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.

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RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

South London artists MM and Suda – aka Async Figure – deliver a mix filled with new and unreleased music from the duo, exploring “the more heartfelt, emotional side of our productions”.

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Music to Pull Your Strings: Mixed by Async Figure

Monthly mixes and "Bad behaviour" from the crew behind Berlin's acclaimed Mala Junta parties. Expect throwback trance, souped up '90s basslines and party music of a high tempo flavour. 
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1tbsp | Radio Rudina

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
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Hit Factory w/ Estoc 010824

Doss | Boiler Room x Champion: London

Get in your feelings with Brussels party starters HE4RTBROKEN - the beloved Belgian collective that aren't scared of a few tears on the dance floor. Resident djs Liyo, Steff, Munix and ssaliva explore the full range of cathartic music listening together with some kindred-spirited emotive guests. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hea4rtbroken/episodes/hea4rtbroken-26th-september-2024

HE4RTBROKEN w/ mobilegirl 260924

Strobe warning: TranceParty arrives on Boiler Room. Featuring TP legends & residents: MC Tazo, Lisa Pin-Up, Seretide and Evian Christ.

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Evian Christ | Boiler Room London: TranceParty

jafairy oasis is a nightclub in ibiza where the sunset is eternal a sea of glistening tan skin dance with the fog blowing on the silhouettes of palm trees, pass the corridors you enter on a raised floor to feel the pulsating bass of this oasis.  
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Tracklist:

aya - Leftenant Keith (Karlie's Up&Up intro edit)
Karlie Marx - Rebel Girl
Itty Bitty Boozy Woozy - Tempo Fiesta
Sophie - Cold World
PTU - Over
San-ju Ni - Orange Mécanique
Martyn Bootyspoon - Lickety Split
Inaya Day, HiFi Sean, DeVonde - The Redemption (Jordan Nocturne Remix)
Sage Introspekt - Furious Styles
Client_03 - Unity Candidate
Joker - Elastic Band
The Widdler - Candy Flipper
Conntex - More
Nick Jersey - Insider
PTU - Which Word is the Coldest
REVONose® – 3D Ultrasonic Feminization Rhinoplasty_vocals_(Split_by_LALAL.AI)
OD404 - 9 Bar (Nicky Rowland - Dark By Design Remix)
Plastician - Skeletor
Sophie - Infatuation (Lichtbogen Dreamin' Mix)
K Series - Greece 2000
Jaymie Silk - Loleatta Holloway  Crash goes love remix
BK - Bad Ass (James Lawson Remix)
Blame the Mono - Dump The Dealer (Original Mix)
Tempa T - Next Hype
Jacidorex - Love Parade
Jaymie Silk - Lil Wayne - A Milli (Jaymie Silk Rubmix)
SOPHIE - CUM TOOL
Artemesia - Bits And Pieces (OD404 Remix)
Wuki - Di Air
I. JORDAN - Round n Round (KAVARI Remix)
The Bug - Poison Dart
The Widdler - Wildcard
Lamont - Titanic (Midnight Jungle Edit)
New Frames - Obtainable
Neve - U O A I (Neve BOOTLEG)
Anastasia Kristensen - Cordyceps Disco (Wheez - ie Remix)
Princess Nokia - Tomboy (silkties. bootyleg)
Benjamin Damage - Whaa
RP Boo - Bang'n On King Dr.
Karlie Marx / Joy Division - INTERZONE REMIX
SOPHIE - Plunging asymptote loop 136
EL PLVYBXY - STOP BREATHING
SOPHIE - UNISIL
TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke x Lunice) - Higher Ground
D'TCH - Getting Down
Megan Thee Stallion - Captain Hook
Sully - Poison
Plus System - Rock Tha Beat
Isyti - Porcelain
Tinie Tempah - Simply Unspotabble - extended outro
Blood of Aza - ORIGNAL NUTTAH - Karlie Flip
Arca - Senorita
FKA Twigs - Papi Bones
Knife Party - Sleaze (ft.Mistajam)
Boys Noize - Rock the Bells

UNFOLD LXXXV - Steam Room Set

We're rewinding back to the beginning of summer again for our fifth installment from the booth. This time it's the one and only Total Freedom on the ones, twos, threes and fours. 

He took over from DJ Lag at 3am that night and was shelling out smoldering deep house and rave-ready, diva-dancehall anthems before flipping the script with a barrage of berserk and euphoric jungle explosives as the sun came up.

Maximum thanks to Ashland for letting us push this out and big love to Daniel "Physical Therapy" Fisher for his help in putting this night together back in June. 

Total Freedom will be back at ours hitting all the pleasure centers between 6am and 9am during our Nonstop Halloween party, which starts on October 26th.

Nowadays Live And Direct 005 - Total Freedom

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