Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom, AKA Big Gay Idiot DJ, AKA Bobby Beethoven, is one of the best and most influential DJs of the 21st century. Starting out at pioneering parties like Mustache Mondays and Wildness (which he cofounded with Wu Tsang)—and a regular at GHE20G0TH1K—Mines helped to define the style that would become known, however cringe-inducingly, as experimental club or deconstructed club, directly inspiring fellow visionaries like Arca. 

Like some of the best DJs before him, Mines uses the CDJs as an instrument, but that doesn't mean just fancy tricks and looping. Instead, he artfully throws together clashing sounds—effects, samples, monologues, pop and R&B acapellas, and beats that run the gamut from dancehall to kuduro to breaks and techno. He's not afraid of the grotesquerie of human life and movement (just check out the monologue at the beginning of this mix), and he likes to push buttons. Once he put on a party where dancing wasn't allowed. Some of his sets are intentionally anxiety-inducing, evoking horror movies and modern classical composers like Penderecki, while others are bouncy and ebullient, weaving between genres and tempos like an old-school platformer. The best are both.

On Mines's RA Podcast—a milestone 900th in the series—he shows off this inimitable style, sharpened and reinforced over a decade-and-a-half of playing some of the world's best parties, fashion shows, you name it. He's the kind of DJ who creates his own music as he goes along. He makes you hear old tracks—especially pop music and R&B—in a whole new way. Titled "Cursed Piercing," this is a near-hour of controlled chaos that'll confound you at one moment and deeply move you the next.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/900

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RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

GALAXY PARADE 12-09-24
by Esben Weile Kjaer
presented by TRAUMA

composer: Europa
choreography: Troels Primdahl
creative production: Madalina Stanescu,
Kyle van Horn
Leonardo Liccini

GALAXY PARADE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-1st-november-2024

United In Flames w/ Torus & Malibu 011124

This mix is the sound of hearts unraveling. Yawning Portal (@yawningportal) is an opening to other worlds: a transmutation, a prayer.

They wake with the taste of static on their tongue, echoes decay: the thread thins…there was never a first note. The atmosphere is serene and distant, with light piercing through swirling mist. Water flows gracefully through the crevices, reflecting shimmering silhouettes — a quiet beauty, gentle and warm, like the shape of love.

Hailing from London, this duo excels at capturing the intricate textures of sound, moving seamlessly between delicate field recordings and refined sampling. They released their debut EP Heart and Earth in 2020 via PLZ Make it Ruins and have since released singles via Odyxxey, Slagwerk, Club Paradiso & 29 Speedway and YEAR0001’s RIFT compilation. They scored Lydia Ourahmane’s immersive installation Survival in the Afterlife at Portikus, Frankfurt alongside an hourlong digital release Notice the Direction of Fires and collaborated with Ourahmane again to score the film Tassili; the film has since been presented at museums and institutions internationally. Since 2020 they have hosted under sleepy moon, a monthly show on NTS radio.

Tracklist:
Eriks Esenvalds - Stars
Purelink - Untitled
Merely - Tangerine Skies (Cotton Mouth Mix)
chantssss - Lose My
Brigitte Lesne: Discantus - Anon: Ite Iam Sine Tristica (Trope D'Ite Missa Est, Codex Engelberg)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts II
Echinacea - Finding Home, Through the Storm - Emily Glass x Guild of Lore (A Path Emerges)
innerinnerlife, Amelie Siba - Riegrovy sady
sofa - try hard 
Evia - Slumber
Peter Rehberg - Boxes & Angels
Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold: Scene 1: Vorspiel
Yawning Portal - ?
Detente - From the moon (ocean version)

PURE Guest.077 Yawning Portal

photo by ben sanders

tracklist:

lie about us - dj jayhood
bmw - bad boy chiller crew
she wanna fuck - depressed teenager
keypressed - kaval
bieber born slippy & trembling - aspa
peppermint - kaval
rise up - yves larock
direct drums all the time - akash
here i am (kaskade remix) - david morales
maybe nevermind - regularfantasy
bbbhhh - dubbel dutch
let u leave (kg remix) - kota banks
paga a bebida da bela - djbboy
money baby - k camp
morphing into brighter - anz
hyph mngo edit -babyface
xy - feng
war hound - kwes e
you got me - dj paypal
hustlin dj tool - raw takes
omg - kush jones & swisha
embraza - vhoor

RISH Pai Dui Set 2025

circling the south bermondsey cistern circa january 2025 for ghoul dance x ulnaparti at venue MOT with spinnee and ikava pii and mossambi

come to think of it i shoulda change my name to something ending in eeee

68 minutes of pure brainleak

eleanor - thin end of the wedge (aya's boot end of the leg)
rrritalin - naga
fabaitos - quietus
crrdr x dayvi - sax with me
dj g2g - omj!!??? (ft. hainafromchina)
xterea - demo 12
phace - self talking
gyrofield - superheat
algorithmic - wussupnow
obses - catharsis
96 back - rubber knife
cash cobain - problem
current value - greed 
chozn.$$ - everlong
syzy - caught up (in circles)
esp - break free
hellfish - bring on the hurricane pain
sampling masters mega / sampling masters aya - idiot tube
latesleeper - hellcat
dansa - bog
2k's luv shy edit
blood of aza - stupid hoe
remiseria temperley, nafftero, jaijiu - a brillar mi amor
ramiseria temperley - mamarracho
precolumbian - untitled0001
shitmat - shut up
hydroboi x o-man888 - caramelidansen
jok'air feat. naza - oh nana (bovllov remix)
kamome sano - crepe suzette
trespassed and the dope doctor - break jaws
crim3s - militia

🧟‍♀️ghoulna dj🧛‍♀️

At last year’s Opening Party at Unsound Kraków, DJ E (aka Chuquimamani-Condori) showcased their distinct hyper-charged sound. Narrowing it down to genres is pretty impossible, but there are fragments of Andean folk, cumbia and country music ballads, often carefully layered with a bunch of soundboard-effects. The result is a classic DJ E set. Many of the tracks played here were recently included in the almost 2-hour long collection Edits, which you can pick up on Chuquimamani-Condori’s Bandcamp page.

Unsound Podcast 107: DJ E / Chuquimamani-Condori (2024)

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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/384150553--858925382-7th-august-2025

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Brixe_Das Crazy

British producers and DJs MM (@djdoublem94) and Suda (@sudanim) joined forces at Unsound 2018 to present a brand new collaborative show in a vast, abandoned industrial kitchen in Hotel Forum. Working with music, fog and light, the artists created an immersive experience, combining the sleek futuristic textures and heavy drums of hybrid club music. This exclusive podcast is the first recorded sound of Async Figure available online and a taste of what's to come. Look forward to their China Tour (14 June - Oil, Shenzen; 15 June - All, Shanghai; 22 June - Loopy, Hangzhou) and forthcoming releases.

Unsound Podcast 51: Async Figure (MM & Suda)

An amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform dealing with music, sound, words and related visual arts. Founded in Krakow in 2003, Unsound has taken place in 30 cities around the world.