural Criminal (Raf Rundell's Salty Man Dub)
Plaid - Saladore
Orbital - Halcyon (30 Something Years Later mix)

The Future Sound of Sydenham

The Future Sound of Sydenham - 19th July 2023

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)

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

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His  RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from <i>The Collapse Of Everything<i> alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

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

Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

@strictly

INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

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A very special 40th episode showcases arguably one of the best triple packs every released, especially considering it was relatively early in the timeline of mix cd history (1996). It features selections from Derrick Carter, Andrew Weatherall and Back to Basic's resident, Ralph Lawson.

We originally featured this CD in the early days of The Classic Mix CD Series, when it was recommended by Shindig's Scott Bradford as his most influential piece in his collection.

So it's fitting, that after more shouts out to use it from everyone on Facebook, that we feature all 3 discs for the 400th episode celebration. Thanks to everyone for getting involved all of the plays and positive messages.

Can me make it 500!?

Back to Basics: Cut the Crap

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041 - Back to Basics 'Cut the Crap' - Andrew Weatherall / Disc 2 (1996)

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

Here in Calypso we love Israeli cuisine, it is part of our every day meals, so we are happy to welcome to the family a good backer hailing from the lands of Haifa, "AckerMan". This time our good friend spices up with some hummus a well known classic dish from New York. It has been part of our sets for the last year like Iñigos presentations in Ant Bangos or Mayan Warrior Burning Man, so please enjoy the meal while dancing.

Take it while it's hot. Enjoy your meal.

Soundcloud: @ackerman_music

Calypso Take Away

Calypso Take Away 20 by AckerMan

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Sydenham is the home of Sydenham Broadcasting Cooperation.
Sydenham has no borders or boundaries.
Anyone can cooperate.
Anything can be broadcast.

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