https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bjork-12th-january-2018

Björk 120118

No House No Gravity

** You can buy a cassette or digital download of the mix on our bandcamp**
https://erisdrew.bandcamp.com/album/raving-disco-breaks-vol-ii-rock-the-house

T4T LUV NRG is about to rock your stereo this spring with a sequel to the label’s first release “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. I” (2018). Eris Drew wanted to create a new sound for the second volume of her acclaimed mixtape series instead of simply retracing the pure disco vibes of the original. Setting her sights and intentions on creating a rock ‘n’ roll infected house mix, Eris worked on building crates for the last five years, finally reaching an inflection point—a moment of concrescence—when she was ready to put the needle on the records and let the beats flow. “Rock The House” was born, a concept for Volume II built from musical fragments, memories, and synchronicities. There are no classic Big Beat tunes on Volume II, instead Eris kicks out the jams for this mix with non-stop house and breaks cuts featuring plenty of rockin’ vocal vamps, as well as the likes of Janis Jopin, Joe Strummer, Ramones, and Led Zeppelin—all sampled, scratched and dropped along the way. Both sides of the mix include some of her most personally coveted recordings. To gather these records, Eris spent decades identifying tracks from older mix cassettes recorded by her DJ heroes, such as Terry Mullan and Mystic Bill, as well as discovering many of the featured tracks through happenstance and countless hours digging through dusty bins and YouTube rips. Each of the tracks on Volume II are at least 20 years old—some much older—but fresh is the word here, and the word is freeeesh!

Now, as the snow melts and the flowers of rave romance start to bloom, T4T wants to know one thing…Are U ready to rock right?

Eris Drew's Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II - Rock The House

Monthly transmissions from the other side. 

Robbie and Tony bring you joy, wonder & ephemera from the depths of their record collections to your home every month on NTS.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-avalanches/episodes/the-avalanches-15th-may-2024

The Recording Angel w/ The Avalanches & DJ Koze 150524

Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
HAAi - Biggest Mood Ever
Arushi Jain - Imagine An Orchestra
My Bloody Valentine - Soon ( Andrew Weatherall Mix)
Deee Lite - Vote Baby Vote
HAAi - WIP
Steffano Rittiri - Pocket Melody
Paradiddle - Drum Lesson Audio 
Edward - Lo Lo
Passion - In New York (CC Disco edit)
Lew E - Teardrop
James Holden -   Contains Multitudes
Roland Clark - The First Time
E Is For Ecstasy - Rave Documentary - Dialogue (1992)
Red Axes - Arpman
Nami Shimada  - Tokyo Refresh
Afrika Islam - Zulu Beats Radio Show 06/08/1983
Murder He Wrote - Tweet
Russell Haswell - Oblique Axis
Koreless - Seven
Atorm - Ich Bin Meine Machine
Atorm - Ich Bin Meine Machine (Boys Noize remix)
Veledrom - Capataz (Mella Dee edit)
HAAi x James Massiah - All The Falls Apart
Martin - Vancouver (Verraco remix)
Audiojack - Reverie
The Avalanches - Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Dragged By Leon Vynehall)
Anonymous Artists - UU010
Blawan - Weakening Force
Underworld - Second Hand
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Tacita Dean - The Green Ray - Dialogue (2001)
HAAi - Orca
Less Stress - Don't Dream It's Over

The Recording Angel on NTS - Episode 6 - The Avalanches B2B with HAAi - 07.08.24

Dub Athlete is a multi-genre artist based in Brighton. With her roots in dub and dubstep, you can hear an affinity for the minimal, psychedelic and heavyweight in her selections which span from introspective ambience to hypnotic and tribal techno, deep dubstep and dark jungle. She is a resident DJ for The Mine, and since 2019 has organised the Fortune Sessions, platforming underground dance music genres and talented local DJs. Available on SoundCloud & Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

ITPS109 DUB ATHLETE

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

Ricki Lee Jones - A Conversation
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Vegyn - A Dream Goes On Forever
College - Can You Kiss Me First
Siriusmo - Nights Off
Vegyn - 4 Year Break
Ricki Lee Jones - A Conversation Pt 2
Stereolab - Come And Play In The Milky Night
Untitled - Untitled    
Doris - Jerk
Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt - Lucre
Sonic Youth - Superstar
Vegyn - Mystery or Misery
Red House Painters - Medicine Bottle
Portraits Of Tracy - WIP
Akira Yamaoka - The Day of Night
Untitled - Untitled    
Cinamon Chasers - Luv Deluxe
Headache - The Beginning of the End
Lauren Duffus - N.U.M.T.E
Lykke Li feat. NATURE - TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH
Leyla Ebrahimi - U Can Keep The Fire

The Recording Angel on NTS - Episode 11 - Vegyn x The Avalanches - 12.03.25

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

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