Name: digits#1 by Ryan Cumiskey
Duration: 36 min 17 s
Description: Number 1 in a series of mini music journeys.

Words by Quinn Whalley

"This was our first ever live gig as Paranoid London. It was late 2008 at the Warehouse Project in Manchester & the resident DJ, Krysko, took a risk & booked us knowing we’d never done it before. We were booked for 2 hours & we’d only released 2 records so we had to write a whole set from scratch. We didn’t finish writing it until 5 am the morning before the gig so we didn’t have time to rehearse it even once. It’s a hybrid live & DJ set. We bought Paris Brightledge over from Chicago to do some vocals & his friend Marshall Jefferson happened to live in Manchester & got up to do some backing vocals. You can hear the crowd in parts coming through Paris’ microphone. We’re shitting our pants but somehow we pulled it off & caught the bug for doing it live. Hope you enjoy it"

Paranoid London Live - Cartulis Podcast 050

Number 1 in a series of mini music journeys. 

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playgroup - number one (chicken lips mix)
new order - 586 (peter black mix)
kevin mckay - freak action
tiefschwarz - ghostrack
tiga - burnin down
doctor's cat - feel the drive
slam and dot allison - visions (ewan pearson mix)
giorgio moroder - the chase
depeche mode - behind the wheel
dk7 - the difference
tantra - hills of katmandu


Mullets R Us.10.08.2003.

ALTERED STATE

Apiento, a.k.a Paul Byrne runs the invaluable Test Pressing blog and releases music on World Building, World Unknown and more. His show has that esoteric techno thing and whatever suits the mood…
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/test-pressing/episodes/test-pressing-26th-july-2025

Test Pressing 260725

To celebrate the highly anticipated Sabres of Paradise album reissues, we're ecstatic to bring the iconic sounds of the Sabresonic club night to Stranger Than Paradise for one night only on
Wednesday 6th August from 7pm til midnight.

On the night we'll be treated to DJ sets from the band's Jagz Kooner, alongside Sabresonic regulars Alex Knight and Sherman at the Conrols.

An Evening with Sabres of Paradise @ Stranger Than Paradise Records | 06/08/2025

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

A ROUGH redo of the records I played on Sunday 24th August 2025 at "Keep It Shields"

Thanks to Man Power for having me along to play and to everyone concerned in putting a great day together

Car Park Raves. "What's ya name? Where ya from? You got any change for the meter?"

Tracks played, in this order


Begin "Cut The Paste"
Stranger "In A Dark Room"
Mr Fingers "What About This Love?" (Dub Mix)
Beloved "It's Alright Now" (Back To Basics)
Rocha "Hands Of Love" (Fingers Of Sand) Mugwump Magnet Rekrump Mix
Sun Electric "Karma Sutra"
B.W.H. "Stop" (Re Stop Edit)
Village "Willy Love"
Medlar "Body Action"
Cultural Vibe "Ma Foom Bey"
ESP "It's You"
Mr Fingers "Ammnesia"
Pepe Braddock "Deep Burnt"
Josh One "Contemplation" (King Britt Mix)
Trinidadian Deep presents Native Culture "Eggun"
Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space "Reach For Me"
Doc Martin & Tony Hewitt "Music From My Soul"
Don Carlos "Alone"

Antony Daly_Keep It Shields_1400 to 1600_24.08.2025

A one hit mess about with a handful of records that had been packed for the 586 Records 11th Birthday, on Saturday 27th September 2025 at Gingerino's - for the Public House HIFI lads

Tracklist

"Time of the Assassins" (Steve Moore remix)
"Sequencer"
"Holding Back" (My Love)
"Thinking Allowed"
"Spark Life"
"Under The Panda Moon"
"Wildlife"
"Without You"
"Latican Boogie"
"Life Unlimited"

29.09.2025_Tony 586_Box 3 From Gingerino's.

Part 2 of the recording from 586 Records, 11th Birthday

Boogie, Disco.....

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Ryan Cumiskey

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