Whether at a late-night slot at a club in South Delhi or a sunny pool-side party, Vijayant Singh as GIRLS NIGHT OUT always cues his selections with a natural sense of the occasion and the energy of his audience, always rendering sweating it out on the dance floor an effortless and compulsive experience. 

While the ongoing pandemic has kept the local dancefloors empty for most parts, the half-lawyer half-DJ transports the listeners energetically to the clubs with his Wild City mix, adding an extra sense of nostalgia with classic club sounds delivered through surprising and revelatory selections. 

The mix maintains Vijayant’s intrinsic dynamism inviting the listener in quickly yet smoothly with the subdued bass phrases of Robert Leiner’s ‘Aqua Viva’, then turning up its guttural factor through thumping kick drums and later some breakbeats before diving headlong into house and its surrounding strands of dance music. Keeping a finger on the pulse of his audience, Vijayant lets the listener cool down every once in a while with the trippy sensuousness of tracks like Dream 2 Science’s ‘My Love Turns To Liquid’ and Hawke’s ‘3 Nudes In A Purple Garden’ before resuming the exciting frenzy that defines a GIRLS NIGHT OUT mix. 

For tracklist and more information: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/18583-wild-city-205-girls-night-out

Wild City Mix

Wild City #205: GIRLS NIGHT OUT

A three-hour journey—and we mean journey—through downtempo, disco and techno.

Read more: http://ra.co/podcast/807

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RA.807 Fort Romeau

Nicolá Cruz is a master of meaningful engagement. Whether he's studying North African melodies or spiritual chants, he shows profound respect for a given sound's cultural context. This is evident across his entire discography. His earliest releases on Multi Culti and ZZK Records layerered traditional woodwinds and percussion with folktronica and tribal house, reflecting a holistic understanding of global rhythms. His more recent work takes an adventurous, polyglot approach to club music, with EPs on Highlife, Rhythm Section and Tra Tra Trax exploring breaks, acid and other spirally sounds. But even his deep, drum-heavy techno cuts feel unusually organic, vibrant polyrhythms bursting with character.

For his RA Podcast, the Ecuador-based producer shows off his rave education. This display of futuristic chuggers and electro—Marcela Dias Sindaco's "A Flor Da Pele" is a particular highlight—speaks to Cruz's deep appreciation for body music. He treats dance floor jams with the same nuance as culturally significant sounds, a testament to his versatility, knowledge and experience. Journeying across acid basslines and dubby electronics, the 73 minute-long ride flirts with psychedelia, distortion and experimental bleeps, with many of the selections reflecting his own taste for colorful patterns. It's energetic and warm, flush with life, until the very end.

Read more: http://ra.co/podcast/824

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RA.824 Nicolá Cruz - 2022.03.21

Running Back and BPitch Control producer Sascha Funke takes us on a ride through a plethora of sounds from downtempo and trance to house, breakbeat and much more.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/05/19/extended-mix-sascha-funke/

(Extended Mix): Sascha Funke

Cult figure and underground icon Roman Flügel joined us last June for our monthly radio show on Echobox. We caught up with the German maestro to discuss his longevity in the scene from early collaborations in the 90’s such as Primitive Painter to present day output, including an upcoming album. In his one hour mix you will hear Roman revisiting his Primitive Painter alias with plenty of heavy mind massagers from the 90’s. Catch the interview in the final 10 minutes.

https://soundcloud.com/roman-fluegel

Echobox Radio

Oddysee FM on Echobox Radio w/ Roman Flügel

Aashish Gupta aka AAGUU, better known for his work as one-half of the duo TechNomads while erstwhile remixing Indian cinema undercuts, curates a love letter to the formative days of house and techno on his Wild City mix. 

Assembling deep cuts and familiar sounds from primarily the early 90s, the Bangalore artist taps into the nostalgia for the joyous glossy strands of the two adjacent genres – hovering closer to their Italo-disco roots. High synthetic string lines, plastic-y melodic percussion, sensual vocal samples and flute sounds created in the early days of MIDI instruments take one on a trip down memory (whether lived or imagined) lane, punctuating it just occasionally with the more sombre acid house cuts. Even while throwing in more modern numbers like Ewan McVicar's 'Amnocairn', the connection to the classic evergreen sounds remains with its snappy house piano. 

For more information and tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/19850-wild-city-214-aaguu

Wild City #214: AAGUU

"Enjoy this mix of old and new rave jams! 💖😋"

Tracklist:
Guy Contact - On the Z-Plane 
Dj Who - Shitty Samples on Acid (..on the rocks)
Desert - Moods (Club Mix)  
Minimal Man -Treatment Feel
DJ Voodoo, Liquid Method - Everybody Things I'm High (And I Am) (Dj Sandy Remix)
The Chameleon Project - Feel (Spooky remix Part 2)
Seo John - Progressor
Earth Trax - Nowhere 
DJX - Drop That Beat (Original Mix)
Kim Ann Foxman - Magic Magic (Matisa Remix)
Rhythm On The Loose - Break Of Dawn (Original Mix)

GuduMixes

GuduMix 006: Kim Ann Foxman

2nd hour: https://soundcloud.com/nicolacruz
1st hour: https://soundcloud.com/okouru

https://www.retreatradio.net/nebula

Nebula #3 w/ Nicola Cruz & Okouru (01/10/22)

Feel My Bicep Mixtape 198 by Fantastic Twins
http://www.feelmybicep.com/fmb-mixtape-198-fantastic-twins/

For this week’s episode of the FMB mixtape series, we welcome Julienne Dessagne aka Fantastic Twins; the Berlin-based French artist, producer, live performer and label owner (Microdosing). As usual we fired some questions over to find out a bit about the mix & what she’s been up to recently:

Mainly traveling for my live shows and in between working in the studio on lots of exciting projects – a soundtrack for contemporary dance, adding the last touches to my album, finishing an EP, and a new collaboration with Andrei Rusu (1/2 of the Khidja duo)… amongst other things. 

The mix was recorded in my studio in Berlin. My focus has always been on producing music and performing live shows rather than DJing so I have learnt to find my own way of making mixes which isn’t exactly the standard DJ approach. I use mainly Ableton and some outboard effect units. After selecting the music and digitalising vinyls when needed, I put the tracks in a session and do quite a lot of editing, add some layers of my own recorded material or vocals here and there, process some bits through external effects, etc. My mix is ultimately an instinctive assembling of all that and some happy accidents. The idea behind the mix is hopefully to create emotion for the listeners. I personally don’t enjoy mixes that sound like a straight motorway from start to finish. I much prefer to be taken through highs, lows and unexpected turns. I approach mixes in a very similar way to my live sets. For this particular mix, I liked the idea of starting things on what sounds like the fading end of something else. And building anew from there, in full circle. 

Up next?

Some upcoming live shows this weekend in Paris, Prague, a Mexican tour in December, an endless list of projects to finish in the studio, and I’m also looking forward to diving into the visual / art direction research for my new album which will hopefully be released next year.

FMB Mixtape 198 by Fantastic Twins

Peggy Gou is one of electronic music's biggest celebrities. Her catchy productions, high-intensity DJ sets and personal style have propelled her to the upper echelons of stardom—a journey that's brought an equal number of fans and critics. "There are a lot of assumptions about me," she tells moderator Souhayla Ou-Oumar during a live RA Exchange at last year's Amsterdam Dance Event. 

Over the course of the 50-minute conversation, which includes a Q&A with the audience, the label owner, producer, DJ and fashion designer spills the beans on her decision-making process, how she deals with haters and maintaining authenticity. Emphasising the power of saying no, the Korea-born artist explains how she executes her creative philosophy by being selective on projects. "I have a great team who follow my vision but basically, I'm a control freak." She says she's never had a manager and does all social media herself because "I don't like it when people tell me what to do."

To hear more about how Gou finds inspiration, why South Korea is a place of healing for her and the importance of listening to the body, listen to the conversation in full.

EX.643 Peggy Gou

This week we're thrilled to have one our favourite artists delivering for flow sessions 004 - Aleksandir. 
While at university in the UK, Aleksandir received an extracurricular education in dance music via Bristol’s club scene, quickly becoming adept at distilling the remains of a night out into hushed strains of house back in his bedroom studio. Adopting the transliteration of his birth name into his native Turkish as his moniker, Aleksandir’s first release came in the form of a mellow excursion on Blind Jacks Journey entitled ‘The Turtle Nipper’ (2016), followed by a deeper dive into the heads-down part of the dance with the ‘Contrails’ LP (2018), on Seb Wildblood’s Church. His breakout hit ‘Yamaha’ (2018) on London imprint Tessellate, meanwhile, hinted at a more club-ready sound. Inspired by the galloping arpeggios of Nordic disco heard on a formative weekend at Club to Club Torino, ‘Yamaha’ became an overnight hit and snuck into the big room via heavyweights like Dixon and Tycho. 2019 saw Aleksandir explore peak time with the ‘Hard to Explain’ EP (Artesian Sounds), spiked with electro, breakbeat and auto-tuned vocals taking cue from The Strokes. This year, the producer and DJ hit the road far and wide, including a North American outing, multiple festival appearances throughout Europe and an upcoming Australia tour. When he’s not noodling on Logic or nudging the jog wheel, Aleksandir co-pilots the Artesian Sounds label with Emre Can Swim and co-curates the MİKS nights with Supu in Istanbul.
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Cover Art - Jai Piccone

Flow Sessions 004 - Aleksandir

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