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Edition 95 of our podcast series is provided by Berlin-based selector and our good friend Candy Jones, one of the driving forces behind the Decompression and Public Amusement crews! In this mix, he presents a techno-focused selection, flawlessly mixed & jumping back and forth between deep and jacking vibes. Let's go!

Selectors Club Mix 95 - Candy Jones

Get ready for some serious business provided here by Berlin-based Vanaenae! As a longstanding employee at Leipzig's Vary record store as well as recent crew member of the Good2U team (great festival btw!), she proves her exquisite taste for deep bangers once more, so brace yourself for a beautiful selection!

https://soundcloud.com/vanaenae_r

Selectors Club Mix 96 - Vanaenae

Get yourselves comfy and vibey with this contribution to our series by Vienna-based artist and friend Monti! As a true lover of music, dance, and vibes, he founded Rosa Brisante as well as co-founded the HVY and VG+ formats. In this mix, he is gradually transitioning from ocean waves over tipped-out house and subtle cheekiness into a deep flirt.

https://soundcloud.com/monti-1-one

Selectors Club Mix 97 - Monti

Spinning Grounds w/ Naomi

The monthly show hosted by @katharina-davids is returning with guest @naominice

Been wanting to get Naomi on Spinning Grounds for a bit —and now it’s time! Her skilful vinyl sets are packed with groove, heat, and that unmistakable house feeling. She’s been hopping from Robert Johnson to Panorama Bar, Heideglühen to Nation of Gondwana... and now she landed in our little radio corner for some real dub house dreams.

'Spinning Grounds' is all about opening grounds - for both newcomers and experienced selectors alike - to spin music outside of club spaces to explore a wide range of genres from house, Detroit, deep house, dub house, ambient, breaks, UK garage, minimal, dub techno to .......

Spinning Grounds w/ Naomi @THF Radio, 31/07/25

Spinning Grounds w/ Esposito

The monthly show hosted by @katharina-davids is returning with guest @esposito-2834

Audio engineer, co-founder of the Griessmuehle Grimebox nights and a resident at REEF, the Berghain event series run by DJ Darwin. Big honour having Esposito spin a blend of ambient, downbeat, electronica, trip-hop... —  an absolute treat on a cloudy summer evening at the Feld. 

'Spinning Grounds' is all about opening grounds - for both newcomers and experienced selectors alike - to spin music outside of club spaces to explore a wide range of genres from house, Detroit, deep house, dub house, ambient, breaks, UK garage, minimal, dub techno to .......

Spinning Grounds w/ Esposito @THF Radio, 31/08/25

Being a long-time friend and supporter, we are more than happy to give you DJ Set for our 98th edition of our mix series. In this DJ set, DJ Set (lol) is showcasing his excellent taste in classical house and techno: trippy, deep, and dubby!

https://soundcloud.com/user-386062642

Selectors Club Mix 98 - DJ Set

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Next one in our OYE Podcast series is our regular customer Katharina aka Kat Davids. Her beautiful mix moves between deep and dub house. It has a dreamy and light structure, it flows… Including some all-time classics this is a must listen piece of music.

Berlin based DJ & Producer Kat Davids' selections are inspired by the depth of Detroit, Body-High Dub house, Deep house and Dub techno. Whether holding a tight atmosphere at a club or letting loose at festivals - always striving to allow people to lose oneself in a musical journey for a night.

With an intimate space that feels raw and honest, Kats’ music is characterized by her own vocals, field recordings, playful percussions and driving bass lines. Her releases “dust” on Intercept Records, the single “Haunted” on Tresor Records, and a collaboration track with Cecilia Tosh on the Nachtdigital Vinyl LP, will be followed by her debut Vinyl EP in 2025.

She has played at some well-known institutions such as Tresor, Watergate, Revier Südost, ELSE Club, Weltspiele Hannover and toured in Latin America and South Africa with diverse DJ gigs and DJ Workshops. Since her LIVE Set debut at Berghain / Säule 2024, she had LIVE appearances at festivals like Nachtdigital.

Since November 2022, she has hosted her own regular show on the well-established THF Radio Berlin, featuring over 50 guests ranging from newcomers to legends. In the summer of 2022, she also founded the FLINTA* collective V.A. Femme* with the aim of fostering mutual support and providing a space to learn and exchange musically.

Tracklist:
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Invention of Radio No. 1 The Dreams 
Unknown Artist - B1 (Illegal Series 05)
Constant Back - Goldfinger
Kosta Athanassiadis - Apari (Apari Sven’s Systolic Mix)
Conforce - Stable Velocity 
Luke Hess, Harrison - Benthos
Max Watts - Shortlivedfeeling
Ohm & Kvadrant - Knippelsbro
Ben Kaczor - This Blue Light (unreleased)
LB Honne - Untitled Wechsel (unreleased)
Philipp Priebe - Need & Desire (unreleased)
Will you - Is it 2 Late (Lb Honne Remix)
Makam - Girls Night (Original Mix)
Efdemin - The Meadow

Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/katharina-davids
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kat_davids/
RA: https://de.ra.co/dj/katdavids

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