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SO – Resident Advisor podcast #697 2019-10-07

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“Enter the Labyrinth.
Labyrinth is a festival with the stated aim of “achieving integration—with self and others, with nature and sound—through dance.” That may sound lofty, but for Labyrinth devotees, the festival’s combination of lush ambient music and deep, psychedelic techno, aired through huge speaker stacks in the Japanese countryside, offers something close to transcendence. SO has been a Labyrinth resident DJ for 17 years. He’s also one of the festival’s organisers, making him a crucial part of the Labyrinth story. In the past couple of years, his sets have been among the festival’s most talked-about.
Though he’s synonymous with Labyrinth, SO says it was another festival—Nachtdigital in 2016—that provided one of his biggest turning points as a DJ. “I prepared well and had a lot of really nice feedback from people,” he says. “After that, I had a better idea of what my style as a DJ really was.” That style is on full display on RA.697, an immaculate, flawlessly paced mix of ambient and techno.”
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Autechre – Resident Advisor podcast #687 2019-07-29

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“An iconic UK duo craft a hip-hop mix.
There’s never been a better time to be an Autechre fan. Just last month, Rob Brown and Sean Booth gave away two hours worth of cuts recorded between 1989 and 1993 that sounded disturbingly of the times given dance music’s current mania for bleep and hardcore techno-adjacent sounds. Then there was the dump of zip folders containing all the performance data and samples for their live sets circa-2008, giving producers as big an insight into their methods as they’ve ever had. That’s not to mention the huge archive of live sets they released in February, which offered a sprawling view of their range and welcome documentation of them really letting loose.
In under five years, they’ve released somewhere in the region of 42 hours of music (that’s not including the 13 hours of videos that were out in the wild last year). The crazy thing is how little of it is redundant. The conspicuous rise in generosity has been matched by the quality of their work, which is better than it’s ever been. Although fans of their earlier material will heartily disagree—to be fair, there are a lot of them—last year’s NTS Sessions felt like decades of research had come to fruition. Perhaps the most shocking part was that, despite running eight hours long, it never got boring.
RA.687 is another matter altogether. Here, Booth and Brown return to their love of old school hip-hop, delivering a chilled 45 minutes of breaks and rhymes, running through the likes of MC Shan, Audio Two and Super Lover Cee & Casanova Red.”
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Russell E.L. Butler – Resident Advisor podcast #686 2019-07-22

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“Soft contours and loose grooves.
More and more DJs are using their music as a platform for defending their values. This generational awakening is a defining feature of electronic music in 2019. But for Russell E.L. Butler, music isn’t just a platform for the political. It is the stuff of politics. It is a world-building project itself, a way of manifesting the utopia you believe in—or it least it can be, when done right. More than just a vehicle for a message, music can actually carve out “an ideal space for community,” Butler once said, “a space to dream… and feel what freedom and transcendence would be like.” The title of their album last year, The Home I’d Build For Myself And All My Friends, captured this notion, that music can foster safety and intimacy.
On The Home I’d Build…, Butler explored a texture-centric modular techno sound, with defiantly weird rhythms and an improvisational feel. They turned the intensity up a couple notches with Petty, a club-focused EP of rowdy drum tracks. Their 12-inch last month for Fixed Rhythms, 606 Trax, was even more skeletal, with literally no melodic element to speak of. On their podcast for RA, they reveal another side of their sound: what they might play at an easy-going daytime BBQ “on a porch somewhere,” Butler said. “Bellies are full, but excitement for the evening is starting to build.” It’s full of soft contours and loose grooves, moving from dubby house cuts to sweet R&B and ethereal techno, with decisive mixes that makes the genre jumps feel natural. There’s an approachable energy to it, like they’re inviting you to come party with them and their friends.”
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Massimiliano Pagliara – Resident Advisor podcast #678 2019-05-27

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“Soaring rhythms from a Panorama Bar resident.
Massimiliano Pagliara came to Berlin from Lecce, Italy, to be a professional dancer. “That’s what I was doing at the very beginning,” he once told us. “But then, you know, Berlin nightlife, clubbing and all of that.” Now, save the occasional strikingly lithe move in the DJ booth, Pagliara’s given that up for a life of making others dance, whether as a DJ, producer or label curator. Working amidst his vast and lovingly assembled collection of synthesizers, he crafts sonically rich cuts of house and disco with a hint of Balearic flair, with pastel-colored albums and EPs on labels like Ostgut Ton, Live At Robert Johnson and Cocktail d’Amore Music. This year, he also started his own label, Funnuvojere Records. As a DJ, he’s honed his craft at some of the world’s best dance floors, holding residencies at both Panorama Bar and Robert Johnson.
In his productions and his DJ sets, Pagliara has a sonic richness and sun-kissed aesthetic that makes him irresistible for fans of house and disco’s modern mutations, though he’s just as comfortable with sleek techno rhythms and writhing acid lines. RA.678 shows him running at full tilt, cherry-picking bits from every corner of his musical universe.”
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Héctor Oaks – Resident Advisor podcast #675 2019-05-06

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“Raw techno from a rising star.
Héctor Oaks is one of the new stars of Berlin techno. Raw and energetic, his sound was shaped by years behind the counter at The Record Loft, a place Oaks calls it the “best shop in the history of electronic music.” Originally from Madrid, he’s affiliated with a few of the world’s leading techno institutions. One is Herrensauna, a monthly rave that’s among the best gay parties in a city full of them. The other is Bassiani, the Tbilisi nightclub central to the city’s thriving techno scene. Put simply, Oaks regularly plays to some of the best dance floors in the world.
His sound as a DJ is well matched to these situations. Drawing from techno new and old, he mixes the tough, loop-driven beats of the ’90s with psychedelic modern tools, resulting in an aesthetic that feeds the mind and body. That sound also feeds into his productions, which have appeared on his own OAKS label and, more recently, on an album through Bassiani’s label.
But as we hear in RA.675, the odd jacking house track—like, say, a Dance Mania classic—is never far away for Oaks. This balance of sounds—sometimes tough, sometimes smooth—helps explain his popularity. If you’re in the mood to trip out, he has you covered. And if you just want to jack your body? He’s got that covered, too.”
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Boris – Resident Advisor podcast #673 2019-04-22

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“A cassette-style mix from Berghain’s most eclectic DJ.
Boris’s style as a DJ reflects this rich pool of experiences. He is, in a word, eclectic, as at home playing techno in Berghain as he is playing house, disco, HI-NRG or whatever else upstairs in Panorama Bar (he provided one of that dance floor’s more legendary moments when, in some Silvester of year’s past, he played, in its entirety, Maurice Revel’s “Boléro”). For RA.673, Boris shows the depth and variety of his collection even while drawing from mostly new sounds, slipping from one style to the next in a smooth and unpredictable “cassette tape style mix.” ”
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Matrixxman – Resident Advisor podcast #666 2019-03-04

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“An album’s worth of new music on our 666th mix.
Charlie Duff is an integral part of the European techno circuit, but his approach to the genre isn’t purist. It’s driving and stripped-back, though also laced with a sense of atmosphere and melody that comes from a diverse musical background and a boisterous, larger-than-life personality that matches his considerable height. He’s a tenacious worker—he used to live in a tiny studio and sleep next to his gear. Duff is the kind of producer whose ambient interludes are just as detailed and captivating as his bangers, as his most recent record, the first release from his new label The Grid, proves.
Duff’s RA podcast is all about this production prowess, in addition to his ability to work a dance floor. It’s an album’s worth of new material that flows smoothly through eerie ambient and spoken word, barreling techno and a few unexpected detours into hi-tech trap. Everything we like about Matrixxman is here: steely kick drums, warm chord progressions, electro influences and pillowy ambient passages that make it more than just a dance floor mix. It’s a DJ set that works like an LP, which sums up Duff as an artist: someone who works within the confines of techno while gently pushing at its edges.”
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Olof Dreijer – Resident Advisor podcast #662 2019-02-03

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“Rowdy club sounds from the cofounder of The Knife.”
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Nazira – Resident Advisor podcast #659 2019-01-14

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“Fierce club sounds from Kazakhstan.
Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, is lucky to have Nazira Kassenova. The DJ and promoter is regularly credited with building up her city’s scene, and rightfully so. ZVUK, her series of DIY club nights, gave many young people their first experiences with inspired electronic music in intimate and free-spirited settings. She’s also repped her hometown abroad, first with her radio show New East With Nazira and now in her DJ sets at Room 4 Resistance in Berlin, where she’s a resident. Her journey has not been easy. Making things happen in a place so culturally and geographically removed from dance music’s main hubs requires extraordinary resourcefulness and dedication. More than anything though, it demands artistic vision—all that effort is only worth it if you really have something special to offer.
Nazira clearly does. As a curator, she’d be bold in any city—recent guests at ZVUK include the likes of Don’t DJ and Giant Swan, and in 2017 she helped book a one-off Almaty edition of Unsound, something that until then would have seemed impossible. As a DJ, she brings a sound that’s angular, modern and utterly body-rocking, as we hear on RA.659.”
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Huerco S – Resident Advisor podcast #658 2019-01-07

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“Eerie ambience from a master of the form.”
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Honey Dijon – Resident Advisor podcast #657 2018-12-31

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“One of 2018’s standout DJs steps out of her comfort zone.
What a year it’s been for Honey Dijon. Riding off the success of 2017’s debut album, the Chicago artist released two more EPs on Classic Music, soundtracked catwalk shows for Louis Vuitton and emerged as one of dance music’s most vital and powerful voices, especially outspoken on issues of race, gender and the changing face of clubbing. But it was behind the decks where she made the biggest headlines. A DJ since the ’90s, she took the world by storm in 2018, playing 100s of shows at dozens of the most celebrated clubs and festivals. In her own words, it was a “watershed year.”
Dijon has excelled pushing a rambunctious DJ style that leans heavily on golden-era disco, techno and house. Classics abound in her sets. In other words, the perfect soundtrack for a celebratory New Year’s Eve podcast, right? Well, she had other ideas. Instead of hands-in-the-air euphoria, she goes dark and dubby on RA. 657, showing off, among other things, her love of minimal and industrial music. Don’t panic, though: the next 60 minutes is still Dijon through and through, packed full of inspirational messages and old-school references, plus, of course, a nod to the one and only Grace Jones.”
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Sync 24 – Resident Advisor podcast #614 2018-03-05

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“A storming old-school electro session.
Given Bolland’s long-standing relationship with electro, we asked him to focus his RA podcast on the past, and more specifically records from the early 2000s backwards. He responded with a blistering set that shows that, while electro’s fundamentals haven’t changed much down the years, it remains one of electronic music’s most potent dance floor sounds.”
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DJ Bus Replacement Service – Resident Advisor podcast #610 2018-02-05

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“Piss yourself.
Doris Woo is not like other DJs. There’s her stage outfit, a costume of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un, which she faithfully wears to all her gigs. But that’s actually a minor detail compared to the music she plays. It’s hard to neatly summarize what happens in a DJ Bus Replacement Service set, but you might start by comparing it to a stand-up comedy act, one that playfully antagonizes its audience while making them dance, peppering club music’s most unhinged styles—ghettohouse, gabber, hard techno—with the most bizarre of musical novelties (consider one of this mix’s track titles, “‘Roxanne’ by The Police But Every Time They Say “Roxanne” It Gets Faster”). In the interview below, Woo herself puts it best: “I simply love playing bad and incorrect music at people for my own amusement.”
She is far from the only one amused. DJ Bus Replacement Service is becoming something of an unlikely phenomenon, with 2017 gigs at such esteemed events as Sónar and Freerotation (she’ll be returning to the latter festival this summer, both on her own and with her husband, Anthony Child, AKA Surgeon, as Little Baby Cheeses). How to explain her strange appeal? As Angus Finlayson said in a recent edition of The Hour: “Pissing yourself laughing on the dance floor is not an experience that comes around every weekend, and I would highly recommend it.” If you find that prospect weirdly tempting—or even if you don’t—we’d highly recommend RA.610.”
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Fantastic Man – Resident Advisor podcast #609 2018-01-29

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“Bangers in a Balearic haze.
Mic Newman has spent most of his life as an artist bouncing between London, Berlin and his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Luckily, this trans-hemispherical existence seems to do wonders for his productivity. In addition to crafting balmy club tracks for labels like Love On The Rocks and Fine Choice Records, he runs a label of his own: Superconscious Records, with fellow Aussie Francis Inferno Orchestra. A few years ago, Newman found himself in limbo between London and Berlin, “living like a nomad, in and out of friends’ places and using random studios.” But he managed to find inspiration in the chaos, which found form on Altitude Attitudes, an LP of drifting, sun-kissed electronics on the French label Antinote under the name Mind Lotion.
Newman has a few distinct musical modes—in addition that one-off home listening LP, he just unveiled a new alter-ego called P.M.T.C.—but most of his records mine a particular sound: sunny and psychedelic, but with a smooth club punch. That’s what we get on RA.609, a lush introduction to Newman’s salty-aired sound.”
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Dona aka DJ Plant Texture – Resident Advisor podcast #608 2018-01-22

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“Busted breakbeats and psychedelia.
DJ Plant Texture is a drummer, if you couldn’t tell from his tracks. The Italian artist Dona Basile makes rough-and-tumble drum workouts that sound like they were found in an attic after years spent collecting dust. Jungle, house, hardcore, breaks, drumfunk—if it’s based on a breakbeat, DJ Plant Texture makes it. At a time when breakbeats are popping left and right, his raucous samples, chewed-up textures and pure speed-rush energy on releases for 1Ø PILLS MATE, Unknown To The Unknown, Ilian Tape and Jericho One set him apart from the pack. As Dona, his other alias, he makes no-nonsense house, techno and acid that harnesses the power of analogue equipment, imperfections and all. Dona tracks capture the raucous spirit of early house music in the same way that DJ Plant Texture channels hardcore and jungle.
Basile is no regular producer, and this is no regular podcast. Made with a busted turntable setup and recorded onto cassette tape for good measure, it’s nearly two hours long and presented more like a mixtape than a DJ set. He haphazardly but intuitively jumps between dance tracks old and new, soundtrack music, psychedelic rock and all kinds of other oddities. It’s meant as a snapshot of his upbringing, a mosaic of his influences. Raw, unique and straight to the point, the mix shows why Basile is poised for big things in 2018.”
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