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Purity Ring - Ungirthed (Christian AIDS remix)

Landlocked

Jonotus

purity ring

the long night

imanocean

C Powers - The Ever Afters Campout 2025 - Heart Lodge

place of my own

place of my own (maffalda remix) [feat. Pabllo Vittar]

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

Tracklist:
1. Cha Cha - Chizawa Q
2. Half Step - Shur-I-Kan
3. Really R - Somatik
4. UKA - Will Hofbauer, Sangre Voss
5. Avianticide - Somatik
6. 33 - WheelUP 
7. Shango - L'Aroye
8. Get There Tonight - Recloose
9. My Hi Fi - Original - Cousin Cockroach and Shox
10. Odyssey - Domu
11. Fairy Tales - Stephane Attias
12. Squeaky Maya - Jay Daniel 
13. A Century of Love - Black Jazz Consortium
14. Blackout (Bonus) - Daz-I-Kue Re-Edit - Zo!, Tall Black Guy, Daz-I-Kue
15. Journey To The Light - Stephane Attias, Trinidadian Deep
16. Drum Sounds, Pt. 4 - African Salon - Al Dobson Jr.
17. Tokyo Bayside Blues - Chizawa Q

Mixed by Chizawa Q @ Tokyo Bayside, Japan

ChaCha MIX for Xenoverse

Brussels-based DJ, producer and music journalist BunZer0 has been championing underground bass music and techno on his long standing ‘FOB Show ‘ for Sub FM. He returns to R&S Records RSMIX series with a new selection of heavyweight sounds.

“For this specific mix I talked to a group of producers I am close to in order to get a maximum of exclusive tracks, to make that recording very special for the beloved host, R&S Records. I also wanted this mix to be representative of the big variety of rhythms we got now in Bass Music, going from dark 2 step, to some Technoish beats, or UK Funky grooves, but also Dubstep and its tireless halfstep beat, Electroish beats”…

Tracklist:
Nuboid - E'ko - Bandcamp
Murder He Wrote - Ghastly - Unreleased
Pugilist - Machinic - Forthcoming
Holloway - Skellis - Unreleased
Ru - Distance - Unreleased
D1 - District - Unreleased
Qant - Dots - Unreleased
Rakjay - Phases - Foto Sounds
Granul - ID With Logan Vocal - Unreleased
Sebaas - No Plastic - Unreleased
Mesopolonica - Vibration - Unreleased
Helixir - Untitled - Unreleased
Spectre - Tracer - Unreleased
Mod Sens - Untitled - Unreleased
Henry Greenleaf - Errand Boy - Forthcoming
Introspekt - Pain - Unreleased
Kercha - Protection - Bandcamp
Ago - Memories feat. Teresa Rossi - Forthcoming
Unknown - Untitled - Forthcoming Deep Medi
Head Space feat. Don Cotti - Bury Dat - Unreleased
Text - Killer - ec2a
Odd Occasion - 2 Much - Forthcoming Hotflush Recordings
Argo - Bedroom Product - Unreleased
Anecho - Stubborn - Unreleased
Masot - Al Puerto - Unreleased
Versa - Island Blues - Unreleased

RSMIX055 - BunZer0

one2three

one2three (ft. Leven Kali)

insanity13 & Oxy - Heartbeat

Call

If There is Something - Danger

Independent Record Label based in London since 2009. Releasing records by: Washed Out, Perfume Genius, Smith Westerns, Yuck, How To Dress Well, Holy Other, Purity Ring, Keep Shelly In Athens, Airbird, Wise Blood, Museum Of Bellas Artes, Active Child, Therapies Son, Blood Diamonds, Disclosure and many more

Purity Ring - Ungirthed (Christian AIDS remix)

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