RA Podcast

Sun-soaked house from the Circoloco favourite. Want to know what life is like when the sun is always shining? Carlita might be able to tell you. The Istanbul-born DJ follows the summer around the world, and her calendar reads like a festival bucket list: Coachella, Sónar, Tomorrowland and, most often, Circoloco at DC-10. It's also a neat encapsulation of her DJing. One of the b...

Two decades in, the UK drum & bass duo are still filling stadiums. They talk staying hungry, resisting the algorithm and their eighth album, Generic Everything. In 2003, Saul Milton and Will Kennard of Chase & Status were sending drum & bass demos to their heroes over AOL Instant Messenger. Two decades on, they're among the biggest acts in UK dance music. In 2016, t...

The Manchester artist marches back into the club and cranks up the subs. “You don’t need to study music, you need to study sounds.” That was the advice Andy Stott’s piano teacher, Alison Skidmore, gave him as a teenager. Around 2010, stuck in a creative rut and tired of his dub techno sound, Stott slowed things down, started sampling field recordings and brought Skidmore in as ...

The German producer on touring with Nine Inch Nails, pushing past criticism and his new full-length album, 7LLVSION. Alex Ridha is notoriously private. Ridha, AKA Boys Noize, has been making headlines over the last couple of years: you may have seen him on tour alongside Trent Reznor’s industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, or in the credits of the soundtracks for Challengers a...

A sonic diary from one of UK experimental music's brightest talents. Loraine James doesn't like to sit still. She first made waves on Hyperdub, where 2019's For You and I and 2021's Reflection reimagined grime, IDM and dub with a mischievous touch. But calling her a club experimentalist has never fit the bill. The London-born artist has collaborated with everyone from Yaeji to ...