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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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RA.855 DJ Nobu

Psychedelic, percussive techno recorded live at Rural Festival in Japan. 

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For the past decade, Japanese/British DJ Elli Arakawa has been a permanent fixture at most of the big name parties and festivals taking place on Japanese soil. To name a few: Future Terror, Mind Games, Rainbow Disco Club, Fuji Rock and even her own creations hosted at several venues Tokyo-wide. She’s also brandished her talents across the European continent and found a growing following there. Her body of work is fully consistent with that of her fellow compatriots, the brooding and hypogeal depths that spring to mind when one thinks of the current state of techno in Japan, though like many of her peers, she has diligently moulded her own interpretation of that sound. These seductive basslines fill the air and swarm anyone who dares cross their brazen path, this is techno delivered at full tilt. Bassiani Podcast 189 is a powerful call to dance, ambient beginnings morph into their fearsome final form in this highly charged and evocative studio mix. Striking and immersive rhythms from the void.

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Mari Sakurai at WOMB Tokyo 18th October 2024

Steffi (NL) @steffi_official
Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 25
Métropolis 2 on August 24, 2024
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Steffi presents a specially commissioned live performance for MUTEK that reflects her decades of experience and relentless innovation in electronic music. With a career highlighted by her residency at Berghain and the creation of influential labels such as Klakson and Dolly, she continues to reinvent her music. This rare live set recording is a chance to experience the essence of her ever evolving sound.

MUTEKLIVE353 - Steffi (live)

Final mix of January comes courtesy of Chicago-born, Washington DC-based one and only Juana. Championing a sound both highly energetic and firmly contemporary, the American DJ and producer has us working out with every bar. From strapping 4x4 charges to gut-churning brain intruders, onto experimental-leaning glides and further esoteric drifts, Juana’s dance floor hoodoo is as bewitching as it is deadly. Spanning harsh industrial, rough-hewn proto-techno and lo-slung machine funk, her RYC mix ticks all the boxes of a grade-A puzzler, eyes constantly set on that next killer loop that’ll get the crowd veering off into pure XTC.

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Reclaim Your City 628 | Juana

Having made a name for himself through a string of choice releases for the likes of Nous’klaer and Delsin, Dutch producer Konduku has been turning heads with his ever innovative take on the techno medium. Pushing for new directions, Konduku’s been laying down intriguing blends of dubbed-out, Afro-infused grooves and plural strains of abstract-leaning, breaks-friendly hybrids. The present mix showcases the breadth of his influences and essential components, extrapolating techno’s genre-transcending nature through a fine mix of heavily verbed-out electronics and shape-shifting buildup, never quite going where you’d expect it, rather seeking the excitement of suspenseful arcs and unsuspected developments. Bold as it should.

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Reclaim Your City 635 | Konduku

Very subtle, more meaning in the rhythm. Feel the groove in your body.

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"This is a live recording of my DJ/Live hybrid set from “Phc meets Celebrate 10 years of Semantica Records” event at Troopcafe in Kobe, Japan on March 5th, 2016.  It was a 90min set before Svreca" ~ @wata 

He's been a skate-punk, a jazz-head and a commercial composer, Wata Igarashi is fast becoming one of Japan's top techno artists.
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Wata Igarashi - 429 - Electronic Explorations

Rich, psychedelic techno.

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Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=617

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