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• Foodman, Chee Shimizu, CHIDA added to rural 2018
  The full lineup for the Japanese camping festival's indoor stage has been announced, with Vesna, KABUTO and CYK Crew also featuring. Oliver Ho will headline the event's pre-party on July 13th.
• Longtime Chicago gay club Jackhammer faces risk of imminent closure
  The North Side spot, which has been host to parties with the Men's Room crew and others, seeks an angel investor in hopes of staving off an eviction order from the building's new ownership.
• How Orbital made their first single, 'Chime'
  "I was trying to pair a four-track recorder with my dad's two-track cassette recorder to make a six-track studio," band member Paul Hartnoll tells The Guardian.
• Khotin and DJ D.DEE's Trip Advisor party returns to Vancouver
  This time, they've got local techno hero Scott W. as their guest, going down at VAL on June 23rd.
• Listen to a new Flying Lotus track, 'Heroes Pt. 5'
  It closes out the seventh season of Adult Swim's annual Singles series, which included artists like Brian Eno, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jlin and Moor Mother.
• Man dies, leaves 80,000 records to his family
  It's thought to be the biggest vinyl collection in Australia, and an antiques expert calls it "a cultural treasure [that] probably needs to go into a museum or The National Film and Sound Archives."

RA podcasts

• RA.629 Amelie Lens - 2018.06.18
  A modern techno superstar brings the heat.
• RA.628 Parris - 2018.06.11
  Novel rhythms from a vital London artist.
• RA.627 Traxx - 2018.06.04
  Controlled chaos from a sonic daredevil.
• RA.626 Zozo - 2018.05.28
  The Istanbul DJ turns in spacey sounds.