Archived Resident Advisor Podcasts – free download

This made my day today. A link to download all the archived Resident Advisor Podcasts. The best podcast out there by a country mile.

http://206.130.122.151/ra/

A while ago, they started archiving podcasts without giving me the chance to save them all, so i lost some absolute beauties. But now, the numbers included in that URL are as valuable to me as the winning lottery numbers… (almost).

If you don’t fancy downloading them all – here’s my pick of the bunch.

RA017 – Matthew Styles. One of the earlier mixes and one of the best from ex Crosstown Rebels head honcho.
RA032 – Henrik Schwarz. Henrik’s own style of instrumental techno and minimal techno
RA074 – Prins Thomas. Live set featuring some biggies such as LCD Soundsystem 45-33 and Aeroplane’s debut track Caramellas
RA098 – Todd Terje. Groovy techy Disco.
RA102 – Fourtet. Psychedelic electronica.
RA104 – Quiet Village. Samples and soundtracks.
RA114 – Aeroplane. For me, the best mix i heard last year
RA126 – Motorcitysoul. Never heard of them before this, now i look out for them all the time.
RA131 – Johnno Burgess. 80’s cheesefest spectacular
RA134. Danny Howells. Does what he does best.
RA136 – The Orb. As expected, beatless bliss.
RA144 – Surgeon. Hard, Room 1 Fabric Techno. I fooking love this.
RA147 – DJ Pete. The latest release, dubstep and dubby techno.

Lets hope that treasure chest stays up long enough for us to grab them all.

RA Goes beatless – RA 136: The Orb

I have been waiting for quite a while for a decent chill-out mix to creep up within the Resident Advisor Podcast. The Quiet Village episode was close on the downtempo tip, but if anyone is going to do it and do it properly, its The Orb. RA have officially published its first ambient podcast – about time.

Proper ambient beatless bliss. The mix takes on the familiar Kompakt Pop Ambient guise, with fellow ex Orb’er Thomas Fehlmann’s influences oozing throughout and Ulf Lohmann providing the epic ‘Nicht Die Welt’ mid-way through. No tracklisting has been put up, to many RA members disgust, so please feel free to id any of the tracks.

Hop along to the Resident Advisor podcast page to download the podcast (you have to be a member>sign up for free) and for a quick Q&A with the men behind the mix.

Free !K7 Sampler CD

Home of the excellent DJ Kicks series, !K7 Records are giving away a cd sampler featuring some of the biggest tracks released on the label. All you have to do is submit your email address to be sent a download link to some great tracks from Hot Chip, Quiet Village, Carl Craig and The Herbaliser.

Click here for your path to musical happiness.

A halloween treat from a scary village

With Halloween creeping up this weekend, downtempo psychadelic legends Quiet Village have turned out a scary mind-bending ‘Horrorcast’. A full mix of spooky induced noises, samples and tunage. Download it for free here (direct link!). Its like watching a 1950’s Count Dracula film on a Sunday afternoon- thoroughly enjoyable background listening. Or alternatively a great soundtrack to accompany you trick or treating.

I recognised one track out of the whole mix – tune id’s anyone?! I swear one of the them was a freaky farmer song from ‘The Wicker Man’. Happy Halloweeeeeeen.