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The weekly RA Exchange is a series of conversations with artists, labels and promoters shaping the electronic music landscape.
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EX.767 Cosey Fanny Tutti
28 maj 2025 |
44 min
"I'm an individualist." The Throbbing Gristle co-founder on extreme experimentation, difficult women and her new album, 2t2.
As long as underground culture has existed, there have been pockets of resistance—people at the fringes who challenge societal expectations and create work that pushes against societal norms. Cosey Fanni Tutti is one of them. She's a founding member of the defunct British band Throbbing Gristle, a visual artist, pornographic model, solo musician and writer.
Tutti, now 73, grew up in the English city of Hull, where she met like-minded performer Genesis P-Orridge. Together, they formed Throbbing Gristle and the collective COUM. Their activations and installations were, unequivocally, shocking. In one show, Tutti urinated on the audience as she swung naked across the stage. In another, the band performed alongside framed displays of her used menstrual pads.
Throbbing Gristle's extreme experimentations flirted with the erotic and the grotesque, pushing the limits of sound and frequency. Their outsider approach to making music—and their erasure of the boundary that separates life and art—went on to influence a generation of creatives across genres, especially in early techno.
After Throbbing Gristle disbanded, Tutti performed as synth pop duo Chris & Cosey with her husband and ex-band member, Chris Carter. Her work as a solo artist has blossomed in recent years. She published her memoir, Art Sex Music, in 2017. After turning 66, she also wrote two full-length albums and wrote another book, Re:Sisters, which explores the life and legacy of the late composer Delia Derbyshire who faced adversity as a woman in a male-dominated world, like Tutti herself.
In this Exchange with with Chloe Lula, Tutti discusses her dedication to living alternatively, expressing herself by any means possible and her forthcoming album, 2t2, composed during a time of extreme difficulty in her personal life. The underground icon also talks about mastering Mongolian throat singing and her upcoming solo art exhibition in New York, which will display the pornographic photos she took as a model in her 20s. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.766 Surgeon
21 maj 2025 |
58 min
“My mission is to explore the boundaries of psychedelic music.” The revered artist talks about expanding consciousness, breaking boundaries and his new album on Tresor.
There has always been a strain of dance music that has leant psychedelic, from the left field psychoacoustics of pioneers like La Monte Young to the proggy techno taking over today's dance floors. One artist who embodies the spirit of psychedelia is Anthony Child—AKA Surgeon—a revered DJ and producer who has historically been placed in the world of industrial techno, but whose output over the years has consistently flirted with altered states of consciousness and a strong opposition to the mainstream.
Child is originally from Birmingham, where he and Karl O'Connor, AKA Regis, helped birth a style of powerful, loop-driven techno. Together they've put out music as British Murder Boys and released music on O'Connor's label Downwards Records. But they've had equally successful solo careers, with Child putting out several releases on Tresor and performing live improvised electronics as Surgeon and as part of ambient listening duo The Transcendence Orchestra.
In this interview, Child talks about his most recent release on Tresor, the album Shell~Wave, and its innovative use of techniques associated with Jamaican dub. He also discusses the throughline of psychedelia in his work and what it means to surrender oneself to sometimes uncomfortable processes—both creatively and in life—and come out the other side. There are strong links to spirituality and Buddhism in Child's work, many of which are designed to prompt listeners to question and reconsider the boundaries they've set around the reality they live in. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.765 Lee Ann Roberts
14 maj 2025 |
53 min
"Music kept me sane." The hard techno breakout opens up about how life's greatest challenges have made her headstrong.
To honour Mental Health Awareness week, the RA Exchange sits down with hard techno DJ Lee Ann Roberts, who opens up about her tough childhood in Durban, South Africa, and how music saved her life.
While to some it may appear that Roberts broke through only a few years ago, she's been hard at work for much longer, starting out in South Africa's fashion scene before moving to Los Angeles and finally committing herself to pursuing a career as a DJ and producer. She speaks candidly about her abusive household and the limited opportunities for self-expression and creativity she had as a child. As a result, she's become headstrong; nothing has stopped Roberts from being herself and chasing her dreams, and she talks about how self-care, self-compassion, authenticity and a sense of humour have gotten her through some of the darkest periods of her life.
As a member of the contemporary hard techno scene, Roberts also shares her reaction to the recent Resident Advisor feature on the movement and the underpinnings of a trend that has polarised the underground. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.764 Maria May (CAA)
7 maj 2025 |
37 min
"Everyone tells me I'm terrifying." The powerhouse agent talks about being a woman in a male-dominated world and growing the careers of artists like David Guetta, Marlon Hoffstadt and more.
What does it take to become a powerhouse agent in the male-dominated electronic music industry? No one can answer this question better than Maria May, a name that might be familiar to anyone who's had a brush with big-ticket dance music over the past 30 years.
May is a longtime agent at CAA, or Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest booking agencies in the world. She was first hired a little over a decade ago to expand its representation of electronic music, back when the company saw that DJs were primed to become the new rockstars. She now looks after major acts like David Guetta, Paul Kalkbrenner, Marlon Hoffstadt and Sara Landry.
But she isn't just a fierce businesswoman. She's also a tireless advocate for equity and inclusion in club culture. In this conversation recorded live at the International Music Summit in Ibiza, she talks about the obstacles she's faced over the course of her career as she's actively rebuilt the rooms in which major decisions are made. She was first inspired by her involvement in Britain's illegal rave scene, she recalls, which turned her onto the power of activism and showed her how on-the-ground organising can lead to real-life policy change. She also addresses the negative narrative taking hold of the music industry and the opportunities at hand to make positive, collective change. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.763 Theo Parrish
30 april 2025 |
67 min
"It was so difficult to become someone." The house hero talks about Chicago's competitive scene, developing a sound and letting go of his ego.
Theo Parrish is one of dance music's most influential DJs and producers. Raised in Chicago, he's become synonymous with slow-burning, immersive grooves and sets that mix classics with obscurities. He began DJing in 1986 aged 13, eventually earning a degree in sculpture and moving to Detroit, where he hit his stride as an artist and became a member of the collective Three Chairs alongside Moodymann, Rick Wilhite and Marcellus Pittman. He also started the label Sound Signature, which uses the language of soul, jazz, disco, Chicago house and Detroit techno.
A few months ago, Resident Advisor teamed up with London institution fabric to host Parrish for an eight-hour set—his first time playing the club. While he was in town, he also spoke with CDR's Tony Nwachukwu. In the Exchange, Parrish talks about the intensely competitive scene he grew up in. He DJ'd for 13 years before he was ever paid or had his name billed on a lineup. It took years of passion and hard work to break out of his local scene and build the career he's become known for.
"At five years, you're dealing with the technical part [of DJing], at ten it's finding your sound and at 15 it's dealing with the ego of it all," he says. "It's not until much later that you actually start to play for and with people."
Parrish also reflects on the ongoing dearth of diversity in the dance music industry and posits whether some of the most popular music in the US—such as trap—reinforces counterproductive racial stereotypes. He asks: did house music ultimately survive because it left where it originally came from? Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.762 FKA twigs
24 april 2025 |
47 min
"I'm in a place of brutal honesty." The electronic pop auteur talks about her new album, the pressures of performing and falling in love with techno.
One of today's most exciting stars is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, better known as FKA twigs. Genre-wise, she's difficult to pin down; some critics call her music ethereal, alien R&B refracted through the lens of dance music. She's now touring her third album, Eusexua which she's described as "that surge of nothingness right before a surge of creativity, or the moment before an orgasm." It's a response to falling in love with techno a couple of years ago, and the songs all hover somewhere around the rave.
In this RA Exchange recorded live at AVA London 2025, twigs talks to Nadine Noor, founder of queer arts platform PXSSY PALACE, about the process of putting the LP together, as well as the sometimes painful pressures involved in performing and adopting a public persona. Today, twigs says she's in a place of brutal honesty, and on the edge of 40, "hitting the perfect arc of behind hot and not an idiot anymore." She also discusses starting her dancing practice from an incredibly young age, taking her first steps on what she anticipates will be a long partnership with modular synthesis and the challenge of making original art in an era dominated by trends. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.761 Mike Parker
16 april 2025 |
39 min
The vaunted techno producer discusses the connections between visual art and music, balancing a full-time career as a fine artist and how he creates his signature sound.
There's a connection between visual art and dance music that's seldom explored on our channels. Mike Parker is well known in the underground techno scene for minimal, hypnotic and beautifully executed sound design that sits somewhere at the edges of club music. But he also received his master's degree in fine art and teaches drawing and painting at Daemon University in Buffalo, New York. Fans of Parker will recognise his visual trademark: monochromatic prints that adorn the covers of the records he puts out on his label, Geophone.
In this Exchange, Parker sits down with Chloe Lula to talk about how he balances his art- and music-making practices and how they inform each other. He also opens up about the long process of sticking to his sound and finding an audience rather than catering to the demands and suggestions of labels and distributors. His 2001 breakout album, Dispatches—which he reissued last year—is a meditation on the act of living far away from any listeners or immediate influences, and he discusses the ongoing drawbacks and rewards of balancing the Eurocentric pursuit of DJing with day-to-day work that's so geographically removed. He also opens up about his longtime collaboration with Donato Dozzy, his love of mid-20th-century sci-fi movies and how free-form radio shaped his approach to music and art. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.760 The Economics of Independent Dance Music
10 april 2025 |
32 min
"There's a long chain of people who benefit from artists making records." Nabil Ayers, the US president of Beggars Group, talks about independent artistry and how we fix a broken music economy.
The independent music economy is broken. But Nabil Ayers, US President of Beggars Group—the home of independent labels 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young—is here to fix it.
In this Exchange, he speaks with RA senior editor Nyshka Chandran about the primary issues plaguing the industry. But he also expertly articulates his efforts to address these shortcomings through research and policy initiatives from the top down. How can artists get paid more money in a world where music is a common good? And what is the role of an independent label in 2025 and beyond? Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.759 Rene Wise
2 april 2025 |
58 min
"Sound systems are really what move me." The up-and-coming techno artist talks about the physicality of sound and how psychedelics inform his work in the studio.
What makes a good artist? In this RA Exchange, British DJ and producer Andrew Shobeiri, AKA Rene Wise, reflects on being a relatively new name in the scene and considers the success that ultimately comes with time and experience. "There's never a point where you're done," he says.
While Shobeiri is only a few years into his career, the up-and-comer already knows how to draw a crowd. He has finely tuned a highly kinetic and hypnotic techno sound that's brought him legions of fans and bookings on the world's top club and festival lineups. He divulges the ingredients that go into a Rene Wise set, including sound sources from genres beyond the club, like salsa, Iranian radif and the strange orchestration of Steve Reich. He also talks about his experience with psychedelics—which helped lay the groundwork for some of his most formative musical experiences—as well as how sound systems have changed the way he perceives and composes tracks for the dance floor. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.758 DJ Koze
26 mars 2025 |
49 min
The beloved German producer talks about finding inner peace, overstimulation and his new album on Pampa Records.
Mental health is a topic that comes up frequently in the music industry, but it's still not discussed enough among electronic music's top performers. In this RA Exchange, Stefan Kozalla—better known as DJ Koze—opens up about his battle with anxiety, self-doubt and rising expectations that come with being a long-standing, high-profile name. He talks about overstimulation, music as rest and the compromises artists need to make to have relevance and staying power.
Kozalla, a beloved and eccentric German artist who has developed a cult following over the course of his career, has productions on esteemed labels like XL, Kompakt, Cocoon, Warp, Ninja Tune and BPitch, which garner praise as soon as they're released. "Every time DJ Koze comes out of the woodwork to drop a 12-inch—or even just a remix—we usually end up hearing it everywhere for months on end," wrote former RA editor Andrew Ryce.
Kozalla talks to RA contributor (and former editor) Matt Unicomb about his production process and early influences—an uncanny combination of Basic Channel and Public Enemy—as well as his forthcoming album, Music Can Hear Us, coming out on Pampa Records on April 4th. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.757 Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem
19 mars 2025 |
55 min
"We wanted to let go of everything we know." The Berghain residents talk about underground values, leaving behind expectations and their collaborative album, LAYER ONE.
Berghain residents and now frequent collaborators Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem have become synonymous with the classic, no frills aesthetic that's come to define the Berlin institution's sound, with one exception: their newest LP, LAYER ONE. The album sees them step away from techno in a listening experience that explores IDM, ambient and experimental electronic music with guest vocal appearances by UK artists Cobey Sey and Flowdan.
In this Exchange, they talk to Chloe Lula about this departure from their typical style, which imagines a post-human world where AI reigns supreme. They also reflect on building generational bridges in the music industry; how their respective ideas of success have changed; underground values and sensibilities; and why the ethos of an earlier era continues to inform their work.
Klock also revisits the decade that's elapsed since his last RA interview, including why he's chosen to return to the studio after years on the road, his unexpected career as a DJ and the key to long-lasting relevance in a scene that doesn't slow down. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.756 Sonja Moonear
11 mars 2025 |
60 min
The doyenne of minimal reflects on Perlon, forgotten classics and the tracks that never leave her record bag in this live edition of Playing Favourites at Dimensions Festival.
Following the minimal boom of the '00s and early '10s, the sound has in more recent years flourished quietly in the smaller corners of certain scenes. It certainly, as some people like to claim, never died. In fact, if you were to discuss this with Sonja Moonear, the Swiss DJ would argue that the genre is as popular as ever.
Much like the other artists in the upper echelons of the scene—Zip, Raresh, Nicolas Lutz—Moonear made a name for herself by DJing rather than making music. She cut her teeth in Geneva as a resident at its key club at the time, Weetamix. Perlon label head Zip was a regular guest and, as Moonear recounts, he invited her to play in Berlin after she warmed up for him a few times. Moonear is now an in-demand DJ in her own right, with a style that takes in a broad cross-section of house, techno and minimal.
Recorded at last summer's Dimensions Festival, this edition of Playing Favourites sees Moonear select some of her favourite '90s and early '00s minimal classics and the records that never leave her record bag. She's truly obsessed with music and finding rare grooves, and her enthusiasm shines through. In between playing tracks, she talks about the squat scene in Geneva and how she spends hours preparing her bag every week. She reminisces about the first time she put her hand on a turntable; her transition away from the piano as an adolescent; and her primary goal in her career, which is "purely to enjoy herself."
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EX.755 Dennis Bovell
5 mars 2025 |
62 min
"I wanted to be at the forefront of the beat that would storm the world." The renowned musician talks about how reggae became the sound of resistance in the UK.
How did reggae become the sound of resistance in the UK? In this RA Exchange, the influential Barbados-born guitarist, bass player and record producer Dennis Bovell talks about moving to South London aged 12 and navigating its tense racial and musical landscape. Through the music he wrote and produced, he responded directly to racist rhetoric and colonialist attitudes rocking the UK. After the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship in June 1948—which brought a generation of Caribbean people over to rebuild post-war Britain—the UK experienced new social pressures as the diaspora assimilated to their new lives. But London also became a melting pot of creative and cultural diversity. Reggae became resistance music, and artists like Bovell became bandleaders.
Bovell speaks with writer and musician Tony Nwachukwu about music as social commentary, especially in his reggae band Matumbi, which was intentionally provocative, aiming to challenge the status quo and give voice to the Black British experience through its lyrics, themes and messaging. Matumbi was critical in developing the British reggae sound, and Bovell went on to record other musical projects that were key in shaping the early days of reggae, dub and lover's rock.
He also reflects on his time engineering for artists in different scenes, like the German electronic duo Saâda Bonaire, the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Bovell's unique ability to bring together different musical styles at the peripheries of dub made him a highly sought-after collaborator with a knack for navigating delicate dynamics in the industry, especially for Black artists. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.754 Virginia
26 februari 2025 |
46 min
"It starts within yourself." The DJ, vocalist and producer talks about self-improvement, moving to rural Portugal and working alongside long-time partner Steffi.
There may be no voice as rich, vibrant or easily distinguishable in today's house and techno scene than that of Virginia. The Brazilian-German DJ, producer and singer has earned a name for herself as a hybrid house vocalist and a resident at Panorama Bar, where she plays sets featuring her own live vocals. Born in Munich to a family of musicians, she became enamoured with the soulful singing of artists like Sade, Whitney Houston and Tracy Chapman, who became her early guiding lights. It wasn't until her adolescence, when her sister took her to a nightclub, that it crossed her mind to begin blending these two musical worlds. By the mid-2010s, Virginia had relocated to Berlin to earnestly pursue a career in electronic music and create a new, house-focused musical vocabulary that's become completely her own.
It was around this time that Virginia met her long-time partner, fellow DJ and producer Steffi. In this week's Exchange, she speaks with Chloe Lula about their personal and creative relationship, and their love of collaborating together in the studio and behind the decks. After more than two decades in Berlin, the couple relocated to rural Portugal in 2020, a move that's opened up a world of abundant rest and opportunity. They opened up a studio and residency called Candy Mountain (so called for its veritable candy shop of synthesizers and hardware), where they've found a new appreciation for taking things slow: going on walks in the countryside, engaging in botany and inviting friends and collaborators over to work on music. She reflects on what it means to step away from the demands of Berlin's bustling music industry and why her voice has remained such a powerful source of energy and inspiration over the course of her career, and her forthcoming album with Steffi on Dekmantel, Patterns of Vibration. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.753 Traxman
19 februari 2025 |
47 min
Anyone with a passing interest in footwork and juke will know of Traxman. Corky Strong has a long history in the world of Chicago dance music, first releasing on the legendary Dance Mania label—which is now celebrating 40 years—in the mid-'90s. He's since split his productions between ghetto house, juke and footwork, releasing alongside titans of Black American music like the late DJ Deeon and DJ Rashad. Strong went on to become a member of DJ Rashad's renowned Teklife crew, and he was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes that became a prototype for juke and footwork's evolution.
In this Exchange, Strong speaks with RA's Kiana Mickles in New York about how he first became introduced to this world through his cousins, with whom he'd listen to funk and slow jams, Parliament Funkadelic, Farley Jackmaster Funk, James Brown and a variety of hip-hop throughout the '80s. The pieces eventually fell into place, he recounts, when he met the "mysterious kid" DJ Rashad in 1997. Together, they helped shape the music scene in Chicago, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Over the last few years, Strong has been celebrating footwork's past by putting out a series of albums called Da Mind of Traxman on Planet Mu. He's just released his third volume, and his first since 2014, which was crafted with the help of fellow Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke. Strong took on A&R duties to collate the best from hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. The series is notable in part because it's a catalogue of footwork and its Chicago lineage—juke and house—as well as these genres' soul, funk and rock roots.
Strong talks to Mickles about what Chicago's music scene was like in the '80s and '90s, why footwork was so rooted in dancing and where the genre is heading in the future. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.752 Justice
12 februari 2025 |
62 min
The famed electro house duo open up about their 2024 album and the challenges of touring live.
In the mid-'00s, songs like "D.A.N.C.E." and "We Are Your Friends" emerged as stadium-sized anthems during a new wave of electro house that weaved in elements of rock and disco. The architects behind these hits were Parisian duo Justice, AKA Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Together with their Ed Banger contemporaries, they rode a craze that took over airwaves and dance floors, alongside peers like label founder Busy P and the late DJ Mehdi. Their first album, Cross, quickly became a classic, helping to establish Ed Banger as the flagbearer for French electro. Justice went on to tour a dynamic live show with spectacular lights and visuals, and later released two more albums before taking an eight-year hiatus and largely disappearing from the spotlight.
Last year, Augé and de Rosnay returned with their fourth studio album, Hyperdrama, which features a GRAMMY-winning collaboration with Tame Impala. Referencing indie rock and early '90s hardcore techno, the LP sparked a revived interest in the duo—if you watched last year's Olympics in Paris, 18 minutes of their music featured in the closing ceremony.
In this RA Exchange, Augé and de Rosnay talk to Resident Advisor's editor, Gabriel Szatan, about being back on the road and balancing touring with family life, a rhythm that hasn't felt natural to them after so much time off. They open up about dealing with technical issues and making mistakes when performing, despite having played countless iterations of their live shows. The conversation also touches on their earliest influences—like gaming culture and bands including the White Stripes, and how they've cultivated such a dedicated international fanbase. This episode was recorded over the course of multiple backstage conversations. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula
EX.751 Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst
5 februari 2025 |
59 min
"We're pro-AI and we're pro-consent. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive." The activists and artists talk about the hot button issues facing AI's governance.
The world is deep in the throes of a heightening debate over AI. Just this week, the Vatican published an essay addressing the potential, and risks, of AI in a new high-tech world as well as its intersection with religion and humanity. In politics, figures like Elon Musk are advising citizens that the US government will become increasingly "AI-first," using data about its individuals to make federal decisions. And in the world of culture and the humanities, the alarm has been sounded on AI's ability to both aid in creativity and homogenise the art and music being produced and consumed, raising concerns that much of what's being released is sounding increasingly the same.
There are probably no better experts on this far-ranging topic than Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, two Berlin-based academics and artists who have entrenched themselves in the world of AI ethics, advocacy and art for the past two decades. Now married, they come from DIY punk backgrounds, both having lived in the Bay Area pre-tech bubble while Herndon completed a Ph.D in Computer Music at Stanford. Their work is primarily concerned with how AI is governed as it becomes more ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and what its implications are for ownership of AI-generated artworks.
In this urgent and timely RA Exchange, the duo talk about their shift closer to the art world following their 2024 exhibition at The Whitney Biennial and their most recent show at Serpentine Gallery in London, The Call, which will close at the end of this month. It's one of many forward-thinking projects they've worked on to move away from the fear narrative dominating dialogue around how AI is influencing art and music, instead showcasing how machine learning can be used to push art forward. They also address their view of socialist democratic values with the rise of the far right, raising a young child and doing work that sits squarely between activism and art. Listen to the episode in full. – Chloe Lula
EX.750 Call Super
29 januari 2025 |
56 min
"If a record is falling apart at the seams, I'll probably like it." Recorded live at Houghton 2024, our latest Playing Favourites episode sees the London artist discussing the beautiful leftfield music that's soundtracked his life.
British DJ and producer Call Super brings some colour to the depths of winter with this week's RA Exchange. The multifaceted artist has released music on Houndstooth, Hessle Audio, fabric, Dekmantel and the label he co-runs with Parris, can you feel the sun, becoming known for a deep yet always party-ready sound that combines house, UK funky, tech house and plenty more besides.
In this interview, recorded at last year's Houghton Festival, he talks to RA's managing editor, Carlos Hawthorn, as part of our flagship live series, Playing Favourites. Among his choices are the music he listened to as a child; the record that inspired his passion for DJing; an artist who changed his perspective on music at large; and more practical songs he deploys in sets to refresh a crowd. The territory he covers is huge, from tech house and acid house to contemporary classical, experimental leftfield, abstract percussion and choral music. There are some tracks, he claims, that only work in certain contexts, but if played at the right time, "they send people." Listen to the episode in full. – Chloe Lula
EX.749 Luke Slater
22 januari 2025 |
47 min
"I'm like a collector—everything I come across makes it into my music." The dance music don talks about the music that shaped him and his recent L.B. Dub Corp album on Dekmantel.
Luke Slater, the British DJ, producer and occasional drummer, has been making music under a slew of monikers since the '80s: Planetary Assault Systems, L.B. Dub Corp, LSD, The 7th Plain, Clementine—the list goes on. While he's put out an excellent range of dynamic analogue music that runs the gamut of house, acid, breakbeat, electro and even spoken word, he's probably best known for his productions and live shows that focus on sleek and solid techno, as showcased on Ostgut Ton and his own imprint, Mote-Evolver.
In the latest instalment of our flagship live series Playing Favourites, Slater unpacks the tracks that, for him, best illustrate the history of techno at large, as well as the records that define his creative process and career trajectory. He speaks with Chloe Lula live from Polifonic festival about his love of Detroit and Underground Resistance, as well as the abiding influence of hip-hop on his early work and his love of intentionally integrating mistakes in his music. He also reflects on how he became the first non-German artist to release on Berghain's esteemed record label, as well as discussing his most recent release, Saturn to Home, for Dekmantel. The double LP saw him return to his drumming practice and introduce surprising and powerful collaborations from electronic music contemporaries and vocalists like Kittin and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.748 Faithless
15 januari 2025 |
67 min
"We put all of these philosophical concepts into our lyrics." Sister Bliss talks about the band after Maxi Jazz, weaving politics into rave anthems and the dance floor as salvation.
Even if you're not into electronic music, chances are you've heard tracks like "Insomnia" or "God Is A DJ" on the radio or in a film. These '90s rave anthems were written by Faithless, a British electronic band that received huge acclaim in the UK especially. Its original members, who launched the project in 1995, were Sister Bliss, Rollo and charismatic lead singer Maxi Jazz, who died in 2022. At their peak, they sold millions of records, performed all over the world and played giant festivals like Coachella and Glastonbury to hundreds of thousands of people.
Faithless is now toured solely by Sister Bliss, the keyboardist and songwriter. She speaks with Chloe Lula about the band's trajectory and the legacy left behind by Maxi Jazz. In her words, Faithless appeals to such a wide audience because its output isn't dance floor music in a traditional sense. Instead, it occupies a space where poetry, beats and melodies meet. With Maxi Jazz as their frontman, the group spoke to themes around human rights, politics, protest, equity, collapse, spirituality and the notion of dance music as a secular religion. Their transcendent live shows—which Sister Bliss will revive in 2025—have even been called a "church for the unchurched." Maxi Jazz was a practicing Buddhist monk whose lyrics and message of connection and compassion touched legions of fans over the years.
In this Exchange, Sister Bliss reflects on Maxi Jazz's death, being a mother on the road, continuing to release music under the Faithless banner and what it ultimately means to find salvation in faith, music, community and life at large. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.747 Patrick Mason
8 januari 2025 |
57 min
"Why would you care about anyone else's opinion?" The DJ and dancer talks about work ethic, living authentically and the power of lifting each other up.
DJ and dancer Patrick Mason emits high vibrations and high-energy dance music. But that wasn't always the case. Before he was playing the world's biggest techno festivals, he grew up in conservative Bavaria, where he claims that he "suppressed his truest self" as a closeted gay Black man. Born to an American GI father and a German mother, he learned the power of visualisation and hard work in order to launch himself to Berlin and the freedom of expression it represented. It was in the capital that he had his first sexual experiences and climbed the ranks of fashion and modelling, spending weekend stints at Berghain and immersing himself in the new world of techno.
Career burnout and the Covid-19 lockdowns set Mason down the path of DJing in 2020, and he's since carved out a niche as a party-starter known for flamboyant selections that accompany his elaborate dance routines behind (and even on top of) the decks. In this interview recorded live at ADE 2024, he speaks with Chloe Lula about the obstacles he's overcome to get to the top, personal trauma and struggles with self-acceptance, body dysmorphia, depression, and gay male culture's sometimes unrealistic physical ideals. He also discusses his ambitions to marry the worlds of fashion and music, and his vision for a more authentic music industry. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.744 Sven Marquardt
19 december 2024 |
51 min
"You go through this feeling to then be in freedom." The notorious photographer and bouncer talks about the ethos behind selecting the world's hardest door, early life in East Berlin and Berghain's 20th anniversary.
Today's Exchange guest is Berghain's infamous figurehead and doorman Sven Marquardt, who was born and raised in German Democratic Republic (GDR)-era East Berlin. He lived a rebellious life as a queer punk in Prenzlauer Berg, which banned him from entering Berlin's central districts because of how he looked. It was during these years that he congregated with fellow East Berlin new wave kids and began documenting their relationships and his own life through photography. When the wall fell, electronic music and the exciting scene that arose in the DDR's vacuum became Marquardt's focus. He started partying at gay fetish parties and bouncing doors at new clubs alongside his brother.
In this interview, he talks to RA Exchange producer Chloe Lula about how Berlin has evolved from his adolescence in the post-war years and his thoughts on the changes erasing institutions in the city's clubbing landscape today. He also reflects on the contemporary nightlife industry and how Berghain's policies have shifted with the times, initially catering to an almost exclusively gay male crowd but now welcoming a demographic more representative of the diversity of people who make up club culture. While German politics and the rise of the right wing have deeply affected him, he says, he recognizes the opportunities it enables for his community to use art and culture as a reactionary, countercultural force. Listen to the episode in full.
Photo by Torsten Ingvaldsen.
Audio overdubs by Marios Gavrilis.
EX.743 Palms Trax
12 december 2024 |
62 min
The beloved DJ unpacks his most influential records in our flagship live series, Playing Favourites, recorded at Dekmantel in August.
Palms Trax, the beloved British DJ and producer considered a "veteran" of the scene at only 33 years old, hit it big with a career breakout back in 2015. Since then, he's become known for his long-running radio show and record label, Cooking With Palms Trax, where he releases new music, reissues and more. His style is soulful, gravitating towards low-BPM house, disco, zouk and everything in between.
Recorded at Dekmantel in August, this RA Exchange is the latest edition of our flagship live series, Playing Favourites, where we invite artists to curate and dissect some of the records that shaped their approach to music. Palms Trax speaks to RA editor Gabriel Szatan about the song that acted as a gateway to his musical education; the track that turned him onto the idea of making music; and the band that he considers to be the "coolest of all time," as well as forthcoming music on his own label.
What unites these releases, Palms Trax says, is a powerful, ageless and immediately accessible sensibility. They aren't about technical mastery but about feeling. As music-making has become easier with the advent of perfectly engineered online samples, there's more and more appeal in music with humanity and character. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.742 MARICAS
5 december 2024 |
54 min
The trio behind our party of the year discuss creating space for the FLINTA community, their most outrageous live performances and more.
Resident Advisor is wrapping up the year, and alongside our best-of-2024 records and tracks lists comes our favourite party: Barcelona-based platform MARICAS. The self-described "loving and pervy LGBTQIA+ techno collective" started in 2018 when ISAbella, Eloisa Blitzer and graphic designer Gina Guasch decided it was time to create a fun space for queer women and nonbinary people in their city. Since then, MARICAS has become a celebrated international series, revealing in its ascent how much of the techno scene—even in its queerest corners—continues to cater to men.
In this RA Exchange, the trio talk about their humble origins as well as the ongoing obstacles they face in promoting the party in the face of discrimination. Performance plays an important role in their events, and they take an entertaining trip down memory lane, discussing some of the most outlandish theatrics and installations that have made it onto their dance floors: a Catholic confessional booth where the priest gave kisses, a livestreamed toilet stall where people undressed in front of the camera and a make-out session from figures covered in paint. Underneath the showmanship, however, is an unwritten code of respect and acceptance that extends far beyond the rave—their mission is to transform the social taboo surrounding difference into a positive force in our world. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.741 Joseph Capriati
28 november 2024 |
57 min
"I put all of my energy into what I do." The Italian DJ and producer talks about his undying passion for music, his take on "business techno" and how the scene has changed over the course of his long career.
Naples native Joseph Capriati has received criticism for being the "CEO of business techno." But the longtime artist is a genuine lover of all kinds of electronic music, from the incredibly niche to the more commercial strains he plays in Ibiza, intimate clubs and major festivals.
In this RA Exchange, Capriati talks about how he climbed to success in the electronic world, getting his start at the age of 11 (he's now 37) before being booked on the international circuit with breakout releases on CLR and Adam Beyer's Drumcode.
While Capriati has consistently ranked high in year-end polls and music roundups, no outside plaudits have impacted the choices he's made in his career. He's doggedly followed a lifelong passion for the underground and the community surrounding it. He opens up about the changes he's made in his personal life to facilitate his rise to the top, his struggle with his mental health, his turn towards sobriety and more. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.740 Gabrielle Kwarteng
21 november 2024 |
35 min
"I was surrounded by all walks of life." Live from Dekmantel, the New York native talks about how the Bronx shaped her taste in music, her long-time love of radio and blowing up on the international DJ circuit.
Gabrielle Kwarteng is a product of her diverse musical environment. The Berlin-based New Yorker has a unique sound that's dynamic and house-heavy, incorporating elements of acid, techno and everything in between. In this interview recorded live at Dekmantel, she discussed her upbringing in a Ghanaian household in the Bronx, and how that environment (and the neighborhood itself) moulded her taste in music. The community she grew up in was culturally rich, filled with the sounds of reggaeton, bachata, merengue and freestyle from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and beyond. As both of her parents moved from West Africa, she was introduced to a diet of highlife music and jazz from a young age.
Kwarteng's taste began to expand when she began exploring New York's record stores. Fast forward to university, and the aspiring DJ became deeply involved in her school radio station, which she describes as a turning point and a revelation. She speaks movingly about the abiding power that radio has had in her life—she continues to be involved with stations like Refuge Worldwide and The Lot, and soon NTS Radio, where she'll hold a residency beginning in 2025. She also talks about what it's like to be a female minority in the music industry, the experience of having her career take off at such rapid speed upon relocating to Europe and the importance of summoning optimism no matter the circumstances. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.739 RÜFÜS DU SOL
14 november 2024 |
64 min
"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. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.738 Sofia Kourtesis
7 november 2024 |
45 min
"I do activism as much as I can." The Peruvian DJ and producer talks about the human rights issues close to her heart, fighting for human rights and the incredible story behind her LP for Ninja Tune.
Sofia Kourtesis is a Peruvian DJ and producer based in Berlin known for her buoyant, upbeat music that channels and transmutes sociopolitical activism and personal hardship. While she's put out a number of solo works, her EP Fresia Magdalena and her debut LP, Madres—both of which came out on Ninja Tune—have been received with exceptional critical acclaim and put her on the map as a headlining touring artist. Both speak to some of the discrimination Sofia has felt as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community in South America, as well as how she's confronted difficult topics like family caregiving, illness and death.
In this RA Exchange recorded live at C2C Festival in Turin, she opened up about her mother's recent battle with cancer and the neurosurgeon who provided life-saving surgery (as a thank you, Kourtesis took him and his surgery team out to one of her shows in Berlin). She also discusses her commitment to human rights at length. For Kourtesis, music is a form of activism and healing; she uses it to talk about her Latin American community and the movements that are happening, to show the diverse range of demonstrations for equality, for the queer community and for abortion rights.
In a touching final moment of our talk, she opens up about the homophobia that ultimately caused her to leave her school in Lima and then to depart from Peru to Europe altogether. She's been based in Germany since she was 17. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.012 Quincy Jones
4 november 2024 |
25 min
In a very special Exchange from 2010, we caught up with a true legend of music. Here's what we said at the time:
Revered composer, producer and bandleader Quincy Jones may not have much to do with dance music in a literal context, but his fingerprints are all over it. The impact that his work has had on countless DJs and producers over the years hardly needs explaining. So when we were offered the chance to chat with Jones around a promotional tour for his brand new line of AKG headphones, we couldn't resist.
In a brief conversation, RA Todd L. Burns took the opportunity to ignore the elephants in the room, and focused his sights on a broader view of the man's career, uncovering some interesting insights as to how Jones views his work as painting with sound and how his classical training helped him make conservatory musicians play funk.
In this RA Exchange, the American music legend talks some of the parts of his career that simply don't get covered elsewhere.
EX.737 HAAi
31 oktober 2024 |
60 min
"We need to give more people a seat at the table." The Australian DJ and producer talks about exclusivity in the music industry, neurodivergence and London's thriving lesbian scene.
The London-based Australian artist Teneil Throssell (AKA HAAi) doesn't have a typical DJ story. She moved to London in the early 2010s as part of a now defunct psych rock band, and once it broke up, she thought her stint in the music industry was over. Unsure what to do with herself, she started mixing dance music records at the bar where she was working at the time, Ridley Road Market. The right person happened to "discover" her, offering her a spot supporting Jacques Greene at the London club Phonox. She went on to hold a residency there for two years, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Throssell's career blew up almost immediately. For the last eight years that she's been DJing, she's toured internationally on a massive scale, sometimes going to six different countries in one week. She's also released a number of EPs and one LP on Mute Records, remixed Kylie Minogue and started two labels of her own: Coconut Beats and Radical New Theory, which she runs with her partner. Her style is eclectic, but fans of hers will know her for her upbeat, techno- and acid-inflected sound.
In this RA Exchange, Throssell dives into some emotional and complex topics, like the criticism she received from RA for her early EP Systems Up, Windows Down; London's lesbian scene; her ADHD diagnosis; and climate activism in the electronic music industry. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.736 Bradley Zero
24 oktober 2024 |
66 min
"A system that's equal doesn't benefit the people that have the power." The Rhythm Section International founder talks about creating opportunities for Black artists and entrepreneurs, Caribbean conviviality and his abiding love for Peckham.
Bradley Zero, the DJ and founder of the label Rhythm Section International, is known for his commitment to his community. Zero grew up in a rich Caribbean culture in Leeds, where he and his family gathered in friends' living rooms to listen to music and eat home-cooked food. In opening Jumbi—the bar and listening space in London's Southeast neighborhood, Peckham—Zero has attempted to recreate this lively Caribbean conviviality. The venue is filled with his own personal record collection and one turntable. His style (as reflected in his imprint) celebrates house, soul, disco, funk and various shades of music from the afro-Caribbean diaspora.
In this RA Exchange, he talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the time he's been based there, how and when his career exploded from local pool hall gigs to an active global touring schedule and why he decided to study for an MBA. October is British Black History Month in the UK, and in this interview, Zero also discusses ways that he hopes to empower the Black British community to start their own businesses and assert power from the top echelons of the music industry. Rhythm Section International has started a touring series of free masterclasses called Future Proof, in which Zero and his team invite guests to teach hard skills on business and label management, how to cultivate a brand and much more. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.735 Sangre Nueva
17 oktober 2024 |
51 min
"There are so many different takes on reggaeton." The Latine supergroup discusses dembow, Afro-Caribbean music and more in this Playing Favourites live from C2C Festival.
This week's RA Exchange revisits one of Resident Advisor's flagship live formats, Playing Favourites, where we bring guests onto the pod to walk through their musical influences and play us some tracks that have been formative in their personal and creative development.
This week, we're honouring El Dia de la Raza—which happened on October 12th—an occasion that remembers the colonisation of Latin America and pays tribute to its heritage and cultural diversity. Our guest is Sangre Nueva, a trio made up of the artists DJ Python, Florentino and Kelman Duran. They all come from different backgrounds: Kelman is a Dominican multidisciplinary artist, Florentino is a musician of Colombian heritage signed to XL Recordings and DJ Python is Ecuadorian-Argentinian, releasing prolifically under a number of aliases in the worlds of ambient and club-adjacent music.
Together, their style explores pan-Caribbean musical styles, especially dembow, which is experiencing a parallel renaissance in the underground and commercial dance music spheres. In this conversation, they talk to journalist Christine Kakaire from last year's C2C Festival about what it means to approach Latin music from an experimental perspective to bring an amalgamation of Caribbean and Spanish-speaking musical cultures into their work. They also reflect on the stigma that was attached to reggaeton for a long time and the songs that represent its reclamation in the world of contemporary club music culture. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.734 A-Trak & The Blessed Madonna
10 oktober 2024 |
51 min
The smartbar affiliate talks to the Fool's Gold Records founder about climbing the ranks, DJ discourse and how to exist in commercial and underground scenes simultaneously.
This week's RA Exchange takes us to Chicago, where two big names—The Blessed Madonna and A-Trak—have a chat ahead of their back-to-back set at underground institution smartbar last month. These are two DJs who have been around the block. The Blessed Madonna (FKA The Black Madonna) is originally from Kentucky, but made her name in Chicago. She started out as an intern at smartbar and working at the local label Dust Trax, later becoming lead A&R and an established DJ in her own right.
A-Trak is a Canadian artist who cut his teeth as head honcho of Fool's Gold Records. He's known for having developed the careers of artists like Kid Cudi and Danny Brown, and he also formed Duck Sauce with Armand Van Helden, a project synonymous with the bloghouse era.
The two have a long history with Chicago, and they engage in a discussion about how they think the city looks from the outside. As one of the most segregated cities in the US, they say, what the rest of the world sees as one cohesive and unified hub for house music is instead divided by genre and area code. They also debate the complexities of existing in commercial and underground music worlds simultaneously, our collective over-fetishisation of the past, the stupidity of DJ discourse and Europe's tendency to impose its view of America—and American dance music—on the Midwest. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.733 Mount Kimbie
3 oktober 2024 |
52 min
"Our collaboration is greater than the sum of its parts." Kai Campos and Dominic Maker discuss their new album on Warp and what it felt like to work together again after years apart.
British outfit Mount Kimbie first made their mark with their 2010 release Crooks and Lovers, inspired by contemporaries like James Blake and King Krule. The group's two primary members, Kai Campos and Dominic Maker, met at London South Bank University, where they simultaneously became enamoured with the '00s dubstep scene and the intersection it paved between commercial stardom and the underground, illuminating an alternative path for artists, producers and selectors on a global scale. Together, they became synonymous with hazy electronics and lo-fi indie pop throughout the mid-'10s.
Over the last few years, Maker and Campos have pursued different paths: Maker moved to Los Angeles, where he's produced for hip-hop giants like Travis Scott and Jay-Z, while Campos explored the world of DJing and electronic music, releasing a number of mixes geared towards the club. But they reunited for the first time in years on their newest album, The Sunset Violent, which came out on Warp Records in April. In this RA Exchange, the duo talk about the recording process and what it felt like to work together again after spending so much time on independent projects. They also unpack the power of making art for art's sake and how their respective experiences in art and in life have taught them to be better creative partners. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.732 Repairing an Exploitative Recording Industry
26 september 2024 |
37 min
House music pioneer Vince Lawrence and law professor Dr. Olufunmilayo Arewa unpack how record companies have undermined Black musicians—and what we can do to enact change.
This past week, Resident Advisor screened and distributed a new, award-winning documentary called Taking Back the Groove. It tells the story of Bronx-born disco legend Richie Weeks, whose song "Rock Your World" with Weeks & Co. climbed to #1 on the dance charts in the 1980s.
Like many Black artists throughout American recording history, his talent was strip-mined to enrich corporate record labels. In the movie, Weeks and Still Music label owner Jerome Derradji narrate the story of how they clawed back the rights to Weeks' tracks, as well as the ongoing battle he's had to wage to restore his legacy and ownership over his creative work.
This story is, sadly, perennial, especially for artists of colour and otherwise marginalised musicians who continue to be sidelined by major players in the music industry. In this RA Exchange, Vince Lawrence—a Chicago-based house music producer and original founder of Trax Records—speaks with Washington DC-based guest Dr. Funmi Arewa, a graduate of Harvard Law School and UC Berkeley, and a current professor at George Mason University, where she teaches business law in the creative industries.
The two engage in a fascinating discussion about the history of the recording industry and the exploitation of marginalised artists that runs through its fabric. How do we make it easier for artists to claim things that are rightfully theirs? What if we could create incentives to create fairness at the core of how record labels function? Listen to their thoughts on these questions in the full episode.
EX.731 Laurel Halo
19 september 2024 |
45 min
"I fell in love with the piano again." The DJ and composer discusses the vulnerability of the creative process, returning to acoustic instruments and touring her latest album.
Laurel Halo has been circling around the club music world for a number of years, but she's only recently entered the echelons of jazz and contemporary classical. Originally from Michigan, she went to music school in Ann Arbor before moving to Berlin, and now Los Angeles, where she composed her album, Atlas—a release that's been met with widespread critical acclaim. She also played alongside Moritz von Oswald in his jazz outfit the Moritz von Oswald Trio, and released a number of eclectic, UK-tinged dance floor records on underground giants like Hyperdub and Livity Sound.
In this RA Exchange, Laurel Halo discusses the new direction of her music and what it's been like to tour it live with cellist Leila Bordreuil. She also talks about her creative inspiration (namely, the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and books by surrealist writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Italo Calvino), the practice of aesthetic minimalism more generally and the methods she uses to create subtle variations in pieces that are slow to evolve. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.730 Oscar Mulero
12 september 2024 |
56 min
"They were wild and crazy years." The Spanish techno icon discusses his early years in Madrid, running record labels and staying true to his sound for more than 30 years.
Spanish DJ and producer Oscar Mulero is a legend of underground techno. Since starting to play parties and make music more than 30 years ago, he's earned a reputation as an anti-conformist tastemaker who's adamantly stuck to his guns. While his trajectory began with Madrid's goth and punk clubs in the '90s, he eventually found techno in the early '00s and started two labels, PoleGroup and Warm Up, as homes for the hypnotic, spaced-out sound that's become his signature.
In this RA Exchange, Mulero reflects on the early days of the Spanish techno scene and how it's evolved, as well as his own roots and influences. Today, the artist is as active as he's ever been, he discusses how he's maintained longevity as an artist in the face of changing trend, as well as his best practices for making music at home and on the road. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.729 Lee Gamble
5 september 2024 |
60 min
"I'm a noodler." The vaunted experimental producer and DJ discusses his playful approach to engaging with philosophy and making art live at Atonal's OPENLESS in Berlin.
British artist Lee Gamble has long been captivating listeners with high concept dance music. A loyal affiliate of Kode9's Hyperdub label, Gamble—whose work sits somewhere at the intersection of philosophy, computer music and sound art—has been building weird and wonderful musical worlds that have shot him to experimental stardom since the early 2010s. In this RA Exchange recorded live from Hard Wax (at the one-off weekender Atonal OPENLESS), Gamble meditates on his penchant for eschewing conventions, beginning with growing up in the countercultural, working class hub of Birmingham.
Gamble reflects on the first time he experienced what's called "future shock", a reference to a book by the same name written by sci-fi author Alvin Toffler. It set him on the pursuit of finding and making music that had a similarly bizarre quality. Gamble isn't just a producer but an avid admirer and connoisseur of critical theory, and he also discusses the thinkers who have informed his production (and even his approach to DJing), as well as his recent interest in the ethics and applications of AI and deep fakes, which he explores in a touching full-length, Models. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.728 Anfisa Letyago
29 augusti 2024 |
48 min
"I always find inspiration from my city." The DJ and producer talks about her love of Naples, moving from the underground to the mainstream and her new audiovisual show.
If you've ever gone to big room techno hubs like Time Warp, DC-10, Awakenings or Rotterdam Rave, then Anfisa Letyago's name should be familiar to you. But Letyago actually comes from underground roots; before she played to thousands of people from the beaches of Ibiza, she was releasing on legacy labels like Hotflush, Kompakt, Nervous Records and Rekids, and collaborating with old guard artists like DJ Pierre.
In this RA Exchange, the Naples-based DJ and producer talks about the strategy she employed to make it to the top. Having become enamoured with Carl Cox during her first days of raving in Naples as a university student, she flew to one of his gigs and stood outside his hotel with her tracks on a USB. She was delighted when he took them and played them in his set that night. Shortly thereafter, Cox booked Letyago to play his curated stage at Ultra Music Festival and has since acted as a close mentor, teacher and friend.
Today, Letyago is preparing a live audiovisual show, Partenope, which straddles the boundary of techno and vocal-led pop. She also started her own label, NSDA—an homage to a volcanic island near Naples—and is preparing her first full-length album to be released on a sub-label of Sony Music. She also reveals some facts that fans may not know about her despite the intimate moments from her life she shares online. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.727 James Massiah
22 augusti 2024 |
65 min
The annual Caribbean street parade Notting Hill Carnival has taken place in London since 1966 to celebrate the influx of immigrants brought to the UK during Windrush. Carnival is a celebration of the rich and multifaceted artistic heritage that came with them, especially in the form of Afro-Caribbean music, dance and sound system culture.
The South London-born poet, producer and NTS Radio host James Massiah is one of a generation of musicians who has been influenced by the city's Afro-Caribbean cultural legacy. In this interview, he talks to Errol Anderson of the South London-based curatorial platform Touching Bass about his connection to London's sound systems and his own artistic evolution. His output centres around hedonism and what he calls "joyful living"—a reaction to the church community he grew up in. Many of the lyrics on his most recent EPs, like True Romance, paint a picture of drugs, partying, sex, addiction and heartbreak (he's even gone on to name his recurring poetry night Adult Entertainment). Music, he reflects, has provided a powerful and cathartic means to express himself and open up.
In his youth, Massiah wasn't just shaped by his church, he says, but by the Afro-Caribbean genres circulating through his neighborhood: '80s funk, raga, garage, grime and a form of Jamaican dancehall called Yardie. Later, as he was exposed to popular rock and house music, he took the sensibilities he heard in pop acts like Fleetwood Mac and applied them to a Caribbean musical framework. His sound palette is an uncanny amalgamation of Stevie Nicks' ethereal voice with the stylings of soca—a sub-genre that fuses calypso, reggae and Caribbean zouk. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.726 GiGi FM
15 augusti 2024 |
60 min
"Dancing has always been visceral to me." The DJ and producer talks about bringing movement into her music practice and the role mythology and meditation plays in art and life.
The Italian-French DJ, producer and dancer Giulia Fournier-Mercadante—AKA GiGi FM—has had a varied, multidisciplinary career. Originally a dancer, Fournier-Mercadante received a scholarship for the New York City Ballet and the contemporary dance outfit Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as a teenager. Finding the dancing world difficult to navigate, especially in its approach to body image, she graduated and moved to London to focus on music. It was there that she discovered techno and its capacity to heal. She started hosting a regular show on NTS, getting booked locally and then touring around the world.
Today, Fournier-Mercadante has integrated dance into her productions, which use motion sensors to transform physical movement into MIDI. Her use of her body as her basic instrument has led to a unique, kinetic sound palette that defines all of her tracks. In this Exchange, she unpacks how she's worked with this technique and rediscovered her love of dancing, as well as how spirituality, dream states and astrology inform her life and work. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.723 KMRU
25 juli 2024 |
56 min
"Soundscapes reveal a lot about how people think and behave." The field recordist and musician talks about listening culture, repatriating African sounds and his new album with The Bug.
Today's conversation moves away from the dance floor, focusing instead on the soft, ambient soundscapes of the Berlin-based musician Joseph Kamaru—AKA KMRU—whose work has been featured at festivals like CTM, Mutek, Atonal, Horst Music and Arts, Dekmantel, and Unsound; concert halls like The Barbican; and major galleries and site-specific installations around the world.
Kamaru moved to Europe from Nairobi, where he first became interested in music production, and field recordings specifically. As a graduate student in the sonic arts, he learned that the majority of the discourse around sound art practices is specific to Western Eurocentric or occidental ways of thinking. He's since embarked on a mission to use field recording as a means of repatriating African identities that are often left out of institutional archives and grapple with the legacy of colonialism.
In this RA Exchange, Kamaru reflects on the sociopolitical angle of his work, and his observation that listening, by its very nature, is never neutral. He also talks about how civilisation and technology has changed our collective listening habits; how sound sources beyond the human hearing range make their way into his work with the use of electromagnetic microphones; and his new album, Disconnect, made with the musician Kevin Richard Martin (AKA The Bug). Listen to the episode in full.
EX.722 Bicep
18 juli 2024 |
63 min
"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. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.721 Charli XCX
11 juli 2024 |
47 min
"I started in the clubs, and that's where my heart is." The British singer-songwriter and RA's newest cover star talks about her new album, BRAT, live from AVA London.
This week's Exchange is with Resident Advisor's latest cover star: Charli xcx. The British singer-songwriter has garnered a reputation as one of the most unpredictable and boundary-pushing pop artists of her generation, collaborating with contemporaries like A. G. Cook, Yaeji and the late SOPHIE. And she's now on the heels of her most recent album, BRAT, which came out in June and has already been lauded as one of the best albums of the year.
In this conversation recorded live at AVA London with journalist Chal Ravens, Charli xcx dives into the making of the album. She calls it a club record—that, she says, is "where her heart is." After posting songs on MySpace around 2008, she was asked to DJ at warehouse parties when she was still in her teens. She felt alive in that space, she remembers, doing crazy, embarrassing things.
Now in a different chapter of her life and career, she contemplates her desire to make challenging music that still appeals to a broad audience. It's a pendulum that swings radically in both ways, and she finds herself reinventing herself within the pop space and navigating that tension again and again. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.720 FJAAK
4 juli 2024 |
55 min
"It's a dream to share a passion with your best friend." The German duo talk about life on the road and writing their first album in six years.
Together, Felix Wagner and Aaron Röbig make up the dynamic duo FJAAK. As one of Germany's best-known nightlife exports, they've earned a reputation for being techno's "boy band," gracing the stages of festivals and clubs all over the world for the last ten-plus years.
Wagner and Röbig met in Spandau, an area just outside of Berlin, when they were both still in school. Equally interested in music (especially hip-hop), they started working on beats together alongside two other friends. The four-person group turned into FJAAK, and when they all moved to the city centre together after finishing their studies, they started living collectively and touring the project, achieving traction quickly.
FJAAK is now just a duo—the group dwindled from four people to three, and then, in 2019, to just Röbig and Wagner. They claim they're closer to soulmates than friends; they know everything about each other and seem so in tune as to be almost telepathic. "The super power we've evolved over the years is to live a harmonic life together," Wagner said.
In this RA Exchange, Röbig and Wagner talk about navigating through life with someone by their side, their thoughts on equality and meritocracy in the music industry, how they work together in the studio, their record label and their new album, FJAAK THE SYSTEM, which came out in May. Listen to the episode in full.
This episode was recorded and filmed at Pirate Studios.
EX.719 Kittin
27 juni 2024 |
55 min
"I'm finally enjoying what I built." The DJ and producer talks about 30 years in the music industry and what it means to live a creative life.
Caroline Hervé, AKA Kittin (FKA Miss Kittin), is a household name, primarily known for her contributions to the world of electroclash. As part of the duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Hervé wrote music that inspired a generation of artists drawn to electroclash's punky aesthetics, no-nonsense synth production and humorous, ironic lyrics and vocal delivery. In this Exchange, she unpacks how the electroclash scene became a home for artists seeking to push back against the rigidity of techno, ushering in a vanguard of performers like Peaches who created a safe space for queerness and unconventional femininity in the early 00s.
Now 50 years old, Hervé is still very much active on the touring circuit. Behind the decks she's as likely to play synth wave and electro as she is to play peak-time techno, and in the studio, her creativity knows no bounds. Much of her latest chapter has been defined by learning to age gracefully in the music industry, especially given the undue expectations and double standards placed on women. "I've made a decision never to touch my face," she says. "My boobs are getting bigger. I'm gaining weight. I'm reaching menopause soon. But these are things we need to talk about." Listen to the episode in full.
EX.718 BASHKKA
20 juni 2024 |
44 min
"My place of rebirth was New York." The DJ and producer discusses Brooklyn's queer ballroom scene and advocating for Munich's queer community at BLITZ Club.
BASHKKA is a name you might recognise from festival lineups. In fact, it seems to be everywhere these days. The Munich-based artist has seemingly blown up in the past 24 months, but her ascent is well-deserved. The Munich-based DJ has been a resident at BLITZ Club for two years since returning from a decade-long stint in New York, where she quickly found family with Brooklyn's trans community. While she's now living back in Germany, the experience ignited a lifelong commitment to her advocacy for the cultural, political and de-colonial advancement of electronic music. She is an activist for Southwest Asian and North African artists across the scene, especially those from queer femme backgrounds or who have been otherwise marginalised from the mainstream dance music narrative.
In this interview with the Exchange's senior producer Chloe Lula, BASHKKA talks about her roots and how the dichotomy of growing up to a Turkish family in Bavaria—and then living within the trans community in New York—has shaped her creativity and her outlook on family and life. She also talks about her debut EP, Maktub, on Nene H's label Umay, where she explores a mixture of ballroom, ghetto tech, house and the legacy of her years in New York. According to the artist, it's a "hot stew of seduction"—and it's only a prelude of what's to come. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.717 DJ Pierre
13 juni 2024 |
46 min
"We were searching for our own voice." The Chicago artist talks about pioneering the sound of acid house and the spirit of experimentation in early dance music.
The Chicago-based Nathaniel Pierre Jones—AKA DJ Pierre—may be best known for forming the "squelch" we now call acid. When he and his friends Spanky and Herb J picked up a TB-303 in a pawn shop, they captured the sound of the knobs being turned as a pattern started to run. While this wasn't how the instrument was intended to be used, they were enthralled by the result, reproducing it and releasing it as an EP called Acid Tracks under the name Phuture in 1987. The result was the birth of the acid house era and a new, international musical craze.
In this RA Exchange recorded live at International Music Summit in Ibiza, Jones retraces the acid craze and the nature of experimentation and risk-taking more generally. In his view, there's a marked absence of this mindset in contemporary dance music as many producers have become accustomed to using sample packs, presets and generally operating within workflows that stymie originality. At the end of the interview, he raises important questions around if and how the music being released today enhances our lives, as well as what a truly transcendent and mutually supportive industry could look like. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.716 Wolfgang Tillmans
6 juni 2024 |
58 min
The photographer and musician discusses his love of nightlife, the origins of his music practice and his new album.
This week's Exchange—falling on the first week of Pride Month—features the acclaimed artist Wolfgang Tillmans, a figure who has become known for documenting Berlin's queer nightlife culture. But Tillmans isn't just active behind the camera. He's also an outspoken activist for the international LGBTQIA+ community and the wave of conservatism rearing its head against gender and reproductive rights around the world. His evocative photos invite viewers to look at society straight in the face, question the status quo and harness the power of collective resistance to normative, capitalist ways of living. An ardent fan of electronic music, he also captures artists and DJs at the heart of underground club culture. When he started taking photos in the '90s, it was at the acid house parties blossoming around Germany and the UK.
Now entering the height of his career at 55, Tillmans has been profiled multiple times in major magazines like the New Yorker and given career-spanning solo retrospectives at the MoMa in New York, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, The Centre Pompidou in Paris and countless galleries across the world, including David Zwirner, which represents him.
While it's widely acknowledged that Tillmans enjoys participating in club culture, what might be less well known is that he actually makes music himself. In recent years, he's begun putting out albums on his own label, fragile, creating new wave-tinged electronica that nods to early synth pop. Tillmans released his debut album, Moon in Earthlight, in 2021 and he's now celebrating the release of his second album, Build From Here, where he explicitly sings about human rights and violations against the LGBTQIA+ community. Overall, its message is one of hope and excited apprehension about the future and the arts' place within it. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.715 Tijana T
30 maj 2024 |
59 min
"Being a part of this scene is already a political act." The longtime DJ discusses politics in dance music and Ex-Yugoslavia's dynamic anti-establishment creative culture.
Tijana Todorovic (AKA Tijana T) proudly hails from the Ex-Yugoslavian capital Belgrade. The Serbian city, alongside the territories now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia, were once under singular socialist rule that Tijana describes as a "utopian time" that fostered intense creativity and counter-cultural art and music. A liberal communist republic that didn't operate under the influence of the USSR, as many Eastern European countries did at that time, Yugoslavia gave birth to a dynamic, anti-establishment performance culture rooted in new wave, feminism and everything non-mainstream.
In her RA Exchange with senior producer Chloe Lula, Tijana reflects on how growing up in this environment irrevocably shaped her values and taste in music, as well as how the civil war—and Yugoslavia's subsequent fall—defined the period of intense fear and poverty that followed. In Serbia, techno and nightclubs became an energetic force for young people seeking solace, community and sociopolitical change. Tijana went on to work as a TV and radio journalist that fought vehemently against the war, and to break out as an artist beyond the Ex-Yugoslavian territory. She talks about her unlikely trajectory, her view on the intrinsic connection between politics in dance music, underdeveloped music markets, sobriety and more. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.714 Juan Atkins
23 maj 2024 |
52 min
"What is it about my music that's touching other people?" One of the forefathers of techno reflects on his legacy, the state of techno music and the city of Detroit live from IMS.
Most people in nightlife are familiar with the name Juan Atkins. One of the originators of techno, he grew up in Belleville, a middle-class suburb of Detroit, and would become one of the Belleville Three alongside Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. This first wave of Detroit techno artists was inspired by the late night emissions of radio DJ The Electrifying Mojo—a late-night presenter who famously mixed different synth music, like Krautrock and the German outfit Kraftwerk—and the writing of futurists like Alvin Toffler, who imagined a different, utopic vision of urban life and technology.
In this keynote interview recorded live at International Music Summit in Ibiza, Atkins reflects on his roots and the musical movement that's grown from his first experiments with techno in the '80s. Returning to his adolescence, he unpacks the origins of his electro collaboration Cybotron, his solo project Model 500 (coming to Houghton this year) and his label, Metroplex, which became a blueprint for a hoard of techno imprints that would emerge in its wake. Now 61, Atkins also reflects on the broader impact music has had on his life—he has given lectures on the intersection of physics, music and spirituality—as well as the remaining stones left unturned as he enters the (very much still active) sunset in his career. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.713 CJ Bolland
16 maj 2024 |
48 min
Recorded live at Brussels festival Listen, the veteran talks about leading the birth of acid techno and the sound of proto-techno in Belgium.
At the turn of the '90s, Belgium was under the twin influences of early techno and '80s new beat. It was artists like CJ Bolland who helped usher these two sounds together, bridging the low-slung sludge of bands like A Split Second and Lords of Acid with the futuristic chug of Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills and Detroit's first guard.
Bolland grew up in Antwerp and was exposed to underground music from his parents, who owned a club. Eventually beginning to produce himself, he helped create the early acid rave sound that would take over Europe. He signed to then-powerhouse label R&S Records with his career-defining single, "Horsepower," in 1991, and from there embarked on a prolific touring career.
In this Exchange, he talks to RA's senior producer Chloe Lula live from Listen Festival in Brussels, diving deep into Belgium's unique musical landscape and his thoughts on how it's evolved in response to its position between major techno hubs like The Netherlands and France. A massive gear head, Bolland also shares his favourite tools and reflects on how the state of music-making has changed in the years since he first started his career. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.712 Liaison Artists
9 maj 2024 |
65 min
"There's a double edged sword to success." The North American booking agency shares insights on the state of the music scene and how they grew their enterprise from the ground up.
Andrew Kelsey and Mariesa Stevens started Liaison Artists—the North American booking agency that represents acts like BICEP, Maceo Plex, Dixon, Honey Dijon and many more—20 years ago. At that time, the nightlife landscape was different than the one we inhabit today; there were fewer artists, more localised scenes and a nascent but passionate group of artists leading the development of techno.
In this interview with RA music editor Andrew Ryce, Kelsey and Stevens talk about the agency's humble origins in San Francisco and the challenges they overcame to get their enterprise off the ground, developing it into the power house it is today. They also spend time discussing the temperature of the contemporary climate: a swing towards new sounds and an influx of new, young talent competing for a finite number of club and festival slots. In their view, the environment, while competitive, is fertile ground for a new, exciting era of clubbing and electronic music—and a newfound challenge to stay true to their sound in a scene that's changing rapidly. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.711 Moby
2 maj 2024 |
66 min
Moby got his big break in the '90s when he released the hit "Go" followed by the hugely successful studio album Play, which has been included in countless movie and TV soundtracks. But beyond the limelight, the US artist has also gone through immense struggle. Raised in a working-class family in a wealthy part of Connecticut, he often felt displaced as a child, eventually moving to a disused factory space to make music before finally relocating to New York and trying his hand at being a DJ.
In this interview, Moby reflects on the early days of his time in New York. Rejected from all the record labels he sent his demos to, he felt like an outsider, choosing to frequent clubs like The Loft and Paradise Garage before finally becoming a resident DJ at the now-defunct club Mars. He also talks about living with panic disorder, anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse, and how he's turned his life towards activism and animal rights. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.710 Nia Archives
25 april 2024 |
50 min
"There are more safe spaces for women to be themselves." The UK star discusses the diversity of the jungle scene and her new album, Silence Is Loud.
UK DJ and producer Nia Archives is among a coterie of new artists who are infusing drum & bass and jungle with heartfelt lyrics, lush chords and crowds that are more diverse and inclusive than ever before.
Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, she grew up around a rich sound system culture, developing an early interest in documentary video and choral music from her church. She left home young, setting out to London on her own to pursue a dream of making it in music and self-releasing a string of debut EPs.
In the last two years, the 24-year-old has garnered a huge following. Her fans have fallen in love with her heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics taken straight from the pages of her diary—she calls herself an "emotional junglist"—as well as her fun, inclusive approach to a historically male-dominated scene. In this interview with Chloe Lula, she talks about her party series and her debut album, Silence Is Loud, produced alongside renowned songwriter and producer Ethan P. Flynn. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.709 Hyperaktivist and Yazzus
18 april 2024 |
63 min
"We always put minorities to the front." The Mala Junta cofounder and affiliate talk about prioritising femme queer ravers, the value of local party crews and not taking themselves too seriously.
Friends and colleagues Hyperaktivist and Yazzus share one important value: putting marginalised folks to the front. The Venezuelan and Ghana-via-London artists, respectively, met in Berlin not long after Yazzus went to the Berlin-based Mala Junta party, a collective co-founded by Hyperaktivist, DJ Tool and door selector Nyaam Hassany. Yazzus was asked to be a party resident and has collaborated with the crew extensively, playing their shows and helping curate lineups ever since.
In this RA Exchange with Berlin DJ and journalist Juba, the two talk about their shared passion for better representation on party lineups and what authentic diversity means in a climate that often privileges checking boxes and meeting quotas. They also talk about their solo endeavours, their trajectories into dance music and their shared passion for nurturing the growth of homegrown parties and scenes. Amid Berlin's rising prices (and competition), they reflect that the ideals of collaboration and connection remain stronger than ever before. Listen to the conversation in full.
EX.708 CC:DISCO!
11 april 2024 |
64 min
"I discovered how to build sound systems at our dairy farm." The DJ talks about growing up in rural Australia, starting her own label and more in this Playing Favourites live from Pitch Music & Arts.
On this week's Exchange, we reintroduce our flagship live format, Playing Favourites, where artists discuss the songs that shaped their taste in music. Today's episode features CC:DISCO! at Pitch Festival in Australia. As the artist's name suggests, her style fuses disco with French touch, synth-driven electro and funk; she's collaborated with artists like Jennifer Loveless and released her first EP with Erol Alkan on his label Phantasy Sound, and last year she launched her own imprint, Miami Daddy.
In this interview, CC:DISCO! plays songs that were formative in her career development and reflects on growing up outside of big cities. Born and raised on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, FM radio became her cultural lifeline and her first introduction to dance music. The artist also talks about working with indigenous promoters from beyond Sydney (Eora) and Melbourne (Naarm), the music that defines Australia today and the protest songs that have helped serve as the backdrop for the First Nations fight for representation and sociopolitical change. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.707 Gabber Eleganza
4 april 2024 |
68 min
"It's a pure form of love." The hardcore artist talks about collecting ephemera from rave zines, working in high fashion and his undying love for the gabber community.
Alberto Guerrini, better known as Gabber Eleganza, has made a name for himself as a hardcore and gabber DJ, as well as a fervid documenter of the culture that surrounds it. Growing up in Italy, he started going to raves at a club called Number One Hardcore before eventually traveling to the Netherlands with his parents' blessing and starting to DJ himself.
Guerrini's love of hardcore spilled over into a Tumblr blog he started in 2011, a project that aggregated the rave zines, photos and stories he collected from his time spent in the gabber community. The goal of the project, he says in this interview, was to build up anthropological dialogues on the "sonic landscape and aesthetic of the hardcore continuum." The online compendium contains amazing pieces of hardcore ephemera: clippings of Soviet era rave zines, letters ex-ravers sent to the hardcore community from jail and Guerrini's own appendices providing context around the global subculture.
Much of this archival work made its way into a book that Guerrini published with artists Ewen Spencer Mark Leckey called Hardcore Soul, a photography collection that traces the similarities and relationships between hardcore and the UK's Northern Soul movement. He discusses this and more—including his own label, Never Sleep, and his work with the fashion industry and art worlds—in this conversation with Chloe Lula. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.706 Julia Holter
28 mars 2024 |
51 min
"The Beatles blew my mind." The LA artist talks about her new album—Something in the Room She Moves—writing music while pregnant and how she works in the studio.
The LA-based composer and musician Julia Holter has garnered a reputation for releases that toe the hazy edge of shoegaze and dream pop, always skirting the contours of the electronic music world.
On today's RA Exchange, she takes a deep dive into her sixth studio album, Something in the Room She Moves, with music editor Andrew Ryce. Holter talks about writing all but one of the songs while she was pregnant ("Evening Mood" even captures a sample of her child's ultrasound, recorded from her phone), which lends the album a warmth and tenderness unparalleled in any of her past releases. But it's also a somber record; her nephew died while she was recording it, an event that forced her to process the complexity and gravity of two conflicting, converging experiences while composing.
For the technically inclined, Holter also discusses how she works in the studio and manages post-production. As the artist tells Ryce, she likes to play with resonant frequencies and processing that puts each of the sounds she records into the same sonic world on a record, using effects and composition tricks to give everything what she calls a "sensuous vibe." Something in the Room She Moves is out now on Domino Records. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.705 horsegiirL
21 mars 2024 |
51 min
"Humans think they're top of the hierarchy." The Live From Earth member talks about growing up in Sunshine Farms, the perils of competition in the music industry and how TikTok changed her career.
You might know horsegiirL from her horse mask, her viral singles on TikTok or her hugely popular online videos. The DJ and producer—who famously never breaks character—has launched into popularity over the past two years, bringing her frenetic and contemporary style of hardstyle-meets-Europop mash-ups to dance floors around the world. Her fans, or "farmies," go crazy for her music, donning cowboy hats and pitchforks at all of her shows.
In this episode of the RA Exchange, horsegiirL sits down with senior producer Chloe Lula to talk about her upbringing in Sunshine Farms and the key differences between the animal kingdom and the human world. They also discuss her involvement with the Berlin-based label Live From Earth Klub, an irreverent art and DJ collective featured as part of our latest cover story. (Two of the crew's other key artists, DJ Gigola and MCR-T, also mixed this week's RA Podcast.) Listen to the horsegiirL episode in full.
EX.704 Mary Anne Hobbs
14 mars 2024 |
59 min
"You could feel the ground shifting beneath you." The long time BBC Radio host talks about her party, All Queens, her love for SHERELLE and music as a force for good.
Resident Advisor continues its celebration of Women's History Month (and International Women's Day) with a special conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs. The long time BBC Radio presenter has been a diehard documenter of music culture and a radio fanatic ever since she was a young girl. As she recounts in this episode, the transistor she kept in secret while growing up became her getaway to another universe, a beacon of hope that she listened to every night under the covers at home.
In 1996, she became a host at BBC Radio 1. It was a time when there were few women involved in the music industry in general, and few people at all championing leftfield electronic music. Hobbs famously started the Breezeblock show and championed dubstep and grime, pushing new artists whose work she admired and helping usher them into the limelight.
Today Hobbs' iconic voice is still hosting the radio every day—this time at Radio 6. She's leading an exciting project called All Queens, a platform that started as a radio show for women's music that has quickly turned into a touring club night at fabric run by and starring women, from the sound engineers to the bouncers and headliners of the night. Hobbs discusses the platform and is joined by close friend SHERELLE, who dissects some of the nuances in representation the scene fails to overlook when it discusses gender in nightlife. The pair recently performed sets together at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival. Listen to the episode in full.
This episode was recorded at Recorded at Pirate Studios – Recording, Rehearsal, DJ, Podcast and Dance studios spread across New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles and beyond. For more information, visit pirate.com.
EX.703 Ciel
7 mars 2024 |
42 min
"Every opportunity to learn something new is what's going to grow your craft as an artist." The Toronto star talks discipline and gaining self-confidence as a producer.
Cindy Li, AKA Ciel, always seems to be one step ahead. The label head, DJ, producer and activist has a hard-won career that dance music producers dream of—when she's not playing underground institutions across the globe, maintaining radio residencies, planning her own parties or collaborating with her favourite artists, she's thinking about what's next. "I'm the type of person that I'll stay up trying to finish everything rather than going to bed knowing that I didn't finish everything on my list," she tells RA's Nyshka Chandran in this week's episode.
The Toronto resident is a conservatory-trained pianist who uses the discipline she learnt from a lifetime of lessons to balance DJing and production. "For me, it is challenging to juggle both because they use very different parts of my brain," she describes. A deep digger whose love for atmospheric textures and '90s grooves influences her fresh take on UKG, tech-house and jungle, Li has been putting out music since 2017. She has various EPs and singles under her name, plus several joint releases with the likes of Dan Only, D.Tiffany and Priori but says she didn't always have the confidence for a solo full-length.
"I never thought I could write an album," she admits. But after playing live for the first time at MUTEK Montréal in 2021, that changed, leading to the 2023 release of Homesick, her debut album. "Don't ever let fear influence your decision-making," she says, describing how that show pushed her to overcome lingering doubts in the studio.
For more on Li's process, listen to the episode in full.
EX.702 Ben Frost
29 februari 2024 |
60 min
"I often myself being responsible for a film's music, but also fighting for its absence." The composer discusses movie scoring, his love of opera and his new album, Scope Neglect, on Mute Records.
The multidisciplinary Australian artist Ben Frost might best be known for his score work: he's soundtracked Netflix shows like Dark and its spinoff 1899, as well as a number of major motion pictures and video games. While his formal studies were in visual art, he started experimenting with music-making from an early age, homing in on a unique sound that is truly a melange of his influences in punk, black metal, classical and modern minimalism. His unique approach to composition has led him to some extreme places to capture field recordings, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Amazon rainforest and the empty hulls of fishing boats docked on the banks of Icelandic port towns. Artists like Steve Albini, Björk, Brian Eno and the band SWANS have tapped Frost to work with them, and he's performed extensively as a solo performer and as part of an A/V outfit at the world's biggest festivals and art world circuits.
In this episode of the RA Exchange, he sits down with senior producer Chloe Lula to discuss his latest venture, a full-length album, Scope Neglect, on Mute. It pulls heavily from his proclivity for guitar music and metal, but still nods to the cinematic minimalism that has become one of his work's primary tropes. Frost dissects some of the recording techniques he used to make the record—he borrowed from the methods used by Mark Hollis of the band Talk Talk—as well as his studio practice, his love of opera and his approach to writing scores. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.701 Daniel Avery
22 februari 2024 |
48 min
"The road is incredible but has a lot of pitfalls." The fabric resident discusses striking the balance between DJing and production, the challenges of a life on tour and choosing to stick out.
Daniel Avery wasn't expecting to make it big. Born in the seaside town of Bournemouth, his early musical diet consisted of shoegaze, post-punk, electroclash and indie rock; he was a die hard fan in attendance at every local live show. But when he moved to London, he was introduced to dance music and became immersed in nightlife, meeting artists like Erol Alkan and Andrew Weatherall who were using the sounds of guitar bands with techno and electronic music for the dance floor. Soon Daniel was working out of a studio next to Weatherall's—who became his longtime mentor—and started warming up the dance floor at fabric on a regular basis. His debut album, Drone Logic, was released to critical acclaim in 2013, and has been followed by six more full-lengths and a number of EPs and singles since.
In this episode of the RA Exchange, Avery reflects on the shock of being catapulted into the limelight after Drone Logic's unexpected success, and the ongoing struggle he's contended with as he's taken on a full-time touring schedule as a DJ. He also touches on his eclectic range of influences and how he's integrated them in his forthcoming album and newly revitalised fabric party series, Divided Love, which launches on March 2. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.700 Detroit's Blueprint: Episode 1
15 februari 2024 |
64 min
Our landmark 700th episode in partnership with Detroit’s Blueprint presents the first in a new three-part series exploring the untold history of Detroit techno from the perspective of the women who built it.
The history of Detroit techno is often recounted in waves. First there was the Belleville Three—Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May—closely followed by a second cohort of artists who further developed the sound in the '90s. Names like Carl Craig, Octave One, Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and Mike Banks are among those that have been codified in the official annals of techno history.
But there's another, lesser known story that is seldom told about the women who grew the scene right alongside them. Equally esteemed artists like DJ Minx (the founder of Women On Wax Recordings), K-Hand, DJ Cent, Stacey Hotwaxx Hale and more ran labels, collectives and DJ nights that aren't bestowed with the same credit as those from their male counterparts, and have consequently been lost in the chronicles of time. For the 700th episode of the RA Exchange, we counter correct this gender inequity with the first episode of a three-part series hosted and produced by the all-female Detroit collective and party series Blueprint.
Alanna Greenlee, Janisa Nelson and Crystal Mioner embark on interviews that illuminate an alternative history of Detroit techno that unfurled alongside these better-documented techno waves, tracing the birth of a woman-led community that put mutual support at its heart and fought to earn respect from their male peers and the scene at large. Listen to the episode in full.
Credits:
Produced by Blueprint
Hosts: Alanna Greenlee, Janisa Nelson, Crystal Mioner
Guests: DJ Minx and DJ Cent
Writer/Researcher: Crystal Mioner
Technical Production: Janisa Nelson
Consultant: John Collins
Consultant: Conor Anderson
EX.699 Phase Fatale
8 februari 2024 |
47 min
The Berghain resident talks about re-queering the goth scene, exploring a lighter side of his sound and preparing for marathon closing sets.
Hayden Payne, AKA Phase Fatale, grew up fully immersed in the world of music; his dad is a recording engineer and musician, as are many members of his family. After joining post-punk outfits like Dream Affair and consuming a diet of new wave and synth from parties like Wierd in New York, Payne eventually relocated to Berlin, where he saw possibilities emerge around ways of fusing guitar music with sounds for the dance floor. It was only shortly after relocating that he landed a residency at Berghain and began releasing his own productions as a techno artist, becoming known for darker-edged sets and productions that fuse industrial, EBM and techno.
In this episode of the RA Exchange, he talks to senior producer Chloe Lula about all of this and more, like "re-queering" the goth scene; exploring a lighter side of his sound with his Italo duo, Soft Crash; his label, BITE Records; and sustaining strong ties to dance floors in Kyiv and Tbilisi, two cities that he reflects as being refreshingly socially and politically motivated for queer artists living in the margins. His new EP as Soft Crash, NRG, is out now. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.698 Ron Trent
1 februari 2024 |
51 min
"Art and music are the same, they're just different dialects." The Chicago house music legend talks about co-curating the photo exhibit Walk The Night and nightlife's '90s heyday.
Ron Trent grew up in Chicago, where he dreamed of being a musician from a young age. He would end up becoming one of the architects of the Chicago house sound and working alongside contemporaries like Chez Damier, and across the pond, Basic Channel. His label, Prescription Records, became a renowned purveyor of the deep house sound. He spread his vision from the American Midwest to New York, Europe and beyond.
In this talk recorded live at Miami Art Week, Trent talks to Resident Advisor music critic Kiana Mickles about the songs and dance floors that shaped him in this early part of his musical trajectory. In addition to playing some of his favourite jazz, funk and disco songs, he reflects on clubs like Studio 54, Paradise Garage and The Warehouse, which he claims matured him as an artist and irrevocably shaped the trajectory of club culture. Trent was instrumental in co-curating an exhibit called Walk The Night (which premiered at this multidisciplinary event), a photographic homage to these spaces and other historic clubs around the world.
To hear more about the legacy of Trent's favourite clubs and the music that shaped him, listen to the episode in full.
EX.697 Yvonne Turner
25 januari 2024 |
42 min
In this live talk with Tama Sumo, Lakuti and musclecars, the New York legend sets the record straight.
DJ, producer and remixer Yvonne Turner was one of the only women instrumental in shaping New York's early house scene, yet her story has gone largely undocumented. Born in Harlem in 1953, she started DJing regularly by the late '70s, playing weekly parties in Flatbush and getting her musical education at The Loft. There, she says, she learned how "good music" should sound. It inspired her to start going to the studio and sharing her musical revelations with other people.
As a woman producer, she was often relegated to the small print on records, bumped to associate or co-producer status or marked as a mixer instead of a remixer. Many of the male vocalists she worked with got credit for the music. But Turner penned some acclaimed house tracks, such as "Set Fire To Me," "Music Is The Answer" and the official remix of Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight." While Turner took a back seat for a few years, deciding to teach in elementary schools and wind down her touring, she recently got back in the studio and wants to set the record straight about the history of house and her place—and many other women's—within it.
This conversation was moderated by Tama Sumo, Lakuti and the DJ duo musclecars live at Public Records in New York. Listen to the conversation in full.
EX.696 Annie Nightingale
18 januari 2024 |
46 min
In this re-run from 2020, the late DJ and radio host reflects on memories from BBC Radio 1, disrupting the patriarchy and the keys to success in broadcasting.
Annie Nightingale, who died last week at the age of 83, was the first women radio presenter on BBC Radio 1-and the longest serving broadcaster in the station's history. She became known for championing new, underground music and led the movement for women to become DJs and broadcasters, becoming a necessarily disruptive force across radio and live music.
Fans of Nightingale's knew her as the Queen of Breaks, given her strong affinity for the sound. But she also introduced listeners to prog rock, punk, indie and dance music, and was unfeignedly passionate about them all. While she had no technical know-how when she started at the BBC, that didn't stop her. Despite her parents' request to "have something to fall back on," she dove head first into broadcasting, establishing herself quickly and even braving listeners' expectations by booking acts who weren't considered trendy or mainstream at the time.
In this archival conversation with Martha Pazienti Caidan—who worked closely with Nightingale at BBC Radio 1—she discusses her memories and encounters in the music industry: being sworn at by Johnny Rotten; touring with Underworld; discovering her love for drill and grime; and the keys to success for aspiring broadcasters. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.695 Eastern Margins
11 januari 2024 |
49 min
Get familiar with Southeast Asia's myriad forms of maximalist dance music.
Around Asia-Pacific, more producers and DJs are experimenting with popular music. From Vinahouse in Vietnam to dangdut in Indonesia, these interpretations of happy hardcore, house and gabber have traditionally been played out in taxi cabs, cybercafes and other public spaces but they're now increasingly being heard on the club circuit amid demand for culturally authentic sounds. Embraced by the likes of Manila Community Radio, Gabber Modus Operandi and others, these hybrid styles of high-BPM rave are part of a global movement championing local dance music—just look at the meteoric rise of South African and Afro-Portuguese genres like amapiano and batida.
Since 2018, London collective Eastern Margins has been playing out music from North and Southeast Asia at parties in an effort to educate audiences on the region's diverse landscape of fast-paced club tunes. Speaking to Resident Advisor's Nyshka Chandran, cofounder David Zhou, AKA LUMI, dives into the cultural context behind Southeast Asian genres like budots and manyao, explaining their connection with contemporary rave music and the self-sustaining ecosystem behind their popularity at home.
Listen to the conversation in full.
EX.694 Crystallmess
4 januari 2024 |
56 min
"I didn't see myself in French electronic music." The Parisian artist talks about representation, Southern rap and Notting Hill Carnival's enduring influence on her music live from C2C Festival.
Crystelle Oyiri, the artist otherwise known as Crystallmess, has had a circuitous route through dance music. In this Exchange recorded live at C2C Festival with Whitney Wei, the Ivoirian-Guadeloupean artist discusses how she never saw herself represented in French techno, where artists like Daft Punk reigned supreme. "When you don't see yourself, you can't tell yourself that [music] is what you want to do," she reflects. Instead, she fell in love with Southern rap and artists like DJ Screw, who ignited her passion for music before she began experimenting with beats for the dance floor.
Today, Oyiri is a full-time electronic music artist. A resident of NTS radio, she's also released on labels like PAN and created original productions for films and fashion brands, including Ottolinger. Her unique production style combines melodic techno, afro-trance, abrasive dancehall and what she calls "synthetic music"—genre-fluid mixes that switch effortlessly between pummeling techno cuts, high-speed electro and melodic trance. Listen to the conversation in full.
EX.693 SALOME
28 december 2023 |
38 min
"When I first heard electro, I had an epiphany." The Georgian artist and Herrensauna resident talks about the genre she loves most, preparing for sets and remaining authentic to her sound.
SALOME, now one of the scene's foremost purveyors of electro, has shot up in popularity over the last two years. Hailing from Tbilisi, she now lives in Berlin and is a resident of Herrensauna, where she's become a champion of the fast-paced dance music that the group tours worldwide. She's also graced the lineups of festivals like Pitch, Wire, and Dekmantel - where this talk was recorded live - and has released searing electro on labels like Lobster Theremin, Mechatronica, International Chrome, Darknet and more.
In this interview moderated by Souhayla Ou-Oumar, SALOME talks about first falling in love with electronic music after a visit to Kyiv. She says she heard every local artist playing electro and breakbeats instead of techno, and she hasn't turned back since.
The artist plays multiple gigs each weekend, and she talks about the process behind her preparation. She spends hours each week digging for music in multiple genres, creating what she calls "sound maps" for each of the territories she DJs in. This can be tricky, SALOME says, especially when she appears in places like Italy and Spain that expect to hear techno. But no matter where she's booked, she says she makes it a goal to remain true to her sound. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.692 US Artist Visas
21 december 2023 |
51 min
This panel live from Wire Festival examines the insidious costs and possible solutions for a problem that continues to mire touring DJs.
Artists applying for a US artist visa face multiple obstacles: application fees of up to 6,000 USD, long wait times and lack of insurance or accountability should their visas be denied. What's more, the process must be completed every few years, ushering in a new cycle of potential roadblocks.
In this panel recorded live at Wire Festival in New York, moderator Tyler Myers—Wire Festival's co-director—talks to Téa Abashidze, the booker and co-founder of Basement; David Amar, the co-founder of the International Artist Assistance Agency Fanfare; and Joe Sigmund, a partner and senior agent at the booking agency Surefire. Together they discuss how the process's prohibitive costs impact the electronic music ecosystem and homogenizes lineups. They also explore ways forward, including the power of musicians unions and nonprofit organizations to help engineer a more equitable and sustainable path for our scene. How do other countries, like Canada, deal with artist visas? And what happens when the US government raises visa application fees further, as was proposed in a recent push for tightening legislative change?
Resident Advisor and Basement will be looking at this issue in more detail in 2024. In the meantime, listen to the episode in full.
EX.691 C.FRIM
14 december 2023 |
29 min
"When I got started, there wasn't much diversity at all." The young DJ discusses Australia's QTBIPOC community, debuting at Dekmantel and more live from Pitch Festival.
Australian talent Charlotte Frimpong, the DJ better known as C.FRIM, has become one of the country's most in-demand DJs over the last year. The Ghanian-Filipina artist kickstarted her career with a Boiler Room set at Sugar Mountain in December 2022, and since then, she's toured around Europe (and debuted at Dekmantel), becoming known for digging deep into her musical ancestry and weaving amapiano and Afro-electronic sounds creatively through her sets.
In this interview recorded live at Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Frimpong talks to journalist Tanya Akinola about "air DJing" in her bedroom before being able to afford gear, and how her career has skyrocketed at such a rapid rate. Even though she hasn't been a name on the stage for a long time, she's managed to carve out a unique space for the QTBIPOC community with the party she co-runs, Dutty, which she says is for people who can relate to the afro-diaspora or who just want to open their minds to it. Listen to her thoughts on the series, starting to produce and more in the full episode.
EX.690 Moritz Von Oswald
7 december 2023 |
43 min
"Always notice whatever is happening in the background." The acclaimed producer and composer discusses the art of meaningful listening and his latest LP, Silencio.
Moritz von Oswald's legacy as one of the trailblazers of contemporary techno precedes him. The artist's initial claim to fame was his involvement in the duo Basic Channel with Mark Ernestus, a project that formed the dub techno canon in the '90s and is still a primary reference point for many, if not most, modern producers. He was also at the helm of the famous cutting and pressing plant Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin, which has become a home for countless artists over the years.
But on this occasion, Oswald sat down to discuss a more recent project: his LP Silencio on Tresor Records, which came out in November. He talked with RA's senior producer, Chloe Lula, about his lifelong love of jazz, tapestry, French film, Southern Italian opera and music from Central Asia. He also reflects on his production process—an endless exploration of drama and dynamics. Oswald is fascinated with reducing sound to its most basic elements and broadening the capacity of what the ear can perceive. Most importantly, he's a critical listener, and in the final moments of the episode, he imparts wisdom on how he's learned to keep a conscious ear open to the world around him. Check out the episode in full.
EX.689 DVS1
30 november 2023 |
58 min
"All I want to do is express what I love." The beloved Berghain resident talks about learning from failure, putting in the time and how good sound systems have changed his life.
Born and bred in Minneapolis, Zak Khutoretsky, AKA DVS1, has been throwing and playing raves for decades. Now 47, he's at the top of his game. As one of Berghain's most popular residents and a producer known for his deep and versatile sound, he's amassed thousands of followers around the world, releasing on Klockworks, Transmat and Ostgut Ton, in addition to his own label, HUSH.
Not just an artist, Khutoretsky has garnered a reputation for speaking critically about the challenges facing the electronic music community, notably through his essay about the battle between art and entertainment, and more recently through the inauguration of his revenue sharing platform ASlice. The organisation was designed in 2020 as an antidote to the pay disparity between DJ earnings and producer earnings, and its basic conceit is that DJs submit playlists of their tracks and share small percentages of their gig fees to be redistributed among the artists whose tracks they've played.
In this RA Exchange live from ADE, Khutoretsky talks with journalist Christine Kakaire about the platform and the impetus behind it, as well as his underlying tendency to be a "fixer," from the problems in his house to the issues he sees plaguing his community. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.688 Juliana Huxtable
23 november 2023 |
58 min
"There's a joy I'm trying to depict in my artwork." The American DJ and producer discusses her latest painting exhibition, the power of poetry and exploring queer fantasy in visual art.
Today, Berlin-via-New York multidisciplinary artist Juliana Huxtable might be best known for her DJing and dance floor productions. She's the co-founder of the party Shock Value and a regular at Berghain, Herrensauna, Basement and more clubs and festivals around the world. But she's equally prolific in the worlds of poetry and visual art, and in her first appearance on the RA Exchange, she talks to senior producer Chloe Lula about her multimedia painting exhibition, -USSYPHILIA, which is on display through the beginning of January. A champion of queer and trans theory, Huxtable uses collage, painting and poetry to explore themes around identity anarchy and sexuality throughout the exhibition. While the collection is serious and somewhat academic, it's also playful, diving deep into fantasy, psychedelia and allusions to soft porn.
These days, Huxtable enjoys dabbling in other kinds of art as well. In her interview, she talks about her longtime love of performance art, which she says is ghettoized in the art world context, usually relegated to awkward programming add-ons in gallery exhibitions. Her band Tongue In The Mind is shaking off the performance art stigma and bringing it into the club with their forthcoming EP on PAN, Pretty Canary, out in late 2023.
To hear about how she keeps on top of parallel creative practices, her thoughts on writing, experiences with psychedelics and more, listen to the episode in full.
EX.687 Seth Troxler
16 november 2023 |
77 min
"DJs don't hit their stride until their 40s." The DJ and creative multihyphenate discusses maturing as an artist, having a family and navigating the worlds of contemporary art and cuisine.
Resident Advisor has followed Detroit native Seth Troxler's DJ career since the beginning. And on his first appearance on the RA Exchange, he is in his domestic bliss phase, living with his wife and kids in his new home of Zürich and partying at least a little less—and only on the weekends.
Since taking the house and techno scene by storm in the late '00s, when he was still in his teens, Troxler has become one of the most famous DJs in the world, known almost as much for his jokester personality and party antics as his craft. But the public image belies the skill behind his work: he's one of the most popular artists in the world simply because he's also one of the best, able to string music together almost preternaturally, as if he was born to do it. You never know what kind of records he's going to play—sometimes he doesn't, either—but you can count on it being a journey worth taking.
These days, Troxler isn't putting himself through the wringer like he used to, but he has his moments. Before this interview with RA music critic Andrew Ryce, he played New York, then Miami, then New York again, then Toronto, all in the span of one weekend. He opened up about his more responsible lifestyle, his family life and his love of food, as well as his passion for pairing art and technology and his hopes for a lasting legacy.
EX.686 SHERELLE
9 november 2023 |
53 min
At Kraków's Unsound festival, the London-based ambassador of footwork and jungle opens up about recent musings about legacy and the art of letting go.
Since her first Boiler Room set went viral (so viral, she claims, it broke her phone), SHERELLE's career has ascended with a rapidness that even she struggles to fully comprehend. Almost instantly, she went from working a day job at Mixmag to DJing major festivals around the world, where she spread the word of 160 BPM music. Today, the London artist has an NTS residency with long-time friend and partner Naina, has two EPs under her belt and is at the helm of two labels–Hoover Sound and Beautiful, as well as the show SHERELLE presents on BBC 6 Music from 11PM on Saturday nights. This year, she even planned to take her reputation as a producer to the next level with a debut album that was scheduled for release in 2023.
But this summer, every musician's worst nightmare happened to SHERELLE. After a mugging in Europe, she lost every bit of her music—her DJ repertoire, her unreleased tracks and perhaps most devastatingly, her entire debut album. Discussing this at Kraków's Unsound festival, however, SHERELLE is chipper and refreshingly wise. In this intimate and hilarious conversation with RA's in-house critic, Kiana Mickles, she describes the incident as a launchpad for recent musings about the art of letting go, the importance of archiving and how she's approaching her debut album differently the second time around.
EX.685 Honey Dijon
2 november 2023 |
61 min
"I don't complain, I create." The house DJ talks about her new multi-platform project, Honeyverse, and using music as a way to celebrate the Black queer community.
Honey Dijon is a queer house music icon whose reputation precedes her. Originally hailing from Chicago, she grew up experiencing the city's nightlife, eventually beginning to DJ and produce alongside contemporaries like Derrick Carter, Mark Farina and other artists who shaped the Chicago house music canon.
Throughout her career, she's been an active spokesperson for trans rights and a champion for the BIPOC community, and last month she put on her greatest platform for queer Black culture to date: Honeyverse. The multi-platform Honey Dijon experience took place at London's Southbank Centre, bringing club nights, live sets, orchestras and intimate conversations together in a takeover that drew its inspiration from her roots in Chicago's Black queer community.
In this RA Exchange live from Southbank Centre, Honey Dijon talks to Josh Caffé about her connection to house music, an art form made from rejection and thus marginalised in the annals of music history. Her work, she says, is about giving visibility to the voices that were lost in its development and creating a more expansive platform for queer artists from the Black and Latinx diaspora. "This is a celebration of love, joy and acceptance," she says of Honeyverse.
Listen to the episode in full, and watch video snippets of their conversation on Resident Advisor's Instagram and YouTube.
EX.684 ADHD and Dance Music
26 oktober 2023 |
59 min
Dr Michelle and Mahnoor—a psychologist and a DJ, respectively—discuss ADHD and how neurodivergent individuals can find safety on the dance floor.
In an age of technological surfeit and the attention economy, people are affected with ADHD diagnoses on an increasing frequency. Thinking differently can be both an obstacle and a superpower. While some ways of working and digesting information may be more challenging, others, like creativity, come with more ease.
Today's episode of the RA Exchange, the final instalment of our collaboration with the UK mental health charity Black Minds Matter, explores the topic of ADHD and how it connects with dance music. The industry can attract and often be a safe space for people affected by ADHD diagnoses, says host Vanessa Maria, a London-based broadcaster whose work champions music and mental health. In two interviews, she unpacks what happens on a physiological level when one lives with neurodivergence, music's ability to alleviate many of the symptoms that accompany ADHD and how more inclusive dance music spaces could allow people to better navigate neurodivergence.
Vanessa Maria's guests are Dr Michelle—a music psychologist, DJ and radio host—and Mahnoor, a DJ who lives with ADHD and creates projects for movement, music and meditation for South Asian minorities. She brings the perspective of someone navigating neurodivergence beyond BMM and the Black community. Listen to the episode in full for their insights.
This edition of the RA Exchange was recorded in collaboration with The Qube, London's first members' studio for music and content creators. If you're a music producer, songwriter, artist, photographer or podcaster and would like to apply for a membership, head over to theqube.com.
EX.683 Ash Scholem
19 oktober 2023 |
58 min
"Dancing is never just dancing." The Tbilisi-based DJ talks about nightlife politics, the Left Bank collective and Eastern European club culture live from ICKPA Festival.
Tbilisi has been experiencing a club music renaissance over the last few years, with clubs like Bassiani and Khidi opening their doors to top tier DJs from around the world and simultaneously heralding an era of world class nightlife. While techno has reigned supreme at these venues, they left a gap that the relatively new space, Left Bank, has aimed to fill. Opening in 2021, it's provided a platform for what it calls "wildly diverse electronic sounds" beyond four-to-the-floor, and it's kicking off its new record label with a thirteen-track V/A, "Stop What You're Doing," this week.
Ash Scholem has been a member of the Left Bank collective and social space since its inception, and in this episode of the RA Exchange recorded live at ICKPA Festival—an event co-run by contingents from the Georgian and Ukrainian dance music communities—he speaks with the Exchange's senior producer, Chloe Lula, about his involvement with the venue. He also brings his background in political science and sociology to bear, shedding light on how Eastern European socioeconomics affect nightlife; the ways in which revolutionary ideals have become ingrained into Georgian nightlife culture and how people party; the fight for queer rights and drug policy reform in Tbilisi and broader thoughts on the role dance music plays in politics and legislative change during times of crisis.
Listen to the episode in full, and grab a copy of "Stop What You're Doing" on Friday, October 20th.
EX.682 Eris Drew
12 oktober 2023 |
59 min
"I always want to challenge myself as a musician." The DJ, producer and T4T LUV NRG cofounder talks about her new live set and overcoming hearing loss live from MUTEK.
Eris Drew is something of a mentor to many, including people she's never met. Her words on psychedelics, the ritual of dancing and other topics have become near-gospel for many fans, and it's always a treat to hear her speak on practically any topic. While many of her discussions veer towards the esoteric or spiritual, when it came time for our live RA Exchange at MUTEK, she wanted to get down to brass tacks about making and playing music.
Ahead of the first North American performance of her stunning live show, Drew sat down with RA's music editor, Andrew Ryce. She spoke at length about her live show and DJing—including her old-school style of mixing she calls "riding the pitch"—and the trials and tribulations of proofing stages and booths for turntable use, hearing protection and more. She spoke with all the authority and feeling she usually does, with a deep, technical knowledge that makes this talk almost as much a tutorial as it was a conversation. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.681 Future Proof with Alex Ives
5 oktober 2023 |
51 min
"You're the master of your own vision." In this collaboration with Rhythm Section, Ninja Tune's head of physical retail gives a masterclass on the inner workings of a record label.
Alex Ives has been at Ninja Tune for ten years as the head of physical retail. He also runs Big Dada, a sub-label run exclusively by minorities and people of colour. In this masterclass recorded live in London, Ives unpacks the various departments and teams that make up the Ninja Tune enterprise, from manufacturing, sync and publishing, to product management and A&R. He also suggests a few routes for young people to get a foot in the door of the label world. It's often not a matter of trying to score a hard-earned internship at a major, he reflects. Often, it's easier to launch a career by starting a label yourself and adding it to your CV. "Going DIY can build a massive amount of love and interest that can lead you to a major label," he tells host Emily Jones. "Sometimes that's the best way."
Working as the head of physical distribution doesn't come without its challenges in a world facing climate change, and Ives fields questions about pressing vinyl as a carbon-negative company, re-thinking record packaging, working to change consumer habits around ordering and returning records, and navigating a booming streaming economy. To hear more of his insights, listen to the episode in full.
This conversation was recorded live in London, and you can watch video shorts from the talk on YouTube. Watch the Masterclass video playlist via the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anqltFRkqVM
Rhythm Section’s Future Proof project is supported by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation.
EX.680 Disclosure
28 september 2023 |
74 min
"We've never known what we're doing." Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence talk about fame, inadvertently ending up on the pop charts and their new album, Alchemy.
Many listeners of this podcast likely associate Disclosure—AKA brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence—with the hits that shot them into the spotlight as teenagers. These had a good deal of crossover success, and the Lawrence brothers went on to have an extremely active touring career and secure multiple Grammy Award nominations.
But there’s much more in their brothers' creative arsenal than meets the eye, as demonstrated in their newest dance music LP, Alchemy, which came out quietly this summer. The duo released their fourth studio album under the pretence that they wanted to move away from some of the big tunes that defined the first part of their career. They did no marketing or PR, choosing to self-release and share the word via announcements on their social media pages. Alchemy is full of beautiful melodic interludes, field recordings and oblique references to the personal experiences that shaped the making of the songs—it was composed during a moment of intense heartbreak and upheaval for Howard, a narrative that weaves its way through the album. "These songs are about feeling lost and looking for love," they explain.
The brothers go deep with Chloe Lula about this period of Howard's life, talking about writing music based on intuition and how they lean on each other for creative and personal support. They also share the strategy behind their rise to success, including how they've navigated record label contracts, visually finessed their performances to appear more like live bands, exchanged EPs for page follows and started a Discord server to connect directly with their fans. Listen to more of their insights in the full episode.
EX.679 McKenzie Wark
21 september 2023 |
63 min
"There are books about techno and rave, but let's fill in the blanks." The scholar and activist talks about her book Raving, bringing club culture into academia and more.
McKenzie Wark, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the New School, is a scholar and raver who has written extensively about the world of dance music and its surrounding subculture. Most recently, Wark penned Raving, a first-person account of her experiences in the Brooklyn queer and trans rave scene. Wark's writing is a unique blend of memoir and literary criticism, and Raving takes readers straight into the heart of undisclosed locations around New York nightlife. Raving to techno is an art and a technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, she writes—but it's also for anyone who lets the beat seduce them.
In her conversation with the Brooklyn-based DJ Alyce Currier, AKA Lychee, Wark talks about how the book came to be. She explains how entire chapters of the book wrote themselves out in her head, and how she carefully chose 26 characters—all of which have a letter as a name—to represent the friends and acquaintances of hers from the world of queer nightlife. Her own relationship with raving started when she was still living in Australia. At the time, she says, she hadn't yet transitioned and was experiencing an ambient sense of gender dysphoria that only dancing and nightlife could placate. She didn't actually transition until she was in her late 50s, in 2017. "After I went on hormones, I couldn't write," she says. "But the pressure [to write Raving] was enabling, and I found my voice in this book."
Wark and Currier also talk about what it means to bring club culture into academia, working with fellow rave scholar madison moore and how parties can serve the communities they're designed to cater to instead of exacerbating existing social structures that already exist. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.678 Nastia
14 september 2023 |
58 min
"I'm curious about everything—this is my power." The Ukrainian DJ and label boss sits down to discuss her approach to curating, self-development, parenthood and more.
Nastia calls herself a "true DJ." The Ukrainian artist first laid hands on a pair of decks in 2005 after moving from her small hometown and attending the University of Donetsk. Beginning as a radio host at Kiss FM, where she curated a show called Nechto—now the name of her label—she started actively touring, pursuing a career dedicated to DJing and nothing else.
Nastia is proud of having reached great heights as a DJ with no productions under her belt. In this conversation recorded live at Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon, she tells moderator Christine Kakaire about her decision to turn her attention towards the studio at the apex of her career. She also discusses her idiosyncratic style of putting a set together, using each stage appearance as an opportunity to educate the audience about music and create a narrative expressive of her internal world. "I'll never be just a drum & bass DJ, or just a techno DJ," she says. "I'm curious about everything—this is my power."
Among Nastia's reflections on music are her considerations of the war in Ukraine, parenthood as a touring DJ, self-development and more. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.677 Flowdan
7 september 2023 |
64 min
"Vocals go hand in hand with the grime I know." Ahead of his appearance at London's Waterworks Festival, the UK artist discusses the significance of MCs, working with Skrillex and more.
Marc Veira, AKA Flowdan, sees MCs as the "hub of all the vibes." Growing up in East London's rich dancehall and reggae scene, he developed a singular view of music that blossomed into a career as a well-known MC and cofounder of the grime collective Roll Deep. Alongside a string of successful EPs and collaborations come on labels like Hyperdub and Tru Thoughts, he recently earned widespread plaudits for his collaboration with Skrillex and Fred Again…. on their anthem, "Rumble," which came out last year.
In this RA Exchange with DJ and radio host Tash LC, Veira discusses how he got to this point, starting from his time at home and his mother's passion for sound system culture. "The MC being the hub of all the vibes—I heard that in sound system culture," he says. He believes there still isn't enough credit afforded to vocalists in live performances more generally. "The grime I know, the garage I know, the drum & bass I know—vocals go hand in hand with all of that. And at festivals, massive artists headlining shows have no mention of their vocalists. That's not what the music is."
Veira also unpacks his love for working with other people, his mentorship of up-and-coming producers and using Flowdan as the character behind which he hides his natural shyness on stage. To hear more about his creative process and trajectory, listen to the episode in full.
EX.676 James Blake
31 augusti 2023 |
54 min
"I've been lucky to work with some of my favourite artists of all time." The Grammy Award-winning producer discusses working with Jay-Z, throwing dubstep parties and his new album.
Many people know James Blake as the singer behind the breakout cover of Feist's "Limit To Your Love," which was a hit in the underground and global pop music charts, or the Grammy Award-winning producer who has worked with artists like Beyonce, Frank Ocean, Vince Staples and Bon Iver, among many others.
Before all of this, Blake was making records for R&S and Hemlock—two UK mainstays in the dubstep and garage scenes. As a 20-year-old, he was also throwing bass nights on his Goldsmiths University campus called The Bass Society, inviting the likes of Skream & Benga to empty auditoriums. Back then, “we never made any money," he describes in this week's RA Exchange. "But we had so much fun. The feeling of promoting a night and getting Distance to come and play your night, even if there were only 20 people there, just felt like such a massive achievement."
His passion for this music never left, and now he's coming full circle with his album Playing Robots Into Heaven, out September 8th. For more on his vision behind this new record, his collage-like production techniques and his take on being a producer versus an artist, listen to the episode in full.
EX.675 Donato Dozzy
24 augusti 2023 |
67 min
"These records changed my emotional perspective on music." Recorded live at Dekmantel, the Italian techno artist dissects the records that shaped his approach to DJing and production.
There are few artists as widely respected as Donato Dozzy, who is known for his unique approach to building hypnotic, acid-infused atmospheres as a solo artist and as one half of Voices From The Lake. He is also a singular curator at the head of Spazio Disponibile alongside Neel, and a DJ with a reputation for building sophisticated and slowly unwinding sets at festivals like Labyrinth, Terraforma and Horst, as well as in public spaces and museums.
In this Exchange live from Dekmantel 2023, Resident Advisor's editor-in-chief, Whitney Wei, asks Dozzy about the songs that shaped his craft in our Playing Favourites flagship series. He takes us back to his childhood, playing the first track that introduced him to electronic music before moving chronologically through his life and the pieces that acted as lynchpins in his creative development. He discusses how he grew up in a musical household, listening to classical orchestrations with his parents before finding Italo disco and the stylings of Giorgio Moroder, Lory D and The Future Sound of London. These albums, he says, influenced how he builds his sets, leaning into slowly unfolding narratives as he moves from one track to another. "When I started releasing albums, I decided that I wanted to create stories," he says. Listen to the episode in full.
Tracklist:
Franco Battiato - Summer on a Solitary Beach
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
Lory D - Abrupt Interruption
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks 1996
Mike Parker - Dispatches
Die Woodys - Fitchtl's Lied
Verde Prato - Nina Sonando
Donato Dozzy - Valentina
EX.674 Schacke
17 augusti 2023 |
58 min
"I've always been fascinated with extreme art." The Fast Forward member discusses the Copenhagen techno sound, eroticism and his proclivity for noise and black metal.
Martin Schacke has been leading the charge on developing the psytrance-inspired techno sound that's dominated clubs over the last couple of years. He's also known for making provocative, catchy club tunes like "Kisloty People"—his breakout single from 2019—and Apocalyptic Decadence, an LP that came out on Instruments of Discipline last year (which made Resident Advisor's "The Best Albums of 2022" list). He's joined by a rank of DJs from Copenhagen like Sugar and DJ Tool who are popularizing this fun and fast counterpoint to heads-down dance music, and which Schacke describes as originating from a desire to start a scene distinct from the Berghain sound.
Interestingly, Schacke is also an artist of many trades. He's heavily involved with noise, industrial and black metal music, and he discusses how these more experimental forms have inspired his releases for the dance floor. "I've taken a lot of these ways of working with aesthetic opposites and absurdities from noise music, where it's normal to use extreme subject matter and go into dark territory and fun territory," he said. "I think those can really intertwine."
In this RA Exchange, he talks about his roots in this scene as well as his proclivity for extreme aesthetics, taking breaks from dance music, the personal costs of choosing a life dedicated to being an artist and more. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.673 Future Proof with Moxie
10 augusti 2023 |
61 min
"Just be obsessed with music. Love it." The beloved London artist gives a masterclass on how to make it as a DJ and build a sustainable career.
Alice Moxom—better known by her stage name, Moxie—started out as a radio DJ on Kiss FM and NTS before playing parties and touring full-time. Now she has a label and party series that she curates called On Loop, which has invited artists like Matthew Herbert, Josey Rebelle, Leon Vynehall, K-Hand and Joy Orbison, in venues across Europe and the UK. The key to her success, she says, is that she hasn't rushed anything in her career. "Your sound can evolve and you can change," she says. "If you're thinking about this as a real career, the [opportunities] will always come around."
In this episode of Resident Advisor's Exchange—the second in a three-part masterclass series called Future Proof, a collaboration with Rhythm Section—co-host Bradley Zero says that Moxie is "one of the most organized and graceful DJs on the circuit." She reveals how she has steadily built a career from the ground up, detailing how she's developed a synergistic relationship with her booking agent; selectively chosen gigs and mix opportunities; maneuvered stylistically without confusing promoters; and cultivated lasting relationships with a team of people she trusts. Listen to the episode in full.
This conversation was recorded live in December, and you can watch video shorts from the talk on YouTube. Watch the Masterclass video playlist via the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/@rhythmsectioninternational/streams
Rhythm Section’s Future Proof project is supported by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation.
RA EX.672 Dorian Electra
3 augusti 2023 |
76 min
"Fandom is the new religion of our capitalist society." The genderqueer pop star discusses economic philosophy, queer aesthetics and the internet ahead of their new album.
Avant-pop star Dorian Electra wasn't your average American student. As an 18-year-old, they were interested in exploring philosophy and political radicalisation through music, making their debut in 2010 with the song "I'm In Love With Friedrich Hayek"—a ballad to the economist who influenced Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s free-market ideology. Electra was simultaneously working as a stripper, channeling their exploration of gender into an early career series of pop videos that told the history of feminism, drag and vibrators. More than a decade later, the artist has brought these seemingly contradictory facets of their interests into a bizarre and beautiful symbiosis.
On this week's RA Exchange, Electra speaks with moderator Gunseli Yalcinkaya about the underpinnings of Fanfare, their third album, which lands on October 6th. One of the album's central conceits is the meaning of fandom and online culture in 2023. "I've been experiencing hyper-online everything," they said. "The past few years have solidified the idea in my head that as we've grown increasingly secular, people still want something to give their life greater meaning, and they've found that in connecting with others online in a way that's largely replaced religion." They also discuss their proclivity for ultra-synthetic, cartoonishly masculine pop; their take on the internet zeitgeist; ADHD; musical performance as an expression of the extremities of human experience and more. Listen to the episode in full.
This edition of the RA Exchange was recorded in collaboration with The Qube, London's first members' studio for music and content creators. If you're a music producer, songwriter, artist, photographer or podcaster and would like to apply for a membership, head over to theqube.com.
EX.671 Craig Richards
27 juli 2023 |
53 min
"Devotion is the main aim—to try to encourage commitment in people." The fabric resident and Houghton festival founder discusses his love of the crowd, DJing and more.
Craig Richards, arguably one of UK dance music's most respected DJs, is normally averse to the spotlight. But the multi-hyphenate artist and fabric resident has played the London institution every Saturday for nearly two decades, DJing alongside fellow household names like Ricardo Villalobos and Nicolas Lutz. Over the years, Richards has profoundly shaped the canon that's defined the space and its programming week in and week out.
He’s keenly attuned to other DJs and the flow of a night, and he's not indebted to one particular style or genre. In a Resident Advisor feature from 2019, Ray Philp described his sound as "intergalactic space metal" that goes far beyond techno, house or electro, instead interplaying classics with deep, headsy tunes that he tirelessly seeks out every week.
In this interview with RA's European deputy editor Carlos Hawthorn, Richards talks about what makes a good record, and the DJ's role as a bridge between the past and present. He also discusses his endeavours beyond the booth—most notably the idyllic festival he started in 2017, Houghton, which is set in the English countryside—and his passion for painting and cross-disciplinary creativity. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.670 CDR with Rob Gordon
20 juli 2023 |
52 min
"I approached and signed all of the first Warp acts." The Sheffield record producer and label cofounder discusses starting the UK label and the early days of bleep techno.
Before Warp became the landmark label it is today, it was a Sheffield record store. Robert Gordon was an employee there in the early '80s, working alongside colleagues Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell, with whom he'd start the label in 1989. Listeners familiar with the contemporary UK techno landscape may associate Warp with luminaries like Aphex Twin and other names associated with IDM and bleep techno. It also released a lot of artists who were recording in a Sheffield studio called FON, which is where Robert Gordon found his footing even before starting Warp.
In this Exchange—conducted by DJ, producer, CDR founder and Resident Advisor board member Tony Nwachukwu—Gordon talks about FON and laying the groundwork for the Sheffield scene. In 1985, he recalls, it was the first local commercial 24-track studio and attracted luminaries like David Bowie, Yazz and groups tied to post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire. More recently, it's produced work by 808 State, Nightmares On Wax and Sweet Exorcist.
Gordon also reflects on FON's early days. It was foundational to the sound of the '00s and formed a tight-knit community around itself that eventually became intrinsic to a bigger musical movement. Although Gordon left Warp in 1991, his A&Ring for the label—along with his own productions and engineering assistance—defined its sound. Listen to their conversation in full.
EX.669 Future Proof with Jordan Rakei
13 juli 2023 |
53 min
"It's through collaboration that I've grown most with my sound." In this collaboration with Rhythm Section, the multi-instrumentalist talks about how he found his style and started his career.
Jordan Rakei is a self-made musician. A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer whose work dips into soul, hip-hop and electronic music, he moved to London from New Zealand, giving himself a four-month "buffer budget" to get his career off the ground. Now, he's released on Ninja Tune and Rhythm Section International, and has collaborated with a number of Grammy- and Oscar-award-nominated artists.
But his journey wasn't easy, as he explains in this masterclass moderated by Roy Mills and Rhythm Section's Bradley Zero. Rakei talks about how to build a career as an independent artist, why he transitioned from working alone to working with a big agency, signing deals with labels, and living close to the edge in an expensive city. It's the first in a three-part series called Future Proof hosted by Rhythm Section International, all of which explore facets of creating and sustaining a career as a musician.
This episode was recorded live in May, and you can watch video shorts from the talk on YouTube. Listen to their conversation in full.
Watch the Masterclass video playlist via the link below:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIpCC9Ep-UEmgJkFN9QmisE_xxW-mgCOV
Rhythm Section’s Future Proof project is supported by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation
EX.668 madison moore
6 juli 2023 |
76 min
"DJing and lecturing aren't different practices for me. I just fuse them together." The scholar and performer reflects on bringing critical ideas to club spaces and writing about raves.
madison moore is a true multi-hyphenate: an artist, scholar, DJ and assistant professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Despite having a hand in so many seemingly disparate endeavors, however, moore sees their work across academia and music as being intrinsically interconnected, and their mission is to find ways to bring theory and practice into one space.
In this conversation with journalist and former RBMA editor-in-chief Aaron Gonsher, moore reflects on how he was first inspired by figures like Paul D. Miller (AKA DJ Spooky), who brought DJ technologies, parties and theory together. "Knowledge doesn't have to be gate kept behind a JSTOR portal," he says. "It doesn't have to be an institutional access thing. You can bring the knowledge, bring the ideas, bring the fun out."
In a series of performance lectures focused on queer nightlife, moore teaches about the historical context around dance music and the significance of the club for queer Black folks, explaining that he sees performance as a critical tool to spread ideas. He explored this fusion of academia and dance music at his recent nightlife residency at The Kitchen in New York—where he curated a series of public programs with DJs, artists, scholars and queer nightlife performers—and in his book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric. To hear his reflections on these projects and more, listen to the episode in full.
Photo by Rome God
EX.667 Cherie Hu
29 juni 2023 |
67 min
"What is our shared purpose and motivation for being here?" Our guest editor for June discusses community-building, innovation in music technology and more in this week's Exchange.
Cherie Hu thinks about music differently. Trained in classical piano at The Juilliard School in New York, she went on to study math at Harvard while simultaneously launching a freelance journalism career. It was towards the end of her time in university that her parallel interests in music, writing and statistics coalesced in one long-term mission: to bridge the innovations happening in music creation and technology.
First a newsletter and now an international membership-based platform, Water & Music was her answer to this unique topical intersection. "Water & Music's goal is to connect like-minded readers and develop a bottom-up culture of curiosity and critique around where music and tech are headed," she wrote earlier this month on RA. "Through media, my own personal goal is not only to document and analyse music-tech innovation as it happens, but also to foster a culture of proactive experimentation. I want to help artists and their teams use the tools at their disposal to expand the boundaries of possibility in both music and culture at large, and kickstart a longer-term dialogue around how music creators and professionals can incorporate tech into their careers in an ethical manner."
Over the last few weeks, Hu has curated thoughtful and practical articles for RA that touch on the ethics and implications of AI, the metaverse and fandom, as well as more far-reaching topics that she explores in depth on the Water & Music website and Discord. In them, she urges everyone in creative ecosystems to think more critically about why trends happen, how we can cultivate sustainable artistic communities and the ways in which we can create more agency and collective ownership over how music is released and consumed. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.666 Jayda G
22 juni 2023 |
55 min
"Singing is super vulnerable, but it's such a big release." The DJ and producer opens up about her new album and how she brings deeply personal issues to bear.
Jayda G's father, William Richard Guy, died shortly before she turned ten. In the months leading up to his death, with the help of Jayda G's older sister, he recorded 11 hours of video tapes documenting his story for his youngest daughter. Guy, the Canadian DJ and producer's latest album on Ninja Tune, is built around snippets of his recordings, with each track inspired by either a particular chapter of his story or something she's learned about herself as she unpacked her grief. "This album is about him and for me," she wrote on Instagram. "I needed this. It gave me perspective, understanding and depth to myself and my outlook on life and family."
For this episode of the RA Exchange, Jayda G spoke with Berlin-based artist Juba about making the album and the history that inspired it. She also opened up about integrating her own voice into her songs, a process that made her feel vulnerable, but also provided an enormous sense of release. While she doesn't have plans to sing the album live anytime soon, she revealed her other upcoming projects—including a feature-length documentary about her work in environmentalism—and how she balances her busy touring schedule with her parallel interest in science, her marriage and, most critically, her much-needed downtime. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.665 Héctor Oaks
15 juni 2023 |
43 min
"Punk is more an attitude than a style of music. And I think that techno is way more punk than punk." The Spanish DJ discusses the ethos of the underground, vinyl DJing and more on this week's Exchange from AVA Festival.
Héctor Oaks relocated from his hometown of Madrid to study at "Berlin University"—the clubs, record stores and underground parties that would shape his career as an artist. After once famously saying he could "live in peace" if he could play Berghain just once, the techno DJ has since graced the institution's dance floor multiple times and earned residencies at Herrensauna and Bassiani. Now one of a handful of in-demand, vinyl-only DJs, he's also a prolific artist and the head of two labels, KAOS and OAKS.
What makes Oaks especially interesting as an interview subject, though, isn't his newfound popularity, but the underlying ethos that drives his music career. A self-described "techno punk," he reflects on what happens to the punk ethos around the underground once the underground becomes mainstream. "When you see that you've worked for the underground and then the underground becomes pop, do you want to fight against it, or do you want to be part of it?" he asks. "We're not only carrying the music, but we're carrying the values."
In this interview, Oaks also talks about the art of playing vinyl, his new hip-hop project, working for the now-defunct Record Loft and his forthcoming album and live show. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.664 Black Minds Matter UK: Charisse C and Conducta
8 juni 2023 |
63 min
"If you feel like you're not progressing, the likelihood is that everyone else you're looking at is going through exactly the same thing." Conducta and Charisse C talk about isolation and mental health in this collaboration with Black Minds Matter UK.
Resident Advisor is delighted to welcome back our quarterly collaboration with Black Minds Matter UK, a charity connecting Black individuals and families with free mental health services. In line with their mission to make topics around mental health more visible and accessible to the Black community, this recurring series dives deep into some of the issues that plague BIPOC artists specifically, not to mention people working within the creative industries more generally.
In this episode, Vanessa Maria hosts engaging conversations with two London-based artists: Charisse C, a DJ and resident on NTS Radio who derives much of her musical inspiration from her Zimbabwean and South African heritage, and Conducta, a UKG tastemaker and the founder and A&R of Kiwi Rekords. The duo share their thoughts on themes around loneliness—the alienation of social media, the risk of burnout on the road and the self-doubt that accompanies any kind of achievement. But they also share inspiring ways to encourage transparency and a real dialogue around hard work and happiness in the dance music scene that isn't mitigated by social media and outward appearances of success.
"Everything that people think has happened overnight in the last two or so years, that's all been a process and a journey of hard work," says Conducta. "I think one thing that will benefit young people coming up in the music industry is understanding that if you feel like you're hitting a stalemate, the likelihood is that everyone else you're looking at is going through exactly the same thing, feeling exactly the same thing." Listen to the episode in full.
EX.663 Emma Warren
2 juni 2023 |
49 min
"The dance floor is a portal and a transmission tool in addition to being a technology of togetherness." The British author’s new book, Dance Your Way Home, offers a sociocultural history of the dance floor.
Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture since co-founding Jockey Slut magazine in the mid '90s. From those early years to subsequent stints at THE FACE and Brixton’s youth-run Live Magazine, her journey of personal growth has become intertwined with nightlife.
In this episode, the UK author speaks with Aaron Gonsher, former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Red Bull Music Academy, about her new book, Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dance Floor. Writing about how music thrives through in-person connections and physical spaces, she provides a social history of the dance floor while highlighting the power of communion.
Their conversation is a fascinating and far-ranging one; they speak about writing from the heart and Warren's deep connections with nightlife communities. She also talks about how the dance floor acted as a palliative in times of personal strife. "As I was writing [the book] and working it out through the writing, I realised that the less my dad could move or had control over his body, the more I needed to dance and have control over mine," she says of her father's disability. "So, I feel this absolute connection to the strength which you bring on the dance floor: that core control, that tightening of your body, that loosening of your limbs when you're moving and just how important that was to me—and what a life saver, really."
Warren is also the author of three other books, including Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, Document Your Culture: A Manual and Steam Down: Or How Things Begin. Listen to the conversation to hear her thoughts on why we dance together and what dancing tells us about ourselves.
EX.662 Shanti Celeste
26 maj 2023 |
48 min
This episode of the RA Exchange originally ran in 2022.
Shanti Celeste is one of those artists whose personality matches her DJ style. Her fun-loving nature and breezy demeanour always light up a room, as do her vibrant sets that span sunny house music, slow-burning disco and emotive techno—just revisit her RA podcast for a reminder. Fresh off her Hessle Audio debut, the London-based artist sat down with Martha Pazienti-Caidan for an honest chat about track selection, bad gigs and her approach to production.
During DJ sets, the Peach Discs co-founder doesn’t like to focus on genres. Instead, "I think about, like, building and releasing tension and making sure that I stay in a specific energy level," she explained. "Whereas before, I think I knew the energy I wanted to bring, but I didn't know how to do that cause I was just thinking about everything in terms of genre."
Reaching this holistic stage, however, took time. It was a process of acquiring knowledge and experience but also confidence, she described, adding how she previously had "really bad imposter syndrome." Learning to recognise that certain factors might be outside an artist’s control is essential to self-realisation, she continued. Recounting her experience of playing big festival stages, she noted the importance of "learning what side of yourself to channel" rather than compromise on music.
For more details on her experience playing with fellow women DJs, her lockdown romance and recording her vocals, listen to the discussion in full.
EX.661 New York Nightlife In The '90s
18 maj 2023 |
52 min
"We were doing parties in Staten Island that were completely packed; Manhattan didn't want anything to do with us." Three New York visionaries discuss the city's '90s heyday.
'90s nightlife in New York conjures images of Party Monster, jacking disco house and a rotating cast of mega clubs that saw thousands of revellers pass through their doors each weekend. From Limelight and Sound Factory to Palladium and countless others, clubbing was hitting its stride in New York, while producers like Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones and Damon Wild were producing game-changing 12-inches. But it was also the beginning of a decline, catalysed by the rollout of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's discriminatory policies that slowly gutted the club scene and the communities that called it home.
To honour Resident Advisor's partnership with Wire Festival in Brooklyn this weekend, we're revisiting a panel recorded at our 24/7 party at Nowadays in 2018. We tasked the beloved Brooklyn fanzine Love Injection with presenting discussions covering five decades of dance music history. In this panel, Strictly Rhythm cofounder Gladys Pizarro, DJ and producer Lenny Dee and drag superstar and vogue performer Kevin Aviance spoke with journalist (and former RA staffer) Max Pearl about the rise and fall of the city's club scene during its golden decade. They also discussed how the city was sequestered, forcing many artists at the vanguard of '90s-era techno to make music and throw their own parties as the scene grew and shifted beneath the weight of city-wide reforms.
"We were doing parties in Staten Island that were completely packed; Manhattan didn't want anything to do with us," said Lenny D. "So when we were doing it, we were making parties out in Brooklyn. A lot of music at that time was made here in Brooklyn—Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones, Tommy Musto, Damon Wild. So we had this scene where we're making great music, but no one's letting us play, so we're just going to do it ourselves."
Listen to the episode in full.
EX.660 - Herrensauna
11 maj 2023 |
41 min
"You realise you're not just playing music. You give people the power to empower themselves." Cofounders CEM and MCMLXXXV discuss the revered party series and its fledgling label.
Berlin queer party Herrensauna—which means "men's sauna" in German—started as a seed of an idea shared between friends Cem Dukkha (AKA CEM) and Nicholas Endlicher (AKA MCMLXXXV). They were teenagers in Vienna at the time, dreaming of becoming DJs in Berlin. When they finally relocated, they started throwing parties in the basement of a Neukölln off-location. This quickly snowballed into a residency at Tresor, and now a globally recognised brand that curates lineups at clubs and festivals around the world and counts Salome, SPFDJ, Héctor Oaks, JASSS and DJ Saliva as residents.
In this RA Exchange, hosted ahead of Herrensauna's curated night at Wire Festival in New York, CEM and MCMLXXXV spoke with senior producer Chloe Lula about the party's origins and how its mission has changed, shifting from focusing on gay men to championing an all-inclusive vision of queerness. They also discussed their artwork and aesthetics—including their provocative re-appropriations of quasi-religious iconography—as well as the role that platforms like theirs have in shifting the cultural zeitgeist and attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.659 Critics’ Roundtable [May 2023]
4 maj 2023 |
33 min
"You can trace techno's origins to the seminal 1988 album Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit, which featured many producers that are now regarded as techno pioneers." We discuss Detroit techno, Frankfurt's electronic music museum and more in this month's Critics' Roundtable.
As we approach the end of May, and with it, Movement Festival in Detroit—one of the longest-running dance music events in the world—Resident Advisor returns to a discussion about electronic music's roots.
In this month's Critics' Roundtable, RA music critics Kiana Mickles and Andrew Ryce talk with producer Chloe Lula about the newest release from Detroit "techno soul" stalwart Eddie Fowlkes and a breakout album from a newer Detroit name, DJ Girl, who just released on Planet Mu.
The trio also discuss how techno's origins in Detroit's Black communities continue to be contested. The Museum of Modern Electronic Music in Frankfurt, which opened last year (and was written about recently in The New Yorker), has overlooked the city's key role in the creation and dissemination of techno, sparking backlash from the electronic music community. Mickles and Ryce lay out the implications of the continuous omission of Detroit from techno's narrative. Why is electronic music's origins an ongoing debate, and how do we honour its progenitors as electronic music moves further away from its foundations into the mainstream? Listen to the conversation in full.
Tracklist:
Eddie Fowlkes - Shake Your Hips
DJ Girl - Technician
Rhythim Is Rythim - It Is What It Is
Jossy Mitsu - World's End
EX.658 Source Material: 15 Years of PAN
28 april 2023 |
57 min
"It feels like every artist is presenting their work in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would." Seven artists share their thoughts on the genre-bending label and its legacy.
Resident Advisor's April cover features Bill Kouligas, the singular curator at the helm of PAN. Now celebrating 15 years, the imprint's releases traverse a dizzying array of mediums and genres. As Whitney Wei writes in her article, PAN has long befuddled some people in electronic music. Its catalogue is a bricolage of musique concrete, improvisations, left-field club music, performance soundtracks and other strains of electronic-adjacent work that feel somewhat impossible to place. Amnesia Scanner's cyberpunk nu-metal and Eartheater's sweet singer-songwriter pop are some of the best examples of this immense range. But sitting in Bill's studio, she writes, everything makes sense in context.
"I feel a lot of record labels tend to somehow fall under an umbrella of a sound, or a specific genre of music," reflect Amnesia Scanner in this episode of the Exchange. "With PAN, every artist is presenting their work as independent from the work of others, like in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would present work. Of course there are shared ideas and shared values and so on, but it's not built on a narrow idea of what kind of music PAN would represent."
The label has garnered a devoted fanbase that recognises the vision uniting this seemingly far-reaching output. And as Kouligas has moved increasingly towards interdisciplinary interests such as fashion soundtracking and art directing, his audience has followed him. The music on the label has done the same, evolving from tracks for the dance floor to documentation of avant-garde visual art.
This episode of the RA Exchange collects music and interviews from key individuals who have shaped PAN's trajectory and canon, including Anne Imhof, Objekt, M.E.S.H., Rashad Becker, Amnesia Scanner, Eartheater and Low Jack. Listen to the episode in full. If you're looking for more PAN content, be sure to tune into our live RA Exchange with fellow PAN artist Tzusing from Rewire Festival, which aired last week.
Tracklist:
Anne Imhof - Dark Times (Sex)
Objekt - 35 (Cocoon Crush)
M.E.S.H. - Search, Reveal (Hesaitix)
Rashad Becker - Dances VII (Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II)
Amnesia Scanner - Faceless (Another Life)
Eartheater - Claustra (Irisiri)
Low Jack - Rough Rider (Low Jack Remix) (STILL)
EX.657 Tzusing
20 april 2023 |
42 min
"This is me dealing with how to be a progressive man in this era." The Sea Cucumber boss discusses his new album on PAN in this live Exchange from Rewire.
Malaysian Chinese artist Tzusing is currently splitting his time between Taipei and Shanghai, but he spent a significant amount of time in the US as a young adult and university student. It was only after moving back to China in his early 20s and taking a long break from production that he amalgamated these diverse influences and refined his sound, releasing a string of EPs on the label L.I.E.S. and launching into his musical career in full force.
His 2017 release, Invincible East, was his first exploration into more thematically loaded work that interrogated masculinity and power. His second (and newest) LP, Green Hat, builds on these tropes. The full-length—which came out on PAN in late March—examines Confucian values around familial obligation, the patriarchy and how to be "a progressive man" in 2023. It also brings together his penchant for trap, techno and industrial, while still mining Asian instrumental motifs. In Tzusing's words, the music itself is full of angst and fear, and it's his most intense output as an artist yet.
In this live RA Exchange at Rewire Festival, he talks to Resident Advisor's senior producer, Chloe Lula, about the production of the album, Chinese club culture and his move towards a sound that isn't indebted to a singular genre or scene. The episode is part of Resident Advisor's cover series on PAN; read the article in full on our website, and listen to Tzusing's conversation in full here.
EX.656 Tama Sumo & Lakuti
14 april 2023 |
51 min
"Going back-to-back makes sense. We live together, we really love the same music." The Berlin-based duo discuss their partnership behind the decks—and in life.
Tama Sumo and Lakuti are two of Berlin's best-known house DJs. Partners in life and in music, they've played as solo artists (and together) since the early '90s, and hold residencies at Panorama Bar. Unsurprisingly, they have an unparalleled synthesis behind the decks and in conversation, and on this unique episode of the RA Exchange, they interview each other about their formative experiences in the music industry and the roots of their respective musical practices—for Tama Sumo, the bars and lesbian weekenders in Kreuzberg, and for Lakuti, disused warehouses in Johannesburg.
They also talk about deeper, more intrinsic aspects of their crafts, their relationship, and their identities as marginalised artists navigating Germany's house and techno scene. This interview was recorded live at The Standard in London as part of the series TheirStories, an essential event In London's queer cultural calendar that platforms narratives from the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.655 Surgeon Talks Live Performance and Improvisation
6 april 2023 |
44 min
"Live improvised hardware connects so directly to the fundamental rawness of electronic music." UK techno lynchpin Surgeon reflects on his connection to machines and making music on the fly.
Surgeon, also known as Anthony Child, has been one of techno's most influential and consistently brilliant artists since the mid-'90s. For the last decade, he has spent most of his creative resources on developing his abilities as a live performer, in his usual techno environment as well as more abstract settings. As Child reinforces in this live Dekmantel Exchange with Aaron Coultate, his live performance practice is at the heart of his creativity. "There was literally one day I woke up and realized that having the computer—DJing, as it were—was getting in the way of taking this form of performing further," he says. "That was determining the structure of what I was doing. And to be truly freeform and improvisational I had to be free of this imposed structure."
This archived conversation comes on the heels of Surgeon's most recent LP, Crash Recoil, which RA music critic Kiana Mickles hailed as "one of his best albums ever." To get an inside look into this risk taking artist's production process and approach to dance floor composition, listen to the episode in full.
EX.654 Critics' Roundtable [March 2023]
31 mars 2023 |
37 min
"Dance music artists are creating in an environment where they can be more outspoken about their queerness, which means that their work becomes extensions of their queerness." RA's critics discuss expressions of gender and sexuality in the underground scene during this month's roundtable.
Each month, Resident Advisor reviews a number of standout EPs, albums and singles, but there are some that resonate with us more than others. In this episode, our in-house music critics Andrew Ryce and Kiana Mickles join RA's Senior Producer, Chloe Lula, in a deep dive into the releases that they considered to be the most noteworthy from this month: Surgeon's new LP, Crash Recoil; Fever Ray's much-anticipated new full length, Radical Romantics; and I. JORDAN and SHERELLE's split two-tracker.
Beyond just assessing the music itself, we also debate bigger questions that these works raise. We discuss how some of this month's music invokes themes of love, romance and desire—which are relatively new to the electronic music underground; how representations of queerness are shifting in the contemporary music landscape; and the perennial pop-electronic music crossover, which has defined the contours of the last few weeks' worth of releases yet again. Listen to the conversation in full.
This week's intro and outro music, "Transience," was composed by Jo Johnson.
EX.653 Tony Andrews on Sound and Spirituality
23 mars 2023 |
36 min
“I actually believe that humans are made for more than what we're currently doing. We just need to switch on parts of our brains that we're not." Funktion-One creator Tony Andrews reflects on music and spirituality live from AVA London.
According to visionary sound system designer Tony Andrews, the creator of Funktion-One, there’s a spiritual current that unites humanity—and good sound is the first way for us to explore our communal mind.
In this RA Exchange recorded live from AVA London, the founder of one of the best high-end speakers on the market reflects on his experience engaging in the broader, spiritual meaning of music and the universe and how his decision to start Funktion-One in 1992 sprung from a desire to help humans connect with each other. Far from being a technical deep dive into loudspeaker design and engineering, this conversation delves into his first forays into the world of sound as well as the broader implications of music and how it can incite a paradigm shift in how we experience the human experience and consciousness.
Listen to the full, live talk and Q&A moderated by RA contributor Will Lynch.
EX.652 dweller festival with OK Williams
16 mars 2023 |
65 min
Since the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, there have been renewed efforts to shine a light on dance music's roots in Black communities. Still, there's a critical need for more Black-forefronted collectives and programmers—as well as more thoughtfully curated and balanced rosters of talent in clubs and festivals—to keep the origins of electronic music alive.
In comes Brooklyn’s dweller festival, founded in 2019 by Discwoman's Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, which aims to highlight exclusively Black talent from across the globe. This year’s edition featured a live RA Exchange with Nigerian-British selector OK Williams, who spoke to RA music critic Kiana Mickles about some of the deep-rooted inequities that continue to bar Black artists from contributing to the contemporary dance music landscape. They also discuss Williams’ ascent on the global stage—beginning from her Early Bird residency at NTS and full-fledged touring career post-pandemic—and her first forays into production. This is a lively discussion that includes questions from the audience. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.651 Source Material: Music and Iran's Fight for Women's Rights
9 mars 2023 |
45 min
"I don't know what I would do if my life was on the line." In a new audio documentary, female Iranian musicians reflect on the implications of speaking out against the country's misogynistic regime.
On September 16th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini—from the northwestern Kurdish city of Saqez—was arrested by Iran's morality police for not wearing her headscarf in accordance with the Islamic Republic's clerical standards. The circumstances of her death were suspicious; while authorities deny beating Amini and insisted in a statement that the cause of death was sudden heart failure, eyewitnesses, including women who were detained with Amini, reported that she was severely beaten and that she died as a result of police brutality. The incident sparked a series of protests described by the media as the most widespread in Iran in almost 10 years.
In honour of International Women's Day, this week's RA Exchange examines the ongoing fight for women's rights in Iran. At the time of this writing, the situation on the ground has escalated, with the government arresting and killing protestors who have spoken out against the country's oppressive policing practices, and even inciting suspected poison attacks against dozens of schoolgirls in the country's capital. According to our guests, women and minorities face more discrimination than ever as the Islamic Republic continues to extend and entrench its grip over Iranian society. "It is this conflict that has to do with the regulation of women's bodies that has been at the core of the Islamic Republic's main agendas," says one interviewee. "By controlling women, they're also somehow solidifying their power within the society."
RA Exchange's Senior Producer Chloe Lula starts this episode with a reflection on RA staff writer Anu Shukla's news piece from last autumn, which documented the protests when they first erupted, before speaking with Iranian musicians Azin Zahedi, Farahnaz Hatam and a third woman who asked to be removed from this episode for fear of her life. They reflect on the repercussions of the protests, the implications for the Iranian diaspora and how music and art can amplify sociopolitical issues—and galvanise communal action and positive change. Listen to the episode in full.
Tracklist:
Jo Johnson - Transience
Jo Johnson - Vigil
Shervin Hajipour - Baraye
EX.650 Critics' Roundtable [February 2023]
2 mars 2023 |
41 min
In 2023, we're refreshing our Critics' Roundtable format, inviting RA's in-house staff writers and industry specialists to reflect on the releases that resonated with them, as well as the trends and news that's circulating around the music sphere. March's roundtable features Andrew Ryce and Kiana Mickles.
In addition to discussing the much-anticipated EPs and albums that they've enjoyed—Caroline Polachek, Nene H, Fadi Mohem and more—the duo also raise important questions about the contemporary club music landscape: how should we consider an artist's core audience, especially when their music taps into an uncharted trend? What is the strategy behind releasing multiple albums at once, like Skrillex's recent double LP? What can we make of the new pop-electronic crossover, and what are the deeper implications of mainstream musicians appropriating underground tropes and themes?
We explore these issues and more in this month's roundtable RA Exchange, and talk about our most anticipated new releases for the coming weeks. Listen to the conversation, moderated by RA's Senior Producer Chloe Lula, in full.
EX.649 Irvine Welsh: 30 Years on From Trainspotting
23 februari 2023 |
44 min
In this week's episode of the RA Exchange, we host an exclusive talk with Scottish novelist and playwright Irvine Welsh, who's best known for his 1993 book, Trainspotting. His work raises crucial and provocative questions around class, identity and the human condition, as well as running themes around nightlife and DJ culture. Welsh has always harbored an avid love of electronic music—and acid house specifically.
In this live keynote interview at the Night Time Industries Association conference at E1 in London, he talks to RA's Senior Producer, Chloe Lula, about his enduring love of nightlife as well as the grueling creative process, his new record label and how club music has changed with the advent of new music production technologies and the rise of the bedroom techno producer. "All the good things really happen at night, the real freedom happens at night, the real expression happens at night," he says. Listen to the episode in full.
EX.648 Source Material: The Power of Radio in Times of Crisis
16 februari 2023 |
55 min
In honour of World Radio Day—which landed on February 13th—this week’s RA Exchange celebrates the power of radio in a documentary-style deep dive. UNESCO inaugurated World Radio Day in 2011 in order to commemorate its efficacy in reaching remote communities, connecting with people everywhere regardless of their education level, and providing a platform for positive and democratic discourse. It's also critical in spreading critical information during times of crisis or emergency. According to UNESCO, "increasing radio's journalistic standards and capacity should be considered as an investment in peace."
On a more modest level, podcasting and radio, especially in the world of underground music, can help forge in-person and virtual networks and celebrate and spread new and lesser-known music. During the pandemic, it also held together underground music scenes when people couldn't be together in the club, and sustained a kind of intimacy and connection by letting people share music over the airwaves and community platform chat rooms.
In this episode, we hear from various radio producers around the world—including Jamz Supernova, Hana Walker Brown, Dublab Barcelona and Hong Kong Community Radio, among others—about why radio resonates so strongly with them. "Good radio is always an exercise in connection, especially host-led radio,” says Rory Bowens, NTS’s Head of Radio Production. “The fact that it's a live experience is really crucial. People can listen to something in real time with a huge audience of other listeners at the same time, and that intrinsically connects them to each other." Take a listen to the episode in full.
EX.647 I. JORDAN
9 februari 2023 |
47 min
London-based musician I. JORDAN—a disciple of fast-paced, high-energy dance music—has undergone a creative renaissance since 2021. Last February, they were nominated for Best Producer at the annual NME awards, and they celebrated a jam-packed touring and release schedule, which included signing to Ninja Tune. Now, they're on the heels of a residency they oversaw designed specifically for trans and nonbinary artists, produced by Brighter Sound and Generator. They're also planning a tour with close friend and collaborator SHERELLE. "There is something really beautiful about trans only spaces, something that I can't put words into," they tell host Vanessa Maria in this week's RA Exchange. "It's just a feeling. Trans people get it. Trans people know it. It just does stuff to you, and I can't really explain."
Their conversation touches on the power of queer community, the spectre of imposter syndrome and the growing importance of nurturing creative outlets for marginalised musicians. Critically, I. JORDAN and Maria also take stock of what the underground scene can do to support trans and nonbinary artists by reconfiguring some of the industry's deeply rooted discriminatory practices from the ground up. Take a listen to the episode in full.
This episode was recorded at Qube in East London.
EX.646 DJ Perception and Timehri Records
2 februari 2023 |
41 min
DJ Perception is lauded as one of the leading voices in the contemporary UK garage landscape. His sets are widely known for being jam-packed with exclusive dubplates and sought-after cuts of slick 2-step, and his productions are just as highly revered, blending elements of UK garage with house and soul. “I like to make all types of garage, but never commercial music," he tells moderator Heléna Star in his interview. "It’s just underground.”
In this live listening party hosted by Timehri Records and the Black Artist Database, the artist talks with Timehri head T Dunn about the production of his most recent LP, Journey To The Star, which landed on the label in October 2022. They also listen to segments of the record and discuss its wider concept and construction with a live audience. "The music I make has to be soulful," DJ Perception says. "It can be dark, but it has to be groovy and it has to be soulful. That's how I work."
To hear more about the album, the diversity of the UK garage continuum and the underrated practice of bedroom music production, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.645 25 Years of Rush Hour
26 januari 2023 |
46 min
Amsterdam-based DJ Antal Heitlager needs little introduction. As a co-founder of Rush Hour—a globally respected label and distributor of rare and collectable records—he has been disseminating his distinct vision for buoyant house, hip-hop, disco and more for over two decades.
For this special edition of the RA Exchange, the artist and entrepreneur is interviewed by Berlin-based DJ Juba about the label and store’s 25-year anniversary, as well as his first forays into record collecting and the changing landscape of vinyl distribution in an ever-digitalizing world.
To hear more about the inception of his legendary shop front and imprint, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.644 Source Material: Scottish Music's Mythic Imaginary
19 januari 2023 |
21 min
In a scene dominated by thundering techno and its industrial iterations, Scotland’s experimental electronic landscape often goes unnoticed. This niche community of creatives finds inspiration in the country’s ethereal yet contradicting past, combining folk traditions with avant-garde production.
In this documentary-style podcast, RA contributor Rowan Crerar speaks to artists, labels and festivals about the deep relationship between Scottish music and folklore. Hyperdub affiliate Proc Fiskal, musician Gavin L. Sutherland, Aberdeen's aerial community radio, interdisciplinary artist Abby Beatrice Quick and Glasgow label 12th Isle each discuss the complex nature of Scottish identity, highlighting how topics such as archaeology and science fiction influence creative practices.
For more insights, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.643 Peggy Gou
12 januari 2023 |
50 min
Peggy Gou is one of electronic music's biggest celebrities. Her catchy productions, high-intensity DJ sets and personal style have propelled her to the upper echelons of stardom—a journey that's brought an equal number of fans and critics. "There are a lot of assumptions about me," she tells moderator Souhayla Ou-Oumar during a live RA Exchange at last year's Amsterdam Dance Event.
Over the course of the 50-minute conversation, which includes a Q&A with the audience, the label owner, producer, DJ and fashion designer spills the beans on her decision-making process, how she deals with haters and maintaining authenticity. Emphasising the power of saying no, the Korea-born artist explains how she executes her creative philosophy by being selective on projects. "I have a great team who follow my vision but basically, I'm a control freak." She says she's never had a manager and does all social media herself because "I don't like it when people tell me what to do."
To hear more about how Gou finds inspiration, why South Korea is a place of healing for her and the importance of listening to the body, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.642 Critics' Roundtable [January 2023]
5 januari 2023 |
32 min
There's a lot to be excited about this year. For the first Critics' Roundtable of 2023, RA staffers sat down to discuss the events, DJs, producers and technological developments that are poised to shape the electronic music landscape over the next twelve months.
Featuring senior staff writer Nyshka Chandran, Bogotá city manager Luisa Uribe and US account manager Natalie Papaeracleous, the conversation starts in Colombia where artists such as Julianna and Matías Aguayo are creating parties and platforms that spotlight local talents. The group then explores how nature influences festival programming, focusing on the likes of Terraforma in Italy, Vietnam's (Re)treat and Thailand's Karma Kastle.
Buzzworthy artists Sansibar, Amantra (AKA HUMA) and Hessle Audio's Toumba also get a mention, as does Venezuela's euphoric raptor house genre. Finally, the trio share their concerns and predictions for the Instagram economy, AI-generated music and the ethics of sampling. Listen to the conversation in full for more details on these topics.
EX.641 Source Material: Plants and Electronic Music
29 december 2022 |
30 min
Since at least the 1970s, artists have composed music for plants. From Mort Garson’s Plantasia to dublab's Plant Music compilation, albums recorded with nature in mind often intend to stimulate growth or simply entertain leafy creatures. This episode of Source Material, a documentary-style series, explores the symbiotic links between electronic music and house plants.
Diving into the world of frequencies and root systems, @martharadio speaks to various experts to learn how nature responds to ambient tunes and synthesisers. Among them are biotherapeutic musician Imka, Joe Patitucci of PlantWave, an app that translates plants' biorhythms into music, sound artist Karine Bonneval and composer Erland Cooper.
To discover how bass frequencies mimic bees and why festivals are adopting sonic soil pollution, listen to the episode.
EX.640 Slimzee
22 december 2022 |
49 min
Slimzee is a legend in every sense of the word. He launched Rinse FM alongside Geeneus and Uncle Dugs in 1994, running the station for three years out of his bedroom. His shows, focused on garage and grime, paved the way for the genres' current architects. As a member of Pay As U Go Cartel alongside Wiley and Flowdan, he also helped lay the foundations for early grime.
Speaking to @martharadio, the East London veteran discusses the specifics of the Rinse FM compressor, explaining how he learnt to fine-tune frequency levels through trial and error. Back then, it was normal to focus on a specific sound in mixes and DJ sets but now, genres are more fluid, he noted, describing how he currently plays hybrids of dubstep and grime. The duo then go onto discuss the dos and don'ts of DJing with an MC, Slimzee's favourite festivals as well as his mental health journey.
Listen to the conversation in full for more details.
EX.639 Critics' Roundtable [December 2022]
15 december 2022 |
40 min
Dance music deepened its presence in pop culture this year, expanding into TikTok's nichest corners as well as Billboard Hot 100 charts. For the December edition of the Critics' Roundtable, staffers Chloë Cochran, Whitney Ajayi, Martha Pazienti Caidan and contributor Vanessa Maria reflect on the major milestones of 2022.
Electronic music was part of global conversations on gender disparity and sexual violence, the group noted. Women's safety in clubs was a particularly concerning issue this year, they continued, highlighting incidents of needle spiking at clubs. On a more positive note, they applauded Butterz cofounder Elijah, RA's guest editor from earlier this year, whose efforts to educate on issues in the music industry led to a staff position at SOAS University of London.
To hear more about these topics, as well as the popularity of higher BPMs and definitive tunes like "B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)," listen to the chat in full.
EX.638 Byrell The Great
8 december 2022 |
52 min
Byrell The Great is a name synonymous with New York's ballroom scene. The Harlem native is known for his story-telling prowess and cheeky edits that span hip-hop, pop and meme culture, all of which are on full display in his seamless production, spirited DJ style and his high-energy mix series, Vogue Workouts. Live from Resident Advisor's 21st birthday celebration at Nowadays, the ballroom don discusses his involvement in the Kiki scene and the genre's growing popularity in mainstream culture.
Speaking to staff writer Kiana Mickles, Byrell describes how he attended his first ball thanks to Teyana Taylor. He then goes to elaborate on the nuances of ballroom music, what sets New York's Kiki landscape apart from the wider scene and DJ etiquette during a ball before venturing into his production techniques. Finally, Mickles and Byrell flesh out what it means for the culture when artists such as Beyoncé and Madonna incorporate ballroom references.
For more details on each of these topics, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.637 Source Material: Sustainable Promotion
1 december 2022 |
18 min
Faced with shrinking margins and higher rents, event organisers are finding new ways to keep the party going.
As the cost of living crisis continues to eat into club land, promoters around the world are increasingly being forced to adapt to shrinking margins. This new episode of Source Material, our documentary-style podcast series, shines a spotlight on Glasgow, Taipei and Chicago, where local organisers are testing out unconventional forms of inclusive promotion in response to widespread economic uncertainty.
In Glasgow, Han Read runs a monthly night called Events Research Programme that operates off a Patreon subscription model. Bonjour, meanwhile, is a queer venue in the Scottish city that runs as a co-op, sharing a minimum 50 percent of its profits among staff in an effort to acquire more financial freedom. In Taipei, venue 23 Music Room is using its non-traditional business model to bolster the next generation of promoters while RA contributor Steve Noah describes the state of DIY parties in Chicago.
Listen to the full conversation for details on each of these scenes.
Producer: Rose Manson
Executive Producer: Martha Pazienti Caidan
EX.636 Mala
25 november 2022 |
43 min
"I hate being recorded," Mala says nine minutes into this interview. "I don't like my sets being recorded, I don't like being video recorded." The Deep Medi boss and DMZ cofounder is describing his fiercely independent nature to journalist Kieran Yates, explaining how bright lights and prompts leads to self-consciousness. That's why DMZ parties are held in dark rooms, as to encourage freedom, he continues.
Authenticity is a defining theme of Mala's career. Speaking to Yates live at SOUP in Manchester as part of RA's 21st birthday celebrations, the Croyden-raised artist discusses how signing a record deal with EMI at the age of 20 led to misrepresentation. This early exposure to the industry's commercial backbone paved the way for DMZ's democratic, inclusive ethos, he tells Yates. "If I create something that's true to myself, and I can live an authentic existence, somehow by us all being ourselves, I think that makes the world better."
For more on the dubstep pioneer's approach to sound design and growing a community, listen to the chat in full.
EX.635 Korea Town Acid
17 november 2022 |
46 min
It's been a busy year for Jessica Cho, AKA Korea Town Acid. She's put out three records since 2021 and built close ties with neighbouring cities like Montreal and New York all the while finessing her live hardware shows. Speaking to Resident Advisor during MUTEK Montreal this past August, Cho unpacks her creative philosophy and the inspiration for her new album, Elephant in the Room.
"There's always pressure to make a banger," she says on the topic of sonic identity. "Sometimes, I just want to do what I do and make art." An advocate of cross-genre styles, the Toronto-based talent relies on her instincts when it comes to production. "I just try to do my thing, even if it's not digestible for everybody." Elephant in the Room is more than just palatable. Weaving in rap, jungle and glitch, it features an all-Canadian roster of guests and serves as a time capsule of Cho's pandemic experience. "I felt like I was the elephant in the room, isolated and trying to record this album."
A classically trained pianist, Cho has a wide range of influences that informs her craft. To hear more about her love for hip-hop, how she began building her modular set-up and what the Toronto scene is like, listen to the full conversation.
EX.634 Reflections: Sacred Spaces
10 november 2022 |
22 min
New York's dance music culture evolves every weekend. A constant wave of new collectives, promoters and artists, combined with a host of legacy names and an ever-growing batch of enthusiastic ravers, infuse the city with a vivacious energy that's hard to find elsewhere. This episode of Reflections, a series that digs deep into RA content, pays tribute to New York nightlife through three heartfelt anecdotes that capture the vibrancy of past and present communities.
Taken from RA's new limited-edition book Sacred Spaces, each message focuses on special party moments. Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy describes her quest to seek spirituality and communal transcendence through music, focusing on her experiences at David Mancuso's seminal The Loft party. Sharon White, a veteran name in New York's clubbing history, recounts the night of her unexpected debut at The Saint, an East Village spot that operated during the 1980s. The impromptu set went until 2 PM in the afternoon, leading the way for White to become one of the top grossing DJs on The Saint's roster. Finally, RA's editor-in-chief Whitney Wei describes coming of age at Palisades, an intimate Bushwick venue that lasted only two years but considerably shaped her club experiences.
Sacred Spaces, available for £29.99 via the RA Store, features 26 tributes to the dance by the likes of Kevin Saunderson, Róisín Murphy, Eris Drew and Octo Octa, among others.
EX.633 Skream
3 november 2022 |
61 min
"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 hour-long, unfiltered conversation at RA's London headquarters confirms that his love for the dance is as strong as ever.
Discussing his childhood, the seminal Dubstep Forum and 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 collaboration with underground producers.
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 style 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 regularly listens to tracks 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.
EX.632 Mykaell Riley
27 oktober 2022 |
48 min
Mykaell Riley has worn a number of hats in the music business. Starting off as a vocalist and founding member of Grammy-winning roots reggae band Steel Pulse, he's since dabbled in marketing, consulting, artist management and composing for the big screen. As director of a University of Westminster research project that examines the legacy of Jamaican music in the UK, he currently explores how ska, reggae, dub and lovers rock, among other genres, impacts British pop culture.
Speaking to Vanessa Maria as part of Resident Advisor's ongoing partnership with Black Minds Matter, Riley discusses the historical positioning of Black music in the UK through the lens of his own experiences. From working with EMI and Island Records to becoming an educator, he explains how infrastructure and accessibility has changed the playing field for artists. He also pinpoints current injustices around Black British music, noting the need for more Black professionals in behind-the-scenes jobs.
"Rave comes out of Black British music and even bands that you might not associate like Massive Attack or Prodigy are a component of the presence of Black British music," he describes. Yet, the cultural and creative value of Black British artistry has mainly benefitted non-Black communities, he warns. "It's the business end that we should be looking at as to why and how that continues to happen."
To hear more about Riley's distinguished career and his thoughts on the current state of the industry, listen to the full conversation.
EX.631 Reflections: Protecting the Future of Nightlife
20 oktober 2022 |
30 min
This past August, a panel of artists, creatives and various members of club communities gathered in Berlin to discuss the threats weighing on global nightlife. Part of Jägermeister's #SAVETHENIGHT initiative to rejuvenate the after-dark economy as well as Tresor's 31st anniversary celebrations, the discussion touched on a variety of social, economic and community issues such as gentrification, inclusion and safety that Resident Advisor later unpacked in a digital feature.
The latest instalment of Reflections, a new series on the Exchange that explores content on RA's site, goes deeper on some of these topics. Discussing the sustainability of club culture, Bernard Koomson from Berlin-based creative studio DeadHype notes how more collaboration has helped build critical infrastructure while knowledge sharing can help a younger generation learn from their predecessors. Manchester promoter Alice Woods, who co-runs the Meat Free club nights as well as her own event for people with disabilities called All Under One Roof, emphasises the importance of parties as a welcoming arena for all individuals. "People with disabilities are still quite left behind," she describes. "That's a wider societal issue but I think as a nightlife industry as, as a clubbing sector, I think we can be ones to lead the way on that."
For more details, listen to the conversation in full.
https://save-the-night.com
EX.630 Critics' Roundtable [October 2022]
13 oktober 2022 |
46 min
In a way, every Critics' Roundtable episode feels like a time capsule. Each month, the show documents the tracks and talents on the personal playlists of RA staffers, serving as a snapshot of the musical zeitgeist at the time. On this edition, staff writer Kiana Mickles, software engineer Alex Wanyoike and senior writer Nyshka Chandran outline their most listened to records from the past three months and noteworthy artists in their respective cities.
Discussing Kelela's long-awaited return from a long hiatus, the trio note how her new single marks a departure from her earlier club-oriented cuts. Moving onto the production duo of Abdul Raeva, whose heavy-hitting style brought back memories of the '90s UK label Orbital Records, the conversation gets into the ever-evolving palette of rave music. Djoser in Washington, DC, is more percussive techno than pure rave but he's a key US name who's leading the way for innovative club music and his dextrous drum work on his latest EP, Expand, gets a mention here.
Shifting gears, the trio go on to describe some of their favourite local acts such as Damo B, a Manchester veteran with an extensive radio career. River Moon in New York also wins praise for breaking the mould of "techno stoicism," a term that describes when artists take themselves far too seriously.
For more details on artists to watch and the trio's favourite RA's mixes of the year, listen to the conversation.
EX.629 Patrice Rushen
6 oktober 2022 |
40 min
Patrice Rushen is the type of musician whose skill set can't be neatly summed up in a few sentences. After studying to become a classically trained pianist—work that began while she was barely a toddler—she arranged, performed and composed three albums of jazz fusion for Prestige records in the mid-'70s, all while landing sessions playing with the likes of Donald Byrd and Jean-Luc Ponty. She was already a highly respected arranger, writer and instrumentalist in her scene and one of the few women at the time to lead their own band and control the creative process. But it was her five album stint for Elektra Records that really brought her virtuosic musicianship, songwriting and her voice to disco and R&B.
If you haven't heard her music yourself, you've almost definitely heard it sampled by the likes of Mary J. Blige, George Michael and the Men In Black theme song (calling it a sample is generous—the producers more or less added Will Smith's vocals to a modernised version of her 1982 composition "Forget Me Nots."). Apart from her career as a performing and recording artist, she's also a veteran music director, calling the shots for big budget tours, awards ceremonies and TV shows. She even composes symphonic pieces for orchestras and has a growing portfolio of film soundtracks.
Listen back to Zakia Sewell's 2019 conversation with the veteran artist to learn more about her multifaceted career.
EX.628 Shanti Celeste
29 september 2022 |
47 min
Shanti Celeste is one of those artists whose personality matches her DJ style. Her fun-loving nature and breezy demeanour always light up a room, as do her vibrant sets that span sunny house music, slow-burning disco and emotive techno. Fresh off her Hessle Audio debut, the London-based artist sat down with RA's Martha Pazienti-Caidan for an honest chat about track selection, bad gigs and her approach to production.
During DJ sets, the Peach Discs co-founder doesn’t like to focus on genres. Instead, "I think about, like, building and releasing tension and making sure that I stay in a specific energy level," she explained. "Whereas before, I think I knew the energy I wanted to bring, but I didn't know how to do that cause I was just thinking about everything in terms of genre."
Reaching this holistic stage, however, took time. It was a process of acquiring knowledge and experience but also confidence, she described, adding how she previously had "really bad imposter syndrome." Learning to deal with bad gigs and recognising that certain factors might be outside an artist’s control are essential to self-realisation, she continued. Going on to discuss her experience of playing big festival stages, she noted the importance of "learning what side of yourself to channel" rather than compromise on music.
For more details on her experience playing with fellow women DJs, her lockdown romance and recording her vocals, listen to the chat in full.
EX.627 Critics' Roundtable [September 2022]
15 september 2022 |
45 min
What did your summer sound like? For the RA staffers featured on this month's episode of the Critics' Roundtable, the answer ranges from dubby jungle to cheeky UKG to hazy krautrock.
Looking back on their favourite records from recent months, managing editor Chloe Lula, Mexico City manager Valeria Martin del Campo and senior writer Nyshka Chandran highlight Dax J's Soul Enforcer,Prelude by Barbie Bertisch and Lichi's latest fruit-inspired compilation.
The conversation then shifts to special live performances. Aquarian's dextrous mixing at Dekmantel gets a mention, as does SCHNITT and Gianluca Sibaldi's captivating AV performance at MUTEK Montreal, where they scanned audiences in real-time. Moving onto industry trends and significant news stories, the trio discuss the significance of Mexico City online radio station Aire Libre shutting down, the impact of algorithmic populism on artists and the massive labour crunch in event production jobs.
For more details on each of these topics, listen to the full conversation.
EX.626 Sadar Bahar
8 september 2022 |
24 min
Bahar is an avid collector of rare vinyl, possessing one of the world's biggest vinyl collections. The artist has embodied the vinyl-only ethos since growing up in Chicago in the '70s—the heyday of gospel, funk, and jazz soul in the US. He started the party Soul In The Hole with Lee Collins, which embodied and celebrated his passion for what he calls "real" music—music made by "real" musicians playing "real" instruments—and is still actively touring and spreading the spirit of Chicago house at sets around the world.
He and Lula discuss kinship among collectors, the origins of Black funk and the instrumentation that brings this singular genre to life. Listen to their conversation in full.
EX.625 Eli Escobar
1 september 2022 |
68 min
In many ways, Eli Escobar represents the soul of New York nightlife. He can literally play any genre, often jumping from Afrobeats to garage to disco in a single session—a wide-ranging style that's unique to the city and tangible on his recent RA podcast.
First emerging on the scene in the late '90s, he's built a reputation for consistently drawing loyal crowds without ever compromising on his personal style and his long-running parties are every promoter's dream.
Live from Nowadays, the native New Yorker speaks to staff writers Kiana Mickles and Nyshka Chandran about his decades-long career. From growing up in the city during the '80s and '90s to holding down weekly residencies, Escobar reflects over his time in the industry while sharing valuable lessons for up-and-coming acts, including why it's ok to take one's time as a producer.
For details on his hip-hop background and why he thinks Brooklyn will remain New York's nightlife capital, listen to the conversation.
EX.624 Kode9
26 augusti 2022 |
56 min
Like countless others, Steve Goodman played a lot of video games during lockdown. At the time, the artist known as Kode9 and founder of the iconic Hyperdub label found himself imagining a game about Scotland and the country's plan to set up a colony in Panama back in the 1690s. Those thoughts later crystallised into Astro-Darien, an AV installation, "sonic fiction" and album that explores Scotland's space program and its past colonial ambitions through the lens of a video game.
Speaking to RA on this week's episode of the Exchange, Goodman delves into the various facets of this project, including Escapology, his score to Astro-Darien. The album, released in July, is "like a film trailer that's giving you a little taste of various bits of story and strands of a kind of palette of sounds and a world," he explains. "So if you want, there's places to go deeper on it but if you are not interested in that, just treat it as a slightly weird dance music record."
Science fiction aside, the Hyperdub founder also discusses the cyclical nature of music and why jungle is currently experiencing what many have called a revival. "Music doesn't move forward, it doesn't progress in a linear fashion," he describes, attributing that to "generational relationships."
For more deep thoughts and Goodman's guide on hiking in the Scottish Highlands, listen to the conversation in full.
EX.623 Critics' Roundtable [August 2022]
18 augusti 2022 |
40 min
This volume of the Critics Roundtable, Resident Advisor's monthly podcast that showcases staff selections, looks back at the summer's important moments and releases in electronic music. Over the course of 40 minutes, podcasts chief Martha Pazienti Caidan, events writer Katie Thomas and content intern Fahad Akinsanya each recap a memorable news story, record and live performance from the past two months.
Offering insights, opinions and most importantly, discussion, the trio praise the reopening of London venue The Cross and analyse The Jaguar Foundation's latest report on gender diversity in UK dance music. Also on the agenda is the public backlash against RA's critical review of Beyonce's new album. In terms of new releases, the new EP by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal gets a mention, as does Sierra and CalvoMusic's "Fast Lingo." Finally, the trio highlight their favourite festival gigs, which include Vanyfox and Tame Impala at Primavera Sound.
Listen to the episode for all the details.
EX.622 Patrick Topping
11 augusti 2022 |
53 min
Patrick Topping's love of dance music stretches back to his early teenage years when he discovered mákina, a subgenre of hard Spanish techno that's popular in North East England. "I still love that music now," he says on this week's episode. Since those early days as a young raver in Newcastle, Topping has become an in-demand artist known for a wide range of styles that includes happy hardcore, classic pop and gospel-inflected house.
Currently holding down a summer residency at DC-10 in Ibiza, which he describes as "the pinnacle of my career," the UK artist explains how he reached this stage after starting out in the industry as promoter, following in his father's footsteps. After being mentored by Jamie Jones, Topping says he's now in a position to pass on insights to younger artists as well as support emerging talents through his residency and label, Trick.
Topping then goes onto his discuss why he prefers to play sober these days—"it changed my relationship with DJing"—and why he controls his own social media presence—"you're pulling together bits of media to tell your story, it's kind of like DJing."
Listen to the full conversation for more details.
EX.621 Lafawndah(Archive)
4 augusti 2022 |
57 min
A repeat episode from 2020.
Lafawndah's second album, The Fifth Season, on French label Latency, is a journey through science fiction, friendship and cinematic storytelling.
It saw the Paris-born artist expand the myths of NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy and cover the likes of Beverly Glenn Copeland and Lili Boulanger. The record continues a four-year run of avant pop jewels, kicked off by her a debut EP for Warp and a collaboration with minimalist composer Midori Takada in 2018, before her first full-length statement, 2019's Ancestor Boy.
Here, she speaks with Martha Pazienti Caidan about the making of The Fifth Season, an LP that's elemental, emotional and uncannily fitting for the present moment.
EX.620 Reflections: Inside Nightlife’s Spiking Epidemic
28 juli 2022 |
34 min
Berlin has witnessed an alarming number of drug and needle spiking incidents in recent months, raising worries about nightlife safety in one of the world's top clubbing destinations. In this edition of Reflections, a new series on the RA Exchange that breaks down important journalism on our site, staff writer Anu Shukla and managing editor Chloe Lula examine the context surrounding recent spiking claims.
Shukla, discussing her article on the topic, describes how she spoke to two women who said they were spiked with needles at Berghain and Sisyphos. Their stories have pushed others to share their own experiences with spiking, Shukla says. Lula, who has been looking into the socio-economic and political climate behind spiking, notes how some clubbers may now feel unsafe going out alone. The pandemic has brought about a rise in anti-social behaviour and regressive attitudes towards sex, which could be a factor behind spiking, she describes.
Listen to the full conversation to understand how spiking poses serious implications for women and minorities in nightlife.
For resources on community care, harm reduction and mental health, revisit our list from earlier this year: https://ra.co/features/3961
EX.619 D Double E & Tash LC
21 juli 2022 |
25 min
Darren Dixon, AKA D Double E, wants the world to know that he's not just a MC. In a short but deep chat with London DJ and presenter Tash LC on the sidelines of Outlook Festival's debut UK edition, the grime veteran discusses his recent productions for for the likes of Novelist and others. Despite producing for years, Dixon has largely hidden that side of his artistry from the public. But that's now changing following the release of his latest EP, Bluku! Bluku! 2.
"It's a separate life but I'm now pushing it into the world," Dixon tells Tash LC ahead of his live performance at the festival. His production and vocals on the new EP touch on classic grime but there's also elements of '80s synth music and R&B. The record is a reflection of his personal tastes, he explains. Putting out new music is a chance for fans to see his personality, he continues, noting how that's not always possible during live grime shows. "When I'm doing grime sets, they're playing mad beats and I have no choice but to spit on the beat," he says.
Listen to the full conversation for more details on Dixon's creative process as well as his collaborations with Swindle and Chip.
EX.618 Critics' Roundtable [July 2022]
14 juli 2022 |
38 min
New music, community-driven parties, tech talk and more from RA staffers.
Every month, members of Resident Advisor's global team highlight their favourite artists, exciting labels and industry trends on the Critics' Roundtable podcast. This edition, featuring senior designer Lucy Ross, senior US partnerships lead Lottie Moore and senior staff writer Nyshka Chandran, jumps across genres and regions in a reflection of the trio's myriad tastes.
Selections feature records with an introspective touch, setting the tone for a mindful summer. From the furious breaks of NIGELTHREETIMES to V.C.R's gospel-inspired soul to Joy Orbison collaborator KEYAH/BLU, the group describes how each artist incorporates a cinematic gloss into their respective compositions. Elsewhere, Honolulu-based label Aloha Got Soul gets a mention for its commitment to showcasing Hawaiian funk and jazz, as does young amapiano star Uncle Waffles, whose global footprint keeps expanding.
Recent developments impacting the electronic music ecosystem are also discussed. Moore looks at community-building initiatives of promoters, highlighting Los Angeles' Mapamota and noting the potential of chat platforms such as Discord to strengthen ties with punters. Ross, meanwhile, summarises how AI is influencing brand identity from a designer's viewpoint.
Listen to the full podcast for more.
EX.617 Badsista
7 juli 2022 |
59 min
As a DJ, Rafaela Andrade AKA Badsista channels her childhood, culture and history into no-holds-barred sets that blur the lines between Chicago house, techno, hip-hop, pop and baile funk. At this year's edition of Nuits Sonores, the São Paulo creative jumped from Rihanna to acid, incorporating a medley of styles she grew up with. "I'm a result of my time," she tells Resident Advisor at the Lyon festival. Growing up, Andrade says she was constantly exposed to music from family members, street parties and friends. Those influences, reflected in her mixes and performances, add a degree of intentionality and meaning to her craft, she explains.
Baile funk is a recurring sound in her sets and productions. Speaking to Lula about the genre, Andrade discusses similarities with punk rock and how the genre varies around Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, for instance, it's percussive and faster while in Belo Horizonte, it's slower and more vocal-heavy, she describes. Baile funk is also deeply intertwined with local politics, she points out. Federal programs under former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva provided computers to working-class neighborhoods, enabling more people to access music-making software. Under the current government, however, equipment has become expensive, which is weighing on the creative economy, she warns.
When Andrade isn't DJing, she focuses on education and club nights. As co-founder of collective BANDIDA, she helps to throw parties in São Paulo that showcase women artists in addition to teaching women of marginalised backgrounds how to DJ and produce using affordable hardware. For more details on her community-oriented approach to nightlife, listen to the full conversation.
EX.616 Reflections: Web3 in Nightlife
30 juni 2022 |
17 min
Reflections, a new addition on the RA Exchange, takes a magnifying glass to long-form journalism on our website. On each episode, writers break down their latest feature in an effort to shed more light on underlying issues surrounding the story.
As part of Resident Advisor's technology month, senior staff writer Nyshka Chandran investigated how blockchain networks known as Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are looking to disrupt the global nightlife industry. Here, she outlines how she came across the niche world of Web3 nightlife and explains the cautious sentiment behind this fast-growing sector.
While several DAOs throw parties featuring electronic music artists, only a few seek to operate their own venues and transform the process of event curation, she notes. But their lofty ambitions are tied to the fate of the cryptocurrency market, which could ultimately make or break a DAO, she warns.
Listen to the full conversation for more details.
EX.615 HE.SHE.THEY(Archive)
23 juni 2022 |
94 min
A repeat episode from last year in celebration of Pride month.
Steven Braines and Sophia Kearney founded the party brand He.She.They. in 2018 with a mission to make their events "a utopia where people feel they belong whilst expressing their utmost individuality." Their first event was at London's Ministry Of Sound and has since visited Pacha, Watergate, Rex Club and other big-name venues in Europe, Asia and the United States. They also run the artist management agency Weird & Wonderful, representing acts like Jossy Mitsu, LOUISAHHH and Maya Jane Coles, who's also a regular DJ for He.She.They.
In conversation with journalist and author Marcus Barnes, Kearney and Braines expand on the history and ethos behind the brand, having to trade DC10 for London lockdown and their Pride parties in Brighton.
EX.614 Portrait XO
16 juni 2022 |
52 min
As an artist focused on experimental electronics, visuals, AI and augmented reality, Portrait XO is used to thinking in a multidisciplinary approach. Whether developing sound installations, musical dining experiences or audiovisual albums, the Berlin-based creator consistently intertwines music, art and immersive technologies.
This integrative way of working stems from the artist's synesthesia, a neurological condition in which people experience one sense through another. "It's like a cross wiring of senses," Portrait XO explains on this episode of the Exchange. Exploring synaesthetic reactions between sound, taste and sight is now a major element of her work. One project involved her performing music based on sounds that she experienced from flavours.
Most of her productions are centred around human-machine collaboration. Her 2020 album, WIRE, used machine learning to generate ten hours of new audio from just hour of her recorded vocals. Working with AI "feels like a 50/50 collaboration, at least when it comes to melodies," she describes. While AI isn't smart enough to create full lyrics and melodies, it's "a really great idea sparker and something I’ll hear will then inspire me to write the rest of the melodic phrase or the best lyrical idea that I get out of it," she continues.
For more details on how synesthesia and machine learning influence her creative process, listen to the full conversation.
EX.613 Critics' Roundtable [June 2022]
9 juni 2022 |
41 min
Two new faces join Head Of Podcasts Martha Pazienti-Caidan on the June edition of Critics' Roundtable, Resident Advisor's monthly podcast that showcases the varied tastes of our contributors. Over the course of 40 minutes, Glasgow City Manager Rose Manson, Staff Writer Zoey Shopmaker and Pazienti-Caidan herself present their favourite music and new stories from the past three months.
Their selections include New York producer K Wata, whose recent 12-inch connects the dots between loopy drum patterns and experimental ambient, as well as the 10 year anniversary compilation of UK label Local Action. Kiernan Laveaux's March mix for Noods Radio is also highlighted, as is the new Air Max '97 EP and Glasgow community radio station Buena Vida. Towards the end of the chat, the trio discuss a directory of women, trans and non-binary producers, the slow pace of festival ticket sales and efforts to end sexual violence at large gatherings.
Listen to the conversation in full.
EX.612 Source Material: Collaboration & Mental Health
2 juni 2022 |
63 min
Collaboration is intrinsic to creative jobs. Whether you're a lone wolf or a team player, it's impossible to avoid partnerships and group coordination. But working with other people can get messy, especially when ego is involved. As part of Resident Advisor's ongoing collaboration with Black Minds Matter, this episode of the Exchange explores how alliances affect an artist's craft and wellbeing. In separate conversations with UK singer-songwriter Aluna and Hamburg-based DJ crew SLIC Unit, host Vanessa Maria asks them about the challenges of building collectively versus individually.
For SLIC Unit, being part of a network is all about mutual trust. Each person brings different talents to the table so it's important to reinforce each another while streamlining the decision-making process, founding members Nissa and SENU describe. "Being together or being in a collective always means more work," they say, referring to the need for clear communication, empathy and making time for everyone's projects. SLIC Unit practices what they call "radical solidarity," a support system that reduces chaos and stress while enabling them to have fun while working.
Aluna, on the other hand, has a solo career in addition to being one-half of the duo AlunaGeorge. For her, going solo meant confronting her relationship with fear. Being in a band provided her with a sense of safety but that ultimately became a warning bell, she explains. "I knew that I was using it as a safety net from a place of either displacement or fear," she continues, alluding to her issues with racism and sexism. At the end of the day, it's important for artists to establish stability and security within themselves before they can join a group, she notes.
For more insights on how creatives can preserve authenticity and self-worth in a team environment or on their own, listen to the hour-long podcast.
EX.611 Heny G
27 maj 2022 |
88 min
Pirate radio, dubstep and documentary filmmaking—the many faces of Heny G.
Malcolm Christopher Gustave, AKA Heny G, is a name synonymous with pirate radio and dubstep. Through his own shows and station, he championed a melodic style of the syncopated, sub-bass sound that's since influenced several of the genre's stalwarts. Speaking with Resident Advisor contributor Marcus Barnes, Gustave explains how his love for radio pushed him to champion diverse artists in dance music.
Tracing the trajectory of his time in the industry, Gustave describes how he started in pirate radio at the age of 13. Developing an obsession with jungle, garage and house music, he went onto work at Rinse FM during the 2000s when it was still an unlicensed platform. Around that tinme, he also launching his own station, React FM. While DJing and presenting, Gustave fine-tuned his signature style of emotive dubstep. Nine years since the release of his debut album Child Hood, his soulful productions continue to resonate with old and new heads alike, as Barnes points out.
Over the past year, Gustave has been working on a documentary called The Last Weekend. Chatting to Barnes about the creative process, he outlines his entry into filmmaking and how the art form has added another layer to his ever-evolving career.
Listen to the discussion for the full details.
EX.610 Reflections: Volatility In New York Nightlife
19 maj 2022 |
29 min
On the debut episode of our new Reflections series, New York staff writer Kiana Mickles analyses recent developments in local nightlife following the closure of a treasured Brooklyn venue.
Resident Advisor publishes several pieces of long-form journalism per week but due to word count limitations, there's only so much information our reporters can pack in. To ensure important stories get the full coverage they deserve, we've started a new series on the RA Exchange. Reflections takes a deeper dive into the editorial content on our website by inviting writers to dissect one of their recent features. A behind-the-scenes look into the conceptualisation and research behind these articles, Reflections aims to provide updates on the highlighted topic as well as shed light on the journalistic process.
For the inaugural episode, New York staff writer Kiana Mickles discusses her feature on Bossa Nova Civic Club from February this year. Ever since a fire forced the iconic venue to close indefinitely, Brooklyn nightlife hasn't been the same, she explained in a conversation with Martha Pazienti Caidan. The club was celebrated for its weekday programming but now that it's shut, Brooklynites have fewer party options on school nights, Mickles described.
Bossa's fire is one of many disturbing incidents in New York nightlife this year, she continued. Recent episodes of violence and crime in various clubs have shaken artists and punters, particularly those from minority backgrounds. Mace-like fumes were reported at Nowadays, Rash was the victim of an arson attack and allegations of drink spiking at popular venues remain rampant.
Listen to the full conversation below for more details on these issues.
https://ra.co/exchange/610
Tracklist:
quest?onmarq - Tropical Goth https://questionmarcdj.bandcamp.com/album/tropical-goth-rave-water
Ben Bondy - Everything I Can't Be [Quiet Time] https://benbondy.bandcamp.com/album/ben-bondy
EX.609 Jana Rush & Caroline Claus
12 maj 2022 |
30 min
Live from Rewire Festival, Planet Mu affiliate Jana Rush and sound researcher Caroline Claus discuss gender politics, audio equipment and urban landscapes.
At this year's instalment of Rewire Festival, which took place in The Hague from April 8th to 10th, artists were paired with sociologists and anthropologists for a series of stimulating conversations. One discussion between Chicago producer Jana Rush and Caroline Claus, a Brussels-based sound researcher, stood out for its interconnections between dance music and urban environments as well as gender and technology so for this week's Exchange, we're presenting their chat.
Rush, known for her experimental forays into footwork and juke, incorporates a range of textures in her albums. From industrial to funky, her tracks frequently enter the realm of sound art but no matter how avant-garde she gets, her city remains a constant source of inspiration. Whether evoking the groove of house vocalists or the Windy City's politically-charged jazz movement, she's been a pillar of Chicago's club community for years. Claus, meanwhile, focuses on a topic known as "sonic urbanism," or how noise and vibrations impact city spaces such as railways and parks. Whether using field recordings for urban planning or engaging with the concept of sonic warfare, her studies explore interactions between individuals and spaces through sound. It can be said that both Rush and Claus are rooted in a sense of place—albeit in different ways. Rush, for instance, explained how she draws inspiration from music played in passing cars.
The two also tackle the role of gender on their respective equipment. Claus mentions how her identity shapes the intentions of her recordings while Rush describes how she felt compelled to master technical equipment because "if you don't know what you don't know, people are gonna capitalise off that and they're not gonna let it go because you're a female." During their 25-minute long talk, Rush also explains how she uses binary code and how people often perceive her as aggressive. Listen on for the full details.
Tracklist:
Jana Rush - Clown [Planet Mu]
EX.608 Critics' Roundtable [May 2022]
5 maj 2022 |
29 min
Every day at Resident Advisor, we discuss the latest interesting music but there's only so much information we can pack into features, reviews and news. The Critics' Roundtable podcast, part of our Exchange series, is a chance for the team to go deeper into striking artists, records and industry trends in the global club underground.
This instalment, featuring senior staff writer Nyshka Chandran, music editor Andrew Ryce and chief creative and brand officer Kazim Rashid, touches on recent releases in London, Ecuador, Atlanta and beyond. First, each highlight their favourite albums from the past four months, with selections ranging from Terrence Dixon's supremely abstract techno to Marcela Dias Sindaco's sexy electro. Next, contributors discuss an artist or platform of note. Washington DC label PPU gets a mention, as do the hard-hitting bass mutations of Nikki Nair and Colombian label Insurgentes. Finally, Nyshka, Andrew and Kazim reflect on significant developments in the electronic music world, commenting on the ongoing attempts to get artists paid for online mixes, the intersection of club music and theatre and the recent passing of hip-hop icon DJ Kay Slay.
Tracklist:
Alabaster DePlume - Visitors XT8B – Oak [International Anthem]
Terrence Dixon - Aurora - Other Dimensions [30D Records]
Marcela Dias Sindaco - À Flor Da Pele - Rio de Janeiro 3025 EP [Fixed Rhythms]
Nikki Nair & Nala - The World Is Always Ending - The World Is Always Ending [Dirtybird]
Dwight Sykes - You’re Exactly - On The Rocks [PPU]
PVSSY & Entrañas - Manía (Menzi remix - Fervor [TraTraTrax]
Terrence Dixon - Aurora - Other Dimensions [30D Records]
EX.607 Zepherin Saint
28 april 2022 |
75 min
Zepherin Saint's first release, 1988's Give Me Back Your Love as Boyz in Shock featuring Carol Leeming, was one of the first soulful house records to hit the UK. Saint played a key role in the UK's dance music scene, but as journalist Marcus Barnes highlights in this week's Resident Advisor Exchange, the influence and value of his work over the years has often been overlooked.
Saint grew up in Harrow, North West London. His earliest experiments with music happened at school, playing the drums in a band making music that he describes as "Spandau Ballet funk, soul and pop tracks." The tunes were so good that their teacher organised studio time so they could make a demo.
Handed down one of Harrow's key soundsystems from his older brother, Saint would go on to build rigs, and recording studios, of his own, supplying the sound for many acid house nights as the scene exploded. He worked at legendary London shop Black Market Records and spent time in the US managing R&B artists like Terri Walker, before returning to the UK to launch Tribe Records, bringing dance music from South Africa and establishing the blueprint for what is now the Afro house scene. Today, Saint is based in Melbourne, where he's started a new label, Inner Sauce, to celebrate the live house sound bubbling there.
In an enlightening conversation with Barnes, Saint discusses Melbourne's return to partying post lockdown, building soundsystems, finding his identity in London as a young West Indian man, working at Black Market Records and how he's now turning his focus back onto his own productions.
EX.606 Nik Colk Void
21 april 2022 |
49 min
Nik Colk Void's new LP, Bucked Up Space, is her ninth studio album, but her first as a solo artist.
Based in Norfolk, Void is an electronic musician and analogue synthesiser virtuoso who forms part of both Factory Floor and Carter Tutti Void (with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti of pioneering industrial group Throbbing Gristle). Her work has been released on iconic labels like DFA, Mute and Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records, and in late 2017 she released 33 33, a collaborative record as NPVR with the late Peter Rehberg of Editions Mego.
In this week's Resident Advisor Exchange, Void talks about her relationship with Rehberg and how her confidence grew significantly through their working together. Without him, she explains, she may not have found the voice and the language she was looking for to put out her own full-length record. It is fitting and meaningful, therefore, that on April 8th, Bucked Up Space came out on Editions Mego.
In conversation with RA writer Katie Thomas, Nik Colk Void discusses her album, the process of mastering analogue synths, the art and value of collaboration and affirming performances—plus details about a new Factory Floor record that's on the horizon.
Tracklist:
Nik Colk Void - Big Breather (Editions Mego)
Nik Colk Void - FlatTime (Editions Mego)
EX.605 Fabio & Grooverider
14 april 2022 |
21 min
This week's Resident Advisor Exchange was recorded in January, live from Southbank Centre in London. Shortly before their Royal Festival Hall performance with The Outlook Orchestra, drum & bass and jungle originators Fabio & Grooverider sat down with Heléna Star to talk about the show. As you can hear from the applause and roars of laughter throughout the recording, the audience was besotted.
The UK dance music scene would look very different without Fabio & Grooverider's contributions over the last few decades. Coming from pirate radio, where they first teamed up in 1987 on Phase One, the duo would go on to carve out the path for drum & bass and jungle, as well as to influence the trajectories of house, techno and breakbeat. Grooverider captures their legacy best when he says: "We are this music."
Launched in 2017, The Outlook Orchestra has collaborated with other pioneering artists like David Rodigan and Mala. The show with Fabio & Grooverider, which they will perform again at Outlook Festival in June, saw 30 years of drum & bass history packed into 31 tracks.
In conversation with Heléna Star, Fabio & Grooverider discussed how the show came together, as well as their staying power in the scene, the legacy of their seminal club night Rage, how drum & bass is still growing and how humour is a vital part of their relationship. Fittingly, they also cracked a lot of jokes.
EX.604 JADALAREIGN
7 april 2022 |
61 min
This week's Exchange was recorded in November 2021 as part of our Full Circle series, which celebrates women in electronic music. DJ, producer and community organiser JADALAREIGN sat down with two of Resident Advisor's staff writers, Kiana Mickles and Nyshka Chandran, at our New York office.
JADALAREIGN was raised about an hour north of New York City, in a musical household soundtracked by funk, soul, hip-hop and R&B. Growing up in a predominantly white neighbourhood impacted how she operates today—her work prioritises cultivating community, as community wasn't always something she felt she had.
After playing instruments, studying fashion and ending up in a corporate job, JADALAREIGN became increasingly engaged in music through her side hustle as the music director for an entertainment blog. In 2015, she took her first DJ lesson and felt instantly drawn to the craft. Gradually, she grew more and more immersed in the New York scene.
Today, JADALAREIGN is a booker for leading New York club Nowadays, using her role heading up the Friday night programming to create more space and opportunity for people of colour in dance music. She also runs a workshop series called SKILLSHARE, which supports other women of colour, as well as queer folks, non-binary people and trans people, wanting to learn about the ins and outs of the music industry. In 2020, she launched In Sessions with Sam Law and FIVEBOI, a digital production camp that, when it first launched, reached around 300 people daily from 30 different countries.
In this Exchange, JADALAREIGN discusses her work and community projects, how New York's dance music culture has changed in recent years and the importance of the scene's players engaging in honest reflection to increase diversity. She also touches on the value of mentorship for marginalised creatives and what can be done to prevent artists of colour feeling tokenised.
Tracklist:
JADALAREIGN - 2B2S (HAUS of ALTR)
EX.603 Elijah
31 mars 2022 |
47 min
This week's Resident Advisor Exchange, recorded live at AVA London with journalist Kieran Yates, forms part of Elijah's guest-edited month. Throughout March, we've run curated content published with the intention of demystifying the music industry.
Elijah & Skilliam began DJing together in 2007. In 2010, they launched a label, Butterz, putting out music from the likes of Terror Danjah, Royal-T, Flava D and Murlo. Over the course of the next decade, they played a vital role in the way grime developed and exploded in the UK.
Elijah is also an artist manager, looking after the careers of Flava D, DJ Q and Swindle. He uses his platform and deep understanding of the inner workings of the music industry to share tips and probing questions to help shape the future of electronic music.
As we wrap up Elijah's guest-edited month, he spoke to Yates about how the industry has changed since his early years as a DJ, the difference between creating art and creating content, the limitations of not engaging with electronic music outside of Europe, and how the measure of your legacy as an artist won't just be about your art, but about how you interacted with others and shared your knowledge.
Tracklist:
Phil Keiran - No Life (Roman Flügel Remix) (Hot Creations)
KiNK - Disco Spectrum (Sofia)
EX.602 Laila McKenzie
24 mars 2022 |
45 min
Laila McKenzie began a life in dance music when she was 16 years old, collecting glasses in a club in Sheffield. She has since acquired an intricate knowledge of the music industry and of house in particular, having spent her life promoting, managing events, dancing and most recently co-authoring Lady Of The House with Ian "Snowy" Snowball, a book that tells the stories of more than 150 pioneering women in dance music.
From March 8th through 12th, to coincide with International Women's Day, the inaugural Lady Of The House exhibition took place at Lost Horizon in Bristol, where McKenzie is based. In this week's Exchange, which was recorded before the exhibition, she discusses how Lady Of The House came to be and how the three pillars—celebrating, championing and honouring women—tied into the multi-day cultural exhibit.
According to McKenzie, Lady Of The House is about preserving the legacy of dance music. "We've started levelling the playing field for gender," she said. "Now we need to do it for people from low socio-economic backgrounds, Black, brown, LGBTQI+, disabled women. We need to give them that elevation."
In conversation with Vanessa Maria, McKenzie discussed what it means to be a woman in dance music, how she's experienced the industry change over the years, the importance of community and how dance music has been both her demon and her saviour.
Tracklist:
Just Her - Follow You Down (GU Music)
EX.601 K-HAND (Archive)
17 mars 2022 |
52 min
An archive episode for International Women's Month with the late, great Detroit producer.
For International Women's Month, we revisit K-HAND's Resident Advisor Exchange, originally published in November 2019. The "First Lady Of Detroit," as Detroit City Council deemed her in 2017, died in August 2021. The following text is from the original post.
Kelli Hand used to be described as an unsung hero of Detroit house and techno but recently she's finally been getting her due. With a production career beginning in 1990, she has a sprawling discography packed with timeless releases for key labels like Warp, Tresor and her own Acacia Records. Over the years she's produced several hundred tracks, each bearing her distinctive knack for jack and a style marked by a timeless flavour of minimalism.
In conversation with Matt Unicomb, we hear about how her perspective on releasing music and DJing has changed over the last three decades and her experiences of the ebb and flow of a life spent in dance music. Launching from formative experiences at Paradise Garage and the Music Box, Hand's story covers several vital eras of American dance music history, a lineage that feeds directly into the rare staying power of her productions.
Tracklist:
K-HAND - Untitled B1 [Acacia Records]
K-HAND - Untitled A1 [Acacia Records]
EX.600 Source Material: Kyiv’s Club Community, Fractured By War
10 mars 2022 |
34 min
The 600th episode of the Exchange marks a pivot in Resident Advisor’s audio coverage. Source Material, one of our new series, moves towards in-depth, documentary-style reports on the electronic music community and beyond. For the inaugural edition of Source Material, we invite perspectives from Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis with over 1.5 million displaced refugees.
Starting in 2014, Kyiv became a global dance music destination, due to its world-class venues and festivals, plus the government’s relatively hands-off approach towards enforcing social gathering regulations during Covid. Many flocked to its dance floors during a time when other countries operated under stringent lockdowns, and interest in the city only continued to grow. But the promise of Kyiv’s fertile club scene has been completely decimated by the war.
Those who made the community so vibrant are now faced with the unimaginable decision to either flee or fight. The voices within this episode include Timur, known as the producer John Object, an affiliate of CXEMA, who is defending his country as part of the Territorial Defense Force, and Margareeta, RA’s City Manager for Kyiv, who discusses the emotional toll of fleeing from the war. Woven throughout are also interviews with anti-war protestors in the streets of Berlin and the volunteers helping refugees at the city’s main train stations.
Guests: John Object, Margarita Evi
Interviewer: Whitney Wei
Tracklist:
John Object - Draft (2010)
John Object - Xanax & Silk (Live) (2016)
John Object - Kiss (2018)
EX.599 Ray Keith
3 mars 2022 |
66 min
The jungle and drum & bass pioneer—and captivating storyteller—unpacks his life, career and new book.
Alongside peers like Fabio, Grooverider, Jumping Jack Frost, Randall, Micky Finn, LTJ Bukem and Nicky Blackmarket, Ray Keith played a leading role as jungle took over London in the mid '90s. His new autobiographical book, Dark Soldier, is a reflection on his life: his personal journey, his career, the highs and lows, and the many people who have influenced him. It's also the story of how he and the scene moved from analogue into electronic music.
"I was in the right place at the right time," he said in this week's Resident Advisor Exchange, referring to the many Monday nights spent at Heaven in London, catching sets from the likes of Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold and Paul "Trouble" Anderson. "I was a purist, absorbing the sounds."
Keith has put out so many records over the years, under so many different aliases, that he's lost count. He's also had radio shows on Vibe FM, Kiss FM and recently Thames Delta radio, cofounded a booking agency and headed up several record labels. He's a legend in the scene with a wealth of stories to tell.
In this week's Exchange, Keith talks about growing up in Colchester, the importance of record stores as a community hub, dubplate culture, how music saved his life and the thrill of watching his daughter, AKA LO Selecta, play her first DJ set.
Tracklist:
Dark Soldier - Need Me (Forthcoming)
Dark Soldier - Newman Elec (Forthcoming)
EX.598 A Moment In Between
17 februari 2022 |
62 min
Kadallah Burrowes explores the term "Afrofuturism" with the help of Suzi Analogue, Neema Githere, Mia Imani Harrison and Jackie Queens.
This past Juneteenth, Burrowes held a digital event called A Moment In Between (after which this podcast is named) at COMMON, a digital club that forms part of Currents.FM. It was, in their words, "a digital pan-African celebration of Black liberation." The interviewees in this week's Exchange all helped make A Moment In Between possible: artists Jackie Queens and Suzi Analogue, plus cultural critics Neema Githere and Mia Imani Harrison.
In this documentary-style podcast, which forms part of our celebration of Black Futures Month in the US, Burrowes et al. discuss the term "Afrofuturism. They discuss its imperfect, controversial nature (it was coined by a white academic), how it intersects with electronic music and its relationship to the legacy of the writer Octavia Butler.
Last week's Exchange saw Burrowes in conversation with Analogue, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records. This week, Analogue delves deeper into her connection to the concept of Afrofuturism. "Afrofuturism to me is just being Black," she said. "It's a bunch of things. Self-determination, self-preservation and self-expression."
Born in Nairobi and now based in Brooklyn, Neema Githere is a guerrilla theorist who works within the digital diaspora. In 2017, Githere coined the term "Afropresentism," which presents the idea that the Afrofuturism being theorised in the '90s and early '00s exists here and now. "Afrofuturism is concerned with space," Githere said. "Afropresentism is concerned with earth."
Mia Imani Harrison is an interdisciplinary artist and conceptual creator working within dream technology. Her part in A Moment In Between saw COMMON, which had primarily been a space for music, become a place for Black people to come and talk about their dreams. Harrison's understanding of Afrofuturism began with "intergalactic Black folks" in music—Sun Ra, Grace Jones, Parliament-Funkadelic—and has grown into an interest in artists that build worlds and galaxies in their work. "I've always been interested in expanding our concept of the realities we exist within," she said. "Especially as Black people, because we're already told what we can and cannot do, and the perimeters of the spaces that we exist in."
The final speaker is Jackie Queens, singer, songwriter, label and agency founder, and community member of Currents.FM and electronic music network female:pressure. Queens' thoughts about Afrofuturism tie in with Githere's Afropresentism. "People say Africa is the future," Queens said. "But I don't like to look at it that way. I always feel like we're the present."
https://ra.co/exchange/598
EX.597 Suzi Analogue
10 februari 2022 |
57 min
Suzi Analogue spoke with Kadallah Burrowes about using her label Never Normal to champion innovative Black creators.
Suzi Analogue is a loudspeaker for innovative Black creators. In this week's RA Exchange, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records speaks with trans-disciplinary artist, musician, creative technologist Kadallah Burrowes about championing art from across the African diaspora. This is the first of two Exchanges hosted by Burrowes, who, next week, will be exploring the term "Afrofuturism" in an audio documentary that forms part of our celebration of Black History Month in the US.
Suzi Analogue first experienced club and electronic music in her hometown of Baltimore. Starting out in her teens as a songwriter and producer, her engagement with creative platforms online led to her involvement in events and community radio while studying in Philadelphia.
It was when she moved to The Bronx in New York that Analogue first started to feel there wasn't space for young and innovative Black electronic artists to showcase their work. As she played shows abroad and across Europe, she felt encouraged to start a platform of her own, a space to build her own archive and celebrate fellow artists. In 2014, she launched her label Never Normal, a commitment to bolstering Black femme-identifying people to advocate for music, whether through running labels, parties or just shouting about the new music you love. Since its launch, the label has featured work from artists in Atlanta, Oakland, Chicago, Brooklyn, Miami and more. "They're originators in their cities," she explained. "Never Normal is a journey that's building over time."
In conversation with Burrowes, Analogue discussed the politics of Black futurism, travelling to Uganda as a US state department cultural diplomat and the importance of capturing and echoing ancestral messages through art and sound.
Tracklist:
Suzi Analogue - Slow [Never Normal]
@uziklip
@sunjiru
EX.596 William Orbit
3 februari 2022 |
59 min
"My real gift is arrangement." William Orbit opens up on his 40-year career.
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Born in Hackney, London, in 1956, Orbit has been writing, producing and arranging music for four decades. With almost 1,200 credits to his name on Discogs, his vast and varied body of work spans classical, pop and electronic. He produced for some of pop music's most seminal artists—Madonna, All Saints, Blur, Robbie Williams, Pink—as well as being, as his interviewer Matt McDermott explains, "one of the most prolific electronic music remixers of the '90s." He released 11 solo albums and seven collaborative albums—as part of Torch Song, Strange Cargo and Bassomatic—and founded Guerilla Studios in the '80s, working with artists like Cabaret Voltaire and Gary Numan. In 1995, Orbit released the Pieces In A Modern Style LP, which paved the way for musicians like Nils Frahm and Jon Hopkins, who bring together classical arrangements with electronic production in revelatory ways.
The journalist Kate Hutchinson described Orbit as "the Mark Ronson or Jack Antonoff of his day." But as this conversation with RA highlights, Orbit is once again enjoying his day. Having, in his own words, "spent 20 years becoming disengaged," he has just put out his first solo release in seven years—the Sunbeam EP on Anjunadeep—and things are feeling good. "I know how to have fun," he said.
In conversation with McDermott, Orbit shares stories about his fascinating career, how to make a great record, working with Madonna and how to stay relevant in a fickle industry.
Tracklist:
William Orbit - Diso [Anjunadeep]
William Orbit - Wordsworth [Anjunadeep]
@williamorbit
EX.595 Performance Anxiety
27 januari 2022 |
69 min
FAUZIA, DamnShaq and counsellor Darlington Zvionere discuss performance anxiety and how to overcome it with Vanessa Maria.
As part of Resident Advisor's wellness month, and in collaboration with Black Minds Matter, host Vanessa Maria discusses performance anxiety—what it is, how it manifests, how to overcome it—with FAUZIA, DamnShaq and Psychotherapeutic counsellor Darlington Zvionere.
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In simple terms, performance anxiety is stage fright. As Zvionere explains, artists may experience everything from clammy hands to stiffness and blurred vision, which then impacts their performance. It's a vicious cycle, he says, as a falter in your performance will likely lead to increased nerves next time. "Be the best you can be in that moment," advises Zvionere. "Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow."
In her own experience as a DJ, Maria has suffered from performance anxiety to the point of cancelling shows and relying on the influence of alcohol to calm her nerves. She speaks to DJ, promoter and presenter DamnShaq, known for his "madman" energy in the booth, about the pressure he used to put on himself. He reflects on how the pandemic has allowed him some time to reset and make peace with the fact that his boisterous stage character is not a sustainable way to function day-to-day.
For FAUZIA, whose transition from DJing to having a live show has come with a huge increase in pre-performance anxiety, steadying her nerves is a work in progress. She speaks to Vanessa about fine-tuning her set, stepping away from social media and the confidence boost of working with Kelela.
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Tracklist:
Space Afrika - yyyyyy2222 [Dais Records]
Fauzia - Lap, Sir
Fauzia - When It's All Over [with Kelela]
Fauzia - Lap, Sir
Kundai - Decisions
House of Pharaohs - Okay (Instrumental)
andarctica - waiting on the tides
@djfauzia @damnshaq
EX.594 Andrew Grant
20 januari 2022 |
98 min
A rare, revealing interview with the long-time Circoloco resident.
For many years, Andrew Grant was one of Circoloco’s most ubiquitous DJs. He landed on the White Isle in the summer of 2001, having spent a few months in Sheffield, England, DJing whenever and wherever he could. Yet, in spite of his widespread public appearances, Grant’s personal accounts of his past are little known given his reclusive character—until now.
For this week’s exchange, host Marcus Barnes engaged in a candid conversation with Andrew Grant about his experiences grinding in the clubbing Mecca, teaching lacrosse in the northern UK and even working briefly as DC10's light technician.
Raised in Baltimore, Grant’s first musical memories involved listening to Baltimore club radio stations late at night. Back then, he wasn’t allowed to listen to radio, so he’d have to do so quietly and away from prying ears. He recalls catching the Basement Boys remix of the Crystal Waters club classic, “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless),” on MTV, feeling inspired by the fact these artists on the TV were from his hometown.
When Grant first began DJing in 1988, he was spinning hip-hop records at house parties and in basements across the city. “I had a box of records and a decent pair of headphones,” he tells Barnes. “I felt like I was doing the right thing.”
It wasn’t until a visit to NYC club Twilo in the mid-’90s that he really began to engage with dance music. A few years down the line, in Ibiza, Grant caught his first big break—he was invited to play a Thursday morning after party at DC10. Not long after, he was playing primetime slots on a Monday at Circoloco, before becoming the first American resident of the iconic Ibiza brand when he was just 24-years-old.
EX.593 Pan Daijing
13 januari 2022 |
43 min
The PAN affiliate talks opera, cooking and solitude.
Read more: https://ra.co/exchange/593
@pan-daijing
EX.592 Finn
6 januari 2022 |
52 min
Dreaming 2 B REAL.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/592
@finnmccorry
EX.591 Relaxer
30 december 2021 |
66 min
Riding the wave from DIY hardcore to DIY dance music.
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@relaxerrelaxer
EX.590 Critics Roundtable
23 december 2021 |
62 min
A roundup of our favourite albums, mixes and moments of the year.
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EX.589 NGAIO
16 december 2021 |
49 min
Talking mental health and jazz with the Booty Bass boss.
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EX.588 TYGAPAW
9 december 2021 |
76 min
Get free with the Fake Accent boss, live from Unsound 2021.
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@tygapaw
RA.EX.586 Mark Clifford (Seefeel)
6 december 2021 |
62 min
Fusing instruments and electronics with a core member of the legendary group.
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EX.587 Steven Cee
2 december 2021 |
98 min
A driving force behind Audiowhore, Siesta and Eskimo Dance bridging grime and house histories.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/587
@stevencee
EX.585 Hannah Shogbola
18 november 2021 |
50 min
Fusing artist management with diversity and inclusion.
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EX.584 Cakes Da Killa
11 november 2021 |
44 min
Welcome to the Muvaland.
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@CAKESDAKILLA
EX.583 Fraser T Smith
4 november 2021 |
56 min
The producer behind some of the biggest albums in recent memory shares his creative process and musical journey.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/582
EX.582 Klein
28 oktober 2021 |
55 min
Scaling new heights with one of the most important artists of the last five years.
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EX.581 Tash LC
21 oktober 2021 |
38 min
From the airwaves to the dance.
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@tash-lc
EX.580 Sun-EL Musician
14 oktober 2021 |
53 min
Healing house from South Africa to the world.
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EX.579 Juls
7 oktober 2021 |
51 min
Exploring Sound Of My World with the renowned Afrobeats producer.
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EX.578 Henrie Kwushue
30 september 2021 |
45 min
Untold stories with the HTK Productions founder.
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EX.577 Nite Jewel
23 september 2021 |
60 min
Connecting the history of women's lament with contemporary music practice.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/577
@nite-jewel
EX.576 Ashibah
16 september 2021 |
51 min
Mastering the arts of production, singing and songwriting.
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EX.575 Jaguar
9 september 2021 |
42 min
The BBC Radio 1 upstart building toward utopian futures.
EX.574 Shanique Marie
2 september 2021 |
66 min
The powerhouse singer welcomes you to Gigi's House.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/574
EX.573 TSHA
26 augusti 2021 |
71 min
Welcoming a breakthrough artist with a world-beating sound.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/572
@tshamusic
EX.572 Mike Calandra Achode
19 augusti 2021 |
72 min
Connecting contemporary African musics with diasporic communities.
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EX.571 Bambounou
12 augusti 2021 |
38 min
Bamboozling techno innovations.
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@BAMBOUNOU
EX.570 Ian Urbina
5 augusti 2021 |
57 min
The journalist documenting abuses at sea who opened an archive of field recordings to musicians.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/570
EX.569 Chloé Robinson
29 juli 2021 |
56 min
Getting Pretty Weird with the artist formerly known as Barely Legal.
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@dj-barely-legal
EX.568 Tiffany Calver
22 juli 2021 |
51 min
Bridging the UK and US rap scenes.
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@tiffanycalver
EX.567 Reggie Dokes
15 juli 2021 |
68 min
Ash Lauryn speaks with one of Detroit's most distinctive musical voices.
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EX.566 Jamie 3:26
8 juli 2021 |
81 min
Riding Chicago house's second wave with the edits specialist.
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@jamie3too6
EX.565 Redlight
1 juli 2021 |
61 min
Clipz, Lobster Boy and a Dream Vision Future.
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@redlight-uk
EX.564 K. Bailey Obazee
24 juni 2021 |
62 min
Black and queer storytelling with the PRIM founder.
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EX.563 KG
17 juni 2021 |
41 min
Navigating the rough and the smooth with the revitalised UK producer.
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@KARENNYAMEKG
EX.562 Virgil Abloh
10 juni 2021 |
75 min
Getting to know the music behind the man.
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@vvvirgilabloh
EX.561 Michelle Moog-Koussa
3 juni 2021 |
60 min
Talking electronic music history and education with the Bob Moog Foundation executive director.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/561
EX.560 Jojo Sonubi
27 maj 2021 |
49 min
The story of No Signal radio.
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EX.559 Spotlight On Asian Artists: Howie Lee, Yu Su, Bézier, Angela Lin
20 maj 2021 |
67 min
Howie Lee, Yu Su, Bézier and Angela Lin talk background, memory and identity for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/559
EX.558 John Beltran
13 maj 2021 |
46 min
Three decades of classic American techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/558
@john-beltran
EX.557 Dax Pierson
6 maj 2021 |
88 min
The resurgent East Bay producer tells his story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/557
@dax-pierson
EX.556 Critics Roundtable
29 april 2021 |
49 min
Standout electronic music from March and April.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/556
EX.555 Tony Nwachukwu
22 april 2021 |
93 min
Andrew Mensah speaks to the CDR founder about navigating ego as an artist, community entrepreneurship and what's next for the platform.
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EX.554 Jacques Greene
15 april 2021 |
66 min
Talking the tenth anniversary of "Another Girl" and NFT music releases.
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@jacquesgreene
EX.553 Nat Maddix
8 april 2021 |
50 min
The House Gospel Choir founder speaks to Heléna Star.
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EX.552 Danny L Harle
1 april 2021 |
45 min
The PC Music alumnus talks Harlecore, his debut album for Mad Decent.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/552
@dannylharle
EX.551 Pauline Anna Strom: A Tribute
25 mars 2021 |
48 min
A dedication to the late synthesist following the release of her first album in 30 years.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/551
@igetrvng
EX.550 Ifeoluwa
18 mars 2021 |
49 min
The Intervention founder shares her story with Vanessa Maria.
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@ifeoluwa_1234
EX.549 He.She.They
11 mars 2021 |
94 min
Utopian raving with the rising party promoters.
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EX.548 object blue
4 mars 2021 |
60 min
The producer, DJ and Rinse FM host in conversation on the eve of the release of her new EP, Grotto.
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@objectblue
EX.547 Critics Roundtable
24 februari 2021 |
36 min
Three contributors share highlights from electronic music in 2021.
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EX.546 Nate Agbetu
18 februari 2021 |
54 min
Vanessa Maria in conversation with the Play Nice co-founder.
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EX.545 Zora Jones
11 februari 2021 |
41 min
The Fractal Fantasy cofounder talks Virtua, CGI and Ten Billion Angels.
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@zora-jones
EX.544 Zakia Sewell
4 februari 2021 |
61 min
An insight into the life of the audio documentary maker and DJ.
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EX.543 Black Coffee
28 januari 2021 |
55 min
South Africa's house music icon.
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@realblackcoffee
EX.542 Lawrence Lek
21 januari 2021 |
50 min
The multimedia artist soundtracking the singularity.
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EX.541 Errol
14 januari 2021 |
76 min
Andrew Mensah speaks to the Touching Bass cofounder for the first in a series of interviews released with Black Minds Matter.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/exchange/541
EX.540 Roska
7 januari 2021 |
54 min
A live Exchange with a pillar of UK funky.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=540
@roskaroskaroska
EX.539 DJ S
24 december 2020 |
102 min
The House Of Silk founder talks UK garage and the London events landscape.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=539
@deejay-s-houseofsilk
EX.538 Mark Radford
17 december 2020 |
77 min
Setting the record straight on deep tech.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=538
@markradford
EX.537 Year In Review 2020
10 december 2020 |
80 min
Tajh Morris, Ash Lauryn and Matt McDermott reflect on a year of dramatic upheaval.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=537
EX.536 Steve Arrington
3 december 2020 |
71 min
The funk legend connecting with a new generation.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=536
EX.535 Sef Kombo
26 november 2020 |
65 min
London's afro house advocate shares his story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=535
@sefkombo
EX.534 DJ Earl
19 november 2020 |
53 min
The Teklife innovator returns with his second album.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=534
EX.533 Annie Nightingale
12 november 2020 |
45 min
BBC Radio 1's longest serving DJ celebrates 50 years of broadcasting.
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EX.532 Actress
5 november 2020 |
45 min
Darren Cunningham talks karma and desire.
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EX.531 Another Angle: Imagining Future Forms of Music Media
29 oktober 2020 |
71 min
A live panel from Unsound Lab on rethinking music journalism.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=531
EX.530 Dego
22 oktober 2020 |
48 min
A driving force behind 4 Hero, Reinforced Records and 2000 Black speaks to Heléna Star.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=530
EX.529 Krust
16 oktober 2020 |
76 min
The drum & bass innovator talks through his first album in 14 years.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=529
EX.528 Chris Korda
8 oktober 2020 |
57 min
Dance music's harbinger of ecocide.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=528
EX.527 Róisín Murphy
2 oktober 2020 |
56 min
A live online exchange with the dance pop star.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=528
EX.526 John Frusciante
24 september 2020 |
55 min
How the Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist learned to think like an electronic musician.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=527
EX.525 GAIKA
17 september 2020 |
68 min
A vital presence in modern music tells his story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=526
@gaikasays
EX.524 Lafawndah
10 september 2020 |
57 min
Exploring science fiction, friendship and cinematic storytelling.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=525
@lafawndah
EX.523 Ikonika
3 september 2020 |
71 min
The Hyperdub mainstay sits down with Martha Pazienti-Caiden.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=524
@ikonika
EX.522 Kate NV
28 augusti 2020 |
66 min
The RVNG Intl. star lifts the lid on her new album.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=523
@kate-nv
EX.521 Zone-Free Zone: Poland's LGBTQ+ Community In Arts & Activism
20 augusti 2020 |
94 min
How artists and activists are facing up to homophobia in Poland.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=521
Sign the petition to free Margot Szutowicz: https://www.change.org/p/zbigniew-ziobro-the-public-prosecutor-general-zbigniew-ziobro-sejm-pl-free-margot-s-o-s-sexual-and-gender-democracy-in-poland?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=fd89a790-8b48-11e3-a148-398209ede71a&fbclid=IwAR1HHPZ6EyF9xxlUedLPyp5tBiHYwG5RlkveyIxyPAWgccyA5Quf4p9RBFQ
EX.520 DJ Minx
14 augusti 2020 |
79 min
A trailblazing figure of Detroit dance music speaks to Ash Lauryn.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=520
@djminx
EX.519 Mr Scruff
6 augusti 2020 |
65 min
One of the UK's essential DJs reflects on the state of dance music and his recent DJ Kicks mix.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=519
EX.518 Afriqua
31 juli 2020 |
81 min
The R&S artist holds forth on his journey from the conservatory to the club, and the importance of Black music and representation to dance music's future.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=518
EX.517 Jessy Lanza
23 juli 2020 |
49 min
The electronic pop producer shares the story behind her new album.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=517
@jessylanza
EX.516 The Hour: First DJ Sets
16 juli 2020 |
25 min
Five DJs remember their first public performance.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=516
EX.515 Duval Timothy
9 juli 2020 |
62 min
The multifaceted artist shares the ideas behind his media-crossing works.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=515
@duvaltimothy
EX.514 Eddie Fowlkes
26 juni 2020 |
83 min
Putting the Detroit in Detroit techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=514
@detroitwax
EX.513 The Hour: The Power Of Radio
11 juni 2020 |
56 min
What makes community radio so crucial in times of crisis?
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=513
EX.512 Waajeed
28 maj 2020 |
62 min
From Slum Village to hi-tech jazz with the Detroit luminary.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=512
@waajeed
EX.511 Junkie XL
21 maj 2020 |
51 min
The film composer looks back on his electronic roots.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=511
@junkiexl
EX.510 Grimes
14 maj 2020 |
52 min
The electronic-pop auteur speaks her mind.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=510
@actuallygrimes
EX.509 Stephen Mallinder
8 maj 2020 |
67 min
Techno surrealism with the Cabaret Voltaire cofounder.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=509
EX.508 Beverly Glenn-Copeland
1 maj 2020 |
56 min
Talking eternal music with a profoundly moving artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=508
EX.507 The Hour: Fruity Loops
23 april 2020 |
53 min
E.M.M.A., Pearson Sound and Blackdown on the software that democratised electronic music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=507
EX.506 Jeremy Deller
16 april 2020 |
51 min
The Turner Prize-winning artist on the social and political importance of rave culture.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=506
EX.505 Lenny Dee
9 april 2020 |
110 min
Hardcore, gabba, breakbeat techno, rave—Vivian Host hears from the New Yorker who pioneered them all.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=505
EX.504 Orbital
2 april 2020 |
42 min
The brothers Hartnoll tell their story live from inner city electronic.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=504
@orbital-4
EX.503 Fred P
27 mars 2020 |
71 min
d-_-b
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=503
@black-jazz-consortium
EX.502 27 Voice Notes About The Coronavirus
19 mars 2020 |
57 min
27 perspectives on how the coronavirus crisis is impacting the international electronic music community.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=502
EX.501 Vjuan Allure
12 mars 2020 |
61 min
Tens across the board for the ballroom star.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=501
@vjuan-allure
EX.500 Squarepusher
5 mars 2020 |
55 min
Exchange number 500 with the talented Mr. Jenkinson.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=500
@squarepusher
EX.499 On The Scene: Manchester
27 februari 2020 |
34 min
A new podcast series highlighting what makes local scenes great.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=499
EX.498 Unsound: Polish Clubbing And The LGBTQIA+ Community
20 februari 2020 |
65 min
Polish activists talk threats and strategies against right-wing violence and homophobic rhetoric, live from Unsound 2019.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=497
EX.497 David Muallem
13 februari 2020 |
61 min
The creative force behind Munich's BLITZ club tells his story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=497
EX.496 DJ Die
6 februari 2020 |
61 min
Bristol drum & bass and beyond.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=496
EX.495 Mike Clark
30 januari 2020 |
75 min
An essential piece of Detroit dance music history share his story with Ash Lauryn.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=495
EX.494 Shed
23 januari 2020 |
32 min
The singular techno artist reflects on his best album yet.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=494
EX.493 The Hour: twenty four/seven London
16 januari 2020 |
59 min
24 hours in our world.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=493
EX.492 Georgia Taglietti
9 januari 2020 |
43 min
Sónar festival's head of communications shares decades of experience at shesaid.so's MEETSSS conference.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=492
@sonarfestival
@shesaidso
EX.491 Laurie Anderson
4 januari 2020 |
34 min
The avant-garde icon talks life and death.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=491
EX.490 The Hour: ADE Green
26 december 2019 |
57 min
Exploring the the art of activism live from ADE 2019.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=490
EX.489 Jumpin Jack Frost & Shy One
19 december 2019 |
47 min
Exploring the intergenerational links of UK sound system culture.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=489
@shyonebeats
@j-j-frost
EX.488 2019 In Review
13 december 2019 |
60 min
RA's editorial staff select their personal favourites of the year.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=488
EX.487 Speaker Music
5 december 2019 |
46 min
DeForrest Brown, Jr. unpacks his new record for Planet Mu.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=487
EX.486 The Hour: A Sonic Pulse, Gabber Eleganza
28 november 2019 |
66 min
The deaf experience of electronic music and Gabber Eleganza feature on this month's episode.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=486
EX.485 K-HAND
22 november 2019 |
52 min
A sitting with one of Detroit's most crucial producers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=485
@khand
EX.484 fabric
14 november 2019 |
75 min
Judy Griffith and Andy Blackett reflect on two decades at the top of London clubbing.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=484
@fabric
EX.483 The Hour: The Changing Economics Of Electronic Music pt.2
7 november 2019 |
74 min
Patrice Bäumel, Gunnar Haslam and Telefon Tel Aviv discuss the financial challenges facing music producers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=483
EX.482 Gudrun Gut
31 oktober 2019 |
43 min
From post-punk to modern electronics with the Berlin maverick, live in conversation at MUTEK.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=482
EX.481 Leroy Burgess
24 oktober 2019 |
56 min
The iconic voice of Phreek, Logg and Black Ivory tells his story live from Dekmantel Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=481
EX.480 DJ Spoony
17 oktober 2019 |
58 min
UK garage history 101 with a pillar of the scene.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=480
@djspoony1
EX.479 808 State
10 oktober 2019 |
83 min
In a pacific state of mind.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=479
@808-state-official
EX.478 Critics Roundtable
3 oktober 2019 |
46 min
Four critics, one table.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=478
@indiajordan
@gabber-modus-operandi
@schacke
@moma_ready
@voltek
EX.477 Richie Hawtin
26 september 2019 |
56 min
Richie. Hawtin.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=477
@richiehawtin
EX.476 Knowledge sharing across generations
21 september 2019 |
71 min
Veterans and newer faces share their experiences of a changing music industry live from Dekmantel Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=476
EX.475 Sunset Sound System (Galen & Solar)
12 september 2019 |
75 min
25 years of dance music amidst California's natural beauty.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=475
EX.474 Kai Alcé
5 september 2019 |
56 min
The Atlanta house doyen kicks off a new series of podcasts hosted by Underground And Black's Ash Lauryn.
@kai-alce
@ashlauryn
@undergroundandblack
EX.473 Osunlade
29 augusti 2019 |
64 min
Bridging house, soul and folklore with a musician that's seen it all.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=473
@osunlade
EX.472 The Hour: the changing economics of dance music part 1
22 augusti 2019 |
62 min
Angus Finlayson speaks to Avalon Emerson, Mat Dryhurst, Marta Salogni and others about the impact of streaming services on artists.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=472
EX.471 Cinthie
15 augusti 2019 |
86 min
DJing, production, running labels, distribution—we hear from the German artist who does it all.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=471
@cinthie
EX.470 François X
8 augusti 2019 |
42 min
Live from RA's Paris Community Connections event with the DEMENT3D records boss.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=470
@francoisx
EX.469 Patrice Rushen
1 augusti 2019 |
46 min
The prodigiously talented composer looks back on an illustrious career.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=468
EX.468 Félicia Atkinson
25 juli 2019 |
49 min
Bringing avant-garde music into the 21st century with the French polymath.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=468
@fefeatkinson
EX.467 Chez Damier
18 juli 2019 |
60 min
A look inside the mind of one of house music's most intriguing figures.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=467
@chez-damier
EX.466 IMS Panel: Where Is Club Culture Headed?
11 juli 2019 |
69 min
An all-star cast ponder the future of dance music culture live from IMS 2019.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=466
EX.465 The Hour: Vinyl sustainability, posthumous releases
4 juli 2019 |
70 min
This month, we look into the environmental impact of the vinyl industry and the delicate art of posthumous releases.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=465
EX.464 DJ Paulette
27 juni 2019 |
90 min
From Flesh to Heaven and back with a crucial Manchester DJ.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=464
@djpaulette
EX.463 Tim Sweeney
20 juni 2019 |
63 min
A crucial figure in dance music radio tells his story live in Sydney.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=463
@timsweeney
EX.462 Kevin Saunderson
13 juni 2019 |
58 min
A pillar of dance music history reflects on thirty years of Inner City.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=462
@kevinsaunderson
EX.461 The Black Madonna
6 juni 2019 |
43 min
Dance music's patron saint in session live from AVA Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=461
@theblackmadonna
EX.460 Andreea Magdalina
30 maj 2019 |
41 min
The founder of shesaid.so tells her story live at the second edition of Full Circle.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=460
@shesaidso
EX.459 Modeselektor
23 maj 2019 |
58 min
Where the Berlin underground meets the main stage.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=459
@modeselektor
EX.458 Neil Landstrumm
16 maj 2019 |
61 min
The life and times of one of Scotland's most inventive techno artists.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=458
@neil-landstrumm
EX.457 Ian Anderson / The Designers Republic
9 maj 2019 |
75 min
An iconic designer in electronic music and beyond shares his story with Trevor Jackson.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=457
EX.456 Laraaji
2 maj 2019 |
69 min
The man in orange shares his spiritual journey through sound.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=456
@laraaji
EX.455 Paxahau
25 april 2019 |
80 min
Behind the scenes at Movement, the defining event from the birthplace of techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=455
@paxahau
EX.454 Critics Roundtable
18 april 2019 |
59 min
RA's North American editorial team talk top releases, DJs and trends.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=454
EX.453 Mr G
11 april 2019 |
46 min
Words of wisdom from the lord of the dance.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=453
EX.452 The Hour: Bangface, Brexit
4 april 2019 |
60 min
Take a tour of the UK's wildest rave and explore the implications of Brexit on electronic music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=452
EX.451 Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy
28 mars 2019 |
67 min
Lucky Cloud, Classic Album Sundays and Klipschorns.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=451
@colleen-cosmo-murphy
EX.450 Krankbrother
21 mars 2019 |
63 min
We check in with the London promoters as they prepare to host their first festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=450
@krankbrother
EX.449 Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson
14 mars 2019 |
45 min
The Discwoman cofounder reflects on five years of techno feminism.
Find out more about this Exchange with Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson on Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=449
@discwoman
EX.448 Kim Ann Foxman
7 mars 2019 |
77 min
A lifelong raver and DJ answers her true calling.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=448
@kimannfoxman
EX.447 The Hour: DJ etiquette, chillout rooms, singeli
28 februari 2019 |
64 min
This month's episode opens with a profile of an exciting sound from Tanzania.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=447
EX.446 Dasha Rush
21 februari 2019 |
57 min
We hear from the techno innovator making fascinating large-scale art works.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=446
@dasha-rush
EX.445 Marketing Yourself As An Artist
14 februari 2019 |
46 min
Sassy J, Varg and Hieroglyphic Being feature in this panel discussion recorded at Dekmantel Festival 2018.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=445
@sassyj
@somuchnoise2beheard
EX.444 Olof Dreijer
7 februari 2019 |
52 min
Our second podcast with The Knife cofounder this week is a live interview recorded at Unsound 2018.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=444
@olofdreijer
EX.443 Mantra
31 januari 2019 |
47 min
The co-founder of one of London's best drum & bass nights tells her story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=443
@mantra
EX.442 The Hour: J-FLAG, Salon Des Amateurs
24 januari 2019 |
62 min
A conversation with Midori Takada and Lafawndah also features in this month's podcast.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=442
EX.441 Lauren Goshinski
17 januari 2019 |
51 min
A look inside the fine art of directing music and arts festivals.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=441
EX.440 tINI
10 januari 2019 |
56 min
One of Germany's top DJ exports gives her deepest interview to date.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=440
@tinicouldbeworse
EX.439 Suzanne Ciani
3 januari 2019 |
63 min
A sitting with the diva of the diode.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=439
@suzanneciani
EX.438 Art Of DJing Live w/ Elena Colombi + John Talabot
27 december 2018 |
50 min
We return to Dekmantel Festival for a live version of one our favourite feature series.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=438
EX.437 Jimi Tenor
20 december 2018 |
61 min
A conversation with a true eccentric of modern music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=437
@jimi-tenor-official
EX.436 2018 In Review
13 december 2018 |
59 min
RA's editorial staff look back on the year.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=436
EX.435 Safe Rave - A How To
6 december 2018 |
76 min
Drug education strategies for promoters, politicians and ravers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=435
EX.434 dBridge
29 november 2018 |
56 min
Pushing drum & bass forward with a true don.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=434
@dbridge_exitrecords
EX.433 Richard Devine
22 november 2018 |
52 min
King of the synths.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=433
@richarddevine
EX.432 New York Nightlife In The '90s
15 november 2018 |
52 min
Exploring a golden era live from RA's 24/7 party.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=432
EX.431 The Hour: Music from East Africa, LA audiophile bars
8 november 2018 |
70 min
An interview with the founders of Pink Noise Zine also features in this month's episode.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=431
@nyege-nyege-tapes
EX.430 Nabihah Iqbal
1 november 2018 |
64 min
Throwing shade with the NTS and Ninja Tune favourite.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=430
@nabihahiqbal
EX.429 Clark
25 oktober 2018 |
46 min
The Warp maestro in conversation at Dekmantel Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=428
@throttleclark
EX.428 Branding In Dance Music
18 oktober 2018 |
94 min
Examining the complex relationship between club culture and corporations.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=428
EX.427 Legowelt
11 oktober 2018 |
42 min
Live with the Shadow Wolf at Dekmantel Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=427
@legowelt-official
EX.426 The Hour: Harm reduction, Lobster Theremin
4 oktober 2018 |
60 min
This month's episode features a pioneer in drug harm reduction and a thriving UK label.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=426
@lobster-theremin
EX.425 James Lavelle
27 september 2018 |
76 min
An extended conversation with the man from Mo'Wax and UNKLE.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=425
@james-lavelle
EX.424 LWE
21 september 2018 |
54 min
One of London's leading promoters explain how they throw enormous parties.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=424
EX.423 Blawan
13 september 2018 |
56 min
56 minutes of real talk with a singular techno artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=423
@ternesc
EX.422 Olaf Van Winden
6 september 2018 |
67 min
Living dangerously with the enfant terrible behind TodaysArt, the Netherlands' key interdisciplinary arts and music festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=422
@todaysart
EX.421 FaltyDL
30 augusti 2018 |
58 min
New York's shapeshifter on the peaks and troughs of a decade in the business.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=421
@faltydl
EX.420 The Hour: Baby raves, Club Heaven, Shelter
23 augusti 2018 |
71 min
This month's show features kids and parents raving together, the soundsystem from a legendary club and a look at one of Amsterdam's best venues.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=420
EX.419 Carola Stoiber
16 augusti 2018 |
54 min
We hear the story of how the label manager, booking agent and journalist became a key figure in Berlin techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=419
EX.418 The Bug
9 augusti 2018 |
90 min
The missing link between free jazz, dancehall and metal.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=418
@ninja-tune
EX.417 Ivy Lab
3 augusti 2018 |
57 min
The hybrid drum & bass duo on conquering the States.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=417
@ivylab
EX.416 Titonton Duvanté
26 juli 2018 |
43 min
We hear about the comeback of one the Midwest's most creative producers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=416
@tduvante
EX.415 Plaid
19 juli 2018 |
37 min
Flares and power moves with the long-serving Warp duo.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=415
@plaid
EX.414 Jeremy Underground
12 juli 2018 |
62 min
The French DJ gives his most candid interview to date.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=414
@jeremyunderground
EX.413 The Hour: The GHB issue
5 juli 2018 |
51 min
This month's edition looks at one of the most controversial recreational drugs in existence.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=413
EX.412 KiNK
28 juni 2018 |
41 min
A conversation with one of dance music's best-loved live acts, recorded live at AVA Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=412
@kink
EX.411 Feminism, social media and marketing
21 juni 2018 |
55 min
This edition of ://about blank's Amplified Kitchen series tackles how the internet is shaping activism.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=411
@about-blank-berlin
@femalepressure
EX.410 Delano Smith
14 juni 2018 |
53 min
We get Beatdown by Detroit's master of hypnotic deep house.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=410
@mixmodedetroit
EX.409 Dennis Ferrer
7 juni 2018 |
55 min
Real talk with the New York shapeshifter.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=409
@dennis-ferrer
EX.408 Renaat Vandepapeliere
31 maj 2018 |
49 min
The R&S founder reflects on thirty years of groundbreaking electronics.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=408
@r-srecords
EX.407 Henrik Schwarz
24 maj 2018 |
46 min
We check in with Innervisions' master of classical house.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=407
@henrikschwarz
EX.406 Justin Broadrick
17 maj 2018 |
54 min
The Birmingham prodigy talks Godflesh, techno and staying sane.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=406
@jk-flesh
EX.405 Noncompliant
10 maj 2018 |
67 min
Lisa Smith tells her story onstage at Unsound 2017.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=405
@djshiva
EX.404 Ben Turner
3 maj 2018 |
53 min
Ibiza through the ages with a dance music polymath.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=404
EX.403 The Hour: 2018's key releases, life on the road
26 april 2018 |
60 min
This month we discuss some of the year's best releases and ask how artists fill the countless hours they spend travelling.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=403
EX.402 B.Traits
19 april 2018 |
45 min
The BBC Radio 1 MVP explains her rise to the top.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=402
@btraits
EX.401 Paul Oakenfold
12 april 2018 |
53 min
From Mount Everest to Hollywood with the game-changing DJ.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=401
@pauloakenfold
EX.400 Helena Hauff
5 april 2018 |
48 min
We celebrate 400 Exchanges with the Hamburg assassin.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=400
@helena-hauff
EX.399 The Hour: The Amsterdam night mayor, Night Slugs, label feedback
29 mars 2018 |
63 min
On this month's show we look at how label managers and A&Rs handle the tricky process of giving feedback on artist's music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=399
EX.398 D-Knox
22 mars 2018 |
58 min
Inside the sonic mind of a Midwest techno master.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=398
@d-knox
EX.397 Melliflow
15 mars 2018 |
74 min
Vera and Alexandra tell the story behind one of Berlin's hottest labels.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=397
@melliflowrecords
@veragoesdeep
@alexandra_melliflow
EX.396 DJ Pete
8 mars 2018 |
42 min
Exploring the substance of Berlin techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=396
@peter-kuschnereit
EX.395 The Hour: Dance music trolls, Ableton Live 10
1 mars 2018 |
62 min
This month's show also features some horror stories about DJs losing their records.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=395
@ableton
EX.394 Fatima Al Qadiri
23 februari 2018 |
53 min
A key voice in modern electronic music reflects on the experiences that shaped her thought-provoking sound.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=394
EX.393 Burnt Friedman
15 februari 2018 |
50 min
Chasing the essence of music with one of Germany's most gifted artists.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=392
EX.392 Electric Indigo
8 februari 2018 |
73 min
Hard Wax, female:pressure and granular synthesis.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=392
@indigo
EX.391 The Hour: Soundsystems, mental wellbeing, Matthew Collin
1 februari 2018 |
63 min
What makes a great soundsystem? That's one of the questions we'll be trying to answer on this month's show.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=391
EX.390 Radar Radio
25 januari 2018 |
54 min
We talk to Radar's Ollie Ashley about the station that's becoming an essential part of the London music community.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=390
@radarradio_ldn
EX.389 Building Creative Ecosystems
18 januari 2018 |
62 min
Recorded live at Loop with Discwoman's Shyboi, stud1nt and DJ Haram.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=389
@djshyboi
@stud1nt
@djharam
@ableton
@discwoman
EX.388 Richard Russell
11 januari 2018 |
64 min
Everything is recorded with the brains behind XL Recordings.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=387
@xl-recordings
EX.387 William Basinski
4 januari 2018 |
52 min
Decaying tapes and a true American eccentric.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=387
@william-basinski
EX.386 The Orb
29 december 2017 |
41 min
Three decades of ambient house.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=386
@the-orb-official
EX.385 The Hour: 2017 In Review
21 december 2017 |
76 min
RA's editorial staff look back on the year.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=385
EX.384 Amp Fiddler
14 december 2017 |
45 min
From P-Funk to techno with a bona fide Detroit legend.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=384
@ampfiddler
EX.383 Damon Wild
7 december 2017 |
42 min
An essential figure of techno history on his first album in 13 years.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=383
@damon-wild
EX.382 The Hour: Kerri Chandler in NYC, how DJs organise music
30 november 2017 |
65 min
On this month's episode, Kerri Chandler gives us a guided tour of New York and Moxie investigates how DJs organise their music collections.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=382
@kerri-chandler
@djmoxie
@avalonemerson
@feelmybicep
@erolalkan
@btraits
EX.381 Insomniac
23 november 2017 |
52 min
Back to basics with a world-conquering festival crew.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=381
@insomniacevents
EX.380 Tiefschwarz
16 november 2017 |
53 min
20 years with the brothers Schwarz.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=380
@tiefschwarz
EX.379 Philipp Gorbachev
9 november 2017 |
50 min
From Russia with love.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=379
@philippgorbachev
EX.378 Bryan Kasenic
2 november 2017 |
64 min
We talk to the man behind New York's most influential techno party.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=378
@thebunkerny
EX.377 The Hour: Psychology of raving, Sydney, negative reviews
26 oktober 2017 |
61 min
Among other things, this month's show will be asking: what are negative reviews good for?
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=377
EX.376 Erol Alkan
19 oktober 2017 |
72 min
We talk synths and guitars with the influential UK artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=376
@erolalkan
EX.375 Robert Hood
12 oktober 2017 |
48 min
Techno, Jesus and wild hogs.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=375
@roberthood
EX.374 Steve Reich
5 oktober 2017 |
46 min
Revolutionising music history.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=374
EX.373 The Hour: Worst DJ sets, Steffi
28 september 2017 |
59 min
On this month's show we hear stories of nightmare DJ sets, and Steffi breaks down her creative process.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=373
EX.372 Chloé
21 september 2017 |
49 min
A career of endless revisions.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=371
@chloe-dj-producer
EX.371 Johannes Goller
14 september 2017 |
64 min
Sven, Ricardo and the party that changed Ibiza.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=371
@cocoonrecordings
EX.370 Club Of Fear / Freedom or security
7 september 2017 |
72 min
Should clubs be considering or ignoring the threat of attack?
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=370
@about-blank-berlin
EX.369 The Hour: Tonight's gig is cancelled
31 augusti 2017 |
53 min
In this full-length audio documentary, we explore how immigration laws hurt an underrepresented group of electronic artists: those from outside the US and the EU.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=369
@tijanat
@nastia_ua
@sandunes
EX.368 Terry Francis
24 augusti 2017 |
40 min
Wiggle, fabric and tech house.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=368
@terryfrancis
EX.367 Oskar Offermann
17 augusti 2017 |
65 min
From Frankfurt to Berlin and back again.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=367
@oskaroffermann
EX.366 Point G
10 augusti 2017 |
47 min
Point blank house music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=366
@point-g-3
EX.365 The Hour: DJ's opening tracks, Jeff Mills, Macao
3 augusti 2017 |
55 min
On this month's show, we tackle the complicated question of how to open a DJ set.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=365
@dj_tasha
@rroxymore
@palmstrax
@twitch
@jennifercardini
EX.364 Lee Burridge
27 juli 2017 |
58 min
All day he dreams of the RA Exchange.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=364
@leeburridge
EX.363 Liz Miller
20 juli 2017 |
61 min
Salt + Sass hear from an industry insider who's always ahead of the curve.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=363
Find out about the next Salt + Sass talk on their website.
EX.362 Mark Archer
13 juli 2017 |
72 min
An Altern 8 history of British rave.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=362
@mrnex
EX.361 Martin Rev
6 juli 2017 |
68 min
Life on the creative edge with a New York City legend.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=361
EX.360 The Hour: Jlin and Ikonika, RA roundtable, 'Incredible'
29 juni 2017 |
60 min
On this month's show, Jlin and Ikonika interview each other about the creative process, and RA's editorial staff survey the year so far.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=360
@jlinnarlei
@ikonika
EX.359 Nightmares On Wax
22 juni 2017 |
76 min
Getting dextrous with the pioneering Warp artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=359
@nightmares-on-wax
EX.358 Busy P
15 juni 2017 |
49 min
From Paris to the world stage with the Ed Banger boss.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=358
@edbangerrecords
EX.357 Kenneth Christiansen
8 juni 2017 |
53 min
Celebrating 15 years of dub techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=357
@kenneth-christiansen
EX.356 The Hour: Abstract turntablism, Arcadia, Pinch
1 juni 2017 |
56 min
In this episode, we cover golden-era dubstep, Arcadia's outlandish festival design and using turntables for sound art.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=356
EX.355 Om Unit
25 maj 2017 |
61 min
Unlocking the slow/fast matrix.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=355
@omunit
EX.354 Sarah McBriar
18 maj 2017 |
40 min
We check in with the brains behind Belfast's hotly-tipped AVA Festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=354
EX.353 Forest Swords
11 maj 2017 |
52 min
Live from Rewire with a multifaceted artist at the height of his powers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=353
@forestswords
EX.352 The Hour: Actress, techno feminism, K-HAND
4 maj 2017 |
62 min
We interview Actress (in a car) about radio, and meet some of the individuals who are striving for equality on the dance floor.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=352
EX.351 Mat Dryhurst
27 april 2017 |
61 min
Asking the hard questions to maintain independent music culture.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=351
@matdryhurst
EX.153 Ableton
25 april 2017 |
45 min
CEO Gerhard Behles charts the course of the revolutionary music software.
Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=153
@ableton
EX.350 Melt Festival
20 april 2017 |
48 min
The pioneering festival celebrates two decades.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=350
@meltfestival
EX.349 Fatboy Slim
13 april 2017 |
86 min
Right here, right now.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=349
@fatboyslim
EX.348 The Hour: CDJ tips, Special Request, 'Black Water'
6 april 2017 |
64 min
This month: DJs share their favourite CDJ tips, Paul Woolford dissects his excellent Fabriclive mix, and Octave One tell us the story behind a classic track.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=347
EX.347 Max Cooper
30 mars 2017 |
73 min
Where music, science and art converge.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=347
@max-cooper
EX.346 Zenker Brothers
23 mars 2017 |
46 min
Big breaks and booming beats.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=346
@marco-zenker
@ilian-tape
EX.345 Monika Kruse
16 mars 2017 |
58 min
Life beyond the main stage with one of Europe's favourite DJs.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=345
@monikakruse
EX.344 Gosia Płysa / Unsound Festival
9 mars 2017 |
56 min
Live from Salt + Sass with a driving force behind Europe's best experimental music festival.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=344
http://saltandsass.org/
@unsound
EX.343 The Hour: Mark Fisher, RA Films, 'Pulse X'
2 mars 2017 |
65 min
Simon Reynolds, Holly Herndon and Kode9 are among those who pay tribute to the late writer on this month's show.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=343
EX.342 Awakenings
23 februari 2017 |
40 min
Celebrating 20 years with one of Europe's most successful techno brands.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=342
@awakenings
EX.341 Henning Baer
16 februari 2017 |
64 min
Grounded in techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=341
@henningbaerberlin
EX.340 Nick V
9 februari 2017 |
57 min
Putting dance back at the centre of the club experience with a Parisian mainstay.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=340
@nickv
EX.339 Livio & Roby
2 februari 2017 |
46 min
The art of back-to-back DJ sets.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=339
@livio-roby
EX.338 The Hour: Ben Klock, Printworks, Technics and Roland
26 januari 2017 |
61 min
This month's show features a classic track, a tour of a new London club and a discussion on the legacy of iconic gear.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=338
@ben-klock
EX.337 Laidback Luke
20 januari 2017 |
67 min
We chat '90s house and techno with one of the world's most popular DJs.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=337
@laidbackluke
EX.336 DJ Lag & Nan Kolè
12 januari 2017 |
44 min
Gqom goes global.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=336
@djlaggqomking
@nankole
EX.335 Jubilee
5 januari 2017 |
61 min
Morphing Miami bass with Mixpak's MVP.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=335
@jubileedj
@mixpak
EX.334 Janina
29 december 2016 |
53 min
We talk Club der Visionaere with one of the Berlin venue's key residents.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=334
@ja-nina
EX.333 2016 in review
22 december 2016 |
67 min
RA's editorial staff reflect on the year that was.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=333
EX.332 Norman Jay
15 december 2016 |
50 min
London club culture personified.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=332
@normanjaymbe
EX.331 Jóhann Jóhannson
8 december 2016 |
48 min
Scoring the new Bladerunner with a master of dramatic tension.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=331
@johannjohannsson
EX.330 The Hour: The Lot Radio, Flying Lotus, Bushwacka! on addiction
1 december 2016 |
64 min
Our new magazine-style podcast returns.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=330
@thelotradio
@flyinglotus
@justbebushwacka
EX.329 Artwork
24 november 2016 |
72 min
Casually shaping dance music history with a chameleonic London artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=329
@mrartwork
EX.328 Global Underground
17 november 2016 |
48 min
Going Global with an iconic mix series.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=327
@global-underground-ltd
EX.327 Telefon Tel Aviv
10 november 2016 |
58 min
Josh Eustis tells us why he's bringing back his beloved project.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=327
@telefon-tel-aviv
@sons-of-magdalene
EX.326 Marcellus Pittman
3 november 2016 |
39 min
Talking Tekken with the Midwest Advocate.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=326
@marcellus-pittman
EX.325 The Hour: DVS1's Wall Of Sound, Daniel Avery's DJ-Kicks
27 oktober 2016 |
51 min
This month's show also asks: What makes a great club?
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=325
EX.324 Luke Slater
20 oktober 2016 |
59 min
An essential voice in the evolution of techno.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=324
@luke-slater
EX.323 Will Saul
13 oktober 2016 |
50 min
Talking A&R with the head of Aus Music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=323
@willsaul
EX.322 Dave Beer
6 oktober 2016 |
56 min
Back to Basics with a notorious raconteur.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=322
@dave-beer
EX.321 The Hour: Club music's next generation
29 september 2016 |
56 min
RA's first full-length audio documentary explores the sounds and attitudes that are shaping new club music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=321
@ghe20g0th1kradio
@janusberlin
@naafi
@non-records-1
@nightslugs
@fadetomind
@creamcake
@discwoman
@tropical-waste-1
@rouges-foam
@samibaha
@therealendgame
@ziurziurziur
@classicaltrax
@do-the-astral-plane
EX.320 DJ Rupture
22 september 2016 |
66 min
Tearing up the rulebook with a genre-defying pioneer.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=320
@djrupture
EX.319 Surgeon
15 september 2016 |
47 min
We check in with one of UK techno's founding fathers.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=319
@dynamic-tension
EX.318 Ivan Smagghe
8 september 2016 |
71 min
Resisting the normal with an eclectic selector.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=318
@colonelgatito
The Hour: Dekmantel conference highlights
1 september 2016 |
63 min
Objekt, Dasha Rush and Antal are among the guests on this roundup of our panels at the recent Amsterdam event.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=317
EX.316 Butch
25 augusti 2016 |
78 min
We chat with a master of big breakdowns.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=316
@superbutch
EX.315 Konx-om-Pax
18 augusti 2016 |
47 min
Where digital art and music production collide.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=315
@konx-om-pax
EX.314 Dusky
11 augusti 2016 |
58 min
From prog house to major labels with an ascendent London duo.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=314
@duskymusic
EX.313 Justin Berkmann
4 augusti 2016 |
64 min
A founder of Ministry Of Sound in conversation.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=313
@justin-berkmann
EX.312 The Hour: Al Capone, cassettes, RA roundtable
28 juli 2016 |
66 min
We continue our new podcast, a blend of documentaries, discussion and interviews.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=312
EX.311 Rabih Beaini
22 juli 2016 |
42 min
Exploring the intersection of club music and the avant-garde.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=311
@morphinerecords
EX.310 Dorian Paic
14 juli 2016 |
68 min
A Frankfurt veteran looks back on more than two decades in the game.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=310
@dorian-paic
EX.309 Marcus Intalex
7 juli 2016 |
64 min
From drum & bass to techno with Burnley's finest.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=309
@marcusintalex
EX.308 Steve Barker
30 juni 2016 |
86 min
One of England's most influential radio DJs speaks out.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=308
EX.307 The Hour: Movement, Kristina Records, Godskitchen
23 juni 2016 |
67 min
We continue our new podcast, a blend of documentaries, discussion and interviews.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=307
EX.306 Andy Peyton
16 juni 2016 |
51 min
The man behind XOYO, Phonox and The Nest talks shop.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=305
EX.305 Lone
9 juni 2016 |
43 min
Rave nostalgia with a singular UK artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=304
@lone-1
EX.304 Andy Blake
2 juni 2016 |
61 min
A chat with the standard-bearer of London rave.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=305
EX.303 Jazzie B
26 maj 2016 |
66 min
A conversation with one of soundsystem culture's biggest stars.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=303
@soul2souluk
EX.302 The Hour: St John's, Record Loft, RA roundtable
19 maj 2016 |
60 min
RA begins a new monthly podcast, a blend of documentaries, discussion and interviews.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=302
EX.301 Geeneus
12 maj 2016 |
95 min
Rinse FM's founder explains the thrills and spills behind 20 years of broadcasting.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=301
@Geeneus
EX.300 Larry Heard
5 maj 2016 |
67 min
RA marks 300 Exchanges in the company of house music royalty.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=300
EX.299 Cab Drivers
28 april 2016 |
46 min
20 years of perfect loops with Berlin's seminal hardware duo.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=299
@cabinet-records
EX.298 Tim Hecker
21 april 2016 |
42 min
A look into the methods of a modern master of experimental electronic music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=298
@timhecker
EX.297 Benga
14 april 2016 |
40 min
The ups and downs of a dubstep superstar.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=297
@iambenga
EX.296 2000 And One
7 april 2016 |
55 min
The Dutchman reflects on over two decades in the game.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=296
@2000andOne
EX.295 DJ Bone
31 mars 2016 |
59 min
A lesson in keeping it real from a Detroit favourite.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=295
@subjectdetroit
EX.294 Alec Empire
24 mars 2016 |
56 min
The creator of digital hardcore on how to start a riot.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=294
@alec_empire
EX.293 Pauline Oliveros
17 mars 2016 |
45 min
A giant of the avant-garde shows us how to listen.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=293
EX.292 Radio Slave
10 mars 2016 |
64 min
REKIDS boss Matt Edwards reflects on a quarter century of clubbing.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=292
@REKIDS
EX.291 Emika
3 mars 2016 |
54 min
The composer, sound designer and songwriter goes DIY.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episo…?exchange=291
@emika_official
EX.290 A Club Called Rhonda
25 februari 2016 |
61 min
The duo behind LA's most successful underground event discuss the philosophy behind polysexual hard partying.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=290
@rhondaintl
EX.289 Trevor Jackson
18 februari 2016 |
52 min
Going deep with a one-man creative empire.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episo…?exchange=289
@trevor-jackson
EX.288 Mike Dunn
11 februari 2016 |
53 min
A first-hand history of Chicago house.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episo…?exchange=288
@therealmikedunn
EX.287 Annie Mac
4 februari 2016 |
49 min
The BBC broadcaster explains how she reached the top of her profession.
EX.286 Lusine
28 januari 2016 |
30 min
Live from Decibel Festival in Seattle, the Ghostly International veteran explains his signature style.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=286
@lusine-official
EX.285 Tricky
21 januari 2016 |
58 min
The protean iconoclast comes home.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=285
@trickyofficial
EX.284 UNiiQU3
14 januari 2016 |
51 min
Live at Unsound festival, we meet one of Jersey club's leading lights.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=284
@uniiqu3
EX.283 Honey Soundsystem
7 januari 2016 |
67 min
The crew behind the highly influential San Fran party and label reveals all.
Read more: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=283
@honeysoundsystem
EX.282 2015 in review
22 december 2015 |
82 min
RA's editorial team looks back on the year.
EX.281 François K
17 december 2015 |
98 min
A legend of the studio and DJ booth talks tech.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=281
EX.280 Eric Prydz
10 december 2015 |
44 min
A dance music chameleon tells his story.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=280
@eric-prydz
EX.279 Qzen
3 december 2015 |
69 min
Live from Salt + Sass in Berlin, the DJ, vocalist and music tech worker takes us through her multifaceted career.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=279
EX.278 Morton Subotnick
26 november 2015 |
62 min
Early electronic music history, direct from the source.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=278
EX.277 Nicole Moudaber
19 november 2015 |
45 min
From Beirut to Ibiza with a global club star.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=277
@nicolemoudaber
EX.276 Recondite
12 november 2015 |
67 min
Inside the mind of a contemplative techno artist.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=276
@recondite_music
EX.275 Alessandro Cortini
5 november 2015 |
62 min
Words of wisdom from a synth legend in the making.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=275
@alessandrocortini
EX.274 Maceo Plex
29 oktober 2015 |
49 min
Eric Estornel looks beyond his hits.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=274
@maceoplex
@ellum
EX.273 Andy Butler
22 oktober 2015 |
70 min
The Hercules & Love Affair frontman on life and art.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=272
@hercules-and-love-affair
EX.272 Frankie Bones
15 oktober 2015 |
76 min
New York's rave pioneer breaks it down.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=272
EX.271 Dâm-Funk
8 oktober 2015 |
48 min
The modern funk ambassador charts the future of the genre.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=271
@damfunk
@stonesthrow
EX.270 Jon Hassell
1 oktober 2015 |
67 min
A trip into the Fourth World with an icon of experimental music.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=270
EX.269 Kerri Chandler
24 september 2015 |
64 min
A consummate house artist discusses his drive.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=269
@kerri-chandler
EX.268 José Padilla
17 september 2015 |
55 min
In conversation with a Balearic beat pioneer.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=268
EX.267 Ninja Tune
9 september 2015 |
70 min
25 years of beats and pieces.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=267
@ninja-tune
EX.266 Roedelius
1 september 2015 |
53 min
Decades of history with an electronic music pioneer.
For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=266
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