This month we focus on Amorphic, which is Vince Watson's new Techno alias launching Spring 2022.

With releases forthcoming on Modularz, Symbolism and Token as well as the self-titled Amorphic label, its off to a great start.

This is a 2 hour DJ mix. Tracklisting below :

01 Pyramidal Decode - Lithium
02 Elipticum - Pulsar
03 Amorphic - A62 (unreleased)
04 Mal Hombre - Solar Ascension
05 Augusto Taito - Interdimensional Deja Vu
06 Hektor Legion - Misconduct
07 TWR72 - Quiet
08 Luke Slater - O-Ton Reassembled 7
09 Oxygeno - Time Is Running Out (Lakej Remix)
10 Temudo - Always Does Until It Doesnt
11 Skjold - Oberon
12 Korben Nice - Dazzle
13 Conceptual - Space
14 Sciahri - Black Mamba
15 ASEC - Small Collisions (Kwartz Remix)
16 Kølpøs - Hirise
17 Unknown Artist - Acid Rain
18 Hattori Hanzo - Different Voltage
19 MIlo Read - Mood Swings
20 Energun - Deadtroit part 1 (Wunderblock Remix)
21 Exos - Time To Time
22 Monobox - Forwardbase Kodai (øPhase Remix)
23 Amorphic - A8 (Unreleased)
24 Alexander Johansson - Polymorphism 8
25 Amorphic - A25 (Unreleased)
26 Insolate - Super Bloom
27 Amorphic A1
28 Lars Huismann - Aquilla
29 Amorphic - A68 (Unreleased)
30 Red Rooms - Sunbeams
31 Amorphic - A36b (Unreleased)
32 Insolate - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
33 Amorphic - A41
34 Rebecca Delle Piane - Possessive Woman
35 Lars Huismann - Hydra
36 DJ Dextro - Fact 3
37 A.Paul & Temudo - The Demon Ted Pikul
38 Norbak - His Faith Will Be Our Defeat
39 Amorphic - A69 (Unreleased)
40 Jonas Kopp - Afraid Of us
41 Crøwn - Molecules (Ash Remix)
42 Lakej & Oxygeno - Dimensional Transmutation
43 Moddullar - Carbon
44 Norbak & Conceptual - Hindrance
45 Endplate - Dendrite
46 Amorphic A53 (Unreleased)
47 Amorphic A53 [Acidrone] (Unreleased)

This podcast is hosted by Syndicast.

Radio Drama 39 | Amorphic

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. 

It's safe to say that there would be no house music, and no dance music as we know it, without François Kevorkian. The French-born, New York-based DJ started remixing disco records in the late-'70s when he was in his early 20s and became a pioneer of the form alongside names like Larry Levan, Tom Moulton and Walter Gibbons. And though he would become a house icon, he became especially known for the trippy "dub" mixes on the B-sides of records, which often eschewed the structure and vocals of the songs he was remixing in favour of excursions into the unknown.

It's that legacy that led him to Deep Space, his Monday-night residency at the once-legendary Meatpacking District club Cielo, which was one of the most beloved (and best-sounding) rooms in Manhattan. Deep Space started at 2003 and ran weekly for 15 years, eventually moving to Output in Brooklyn. The idea was to explore "dub" in all its forms, and to play all kinds of music while manipulating it in real time. The slogan was "Live On The Mixing Board."

At Deep Space you would hear all kinds of music. Dub, reggae, dub techno, drum & bass—and later on, as you''ll hear in this mix, dubstep—sure, but also disco, R&B, funk, old-school house. All music was dub in Kevorkian''s hands, and over the years Deep Space became one of the most renowned and consistent parties in New York, a place of refuge and discovery every single Monday (and, eventually, Sunday). This four-hour recording allows you to almost experience what it was like to be in that room—you can even hear the crowd whooping and cheering—as Kevorkian journeys through ultra-deep techno, dubstep and a string of funky disco and post-disco tracks. It''s a sound all his own, and though it was recorded 13 years ago, still sounds full of possibility and potential. Like the future.

@fknyc

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/854

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RA.854 François K

"Live improvised hardware connects so directly to the fundamental rawness of electronic music." UK techno lynchpin Surgeon reflects on his connection to machines and making music on the fly.

Surgeon, also known as Anthony Child, has been one of techno's most influential and consistently brilliant artists since the mid-'90s. For the last decade, he has spent most of his creative resources on developing his abilities as a live performer, in his usual techno environment as well as more abstract settings. As Child reinforces in this live Dekmantel Exchange with Aaron Coultate, his live performance practice is at the heart of his creativity. "There was literally one day I woke up and realized that having the computer—DJing, as it were—was getting in the way of taking this form of performing further," he says. "That was determining the structure of what I was doing. And to be truly freeform and improvisational I had to be free of this imposed structure."

This archived conversation comes on the heels of Surgeon's most recent LP, Crash Recoil, which RA music critic Kiana Mickles hailed as "one of his best albums ever." To get an inside look into this risk taking artist's production process and approach to dance floor composition, listen to the episode in full.

EX.655 Surgeon Talks Live Performance and Improvisation

D.I.Y. Nottingham / Traveller scene '89-92 inspired mix with due respect to the original masters Jack, Digs and Woosh. I could never do them justice for their skill and commitment, but in my own digital way this is created with deep gratitude to them.

Jalamix  #1.m4a

Wow!!! Now this was 1 special night @ Club Firestone with my brother Carl Craig. He played the night before on our radio show on 91.5 FM WPRK. Then we hit IHOP for breakfast & got into a very deep conversation that lasted til thee break of dawn.
Not only is Carl an amazing artist/DJ/Producer/Remixer but a super person & down to earth. Love my brother!!
Speaking of love, You will love this live mixtape of my brother'z set.

FOLLOW ME @ www.instagram.com/djmtraxxx & stay on top of my podcast & mix tapez I post. Trust, you will want 2 stay locked... I haven't even dug deep enough in my tape collection 2 digitize & share with tha world.

Enjoy,

Manny Cuevas
aka
DJ M-Traxxx
aka
Professor Jack Trax

Psalms 150=Thee Ultimate Party!!!

Carl Craig Live @ Club Firestone - Orlando,FL 10-7-1995' (Manny'z Tapez)

Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and now their own dedicated imprint, Eaux, Rrose steps in the series with a bonkers mix of dusty techno hustle-and-bustle, neatly alternating sequences of pumping 4x4 aerobatics, searing, noise-adjacent outbursts and eerie melodies to hypnotic effect. A constant balancing act of raw power and haunting score, Rrose’s RYC mix takes us on a deep and fascinating trip into genre-unbound territories, where only abandon and wildness reign supreme. Happy EOY celebrations, y’all! See you in 2024. 

soundcloud.com/rrose1921

01. Free Free Palestine! (chant)
02. Habits of Hate - Limelight Roles - Electronic Explorations
03. Ø [Phase] - module overload pt 1 - Cosmic
04. Regis - Cold Water - Downwards
05. Wata Igarashi - Haziest Just Before The Dawn (Svreca Remix1) - Bitta
06. Ma Sha - Are They Back - CEE
07. JK Flesh - Empty Words (Rrose remix) - KR3 (upcoming)
08. Metapattern - Assimilation - Mord
09. RS Tangent - Bovine Overbite - Trilogy Tapes
10. Bookworms - Bluephoria
11. CAIV - Shamanfreude - Tresor
12. Dj Deeon - Off - Dance Mania
13. Nikos - Metaturnal - Flippen Disks
14. Priori & Al Wootton - Leniency - Trule
15. Mad Zach - Tunnel Snare
16. CAIV - Ötzi - Tresor
17. Bias - Rest Energy - Diffuse Reality
18. Conceptual - 200 camels and a hot desert - Conceptual
19. Quelza - My Eyes Are Closed - Newrhythmic
20. Altinbas - Spoken Word - Token
21. WTCHCRFT - Shake It (Nikki Nair’s Shook Mix)
22. Azu Tiwaline - Blowing Flow - IOT
23. Rrose vs Octo Octa - unreleased
24. Rrose vs Speedy J - unreleased
25. Carrier - Fathom - Felt
26. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
27. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
28. Pocopo - Segre - AEDI
29. Tsimtsum - Konvoi
30. A4 - Optical Device - Faut Section
31. Mad Zach - Strangeloop
32. Skee mask - Cylo - Ilian Tape
33. Bas Dobbelaer - HSS-01 - Trule
34. Fergus Sweetland - Gangalang - Illegal Alien
35. Trolley Route - A Transcendence Of The Individual - Semantica
36. Al Wootton - Russell - Trule
37. Ruman - Three Butts Are Enough - Warm Up
38. Notzing - Molniya - Warm Up
39. Maurizio - Eleye - M1
40. Ladan - Knives - Sublunar
41. Potter Natalizia Zen / PNZ -  Magari - Ecstatic
42. Tony Conrad - Four Violins (Table of the Elements, 1964)
43. Cheryl E. Leonard - Frozen Over

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose

Rrose | Boiler Room: Mumbai

The vaunted techno producer discusses the connections between visual art and music, balancing a full-time career as a fine artist and how he creates his signature sound.

There's a connection between visual art and dance music that's seldom explored on our channels. Mike Parker is well known in the underground techno scene for minimal, hypnotic and beautifully executed sound design that sits somewhere at the edges of club music. But he also received his master's degree in fine art and teaches drawing and painting at Daemon University in Buffalo, New York. Fans of Parker will recognise his visual trademark: monochromatic prints that adorn the covers of the records he puts out on his label, Geophone.

In this RA Exchange, Parker sits down with Chloe Lula to talk about how he balances his art- and music-making practices and how they inform each other. He also opens up about the long process of sticking to his sound and finding an audience rather than catering to the demands and suggestions of labels and distributors. His 2001 breakout album, Dispatches—which he reissued last year—is a meditation on the act of living far away from any listeners or immediate influences, and he discusses the ongoing drawbacks and rewards of balancing the Eurocentric pursuit of DJing with day-to-day work that's so geographically removed. He also opens up about his longtime collaboration with Donato Dozzy, his love of mid-20th-century sci-fi movies and how free-form radio shaped his approach to music and art. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.761 Mike Parker

We linked up with the king, Donato Dozzy, at the iconic Brancaleone club in his hometown in Rome for a 5-hour set.

Donato Dozzy | Boiler Room: Rome

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

Snippet of an upcoming track, mostly done on the Elektron Analog Four with some added spice from Ableton's Dub Machines device.

Sublimation

Mike Hall aka Wave Funktion is a Bristol based music producer and DJ. As a teen growing up in Liverpool during the late '80s and '90s, the emerging UK rave scene kicked off a lifelong passion in House and Techno. After relocating to Bristol and becoming a serious vinyl addict he began DJing at many underground nights around the city. Dabbling in music production through borrowing friends' studios and synths led to him eventually setting up a small home studio and getting heavily into sound design and electronic music production.