From 1996 Jori Hulkkonen debut album Selkäsaari Tracks released on F communications.

Jori Hulkkonen - Sumthing

Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-ambient-americana-16th-february-2023

Dust To Dust: The NTS Guide to Ambient Americana 160223

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-19th-december-2024

Hit Factory 191224

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

Body Talk w/ Diepvries at WAV | 03-10-25

WAVES

This week's podcast is a relentless seventy-nine minutes of techno from Berghain resident Ben Klock.

RA.063 Ben Klock

RA presents a joint podcast from two of deep techno’s finest: Andy Stott and Claro Intelecto from Modern Love.

RA.088 Andy Stott & Claro Intelecto

I’ve made a little ambient mix of some of my all time favourite peaceful music.

The mix was originally made for a clinical trial for people undergoing something of a reconstructive therapy. It was designed to repeatedly and slowly transition between relaxed reflection, and stimulation of new thoughts, running for a 2 hrs 30 mins session. You’ll probably hear what I mean in the structure.

It also includes some unreleased music of mine which hasn’t been heard before, alongside many of the most beautiful pieces I could find. I hope you enjoy it.

Tracklist

1 Field Recording
2 Max Richter - Laika's Journey
3 Hakobune - Lighthouse
4 Nils Frahm - Talisman
5 Starts of the Lid - Articulate Silences Part 2
6 Max Cooper - Untitled / Unreleased
7 Ben Lukas Boysen - Only in the Dark
8 Matt Robertson - Postscript
9 Rob Clouth - Dirac Sea Birth
10 Suda Norihito - Anim
11 Taylor Deupree - Minism
12 Willamette - Mid August, For Rachel
13 Mark Fell - Part 3 Acids in the Style of Rian Treanor
14 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - Ardous Clarity
15 Field Recording
16 Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds - 2017
17 Christopher Willits - Sunset
18 Lusine - Jetstream
19 Max Cooper - Circular
20 Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye
21 Com Truise - Gaussian
22 Loscil - In Threes
23 Willamette - Echo Park
24 Komet - Plus
25 Rob Clouth - The Galaxy Collapsed into a Point
26 Tim Hecker - Borderlands
27 Steve Hauschildt - Eyelids Gently Dreaming
28 Pausal - Semi Submerged
29 Christopher Willits - Ground
30 Bing and Ruth - Starwood Choker
31 Barker - When Prophesy Fails
32 Roly Porter - Kistvaen
33 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - RH Negative
34 Petrels - All things in Common
35 Max Cooper - Memories
36 Field Recording

WAVES

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