City lights, darkness, humid skies, smells wafting, sounds mix and dance.
Jakarta, October 2022.

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Barefoot Beats 13 Release Info

Side A 
Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco - Fique Louca
Processman - Baba Oni

Side B
JKriv - Coisa Louca
Joutro Mundo - Ballet Do Chocolate

Barefoot Beats drop a special edition 12” maxi EP of Brazilian love affairs.

Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco deliver a serious groove on Fique Louca, a heads down party jam cut up with joyous vocal whoops and funktastic breaks that is guaranteed to raise the dance floor pressure.
Then Processman, a rising star from Salvador, lets loose a rhythm and chant fuelled Bahian delight that floats around an intoxicating arp line that will drive you wild on the beach, or in the warehouse.
On the flip, NYC based, Brazilian aficionado JKriv gets all loopy and wild as he looks to drive you crazy. Totally wild!
The EP finishes in style with Joutro Mundo from Rio who works a sweet melodic anthem that will have you dancing and singing along in the streets.

Vamos!

DJ Buzz

DJ Play: Horse Meat Disco, Art Of Tones, Dam Swindle, Ray Mang, Faze Action, Felipe Gordon, Frank Booker, Rabo & Snob, DJ Rocca, Harri, Sancho Panza, OOFT!, Javi Frias, Rocksteady Disco, Fingerman, S/A/M, Willie Graf, Misiu, Frank Agrario and many more.

DJ Feedback:

‘Loooooovely!’
Severino (Horse Meat Disco)

‘Fantastic EP! Love it!’
Art Of Tones

‘Thanks. Lovely as always.’
Dam Swindle

‘Muito bom! Muito obrigado!’
Ray Mang

‘Loving Pete Herbert and Dicky Trisco’s edit and JKrivs. Lovely Brazilian vibes to warm up the winter.’
Faze Action

‘Amazing release!’
Felipe Gordon

‘Wicked package! Jkriv edges it for me, but all tracks good!’
Frank Booker

‘Joutro steals the show here. KILLER!’
Rabo & Snob

‘Again great happy Carioca weapons for the floor!’
DJ Rocca

‘Lovely stuff, will play and support.’
Harri

‘What a joyous collection of tracks - perfect! Shoes coming off as we speak!’
Sancho Panza

‘Amazing EP full of bangers!’
Javi Frias

‘Top work Ince again! Diggin’ all the tax.’
OOFT!

‘Dicky & Pete all the way! What a groove!’
Fingerman

‘Ooooooo a full EP from Barefoot Beats! Loving the vibe on Baba One - very sick groove. Coisa Louca is a fun summery banger too.’
Peter Croce (Rocksteady Disco)

‘Sweet sunshine vibes all round. Keeping my toes warm on a cold day in the city.’
Misiu

‘Tasty supplies here.’
S/A/M

‘It’s Friday! That’s totally satisfied my needs. Baba Oni in my set tonight!’
Frank Agrario

‘4 fine reworks! Top dance floor material.”
Willie Graf

Juno

Barefoot Beats 13 - Side B2 - Ballet do Chocolate - Joutro Mundo [Snippet]

One of Australia's best electronic music festivals wraps up for another year. A massive thanks to Dragon Dreaming Festival organising crew for another amazing event. A really well run festival on a beautiful lakeside site, I hope Dragon keeps running for many years to come.  

I opened the Fire Stage on the hill on the Friday afternoon, first time playing there in seven years!

Mixing up my latest sounds from dubby garage, progressive breaks and laidback electro.....enjoy!

Squishy B : 015 (Dragon Dreaming Festival 2024)

This set recorded during golden hour at the sold out and inaugural OKRA Day Disco in Canberra features BougieKoala delivering 90 minutes of dance floor bangers guaranteed to please, seamlessly moving through a litany of genres and traveling from 110-135bpm. Enjoy!

✨line up✨

3pm - 4pm LoBo B2B Guy Ferrari

4pm - 5.30pm Tokaremos

5.30pm - 7pm BougieKoala

7pm - 8pm XAPHANIA

OKRA acknowledges the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the land we meet and dance on and recognises any other people or families with connection to the lands of the ACT and region.

Art by @henry_stentiford

OKRA Day Disco 02/11/24

Day disco

thanks for the recording, @bougiekoala <3

Okra

plant ops @ the bridge ~ trip city 250111

Recorded live at Lost Sundays on 19 January 2025, this mix feels true to me and where I’m at seven years into my DJ journey. It’s been a little while between mixes. 2024 was a time to pause and hone in on inspiration drawn from home, Houghton, and musical memories close to my heart.

This set was before Kolter, Rossi, and Litmus, with super special friends and family dancing around me.

Thanks for listening x

Waxlily - Recorded live 19 January 2025

Welcome to Sounds of the Universe! 

It took the universe 13 billions years to naturally produce the sounds and information contained within this recording. 

Made on Earth. 

Tracklist:

1. ASC - Deucalion [Auxiliary]
2. Sindh - Senses [Sindh]
3. Space Drum Meditation - Dance of Tandava [Space Drum Meditation]
4. Kohra, Shft - Morjim Mystery [Qilla Records]
5. Vardae - The Red Citadel [Non Series]
6. Vladw, Alderaan - Nyx [Thama Series]
7. Alan Backdrop - Liaq [positivesource]
8. Ekkel- Hyphal Network [Ute]
9. DJ Maria - Crescendo [Blue Hour]
10. Dold - Horizon (Mikkel Rev 'Motion' Mix) [Blue Hour]
11. Altinbas - Voyage [Token]
12. Psyk, Orbe - Liquid Drop [Non Series]

Sounds of the Universe 1 ✶ Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Tracklist in full is on my Facebook page, SC not accepting that much text ;-)

1. STL - Dungeon CeLL 
2. Ivano Tetelepta & Jocelyn Abell - Rain Forest
3. Sounds And Sequences - Undercover
4. Private Press - Return To Version
5. Rudolf C - T'd Up
6. Loco Dice- Black Truffles In The Snow (Mike Huckaby's SYNTH Remix)	
7. Prince of Denmark - Unknown
8. Traumprinz - Big Baby Jesus
9. Skjöld - Erkennung
10. Skudge - Fusion	
11. Skudge - Downtown (Sims JFF Edit)
12. Spencer Parker - Remember Dub
13. Erol Alkan - Spectrum (Special Request Double Vision Mix) 
14. The Falcon - Sound The Alarm
15. Adryiano - PL303 Style
16. Ben Sims - Free Jack
17. Four Lovers - B1/001
18. Uncertain - Abstract
19. Frankie Bones - Ghetto Technics 007 (Sims JFF Edit)
20. Ron Hardy - Jack My Body
21. 2000 and One - Party Crash
22. 426 - Free Upload
23. Vin Sol - Trac
24. Mike Dunn - Snare Your Ass Off (Edit)
25. Ben Sims - Jack Trax 1
26. Delaze - Bloody Samba
27. Max Watts - Shortlivedfeeling
28. Mr G - Swing Crewz II
29. Avision - Hold No Groove
30. Mr G - Moments
31. Mr G - Lightz (G Out Dub Mix)
32. Franck Roger - Can You Dig It (Beatapella)
33. Floorplan vs Lil Louis (Remy Edit)
34. Marquis Hawkes - Jerk U Later
35. DJ Rush - Jack N Da Box  
36. Parris Mitchell - Rubber Jazz Band (Len Faki Edit)
37. DJ Bruce Lee - The Line
38. Robert Hood - Low Life 
39. The Nighttripper - Phuture (Robert Hood Remix)
40. Ben Sims  -In The Middle (Ron Bacardi Live Mix)
41. Ben Sims - Dollar Bill, Y'all (Vocal Mix)
42. Robert Armani - Fire Alarm
43. K-Alexi - My Medusa (Remy Edit)
44. Truncate - That Thang
45. Sanso - Crcketz
46. Kareem Smith - Nice Mix
47. Geto Mark - Foot Werk
48. Risque III - Risque Madness (Remy Edit)
49. Ben Sims - Xotnuc
50. Altinbas - Rivers...

Cont..on FB

Ben Sims All Night Long in Mexico City, March 2024

Where it all began...Mama Char and Sister Sez unite to uncover the forgotten influence of Women in Reggae for International Women’s Day 2022. Played out on the legendary Steam Radio in Manchester. Link to the original show: https://www.mixcloud.com/steamradiomcr/unknown-a-history-of-women-in-reggae-120322

Galdem Rejoice: The Legacy of Women in Reggae IWD 2022

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 masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and 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 rare combinations playing start-to-finish. 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 a 385-minute marathon 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. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers 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 practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

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

🥘Tocaremos is eating a mango by the side of the road, an adventure in the mountains, a fiesta in the streets and a skinny dip in a mountain stream. Tocaremos is cycling downhill fast for six hours.

Tocaremos is cumbia, salsa, huayno, calypso and house music.🥘

Okra

Tocaremos

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