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 The Resident Advisor podcast has hit the 1000 mark and has released over 30 hours worth of super hot mixes to mark the occasion, including a banger from Frankie Knuckles and a B2B set from 2012 with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall…
Resident Advisor marks 20 years and 1000th edition of the RA Podcast with RA.1000, a series of ten exclusive mixes from some of electronic music’s most influential and forward-thinking artists, as well as a full reissue of the publication's signature series.
Launched in March 2006, the weekly RA Podcast has become one of the world's longest-running mix series. As well as helping supercharge the careers of hundreds of the world's most vital DJs, the mix is an essential archive of global club culture, and a living barometer of electronic music's development. RA.1000 is a milestone project that has run across summer 2025, concluding in ten special editions that celebrate the depth and diversity of electronic music today.
The project reaches a crescendo today with the release of incredibly rare vault material from two of the 20th century's most important dance and electronic pioneers.
One is a two-part mix from the personal archive of the Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles. Recorded individually in 1989 and 1996 and digitised for the first time courtesy of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation, the set provides a window into the genesis and growth of house music. The other is a full six-and-a-half hour set between two UK dance music icons, Andrew Weatherall and DJ Harvey. Recorded in 2012 at legendary Amsterdam club Trouw, it is the first official posthumous mix for Weatherall since his death in February 2020, as well as a one-and-done moment for DJ Harvey sharing the booth.
"I decided to keep that as my only ever B2B to honour Andy," writes DJ Harvey in a new interview accompanying the set. "I don't do too many mixes, but I was of course happy to give permission for this one to be out there when Andy's family and RA approached me." Weatherall's partner, Lizzie Walker, also shares the following on behalf of the family of the acid house pioneer: "We are delighted that this is seeing the light of day. We hope that Andrew's ethos continues to inspire creativity in this generation and generations to come."
Each episode of RA.1000 has been approached with RA’s editorial curiosity and curatorial authority, signposting the past, present and future of electronic music. Others new releases include avant-garde composer and political theorist Terre Thaemlitz, best known by her house alias DJ Sprinkles, delivering her first DJ mix in over a decade: a powerful response to the genocide in Gaza. In parallel, world's most famous Palestinian DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi makes her debut on the RA Podcast with a blistering techno mix. Hamburg's revered Helena Hauff continues on the techno tip with a high-voltage mix of classic machine funk, Detroit techno and sci-fi electro.
The recording of Theo Parrish’s debut set at fabric in 2024, which launched RA.1000 on Monday August 11th, marks one of the only club mixes ever from an all-time Detroit great. Two other extended mixes arrived from Amsterdam's Jyoty, one of the world's foremost Punjab electronic artists, with a freewheeling four hours of global club music at Nowadays NYC. The hottest jungle star in London, Tim Reaper, goes one further with bass-forward marathon, comprising 229 tracks over seven-and-a-half hours: the third-longest entry in the history of Resident Advisor's mix series.
RA.1000 also sees two further debuts. One comes in the shape of Belfast's Bicep, the arena-conquering and BRIT Award-nominated electronic group. Their razor-sharp showcase of contemporary club sounds has a personal touch, released one year on since member Matt McBriar’s brain tumour surgery in 2024. The other is Mark Ernestus, founder of Berlin's Hard Wax and inventor of dub techno through his output in pioneering '90s duo Basic Channel. Ernestus' two-hour set, focusing exclusively on the South African genre of amapiano, is a debut not only for the RA Podcast but for the storied sonic pioneer himself—his first sanctioned studio DJ mix.
Never previously accessible for playback in one consolidated location, the reissue of the entire RA Podcast has been a boon to dance and electronic fans the world over in recent weeks. Comprising thousands of hours of music from RA.001 through to a dozen-strong run of mixes in July for RA.995-RA.999, as well as the fresh categorisation of the series' history via genre- and geography-specific playlists, the project has canonised a historic, iconic and truly worldwide series.
"Life in 2006 seems very far away, a blur of MSN, MySpace and minimal techno," writes Gabriel Szatan, Editor & Head of Editorial at Resident Advisor. "When the series launched, there wasn't any explicit intention to rival the BBC Essential Mix for longevity, impact and breadth, but that's more or less what happened anyway. Having set ourselves the ambition of going 10 for RA.1000, we're thrilled with how it turned out. An enormous thanks to all artists for their contributions; not only for the 1000th mix, but across the series' history. Being able to give so many transformative DJs and electronic artists their flowers in real time is a proud moment for us at RA. As for those we couldn't make happen this time round: see you for RA.2000?"
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