In addition to staying on top of their producer game, our Trainers, Students and Graduates have some undeniable skills on the decks. Turning in mixes for industry icons BBC Radio 1, Resident Advisor, NTS Radio, Triple J and Rinse FM among others – here’s where we round them up for you…
Carla Martinez // triple j
Carla Martinez kicked the year off with a driiiving minimal techno mix that aired across the country on triple j as a part of their Summer Series.
Le Crockett // Rinse FM
Le Crockett caps off the year with an epic triple-twist and clean dismount. Her December looks like this: plays Your Paradise in Fiji, drops this high-voltage mix for Rinse FM with cult label Steel City Dance Discs and KSMBA then joins the Liveschool the very next day.
Next up, Le Crockett plays Lost Paradise 28 Dec – Jan 1st alongside Liveschool fam Silly Lily, Flume, Toaka and Club Angel.
Ninajirachi // Soul Feeder
Touching down in Aus (temporarily?) from extensive US touring, this mix shows exactly why Nina has been in such hot demand on the international club and festival circuit…
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Toaka // Lost Sundays
A live recording of the ever-tasteful Toaka warming up for Denis Sulta at Lost Sundays…
Andrew Padula // Journeys Through Sound (Nomad Radio)
A legend in the game, Andrew Padula turns in this wide-ranging journey of rare gems and deep cuts for Toaka and Mr Roarke’s show Journeys Through Sound on Nomad…
DJ Plead // Rinse FM
DJ Plead with uk pals CS + Kreme explore the deepest levels in this introspective chilled mix. Made in the midst Plead’s non-stop international touring schedule, providing a respite from clubs and festivals…
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SLUMBERJACK // The Vault
Banging set from the production duo in Perth on their club tour run…
Donatachi // Mix Up: Triple J
An icon in Australia’s hyperpop and hard dance scene donatachi’s music has been featured on labels including Diplo’s Mad Decent, Sidechains, and Good Enough and this live mix for Triple J showcases their versatile range…
Club Angel // Lost Sundays
2-Step, Jungle and UKG from the true G…
Aroha // Boiler Room
Dropping some of the wildest tunes in a set that spans from disco to breaks for the institution that is Boiler Room. Aroha spinning it live from Hidden Valley Festival in Matakana, New Zealand…
Ayebatonye // Mix Up: Triple J
Turning in one last mix after a month-long residency for Triple J’s Mix Up, Ayebatonye traverses house and techno flavours and fine energies…
Flume // Future Classic
When a mixtape consists entirely of self-produced music it blurs the boundaries of mixtape and album. Nonetheless, this body of music is so good it’s unlikely to be surpassed as 2023’s mixtape of the year – and it’s only February…
Lisa May // 6AM Guest Mix
With her latest self-produced release less than a month old (Dare I Groove out the newly formed VOLTA label from Victor Ruiz) Lisa May dropped this guest mix for the influential house & techno outfit 6AM…
Rezzx // Your Shot 2022 – winning mix!
Taking the crown at the World’s Biggest Dj Competition, Rezzx is a newcomer on the decks (the rules of the Your Shot comp is you can’t be a pro) and as you can hear, her preferred mode is hardcore…
DJ Plead // Truants
When Pitchfork lists a DJ set in The Best DJ Mixes of 2022 So Far nothing further needs to be written.
Catch our man on tour now throughout Europe if you can…
Logic1000 // Mixmag
Her work ethic and prodigious output has earned Logic1000 a cult reputation and offers for official remixes from the likes of Groove Armada, Flume, Orbital, Don Toliver and a heady European tour schedule. Affirming her stellar DJ work Mixmag tapped her for a mix, in which she spotlights unreleased tracks from her favourite producers…
Club Angel // Triple J – Mix Up
Club Angel has been turning heads since he first stepped behind the decks – and now drops a banging UK Garage set for the national broadcaster, hot on the heels of his first production release ‘Control Dem’…
Ninajirachi // Nomad Radio
Turning in a fast-paced 30-track 1 hour mix including many of her own original Ninajirachi productions. This radio archive is 2 hours long and Nina’s section starts from the 1 hour mark onwards… Listen
Logic 1000 back-to-back with Big Ever // HÖR BERLIN
Big Ever and Logic 1000 often co-produce so its a nice / rare treat to see them DJ back to back in this instalment for Hor Berlin…
Luen // Triple J – Mix Up
Luen is a state treasure and champion of communities – and also a mad-skilled DJ, as you will hear in this Triple J Mix Up that kicks off with her latest release…
Jungist // Nomad Radio
New Liveschool member Jungist has been making waves behind the decks. Nomad Radio’s ‘Outer Shores’ program hosted Jungist for a tastefully deconstructed club set… Listen
Mirasia // Triple J – Mix Up
Graduate Mirasia wears so creative faces – and with each one she wears it with the fiercest style. Here she is in ballroom DJ mode for Triple J…
Billy Xane // Triple J – Mix Up
Graduate Billy Xane front-and-centre on the national broadcaster’s dance music slot. Stay tuned for some original productions coming down the pipeline soon…
Ninajirachi // Triple J – Mix Up
Liveschool trainer Ninajirachi dropped this cracking mix of forward-stepping sounds on Australia’s flagship station network. Includes unreleased Ninajirachi exclusives, fellow alums 1300 and a wildly energetic conflux of genres…
Kaliopi // DnB Radio
Kaliopi‘s Guest Mix for global giant DNBRadio premiered 06/08/2021 and is now up on Soundcloud …and it’s an absolute belter. DnB Radio cast live Drum & Bass streams from around the globe and we might be biased but this has got to rank among their best…
Kucka // FACT
Compared to her ambient mix (elsewhere on this page) Kučka’s mix for the iconic FACT takes things up one peg, explaining “This is the ideal mix to take you from the afternoon to the evening. I chose tracks that I love to play when I’ve just finished up work for the day and I’m about to kick back and relax”…
Barney In The Tunnel // The Midday Mix
Local legends on the flagship community mix slot at Radio FBi bringing a timely mix off the back of their new release Hug House.
This mid-tempo chugger struts and bleeps through their own tunes and cuts from Roza Terenzi, Para One, Ludwig A.F. and more…
Marlie
Turning in a bumping mix for the venerated Trommel, after returning to Sydney from London where Marlie made her name based on vibe-fuelled sets at the likes of Fabric, The Egg, as well as local raves Subsonic, S.A.S.H. and of course her very own nocturnal project Roots…
Setwun // Lovebeams (series)
Love Beams is a 2 hour monthly excursion with Setwun through all that is free, freaky and funky. Soul music in all its extensions and expressions from past, present and emerging artists from across the cosmos.
Catch the whole series over on Nomad Radio…
DJ Plead // Movement Radio (series)
What could be better than a long-player DJ Plead mix? A whole series of DJ Plead mixes is what.
Innovating on so many fronts musically, he’s also customised the turntables to install dual stovetop burners to properly cook these mixes. Catch the whole series on Athens-based Movement Radio …
Kučka goes ambient // Bleep
With Kučka’s album Wrestling due out via Soothsayer/LuckyMe on 30 April, this mixtape contribution to the respected Bleep mix series gives insight into the sounds that inspire her.
Packed with ambience and dreamy textures – the link between the sounds her and the mood of her productions is easy to see…
Logic1000
Some huge milestones in Logic1000’s epic rise include these two recent mixes – one for the legendary BBC Radio 1 and the other for the equally legendary Resident Advisor.
Jump on the BBC mix quick as they only stay up for a month:
Also worth mentioning, Logic100 is third Liveschool affiliated Resident Advisor mix in the last 12 months! This time our perennial favourite Logic1000 comes through promoting her new EP “You’ve Got The Whole Night To Go” which was co-produced by Liveschool trainer Thomas McAllister aka Big Ever. After a soft start the mix delivers hard hitting peak time vibes and in her interview with Resident Advisor Logic says she “worked up a sweat while recording” the mix. With this many heaters in 1 hour its no surprise!
Roza Terenzi in the mix for Resident Advisor
Our second Liveschool community member to deliver a mix for Resident Advisor this year, after Andy Garvey’s instalment earlier in 2020. It’s hard to overstate what a milestone this is for an artist, a Resident Advisor mix can elevate a career from “up and comer” into the status of bona-fide star. With a huge platform at her disposal, Roza has thrown down a mix of peak time trance anthems that will call to mind that far off place that we all hope to return to as soon as possible.
DJ Plead on cassette!
What would a list of mixtapes be without an actual cassette? Our man DJ Plead turns the burners down for this deep cassette-only exclusive for Manchester’s legendary Boomkat and their Documenting Sound series.
Whereas other artists in that series turned in Dj mixes, Plead crafted a compendium of bespoke original productions. His signature middle-eastern vibes are in full report, but instead of dancefloor-crushing beats this long-player meets you at a slow, humid tempo and gradually dissolves into an ambient mindbath.
Should this even be in our mixtape round-up? Is it a mixtape? Maybe it’s a beat-tape, but one that’s beat-adjacent. Either way, this is one for the serious collectors or the 1900’s format fetishists. And you can peep the audio previews here:
Cop Envy
Trainer Thomas McAllister from our Berlin studios has dropped a new mix made up of exclusive unreleased Copy Envy tunes. Usually a Cop Envy mix brings with it hypnotic dubbed out drums – but this one is totally ambient. Made up of tracks Thom has been working on over the last few months hunkered down in Berlin, it’s a great insight into another side of one of our favourite producers.
Andy Garvey
Liveschool graduate Andy Garvey has been tapped to unleash the latest mix for Resident Advisor. Gaining this sort of recognition from the largest platform in dance music is a testament to the years of hard work put in by Andy pushing left field sounds across Australia.
Brux
Brux continues her roll, turning in a mix for Future Mag. With her signature dark and club ready sound on display its a document of an artist in her element. Alongside legends like Luke Slater and The Knife she features Liveschool alumni M Ramirez.
Point Clare
Point Clare has dropped a powerful mix for the Fuxwithit Blog featuring unreleased heat from himself and a group of like minded friends.
Niku
Stirring up the dance lately at some of Sydney’s best parties is up and comer Niku. Astute selecting for rhythms within a smart span of UK, bass and digi appears to be part of the magic – but she’s not that easily boxed. One to follow, and one to catch live.
Check Niku’s “In Transit” series for Nomad FM here:
Anna Lunoe
Following on from her hugely successful Beats 1 show on Apple Music, Anna Lunoe backs it up with DanceXL featuring an all-star collection of guests including CamelPhat, Louis The Child, Audien, Dom Dolla, Diplo and many more to come. Peep it here.
Body Promise
Opening sets can be challenging to do but very satisfying when you pull it off. This Boiler Room cast sees Doug and Amelia opening Sugar Mountain festival, Melbourne, putting their encyclopaedic outernational music tastes to effect and stirring up the gathering crowd nicely.
DJ Plead is on the European tour circuit right now, surfing the wave of praise for his latest productions, so it’s no surprise to see another promo mix drop. But DAMN this dj set raises the game. If you’ve grown tired of the same-ol’ genre-based dancefloor tropes, DJ Plead’s mix on the illustrious FACT series is the proof you’ve been expecting, that: yes, somewhere – on some club dancefloor – shit is still absolutely on fire:
Andy Garvey is the queen of staunch tech mixes (see an earlier instalment on this page), but in her role as Triple J’s Mix Up host and producer she’s curated the Best of Mix Up 2019, including tapes from Rufus Du Sol, Amelie Lens and a fire mix from Liveschool trainer Nina aka Ninajirachi:
Nina Las Vegas needs little introduction to anyone with an interest in electronic music. The artist, label owner, radio host and DJ (not to mention Liveschool Graduate) has stepped up to the decks to deliver a mix for London’s NTS radio. She covers a lot of ground, from the club-ready new direction from NLV Records stable-mate Ninajirachi to the percussive freakouts of Dolo Percussion:
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Graduate, Gabriel Espinosa, caused a massive upset at Australian amateur DJ comp “Your Shot” – entering as an unknown wildcard and taking out the NSW top slot. Here’s a mix from one of the heats – featuring a surprising blend of bangers, garage, DJ Plead, and some clever Ableton production know-how:
Trainer, Ninajirachi has stepped up to Diplo’s BBC1 radio show Diplo And Friends with this wide ranging mix covering ground from Flume to DJ Koze and Yung Lean.
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Logic1000, riding high from her breakthrough track Please Forgive Me turned in some killer cuts when she joined Project Pablo in the mix on RinseFM
Speaking of Logic1000…
Cop Envy (our very own Thom McAlister, and co-producer to Logic1000) has delivered a UK-tinged mix for Fauzia’s show on NTS, featuring heavy hitters like Peverelist, Joy O and DJ Assault.
Trainer, Doug has simply been on fire lately – first, releasing the stunning compilation of Australian underground electronica as part of Body Promise. And now an incredible mix made up 100% from his own original productions showcasing the acid funk freshness of his Hed Ardennes moniker.
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Flume has pulled out all the stops with an absolutely bonkers mixtape, complete with 45 minutes of insane visuals courtesy of Jonathan Zawada.
Andy Garvey has gone in with a two hour mix for Skylab Radio and proved why she is one of Australia’s most in demand selectors, covering some serious leftfield electronic territory.
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Delivering what he describes as “Real Housewives Bangers”, Donatachi was summoned by our national broadcaster to bequeath them this Triple J Mixup session
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Why make just one mix when you can make an entire radio station? That’s exactly what Aroha, revered New Zealand-born DJ, has done. From her new base in Melbourne, Aroha helped assemble a crack-squad of NZ Dj’s to create Music For The People – spanning niche genres and championing NZ music like no other station. Aroha lays out a new 3-hour “Friday I’m In Love” mix every week, like this one with a great interview with Memphis LK.
For anyone who’s ever searched for “Podcasts for sleep” or “Dj mixes to sleep to”, Dreems has just the balm to soothe your jangled soul. Sleep Mix is a playlist of long mixes by Dreems and various guests on an organic-ambient tip to help paddle your boat gently down that stream: