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Tiga – Resident Advisor podcast #494 2015-11-16

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“Every time he looks into your eyes he sees the future.
It’s almost crazy to consider that, 15 years on, the “Sunglasses At Night” guy is still charming us in much the same way. On his 2001 cover of the Corey Hart track of the same name, Tiga Sontag outlined a fun, electro-soaked vision of club music that defines his successes and appeal to this today. Then again, who else in dance music is using humour so stylishly? Who else makes pop tracks but gets a pass from the underground? Who else so successfully skirts this line in their DJ sets? And who else shoots videos like this?”
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Herodot – Resident Advisor podcast #493 2015-11-09

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“Subtle sounds from one of Romania’s finest.
When many people think of Romanian house music, three DJs immediately come to mind: Rhadoo, Raresh and Petre Inspirescu. Look a little deeper, though, and you’ll find a vast undercurrent of highly skilled selectors, many without much recognition outside fans of the country’s subtle minimalist sound. These DJs play most of their gigs in Romania, only occasionally venturing abroad for dates outside their home country. They play (and often make) music at a very high standard, their output defined by intricate, groove-led tracks built for long DJ sets and crystal-clear soundsystems
Herodot is one such artist. Co-founder of the Unanim label with Piticu, he’s been a respected DJ in Bucharest, his home town, for the past decade, playing frequently in clubs around the city both as a warm up DJ and occasional headliner. Like many of his countrymen, his style is loopy and restrained, shaped by long spells behind the decks and frequent appearances at afterhour events. This week’s podcast is a window into the thriving scene Herodot has emerged from. Percussion shuffles, basslines ebb and flow, but the groove stays steady. It’s music to get lost in.”
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Benjamin Damage – Resident Advisor podcast #492 2015-11-02

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“The 50Weapons man soundtracks the label’s funeral.
With 50Weapons closing shop this year, it’s been a time to reflect on the legacy Modeselektor’s label will leave behind. Benjamin Damage is a key part of that conversation. The Welsh-born Berliner has been there since the beginning—as the first artist signed to 50Weapons, his evolution through techno has been fully documented by the label’s catalog. After a few records of the heavy stuff (and a killer Doc Daneeka collaboration), Damage began to soften and brighten the burly edges, a sound that fully came together on 2013’s Heliosphere. This debut album, informed by ’90s IDM and ambient, tapped into some of the lushest euphoria techno could offer, but also featured outright bangers like “010x” and “Delirium Tremens.” Two years later, Damage’s Obsidian LP continued to explore that space and uncover strange treasures. It was both an excellent release and the ideal final album for 50Weapons. After five years of involvement, Damage seems to encapsulate what the label stood for: heavy beats, flawless production and wide-ranging influences.
Which is also what you get from his RA podcast. Discordant and claustrophobic, percussive and hypnotic, pristine and blissful, melodic and rapturous—all shades of techno are here. So it’s how Damage connects the dots between an atonal drum workout by Vin Sol & Matrixxman and his glistening roller “Cosmonaut,” or J. Tijn’s rugged “Pick Your Battles V1″ and the smothering Flug remix of Felix Lorusso, that’s among his best tricks. Though the Welshman’s label home will soon be no more, this mix shows just how much ground he still has left to cover.”
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Sasha – Resident Advisor podcast #490 2015-10-19

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“A mix legend shows his skills.
When it comes to recording mixes, Sasha has some of the best credentials in dance music. In 2013 he released Invol<3r, a two-CD missive made up entirely of his own remixes, and the latest chapter in a story that dates back to 1994. That was the year Sasha and John Digweed, his long-time sparring partner, recorded The Renaissance Mix Collection, one of the first-ever fully mixed compilations. This wasn't merely a format advancement, though: the mix is considered one of the greatest there is—although it had a rival in Northern Exposure, the double mix the pair delivered in 1996. During the '90s, through his mix CDs and club sets (both of which took on a mythical status) Sasha helped create the blueprint for progressive house, a style that favoured emotive synthesis, driving basslines and long, seamless mixing. He had an almost samurai-like approach to DJing, with an emphasis on technique and a studied attention to detail." Check out other Resident Advisor podcasts in the archive and subscribe to the feed to get good music in the future.

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Florian Kupfer – Resident Advisor podcast #490 2015-10-19

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“From the club to the couch.
Florian Kupfer is associated with the wave of “outsider house” artists who emerged a couple of years ago, but in his case the term couldn’t be more reductive. Sure, he’s known for 2013’s “Feelin’,” a track whose overdriven drums and deranged vocal typified the sound, but the German artist is far too versatile to be described in such a straightforward way. Lifetrax, his debut EP, opened with Drexciyan electro; “Shpel,” the last track on Explora, his most recent EP, is sludgy ambient. The releases in between have been united only by a lo-fi production style and a general sense of adventure. Kupfer also seems to be fond of hardware improv, which has made him a good fit for Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S., with whom Kupfer has released four EPs (if you count his split 12-inch with Vereker on its Russian Torrent Versions sub-label). He’s also found a sparring partner in Willie Burns, with whom he’s released music on Rush Hour’s No ‘Label’ and Burns’s W.T. Records.”
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Visionist – Resident Advisor podcast #488 2015-10-05

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“Fresh grime styles.
On the cover for his new album, Safe, Louis Carnell looks like he’s just awoken from a cryogenic freeze. It’s an appropriate image. His tracks as Visionist sound as if they were made in an icy cave. Carnell uses wordless vocal samples and glassy synths to create an ethereal, almost choral take on grime. The South Londoner has been honing his style for the last few years, releasing on respected, boundary-pushing labels like Lit City Trax, Diskotopia, Leisure System and Left Blank. He’s been a key name in the recent wave of creativity that’s swept instrumental grime, but instead of focusing on rhythmic innovation or experimental sonics like many of his peers, Carnell’s channelled emotions. On the two-part I’m Fine series he explored the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. “The sharply honed dance music motifs that swim in the vast space seem untethered from any club context, instead pointing in on themselves,” said Maya Kalev in her review of Part II. Similarly, Safe, which is released this week through PAN, sees Carnell confronting his struggles with anxiety. “I needed to make it a challenging listen to reflect this,” he says below. The album’s 15 tracks push Carnell’s template further than ever before—the beats are tougher, the vocals more dense, the atmospheres chillier.”
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DJ Richard – Resident Advisor podcast #486 2015-09-21

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“Murky ambience from a dance music outsider.
In 2012, DJ Richard founded White Material with Quinn Taylor, AKA Young Male, a friend and former classmate at Rhode Island School Of Design. By their own admission, they were a little wet behind the ears. “The only thing I knew about selling music was selling cassettes at a noise show,” Richard told us a couple years ago. That didn’t slow them down much—their tracks were strange and fresh enough to make their label an immediate hit, landing a distribution deal with Hard Wax and quickly selling out their first releases. Things have moved fast since then. Richard relocated to Berlin, got a job at Record Loft and honed his craft as a DJ and producer. This month he released Grind, his excellent debut album on Dial Records.
On paper it might seem like Richard’s changed a lot these past few years, moving as he has from the basement shows of Providence to the nightclubs of Europe. But his history with America’s scrappy noise underground still informs his music, lending a dark, arthouse spirit to even his most clubby productions. RA.486 underlines this fact, stringing 74 minutes of avant-garde selections into what sounds like a transmission from the dark corners of the subconscious.”
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Sassy J – Resident Advisor podcast #483 2015-08-31

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“Dance floor meditation with the Bern DJ.
There’s no shortage of exceptional resident DJs plying their trade in small cities around the world. Sassy J is one of those DJs. She’s had plenty of esteemed guests at her Patchwork night in Bern, Switzerland—Moodymann, MF Doom, Theo Parrish, Sadar Bahar and Floating Points among them—but it’s her own wide-ranging approach to playing records that has shaped the party. There’s a sense of handcrafted care attached to anything she puts her name to. As well as DJing and promoting, she designs a colourful range of clothes, flyers and record sleeves.”
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Mind Against – Resident Advisor podcast #482 2015-08-24

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“Celestial techno from the Life And Death duo.
It all happened pretty quickly for Alessandro and Federico Fognini. In 2011, after years of making music in one form or another, the two brothers formed a new DJ and production duo: Mind Against. Two years later they’d moved from Italy to Berlin and had their first record out on Life & Death (Atlant), with another two in the pipeline (Avalon and Strange Days). By then their DJ careers had taken off and they were playing somewhere in the world every weekend. It seems they made quite an impression on their audiences: last December, they debuted in our annual Top DJs poll all the way up at #33.
Sometimes it’s hard to say exactly why an act breaks through, but not with these guys. From the off, Mind Against had a signature sound that was immersive and completely their own: cosmic, emotionally rich and banging when it needs to be. RA.482 shows us an especially subtle side of their sound, with 58 minutes of techno that gently ebbs and flows.”

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Jasper James – Resident Advisor podcast #481 2015-08-17

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“On his RA podcast, Jasper James is never afraid to let rip. The mix evokes a time when house DJs tended to move dance floors with more direct musical expressions—a period before the restrained DJ style of the mid-’00s minimal boom became prevalent. Its abundance of vocal samples and hooks, which range in mood from joyous to gloomy, also feels like a refreshing throwback. But James isn’t some old hand who’s trying to revive the past. He’s a Scottish artist in his mid-20s who’s recently emerged as one of the UK’s most popular new DJs.”

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Cassegrain – Resident Advisor podcast #479 2015-08-03

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“Surrealistic techno from the Berlin-based duo.
Cassegrain’s combination of engrossing atmospheres, tactile sound design and hypnotic rhythms tends to have an almost psychedelic effect. That’s basically what you get on RA 479—a propulsive, 22-track romp through the subconscious.”

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Carlos Souffront – Resident Advisor podcast #474 2015-06-29

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“An interdimensional transmission from 2000.
Carlos Souffront comes from the same generation of Detroit selectors as Patrick Russell, Mike Servito and the Interdimensional Transmissions crew behind No Way Back. Raised on a diet of homegrown dance music, fed through underground parties and astoundingly good radio programming, they emerged with an elastic definition of techno and a fearlessness DJ style. While Souffront’s peers moved away to places like New York or burrowed deeper into the Detroit underground, he ended up in San Francisco, where he’s led a kind of double-life as a cheese monger. House and techno connoisseurs in the US—particularly those in striking distance of parties thrown by The Bunker, where Souffront has played increasingly often—have long known he’s a supreme talent with a deep and varied record bag. This summer, though, Europe will get a taste when he makes a swing through Panorama Bar, Dekmantel Festival and Zoo Project in Ibiza.
For the uninitiated, RA.474 is a window into Souffront’s classic style—quite literally. As he explained to us over email, this mix dates back over a decade to his radio show on Ann Arbor’s WCBN and features “all old tracks that I still love and play today.””

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Lakker – Resident Advisor podcast #472 2015-06-15

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“Techno not techno.
Through the contours of this week’s RA podcast, it’s just about possible to chart the sound of Lakker, an Irish duo—Dara Smith and Ian McDonnell—who are known for producing techno that’s often tough to describe as such. The inclusions of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Autechre point to IDM’s influence on their music, a thread that runs through their fantastic recent album Tundra—at times the record shared a similar capacity for sophistication and beauty as those seminal artists. The likes of A Made Up Sound, Joe and Damu show how Smith and McDonnell are attuned to post-dubstep and UK bass. There was a bounce to tracks like “ED” on Blueprint and “Valentina Lane” on Stroboscopic Artefacts that could have placed them in that canon, but really there are little quirks like this all over Lakker’s sound. Then there are cuts here by leftfield house acts such as Afrikan Sciences, Gesloten Cirkel and Heatsick, artists with whom Lakker share a freewheeling compositional approach. Through the appearances of J Dilla and Stones Throw Records we learn that hip-hop plays a role in their style. In fact, the only thing we don’t get much of in the mix is straight-up techno: Smith and McDonnell are by now very much embedded and respected within the scene, but this shows their complex and singular relationship with the sound.
On RA.472 Lakker tie all of these stylistic threads together with a neat trick. Almost all of the music is short loops—beats, melodies, textures—blended into one hour-long piece. If that sounds a little stuffy, well, the results are anything but.”

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Løt.te – Resident Advisor podcast #471 2015-06-08

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“An exciting new name in techno steps forward.
“These days, most techno feels either very intricate and clean, or very noisy and macho,” said Mehmet Irdel in the text for History Of Discipline, his recent release on The Bunker New York. “What interests me is finding an in-between.” The EP’s two tracks hit that spot spectacularly. Listen to how the title track’s drums clap like thunder while a world of sonic detailing opens up above. Or how on “A Mutable Constant” the tussle between light and shade creates unrelenting tension. Irdel is new to the techno scene, with two standout records for The Bunker as Løt.te (pronounced Loat-tey) released so far, but his work in music goes a way back. Under the umbrella of Rote Productions, the company Irdel co-founded with Andrew Chee that’s concerned with music, video, photography and graphics, he works as a visual artist and designer and a producer of blackened noise and soundscapes. It seems that Irdel sees his two disciplines as interchangeable: “I chose tracks that have a lot of texture and tension in them, which are important qualities to me in both music and visual work,” he tells us below.
There’s obviously no shortage of artists approaching techno from a sound-design perspective, but on RA.471 Irdel breathes new life into the formula. The pace and intensity of his selections feels like a throwback to a past techno generation, but, coupled with tracks from modern favourites like Stanislav Tolkachev, Shifted and AnD, the mix feels fresh and singular.”

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Andrew Weatherall – Resident Advisor podcast #470 2015-06-01

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“There’s plenty of mythology surrounding Andrew Weatherall—Boys Own, Shoom, Primal Scream, the beard and so on. But in a career that’s lasted over 30 years, and has presumably included every conceivable high and low, Weatherall has always been about cutting out the bullshit, building a reputation that’s beyond reproach.
The short version of the story is that Weatherall established himself as a DJ, producer and journalist during dance music’s first wave in the UK; went on to produce and remix acts like Primal Scream, Beth Orton and My Bloody Valentine; formed two influential groups—Two Lone Swordsmen, The Sabres Of Paradise—who were signed to Warp; and, through his work as a DJ, producer and label boss, became a sort of father figure for leftfield dance music in the UK. These days, collaboration is still an important part of Weatherall’s artistic makeup. He runs the semi-regular “mid-tempo” party A Love From Outer Space with Sean Johnston, which takes place at various venues in the UK and Europe. His last album, Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust was written with Timothy J. Fairplay as The Asphodells; together they write dubby, synth-heavy dance tracks in the manner of a band. While Daniel Avery has almost become Weatherall’s protégé, the two work from the same studio space in East London and play back-to-back whenever they get the chance.
RA.470 incorporates many of the elements that have made Weatherall so consistently interesting. The tempo is set to a carefully considered chug while rich electronics take flight overhead. The tracks are rooted in house and disco but the spirit of a guitar band never feels far away.”

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