Happy 2025 to all the Idlers out there! We're back with our first mix missive of the year - and it's a doozy. When it comes to edit records, so much has already been done. These London-based boys decided to ditch the well-trod paths of Disco, Boogie & Soul to dive headfirst into the devil's maw that is American Rock & Country music, making some of the best we’d heard in awhile, subtly turning some of the stodgiest 60's & 70's shitkicker jams into glorious glitterball anthems. The fact that they're kickass DJ's to boot made this decision a no-brainer! Ladies & germs, please welcome to the Idle Cellars Mix Series stable - Flying Mojito Bros! These two fine gents were extremely gracious - if not eager! - to tackle the Idle Cellars brief and we all have hit the jackpot. Presenting "Americana Pacifica" - we would call it Balearica re-imagined through the lens of US AOR, soft rock, country and more. Accompanying the mix is this message from FMB:

Rugged, saline guitar jams and sea-smoothed rock – from really recent finds to long-cherished shoreline treasures once popped in our pockets for another day, another day. Well – yesterday's mañana has come. Reach for your nearest Idle Cellars cuvées, grab your grampa's corkscrew, hit the cove barefoot and let the 'super-space-age seventies' pass on by while we linger, carefree.

Here we go - stretch out, grab a glass and press play! See you next time! 

@flying-mojito-bros - follow them!

Mike Bee
San Francisco
January 2025

mp3 & tracklist

Flying Mojito Bros - Americana Pacifica

Recording of Gilles Peterson's set at Rainbow Disco Club 2016.

Gilles Petersonの9年ぶりのRDC出演を記念して、RDC 2016の録音を特別に公開します。
縦横無尽にジャンルの壁を飛び越えていくセットはまさに唯一無二。決して色褪せることのない2時間のミュージックジャーニーをぜひお楽しみください。
Rainbow Disco Club 2025では5時間のロングセットを披露してもらいます。

To celebrate Gilles Peterson's first RDC appearance in 9 years, we are pleased to present a unique RDC 2016 recording.
The set is truly one-of-a-kind as it jumps genre barriers in every direction. Enjoy a two-hour music journey that will never fade away.
Rainbow Disco Club 2025 will be performing a 5-hour long set. Stay tuned!

RDC2016

RDC 083 - Gilles Peterson at Rainbow Disco Club 2016

An hour of post punk funk sets the tone for the new lunar year of the snake, then off into regular programming we go - House. 
5 hours.

Garth - For The Record New Moon Year Jan 29th 2025

Live recording from a special daytime event at The Social in London. 

I never normally record the audience in my mixes, but, for some strange reason, there seems to have been a mic active on my device picking up the crowd. My aversion to this is that, apart from the general ambience of the room, it also picks up people chatting in or around the booth, especially in a small compact space like we were in. I hope this isn’t distracting, but, weighing things up, it was such a good day, and its so long since I’ve uploaded a mix to SoundCloud, that I think it’s only right to share regardless.


AN AFTERNOON AT THE SOCIAL LONDON 01.03.25 (greg wilson live mix)

What up Idle Cellars fam? We’re back with another stellar new mix for your spring-into-summer fun, so pop a tasty bottle and get horizontal! Once again we’re proud to give you a mix from some of the world’s best selectors and this month showcases another favorite - it’s Brooklyn’s JKriv! We met Jason while he was holding down basslines for incredible acoustic House band Tortured Soul, which he followed swiftly by a stint in NYC disco-obsessed group Escort (amazing!), then linking up with Aaron Dae to create the influential Razor-N-Tape label empire! Since then the man has been living the disco dream, traveling the world playing tunes, making some fantastic music (check out his groovy and soothing Within EP) and opening the RNT record shop in addition to being a wonderful human being. 

He’s hooked us up with a poolside killer that has us dreaming of hot, hazy afternoons treading water, mornings when there’s nothing to do but soak in some rays, & nights of wine & torchlit patios. We hope you enjoy as much as we do!

Mike Bee
San Francisco
May 2025

@jkriv


JKriv - Summer Daze

Hey y’all! We’re back! This one has been a long time coming. I’m extremely excited to present to you the latest Idle Cellars mix, made by Melbourne’s Jazz-Funk-Cosmic-Disco masters Mildlife! A bit of a hail-mary pass, it was a dream to ask these guys to give us a mix for the series and I’m so happy they said yes! Kev McDowell, who sings and plays synths, put the mix together on the heels of re-starting their excellent Very Fantastic Radio podcast (which you should go subscribe to immediately) and he’s handed in a stone-cold-killer of a mix, a 90-minute journey through more genres than you can count. Which is well-Balearic in our book! 

I have been a staunch advocate of this band since hearing their defining single “The Magnificent Moon” back in 2017. Their music has been a revelation to me and, after seeing them something like five times I can safely say they are one of the best live acts in the world at the moment. Do not sleep on them, and if you haven’t heard their albums Phase, Automatic or Chorus, get thee to a record shop, stat!

Many thanks to Kev for creating a fantastic mix for us and Mildlife management Benny & Will for making it happen! 

Mike Bee
San Francisco 
July 2025

https://www.mildlife.com.au/
@mildlife


Mildlife - Idle Cellars Mix

I wanted to revisit the early days of lockdown when Bill Brewster started doing his weekly Saturday Paradise Farage sets. Some of the earliest sessions are very hard to find online. Fortunately, I was able to track down some of the tracks from the first show with guest Gavin Kendal from Dalston Millionaires. This mix is my attempt at recapturing some of that magic.

Tracks:
KNIGHTLIFE - Don't Stop
FRANC SPANGLER - Dreamworld
FELIX LABAND - Whistling In Tongues
PAYFONE - Paradise
COPYSHOP - Lipps (Pete Herbert Dub)
TIGER & WOODS - Phoenix
CONGA RADIO - Party Smokes
BAIO - Philosophy (Crazy P Mix)
ARMONICS - Red Eye (Black Spuma Mix)
NANCY AZZURRO - Illustrations & The Large
QUARION - Searching
SOUL CLAP - Shine (This Is It)(Hot Toddy Marimba Message Dub Mix)
ILIJA RUDMAN - Night People (6th Borough Project Love Rub)

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1. Until December - Belosi's Dead - 415 Records
2. Revolting Cocks - You Often Forget - Wax Trax! Records
3. Lidell Townsell - As Acid Turns - Trax Records
4. Christian Strobel - Mr. Moon & Mrs. Sun - CANCELLED
5. Mike Dunn - Magic Feet (Manny Cuevas Chasing Cat's Edit) - Unreleased
6. Lovebeads - This Is The Only Way (Heller & Farley Project Mix) - Liquid Groove
7. The Columbian Drum Cartel - The Shipment (Copyright Fiesta Mix) - Calima Communications Inc.
8. The Echols Brothers - The 5th Of Techno - N.C.M. Label Detroit
9. tracksfx - Cosmic Bass - Unreleased Promo
10. Guido Braun & Stan Magendanz - Pantex - CANCELLED
11. Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (Manny Cuevas'z Re-Edit) - Unreleased
12. DJ Pierre - Atom Bomb (Wild Pitch Mix) - Guerilla Records
13. Don Carlos - Free - Calypso Records
14. Me & Jack - Viva House - Leopard Skin 

Manny'z Medicine Show # 71 Aug 3rd, 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

I've been working hard and keeping things quiet this past 6 months but I've taken a small step back from Djing (still playing live events) to finally put my time into production.

Last week I got my first track signed which will be forthcoming on a Classic Trance based label, more info to follow on that, but I'm also sharing a remix that I just finished on Sasha's timeless classic track - Xpander

It's a dreamy, melodic breaks rework,

This remix blends lush, floaty trance vibes with deep progressive breaks — created for late night journeys, and with true progressive lovers in mind.

If you enjoy it, please drop a comment or repost to share the vibes

Xpander (Rework)

Sasha - Xpander (CØHERA Lost In A Dream Rework)

Since the start of the lockdown I've been running a virtual nightclub, The Paradise Farage, in my dining room every Saturday. Here are the results.

BILL BREWSTER & ANNE FRANKENSTEIN | Live At The Paradise Farage, 18th April

Love. Skate. Design. Mix.

You'll find my latest dj sets here along with a deep archive of 90s live dj sets.

Current Setup for Vinyl and Digital Mixing:
Reloop RP-7000 MK2 turntables
Ortofon Mix Concorde Mk II Cartridges
Pioneer DJ DJM-250MK2 Mixer
Algoriddim Djay Pro 5.3.3 with DVS control vinyl

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