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Cardopusher – Resident Advisor podcast #867 2023-01-16

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“Name a genre, and you can bet that Luis Garban has tried his hand at it once or twice. Once a staple of the mid-’00s IDM and breakcore scene—think Tigerbeat6—as Cardopusher, Garban found a temporary home in the dubstep scene afterwards, before shooting off in what felt like a million directions. He might be the only artist to release on both Hyperdub and Boysnoize Records. He makes music that can sound like the future or the past, sometimes both at once, and the Venezuelan-born, Spain-based producer’s name is shorthand for musical adventurism and variety.
Last year, things got even wilder with the debut of Safety Trance, a new alias that explores pan-Latin club music, with a focus on collaboration and shorter, structured songs. (Artists he’s worked with include Arca, Iceboy Violet and Virgen Maria.) It’s some of the best and most creative work of his career, riding a larger Latin techno wave producing some of the best music around these days.
If that weren’t enough, returning to Cardopusher, Garban has a career-best EP on the way for EVAR Records, pulling together the various strands of the project into a multi-genre, Gen-Z-friendly raveathon. Loaded with original tracks from both projects, RA Podcast could be billed as Cardopusher vs. Safety Trance, with highlights coming from Atari Teenage Riot, VTSS and Venetian Snares, which should give you an idea for the kind of controlled chaos you’re in for with this one.”
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Dam Swindle – Resident Advisor podcast #866 2023-01-09

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“Roughly ten years ago—if we pretend the peak pandemic year-and-a-half doesn’t count—Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets first came together as Detroit Swindle, before changing their name to Dam Swindle towards the end of 2020. The original name was meant as a tribute to one of their favorite musical legacies, but recognizing that it didn’t come across how they meant it, the duo changed their name to pay homage to their other favourite place: Amsterdam. Dales and Smeets have become core parts of the Amsterdam house scene in their time, especially with their excellent Heist Recordings label, which they started back in 2013 (hey, now *that’s* literally ten years ago). It’s easy to understand why the duo have become so popular. In person and onstage, they’re goofy, funny guys, the kind of people you might describe as the life of the party. And musically, they’re massively appealing, marrying a European tech house strut to deeper and more soulful inspirations, a preoccupation reflected in Heist’s impressive artist roster: Ge-Ology, Demuir, Byron The Aquarius, Matthew Herbert and more. Their RA Podcast comes at a time of reflection and change, looking back on the decade-plus history of both act and label and plotting their new album, which they say will expand their horizons even more. The mix is eclectic but smooth, pulling together tracks from the likes of Omar-S, Lil Silva, Ruf Dug and Genius Of Time (with one of last year’s most underrated tracks). It’s always a treat to hear consummate club DJs in a more relaxed mode, and this one’s no exception.”
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Anetha – Resident Advisor podcast #865 2023-01-02

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“When it comes to the sound of modern-day techno—fast, melodic and polyglot, working in genres like trance and gabber—it’s hard to find an artist more clearly representative than Anetha. The French DJ encompasses all these influences with style, landing on a lithe sound that’s both heavy and nimble, earning her a first residency at Paris party Blocaus (and, currently, Awakenings and Fuse, among others) and appearances on labels like Work Them and Oaks.
What really sets Anetha apart, though, is her commitment to developing and uplifting the artists around her. She launched her own label, Mama Told Ya, in 2019 with a unique and heartwarming concept: each release would highlight an artist, often young or new to the game, and feature one collaboration with Anetha herself. It’s a move that turns the usual label-artist dynamic on its head, making each new record a fully-fledged collaboration, and lending her own gravitas to the artist she features. And a year later she started an agency—or what she calls a “creative engine”—to help those artists in a more holistic way.
Her RA Podcast is a perfect way to start 2023: with energy and verve, and a perfect balance of light and dark. This is techno at its most creative, dark and discombobulated beats cut through with glowing vocal samples from some of the most recognizable songs of the past five years. If you wanted to explain to someone what techno sounds like in 2023, you’d do well to start here.”
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Skee Mask – Resident Advisor podcast #864 2022-12-26

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“Skee Mask is one of dance music’s greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. (“Loved seeing this on r/indieheads,” said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It’s not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.
On the decks, it’s kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there’s an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It’s a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask’s best records, it’s something to enjoy in any number of settings.”
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Earth Trax – Resident Advisor podcast #863 2022-12-19

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“Melancholy dance floor moments and gorgeous ambient.
You might have first heard of Earth Trax under his original alias, The Phantom. Or maybe his given name, Bartosz Kruczynski, which he uses for gorgeous ambient music. Or Pejzaz, where he cuts up Polish records from his vast collection. Or as part of Ptaki, another sample-based project he did with fellow Warsaw resident Jaromir Kaminski. You get the idea—dude makes a lot of music. And a lot of it is very good. Earth Trax is the project that really made us swoon, with a soft-focus, sunset-hued meld of techno, breakbeat, progressive house and trance.”
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Skream – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX633 2022-11-03

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“The dubstep pioneer talks fatherhood, reinvention and Skreamizm.
“Everyone knows I’m a lively character, I like the party.” Oliver ‘Skream’ Jones is attempting to explain his stamina over a near two decade-long career and true to his unpretentious personality, he makes it sound easy. The 36 year-old has been making music since the age of 15 and despite being a busy father, this unfiltered conversation at RA’s London headquarters confirms that his love for the dance is as strong as ever.
Discussing his childhood, Dubstep Forum and finding confidence through music, the dubstep legend reveals how his social skills, born from childhood visits to the pub with his father, gave him his first record store job. “My musical taste is all over the place, my range is broad,” he says. That includes pop, a style that he likes for its collaborative songwriting process.
Skream’s endurance in an industry that’s synonymous with burnout is remarkable but he simply attributes it to pure instinct. “When something feels right, I do it. I don’t see it as change, I see it as a natural feeling.” That’s why he made the decision years ago to focus on house and techno instead of dubstep, a sound that he transformed from dark and slow to ravey. “I play for myself but that’s what my fanbase has grown to love.”
That intuition also applies to his productions. “I’ve got to a point where I know what I want to hear and make it happen. That comes from doing the same thing for a long time.” In the studio, he says he listens to a track repeatedly “and if it ever gets boring” or doesn’t bring “a certain feeling,” then he knows it’s not ready.
To hear about his approach to remixes, his parenting style and what he has in the pipeline, listen to the conversation in full.”

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OSSX – Resident Advisor podcast #838 2022-06-27

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“East Coast club music in all its glory.”
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Juliana Huxtable – Resident Advisor podcast #803 2021-10-25

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“Forward-thinking techno played by a master of the CDJs.
“If I were to just sit there while the track plays for two minutes I would lose my mind,” Juliana Huxtable told Resident Advisor last year. If you were to sum up her DJing style in one sentence, that might be close to it. The American DJ is one of the most dynamic, creative and innovative jockeys going, and her skills on the CDJs equal Total Freedom or Karizma. She’s one of those DJs who likes to use every piece of technology and function that the CDJs offer, as she explains in the interview below.
But it’s not just a matter of using bells and whistles, either. Huxtable organizes and hears things by tone, atmosphere and, of course, key—she can mix together things that should make no sense on paper, she can stop and start in the strangest of places, or drastically change the tempo on a dime. Her approach is all about tactility, from the feeling of the music, and the way it changes and shifts over her sets, to the feel of the CDJs themselves.
Huxtable’s RA Podcast catches her in peak-time form, inspired by a set she played in Berlin and then tried to recreate. It’s techno with a twist, plowing through tracks from Special Request, Ploy, Hodge and even Coyu, with the kind of aggressive but stylish mixing style we’ve come to expect from Huxtable. Oh, and that stretch through SHYBOI and Jasmine Infiniti through to DJ Seinfeld and Tygapaw in the middle? Divine.”
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UNIIQU3 – Resident Advisor podcast #800 2021-09-13

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“On our 800th RA Podcast, New Jersey’s club queen spreads the East Coast club gospel.”
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DJ Pitch – Resident Advisor podcast #797 2021-09-13

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“Club bangers of all stripes.
The many hats of Robert Venning, the London-based artist better known as DJ Pitch, include DJ, producer, label manager, A&R and promoter. (He’s also on his way to becoming a qualified architect.) But what really drives him is building communities through music, being the glue between people with shared tastes and talents. His labels TT and All Centre—which he co-runs with Gribs and Simkin respectively—are home to spellbinding records by a network of like-minded artists, many of whom had never released music before. Venning relishes giving people a chance. In this era of fractured online existence and rampant individualism, his humble, behind-the-scenes approach is exactly what the scene needs.
On RA.797, Venning steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight. This two-hour mix—twice as long as his usual club sets—is DJ Pitch turned up to 11, with classics and cheeky edits alongside a wealth of music, some of it unreleased, by the artists in his orbit. There’s also new music of his own, including the world premiere of a UK garage remix of “Seven Nation Army.” Does he pull it off? Dive in and find out.”
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MARRØN – Resident Advisor podcast #786 2021-06-28

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“Vital techno from Amsterdam.
MARRØN is the kind of DJ we love to feature in this mix series: someone who holds down their local scene week in and week out, someone who makes a difference. As a cofounder of the day-into-night Sunday Eerste Communie party, the Amsterdam-based DJ has been essential in providing a safe space for all kinds of people to enjoy techno—a self-described “holy day” away from the city’s usual nightlife hotspots, taking place at the intimate Garage Noord on the city’s North side. The party describes itself as a “judgmental free atmosphere,” and MARRØN himself has said that it’s all about “the purest form of techno,” which gives you a good idea of what his parties, and his sets, sound like.
The other thing that MARRØN emphasizes about his parties is sound quality (you’ll see this mentioned in almost every interview he does, and every Eerste Communie event listing). It’s partly because the style of techno he plays is detailed, glimmering and sleek, the kind where every nuance is meant to be felt and heard, not just pummeling you on the dance floor. He plays the kind of techno where melodic leads scurry across the stereo spectrum, where flashes of melody and colour light up an otherwise greyscale landscape. It’s techno that never sits still, groovy but adventurous, alive and dynamic, the kind of techno that encourages you to keep dancing with every new shift or new synth chord. He speaks often about “consistency,” and while his sets are steady-handed and smooth, it’s the moments where things flicker and change that are the most exciting.
“To me, this uptempo, rhythmic style of techno is a style that’s timeless,” he said in an interview with Glamcult.”Music that can be played in the afternoon or as a closing slot without getting bored of it.””
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Endgame – Resident Advisor podcast #775 2021-04-12

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“Heart-on-sleeve club music.
Along with the wave of explosive, experimental club music that crested over the dance music world in the middle of the last decade came a sleeker, subtler, more emotional vibe. Starting with his breakthrough Savage EP in 2016—on the important and sometimes overlooked PTP label—Endgame smoothed out the grime-influenced sound of the day into lusher reggaeton-influenced beats. On the following Flesh EP for Hyperdub, he collaborated with Organ Tapes, whose emo-influenced vocals predicted the sound of a whole new sector of dance music, where club took a singer-songwriterly approach and later merged with what would become known as hyperpop.
On his new album, Surrender, Endgame takes the mic himself for the first time, hanging around in the studio after a vocalist had left the session. It’s a dark, interior album inspired by loss and grief, turning his usually buoyant sound inside out. This is dance music that isn’t afraid to bare the darkest corners of its soul. It’s illuminating, heart-rending and very often funky, sketching a sound he outlines on this RA Podcast.
Featuring tracks from crucial artists like Lauren Duffus, Hyph11e, quest?onmarc, Akash and Debby Friday, Endgame’s mix makes today’s club music feel limitless in its scope and vision. It starts with woozy bedroom pop, goes through hip-hop, ballroom and techno, Latin American club music, gqom, you name it. Though Endgame’s productions are top-notch, the diversity and consistency of this mix suggests they’re only half the story. This is top-tier DJing that showcases the sound of today’s club music, wrought with all the heavy emotion and feeling of the pandemic years.”
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Danny L Harle – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX552 2021-04-01

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“The PC Music alumnus talks Harlecore, his debut album for Mad Decent.
Danny L Harle was a foundational figure in the early days of the label PC Music, collaborating with imprint founder A.G. Cook as Dux Content and emerging as a promising artist in his own right with 2013’s breakout single “Broken Flowers.” By 2016 he’d worked with vocalists Caroline Polachek and Carly Rae Jepson on follow-up PC Music singles “Super Natural” and “Ashes of Love.” He went on to produce Polachek’s album Pang and earned high-profile credits for the likes of Charlie XCX and Nile Rodgers. Last month he released his debut album Harlecore on Mad Decent, presenting a rave-focused sound via four different DJ personas in an online club environment.
On the Exchange we hear the story behind the construction of Harle’s virtual world, the record shop manager who inspired his musical taste, and his respect for the supercharged genre of Mákina. ”

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Laurine – Resident Advisor podcast #773 2021-03-28

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“Smooth, eclectic house from the Slow Life DJ.
Slow Life, the crew and label cofounded by Laurine, embody a certain kind of cool, calm and collectedness in dance music. It’s right there in the name. They take their time with everything: refining their craft, releasing their music at a steady rate of around four records per year. Their sound is also easygoing, and incredibly appealing. Think ’90s techno at its most exploratory, with traces of trance, dream house and illbient. It’s warm and fuzzy dance music, with musicality and soul.
As a DJ, the Berlin-based Italian Laurine embodies this approach. Her DJing is almost impossibly smooth, and the records she plays timeless, drawn from the same silky, rarefied atmosphere as the Slow Life records. You could probably hear any of her sets blind and realize who was DJing three or four records in—that’s how distinctive her style is. This RA Podcast is no difference, splitting the difference between head-in-the-clouds house and tough, jacking beats with organ basslines. It’s a heavenly hour of DJing that might sound extra nice because of the break forced by the pandemic—Laurine says that it helped her fall in love with spinning records all over again. She wants to get back to it soon, but naturally, she’s not in a rush. She’s blessed us with this mix, and that’s good enough for now.”
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Carl Cox – Resident Advisor podcast #768 2021-02-22

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“The dance music titan delivers a rare live set.
Since the early ’90s, Carl Cox has been the biggest DJ in dance music, an artist whose success and longevity remains unrivalled. He’s a brand, a logo, a catchphrase, helming perennial world tours and record-breaking Ibiza residencies. But underpinning this great machine is something much more simple: a man with an undying passion for playing records. Most house and techno fans have at some point gazed up at Cox’s gap-toothed grin from the dance floor. Or chuckled along to his silly patter on the mic. For more than three decades, he has embodied the joy of raving.
So what does the king of the rave do in a pandemic? Since his US tour was interrupted last spring, Cox has been at home on his farm in Melbourne, broadcasting weekly streams from his studio, El Rancho, and finally tending to some long-neglected projects. One of these was putting together a live show, which he has done only once before, back in the early ’90s. Framed by a wall of vinyl and surrounded by hardware, Cox recorded RA.768 at El Rancho earlier this month. ”
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