RA.1007 mi-el

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4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The gifted London DJ and curator goes big on bass futurism. "To pull a thread." This old English adage means to follow a small detail that might unravel into something larger and more significant. It's also the inspiration behind London artist mi-el's NTS Radio show, and a neat way of understanding her approach as a DJ. Take mi-el's rich archive of mixes. From NTS to The Trilogy Tapes, they show her to be a deeply personal selector and curator, pushing past functionality into something more expressive, narrative and often political. A show about Refugee Week? Afrofuturist world-making? Interlocking systems of domination? All material is putty in her hands. Now based in Berlin, mi-el is simply a wicked club DJ. In just a few years she's played Panorama Bar, De School and FOLD, as well as festivals including Waking Life, Terraforma and Field Maneuvers. Alongside peers and predecessors like Josey Rebelle, she represents a new generation of Black British artists reinventing the wheel, and as we mark the beginning of UK Black History Month, no other candidate felt more fitting. RA.1007 shows why. The 55-minute session is a deft balancing act of depth and playfulness, humour and heaviness, rooted in club intensity and the futurism of the UK hardcore continuum. It's firm confirmation that, in mi-el's hands, the art of the DJ mix is alive and well. @miellllllll Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1026

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to you. I'm going to I'm so I'm I'm Tanya Ma
0:40.3	Tanya, what's that thing, my, jicama,
0:45.3	Tanya, ma, what's that thing, ma, jigger, ma,
0:49.3	Tanya, ma, what's that thing, ma, what's that thing
0:52.3	ma, this comea, Tanya, what's that thing, jicama? What's a thing of my jicama? What's a thing of my?
0:56.0	Jigama?
0:57.0	Thangama.
0:58.0	What's a thing of my?
1:00.0	Jika ma.
1:01.0	What's a thing of my?
1:04.0	Jigma?
1:05.0	What's a thing of my?
1:07.0	Jikaama?
1:08.0	What's a thing of my? Jigma? Dengma. What's a thing of my, chickama, thing ama, what's a thing about, chicka, what's a thing of my, chickama, what's a thing of my, chickama, what's a thing of my, what's a thing of my, what's a thing ama, what's a thing ama, what's a thing ama, look, side's rough out The face them tough out
1:28.3	The gun them nuff out The gip them buff out The block back smithy The angle's default A kick like default Head top chipper It work by remote The knife can flick out The teeth get kick out The scorebo's even Watch for the result The beef can't resolve The evidence dissolve Back on the strap come broad like Lizzo All is old, kick like Rizome, cow like Bizzle,
1:44.3	Thunder Malight in the non-stack drizzle
1:46.3	The beast's too fickle, we can't live civil Evidence diso. Pap and the strap come broad like Lizzo. Kit like Rizzo. Thund'em alike in the non-stop trissot.
1:46.0	The beast's too fickle. We can't live civil. Head touch the car and press out. The wild what's out? What's out? Stop proof aside. The body proof aside. The face can't make out the car. No school badness. Drive by shooting. Some pussy that's bad
2:00.0	Some use rogue
2:01.0	Some are use root
2:02.0	Ruta
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