polar bears dancing in the snow-white universe watching the stars

Navy Blue EP

Polar

Polar (original mix)

All vinyl set early on at a small venue party. Start is dark and odd, but later the set flows to dance floor filling beats.

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Sektor Clubgarten w/ Zynober 27.07.2024

Autumn Ecstatic Dance Festival - Kirkonummi

Recorded Live at Strawberry Fields Festival 15’ anniversary edition 2024. Sunday, Deep Jungle stage, bringing nothing but happy, silly & goofy feelers. Nothing can ever put this opportunity and weekend into words… Will be forever thankful! Anyways… dance ya heart out xx

EMMYK & Tilly @ Strawberry Fields Festival 2024

Intention for this set was to curate a selection that brings out intensity, depth and different emotions. It travels through different genres: deep house, tech house, melodic techno, acid house, tech groove and trance. Set time 02.30-04.00 am during the burn night.

White Rabbit | Muumimaa | Burn Night | Borderland, Sweden 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

Little delayed, but here's the recording of my set at Nation of Gondwana Festival from a couple of weeks ago. It was my first time at Nation and I was only there for 24 hours, but it was overwhelming in the best way. So many warm, friendly people and a festival that comes alive at night with incredible visual art and music to explore. I can totally see why so many keep coming back every year, it truly has its own special vibe. And I’m happy I got to be part of it this year…and even happier they asked if I could imagine playing one of those slower sets again. It was pure fun and made me realise how much I’d actually missed it! Big thanks to everyone who joined me early Sunday morning at Spelunke and flowed with me through the sunrise 🩵 

Hope you enjoy!

much love, 
Leni 

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@pyonen-nation-of-gondwana 2025 
Spelunke 
Sunday, 4-6am

LENI | Nation of Gondwana 2025 | slow mornings at Spelunke

Over the course of the summer, I’ve had the pleasure of DJing ‘poolside’ at Pikes Hotel in Ibiza several times. It’s a completely different approach to my usual DJ sets. Laidback vibes in a chilled daytime setting around that infamous Club Tropicana piscina. 

Here’s a set I’ve put together that captures that style. From low slung, dubbed out Balearic grooves to off-kilter psychedelic electronica to glorious sunkissed soul. And everything inbetween! With love from Ibiza x

Hope the sun is shining wherever you are today. Disfrutar! 

Tracklist..
Underworld ‘Denver Luna’
Joshua Cantrelle & Chris Scott ‘Bliss’
Nick Stoynoff ‘The Hero’s Journey’ (Intro Cassette)
FC Kahuna ‘Hayling’
Nightmares On Wax ‘Les Nuits’
Cymande ‘Coltrane’
Manuel Tur ‘Flakon’ (All Is Well)
Romare ‘Quiet Corners Of My Mind’
King Britt ‘Contemplation’ (Joh Wink)
Ghetto Priest ‘Hercules’ (North Street West Vocal)
Chemical Brothers ‘One Too Many Mornings’
Eric Hilton ‘Closer’
Payfone ‘I Feel you’
Ewan Hoo’s Army ‘Mean Things’
North Of The Island ‘Tired Sunrise’
Michael Kiwanuka ‘Floating Parade’
Pepe Link ‘Lovely Day’
Kylie Auldist ‘In A Week In A Day' (Ashley Beedle)
Nervous Inn ‘Balako’
Jaden Ngonda ‘That’s All I Wanted From You’
Maribou State ‘Blackoak’
Islandman ‘Agit’ (Anders Ponsaing)
Khruangbin & Felix Dickinson ‘Time (You & I)’
Gap Band ‘Outstanding’ (Raw Artes)
HF International feat. Kashmir ‘I Can Go For That’ (Kaoru Inoue)
Hyphen Hyphen ‘We Light The Sunshine’ (Yuksek)
John Beltran ‘Sueños Soleados’
DJ Persuasion ‘Jameela’ (Ghost Phone)
Joe Goddard ‘Gabriel’ (Tom Player Strings)
ASHRR ‘Fizzy’ (Felix Dickinson)
Silvertooth ‘Shut Um Down’
JB Edits ‘Stick In The Mud Guy’
Payfone ‘Wild Butterfly’
Payfone ‘Paradise’
Quiet Village ‘Reunion’ (Reprise)
Blur ‘Out Of Time’

'Pikes Poolside Mix' - Summer 2025

25 SEPTEMBER 2014

http://www.meoko.net/mixes?view=episode&episode_id=190

http://www.meoko.net/interviews/junki-inoue-a-never-tiring-mind


Meoko Podcast 164

Art Department, Shaun Reeves, BLUD feat Damian Lazarus - Robot Heart (Full Version)

Living in Finland (The land of forest, fairies and lakes), I first started DJing in Southern Africa, growing up with Kwaito and Afro, meeting greats like Mandoza and Tkzee in my youth, I am and always have been drawn to music that is well produced and artistic with emotion and artistic intent being central to the story. 

Rising again and again
from the ashes of darkness,
from the grey,
from the crumbled remains of what once was—
To be what is.

Now. Here. In this moment.
The time of no-time, a fleeting reality.
Between the cracks of silence
that form the foundation of our time.

Where light meets dark,
where time stops.
Fire burns. Shadows creep.

TF

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