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'SARA-J, Kona Rose, FOFU - Baby Don't Go (eqal & @djkbow Remix)'

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Baby Don't Go (eqal & K BoW Remix)

Mix of bass music, electro and even deep house including his own track and those of his friends.
Enjoy!

Could You Give Me An Hour? Vol.13 CeeeSTee

ORIGINAL:https://music.apple.com/jp/album/this-is-da-music/437168360

DJ NINJA SWAG - KNOWREALKEY UNSTOPPABLE BAILE FUNK R3M1X [NG RMX] BPM 140 + WLCM2NKTMDBQ

*Tracklist & Interview here: bit.ly/3wJQo0s

Artist Bio:
Making music as Illreme for over 15 years, as well as being a member of Hip Hop trio Baleine 3000, Kamoda has been a formidable force in Japan’s music scene for quite some time. Debuting with ‘The Clay’ on Mister Saturday Night Records in 2016, which featured that unforgettable ‘Physical Graffiti’ track, Kamoda’s foray into dance music has been truly impressive, following up with two releases on Black Acre and a vinyl-only outing on Mall Grab’s Steel City Dance Discs imprint.

Labels:
https://soundcloud.com/junrecords  https://soundcloud.com/shallnotfade https://soundcloud.com/black-acre-records  https://soundcloud.com/steelcitydancediscs  https://soundcloud.com/dirt-crew  https://soundcloud.com/mistersaturdaynight  https://soundcloud.com/ubiquityrecords

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/illreme

Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/jun_kamoda/
https://jemi.so/junkamoda

Curator:
Enrico Cherbino

Artwork:
Kaio Batista

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Tracklist & Interview

Jun Kamoda @ Chicago Calling #150 - Japan

恋とポルノで焼かれた脳みそ
バキバキのスマホ
魔法は一度
あの街のこの街の至る所のいろいろな形のGirls
The Great Curveを曲がり損ね無事死亡
墓はアイスの棒
他人棒で殺されたら遺影もない
戒名のない俺のおふくろ
ロシアンルーレット回して行く天国なんてたかが知れてるだろ？
それでも救われない夜もあるのならしょうがないのかもね
ところでPixlated Girlって何の話？
小鉄は画像を悪用するらしい
墓まで持ってく秘密のフォルダー
あなたの写真でいっぱいらしい

気が向いたらばまたエロい自撮り送ってハニー
隣の男はこっちで勝手に消しとくからさー

Rated-XXXXXのPixlated Girl...

近づけば近づくほどにズームアップすればするほどに遠ざかってしまう
画像の向こうのあなたに
4Kでも間に合わないから今すぐ会いに
万遍ないウォーアイニー ブチかまし

気が向いたらばまたエロい自撮り送ってハニー
隣の男はこっちで勝手に消しとくからさー

「君のこといつも見つめてて／君のこと何も見ていない」

Milk Talk / Pixlated Girl(小鉄は画像を悪用するらしいmix)

tofubeats - simple joy (moe shop bootleg)

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

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

DJ/Producer
booking - info@tofubeats.com
