As part of RA2122, our ongoing celebration of 21 years of club culture, we'll be featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties or clubs most important to their lives in dance music. 

The first time we featured DJ Nobu on the RA Podcast, over ten years ago, we called him "one of Japan's best DJs." In hindsight, i think we can all agree that the country qualifier is no longer necessary: he's one of the world's best DJs, bar none. An absolute master at curating and mixing techno, Nobu has helped to inspire a Japanese school of techno that is psychedelic, hypnotic and often very pretty, without losing the genre's oomph or edge. And he's more popular than ever around the world, playing some of the best parties and clubs in pretty much any country or city you could name.

But DJ Nobu's roots and heart are close to home. Frustrated with techno in the Japanese capitol, he created his own party in his neighbouring hometown, Chiba, where nightlife was less pretentious and the vibe was a little looser. Future Terror quickly became known as one of Japan's premiere techno parties, and paved the way not only for Nobu himself, but many other Japanese DJs who Nobu and his later partner Haruka gave the chance to shine. The party also recently celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary with its first-ever party in London.

This mix is a direct tribute and encapsulation of Future Terror, what Nobu calls a "condensed story" of the series focusing on the more outré elements at the fore—an "awareness of techno" with plenty of more leftfield tracks thrown in. What follows might be a little gentler than you'd expect from Nobu, but it's all top-tier techno mixed with an expert hand.

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My first time representing Vintenove Bailes at @fyalcentral couldn't have been better, many familiar faces showed up there to support as well as many new faces were on venue. It was kinda long night with a total of 4 hours of set, from those I decided to record the last hour of this performance for you guys to listen 😬

The mix navigates between House and UK Garage to Dembow and Gqom, combining heavy bass lines and breaks with percussive elements and vocals taken from Latin music 🐍

Hope you all enjoy!

Leba @ Fyal Central - March 15th 23'

Our 3024 TAPES series is going from strength to strength! For 006 we are so, so pleased to have one of Bristol's premier contemporary bass masterminds on the buttons, please welcome Yushh!! 


3024: Please describe the mix in a single sentence ?

Yushh: A good level of nuts and emotions 

3024: What DJ inspires you at the moment / has inspired you throughout the years and why?

Yushh : Tom Boogizm has played some of my favourite sets over the past couple of years. Unexpected twists and turns but always huge vibes. I’m lucky in Bristol to be around people like Bruce and Batu who’ve always been inspiring to me as DJs - Love the way they carve out their sets in a unique and unpredictable way. I-sha is also a huge inspiration - her sets don’t even sound like dj sets more like a live - so considered and patient and incredible selections. 


3024: What are you working on / what have you got forthcoming?

Yushh : I’ve just finished up a few remixes which should be dropping pretty soon and hoping to finish up another EP and maybe even a mini album by the end of the year. Otherwise I'm looking forward to diving headfirst into festival season then heading to Asia and Auz later in the year for the first time which is crazy exciting.

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3024 TAPES 006 : Yushh

I’ve been sitting on this one for quite some time, as recently I moved in with my long time partner and been busy with apartment stuff: from painting walls to decorating every tiny corner, it is quite challenging at times yet we are so sooo happy to finally be living together  💗 and this mix kinda depicts this feeling. 

It was recorded on a sunny spring evening here at home and it ticks all the "Vintenove" boxes - heavy on subfrequencies, latin-inspired broken beats, punchy snares and leftfield drum programming. My focus this time was more on navigating through textures and sound ideas rather than creating something strictly club-oriented, so listen with headphones on - you won’t regret it!

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Courtroom Drama - June 21st 23'

@ccl-url blasted us all into space in their closing set atThe Grove on Saturday night.

Campout Mix Series: CCL

As the year was coming to an end and I wasn't as active as I would’ve liked in 2023, I wanted to record a new mix with tracks from my most recent research and some that I'd been saving for a while but hadn't had the occasion to play. Also, in the last few weeks I've felt the urge to work on my creativity, because I spent long period only doing totally monotonous things. So, my inactiveness on this profile and this urge for working out my creativity resulted in this mix 😮‍💨

This set is certainly one of the heaviest and fastest I've ever recorded (reaching 170 bpm 🫣) and it travels through the world of Bass Music, navigating between UK Bass, Leftfield Bass, Techno, Dembow, Drum n Bass and a few others. Tracklist is available on the last slide 😬

Set cover is a classic drawing from my dearest @mc.kunstkreis 🫶🏻

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 🥰

Tracklist available on ig: @le.ba_

Trippin' at Full Speed - Leba 17.12.2023

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@courtroomdrama & @lebadj

contact: vintenovebailes@gmail.com

Courtroom Drama - June 21st 23'

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