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RA.975 livwutang

RA Podcast

Resident Advisor

Music

4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry. Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. "How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder. @livwutang Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

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0:00.0

Life is a drug that we are all addicted to, but it will kill you eventually.

0:06.0

In the meantime, Young 27 can enjoy its buzz and feel the blood career and faster through

0:11.0

the alleys of their anatomy, to Backstreet Bar, to Buckingham Palace, to Brickson to basement,

0:17.0

we're all just trying to get high.

0:19.0

How'd you do it 22?

0:20.0

How'd you seek it 23? What was do it 22? How did you seek it 23?

0:21.6

What was your virtuous vice?

0:23.6

How did you come down off life?

0:25.6

A computer game, a yoga class, a can of fizzi, a concert, a prayer, a run, a bike ride, a nice meal, a magazine, a book, a fuck.

0:34.6

How did you take your mind of the things? How did you respond to the offer when they said you could be free if you wanted to?

0:41.3

You could be a cold turkey begging for the Easter break or resurrect.

0:45.3

Don't want to sleep quite yet.

0:47.3

You want to party all night. You want to party your life or be my guest.

0:51.3

Your guess is as bad as my when it comes to what happens when you come to.

0:55.0

I guess you can be glad that you came.

0:57.0

Down off the drug called life.

0:59.0

High on life and high on ecstasy.

1:01.0

I want you in the coffin next to me, spooning, because you're the heroin who saved me for these sins. sins I'm not I'm I'm

1:28.3

I'm

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1:31.3

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