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Joker – Resident Advisor podcast #962 2024-11-11

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“A dubstep legend roars back.

When dubstep ruled the roost in the late ’00s, electronic music had no shortage of icons and spinoff variants to rally around. But one rumble from Bristol stood out: the Purple sound. Popularised by Joker, AKA Liam Mclean, with Guido and Gemmy in support, it hit like a beam of bright light flooding through the basement dank.

When America cottoned onto bass quakes in the next decade, Mclean’s taste for chiptune-coded synths and maximum intensity kept his vision alive at arena level, even while he retreated from view as an actively touring performer.

In 2023, “Tears,” a collaboration with Skrillex and Sleepnet, helped remind the world just how much Joker’s juddering sound could put us in a headlock. True to form, this year’s gargantuan “Juggernaut”—Mclean’s first solo single in six years—crashes through the speakers with as much glorious crunch as earlier classics like 2009’s “Purple City.”

Mclean has kept busy in the studio applying his perfectionist streak as a producer and engineer to many sound system anthems, which means his influence is never far from a dance floor being turned inside out. The fact that Joker had never laid down an RA Podcast before was, being honest, a blemish in our copybook. RA.962 fixes that in style.”
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Rüfüs Du Sol – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX722 2024-11-14

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“”We’re getting better at what we do.” The Australian dance music trio discuss their longtime creative collaboration and their new album, Inhale / Exhale.
Australian electronic dance trio Rüfüs Du Sol—composed of the artists Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt—is synonymous with catchy, vocal-led bangers. They’ve received a huge amount of success in more commercial and underground scenes in the more than 10 years that they’ve been active. In fact, they hit it big from their very first release, Atlas, which peaked at #1 in the Australian charts when it came out in 2013. In the years that have elapsed since, they have won a Grammy Award (and multiple nominations) and sold out stadium shows around the world.
In this Exchange, they talk to RA editor Gabriel Szatan in a closed door interview recorded at San Francisco’s Portola Festival. The trio took a break from music-making for a period and even moved to different cities. Since they’ve reconvened, they’ve undertaken a number of measures to refine their inter-group communication, which has included wellness exercises, group therapy and breath work. They talk about this in some detail, as well as the realities of touring as they’ve gotten older and started having families. The time required to “fill their bucket” in between tours, as they say, is more critical than ever.
As an outfit that’s worked together for a long time, they also reveal the intricacies of their now well established creative process, such as how they create internal momentum in songwriting, and their newest album, Inhale / Exhale, which they will tour throughout 2025.”
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Polygonia – Resident Advisor podcast #955 2024-09-23

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“Living, breathing, banging techno from an artist defining the highly-textured new frontier of the sound in 2024.
Lindsey Wang, AKA Polygonia, has an amorphous style you could call organic—or, better yet, harmonious. She interweaves unfamiliar elements with a mercurial touch. Wang can make something completely otherworldly sound totally, well, natural. It’s made her a fixture everywhere from Munich’s BLITZ to major festivals like Sustain-Release and Draaimolen.
Unsurprisingly, Wang is not one to be pinned down. Be it the sound design-anchored side project Lyder, her own label QEONE, or co-producing an album’s worth of experimental percussion alongside jazz drummer Simon Popp, it’s fair to say her personal output matches the feverish energy of her mixes. There’s multidisciplinary, and then there’s Wang: Poly-disciplinary, you might say.
Wang’s entry into the RA Podcast series is no different, another stellar emphasis of her artistry. RA.955 is a voyage into wild variations of texture, rhythm and feeling, guided along by the principle of endless metamorphosis. Supple driving grooves meet crinkled surfaces, scuttling hi-hats meet chattering sonics, and good luck keeping hold of a consistent drum pattern for long. Behold a living organism raised by the club and the great outdoors in equal measure.”
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Bicep – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX722 2024-07-18

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“”We used to roll up socks in our shoes to give us an extra inch.” The childhood friends talk about coming of age in Belfast and their label and event series, CHROMA.
Bicep—the Irish duo Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar—have been winning over the hearts of fans with trance-inflected, melancholic dance music since 2009. In this interview with RA editor Gabriel Szatan, the childhood friends talk about how they got where they are, unpacking their creative process and the abiding musical influence of their hometown, Belfast, a city where emotional trance reigned supreme.
They also discuss their ongoing multidisciplinary project, CHROMA—a record label, event series and evolving live audiovisual show. Ferguson and McBriar say that the idea for CHROMA came from a sense that their DJ sets were becoming too “sugary,” so they buckled down with a renewed focus on creating dynamic new productions made specifically for the dance floor and their sets. The result is a string of hard-hitting EPs which you can find online now. ”
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LYDO – Resident Advisor podcast #947 2024-07-29

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“What does great techno sound like in 2024? Enter LYDO. This week’s RA Podcast captures @lydole in full flow, combining the old-school vernacular of European and North American techno—reduced rhythms, hi-hats and punchy 909s—with tracks from the new guard (Sev Dah, GiGi FM, D.Dan) sprinkled throughout.
After moving to New York in 2015, the Vietnamese-American sound artist and X-XTRA.SERVICES founder became one of BASEMENT’s first residents; the scene built around the revered Queens club has helped nurture their adventurous sound. Lately they’ve been making waves beyond North America, playing with the MARICAS crew in Barcelona and locking down slots at De School, Bassiani and Draaimolen.
RA.947 is the sound of artful hypnosis: it’s techno with elegance, depth and just the right amount of thump. Rig this up on a proper system, turn off the lights and any worries—about the genre’s direction of travel, or otherwise—might melt away.”
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Sofia Kourtesis – Resident Advisor podcast #943 2024-07-01

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“Pure energy from one of electronic music’s brightest lights: Sofia Kourtesis. Clamour had been building around the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist’s poignant brand of house music following a string of EPs and 12″s, culminating in last year’s Madres—a passionate, vulnerable and excellent album that resonated widely.
Madres packed in rare specificity for a dancefloor record, combining paeans to the power of sound with direct tributes to the neurosurgeon who saved the life of Kourtesis’ mother. (Kourtesis even took him clubbing in Berlin as an additional thank you.) The album’s earworm melodies, sparkling production and approachable aura made it a snap favourite, helping launch Kourtesis from bubbling to breakthrough on the global stage. In both sound and impact, it mirrors another record: Swim, the 2010 classic made by Kourtesis’ friend and mentor, Dan Snaith.”
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Man Power – Resident Advisor podcast #940 2024-06-10

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“Young partygoers might know Man Power, AKA Geoff Kirkwood, as the earnest geezer going back-to-back with DJs like Ewan McVicar, Paul Woolford, La La and Skream—peak-time specialists with a fine line in boofy bangers and ravey techno. Kirkwood is also a dab hand at the kind of elliptical house and deep cut detours favored by ’00s labels like DFA and Optimo.
In spite of a long track record as a producer and promoter, if you had to boil Kirkwood’s work in recent years down to a single quality, it might be altruism. He hails from North Shields, a small town fringing the boundary of Newcastle in England’s oft-neglected North East, and wears his heritage proudly. The Me Me Me label boss’s involvement in a flurry of civic restoration, and no-filter paeans to the importance of working class involvement in culture, have become as central to his life as music-making itself. For an accomplished DJ who has played at nearly every good club you could name, that’s no small feat.
So which side of Man Power were we in for? The answer on RA.940 is: both. ’60s free verse poetry, Zebra Katz, Gesaffelstein and John Carpenter in the opening stretch? Makes sense. Octave One punching through Rozalla? You got it. An extended Joe Claussell workout atop Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place”? Why not. In Kirkwood’s hands, it all goes down as smooth as a pint of Newcastle Brown.”
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T.Williams – Resident Advisor podcast #935 2024-05-06

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“This past February, Tesfa Williams released his debut album—over 20 years into his career. Raves Of Future Past distilled decades of experience on London dance floors into a potent and powerful blend of grime, house, rave and techno. Made with an Elektron Digitakt to imitate the rough textures of early ’00s UK dance music, the LP is an anachronistic history lesson that throws everything in a blender, imagining what gqom might sound like as an Eski track and giving new life to the short-lived “sublow” sound Williams helped invent with classic tracks like “Invasion,” released under his earlier alias DJ Dread D.
Since the sublow days, however, Williams has become a torchbearer for UK house music and African diasporic sounds like Afro house and gqom in London. He’s put out soulful hits like “Heartbeat”—recently reissued by Local Action—and released a steady stream of dance records for PMR and Strictly Rhythm. He’s what you might call a jack of all trades, except for that he’s actually a master of them all.
His RA Podcast charts his musical journey in reverse chronological order, starting with smooth, African-influenced sounds and winding through grime and dubstep, eventually landing at jungle. He threads a needle through diverse genres (and eras), and posits that the traditional UK hardcore continuum is a bigger spectrum than you might think, with gqom’s heave and amapiano’s log drum equally important in the musical equation. It’s nearly two hours of UK dance music past and present, from a DJ who has lived it all.”
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Simo Cell – Resident Advisor podcast #934 2024-04-29

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“Simon Aussel is known for a particularly wild DJing style and leftfield bassy bangers, and it’s his curious and playful approach to clubland that’s won him loyal fans over the years. Whether photographing drink tokens from gigs or creating an 8-bit version of his debut album on a Game Boy cartridge, he seems to approach every endeavour with childlike joy and wonder—rare qualities in an industry that can leave so many jaded.
The Nantes-born, Paris-based artist’s love of club culture, digging and world-building has set him on a blazing path in club music. He’s released an exceptionally wide range of music, including a Memphis rap tape for Trilogy Tapes, dubstep-trap-jazz hybrids with Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy and deadly hard drum for Livity Sound. His mixes, meanwhile, are fast becoming DJ lore thanks to his knack for connecting seemingly opposed genres like new wave and fast techno. Look no further than his now-infamous Dekmantel Selectors set from 2021 or a marathon back-to-back with Skee Mask in 2022. As the French DJ gets more comfortable with story-telling, he’s getting more personal and focusing on deeper, slower sounds. That’s evident on this RA Podcast—six months in the works—which incorporates woozy downtempo, weighty dub and bleepy beats. Of course, in the chaotic middle section there’s plenty of huge basslines, plus old-school electro, acidic techno and even a bouncy edit of the Montell Jordan classic “This Is How We Do It.” Showcasing his quirks, influences and growth, this is Simo Cell in prime time.”
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Setaoc Mass – Resident Advisor podcast #931 2024-04-08

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“Sam Coates took to techno like a diligent pupil, falling in love with the genre through labels like CLR in the late ’00s. It didn’t take long for the student to surpass his proverbial teachers. Almost immediately, the Manchester native was putting out pitch-perfect, functional techno records with everything intricately balanced. The requisite move to Berlin only sealed his fate as a future techno luminary, and by now, based in Kyiv, he’s one of techno’s most reliable, yet exciting, workhorses. Setaoc Mass records (and those on his label, SK_eleven) are minimalist but colossal, deceptively simple but not easy to pull off. We’ve praised him in these pages for his “sense of economy—how to get the hardest impact out of just a few elements,” and that’s the idea behind his RA Podcast as well. Put together from records old and new, and intricately layered, Coates’s mix is like a time-travelling wormhole connecting disparate eras from techno, and highlighting the genre’s most timeless attributes: mechanistic rhythms, careful pacing, rudimentary melodies made out of the strangest sounds and, of course, the power of the bass drop. It’s hard to imagine anything that sounds more capital-T techno than this mix, which is a high compliment. It’s easy to hear why his records and DJ sets are only more in demand from techno heads across the geographical and generational spectrum.”
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INVT – Resident Advisor podcast #930 2024-04-01

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“Most underground movements in the arts can be boiled down to one key ingredient: friends doing dope shit together. Childhood BFFs Luca Medici and Delbert Perez have been doing just that with INVT (that’s “innovate”), a multidisciplinary art project that spans club music and streetwear. Before exploding onto the international stage and playing to massive crowds in Ibiza and Tulum, the Miami natives built a solid community at home through electrifying DJ sets, releases and fashion. They might be globe-trotting artists now, going back-to-back with artists like Skream and playing Panorama Bar, but their raw DIY spirit stays strong.
Their tunes and live hardware shows fuse jungle, techno, East Coast club and dubstep—and lately, tech house and tribal house—with bass-heavy Latin genres like cumbia and guaracha. A reflection of Miami’s diverse demographics, their genre cross-pollinations bring together skaters, dancers, artists and various subcultures. Their clothing lines are equally cross-cultural: repurposed vintage items made from screen printing and acid washing, using photos and designs that represent their home city’s vibrant street culture. True to their grassroots ethos, everything’s done in-house, from mixing and mastering tracks to embroidery.
The next-gen duo’s ultra-rhythmic productions, characterised by deep, swinging drums and trippy textures, is delivered to the world at a rapid-fire pace, testament to Medici and Perez’s seemingly insatiable hunger. Their explosive career has helped bring fresh shine to Miami talents who feature heavily in their sets, including this RA Podcast. Featuring DJ Babatr, Coffintexts and plenty of their own unreleased heaters, INVT’s mix represents their friendships, community and Miami’s thrilling melting pot of dance music that they’re still a core part of even as they move across the globe.”
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Introspekt – Resident Advisor podcast #929 2024-03-25

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“Last year, when we wrote that “the best UK garage is coming out of Los Angeles,” we were talking about Introspekt. The US DJ, who has since moved to New York, really understands the genre—its appeal, swing and unique, bassy whomp. Listen to any of her tracks, like last year’s “Forlorn,” and you’ll hear someone who produces like she’s been making UKG all her life. This is probably partly because she comes from a dubstep background, but either way, if you’re looking for new UK garage beats, Introspekt is one of the best going right now.
Her DJing also hits a distinct sweet spot, zeroing in one of the proto-dubstep, dark UK garage days when producers like El-B were making the hottest shit around. Her sound is both retro and forward-looking, as you’ll hear on her RA Podcast, which balances vintage Big Apple cuts from Skream & Benga with new-school tunes from Amaliah and Surusinghe. It’s not so much a throwback as it is a rejuvenation of an old sound—a new way to look at it and a new way to make it. If hindsight is 20/20, then Introspekt has perfect vision, and mixes like this are the perfect way to educate listeners, make them move and innovate a little in the process.”
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Rick Wade – Resident Advisor podcast #923 2024-02-12

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“Detroit might be synonymous with techno, but it also has a rich house tradition. And Rick Wade—FKA Big Daddy Rick—is one of Detroit house’s key players. Along with the likes of Keith Worthy, Theo Parrish and the late Mike Huckaby (who Wade had a lifelong friendship and friendly rivalry with), he created a hybrid sound that is both techno and house, effortlessly soulful, sculpted and glowing—and Midwest to the core. As Tajh Morris said in a retrospective review of one of his classic records, “growing up in Buchanan, Michigan, meant that Wade was much closer to Chicago than he was to Detroit.”
Many of Wade’s best records were released on Harmonie Park, his era-defining label that also featured plenty of work from Huckaby. Those EPs still sound fresh and timeless today, qualities that extend to Wade’s RA Podcast, which features 90 minutes of smooth-as-butter house old and new. Over the years he’s kept the flame burning for the smouldering sounds of Detroit house, working in sounds from younger producers like Folamour along the way. Enjoy listening to a master at work.”
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Ariel Zetina – Resident Advisor podcast #919 2024-01-15

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“Ariel Zetina is as charming as she is talented—one of the many reasons she was named “Chicagoan of the Year for Pop Music” by the Chicago Tribune last month. A straight shooter with strong principles, her witty personality shines through on social media and in person. She radiates both best friend and boss energy.
Musically, she wears her heart on her sleeve, infusing her personality into her DJing and production. Her sets and mixes are adventurous, moving from hard to soft to playful with precision. From producing theatre shows and opening for Beyoncé to releasing her RA-recommended debut album on Local Action in 2022, the smartbar resident approaches each venture with meaning and depth. That LP explored the complex experience of being a Belizean trans woman, using fiery house and techno to express vulnerability and triumph. Ariel Zetina’s multifaceted personality is on full display in her RA podcast. There’s baile funk-infused techno, crisp drum & bass and plenty of tracks from queer producers from all sorts of scenes, including Michael Cignarale, StrikeStone! and Perfect Lovers. It’s a grand statement of power, flow and seriously good taste.”
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Soul Summit – Resident Advisor podcast #918 2024-01-08

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“Soul Summit is a New York institution. The DJ trio have been putting on a summer festival in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene park for well over a decade now, and those gatherings have become a yearly house music pilgrimage for fans from all over the Five Boroughs. The party embodies the ethos of house music: free for everyone, open to families both blood and chosen, a place where everyone is welcome to groove (or just relax) to uplifting, old-school dance music with inspiring lyrics and bumping basslines.
Sadiq Bellamy, Tabu and Jeff Mendoza have created something truly special, and more and more lately, they’ve been spreading their gospel outside the park, too. They’ve become residents at Nowadays, where this RA Podcast was recorded as part of a Mister Sunday party. It was also released as part of the Mister Saturday Night’s cassette box set to celebrate the party’s 15th birthday. This one features an hour of the cassette’s 90-minute runtime, plus an additional 20 minutes only available here. It captures this trio at their soulful best, letting vocal tracks play out long and leisurely with expert blends and gentle transitions. The feelings of warmth, love and welcome land with every kick drum and flow through every bassline.”
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