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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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Dasha Rush – Resident Advisor podcast #469

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“Dasha Rush is a Russian techno artist who sees the genre as a starting place not a destination. She is a respected and well-travelled DJ and live performer, but her work is equally focussed away from the dance floor, and sometimes away from music itself. Her recent album for Raster-Noton, Sleepstep, could be a metaphor for her work: “These 16 pieces are transmissions from that state between sleep and wakefulness,” said Tony Naylor, a reflection of the in-between zones her music often inhabits. Dubby but intense, brutal but tender, foggy yet clear—Sleepstep was a wonderful mass of contradictions. Not being one thing or the other is vitally important to Rush, which goes hand-in-hand with her strong independent streak. The majority of the music she’s released since starting out in 2005 has come through her own Fullpanda label and, as she told us in 2013, she’s resistant to playing the publicity game in the way many in the scene do. That’s meant she’s remained off the radar for some techno fans, but it’s also given her the freedom to explore projects and sounds as she pleases.”

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I-F – Resident Advisor podcast #468

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“Raw, independent, unpretentious and fun—it isn’t hard to see why artists from The Hague are followed with such feverish devotion. Legowelt is the city’s production powerhouse, Guy Tavares and his Bunker Records label have the history and famed punk attitude, and I-F is the man who, through Intergalactic FM, has built a global community around his crew’s sound. (To give you an idea of its following, last year the station appealed for donations after it was hit with a €5K tax bill—it took 36 hours to raise the money.) The station bubbles 24 hours a day with the sounds of Italo, electro, minimal wave, disco, ambient and whatever other weirdo genres strike Ferenc van der Sluijs’ fancy. It’s been going since 2008, the follow-up to Cybernetic Broadcasting System, a similarly respected radio platform that was known for unearthing Italo gems. It’s been a good few years since van der Sluijs released anything, but as a producer he has an incredible back catalogue, which includes the 1998 album Fucking Consumer and the extended acidic series Lost Tracks For Lost Minds. Through his labels Viewlexx and Murder Capital, he’s also released a wealth of inspired music from other artists.”

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Bjørn Torske – Resident Advisor podcast #466

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“The revered Norwegian artist takes us higher.
It’s interesting to consider the ways in which different countries have consumed and interpreted house and techno since it sprang from the US all those years ago. It’s a generalisation, sure, but Norwegian producers are often associated with a particularly distinct take on those styles. Tromsø’s Bjørn Torske is the largely responsible for this fact. He started releasing music in the ’90s, and developed a sound that draws as much from disco, dub and psychedelic rock as it does house and techno. He’s released four albums since 1998—two of which, the excellent Nedi Myra and Trøbbel, were recently reissued by Smalltown Supersound—and has worked with key labels like Tellé, Svek and Sex Tags Mania. This has made him a cult favourite in Norway, and an enormous inspiration to guys like Todd Terje, Prins Thomas and Lindstrøm, artists who would go on to spread variations of the Norwegian style around the world. (“Nedi Myra was one of the first house albums I bought, or at least that’s what I thought it was,” Terje said recently. “Weird futuro-bossa and foggy disco-not-really-disco was more like it.”) Torske himself has been more of a low-key presence over the years, but he’s kept up a steady flow of releases and DJs regularly in and around Norway—”my highest priority definitely is to be a DJ and select music for people,” he says below.
Like Torske’s music, his RA podcast is warm, weird, musical and intriguing at every turn.”

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Aquaplano – Resident Advisor podcast #465

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“Whether working separately or together as Aquaplano, Donato Dozzy and Nuel make techno that’s fueled by a sense of cosmic drama. Even their club tracks feel profound—abstract compositions that, in their wordless language of rhythm and sound, seem to dwell on the mysteries of existence. Their Aquaplano project was initially short-lived, yielding a pair of desperately sought-after EPs (eventually reissued on Spectrum Spools) and a string of 12-inches on the label of the same name. This year, though, Aquaplano is back, with an album in the works and DJ and live sets to follow.
In this rich and enigmatic mix, Dozzy and Nuel (not to be confused with Neel of Voices From The Lake) take us deep into their soundworld, but not in the way you might expect. RA.465 travels through decades, continents and cultures, finding, in this strikingly varied cast of artists (from original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett to 20th century spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff) the same sense of awe that drives their own productions.”

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Nick Hoppner – Resident Advisor podcast #463

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“Super-smooth house from the Ostgut Ton mainstay.
Nick Höppner has a lot of obvious credentials—for starters, he’s a Panorama Bar resident and celebrated producer on the club’s label, Ostgut Ton, which he managed for years. But the thing that really makes him extraordinary is harder to define. For lack of a better term, it has to do with sincerity. As a DJ and a producer, Höppner’s sound is defined by an emotional honesty that’s rare in dance music. You can hear it in the soaring, bittersweet melodies of his new album, Folk. And you can sense it on the dance floor when he pulls out something like, say, Underworld’s “Two Months Off”—this is a man expressing himself fully and unabashedly through music. And that’s what you get on RA.463, a mix Höppner says was made to showcase his club DJ style as accurately as possible.”

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Job Jobse – Resident Advisor podcast #462

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“A few eyebrows may have been raised when Job Jobse snuck into our top DJs of 2014 list, but for those who have seen him play over the past few years it won’t have come as a surprise. Jobse gradually built his name as a resident DJ at the much-loved—and now defunct—Amsterdam nightclub Trouw. He was a regular at its predecessor, Club 11, and his party Drukpers was the first-ever event at Trouw when it opened in 2009. Five years later, Jobse brought the house down when he span the last-ever set at the club, something he describes below as “the biggest honour I can think of.” In the intervening years he played a significant role in establishing Trouw as one of Europe’s best clubs. His melodically rich mix of house, techno, disco and Italo soundtracked countless parties, and as the club’s booker he helped shape the broad-ranging music policy that defined Trouw. Until recently he was also the label manager at Life And Death, the label that along with Innervisions has popularised a style of dance music that Jobse himself calls trance—or at least a form of it. In our recent Thoughts on 2015 piece, we said this style has become the dominant force in underground club music; with his international bookings stacking up, Jobse looks like he’s now a key name in this movement.
On RA.462 we get to hear why. As he explains below, it took Jobse some time to settle on an approach for the mix, but what resulted was a timeless snapshot of what defines him as a DJ.”
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Anthony Naples – Resident Advisor podcast #455

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“Around the time of Mad Disrespect’s release, Naples cemented a couple of key relationships. The EP was the first release on Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin’s Mister Saturday Night, the label offshoot of the popular New York party, and Naples became a key member of the group, later returning to the label for another 12-inch. Mad Disrespect also caught the ear of Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, who asked Naples to remix his track “128 Harps.” The collaboration eventually paved the way for Body Pill, Naples’ debut album, which was released today through Hebden’s Text Records. The album is a compact extension of the ground Naples has covered until now, with an exploration of styles and tempos that brings to mind the best work of Actress.
Naples seems to have produced RA.455 in a similar spirit. The set starts with Led Zeppelin and Terry Riley, builds with the crispy house and techno bangers Naples is known for, and then brings things home with some vintage funk.”
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