Off the Record Mix Series 61: Mori Ra

For his Off The Record mix, Mori Ra taps back into the same restless, far-reaching instinct that’s defined his path from Osaka’s record shops to dancefloors worldwide. A lifer digger with a taste that stretches from kosmische and cold wave to Balearic oddities, ambient techno and proto-trance, Mori Ra has quietly built a cult discography of edits and EPs for labels including Berceuse Heroique, Macadam Mambo, CockTail d'Amore, Rotating Souls and Forest Jams — each release another breadcrumb from his sprawling archive, meticulously documented on Discogs. His sets have carried that sensibility from formative overseas appearances at Hugs & Kisses in Melbourne to extended runs across Europe, Australia and Asia, always guided by the same open-eared philosophy: no genre borders, just feeling. This mix, pieced together from records found while DJing in Seoul, late-night Osaka digs and long-held shelf treasures, leans into a ’90s cosmic lineage — ambient techno dissolving into early trance atmospherics — a subtle left turn in tone perhaps, but unmistakably Mori Ra: deep, romantic and quietly transportive.