March 17, 2021

Donna Leake: Soul Trips, Vinyl and Vintage Hi-fi

London-based selector and creative influencer Donna Leake’s vinyl-only NTS Radio show is a window onto how a virtuoso assembles enigmatic jazz hooks. Whether of the spiritual, straight, rock, fusion, or psychedelic varieties, Leake’s uncanny ability to mix jazz with rock, Afro-disco, dub and boogie takes listeners on a genre-bending deep dive through an astral plane of the recherché every episode.
August 12, 2022

Review: Varia Instruments RDM20 Analogue Rotary Mixer

Holding a unique place in the histories of dance floor culture and the music industry throughout the ’70s and ‘80s in particular, the sought after, revered and storied rotary mixer, once the sole domain of the selector, has in recent years enjoyed a renaissance with audiophiles and discerning DJs. Take for example the Varia Instruments RDM20.