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Atlanta's “demon glam rock” duo hijack the airwaves for an hour of party pop, indie rock, R&B and more...

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/coco-clair-clair-23rd-june-2023

Coco & Clair Clair 230623

club music from new jersey

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OSSX @ The Lot Radio 02-03-2024

Live and direct from the LA NTS studio, Bonobo, friends and family celebrate the release of his new track "Expander" with a special three-hour broadcast. 

Photo by Glenn Jamn. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bonobo/episodes/bonobo-bonobo-expander-release-party-16th-august-2024

Bonobo & Friends: 'Expander' Release Party 160824

Memphis selector and radio host Nya presents an hour of rare soul, boogie, gospel, and funk records once a month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/nya/episodes/nya-28th-january-2025

NYA 280125

Diving into the back catalogues of one of the greatest of all French Caribbean labels, Disques Debs.

Emerging in the late 1950s under the vision of Henri Debs, Disques Debs became a cornerstone of Guadeloupe’s music scene, shaping the island’s sound for decades. The label’s vast catalogue spanned genres from biguine and bolero to cadence-lypso, zouk, and reggae, releasing an impressive array of over 300 7" singles and 200 LP albums during it's time. 

Henri Debs ensured his studio remained at the cutting edge of sound production. Regular trips to New York and Paris allowed him to source the latest recording equipment and master new techniques, keeping his facility ahead of the curve. By the ’70s and ’80s, it had become one of the most sophisticated studios in the Caribbean, dr... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-disques-debs-7th-february-2025

NTS Guide to: Disques Debs 070225

"A kind of music" - the duo behind the new label come together for a regular hour long session, weaving through unexpected dancefloor sounds...  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/canyoufeelthesun-w-call-super-parris/episodes/canyoufeelthesun-w-call-super-parris-27th-february-2025

CAN YOU FEEL THE SUN W/ CALL SUPER & PARRIS 270225

Regular missives from the Against Interpretation labelhead and powerhouse-trance inducer Courtesy…
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/courtesy/episodes/courtesy-28th-february-2025

Courtesy 280225

Stay left and take a trip with Macca's Saturday breakfast show on NTS. Weekend musings and eclectic cuts from all over the place, it's a low-key affair and you're all invited. ONE GLOVE!!!
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/macca/episodes/macca-7th-june-2025

The One Glove Breakfast Show w/ Macca & Steve Cobby  070625

Regular techno, electro, and house missives from the Against Interpretation labelhead and powerhouse-club selector Courtesy…
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/courtesy/episodes/courtesy-20th-june-2025

Courtesy 200625

Sheffield DJ and NTS regular Charlie Satsumas gets his own slot - an hour of easy peelers every month.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/charlie-satsumas/episodes/charlie-satsumas-21st-june-2025

Charlie Satsumas 210625

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

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

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01. Don’t Fear The Sound (Full Expansion) - The Astral Walkers 
02. Acid Jazz - GU
03. Depicted (G-s Real Dub) - Larry de Kat
04. Be The Change (Beatapella) - Laroye
05. That Hour - The Strictly Jazz Unit 
06. Escravos De Jo (Bonus Beats) - Jerome Sydenham
07. Nodyahed - Mr. Fingers 
08. Peace Bird - Genius Of Time
09. Chicago Theme (Dub) - Glenn Underground 
10, The Touch (Dubbyman Remix) - Bengoa
11. I Won't Lay Back - Rick 'Poppa" Howard
12. Terraforming - Dan Only
13. It's Like (Detroit Love) - Ursula Rucker & Mirko Loko
14. We Go Back - Delano Smith
15. Natty Dread - Trinidadian Deep
16. Spirit Of The Black 808 - Soulizm
17. Digital Sound - Chaos In The CBD
18. Focus - Black Jazz Consortium feat Reno Ka
19. Rejuvenating Season - Boo Williams & Demarkus Lewis ft Cynthia Glover
20. Burnout (Ron Trent Remix) - The Robinsons
21. Beloved - Osunlade

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