FRIDAY – 21.00 PM (GMT +02:00)

Repeat: SUNDAY – 17.00 PM (GMT +02:00)

The Global SoulJah & BBE Records radio show is a one hour weekly show which, if you must, could best be described as where music of black origin and global grooves meet the techno future.

Global SoulJah aka James Barrie is a music consultant based in Barcelona specialising in music branding, in-store music and music sync. He is also a club DJ and promoter having promoted the Ninja Tune parties in Barcelona as well as organising events for the Red Bull Music Academy in the city.

BBE Records are one of the most respected record labels in the world. Having released over a 100 albums including compilations from Keb Darge, Paul Weller, DJ Premier, Gilles Peterson, Dimitri from Paris, ?uestlove, Laurent Garnier, Joey Negro and DJ Spinna and artist albums from Jazzy Jeff, Roy Ayers, J Dilla, Luisito Quintero, Pete Rock, Will I Am, Hugh Masakela, Marc Mac and Al Kent as well as many up and coming new artists.

Open your ears and enjoy the ride…

In April, 2011 “Global Souljah” changed its name to “Audio Texture”.

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March 2 th, 2012

The Colman Brothers got this weeks show off to a nice mellow jazzwise start with ‘On A Better Day‘ taken from the new Heavenly Sweetness compilation, Digging the Blogosphere, before the beautiful sound of Joyce bathed the show in some Brazilian sunshine and served as a little taster of her forthcoming live album on Far Out due out in March. Our new discovery of the week Goran Kajfes then kept the jazz but added some great African vibes from his excellent album X/Y - a great blend of jazz, Africa, eastern vibes and electronica – a bit expensive (plush packaging) but worth it. Boddhi Satva’s ancestral soul vibes have been infiltrating the house scene for a while and we’re pleased to report that his debut album is about to drop on BBE records and it’s one of those rare things, a house album that actually works start to finish, the production is deep and there’s some great vocalists on there as well, as ‘Ngari Konon‘ featuring Oumou Sangare, more than ably demonstrates.

Hyperdub seem increasingly determined to transcend their reputation as a home for bass music and their forthcoming release from Fhloston Paradigm aka King Britt is deep, dark, raw, stripped back, hypnotic electronica which will probably educate and confuse Hyperdub bass heads in equal measures. This paved the way for a stripped back, less is more, Ethiopian electro experiment courtesy of Fresh Touch, make sure you check the video as well for some great footage of Haile Selassie. Chopped and heavily screwed vibes were then the order of the day as Caracal, another producer who prefers to remain anonymous, gave us a taster of his forthcoming EP on Black Acre. Australian pianist and composer, Anthony Pateras then kept the vibes dark with the unsettling ‘Infectious‘ from his OST, Errors Of The Human Body before Felix Kubin and Venetian Snares dropped some, quite frankly, mental beats.

Now we’ve been keeping tabs on Airhead’s all too sparse output since day one and were happy to receive a promo single from R&S this week with new material and also news that this young, guitar playing producer has seemingly been saving all his output for an album release also due on R&S later this year. Two classically trained, adventurous, producers named Colo, then kept the leftfield beats rolling with ‘Rick‘ from their inspired debut EP on Take. Uptempo beats then finished the show off nicely led by Duct, a music technology professor who practices what he teaches before Sisi Bakbak (allegedly Thom York) gave Sbtrkt’s ‘Hold On‘ a pleasing twist and ended the show in fine fashion.

Colman Brothers – On A Better Day (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Joyce – Adeus América (Far Out promo)
Goran Kajfes – Subtropics/Kankani Boulila (Headspin)
Boddhi Satva – Ngari Konon feat Oumou Sangare (BBE promo)
Fhloston Paradigm – The Chase (Hyperdub promo)
Fresh Touch – Harar Rhythm (Angular Records)
Caracal – Elements (Black Acre promo)
Anthony Pateras – Infectious (Editions Mego promo)
Felix Kubin – Total No.1 (It’s)
Venetian Snares – Ego DSP (Planet Mu promo)
Airhead – Wait (R&S promo)
Colo – Rick (Take promo)
Duct – Jessica’s Garden (Shades Of Grey promo)
Sbtrkt – Hold On, Sisi Bakbak rmx (Young Turks)

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February 24 th, 2012

So the show is back in full effect after a rare missed week due to work commitments and we kick off in fine style with a track from the Project Mooncircle 10th anniversary boxset, a nice slice of deep bassline action from Rain Dog, one of many great tunes celebrating this ever improving label and their dedication to unearthing fresh beat making talent. A 10th anniversary is a real milestone for a label in todays difficulty record selling climate and to have put out over a 100 releases in that time makes it even more so. Fink then kept the deep vibes flowing with an excellent Close remix of his ‘Perfect Darkness‘ track from last year before Shlohmo kept the future soul vibes flowing with the excellent ‘Wen Uuu‘ from his recent EP on FoF music.

We couldn’t resist dropping more Jeb Loy Nichols as his new album is about to drop on Decca. We’d already hit you with ‘Hard Times‘ but this time the track has been given a little reggae remix courtesy of Curtis Lynch to take the tune back to it’s JA roots. Ruder dancehall bassline vibes then invaded the airwaves as Belleruche’s DJ Modest gave Hint’s ‘Crash and Burn‘ a little dubstep refix. Lorca has been on our radar since last year and showed why by supplying a nice slice of swinging, jazz flavoured, funky house niceness before Micatone dropped the tempo and injected some country edged soul with their welcome return.

Now we’ve been on the case of Mancini and The Creepers since day one and I’m happy to report their debut album is about to drop. Now some people are going to say they sound a bit Ghostpoet like and we’re not going to dispute that but to be honest we’d heard them before Ghostpoet and to be honest we don’t care who was first as they both rock. Joash with a little help from Chocolate Garage then single handedly revived hip house with the killer ‘Mission‘. Subsequent featuring Festa then rounded off a trio of leftfield hip hop gems in a German stylee, thanks to Nonine for that one. Mo Kolours then dropped a real slice of Mauritian flavoured beat madness as he is wont to do before Bullion, if he hadn’t already, cememented his stylistic versatility with ‘Say Arr Ee‘ from his new R&S release before Maddslinky’s Azymuth rerub ended the show in fine Brazilian beats style.

Rain Dog – Spatial Separations (Project Mooncircle promo)
Fink – Perfect Darkness, Close rmx (Freeload)
Shlohmo – Wen Uuu (FoF Music)
Jeb Loy Nichols – Hard Times, Curtis Lynch rmx (Decca promo)
Hint – Crash & Burn, DJ Modest rmx (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Lorca – Can’t See Higher (Dummy Records promo)
Micatone – Handbrake (Sonar Kollektiv Promo)
Mancini & The Creepers – Killers (Jakharta promo)
Joash – Mission, Chocolate Garage Oldschool mix (Compost)
Subsequent feat Festa – Daglicht rmx (Nonine)
Mo Kolours – Banana Wine (One Handed Music promo)
Bullion – Say Arr Ee (R&S)
Azymuth – Heavy Up, Maddslinky rmx (Far Out promo)

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February 10 th, 2012

So the whole original Chicago footwork scene, that blew up on the back of Planet Mu‘s crusade, was a bit of disappointment musically but the dancing was out of this world. Now a whole heap of producers, with broader palettes, have jumped on board the wagon things are starting to get more interesting and the latest mutation is Dream Continuum‘s fusion of footwork and 90′s drum and bass which is set to smash up the dance in 2012, check ‘Side Set It‘ that opens the show and get your rave on. Around this time every year the J Dilla tributes to commemorate his passing start, thus prompted, I thought I’d give you his classic take on ‘Think Twice‘ which led nicely into some Propaground action with Gusby‘s deep soul groover, ‘Analogik Love Pt II‘. Jeb Loy Nichols then provided some ‘Countrymusicdisco‘ in fine blue eyed soulful style, look out for his new album dropping anytime now on Decca.

As mentioned recently the new Blundetto album is sounding great start to finish, so just to prove we’re not lying we thought we’d drop you another little taster, this time Ethio jazz style with the excellent Akale Horns in full effect. Afrobuddha with the aid of the Kakatsitsi Drummers then provided some hyper real Afro House Sounds before Dancing Turtle‘s new signing Elpoep provided some deep hypnotic beats from their excellent new release. DVA then dropped the future soul from his new album on Hyperdub which funnily sounds largely like vintage broken beat with a slightly poorer choice of vocalists and obviously is none the worse for it.

Whilst I’m at easy comparisons the new Gang Colours album is sounding like a slightly less melancholic James Blake, you probably don’t need much more encouragement than that to check him out. There is a nice Slugabed EP floating about at the moment with some cheeky tunes on. It was a tossup which one to drop but we opted for the soulful strains of ‘Rockin U‘ featuring the one and only Leon Ware. Deep Medi new boy Dark Tantrums then provided some deep, simple but atmospheric dub step flavours before NonGenetic & Cooptrol showed that dubstep is a perfect riddim for some lyrical expression, if only more beat producers thought that way. Uptempo beats then led the show to its conclusion with some great bassline action from Dark Sky and then Magic Wire‘s, Neon Jung who really gave the sub woofers a good testing.

Dream Continuum – Side Set It (Planet Mu promo)
Jay Dee – Think Twice (BBE)
Gusby – Analogik Love Pt II (Propaground promo)
Jeb Loy Nichols – Countrymusicdisco45 (Decca promo)
Blundetto with Akale Horns – Crowded Places (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Afrobuddha Meets Kakatsitsi Drummers – Obame, Radio Mix (Round In Motion)
Elpoep – Feed Your Love (Dancing Turtle promo)
DVA – Eye Know feat Natalie Maddix (Hyperdub)
Gang Colours – I Don’t Want You Calling (Brownswood promo)
Slugabed – Rocking U feat Leon Ware (White)
Dark Tantrums – Unborn (Deep Medi promo)
NonGenetic & Cooptrol – Revolution (Spezialmaterial Records)
Dark Sky – Technology (Black Acre promo)
Neon Jung – Delirium Tremens (Magic Wire promo)

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January 27 th, 2012

So loads of nice electronic bits and bobs in this weeks show kicking off with a killer tune from Virtual Boy from their forthcoming album on Alpha Pup due in February, should be a goodie if ‘Memory Of A Ghost‘ is anything to go by. That was followed by some great soul music from Russia of all places, a country gaining a steady reputation for it’s electronic producers but the Valique track is straight out of the American soul handbook. Twit One then kept the vibe rolling with a cheeky little edit of Brazilian soul boy Tim Maia. As you’ve already heard Bonobo has commissioned some great remixes of his Black Sands album from last year and the Falty DL twist of ‘All In Forms‘ we’re sure you’ll agree is another winner.

Mike Gao and Daisuke Tanabe are the latest producers to grace the Faces series of singles from Project Mooncircle and Gao in particular has excelled himself with a great side of deep musical beat excursions as ‘Futuristic Wife‘ ably showcases. The Alchemist and Oh No go under the name of Gangrene and we’re loving the beats on their latest single ‘Vodka & Ayahuasca‘ – pure pysched out beat making, shame the vocals couldn’t live up to the production. The nice boys at Donkey Pitch then, rather sweetly, provided the chopped and screwed soul of ‘Sweat Mode‘ from Ghost Mutt for free! The show then got into some deep progressive jazz with another taster of the great sounding Portico Quartet album which is due very shortly but which still seems too long.

Things then went all dubbed up courtesy of Jah Guidi and Sanguebom an interesting little French outfit who we hope to hear more of before the ever fresh Juan Atkins provided some great electro vibes under his Model 500 guise. Xosar then provided some deep spooky house music before Boddhi Satva graced us with some deep ancestral soul, aided and abetted by Vikter Duplaix’s sweet vocals. Tim Toh then upped the intensity with the percussive monster ‘Pandemonium‘ from his latest sterling effort on Philpot before Raffertie showed his maturing, more spacious, sound with the ‘Mass Appeal‘ title track from his excellent forthcoming EP for the Ninja boys.

Virtual Boy – Memory Of A Ghost (Alpha Pup promo)
Valique – I’m Here feat Vadim Kapustin (Infracom promo)
Tim Maia – Do Bem, Twit One Edit (White)
Bonobo – All In Forms, Falty DL remix (Ninja Tune promo)
Mike Gao – Futuristic Wife (Project Mooncircle promo)
Gangrene – Vodka & Ayahuasca, instrumental (Decon)
Ghost Mutt – Sweat Mode (Donkey Pitch freeload)
Portico Quartet – Spinner (Real World promo)
Jah Guidi/Sanguebom – Samurai Dub (Do Not Cross)
Model 500 – The Messenger (R&S promo)
Xosar – Rainy Day Juno Jam (Rush Hour promo)
Boddhi Satva – From An Other World feat Vikter Duplaix (BBE promo)
Tim Toh – Pandemonium (Philpot)
Raffertie – Mass Appeal (Ninja Tune promo)

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January 20 th, 2012

So off we go again after the Christmas break, back, refreshed and raring to get stuck into some great music whilst ignoring all the hype – no hipster house here thank you. When we read this new micro genre term we didn’t lower ourselves to investigate further but our theory is it’s house music designed for people who are too cool to dance or just haven’t got any co-ordination but to be honest we hope never to find out.

This week started with a song for our bank induced, crisis ridden times with Jeb Loy Nichols covering Pablo Gad’s classic, ‘Hard Times’ to amazing effect and it bodes well for Jeb’s new album. Doctor L, the uncompromising and diverse French producer is also coming through with a new album on Comet and we’re particularly liking the street poetry meets deep jazz beats of ‘Vocal Kidnaping‘ featuring the Unknown Poets. Some classic fusion then followed from The Headhunters who are being re-issued by R2 records in 2012. The label is also embarking on a series of other classic album reissues with a killer program lined up – watch this space!

Classic sounding, new music with a Charles Stepney vibe then followed from Quantic & Alice Russell backed up by the Combo Barbaro with an amazing slice of soul which again bodes more than well for the new album release in April. The Echocentrics ably followed with their interpretation of Timbaland’s ‘We Need A Resolution‘ from a really nice little EP of Timbaland covers done in a live soulful style. Medline then kept the soul vibes flowing on a blaxploitation tip with his excellent, soon to be released ‘Soldier Of Love‘ track – look out for all sorts of releases from him this year. Fresh new talent from Brighton then followed in the shape of the promising J. Biscuits from Brighton who has just put out a lovely little album of eastern tinged beats for free download from his bandcamp page, surely a producer to watch.

John Phonics then kept the beats flowing with a collaboration with Peter Cannon given a Pedestrian remix, from the inaugural release on Prism records another promising label start up. Robert Glasper’s new album is sounding great with all sorts of interesting collaborations and the first single from it, ‘Ah Yeah’ featuring Musiq Soulchild & Chrisette Michele is no exception. Julien Dyne then provided a taster of his new album on BBE which is due anytime now and will no doubt help cement this young New Zealand talent’s reputation. Toulouse Low Trax aka Detlef Weinrich from Kreidler then provided some deep dub tribal, slo mo house vibes from his forthcoming album due on Karaoke Kalk in February, another winning album.

Downliners Sekt then showed why they are some of our favourite leftfield dubsters of recent times as they take some average shoegaze and turn it into a deep hypnotic dub roller, nice. Stan Smith is one of out new hip hop discoveries and this New York MC is about to drop his debut album aided by some bruk style production from Daz-I-Kue and it’s sounding like a modern day hip-house winner start to finish. Jonti has gone and released some of his early material for free after the success of his material on Stonesthrow last year and there are some real nuggets on there, seek it out! Russian 8-bit don Pixelord is another one steadily building his rep and, amongst others, from his new EP we’re particularly liking the Groundislava remix of ‘Imaginery Friends‘. Minamo, a Japanese quartet then provided the abstract live vibes that nicely finished the show from their new album on Room40.

Jeb Loy Nichols – Hard Times (Decca promo)
Doctor L – Vocal Kidnaping feat. Unknown Poets (Comet promo)
The Headhunters – Mugic (R2 promo)
Quantic & Alice Russell feat Combo Barbaro – Look Around The Corner (Tru-Thoughts promo)
The Echocentrics – We Need A Resolution, instrumental (Ubiquity)
Medline – Soldier of Love (Propaground promo)
J Biscuits – Spiced Rum (Free Download)
Jon Phonics x Peter Cannon – Romes, Pedestrian remix (Prism promo)
Robert Glasper – Ah Yeah feat Musiq Soulchild & Chrisette Michele (Blue Note promo)
Julien Dyne – Thirts (BBE promo)
Tolouse Low Trax – Jeidem Fall (Karaoke Kalk promo)
Cubenx – These Days, Downliners Sekt rmx (Infine promo)
Stan Smith – Get Up Gospel (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Jonti – Flesh Of Morning (Stonesthrow Freeload)
Pixelord – Imaginary Friends, Groundislava rmx (Hit and Hope promo)
Minamo – Bound Letters (Room 40)

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January 6 th, 2012

The Analog Players Society provided a nice skanking jazzy version of ‘Let The Music Play‘ for the show’s opener and they seem like a project to watch as Finnish crew, Yot, dip their toes into the Swedish Skwee scene to great effect and kept the submerged reggae vibes running. Barcelona’s, The Ink Project then went all deep and atmospheric aided by a nice Gang Colours twist before DJ Food got all raucous with a taster of his new, heavier than heavy album.

Homeboy Sandman showed why arbiters of hip hop tastefulness, Stones Throw, have signed him up – we can’t wait for more from him. Emmanuel Trep Kormann has given Raphael’s operatic jazz a suitably bonkers remix before Krystal Klear and Olivier Day Soul dropped some brand new old school soul flavour, one for the ladie and lovers. Bonobo’s last album  was one of the years highlights and some of the tracks have been remixed with Mark Pritchard’s version being the best of an excellent bunch. Back to the hip hop, Versus showed that their live jazzy vibes mark them as a group to watch out for, especially on stage.

Morlockko Plus then laid down the instrumental hip hop flavours which was a taste of the new Beat Fight comp on MPM. Now Again showed why they are one of the best re-issue labels about after unearthing the, until now, forgotten soul delights of New World Generation. Lana Del Ray showed off her shiny new Joy Oribison remix before next years release, Mr. Fingers then gave a lesson to the youngsters with his Gerd remix on Royal Oak, before John Gazoo and Compost Disco teamed up again and provided a bumping modern disco end to this weeks show.

So that’s all the new material for this year, we’ll still be at it over Christmas though as this week sees the preparation of a couple of programs containing some of our faves from 2011. We will then take a short break and then hit the ground running refreshed and raring to go in 2012 to provide you with some more quality radio focusing on the deeper and more esoteric releases that come our way.

Analog Players Society – Let The Music Play (Redbud Records promo)
Yot – Real Dub (Raha & Tunteet promo)
Ink Poject – Rewind Forward Replay, Gang Colours rmx (Blind Colour promo)
DJ Food – Percussion Map, Pt.1 (Ninja Tune promo)
Homeboy Sandman – New York Nights (Stones Throw promo)
Raphael – Dead Sea Scrool, Emmanuel Trep Kormann Spiritual Dust rmx (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Krystal Klear & Olivier Day Soul – Never Thought Would Go (Eglo)
Bonobo – Stay The Same, Mark Pritchard rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
Versus – Almost Noon (Sound Sculpture promo)
Morlockko Plus – Mittagssonne (MPM)
New World Generation – Curious Soul (Now Again promo)
Lana Del Rey – Video Games, Joy Orbison rmx (Interscope promo)
Gerd - Palm Leaves, Mr Fingers Afropsychojungledub (Royal Oak)
John Gazoo – Midnight Runner, John Gazoo’s Vintage Version (Compost Disco)

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December 2 nd, 2011

The epic ‘Myrtle Avenue‘, in all it’s 10 minute future boogie glory, taken from the new Floating Points EP, kicked off this weeks show and why not it’s a wonderful thing. Rather more deranged, yet quality, slow-mo house then followed from Kowton and the aptly named ‘Dirty Little Bomb‘. Pole seems to be well and truly back after a prolonged absence with another release on his Pole Music imprint and as you can hear the ‘Aue‘ A-side is another twisted dubwise winner and led rather nicely into the great new kooky beats of Paper Tiger‘s new cut ‘Send Me‘. Blundetto then threw down the soul vibes with a nice little version of ‘Hercules‘ before the Stones Throw dynamic duo of Jonti and The Stepkids combined to great effect on ‘The Days Have Turned‘.

Now we don’t normally drop too much drum and bass but we had to sneak in some recently unearthed Plug material from the mid 90′s which is still sounding fresh and about to drop on Ninja Tune before 1000names provided some nice boogie beats from their new album on Project Mooncircle. Mecca:83 then showed just how soulful modern beats can be given the right sample source before Madlib combined nicely with Freddie Gibbs on one of the beat maestros more straight up hip hop cuts.

Some of the more interesting 4/4 offerings then closed the show up kicking off with Serph‘s new alter ego Reliq and some crazy layered melodic breaks before Photonz darkened the mood and destroyed the dance with ‘Wall‘ which then led into the Euro disco delights of Mellophonia and ‘Sky Glide‘.

Floating Points – Myrtle Avenue (Eglo)
Kowton – Dirty Little Bomb (Teal Recordings)
Pole – Aue (Pole Music promo)
Paper Tiger – Send Me (Jus Like Music promo)
Blundetto – Hercules (Heavenly Sweetness music)
Jonti feat The Stepkids & Illa J – The Days Have Turned (Stones Throw freeload)
Plug – Feeling So Special (Ninja Tune promo)
1000names – Water Resistant Rakete (Project Mooncircle promo)
Mecca:83 – With You (Freeform)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Deep (Stones Throw promo)
Reliq – Continuity (Noble promo)
Photonz – Wall (Don’t Be Afraid promo)
Mellophonia – Sky Glide (Lo Recordings)

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November 25 th, 2011

The show kicked off with some jazz killers and the charity fundraising deep funky jazz vibes of Emanative & Ahmed Abdullah with Steve Reid on drums who’s foundation, set up by Gilles Peterson to help poor musicians, the money goes to. If you didn’t know Steve Reid died has he didn’t have the money to pay his medical bills to treat his lung cancer, who says America doesn’t need medicare? Nat Birchall followed with a killer from his soon to be released album on Gondwana and it’s possibly his best to date, which is saying something as we loved his first two for the label. Deep jazz hip hop beats were then the order of the day courtesy of Hey!Zeus from their jazz soaked new release.

Taprikk Sweezee had turned us onto the fact that E/A/R/L had just put out a great album of beats for a limited amount of time and we’re very happy to have hit the download deadline as it was better than a lot of paid for releases. Mr. Sweezee then provided the abstract future soul from his new excellent new album of remixes which led very nicely into some ambient beauty courtesy of Tokyo residents, Illuha. Dimlite then showed why he is one of the most interesting beat makers around with his multi-influenced, sprawling yet very together sound of ‘Heroine Roof‘ – bring on the album.

Some of the deeper house cuts around were then the order of the day kicking off with George FitzGerald who seems to be saving his best cuts for Hotflush. The KiNK remix of Prommer & Barck‘s, ‘Journey‘ is a lovely deep twisted affair which led into one of our favourite Mr. Scruff tracks ever ‘Bounce‘, looks like he’s getting deeper with age. Outboxx‘s ‘Aporia‘ then provided a lovely melodic, but with a bit of cheeky extra bass weight, end to the show.

Emanative & Ahmed Abullah – Lions Of Judah (Brownswood promo)
Nat Birchall – Dance Of The Mystic (Gondwana promo)
Hey!Zeus – The Drones (Sichtexot & Chakra Sounds)
E/A/R/L – The Creek (Free Download)
Taprikk Sweezee – Eating At The Void (Error Broadcast)
Illuha – Kie (12K)
Dimlite – Heroine Roof (Now & Again promo)
George FitzGerald – Friends In High Places (Hotflush promo)
Prommer & Barck – Journey, KiNK rmx (Derwin promo)
Mr. Scruff – Bounce (Ninja Tune promo)
Outboxx – Aporia (Idle Hands promo)

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November 18 th, 2011

Some shows flow better than others, the tempos & styles just match and the mix is more natural but this weeks show is probably best described as a hotch-potch and it’s none the worse for it. Discovery of the week has been Wechsel Garland a wonderfully diverse producer with a craftsmen’s ear and a lightness of touch so we’ve included an older cut and a forthcoming tune from his excellent new EP. Now after the disappointment of missing the Portico Quartet in concert recently due to bad weather we are happy to report they are readying a new album and giving away a little taster which is boding well for next year’s release. Kuhn then laid down some slightly odd but quality beats.

Owiny Sigoma Band are just about to drop another single from their great recent album in the form of some nice languid Afro pop and don’t forget to check the great remixes as well. Kouyate and Neerman then kept the Afro flavour, jazzed it up and darkened the mood with a little taster from their eagerly anticipated new album, if it’s anything like their first we’ll be more than happy. The mysterious Dirk Gerner then confirmed his versatility and promise with ‘My Queen‘ before Achilles belied their youth and rural location with some well crafted post rock, a band to watch for sure.

Ital Tek has jumped on the Juke/Footwork bandwagon with his new EP and it’s great to see the Europeans adding some cultured production touches to this overly raw Chicago ghetto phenomenon. Pitchben then funked things up with a track from his great new album on Compost before we hit you with Gregory Porter again but this time given an excellent house rub from Opolopo. Rainer Trueby then kept the house vibes flowing with a lovely deep soulful cut from his super strong EP coming soon on Compost Black before we drifted out of the show and into a modern tribal haze courtesy of Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit.

Wechsel Garland Trio – Blind (Parapop Stereo)
Portico Quartet – Ruins (Real World FREE download)
Kuhn – Slime Beach (Civil Music promo)
Wechsel Garland – Hearts (Strzelecki-books promo)
Owiny Sigoma Band – Here On The Line (Brownswood)
Kouyate Neerman – Requiem pour un Con (No Format promo)
Dirg Gerner – My Queen (Ho_Tep promo)
Achilles – It’s A Falcon Richard (A Future Without)
Ital Tek – Cobalt (Planet Mu promo)
Pitchben – Time Machine (Compost)
Gregory Porter – 1960 What?, Opolopo Kick & Bass Remix (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Rainer Trueby – Welcome To Our World (Compost Black promo)
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit – 128.5 (Nonplace)

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November 11 th, 2011

Gregory Porter smashes up the show right from the off with his incredible track ‘1960 What?‘. and quite frankly soul/jazz just doesn’t get much better. Normally we’d shy away from playing a 12.5 minute track in the show as it would take up too much space but this track has to be heard in it’s entirety, pity it’s not longer. Hip Hop with a twist was then the order of the day with the ‘Run Shit‘ remix from the new Paul White – Rapping With Paul White remix album, remixed by the man himself. More quirky hip hop followed from Stan Smith and ‘Disco Technic‘ another killer from the Boogie Vol. 2 compilation on Tokyo Dawn. Onra & Quetz then went back to the old school with a couple of lovingly crafted soulful  beats from their new Tribute album.

Now we’re not usually bothered by new artists trying to sound like the original greats as they so often produce sub standard imitiations but Nick Waterhouse is doing a fine job sounding like he was one of the original R&B greats, watch him blow up next year we reckon. The uncompromising bluesy, country tones and lyrics of Purity Supreme then commanded the airwaves before Loka went all undefinable on the show with ‘The Tower‘ from their forthcoming and equally undefinable Ninja Tune album.

A quick fire selection of some of the more interesting beats around were then the order of the day with new Planet Mu signing Keep Shelly in Athens getting the ball rolling with the chirpiests single from their new EP before Teebs came in with some great new dreamy beats from his new Brainfeeder which showcases a welcome broadening of his sonic palette and marked progression. Mux Mool then upped the tension  but kept the melody before Fulgeance dropped a taster of his new album on MPM. We then dropped another taster of the Julien Dyne album before Darling Farah hit the show with some great spacious, percussively alluring beats from his new Civil Music offering. The more avant garde jazzy vibes of Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Ghedalia Tazart then helped the show drift off into the ether for another week.

Gregory Porter – 1960 What? (Motema)
Paul White – Run Sht feat. Marv Won, remix (One Handed Music)
Stan Smith – Disco Technic (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Onra & Quetzal – Brenton’s Revenge (Project Mooncircle promo)
Onra & Quetzal – Stop, Walk On By (Project Mooncircle promo)
Nick Waterhouse – I Can Only Give You Everything (Innovative Leisure promo)
Purity Supreme – Dunderhead (Ash International)
Loka – The Tower (Ninja Tune promo)
Keep Shelly In Athens – Campus Martius (Planet Mu promo)
Teebs – LSP feat. Austin Peralta (Brainfeeder promo)
Mux Mool – Palace Chalice (Ghostly International freeload)
Fulgeance – Vilnius Bump (MPM promo)
Julien Dyne – Ernst (BBE promo)
Darling Farah – Model (Civil Music promo)
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Ghedalia Tazartes – Zilveli (Sub Rosa)

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November 4 th, 2011

Chris Watson kicked off this weeks show with intricately and rhythmically constructed field recordings taken from jouneys in the final month of the great Pacific to Atlantic Mexican rail road, a poignant sound collage which led nicely into a track from the new Kammerflimmer Kollektief album, Teufelskamin which we are happy to report has lived up to all our high expectactions. The increasingly scarce sounds of Garifuna music followed courtesy of Aurelio and a pleasing Sidestepper remix of his ‘Laur Beya‘ tune which paved the way for Omar to come and smash up the airwaves with a reissue of his dance floor destroying ‘It’s So‘, thank you Tru Thoughts.

The Sepalcure album is about to drop and I’m pleased to report it is another Hotflush winner and remarkably cohesive and listenable for a largely high tempo dance music album, full of layered emotion, submerged soul and kick arse beats. Next up followed a tune from one of our albums of the year and nothing less than a modern Brazilian masterpiece. Upside Down from Mauricio Maestro feat Nana Vasconcelos is staggeringly well arranged, impeccably played and oozing soul and class – full blog post on this release coming very soon. Now we have to admit we overlook Czech music, not through any great grudge against the country but more to do with a lack of exposure of their output but we are happy to rectify that this week with a track from the excellent Floex album, Zorya – a lovingly crafted meeting of electronics and live instrumentation. DJ Food then provided a nice little ambient moment from his otherwise rocking, shocking new EP.

The second half of the show was given over to some of the slower, more interesting house cuts doing the rounds at the moment kicking off with one of this years emerging talents, Kevin McPhee, giving a track from Jack Dixon & Rick Grant’s new single a lovely deep soulful, leftfield remix which then led nicely into Dro Carey, another of this weeks musical talent discoveries and a track from his killer new EP due out on Ramp in December. Some of the Wurst(sic) house music of the year then followed with some great deep soulful instrumental vibes from Chicago Damn before Tycho took us on a Balearic dreamboat ride with ‘Hours‘ from his new album on Ghostly International. The boogie vibes of East Liberty Quarters from the excellent new Boogie Volume 2 comp on Tokyo Dawn warmed the seat nicely for the disco finale and Escort’s ‘Starlight‘ from their new discotastic album due about now on Tirk.

Chris Watson – El Divisadero (Touch promo)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Teufelskamin Jam #2 (Staubgold)
Aurelio – Laru Beya, Sidestepper remix (Real World freeload)
Omar – It’s So (Tru Thoughts promo)
Sepalcure – See Me Feel Me (Hotflush promo)
Mauricio Maestro feat Nana Vasconcelos – Upside Down (Far Out promo)
Floex – Petr Parler (Flow Records)
DJ Food – In Orbit Every Monday (Ninja Tune promo)
Jack Dixon & Rick Grant – Running Man, Kevin McPhee remix (Man Make Music promo)
Dro Carey – Journey With The Heavy (Ramp promo)
Chicago Damn – Romcom (Wurst promo)
Tycho – Hours (Ghostly International)
East Liberty Quarters – Lucky Charm (Tokoy Dawn promo)
Escort – Starlight (Tirk promo)

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October 28 th, 2011

Torn Sail and the dreamy Claremont 56 label provided the lovely Balearic opener to this weeks show before fLako messed up the vibe with some twisted quirky beats from his excellent new EP forthcoming on Project Moon Circle which is his best work todate. Freestyle Fellowship then provided a taster of their forthcoming new album which if the promos are anything to go by is top quality and very diverse. Now new beatmakers are ten a penny but we’ve just stumbled across Baconhead who are sounding fresh and on the nicely titled ‘Brainglue‘ track have enlisted the mental MC talents of Mindbender.

We keep coming back to the new Anthony Joseph album so thought we’d drop another taster from it and rather aptly, considering the current anti capitalist climate, the track is called ‘Money Satan‘. Not content with dropping an excellent album already this year Long Arm has just dropped another EP of killer beats and we’re particularly liking the instrumental cut of ‘Organic‘. Now Red Snapper have been gracing the Audio Texture turntables since day one and we were more than happy to receive a killer Elementz remix of the ‘Architectronic‘ track from their recent album, look out for the Elementz, they’re a crew to watch.

Phaeleh is yet another in the long line of UK ‘post dubstep’ producers and another Bristol boy but what sets him apart is his multi-instrumental ability which adds a pleasing musicality to his quality beats and bass. DVA then followed this up with a crazy off kilter slice of nu-soul featuring the excellent vocal talents of Vikter Duplaix before more musical bassline adventures followed from London’s Deptford Goth which led nicely into a great cumbia flavoured remix of the Gotan Project by Axel Krygier. Killer deep dark and moody house finished the show off with the amazing ‘Atlantis‘ title track from Falty DL‘s new Ninja Tune LP before Madteo dropped some deep twisted sampledelic house vibes from his great new EP on the Belgium label Meakusma.

Torn Sail – Birds (Claremont 56)
fLako – Broken Toy (Project Mooncircle promo)
Freestyle Fellowship – Popular (Decon promo)
Baconhead – Brainglue feat Mindbender (Eat Concrete promo)
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – Money Satan (Heavenly Sweetness)
Long Arm – Organic, Instrumental version (Project Mooncircle)
Red Snapper – Architectronic, Elementz remix (V2 promo)
Phaeleh – From A Distance (Afterglo)
DVA – Madness feat Viketer Duplaix (Hyperdub promo)
Deptford Goth – No Man (Merok)
Falty DL – Atlantis (Ninja Tune promo)
Madteo – Bangin On The Ceiling featuring Sensational (Meakusma)

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October 21 th, 2011

So Jazzanova are raising their heads again after a conspicuous absence with a nice new compilation called ‘Coming Home‘ and their ‘Behold These Days‘ track was a lovely way to ease into this weeks show. Ensemble Du Verre then carried on the cinematic jazzy vibes with the title track from their great new album ‘The Contemporary Cowboy‘. Inspired by the global protest marches on October 15 we then dropped a series of tracks reflecting some of todays concerns kicking off, rather aptly, with an Egyptian protest tribute track from Natacha Atlas, before the ever political global beatsmith Filastine dropped the ‘Gendjer2‘ which is from his new EP of killer beats which is looking for a good home at the moment. I then dropped Roots Manuva‘s perceptive slice of social commentary ‘Skid Valley‘ from his just released 4Everevolution album before dropping Rodney P‘s party skanking conscious call to arms ‘Live Up‘. All tracks with great messages whilst not compromising the musical quality – long live independent and internet radio where presenters can play this sort of music freely without restrictions.

Kromestar then came through with the catchy as hell bassline beats of ‘Don’t Make Sense‘ and continued the healthy start for Om Unit‘s Cosmic Bridge label. We then had to drop another track from the excellent debut EP on Earnest Endeavors from B Bravo, a really top drawer release, which led nicely into some more fresh boogie fueled beats from Sina from his great EP forthcoming on the ever dependable Project Moon Circle before hitting you with a slight cock up(!) and some impeccable, long forgotten soul music from Jean Wells which is dropping soon courtesy of those nice boys at BBE.

Falty DL then took the show into more experimental territory with a real curve ball of a tune from his forthcoming and excellent EP on Ninja Tune. Robert Lippok then provided some of the freshest synth sounds we’ve heard in a while and some nice beats – look out for one of our favourite Raster Norton albums for a while dropping from him in the coming weeks. Gerry Read has been cropping up on a lot of releases recently and for good reason and we’re happy to help him up the ladder as he’s coming through with some fresh vibes as the rather odd house sounds of ‘We Are‘ aptly displayed. Sexier, more traditional, late night house vibes were then provided by the excellent Da Capo‘s Afro remix of Timmy Regisford’s ‘In Da Club’ before we dropped some more IG Culture tribal funky tribute to Mongo Santamaria from his recent mix tapes in anticipation of some new material coming soon (pleaseeeeee!)

Jazzanova – Behold These Days, Berlin ’74 (Sonar Kollektiv)
Ensemble Du Verre – The Contemporary Cowboy (Batterie)
Natacha Atlas – Egypt: Rise To Freedom feat Basha Beats (Six Degrees promo)
Filastine – Gendjer2 (Unreleased and looking for a home!)
Roots Manuva – Skid Valley (Big Dada)
Rodney P feat The People’s Army & Mighty Moe – Live Up (Tru Thoughts)
Kromestar – Don’t Make Sense (Cosmic Bridge)
B Bravo – Right On Time, Synth Dub (Earnest Endeavors promo)
Sina – Just Shoot (Project Moon Circle promo)
Jean Wells – Somebody’s Been Loving You, John Morales Edit (BBE promo)
Falty DL – Can’t Stop The Prophet (Ninja Tune promo)
Robert Lippok – Sugarcubes (Raster Norton promo)
Gerry Read – We Are (Fourth Wave promo)
Timmy Regisford - In Da Club, Da Capo’s Afro remis (Tribe)
Nkrumah Santiago – Mongo (Manz At Work Mixtape Volume 1)

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October 14 th, 2011

A fictitious soundtrack to an imaginary version of The Shining set in a Dubai hotel kicks off this weeks very real show before talented young Chilean producer Ocelote Rojo was responsible for  some great spiritual sample based vibes with ‘Untitled #1′ a 7″ taster for his new album. A latin frenzy was then kicked off with Quantic Y Conjuncto which is part of his ‘Best Of’ compilation out now on Tru-Thoughts. More Chilean vibes followed with Chico Trujillo and a kick arse horn section laying down some wicked Cumbia vibes before the saucy vintage delights of Juaneco Y Su Combo kicked in, cheeky. Favourite are re-issuing the classic African jazz funk of Ray Stephen Oche & His Matumbo and the album definitely deserves a wider audience than the record collecting trainspotters (me included!) who paid too much for the original vinyl.

Paul Murphy has produced a great version of ‘Moaning‘ by The Triptet from his new Hungarian HQ, some real swinging funky shizzle before another French re-issue alerted us and consequently you to the southern bluesy soulful delights of Levert Alisson. Some brand new old school funky hip hop vibes were then the order of the day with a new tune from down under’s Katalyst followed by The (French) Funk League with the help of some classic US MCs. Things then took a progressive turn with the debut single from London based “art-led record label and magazine” Earnest Endeavors who have hit the ground running with their first release which sees the excellent 80’s synth soul boy and funkateer B.Bravo laying down his best material yet, and that’s saying something. Check the label, they are going to be one to watch. Mad electronic beats and bleeps were then the order of the day as we gave you a taster of Zanshin who, through all the electronic madness, still manages to keep the head nodding (partly in an effort to comprehend his sonic stew) – look out for the album coming on Affine, very soon.

Guy Andrews then dropped the UK house mutations with a killer track on his forthcoming EP for Hemlock which is never predictable before Makossa & Megablast laid down some killer jazzy funky tropical bassline vibes from their new album which led perfectly into the percussive madness of Cooly G’s new single on Hyperdub featuring Karizma. Boo Williams then provided a taste of where it all started with his ‘Home Town Chicago‘ track from a new retrospective release coming on Another Day Records.

Nettle – Shining One (Sub Rosa)
Ocelote Rojo – Untitled #1 (Hollie Records promo)
Quantic Y Conjuncto – Step Into A World, Raptures Delight (Tru- Throughts)
Chico Trujillo – Varga Varga (Barbes)
Juaneco Y Su Combo – Vacilando Con Ayahuasca (Barbes)
Ray Stepen Oche & His Matumbo – Alaglanu, Alaglano (Favourite)
The Triptet – Moaning (Second Floor Music promo)
Levert Alisson – Hear That River (En Avant La Zizique!)
Katalyst – U Can’t Save Me featuring Buff1 & Stephanie McKay (BBE promo)
The Funk League – Through Good & Bad feat Large Professor, Breaking North Mix (Favourite promo)
B Bravo – Kiss ‘n’ Tell feat Zackey Force Funk (Earnest Endeavors promo)
Zanshin – Shadoubt Shaps (Affine promo)
Guy Andrews – Shades (Hemlock promo)
Makossa & Megablast – Jungo (Luv Lite)
Cooly G – It’s Serious feat Karizma (Hyperdub promo)
Boo Williams – Home Town Chicago (Another Day Records promo)

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October 7 th, 2011

Another pleasingly mixed bag this week kicking off with some great progressive soul music from the mysterious Dirg Gerner fearuring Fatima on vocals followed by some slo-mo sci-fi beats from the new Kuedo album about to drop on Planet Mu. Tokyo Dawn have gone all pop with their latest release the solo project from one of Denmark’s Boom Clap Bachelors under the Vindahl pseudonym and we’re loving the boogie vibes of ‘Not In Space‘. Now Mello Music can always be relied on to deliver the hip hop goods and 95 Live are a great new addition to the roster and some great true school prospects. A hip hop base with more toppings than we care to mention then followed with another taster of the forthcoming Git album about to hit the streets from BBE.

The new Free The Beats comp is out and again offering a taste of unsigned beatmakers climbing the ladder and ‘Strength and Science‘ from The Silent Titan is a little taste of what to expect from this uniquely packaged and limited CD run or free download compilation series. Now Mancini and The Creepers were sounding like Ghostpoet whilst he was still in his bedroom and we’ve always been a big fan and ‘Don’t You Remember‘ should be enough to make you want to discover more as well. Sarah Linhares then provided some sweet vocals over a catchy Kenlo Craqnuques riddim before Andreya Triana delivered an epic version of Fink‘s ‘Perfect Darkness‘. She is surely a major star in the making, buy the shares now!

David Minor then delivered some pleasingly twisted folk vibes from his new Nonine EP before we had to drop some more Gang Colours. Now there is a free download of some remixes of his original EP coming which are all nice but it sent us back to the originals again as the source material is amazing and well worth revisiting, we’re looking forward to the album already. Now we hadn’t heard of Dauwd before and we’re feeling the deep bassline house vibes of ‘Ikopol‘ and will explore more and all thanks to a nice new free download compilation of bassline royalty from the increasingly music obsessed Scion car company so big up to them. The Natacha Atlas remixes are about to drop with some nice new electronic versions of her more organic Arabic offerings and the Dog Beats remix of ‘Batkallim‘ is alright with us and led nicely into a raw stripped down bassline riddim from Visionist and Lorca – rugged. Dub Gabriel feat The Spaceape then closed the show by laying down a politicised dubstep call to arms for the lazy arse millenials who seem to be slowly tearing themselves away from Facebook to the more dramatic surroundings of Wall Street and the like, let’s hope that continues until the money starts to drip down again from that pesky 1%.

Dirg Gerner – Rubies & Diamonds feat Fatima (Ho_Tep promo)
Kuedo – Ant City (Planet Mu promo)
Vindahl – Not In Space (Tokyo Dawn promo)
DTMD – 95 Live feat Quartermaine (Mello Music freeload)
Git – Dreamz (BBE promo)
The Silent Titan – Strength and Science (Free The Beats)
Mancini and the Creepers – Don’t Your Remember (Jakarta promo)
Sarah Linhares – Move Along (PTR promo)
Fink – Perfect Darkness, Andreya Triana version (Ninja Tune promo)
David Minor – Naked Commodore (Nonine promo)
Gang Colours – Dance Around The Subject (Brownswood)
Dauwd – Ikopol (Free download)
Natacha Atlas – Batkallim (Six Degrees)
Visionist/Lorca – WMID (Left_Blank)
Dub Gabriel feat The Space Ape – Is This Revolution (Destroy All Concepts promo)

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September 23 th, 2011

So this weeks show is a beat loving yet musical affair, two things that don’t always go hand in hand. Their really does seem to be a wave of exciting young producers at the moment that are looking beyond chopping up samples and throwing them together but are embracing the latest technology and combining the possibilities afforded by it  with more traditional song structures and instrumentation and we are all for it.

Tropics provided a suitably progressive Balearic opener with ‘Parodia Flare‘ which also happens to be the title track of his excellent new album on Planet Mu before Vondelpark laid down a beautiful slice of soulful electro pop from their second EP on the resurgent and increasingly eclectic R&S. Brand new music from one of the most ambitious electronic live fusion outfits of recent time, Stateless, followed and was taken from the latest remix EP to be spun off from their excellent debut album. More traditional beat making, albeit with a distinctive flavour, followed from Brooklyn’s KRTS the latest addition to the Project Moon Circle stable of accomplished beat makers.

Now Astro:Dynamics are a fledgling label but are fast turning into one of our favourites helped by the brilliant new Samoyed EP. Hailing from the Highlands of Scotland this boy is one to watch, he’s got a real delicate touch, we would imagine he’s a sensitive soul and you have to love anyone with the dedication to write their own music production software. Bill Orcutt has been one of our finds of the week and big thanks go out to Editions Mego (and Ed at Dense in Berlin) for turning us on to him – this boy takes the blues and that most traditional of instruments, the guitar, and manages to twist both things out of recognition and generate a sound all of his own – no mean feat after the instrument and genre have been around so long. More virtuoso guitar playing followed from flamenco don Pedro Soler accompanied by some contemporary classical cello from his son Gaspar Claus and from what we’ve heard the rest of the Barlande album is equally as wonderful and distinctive.

Now the new Kid Koala soundtrack/comic release is a lovely yet desolate and lonely thing as the soundtrack taster in the show testifies. We urge you to check it’s audio visual delights although it’s possibly not a good idea if you are the melancholic, loner type, it probably wont do much for your spirits. Now Tarwater have been drifting on and off our radar seemingly forever and we were amazed to find out this week they’ve been around for 15 years with about ten albums to their name and we are happy to report all that productivity hasn’t affected their creativity, the new Inside The Ships album is great. Julien Dyne then gave us a little taster of his new beats and, from what we can tell, pop direction and it’s as accomplished as you’d expect from this Kiwi, RBMA graduate.

Goapele has been floating about the extremities of the nu-soul scene for ages now without making that big break but we’re loving the taster from her new album which has hopefully, like the preview single, ditched the nu-soul production cliches for a really progressive electronic vibe. The show then swerved violently into three of the best slices of UK Funky doing the rounds at the moment kicked off ably by the leftfield genius of Lukid‘s vampish ‘My Teeth In Your Neck‘, the simple yet devastating peak time floor filling ‘Trouble‘ from Funkystepz and culminating in an oddball ending from Lone and the aptly titled ‘All Those Weird Things‘.

Tropics – Parodia Flare (Planet Mu)
Vondelpark – Feat B (R&S)
Stateless – Blue Fire feat Amenta (Ninja Tune)
KRTS – Rooftop (Project Moon Circle promo)
Samoyed – Malamute (Astro:Dynamics promo)
Bill Orcutt – How The Thing Sings (Editions Mego promo)
Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus – Barlande (Infine)
Kid Koala – Hope (Ninja Tune)
Tarwater – Do The Oz (Bureau B)
Julien Dyne – Candy Apple Grey feat. Claire Duncan (BBE Promo)
Goapele – Play (Decon/Sky Blaze promo)
Lukid – My Teeth In Your Neck (Glum)
Funkystepz – Trouble (Hyperdub promo)
Lone – All Those Weird Things (Wigflex)

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September 16 th, 2011

Deep house vibes were the order of the day at the start of this weeks show ably initiated by Japanese duo Velveljin and a track from their Nostalghia album out soon on Noble – excellent deep house, techno and electronica vibes, really cultured stuff. K’bonus and Negghead then threw some slowish twisted disco vibes into the pot before we dropped the Damian Schwartz remix of Ribbon from the great new EP from Lovemonk who are taking the Spanish folk pop sounds of Pajaro Sunrise into different sonic realms. Scuba then finished the little mix in fine 80′s soul fashion, of course given a little twist by the man for 2011.

We then switched to the world of hip hop with the pure summer, bump it in your convertible, vibes of Eric Roberson feat Chubb Rock, the impeccable Diamond D/Brand Nubian cover from the recent J-Live mixtape before Dilated People’s Evidence threw down some great lyrics on a typically solid DJ Premier beat, nice. Things then got all bottom heavy and nasty as we dropped a little taste of the new Aardvarck album project coming soon on Eat Concrete which set the scene nicely for a great bass heavy, abstract, hip hop(sound)scape from the Portuguese/Belgium duo of Fujako featuring Native on the mic.

Robot Koch then offered a taste of his excellent new album on Project Moon Circle. There is no disputing his talent in the studio but for us he was always at his most interesting when combining music, melody and lyrics with his forward thinking productions rather than trying to give people heart attacks and melt their minds at bassline rave ups and we are happy to report the new album is a really musical affair, loads of vocals and a great start to finish listen. He’s not quite in the music for dinner party circuit yet but this is his most accomplished and cohesive listening album to date.

Now best use of a well known sample award for this year goes to Tall Black Guy and his ‘Water No Enemy‘ tune available on the latest of the consistently interesting Brownswood Bubblers series, now up the dizzy heights of volume 7. The mysterious new producer based in Dublin, DJ Izem, then graced the show with a musical treat – the reggae flavoured, electronic vocal fusion of ‘Do Avesso‘ – look out for this emerging producer, who incidentally is still looking for a label home! The show then veered back into hip hop territory with the excellent Madlib produced MED album taster, ‘Outta Control‘ before BK-One, with more than a little help from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, finished the show in fine party rocking brass band style.

Velveljin – Strub (Noble promo)
K’bonus & Negghead – Harmonizing Pt.1 (Compost Black promo)
Pajaro Sunrise – Ribbon, Damian Schwartz rmx (Lovemonk promo)
Scuba – Everywhere (Hot Flush promo)
Eric Roberson feat Chubb Rock – Summertime Anthem (Dome promo)
J-Live - A Day In The Life (Mixtape)
Evidence – You (Rhymesayers promo)
Aardvarck – Gubby (Eat Concrete promo)
Fujako – Mal’ak (Angstrom)
Robot Koch – Bugs (Project Moon Circle promo)
Tall Black Man – Water No Enemy (Brownswood promo)
DJ Izem – Do Avesso (Unsigned)
MED – Outta Control feat Hodgy Beats (Stones Throw promo)
BK-One – Tema Do Canibal, BK-One Video Edit (Rhymesayers)

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September 9 th, 2011

So our August sojourn is over and the show is back and what a start with a track from the new Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band album, Rubber Orchestras, which is an absolute killer start to finish and another feather in the cap for this Caribbean poet, university lecturer and top drawer live showman. The album also marks the release of his new, same titled, book of poetry. DJ Diamond followed and his 160 BPM cultured juke productions strangely didn’t seem out of place next to the afro jazz rock of Joseph. The unfortunately named Git, is a beat producer loosely basing his multi-faceted music on underground hip hop but flying off in all sorts of tangents and we like him. Check the album coming soon on BBE.

Now Roots Manuva is coming through with a new album and the first track  a cheeky little hip house number kick starts the hype machine in fine style though we’re leaning towards the more broken, cultured Slugabed remix. Walton is Hyperdub‘s new sensation and his debut album is a four track slice of dynamite, ready to blow up this Autumn’s dancefloors, though for the show we chose the sunnier vibes of ‘808 Vybzin‘. Kevin McPhee is a young Toronto producer and his new EP on Idle Hands is a left leaning twisted house techno gem. The deep vibes rolled on further with a cut from the new Brownswood Bubbles 7 comp in the shape of Cubic Zirconia with Bilal on the vocals. The rest of the compilation is killer as well and it’s nice to see such a prolific compilation series consistently holding down the quality and introducing so many new faces to the listening world.

Not only is Oddisee one of our favourite MCs but he’s a killer producer as ‘The Carter Barron‘ track testifies, oozing musicality and class – can’t wait for the album dropping any time now. Now we were slightly unsure about Fatima‘s soul credentials when we first heard her but she’s growing on us and ‘Mind‘ is another reason why. Colonel Red is undoubtedly Holland’s leading soul light and has been floating about on all sort of soul jazz leaning productions for some time but it feels like his new album on Tokyo Dawn is a real coming of age release. The production is super tight and his vocals are deep, the largely bland ‘nu-soul’ scene has rarely sounded as good.

We’ve been warning you about the Holly Roller label coming soon to act as a showcase for IG Culture‘s work and just to wind us up even more they’ve just released another free download of hard to find remixes, bootlegs and unreleased gems which in most people’s hands would be a lame collection, well not this one. Seek out the Manz At Work mixtape series quick style is our advice. Now Dels has been leaving us a bit cold but his new offering and specifically the Lucasse Island Redub of ‘Capsize‘ is a deep slice of underground hip hop with lyrics (post riots) that have never been more relevant.

The Saturn Never Sleeps album is now out and doing the rounds so we thought we’d give you another taster of its Sun-Ra inspired depths with the deep broken beats of ‘Divine‘. Now if you’ve any interest in beats and jazz I’m sure you’ve been heard a whisper about the new Thundercat album so we thought we’d drop you a couple of tracks to let you know what all the well justified fuss is about. Klaus then finished the show in fine minimal beats and bassline style.

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – She Is The Sea (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
DJ Diamond – Vibe (Planet Mu)
Git – Higher featuring Big Brooklyn Red (BBE promo)
Roots Manuva – Get The Get, Slugabed Remix (Ninja Tune promo)
Walton – 808 Vybzin (Hyperdub promo)
Kevin McPhee – Sleep (Idle Hands promo)
Cubic Zirconia feat Bilal – Night Or Day (Brownswood promo)
Oddisee – The Carter Barron (Mello)
Fatima – Mind (Eglo)
Colonel Red – I Will Be There (Tokyo Dawn Records)
Scienz Of Life – Break The Spell, SOS rmx (Manz At Work Mixtape #2)
DELS – Capsize, Lucasse Island Redub (Big Dada promo)
Saturn Never Sleeps – Divine (SNS)
Thundercat – Seasons (Brainfreeder)
Thundercat – For Love I Come (Brainfeeder)
Klaus – Tusk (R&S)

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August 12 th, 2011

So this weeks show has a decidedly experimental slant with loads of hard to pronounce artists and track titles in the playlist which we feel is always a good sign. Fennesz kicked off the proceedings with some sublime electronic noodlings from his excellent new 10″ before the great meeting of Scottish folk and subtle electronics which is the King Creosote & John Hopkins album kept the contemplative vibes flowing. Our senses were then teased by the no barriers sounds of Hertta Lussu Assu which sigueued nicely into the equally vague but more structured sounds of Tomutonttu.

Now I’ve still got a Danger Mouse mix CD he handed to me after a Jazzy Jeff dj session in London when he was still hustling hard, just before the Grey album changed his fortunes and his latest project with Daniele Luppi is a thing of cinematic joy despite EMI throwing Nora Jones into the equation. The wonderfully named ‘The Gambling Priest‘ track is one of the many great tunes on the album. Nu Soul was then the order of the day with another winner from The Heart Vol. 2 compilation in the form of Colonel Red and ‘I Will Be There‘ before Slakah The Beatchild dropped the equally as good ‘The Cure‘ from his new deluxe EP on BBE.

King Midas Sound has had a couple of make overs, a broken beat purplization job from Kuedo and a dark dub from Mala, with the Kuedo twist making the show before Om Mas Keith dropped some cultured pop vibes from his All City EP before great Turkish disco edit vibes from Edip Akbayram & Dostlar prooves the Middle East also had the funk, if not the platforms and flairs. Nochexxx has ditched his computer for an MPC and Ramp are putting out the twisted results including our favourite ‘Savage Herald‘ very soon. Now Raoul Sinier is a very talented producer and multi instrumentalist and we particularly liked the raucous beats of ‘Green Lights‘ from his new Guilty Cloaks album.

Benjamin Brunn was responsible for the dreamy house vibes that changed the mood considerably before we gave you a little taster of the twisted disco delights of the new Nebraska material in the shape of, ‘Phtalo Blues‘. Zed Bias then ended the show in nice cover version style giving the Soul II Soul classic ‘Fairplay‘ a great little update for today’s bass obsessed dancefloors. Look out for his new album coming at the end of the summer on the ever diversifying Tru Thoughts.

Fennesz – July (Touch Tone)
King Creosote & John Hopkins – Bats In The Attic (Domino)
Hertta Lussu Assa – Mehukkaat Luut/Juicy Bones (De Stijl)
Tomutonttu – Lautta Lahtee (New Images)
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – The Gambling Priest (EMI)
Colonel Red – I Will Be There (Tokyo Dawn)
Slakah The Beatchild – The Cure (BBE)
King Midas Sound – Goodbye Girl, Kuedo rmx (Hyperdub promo)
Om Mas Keith – Girls A Player (All City)
Edip Akbayra & Dostlar – Ayrilik (Nublu)
Nochexxx – Savage Herald (Ramp promo)
Raoul Sinier – Green Lights (Ad Noiseam)
Benjamin Brunn – Don’t Cry For Yesterday (Ashes promo)
Nebraska – Phtalo Blues (Rush Hour promo)
Zed Bias – Fairplay feat Jenna G (Tru Thoughts promo)

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August 5 th, 2011

The Southern hemisphere’s Jonti kicked off this weeks show with some wonderful musical beats and it looks like he’s going to be hitting everyone’s radar with the release of his debut album, Twiligi, on Stones Throw this autumn – bring it on. Stones Throw subsidiary Now-Again then provided some classic soul vibes courtesy of Thomas East from their hard earned, labour of love compilation True Soul. Buy association vs Organica feat. Bilal and Bilal Salaam then kept the soul vibes flowing and I’m happy to announce that the Manz At Work mixtape the track was gleaned from announces the imminent arrival of not one but two record labels which will initially be focused on the work of the one and only IG Culture. You will be hearing more about this as and when the labels develop, needless to say we are super excited.

We then had to remind you of how good Mathisas Stubo was with the fresh boogie vibes of ‘I Never Knew‘ before the ever interesting David Borsu kept the disco vibrations vibrating with the unfortunately named but worthy ‘Murtis Kayfield‘. Om-Unit, like so many new producers these days, have just set up a record label called Cosmic Bridge (great name!) and their debut is a fine mix of bass heavy beats and some nice melodic keys. fLako then kept the beats rolling with some deep beats and soul flavours from the excellent fresh new compilation from Project Moon Circle focussing on the new beat making talent from the UK and Ireland. Mark Pritchard then provided the riddim for UK MC Trim, who is all over everywhere at the moment,  to drop some lewd London lyrics.

Afro vibes were then the order of the day, first off with the Jesse Hackett remix of the Owiny Sigoma Band and then surprisingly with ‘Fassirimar‘ from the latest Soundspecies EP, which is more Konono no. 1 than UK soul boy, those boys are versatile. Alex HotFlush then provided the remix under his new Incyde moniker that strips down Falty DL’s, ‘Eight 18 Ten‘ to the bare essentials. Now Naive Machine is coming through with a new EP and it contains a couple of killer cuts and we are particularly liking the twisted percussive beats of ‘Afrika‘

Now Shabazz Palaces, once of the Digable Planets has come through like a modern day Watts Prophets with his new album, deep, dark, leftfield and uncompromising as the ‘Youlogy‘ track ably demonstrates. We then had a guilty pleasure moment when we dropped Widowspeak’s version of Chris Isaacs, ‘Wicked Game‘ before Diagram launched some great quirky beats and a lyrical tribute to ‘Woking‘ of all places. My favourite modern Italian soundtrack producer Teho Teardo then provided a great live soundscape recording which sees the launch of his new Specula label which we will be keeping a keen eye on.

Jonti – Begone Slumber (Stones Throw promo)
Thomas East – Slipping Around (Now-Again)
Buy association vs Organica feat. Bilal and Bilal Salaam – Space Volume/Change My Mind (Manz At Work Volume 1)
Mathias Stubo – I Never Knew (BBE)
David Borsu – Murtis Kayfield (Broadcite promo)
Om Unit vs Kromestar – Solar Cycle (Cosmic Bridge)
fLako – Blurry Dream (Project Moon Circle promo)
Pritch & Trim – Kiss My Arse (Planet Mu promo)
Owiny Sigoma Band – Margaret Okudo, Jesse Hackett Dancehall remix (Brownsood)
Soundspecies – Fassirimar (Round In Motion)
Falty DL – Eight 18 Ten, Incyde remix (Planet Mu promo)
Naive Machine – Afrika (Hit & Hope promo)
Shabazz Palaces – Youlogy (Sub Pop)
Widowspeak – Wicked Game (Captured Tracks)
Diagrams – Woking (Full Time Hobby)
Teho Teardo – Oh Hook (Specula promo)

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July 22 th, 2011

Atmospheric beat and bass adventures launched the show this week starting with another R&S winner with ‘Lostwithiel‘ from the new ep from The Chain. This was closely followed by the nice XI remix of the great Sepalcure original ‘Love Pressure‘ as Hotflush keep up the heat with a new remix EP of the dynamic duo, followed by an absolute gem from Emika and her forthcoming Ninja release – the girl’s got talent and we eagerly await her album. Jono McCleery then raised his head again with his lovely version of ‘Wonderful Life‘ from his recent EP and a taster of what is sure to be a great album. Now Karaoke Kalk are fast becoming one of our favourite labels so we had to give you an early taster of the Static, Freedom Of Noise album due out in September, not for the faint hearted but another excellent diverse addition to the label.

Deep Medi appear to be branching out into more varied sonic territory and the Old Apparatus EP is as diverse as it gets with the twisted UK hip hop of the ‘Hammerhand‘ remix featuring Mowgli, but hold tight for the melodic, sweet vocaled flipside coming to the show soon! In your face hip hop then followed with the dream team of Pusha T, Tyler The Creator over a Neptunes beats – ouch. Anthony Joseph then dropped some deeply Afrocentric funk and a tribute to a rather older oral tradition, ‘Griot‘, now if the rest of the album is this good we’ll be first in the queue. The new Motor City Drum Ensemble DJ Kicks album is an eclectic winner from great deep house and techno to Sun Ra and it’s a nice excuse to drop the great Timo Lassy track, ‘African Rumble‘ which also features.

Another taster of The Heart volume 2 followed with rising soulster Amalia and the schizo B.Kun remix of ‘All The Funk I Need‘ which led nicely into a great Funkineven remix of Breton’s ‘December‘ tune, he’s not all acieeeeed you know. Now you don’t hear much Catalan on international radio so we thought we would drop another taster of Guillamino’s new material, he really is one of the shining lights of the Barcelona music scene. Now Tiger &Woods can be filed alongside Dam Funk as hype over substance but they’ve definitely had a moment with ‘Curb My Heart‘ – great soul vibes. Funkineven, true to form, then hit us with the fresh acieeeed adventures of ‘Take Back‘, forthcoming on Eglo before the deep Claude Vonstroke remix of Girl Unit’s, ‘Wut‘ ended the show in fine danceable style.

The Chain – Lostwithiel (R&S)
Sepalcure – Love Pressure, XI remix (Hot Flush promo)
Emika – Professional Loving (Ninja Tune promo)
Jono McCleery – Wonderful Life (Ninja Tune)
Static – Sad Rocket (Karaoke Kalk promo)
Old Apparatus – Hammerhand rmx featuring Mowgli (Deep Medi promo)
Pusha T ft Tyler The Creator – Trouble On My Mind (GOOD)
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – Griot (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Timo Lassy – African Rumble (K7)
Amalia – All The Funk I Need, B.Kun rmx (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Breton – December, Funkineven rmx (Hemlock promo)
Guillamino – Fer Foc (Bankrobber promo)
Tiger & Woods feat ‘Em – Curb My Heart (Running Back)
Funkineven – Take Back (Eglo promo)
Girl Unit – Wut, Claude Vonstroke’s Undressed remix (Night Slugs)

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June 24 th, 2011

Seun Anikulapo-Kuti & Egypt 80 – Rise (Knitting Factory promo)
Oddisee – Al Mawrada (Mello Music free download)
Versus – Mr Blue feat. Bruce Sherfield (Self Released)
Kidboy feat. Ohmega Watts – The Culture (Jazz and Milk promo)
Mia Doi Todd & Jose Gonzalez – Um Girassol da Cor do Seu Cabelo (Red Hot promo)
Boom Clap Bachelors – Lob Stop Sta feat. Coco O (Plug Research)
Amon Tobin – Surge, Emika Version (Ninja Tune promo)
Pavel Dovgal – Guinea (Project Moon Circle promo)
Space Ranger – Plastic Romance, MCDE Dub rmx (Lovemonk promo)
The Melton Brothers – Livin’ In The City (Favourite promo)
Omar & Zed Bias – Dancin (Tru Thoughts)
George Fitzgerald – Reset (Aus promo)
AnD – Swing Me (Project Sqauared)
Machinedrum – She Died There (Planet Mu promo)

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June 17 th, 2011

Frederic Robinson – Mood Swings (Brownwood promo)
Beaumont – Lucky (Kinnego promo)
Maguett – Orange Flame (Error Broadcast)
Holy Other – Touch (Tri Angle)
Szare – Active Five (Idle Hands)
Tevo Howard – Autumn Spell, Top Shelf September Mix (Hour House is Your Rush)
DEGO – Not In My Disco (2000 Black promo)
Tropics – Mouves (Planet Mu promo)
Incarnations – Meet Me At Midnight (Lovemonk)
Fink – Perfect Darkness (Ninja Tune)
Samiyam – Lifesized Stuffed Animal (Brainfeeder promo)
Mr. Scruff – Wobble Control (Ninja Tune promo)
El Kid – Construction No.104 (Astro:Dynamics)
Vezelay – Sedative (Planet Mu)

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June 10 th, 2011

Simple folky delights led us gently into this weeks show firstly with Grey Reverend, of Cinematic Orchestra fame and his one man and guitar sound, before DJ Cam mixed the pleasant vocals of Chris James with some orchestral strings and hip hop touches. Free The Beats is a handmade CD compilation series featuring unsigned artists and was the source of the delicate, stringy, delights of Howard before things took a turn for the dark, dramatic and testing sounds of the new Vladislav Delay Quartet album which comes highly recommended.

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June 3 rd, 2011

Sad news this week with the passing of Gil Scott Heron, a true musical legend and one of the most insightful political and social commentators of his generation, at least he went out on a high note after a couple of decades of ups and downs with his last album, RIP. Arthur Verocai kept the vintage vocals flowing, Brazilian style, with a dramatically arranged slice of soul jazz. Hawa then graced us with some brand new retro vibes from her great debut album coming very soon on Favourite recordings, excellent. I then dropped some tropical vibes courtesy of pysch-inclined latin funksters, Octote Soul Sounds from their new album, Taurus. Batida, all the way from Angola then mashed up the dance with a crazy riddim and some great soulful African vocals.

Gang Gang Dance are always worth checking and the future Balearic classic, ‘Romance Layers‘ is, in my humble, the best cut from their new album. Gagarin then got all electronic, extra terrestrial and experimental with ‘Dunnock‘ but it could have been any of a few cuts from his great new self titled album. DOK then re-invented G Funk with an East London grime twist with the aptly titled ‘West Coast’, which sounded fat on a big system when I heard Kode 9 drop it on the weekend.

Loose 4/4 vibes took over the second half of the show kicking off with the tripped out, uplifting hazy house sound of Benjamin Jackson before I gave you a taste of the forthcoming Crewdson album – Gravity and his trademark complex, yet melodic threaded, blend of electronica. The album definitely has hidden depths and is getting better with every listen, always a good sign. Brownswood new boy Gang Colours then let loose with some post garage dreaminess from his outstanding, soon to be releaed, EP. Patrick Zigon then dubbed up the dance with a great slice of twisted bass throbbing quirkiness which led nicely into the deep, sprawling, hypnotic bass heavy sounds of Deadbeat and a taster of the world of dub that awaits on his forthcoming new album, Drawn and Quartered.

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May 27 th, 2011

I eased you into this weeks show with a track from the new Fourcolor (aka Keichi Sugimoto) album, As Pleat a great new addition to the ever dependable 12K recordings before I dropped the title track from my album of the week the forthcoming Dakota Suite ‘The Hearts Of Empty‘ which is simply wonderful. Africa Hitech then gave us an uptempo deep spiritual tribal vibe with the excellent ‘Light The Way‘ one of the highlights of the new tracks from this rather inconsistent project.

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May 20 th, 2011

Happy Days, Red Snapper have got a new album, always something to celebrate in my book and this one doesn’t disappoint and with quite a few mellower tracks on as the opening ‘You Read My Cards Wrong‘ track testifies. Caural has a ‘new’ project with long term collaborator Jason Hunt which was originally conceived in 1995 and is now finally seeing the light of day, swapping the beats for a rockier edge – check it. Somethinksounds, the label of the Somethinkblue crew, aren’t releasing much but what they are is quality, as the new Lucky Paul EP testifies – look out for the wicked Elephino remix as well. Electric Cowbell have realized not everyone has got a record player and are about to put out a CD and digital compilation of it’s collectible 45′s showcasing the varied sound of the big apple.

Zackey Force Funk is usually more at home robbing banks with baseball bats but has found the time to come out with an EP of grimy electro funk on fledgling label Machino Muerte, nasty shit as the ‘Pistolgrip‘ track testifies. I like him. Letherette then showed that, after the Young Montana? album, the west midlands is the next hottest beat making center of the universe, I like their fresh take on vintage music. Now Mo Kolours has been getting a lot of love and rightly so and his debut EP is now in the shops, go buy, it’s as fresh as anything out there as the ‘Dead Of Night‘ taster shows. Also out about now is the LV album and it’s a great fusion of dubstep’s ruder roots and the new more sophisticated post dubstep sounds.

The Jono McCleery hype machine is gearing up and rightly so. The album is out end of year but Counter are starting to tease with some new bits and choice remixes including a killer Seiji remix, easily the most interesting thing he’s done in years. Holly Cook then brightened up proceedings with ‘Milk and Honey‘ from her reggae meets soul and pop, debut album, set to soundtrack many a BBQ it could be massive, she’s the daughter of Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols don’t you know. Now Birdy is a 14 year old being swept up by the hype machine and making Bon Ivor fans hate her in equal measure and some cheecky remixes arrived this week. I dropped the Lunice remix but the Jack Sparrow twist is growing on me, seek them out.

Mayer Hawthorne has just released a free download of 6 cover versions, ‘Work It Out‘ being my favourite, check my Mayer blog post for more info. Americana is a new comp coming from BBE focussing on the murky world of AOR (look it up) and it’s fusions with the world of black American music from days gone by – smooth, sexy, grooving and your mum will like it as well. SoulParlor is putting out an album on Tokyo Dawn soon and it’s full of progressive beats, soul jazz flavours and a hip hop/spoken word twist not to mention some nice remixes, look out for it. As promised I finally dropped the Erodiscotique cut from Dimitri from Paris and DJ Rocca which led nicely into a new Moodyman remix of Billie Holiday from a generally pretty poor set of new Verve remixes before finishing off with some great techno bassline business from Breach and T. Williams.

Red Snapper – Your Read My Cards Wrong (V2 Benelux promo)
Boy King Islands – Lights In My Sky (Eat Concrete promo)
Lucky Paul – Thought We Were Alone (Somethinksounds promo)
Superhuman Happiness – Human Happiness (Electric Cowbell promo)
Zackey Force Funk – Pistolgrip (Machino Muerte promo)
Letherette – Shoe Be Do (Ho_Tep promo)
Mo Kolours – Dead Of Night (One Handed Music)
LV ft Joshua Idehen – Murkish Delights (Keysound promo)
Jono McCleery – Garden, Seiji remix (Counter Records promo)
DZA – Twat (Project Moon Circle/Jus Like Music promo)
Hollie Cook – Milk and Honey (Mr Bongo promo)
Birdy – Skinny Love, Lunice remix (White)
Mayer Hawthorne – Work To Do (free download)
Midnight Flyer – I Just Want To Love You (BBE promo)
SoulParlor – Real feat Colonel Red, Opolopo rmx (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Erodiscotique – Downtown (Gomma)
Billie Holiday – That Ol Devil Called Love, Moodyman rmx (Verve promo)
Breach – Fatherless, T. Williams remix (PTN promo)

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May 13 th, 2011

Ethiopia is the launch pad for this weeks show kicking off with a track from the new Dub Colossus offering which has gone more Ethiopian and less dub and is certainly none the worse for that. Geneva boys, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, then continue the Eritraen vibes with an authentic, albeit by a bunch of Swiss lads, take on the country’s music. Mother Africa then provided a funkier reworked Afro groove from the excellent Owiny Sigoma Band whose album has just dropped and which I highly recommend. Boxcutter then kept the funk but with an interstellar twist with the excellent ‘Zabriskie Disco‘ from his new album. Cosmic house courtesy of the San Soda remix of Sebastien San’s ‘Great Cities’ then kept the galatic vibes flowing and I for one will be playing this cut for a long time.

Now I played you a bit of Falty DL a while back as an introduction to his latest album but I was listening back to it the other day and couldn’t believe the deeper than deep ‘Voyager‘ track had escaped me, I guess it’s the dangers of trying to listen to too much music too quickly. Mathias Stubo then “future discoed” up the dance with the title track from his forthcoming album on BBE, ‘1979‘. Now the 80′s are influencing a lot of producers at the moment and the lastest is young Scottish producer Beaumont who has made what sounds like a modern version of the original Miami Vice TV soundtrack and I’m particularly liking the ‘Tokyo‘ track. Look out for the EP coming soon on Kinnego Records out of Ireland.

Moa Pillar is one of the new breed of Russian beatmakers and his ‘Flying Low‘ track is an intense yet evocative slice of great beat making. I’ve just been sent a whole host of other Russian beats so expect to hear more of what’s happening up north soon. I then changed to a more sedate and contemplative tack kicking off with a new Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto tune from their latest collaborative album – beautiful stuff which led nicely into the guitar led soundtrack meanderings of Barcelona boy Microfeel. Seargent Garcia then provided a heavy percussion workout from his new album on Cumbancha before Ghostpoet crept into the house with a killer, dBridge remixed hip hop cut. It’s great to hear an MC with a really distinctive sound and flow especially when the production is sick as well. I then dropped Young Montana‘s warped view of the hip hop world featuring the vocal dexterity of Stainless Steele before Bibio provided a new Balearic wind down to the show, lovely.

Comments ( 3 )

In Ref: to global souljah show sorry to hear about you being dropped by the spainish radio station,but that’s way it’s always been the same anyone with any individuality and forward vision get punished by the blinkered money men.

Chin up the people here are the real music lovers :>)

Respect

Aja & Claire

Aja added these pithy words on Nov 08 10 at 12:01

Really bad news from Global Souljah. I hope the radio show soon will be found by other great radio stations. Keep doing beatiful things!

Paulius

admin added these pithy words on Nov 08 10 at 12:12

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