What's actually happening tonight at FÜNK?
Resident Advisor's 25th-anniversary world tour lands in Mexico City on October 17, running from 11pm to 6am at FÜNK. Topping the bill is Pearson Sound, the London producer and Hessle Audio co-founder who has spent over a decade building out the UK bass continuum from sub-heavy club tracks to his own solo catalogue. Alongside him is BADSISTA, repping Brazil's club scene, with Bluecommand and VALERIANA filling out the local support slots.
Why pair UK bass with Brazilian club music in one room?
The RA25 tour isn't just a victory lap through the usual circuit cities. Mexico City sits alongside Tokyo, Taipei, New York, Dublin, Paris, Berlin and Sydney on a ten-date run through September to December 2026, and each stop gets its own lineup rather than a travelling package show. Putting Pearson Sound's London sound system lineage next to BADSISTA's Brazilian club productions, backed by two local names, is a specific curatorial call: a platform built on global listings and reviews using its own anniversary to put a cross-continental bill, not a headline-chasing one, on a Mexico City floor.
What does 25 years of Resident Advisor actually add up to?
Founded in 2001, RA has spent a quarter-century cataloguing the underground house and techno world through its listings, charts and reviews, the kind of infrastructure most dancefloors never see but every touring DJ relies on. The anniversary push goes beyond the tour dates: RA is publishing an RA25 book and merchandise line alongside archival documentation covering those 25 years, a formal record of a scene that has mostly lived undocumented, in flyers and word of mouth.
The RA25 world tour runs ten dates globally between September and December 2026.
