Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

Back Again

Or sum

Three hours of high drama, recorded live at Nowadays in New York.

We know what you're thinking: why did it take so long to get Binh on the RA Podcast? There's no easy answer, especially given that he's been a favourite of ours for over a decade now. So to make up for lost time, the revered digger lands on the series with a tantalising three-hour mix, recorded live at Nowadays in New York earlier this year.

Crammed with rare and unreleased gems spanning house, techno, and electro, RA.989 is heavy on drama, catching the Düsseldorf native in unbridled performance mode.

This is Binh in 2025. But rewind across the past two decades and you'll find a DJ who excels in pretty much any situation, whether warming up for Zip or Margaret Dygas, going back-to-back with masters like Nicolas Lutz or rolling out solo sets that stretch across ten or even 12 hours.

He's acted out all these scenarios most often at Berlin institution Club der Visionaere, the cosy canalside club that became a kind-of spiritual home. (He'd sometimes spend every night of the week there, before parenting duties got the better of him.)

To play for half a day you need a lot of records, and the backbone of Binh's craft has long been a freakish passion for vinyl. Along with Lutz, Vera, and others in CDV's orbit, he approaches the pursuit of wax, new and old, with next-level dedication and a fondness for blind buys. 

That's true of RA.989, although among the un-Shazamables are many tracks that are either out or coming out on Binh's popular Time Passages label. The mix finds him on a house-y tip, luxuriating in roomy basslines, driving 303s and twinkly melodies—with just the right amount of evil. Lock in and savour a one-of-a-kind DJ, completely in the zone.

@binh

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/989

RA.989 Binh

Martyn Bootyspoon 3-Hour Set @ Nowadays Nonstop February 22nd 2025

4 hours recorded Dj set  + Vinyl by Adrian Marth b2b Ron Like Hell at Nowadays New York City Sunday 6rd June 2025 @adrian_marth @ronlikehell

Italo Moderni Website

Adrian Marth b2b Ron Like Hell DJ Set at @Nowadays (NYC) 06/07/25

A four hour document of dance floors in the 2020s, from one of modern club music's most passionate advocates.

One major shift since we went 5 for RA.500 ten years ago has been the rapid adoption of anything-goes DJing. What goes us there? Upgraded technology, audience appetite for thrills, instant access to music from every corner of the globe: take your pick.

To corral the infinite possibilities of our age, glide seamlessly across lanes and be a trusted conduit in a sea of over-saturation takes chops. And few do it with more gusto and charisma in the 2020s than Jyoty.

Recorded at a raucous Nowadays party just a few weeks ago for maximum freshness, Jyoty's RA.1000 finds room for 122 tracks dotted over the clubbing map (although, when you tally up all the blends, you can probably round up to 150).

From aya to Logan Olm, Hardhouse Banton to DJ Babatr, Busy Signal to Baalti, a delicious double splice of Kelela and a staggeringly unlikely remix of Noir & Haze's "Around" (yep), it's an audacious statement from a DJ who has made borderless selection their calling card.

With a heavy lean on bubbling and the far frontiers of Brazilian club wares, long passages of the set are maze of microgenres and regional movements worth getting lost in. Jyoty's RA.1000 is a reminder not just of her dynamism in the booth, but a reminder to keep ears open and expose their audience to as much of the future as possible, as quickly as possible. And what could be truer to the foundations of DJing than that?

@jyotysingh

Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1014. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Jyoty

Nowadays is a mellow folk-ambient track that feels like a gentle sea breeze on a quiet coastal afternoon.

Nowadays

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.BrokenMercury

the next mix in the series is pure dubwise profundity coming from @edenaurelius and @milliamusic

Some words from the artists :

“This mix is a live recording taken from Nowadays in April of this year for livwutang’s recidency, where we were invited to open for Deepchord as a part of a dub techno focused event here in New York. 

The three hour mix is the culmination of our shared inspirations - contemporary and classic, and our own interpretations of the genre itself.

We have b2b’ed many times over the past 10 years, and we feel this may be our favorite set so far - we hope you enjoy”

Art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

naffcast012 ⦾ ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ ✹ Eden Aurelius b2b Millia ✹ Nowadays (4.18.25) ✹  ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Guitar-Based Ambient Producer

https://linktr.ee/marinesteban

Collab : marinesteban87(at)gmail.com

21.08.25 @ Restanque (Montpellier - FR)
01.05.25 @ Black Out (Montpellier - FR)
23.04.25 @ Rockstore (Montpellier - FR)
05.04.25 @ Broca Studio (Sète - FR)
01.09.21 @ Lahti Fringe Festival (Lahti - FI)
14.08.21 @ Le grain de sable (Barcelonnette - FR)
18.09.20 @ A Teurtous - Marais Poitevin (Arçais - FR)
21.08.20 @ Naturofest (Fonroque - FR)
17.06.20 @ Efferalgang Freedom Radio (Paris - FR)
19.05.20 @ Efferalgang Freedom Radio (Paris - FR)
30.04.20 @ Radio Bal (Paris - FR)
16.02.20 @ Råhuset, CPH Listening Room ( Copenhagen - DK)
08.10.19 @ Lentils As Anything Thornbury (Melbourne - AU)
29.10.19 @ The Make It Up Club (Melbourne - AU)
24.10.19 @ Lentils as Anything Abbatsford (Melbourne - AU)
18.10.19 @ The Burrow (Melbourne - AU)
09.10.19 @ Franks Wild Years Records(Thirroul - AU)
06.10.19 @ Petersham Bowling Club (Sydney - AU)
04.10.19 @ Plantbased Wholefoods (Katoomba - AU)
30.8.19 @ The Bearded Lady (Brisbane - AU)
08.8.19 @ Pyramid Club (Wellington - NZ)
10.7.19 @ Valhalla (Wellington - NZ)
23.6.19 @ Waikato Museum (Hamilton - NZ)
09.06.19 @ The Butter Factory (Whangarei - NZ)
28.05.19 @ Moon (Wellington - NZ)
26.05.19 @ Chookys Pub (Wellington - NZ)
19.05.19 @ Lulu (Wellington - NZ)
16.05.19 @ Eva Beva (Wellington - NZ)
13.05.19 @ Hop Garden (Wellington - NZ)
13.07.18 @ Café du Puech(Saint-Bauzille - FR)
08.10.17 @ Khiasma (Les Lilas/Paris - FR)
26.05.17 @ Chapelle de la Médiathèque (Uzès - FR)
07.05.17 @ Mas des Crottes (Nîmes - FR)
22.04.17 @ le Zaye (Paris - FR)
19.07.15 @ Dome of Visions (Copenhagen - DK)
31.01.15 @ Oscillation Private Party (Paris - FR)

Piloted by: @ex-terrestrial & @priori-ties

GARM08 : Sabola - Útilykt
NAFF024 : Pondlicker - Soft Focus
NAFF023 : Ciel & CCL - Tilda's Goat Stare
NAFF022 : Priori - This But More
GARM07 : Orchestroll - Hyperwide Lustre
NAFF020 : Cousin + Priori - Numina (with @animalia-label)
NAFF019 : K2DJ - Por
GARM06 : Sepehr - Pomegranate Skies
NAFF018 : Thurlow Joyce x Regularfantasy - Lemon Citrus
GARM05 : Overland - King Tide
GARM04 : Hngwy - Holigan
NAFF017 : Purelink - To / Deep 
NAFF016 : Cousin - Second Message 
NAFF015 : Priori - Your Own Power Remixes
NAFF014 : Priori - Your Own Power
GARM03 : Phost - Swallowed by a Snake
NAFF013: Sensational ft. Planteaterz – The Pearl
NAFF012 : Healion - In Light, It Undoes Nothing
NAFF011 : Maara - Ultimate Reward 
NAFF010 : Ambien Baby - Mindkiss 
GARM02 : RED - RED 1
NAFF009 : Priori - On A Nimbus Remixes
NAFF008 : URA - Blue
GARM01 : Ntel - Dilution Effect
NAFF007 : Ex-Terrestrial - Gamma Infolded
NAFF006 : Priori - On A Nimbus 
NAFF005 : ANF - TV Science
NAFF004 : Perishing Thirst - Pilgrims of the Rinde
NAFF003 : Housemates - Soul Value 
NAFF002 : ANF - Visions
NAFF001 : Ex-Terrestrial - Portal Vision





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ITALO MODERNI label was born out of the passion and obsession for 80's Electro/Italo/New beat and new vanguard electronica. It is also a platform that encourages creativity and aims to uplift and inspire djs and diggers to produce eclectic and innovative sets.

The world of music is limitless and we are continually learning from each other by sharing and broadening our horizons.  Through the club scene, we seek to convey that underground and unique sound that electronica has at its best.  Our goal is to awaken the inner soul of that person who is looking for something different, in every sound he hears and makes him believe that there is something beyond the conventional.

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