Listen back as Baltra was joined by Lis Sarroca this month, running 120 minutes of deep house and techno heat from the likes of Claat and Cream Soda.

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Baltra w/ Lis Sarroca- April 2024

This past February, Tesfa Williams released his debut album—over 20 years into his career. Raves Of Future Past distilled decades of experience on London dance floors into a potent and powerful blend of grime, house, rave and techno. Made with an Elektron Digitakt to imitate the rough textures of early '00s UK dance music, the LP is an anachronistic history lesson that throws everything in a blender, imagining what gqom might sound like as an Eski track and giving new life to the short-lived "sublow" sound Williams helped invent with classic tracks like "Invasion," released under his earlier alias DJ Dread D.

Since the sublow days, however, Williams has become a torchbearer for UK house music and African diasporic sounds like Afro house and gqom in London. He's put out soulful hits like "Heartbeat"—recently reissued by Local Action—and released a steady stream of dance records for PMR and Strictly Rhythm. He's what you might call a jack of all trades, except for that he's actually a master of them all.

His RA Podcast charts his musical journey in reverse chronological order, starting with smooth, African-influenced sounds and winding through grime and dubstep, eventually landing at jungle. He threads a needle through diverse genres (and eras), and posits that the traditional UK hardcore continuum is a bigger spectrum than you might think, with gqom's heave and amapiano's log drum equally important in the musical equation. It's nearly two hours of UK dance music past and present, from a DJ who has lived it all.

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Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/935

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RA.935 T.Williams

Rhythm Section Radio was founded in 2009 and moved to NTS in 2012, and has since pulled out the stops breaking new music, promoting independent labels and paying homage to the greatest music from the past, through a perhaps unhealthy obsession with record digging. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rhythmsection/episodes/rhythmsection-15th-may-2024

Bradley Zero Presents: Rhythm Section w/ Carlita & Subb-an 150524

For the 129th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome the legendary @magda-official and @mikeservito. Dear friends and extraordinary DJs, their deep music knowledge and skill is on full display. This mix is a 2 hour excerpt from their recent set at Public Records. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 129: Magda b2b Mike Servito

Eli’s getting ready for the 10th anniversary of the House Of EFUNK afterparty at Movement Detroit. Everybody’s Freaky Under Nature’s Kingdom

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Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/themix014WesBaggaley

Wigan's greatest export @wes-baggaley rolls through an all-vinyl mix of EBM, deep house and acid

"This is me going against what I’m hearing in clubs at the minute. It's all-vinyl and recorded in one take — I haven't edited out any mistakes or anything, so there's a couple of crackles and pops in it, but I wanted to leave them. I’ve just moved house, so I've pulled some of my favourite records out for this mix — there’s hardly any new stuff on here. I didn’t plan any of it apart from the first track, which is from Gemini - and the last track: Throbbing Gristle’s ‘Hot On The Heels of Love’ which is my favourite track ever — for the rest I just winged it."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 014: Wes Baggaley

Slather on your sunscreen because @theokottis gives us the soundtrack of a neverending summer! Lightfooted but stomping in a nappy, melodically-charged way, shifting seamlessly between different genres creating an effective whole as a result. He snuck in a favorite track that is yet to be released this summer!

Theo Kottis...IsBurning #148

Part of the NTS family since day dot, Moxie has held her Wednesday show since the stations first broadcasts. Inviting esteemed guests for interviews & mixes and breaking new, unreleased music, she’s got your Wednesday afternoons covered... Tune in to hear anything from Soulful House, Garage, Afro beats and all the way through to rolling techno. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-5th-june-2024

MOXIE w/ Lea Lisa & Leod 050624

In anticipation of him joining us at the club this Friday, K Lone treats us to an hour of music, featuring some of his upcoming fabric Originals releases.

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Some of the tracks that have become classics at Romance, the weekly Thursday night party at Gabriela.

Romance Mix

Romance Thursdays Mixtape

The first thing you might realise during a MUSCLECARS set is the sheer musicality of the duo's selections. Vocals glimmer at the centre, unfolding into enchanting, soulful coos, while drums strike captivating rhythms and gilded synths reach towards the sky. It's a jazzy New York house sound mythologised by pioneers like Joe Claussell, Carlos Sanchez and Timmy Regisford (whose songs all make it to this RA Podcast). For years, New York natives Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield have run their Coloring Lessons party as a way to introduce a younger generation to this vital piece of dance music history. In a city that prides itself on fast walking, fast talking and, as of late, fast BPMs, their music is an invitation to ease into a more relaxing pace.

This RA Podcast comes at a golden time for MUSCLECARS. In May, they released their RA-recommended debut album, Sugar Honey Iced Tea!, whose sultry (and undeniably catchy) lead single "Tonight" has gotten the stamp of approval, and a remix, from New York legend Louie Vega. And this Sunday, they hosted their annual Juneteenth block party outside the Lot Radio, where scores of Black dancers latched onto one another during sets from a multigenerational crew of Black DJs including Ron Trent, Lovie, Shawn Dub and MUSCLECARS themselves. This two-hour-plus mix takes us through the spiralling jazz of Herbie Hancock, the flashy disco of The Originals and lands us, finally, in "Water," the track that also closes out Sugar Honey Iced Tea!.

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Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/941

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