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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 Astroynamics 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 (Astroynamics 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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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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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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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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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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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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Adventures from the more experimental side of jazz kicked off this weeks show courtesy of Splice and a track from their new album LAB before the more credible side of the whole cover band phenomenon reared it's head and Moondog lovers, Hobocombo, dropped the delicate, vocal delights of 'All Is Loneliness'. Now we've been keeping an eye on Raffertie and his ascent into the electronic music hall of fame and he just seems to get better and better as his new ep for Ninja Tune and the track 'You Could Be Forgiven For Thinking That' ably testifies. The new Mount Kimbie album is very near release and it's good to see the boys are not resting on their laurels as the melodic post dubstep tones of 'Flux' float out of the speakers.

Tokyo Dawn have been ploughing a solid release furrow over the last few years with a string of strong albums and they are about to release the second installment of their The Heart compilation series of nu-soul talent and it's another winner with everyone from Colonel Red and Reggie B to a whole host of lesser known but rising soulsters like Rachel Claudio, Amalia and Erik Rico, amongst others. We couldn't resist following that by a nice instrumental version of the ever fresh 'Get Down Saturday Night' which laid the carpet for the classic 'A New You In '82' from back in the day's Sheila Hutchinson-Whitt and yet another Mr. Peabody's classic from the latest in their Chicago series for BBE.

Now Marsmobil is a beat programming, multi-instrumentalist singer and the little taster from his new album is sounding wonderful as the prog rocky folds of 'Is It Tomorrow Now?' more than capably demonstrate and which, surprisingly and quite perfectly led, into 'A Devil Lay Here' a killer melodic bassline cut from the new Zomby album. Fresh beats were then the order of the day with the instrumental cut from the new Paul White EP, 'Trust' and then another quirky programmed winner from the prolific and amazingly consistent Jame Blake.

Now Deep Medi have signed a Robbie Williams style 3 album deal with graphic designer and electronic experimentalist Ulrich Troyer for a series of dub albums, the first of which, Songs Of William, which is coupled with a comic-novel, is about to hit the world and it's well worth checking it's deviant dubbed delights. Now Ezekial Honig is another consistent performer with a great line in thoughtful track titles and his new offering on Type, Folding In On Itself, is yet another winner. Diverse house music was the order of the day to end the show kicking off with the musical Arabic tones of 'Midnight Mawal' from Zepherin Saint before things got deep, dark and dirty with my favourite cut from new Martyn sampler for his forthcoming Brainfeeder offering the London's Arches edit of 'Viper'.

Splice - Ballade Fortuite (Loop)
Hobocombo - All Is Loneliness (Trovarobato/Parade)
Raffertie - You Could Be Forgiven For Thinking That (Ninja Tune promo)
Mount Kimbie - Flux (Hot Flush promo)
Bobby - Amends (Tokyo Dawn promo)
The Wonderful Sound Of Induce - Get Down Saturday Night (Wondersound promo)
Sheila Hutchinson Whitt - A New You In '82 (BBE promo)
Marsmobil - Is It Tomorrow Now? (Compost promo)
Zomby - A Devil Lay Here (4AD)
Paul White - Trust, instrumental (One Handed Music promo)
James Blake - Order (Hemlock)
Ulrich Troyer - At The Workshop (Deep Medi promo)
Ezekiel Honig - Subverting The Memory Of Your Surroundings (Type)
Zepherin Saint - Midnight Mawal (Tribe promo)
Martyn - Viper, London's Arches Edit (Brainfeeder promo)

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It's the third week running we've played a track from the new Finest Ego 12" from Project Moon Circle and for good reason -it's great, especially the Pavel Dovgal side as 'Faust' again proves. Experimental AngloArabic fusion was then the order of the day courtesy of the interesting new Aida Nadeem album, Beyond Destruction. The experimentalism continues with 'Heist' by Softland followed by a pleasing (albeit not so experimental) Natural Magnetic remix of Beautiful Lie from the recent and recommended Nostalgia 77 album.

The intriguing Vegetable Orchestra then twisted their home made vegetable instruments into a moody, crackly, stringy, atmospheric downbeat killer before Sqaramouche injected some melody into his quirky and engaging beats. Offshore then provided some great, catchy, indie vocal drum and bass which deserves a bigger audience. Now we almost didn't play any Com Truise on the show because his name is so bad but 2 or 3 tracks from the recent album are pretty dope as the stuttering beats and synth funk melodies of 'Cathode Girls' showed.

Now La Fine Equipe have just released a monster compilation showcasing the next generation of French beat making talent so we picked out 3 of the best tunes with a soul heart and a progressive outlook. Look out for the likes of oOgo, Blanka and Hoosky to be taking up the mantles laid down by Onra and the like in 2012. Now Michael Kiwanuka is a hot young soul talent from London in the great tradition of the genre and his 'Tell Me A Tale' is almost as good as it gets.

Ilyas Ahmed then graced the show with some loose, scuzzy, pysched out folk vibes before B.Bravo dropped some of his trademark instrumental soul. As you may have read in our previous blog post Banda Black Rio are back with a new album and 'Isabels' featuring Elza Soares and Cesar Camargo Mariano, not to mention the large part of the album, showed they have lost none of their quality and fusion expertise. BBII then provided a nice jazz funk fusion end to the show.

Pavel Dovgal - Faust (Project Moon Circle promo)
Aida Nadeem - Ahlam (URUK)
Softland - Heist (Spezialmaterial)
Nostalgia 77 - Beautiful Lie, Natural Magnetic Rmx (Tru-Thoughts)
Vegetable Orchestra - Nightshades (Transacoustic Research/Monkey promo)
Sqaramouche - Traitarious Queue (Nonine)
Offshore - Pearls & Butler feat. Cienfuegos (Big Dada promo)
Com Truise - Cathode Girls (Ghostly International)
oOgo - Canistrelli (La Fine Equipe promo)
Blanka - Fraisier ((La Fine Equipe promo)
Hoosky - Dog Cookies (La Fine Equipe promo)
Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale (Communion Records)
Ilyas Ahmed - Ignored The End (Immune)
B.Bravo - Bubble Showers (Earnest Endeavours)
Banda Black Rio - Isabela feat. Elza Soares & Cesar Camargo Mariano (Far Out)
BBII - Car Chase (Fresh Up)

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Kicking off this week with a lighter booty shaking moment, albeit heavily sampling the deep delights of Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Orchestra(!), from Daniel Haaksman's fun on the floor new album RambaZamba. The Afro jazz flavour kept flowing with the exciting and distinctly non African Ye Mighty and their great new cut 'Beyond', we're excited about them. Raffertie then degrunged and 'future souled' the Daedelus feat Bilal track, 'Overwhelmed' to amazing effect and is the pick of the new remixes from the recent Daedelus' album. A new Deep Medi release is always something worth checking and the deep hypnotic bass excursion from Finnish boys, Clouds is no exception.

Babe Rainbow hails from British Colombia and has been picked up by Warp records for good reason, his vibes are fresh and insanely varied and 'It's All Happening' is just too short. Rarebit, who is equally at home designing graphics as he is producing deep electronica, then went all experimental and jazzy with his 'Initiation-Quitters-Freedom' quirk out before Baths proved why he is one to watch with the more melodic beat excursion of 'The Vapors' before Babe Rainbow sneaked back into the show to prove his versatility with some impecable, leftfield hip hop. The Hip Hop baton was then picked up by one of my favourite back pack MCs, LA's Open Mike Eagle with the almost horizontal 'Nightmares'. Ta-Ku from down under then enlisted the vocal talents of John Robinson to show that hip hop is alive and well if you look hard enough and if you needed any more convincing along came Dudley Perkins and Paper Tiger with the stuttering, funky BUG remix of 'Worldwide Takeover'.

Tru-Thoughts have decided Omar didn't get the love he deserved from his last album Sing (If You Want It) and have rereleased it. On it's original release his label went bust and it never got the exposure it deserved and being as it's got Stevie Wonder on it and love from people like Eryka Badu and the like, I think they've got a point. If you missed it make sure you grab it this time! This was followed by an all too rare Pepe Bradock remix, this time of 'Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust' from Nicolas Jaar - watch out for your bassbins with this one. Laurel Halo then provided some great percussive, atmospheric techno breaks from her new EP on Hippos In Tanks. Wiley's new album, on his return to Big Dada, is being touted as his best yet and all we know is this boy has got lyrics for days as the title track '100% publishing' goes to show. Roots Manuva another UK vocal heavyweight then showed his funky soulful side on 'Watch Me Dance' before we mixed up the styles in ridiculous fashion and ended up with the sound of summer, the title track from Recloose's new EP, 'Electric Sunshine'.

Daniel Haaksman - Strut Oriental featuring Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Orchestra (Man Recordings)
Ye Mighty - Beyond (First Word Free download)
Daedelus - Overwelmed (Ninja Tune promo)
Clouds - Lots Of Calls from No One part 2 (Deep Medi promo)
Babe Rainbow - It's All Happening (Warp)
RareBit - Initiation-Quitters-Freedom (Non Projects)
Baths - The Vapors (Anticon)
Babe Rainbow - Greed feat. Yung Clova (Warp)
Open Mike Eagle - Nightmares (Hellfyre Club)
Ta-Ku - Confessions feat. John Robinson (Project Moon Circle promo)
Paper Tiger - Worldwide Takeover feat. Dudley Perkins, BUG rmx (Jus Like Music free download)
Omar - Your Mess (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Nicolas Jaar - Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust, Pepe Bradock's Blind Pig mix (Circus Company)
Laurel Halo - Speed Of Rain (Hippos In Tanks)
Wiley - 100% Publishing (Big Dada)
Roots Manuva - Watch Me Dance (Ninja Tune promo)
Recloose - Electric Sunshine (Rush Hour promo)

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Sonar festival was a big weekend so just the tracklistings this week, don't worry more ramblings next week...

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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No time for idle chatter as Sonar shenanigans have stolen all my time so I'm just going to drop the track list

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 (Astroynamics)
Vezelay - Sedative (Planet Mu)

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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.

The enigmatic Downliners Sekt then kept things twisted and dubby with a track from their latest offering on Barcelona's Disboot label before Johnny Clark and King Tubby laid down the dub roots and Wrong Tom and Citizen Sound niced up the dance with some feel good reggae vibes. Hail Mary Mallon otherwise known as Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz then dropped some of that good old underground hip hop before Starkey further carried the hip hop torch, bassline style and made you wonder why more modern, forward thinking producers don't throw vocals over their fresh rhythms.

Kuedo is back with another EP coming soon on Planet Mu and we particularly liked the dreamy Hetoric remix of 'Shutter Light' before we gave you a little taster of the drum mental floater, 'Farthing Wood Dub' from Hype Williams, rather (un)surprisingly on Hyperdub. Alex Barck then displayed his musical pedigree and versatility by remixing ambient pioneers Popol Vuh to prog rocktastic effect - epic! Loose limbed house vibes then finished the show courtesy of Ossie and rising star based in the Middle East, Darling Farah.

Grey Reverend - Box (Motion Audio promo)
DJ Cam - Swim feat Chris James (Inflamable promo)
Howard - Music In Slow Motion (Free The Beats)
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Killing The Water Bed (Honest Jons)
Downliners Sekt - All I Can Hear Now (Disboot)
Johnny Clark - Roots Natty Congo, King Tubby Dub (BBE promo)
Wrong Tom meets Citizen Sound - We Do Dance (Irieites)
Hail Mary Mallon - Smock (Rhymesayers promo)
Starkey - Bricks feat Curly Castro (Civil Music promo)
Kuedo - Shutter Light Girl, Hetoric remix (Planet Mu promo)
Hype Williams - Farthing Wood Dub (Hyperdub promo)
Popol Vuh - Haram Dei haram Dei, Alex Barck Prog Rock Edit (SPV promo)
Ossie - Set The Tone (Hyperdub)
Darling Farah - Crown (Civil Music promo)

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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.

Gil Scott Heron - Winter In America (Arista)
Arthur Verocai - Velho Parente (Luv n Haight)
Hawa - So Wrong (Favourite promo)
Ocote Soul Sounds - Tumba Del Payaso (ESL)
Batida - La Vai Maria feat Ize Teixeira (Akwaaba)
Finn Peters - Purple (Mantella promo)
Gang Gang Dance - Romance Layers (Warp)
Gagarin - Dunnock (Geo)
DOK - West Coast feat Terror Danjah (Hyperdub promo)
Benjamin Jackson - Tareco Drive (The Analogue Quadrant)
Crewdson - Starting Out On The Wrong Foot (Slowfoot promo)
Gang Colours - Dance Around The Subject (Brownswood promo)
Patrick Zigon - Momento Magico feat Caramelo Criminal (Danza Macabra promo)
Deadbeat - Fouth Quarter (Blkrtz promo)

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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.

It was a great excuse though to hit you with an organic African section ably started by Bombino, a rising star in the whole desert blues genre before some classic Congolese vibes with an East African twist carried on the vibe, good old Franco. Idrissa Diop & Cheickh Tidiane Tall then shifted the focus on to the golden age of Senegalese music before German funksters, Karl Hector & The Malcouns showed that scuzzy, pysched out Ethiopian vibes are a wonderful thing - check their new EP on Now Again, deadly.

Now Miles Bonny has been dubbed the missing link between D'Angelo and Willy Nelson, perhaps rather optimistically by his PR crew, but their is no denying he's no lightweight and his new album is a great modern soul work and rock solid start to finish. Saturn Never Sleeps, the Sun-Ra inspired project of King Britt and Rucyl Mills, is a wonderful thing and last week they gave away an interstellar slice of future soul called 'Tory', wow. Dego then kept the fresh soul vibes rolling with a track he gave away last week featuring Bembe Segue and David Okumo. Doesn't anyone sell music any more?

Jack and Juke then treated us to their great Sugar Hill Gang cover version '9th Wonder' which funnily was also a giveaway last week, along with 15 other nice tunes, as part of the label's 7th birthday celebrations before Floating Points came in and stole the show with a great meandering slice of future boogie which paved the way for Jin Choi to end the show on a lovely deep quirky scat vocal house vibe, I just wished I could have played all of it.

Fourcolor - Bleach Black (12K promo)
Dakota Suite - The Hearts Of Empty (Karaoke Kalk promo)
Africa Hitech - Light The Way (Warp)
Bombino - Tar Hani (Cumbancha)
Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz - Ku Kisantu Kikwenda Ko (Sterns)
Idrissa Diop & Cheikh Tidiane Tall - Caridad (Teranga Beat)
Karl Hector & The Malcouns - M'Hammath (Now Again)
Miles Bonny - What's Life Like (MPM promo)
Saturn Never Sleeps - Tory (Free download)
Dego - Sunchine ft Bembe Segue & Dave Okumu (Free Download)
Jack & Juke - 9th Wonder (First Word free download)
Floating Points - Marilyn (Eglo Promo)
Jin Choi - Half Baked, Vinyl Edit (Serialism promo)

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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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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.

Dub Colossus - Yezema Meseret (Real World)
Imperial Tiger Orchestra - Anchi Bale Game (Mental Groove)
Owiny Sigoma Band - Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka, Rework (Brownswood)
Boxcutter - Zabriskie Disco (Planet Mu)
Sebastien San - Great Cities, San Soda's downtempo mix (We Play House)
Falty DL - Voyager (Planet Mu)
Mathias Stubo - 1979 (BBE promo)
Beaumont - Tokyo (Kinnego promo)
Moa Pillar - Flying Low (Gimme 5)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Moto - Pionier IOO (Raster Norton promo)
Microfeel - Guitar & Your Silence feat Arbol
Sergent Garcia - En El Domino (Cumbancha)
Ghostpoet - Survive It, dBridge Limbo rmx (Brownswood promo)
Young Montana - Suchbeats feat Stainless Steele (Alpha Pup)
Bibio - Light Seep (Warp)

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So this is the last Global SoulJah & BBE Records Radio Show after getting on for 200 shows, I can't quite believe it. But fear not the radio show is continuing it's just changing identity to Audio Texture for purely selfish reasons. I've got to say a big, big thank you to BBE Records for allowing me to jump into bed with them the last three years, it's been a wonderful thing, cheers boys.

So on with this weeks show which kicked off with a little 4/4 mix and new wonder kid producer. Norway's Mathisas Stubo is only 19 years old with an unhealthy obsession for black music history and disco and boogie in particular and an uncanny knack of taking those classic sounds and giving them a really unique twist and dragging them screaming into the new millenium. The forthcoming debut album, 1979, is great and the start of a promising career for sure. Neon Jung, the first non Lone production to grace Magic Wire records followed with some classic yet futuristic purple house vibes before Joe provided some more classic sounding, bassline updated, stripped down house from the new Hessle Audio comp which celebrate 3 years of their existence, congratulations and thanks are due.

The Workshop releases of late have been pure fire and Kassem Mosse's latest effort, 'Untitled 2' is absolutely no exception. Grey Matter then snapped the mix out of it's deep hypnotic vibe with another classic inspired house effort, though this time aimed to rip up the stiffest of party, expect to hear this on all discerning house dance floors at peak time for the rest of the year and more. Nacho Patrol rounded off the house mix with some of that pysched out cosmic house shizzle which makes me snap up all of what he does.

So the Blitz The Ambassador is set for release and the short little 'instrumentalude' is another example of the quality within this great African hip hop album. fLako is about to maintain Project Moon Circle's growing reputation for picking the right beat makers with an album called The Mesektet in the not too distant future and the stripped down, less is more beats of 'YeahYeahYeah' led me nicely into new Chakra Sounds signing Jon Phonics which in turn warmed up for 'Sacre Cour' a taster for one of the freshest album of beats this year courtesy of Young Montana. The album is called Limerence and it really is a lovingly crafted album of complex beats and dense layers of samples but without losing that soul and head snapping funk - hot!

Mongo Santamaria then changed the vibes via a nice little Joe Claussell remix which is part of a larger remix project he has taken on where he takes the Fania back catalogue on a journey from Africa to Latin New York, all fed through his mixing desk and undoubted afrolatin sensibility. Fredericks Brown then provided the slow soul jazz vibes with a tune that just grows and grows on you, thank you Jazz and Milk. Big Dada new girl Elan Tamara then kept the vocal flavours rolling but in her very unique way, don't ask me just check her out, she's special and on her way to bigger and better things. Barcelona musical maverick Guillamino then closed proceedings with a dreamy slice of abstract vocal loveliness, look out for his new album coming later this year.

Mathias Stubo - Diskorama (BBE promo)
Neon Jung - Just Can't Leave It Alone (Magic Wire promo)
Joe - Twice (Hessle Audio promo)
Kassem Mosse - Untitled 2 (Workshop)
Greymatter - Tesla (Wolf Music promo)
Nacho Patrol - Stars Over Africa (M-Division)
Blitz The Ambassador - Instrumentalude (Jakarta promo)
fLako - YeahYeahYeah (Project Moon Circle)
Jon Phonics - The One (Chakra Sounds)
Young Montana - Sacre Cool (Alpha Pup promo)
Mongo Santamaria - Mambo Mongo, Joe Claussell rmx (Fania promo)
Fredericks Brown - Land Of Plenty (Jazz and Milk)
Elan Tamara - The Ones Who (Big Dada promo)
Guillamino - Viratge (Bankrobber promo)

The lovely future soul of Si Tew's 'Solhouette' starts this weeks musical ramble and it's a sweet little taster of the musical delights from his new album about to drop on R2 records. Jonwayne then swaggers into earshot with a cut from his new album from 'on the button' label Alpha Pup, what have they started putting in the water on the West coast?? I then finally dropped Mathew & Toby's 'Rocketnumbernine' on Kieran Hebdens label, something I've been meaning to do for ages, there's not many tracks that are 13 minutes long that I don't want to end. Burial disciple Aviance then dropped the tempo and upped the suspense with his 'Desolate' track from his great The Invisible Insurrection LP - deep and dark.

David Minor then beamed in a pleasing little leftfield transmission from the musical outer reaches via the Nonine control center before Channel In Channel Out's marriage of subtle glitches and pastoral vocals from his stylistically scizophrenic album due out very shortly on Karaoke Kalk. Grey Reverand then kept the vocal flavours flowing with some singer songwriter sweetness and a little taster of the delights to come from his forthcoming Motion Audio album. Matthew Halsall then displayed why he is one of the UK's most exciting jazz prospects and an old head on young shoulders with the most spiritual cut from his new album, On The Go, on his own Gondwana label.

Murcof then changed the vibes with his revision of the soundtrack for the Mexican film La Sangre Illuminada before new Ninja Tune signing Slugabed dropped some 'Nu Krak Swing' and T.R.A.C. followed up with some classic sounding hip hop courtesy of some super soulful Marc Mac produced beats. I then dropped a little reminder of how good Will.I.Am was before he went over to the cheesy pop dark side which led nicely into a super soulful slo-mo bassline beat workout from Shlohmo.

Mono/Poly then did more of the same before I dropped a little taster from the musical freshness meets man and machine sound of Boxcutter and his forthcoming album on Planet Mu. The new Wiley joint 'Numbers in Action' is gonna be all over everywhere this summer but personally I'm liking the great, simple but effective Sticky remix the mostest before IKE ended the show with some Detroit disco vibes..

Si Tew - Solhouette (R2 promo)
Jonwayne - Featuring Mndsgn (Alphapup)
Matthew & Toby - Rocketnumbernine (Test)
Desolate - Aviance (Fauxpas Musik)
David Minor - Honey Cr Reprise (Nonine promo)
Channel In Channel Out - Kind Euphemisms part B (Karaoke Kalk promo)
Grey Reverand - Mistaken For A Martyr (Motion Audio promo)
Matthew Halsall - The Journey Home (Gondwana promo)
Murcof - Como Quisiera Decirte, Murcof mix (Infine)
Slugabed - Nu Krak Swing (Ninja Tune promo)
T.R.A.C. - Somn, For Your Ears (BBE promo)
Will.I.Am - Lay Me Down featuring Terry Dexter (BBE)
Shlohmo - Places (FoF Music)
Mono/Poly - Glow (Brainfeeder)
Boxcutter - Panama (Planet Mu promo)
Wiley - Numbers In Action, Sticky rmx (Big Dada promo)
IKE - Supernatural (Philpot)

Off on a jazz vibe this week from Finn Peters and his ground breaking Music Of The Mind project where he literally thought music into being utilising a BCI (Brain Computer Interface) and then produced an amazing album from the results, amazing stuff. My new discovery of the week, multi-instrumentalist, Charles-Eric Charrier, followed with a track from his latest album Silver, (which got sent to me, got lost and has only just resurfaced after my recent move!) and thank god I found it as it was on repeat all day Saturday. Snorkel made another appearance on the show with another track from their about to be released album, Stop Machine, fans of Red Snapper look out for these guys, I can't wait to see them live.

Co.fee is another of the seemingly endless supply of boundary pushing LA beatmakers on the brand new My Hollow Drum label and his new EP dropping soon is essential listening for the Low End Theory crew. Ekoplekz then kept the boundary pushing pressure with another one of his analogue, all to tape, trademark dubwise workouts from his slightly more accessible recent Fountain Square EP. Tommy Tempa is another interesting beatmaker that has caught my ear and 'Rejoin Rejoice' should let you all know why.

MPM have been firmly rooted in the golden years of hip hop and classic soul and funk vibes but the new Karlmarx album is about to change all that with it's leftfield future bass vibes, well worth a listen. I had to give you another little taste of Blitz The Ambassador as it's probably my favourite African hip hop album since Emmanuele Jal's debut - real Afro vibes, nice production and considered, well delivered lyrics - coming soon on Jakarta records. Femi Kuti then kept the Afro flavour with a new track from him before pan Afro inspired Cacique 97 from Lisbon brushed away the bailout blues with a great uptempto dancer.

The Rhythmagic Orchestra is the brain child of Ben Lamdin and Hugo Mendez utilizing the cream of the UK's jazz musicians playing a whole host of great Afro Cuban jazz originals and classic covers, look out for this really soon. Under the production (not very) alias Prommer & Barck, Christian Prommer and Alex Barck (from Jazzanova) have been huddled in a studio recently and they've produced what is one of the best house albums I've heard in a while. No fillers all killers, well produced, full of great musicality and some pleasing twists and turns, deep is the word. The Savile's K-Huse remix of Eskmo's, 'Moving Glowstream' trailed the show off into deep hypnotic house space. I'll be back on planet earth next week.

Finn Peters - One State Of Mind (Mantella Records)
Charles-Eric Charrier - Echoes Short (Experimedia)
Snorkel - Loophole (Slowfoot records)
Co.fee - Kali (My Hollow Drum promo)
Ekoplekz - Arkrite (Mordant Music)
Tommy Tempa - Rejoin Rejoice (Somethinksounds promo)
Karlmarx - Futuro (MPM promo)
Blitz The Ambassador - Akwaaba (Jakarta promo)
Femi Kuti - Dem Bobo (Knitting Factory Records)
Cacique'97 - American Cop (Footmovin Records)
The Rhythmagic Orchestra - Mary Lou (Impossible Ark promo)
Prommer and Barck - Lovin (Derwin promo)
Eskmo - Moving Glowstream, Savile's K-House mix (Ninja Tune promo)

The evergreen Wagon Christ kicked off the show this week with his personal brand of machine funkery from his new album before Venetian Snares then twisted reggae into new forms with his excellent 'Ever Apparent All Being Shoulder', the rest of the forthcoming EP on Planet Mu is more than worth checking as well. Things then went all organic and 'tropical' as The Creole Choir Of Cuba unleashed their unique fusion of choral vocals and Afro Cuban rhythms. I've got to be honest I was slightly disappointed by the album but was fortunate to catch them live last year and they rock it BIG time. Strut carry on their great artist album series by getting Orchestre Poly Rythmo back in the studio after far too long for some Afro niceness before Azymuth, who have never been far from the studio, start the warm up to their new release which celebrates 35 years of recording. An amazing milestone especially since the years haven't diminished their hunger and quality of output.

The tropical vibes then continued but got all 2011 first with some great new MC talent in Blitz The Ambassador and his pyschedelic freestyle beats - can't wait to get my hands on the album. Mo Kolours then followed with his unique take on global fusion, twisting his Mauritian roots and black music leanings through the world of plug ins and computer screens to more than pleasing effect.

I can't believe that I had never heard of Caural before last week and for that I have to thank Eat Concrete records and their re-issue EP of some of his classic material including the lovingly executed concept track, 'Sorry Underground Hip Hop Happened 10 Years Ago' - YO!! I then had to drop a track from the EXCELLENT Slim Line Mutha album coming soon on Broadcite which is full of golden age hip hop and soulful vibes start to finish not to mention a whole host of great vocalists and MCs - I'm telling you look out for this project..

Twit One then dropped a great little slice of beat splice cheekiness from his new 10" LP before I mellowed things out with some wonderful nu-soul courtesy of the LA residing trio, King. Now due to my moving woes I haven't been supporing Amalia and her new album and I hope the taster on this weeks show will serve as an introduction to this great new soul talent and her 80's synth soul.

Robot Koch either spends far too much time in the studio or works double quick style. His latest project is a team up with the vocal alchemy of John Robinson which has brought out the soulful side of this prolific knob twiddler, I'm excited. Peaking Lights are one of the bands du jour but seem to have bit more depth than your average blogosphere 'here today gone tomorrow' fodder and I particularly the dub version of 'Birds Of Paradise'. Gagarin then upped the tempo with a taster of their new album and some ultra deep two step vibes to end another weeks musical joyride..

Wagon Christ - Accordian McShane (Ninja Tune)
Venetian Snares - Ever Apparent All Being Shoulder (Planet Mu promo)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba - Tande (Realworld)
Orchestre Poly Rythmo - Gbeti Madro featuring Angelique Kidjo (Strut
Azymuth - In My Treehouse (Far Out promo)
Blitz The Ambassador - Dear Africa feat Les Nubians (Jakarta Recors promo)
Mo Kolours - Drum Talking (One Handed Music promo)
Caural - Sorry Underground Hip Hop Happened 10 Years Ago (Eat Concrete promo)
Slim Line Mutha - Pulling Your Card feat Monte Smith (Broadcite promo)
Twit One - Jederliebtihn (MPM promo)
King - The Story (King)
Amalia - Art Slave (Tokyo Dawn)
Robot Koch & John Robinson - Smorgasbord (Project Moon Circle)
Peaking Lights - Birds Of Paradise, Dub Version (Not For Fun)
Gagarin - 3KA-3 (Geo promo)

Disco Love is back!! Volume 2 of the great compilation from Al Kent and BBE is about to drop and it's possibly even better than the first one and that's saying something, not to mention the outstanding disco inspired artwork - essential compilation. This was followed by a deep Fatima and Floating Points taster from their forthcoming EP on Eglo, if that was the B-side, I can't wait for the main cut. Fresh global beats were then the order of the day courtesy of Easy and The Centre Of The Universe and the excellent worldly new Debruit compilation on Civil Music.

The Beat Generation series from BBE is getting a timely re-issue and just to remind you of why I slapped on Jay Dee's 'Pause' and next week I'll give a killer Will.I.Am cut from the good old days before he went more pop than Elton John. DJ Vadim has got a new project called The Electric, the album is finally here and my favourite cut is the afrocentric leaning 'Toot Toot'. There's a wonderfully wide ranging comp out called After The Void featuring obscure multi genre cuts of music you never knew existed and I'm particuarly loving 'Funky Dromedary' along with most of the other tracks.

40 Winks is the latest producer to drop on an album on Project Moon Circle and it's a worthy successor to the great Long Arm LP, the label has come up trumps again. Mar then came through with the vocal jazz flavour from one of his reworks being put out on MPM, beats courtesy of Louis Bordeaux before the sweet vocal vibes continued with a cut from the excellent Nostalgia 77 album on Tru Thoughts. The show then wound up with some uptempo beats kicking off with the jazz flavoured techno of Nicolas Jaar from his new EP, the fresh beats of Falty DL from his excellent new album on Planet Mu before Altered Natives ripped up the dance with a cut from the Danny Native's super fresh new compilation on his own Eye4Eye label.

Aged In Harmony - I Feel Like Dancin (BBE)
Fatima & Floating Points - Redlight (Eglo promo)
Easy & The Centre Of The Universe - Halloumi (Harmonia)
Debruit - Medze (Civil Music promo)
Jay Dee - Pause, 12" Version (BBE)
The Electric - Toot Toot (OGS)
Synthesizers Unlimited - Funky Dromedary (Light Sounds Dark)
40 Winks - Not The Destination (Project Moon Circle promo)
Mar - 1st Session produced by Louis Bordeaux (MPM promo)
Nostalgia 77 - Simmerdown (Tru-Thoughts)
Nicolas Jaar - Materials (Circus Company)
Falty DL - Gospel Of Opal feat Anneka (Planet Mu)
Altered Natives - Ghost Hands (Eye4Eye promo)

Finally! Back on the airwaves after an enforced break due to moving into a new live/work space which involved apart from the obvious nightmare of moving a record collection as well as everything else my Russian builder splitting up with his girlfriend, having an emotional breakdown and going awol, torrential rain which flooded through an old chimney spewing black water on my new floor and having to sleep in a sleeping bag on a mattress on the floor for a week in a building site. So I'm never moving again EVER..

So now my equipment is out of boxes here we go kicking off with a cut from the new Marc Mac produced T.R.A.C. album, although funnily enough I dropped the only MCless cut just because the sampled spoken words seem pretty relevant to the world today. Do check the album though, the beats are soul heaven and the lyrics great, coming soon on BBE. I then kept the hip hop flavour but with a nice leftfield twist courtesy of Padwriterz and then a track from a great collaborative album between Obba Suba and the Czech experimental musician (not Belgium as mentioned in the show!) Michal Cimala, Bandcamp business...

The Stepkids are a really interesting new group on Stones Throw, hard to pigeon hole but sounding vintage, modern and fresh. I then dropped a track from a great album from last year by Gayngs, lovely stuff before giving you a taste of the new Dorian Concept material who can now be found on Ninja Tune. Shackleton doesn't really put out any filler as his new EPs for Honest Jons testify, forget the remixes it's all about the original cuts for me. Keeping the beats rolling I then veered into the Clonious remix of Take from the new album of Take remixes on Alpha Pup and then dropped the tempo but kept the beats with Adi Dick and his Spacedust tune from the latest in the Project Moon Circle Ego beatmaker comps, this time showcasing talent from Australia and New Zealand.

"Electro-aquatic-kraut-afro-funk-sonic-experimentation-unit" Snorkel then got all rowdy before Exile hit us with some exotic beats and the excellently named 'PCP laced Beedies'. If that wasn't enough I dropped some killer dubwise runnings from Black Chow, aka Kevin Martin and Kiki Hitomi - check Jahtari for the release, essential. Mago Bo with a Filastine twist kept the low end theory but added a global twist before Barbara Morgenstern arrived with a very personal take on Prince's 'Sign Of The Times', you've got to love a good cover version.

The unprolific yet quality Fudge Fingas has finally made an album and it's solid through and through as the downtempo soulful delights of 'It's About Time' testify which led into the latest Owiny Sigoma Band track - watch out for a sprawling Theo Parrish remix on the flipside, coming on Record Shop Day..

T.R.A.C. - Tel-lie-vision Marc Mac Intermission (BBE promo)
Padwriterz feat Juba Zaki - Time Don't Exist (Eklektik)
Michal Cimala & Obba Supa - Building Up, Obba Supa rmx feat Radimo (Chakra Sounds Bandcamp)
The Stepkids - Shadows on Behalf (Stones Throw promo)
Gayngs - Crystal Rope (Jagjagwar)
Dorian Concept - Thank You All The Time Forever (Ninja Tune)
Shackleton - Deadman (Honest Jons)
Take - Neon Beams, The Clonious rmx (Alpha Pup)
Adi Dick - Spacedust (Project Moon Circle)
Snorkel - Stop Machine (Slowfoot free download)
Exile - PCP Laced Beedies (All City promo)
Black Chow - Wonderland Version (Jahtari)
Maga Bo - Ransom, Filastine rmx (Senseless promo)
Barbara Morgenstern - Sign Of The Times (Monika Enterprise)
Fudge Fingas - It's About Time (Prime Numbers promo)
Owiny Sigoma Band - Wires (Brownswood promo)

So a whole heap of new music this week and very few words due to my continuing workload, construction work hell, ongoing moving woes and general sleep deprivation. Two weeks more and I should be fully installed, unpacked and resuming 'normal' service.

Raf Vilar is part of the fresh new sound of Brazil. Mellow beats abound at the start of the show courtesy of Mizz Beats, Taylor McFerrin and Space Invadas. Robot Koch and John Robinson is some keeping it real nu-school hip hop whilst Jeremiah Jae is some keeping it real cosmic, outerspacial hip hop. Sven Kacirek has produced a wonderful Afro fusion album of the highest order. Pangaea is a beat making don and Hizatron and Policy are two new beat making talents to watch out for and thank you to Heavenly Sweetness for the Raphael re-issue.

Raf Vilar - Bossa Me (Far Out promo)
Mizz Beats - 2 Bit Road (Eglo promo)
Taylor McFerrin - Awake To You (Brainfeeder promo)
Space Invadas - So Strong (BBE promo)
Robot Koch & John Robinson - The Program (Project Moon Circle promo)
Jeremiah Jae - $easons (Brainfeeder promo)
Sven Kacirek - Paperflowers (Pingipung)
Pangaea - Inna Daze (Hessle Audio promo)
Hizatron - Von Glooperstein, Scrufffaton mix (Fat City promo)
Policy - Lights Over Fort Lee (Rush Hour Direct Current)
Raphael - Archangelo (Heavenly Sweetness)

This week is passing me by in a cloud of dust, concrete and general construction work and all of a sudden years of record collecting doesn't seem like such a good idea, as the new Audio Texture office takes shape, hence a very short and sweet series of musings this week.

Why did it take 6 months to release the Andre Zimma album digitally? If ambience is your thing look out for the forthcoming Emanuele Errante album it's lovely. Rick Wilhite has made a great house music album. Brainfeeder are taking over this year, the new Taylor McFerrin teaser is ace. Jessie Ware & Sampha have just invented 'lovestep'. Andre Solomko is a great Russian multi-instrumentalist. D'eon's debut album is cool. Nonine records are nine and have released a nine track compilation to celebrate - happy birthday and keep up the good work! Alex Dimitri has made a banging raw tribal house track. The Funkystepz 'Fuller' track is going to be ripping up dance floors really soon, ouch!

Andre Zimma - Colors feat Amraah8 (Swedish Brandy)
Emanuele Errante - Hidden Sun (Karaoke Kalk)
Agoria - Under The River (Infine promo)
Natacha Atlas - River Man, Jef Stott rmx (Six Degrees)
Rick "The Godson" Wilhite - City Bar Dancing, Basement rmx (Still Music promo)
Taylor McFerrin - Place In My Heart feat Ryat (Brainfeeder promo)
Reso - Aethra (Civil Music promo)
VIVEK - Roots (Deep Medi promo)
Jessie Ware & Sampha - Valentine (Young Turks promo)
Andre Solomko - I Recall (Favourite promo)
D'Eon - Across The Sea (Hippos In Tanks)
The!She - 01 (Nonine)
Alex Dimitri South Soul - Africa (BBE promo)
Funkystepz - Fuller (Hyperdub promo)

So a cover album of Arthur Russell tunes sounds like a potential train crash but if the cover of 'Love Dancing' that kicked off this weeks show is anything to go by I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of it! The project is helped by the fact that Arthur's Landing, the band doing the covers, is made up of original collaborators with the man. 'Ares' by Karlmarx then followed but don't be fooled they haven't dug up that old German philosopher they are actually a couple of brothers from the increasingly fertile New Zealand beat making scene, look out for their debut album coming out soon on MPM Records. Now one of my EPs of the year is surely going to be the Teleseen EP on Percept, it's a complete mishmash of digi dubbed rhythms and a whole host of musical influences from this Brooklyn bad boy, check it out!!

Boxcutter is back and hitting 2011 hard with his new double A-Side release due out on Planet Mu shortly, always one to watch just check the 'Allele' track on the show. Shackleton shouldn't really need an introduction and I finally dropped the 'Bastard Spirit' track from the debut ep on his nice new record label, Woe To The Septic Heart! That was closely followed by some of the loosest, deepest hip hop beats you are going to hear in a while courtesy of Hey!Zeus - not for the faint hearted or G-Unit fans. Now I'm a big fan of Taprikk Sweezee since I first checked him last year and he's not letting me down this year as his new EP of soulful vocals with forward thinking beats will testify when it drops very shortly on Zoik, German future soul never sounded so fresh.

Daedelus is nothing but prolific and his new album is due late Spring on Ninja Tune and the first little taster is about to drop with a nice little Tokimonsta rework, can't wait to hear the rest. Now Hype Williams are living up to their name but I quite like 'The Throning' track from their recent album but even more I like the new Bryant K track 'Stars' out on a little 7" courtesy of Now Again records, great croaky soul vibes.

Roof Light then followed with a nice cut up of Midas Touch before I dropped a track by Kocky from the new Joey Negro compiled The Soul Of Disco 3 compilation on Z Records. Chock full of floor filling soulful disco it's one not to miss. Some Caribbean disco from days gone by then ended the show nicely courtesy of Eddie Hooper and Soundway Records, feel the warmth.

Arthur's Landing - Love Dancing (Strut Records)
Karlmarx - Ares (MPM)
Teleseen - By Many Names (Percept)
Boxcutter - Allele (Planet Mu promo)
Shackleton - Bastard Spirit (Woe To The Sceptic Heart!)
Hey!Zeus - Annunaki Ninja Trials feat Radimo (Chakra)
Taprikk Sweezee feat Busy - Eating At The Void (Zoik)
Daedelus - Tail-Made feat Milosh, Tokimonsta rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
Hype Williams - Stars (De Stijl)
Bryant K - Stars (Now Again)
Roof Light - Midas (MOM)
Kocky - Just Keep On Dancin (Z Records promo)
Eddie Hooper - Tomorrow's Sun (Soundway Records)

Late night dubwise runnings kicked off this weeks show from Benny Tones, Electric Wire Hustle's DJ and producer followed by my favourite track from Resoe's new dub celebration album before the Ital Tek remix of Starkey's 'Playing With Fire' track put the final nail in your bass bin's coffin.

Swedish pysch pop dons, Dungen then made an appearance with a tune from their excellent Skit Alt album which really is a wild musical journey. Austin Peralta, a young widely tipped new pianist from LA, then followed with an uncompromising track from his excellent forthcoming, not very smooth, jazz album, Endless Planets - look out for that on the increasingly diverse Brainfeeder records. Enemy Earth then followed with a cut from his new album which is ditching the beats for a heavily layered cosmic soundscape approach, Sunday mornings never sounded as good.

Eden then followed with a beautiful track full of delicate arrangements, classy strings and lovely vocals before The Hidden Orchestra give the poppy delights of Lanu a dark dramatic and cinematic twist. Now The Jet Age Of Tomorrow have been giving away a perfectly saleable album (I've paid for a lot worse!) although it is now available in higher res via Itunes and I urge you to go out and buy it. It's a great fusion of hip hop, pop, pysch, folk, electronic wonder and deserves to do really well, it's one of the freshest albums of the year so far for sure.

Soul Evidence kept the hip hop vibe rolling and it's a rare non house production outing for Atjazz with production partner Si Tew and Replife on the mic and excellent form. Things then got deep house and hypnotic courtesy of a track from Even Tuell's excellent new ep on the Hardwax affiliated Workshop label before Storm Queen got all vocal and led nicely up to the new classic sounding Rick Howard tune on the ever excellent Rush Hour records.

Benny Tones - Chrysalis, instrumental (BBE promo)
Resoe - Apart From Moorpark (Echocord)
Starkey - Playing With Fire, Ital Tek remix (Civil Music)
Dungen - Soda (Subliminal Sounds)
Austin Peralta - Capricornus (Brainfeeder promo)
Enemy Earth - Ore Accet (Eat Concrete promo)
Eden - Solitude (Batterie Records)
Lanu - Beautiful Trash feat Megan Washington, Hidden Orchestra rmx (Tru-Thoughts promo)
The Jet Age Of Tomorrow - The Finer Things (Odd Future)
Soul Evidence - Soul (AtJazz)
Even Tuell - Untitled 1, Original Mix (Workshop)
Storm Queen - Look Right Through (Environ)
Rick Howard - Do What You Have To Do (Rush Hour promo)

So my little winter break is over and we're into a new year and I'm sure, another heap of great music to make sense of. The only problem is sorting through the mountain of over hyped nonsense to get to the cream and sieving it through my own personal filters to pull the show together. Luckily I still get off on the thrill of the chase because it can sometime be an arduous task!

So I eased into this weeks show with the mellowest track from the new Virtual Boy EP out on LA's Alpha Pup records, the beat magic from the West Coast shows no sign of abating in 2011. Then came a track from the new Stateless album which is a thing of indescribable folk, prog, electronic, r&B, classical wonder and a start to finish listen, watch out for that dropping in February. Dimlite followed with a track from his wonderful music and beats ep out on Now Again - killer release.

I'd been sitting on the Blundetto remixes for a bit but had to air the feel good dancehall vibes of the Gogo version of 'My Own Girl' - sweet. Soom T then came in to ruff up the dance with a track from her new album of 8-bit digi reggae pure ganja songs, Ode To A Carrot. Now I thought a whole lp discussing the herb might be a bit dull but the varied production from Disrupt and lyrical games from Soom, keep the whole album sounding fresh. The show then got into some twisted beat territory first of from South East London's Crewdson and then courtesy of Morgan Zarate and his forthcoming release on the ever varied Hyperdub.

Long Arm is a cultured musical beat producer from up Russia way who's album is about to drop on Project Moon Circle and it's a really cohesive listen for a largely instrumental beats album and apologies for dropping the instrumental cut by mistake!! Erik Trufaz, one of my favourite modern trumpet players, has slipped out another album and it's sounding as solid and varied as ever as the jazz fusion of 'Mechanic Cosmetic' testified. This was followed by a little cut from the new release from hardcore Japanese diggers, Em Records who have released the 1969 Indo jazz album from T.K. Ramamoorthy.

AD Bourke then provided the laid back 80's boogie vibes, a track from the excellent The Boogie compilation of modern 80's boogie inspired vibes on the Tokyo Dawn Label. I then dropped a little hip hop section, something I don't do enough really, kicking off with a tasty new Art Bleek track, an always welcome new J-Live track and a re-issued modern classic courtesy of BBE - Jazzy Jeff's, 'For The Love Of The Game'. I had to finish off with a track from the great Truth and Soul Compilation, African Music Today which I shamefully slept on last year but which I urge you to go out an buy immediately!

Virtual Boy - Breach Of The Descendants (Alpha Pup promo)
Stateless - I Shall Not Complain (Ninja Tune promo)
Dimlite - Loins (Now Again)
Blundetto - My Own Girl, Gogo Version (Heavenly Sweetness)
Soom T - Puff The Police (Jahtari promo)
Crewdson - Mime, Grasscut rmx (Slowfoot)
Morgan Zarate - Hookid (Hyperdub promo)
Long Arm - The Branches, instrumental (Project Moon Circle promo)
Erik Trufaz Quartet - Mechanic Cosmetic (Blue Note)
T.K. Ramamoorthy - Gowla (Em Records promo)
AD Bourke - Aries (Tokyo Dawn Records)
Art Bleek featuring Nya - Plat Du Jour (Loungin)
J-Live - No Time To Waste (Triple Threat)
Jazzy Jeff - For Da Love of Da Game (BBE)
Bama & The Family - Googie (Truth And Soul)

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OK so it's time to have a quick look back at 2010 although to be honest the end of year lists are getting so hyped these days I'm probably not going to bother next year, I think even my postman has compiled a list of his top ten favourite envelopes of 2010. To do a proper round up would mean an extended show of probably about 6 hours so in this hour long show I've just thrown in a few tunes that moved me in some way, made me smile, made me dance, made me sad or just tickled me.

James Blake obviously had to be there - what a year for him, I hope he keeps up the good work. The Lou Rhodes album wasn't all killer but the 'There For The Taking' track will be an eternal favourite of mine. The Robert Aaron album on Heavenly Sweetness was solid start to finish and 'The Saddest Kiss' track amongst others sublime. Electric Wire Hustle proved New Zealand isn't all Lord Of The Rings, sheep and Fat Freddy's Drop.

The Henrik Schwarz remix of 'Feeling You' featuring Omar and Stevie Wonder almost didn't see the light of day, respect to Peppermint Jam for doing the business. Four Tet seems to be in every end of list that I do and this year is no exception - what an album! Mount Kimbie also rose to the top this year with some great productions, remixes and their debut album delivered. Respect also has to go out to Tri-Angle records for an inspired start to their label and the Balam Acap ep in particular.

Baile Funk tunes tend to be pretty disposable but Greymatter's 'Eu Fumo' had the energy and the quality production, booty shaking never sounded so good. Now one of the most underrated artists of 2010 was Taprikk Sweezee who produced one of the deepest, twisted nu-soul eps of the year - people have to pick up on this boy soon. Soweto Kinch is a musical marvel, not only one of the UKs best sax players he's also an increasingly accomplished MC and each album gets better.

I don't really need to say much about the Flying Lotus album except I could have played most of the album on the show. Kenton Slash Demon are a couple of Danish Indie rock musicians who diversified into house music this year and I hope they spend more time in the studio and less time rocking out in 2011. To end the show I had to drop one of the sunniest tunes of the year from Bing Ji Ling, a little tune that's so sunny it probably contributed to global warming.

James Blake - I Only Know (R&S)
Lou Rhodes - There For The Taking (Motion Audio)
Robert Aaron - The Saddest Kiss (Heavenly Sweetness)
Electric Wire Hustle - They Don't Want (BBE)
Omar feat Stevie Wonder - Feeling You, Henrik Schwarz rmx (Peppermint Jam)
Four Tet - Angel Echoes (Dominoe)
Mount Kimbie - Ode To Bear (Hot Flush)
Balam Acab - See Birds (Tri-Angle)
Greymatter - Eu Fumo ft Deize Tigrona (Mr. Bongo)
Taprikk Sweezee - Runner (Musik Aus Strom/Zoik Musik)
Soweto Kinch - Trying To Be A Star (Soweto Kinch)
Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane (Warp)
Kenton Slash Demon - Sun (Tartelet)
Bing Ji Ling - Sunshine Love (Lovemonk)

The often unheard sounds of Thailand got the show off to an Asiaticly tropical start this week and the Plearn Promdan track was from another winning compilation from Soundway entitled The Sound Of Siam, Thailand never sounded so cool. The sounds of Guadelouple followed courtesy of the unfeasibly soulful Marie-Line Dahomay, roots music at it's rawest and best. Now the Congotronics series has been given an inspired set of remixes over the course of a double CD from the likes of Shackleton through to Animal Collective and Optimo and amongst others I'm particularly liking the Aksak Maboul rework of the Kasai Allstars. I then followed that by another track from Lone's nu/old school house EP which dropped recently, vintage flavoured, electronic soul.

The Compost disco sub-label has further cemented it's growing reputation with a great new disco number by John Gazoo - one for all you dancing queens. The rising stars of Ben Butler & Mousepad then followed but only because they've been given a future 80s soul style rehash from the talented Eero Johannes. Silkie then kept the future 80's vibes running but on a dubstep riddim, a great new release on the ever interesting Deep Medhi label and just to prove the 80's synth soul sound is here to stay I had to drop another cut from the excellent Opolopo album which is getting better with every listen.

George FitzGerald is back with another great EP on one of my labels of the year Hotflush, expect more great soulful post garage beats and a tougher techno remix on the flipside from the label boss himself. Downliners Sekt are a mysterious production collective with an unrepentantly forward looking musical agenda as their track on this weeks show 'White Dawn' perfectly highlights. Tshaka is a great urban poet and with the 'We' track backed up by some great beats courtesy of Me Raabenstein, if you like Saul Williams you'll be feeling the new ep out on Nonine round about now. Brownswood are about to release some new Worldwide family compiled selections kicking off with a stellar collection of beats that have tickled Simbad and Lefto look out for it. The show ended up on a darkly soulful note courtesy of the new Freddie Cruger and Anthony Mills Wildcookie project coming out on Tru-Thoughts soon, check the video for a harsh reality check.

Plearn Promdan - Wan Maha Sanook (Soundway Records)
Marie-Line Dahomay - Yo (Playasound)
Aksak Maboul vs Kasai Allstars - Land Dispute (Crammed)
Lone - The Birds Don't Fly This High (Magic Wire)
John Gazoo - What Happened (Compost disco promo)
Ben Butler & Mousepad - Other Islands II, Eero Johannes rmx (Lo Recordings promo)
Silkie - Wonder (Deep Medi promo)
Opolopo - Step Into The Light (Tokyo Dawn)
George FitzGerald - Don't You (Hot Flush promo)
Downliners Sekt - White Dawn (Disboot)
Tshaka - We (Nonine promo)
Andreas Saag - Nobody Here (Brownswood promo)
Wildcookie - Heroine (Tru-Thoughts promo)

Kicking off with some of that new school, old school soul music from down under producer Katalyst and the unmistakable vocals of Steve Spakek under their collective moniker Space Invadas - tune!! Poobah have digitally released some of their vinyl only releases recently and I had to drop the future G-funk classic of 'Catch Me Riding Dirty' from the unrepentantly forward looking Samiyam. I then dropped a nice little beat number on the Kindred Spirits sub label for all things forward looking, Nod Navigators, 'Arisseee Henson' by The Blessings that had somehow got lost in my digital filing system, personally I blame Apple.

Buddy Sativa is about to release one of the freshest jazz albums of the year on Favourite recordings, it's called Deus Ex Machina and all I can say is it's DEEP!! A really great slice of production work from this French beat maestro, just have a listen to 'The Pilgrim' track on the show but the whole album is a great listen start to finish - highly recommended. Ras G's Ghetto Sci-Fi album has also just been digitally re-issued by Poobah and I couldn't resist following Buddy Sativa with the deep jazz beats of 'Sunrise' from this Afro futurist.

Cheikh Lo then followed with the most up-tempo track from his recent mellow Jamm album, a surprisingly sedate listen for this usually funky Senagalese multi instrumentalist. Carrying on the Afro vibes were the Munich boys, Bad Jazz Troupe with their epic 'Breakdown Treat' which does exactly that over a prolonged period, lovely. Krystal Klear is another stellar project hailing from the Dublin based All City label boys and it's a fresh slice of boogie heaven to get your shuffle on to. Anthony Shakir has just got the remix treatment from Space Dimension Controller - an inspired piece of match making by the Rush Hour boys and the result is predictably good and you've got to love any track called 'Detroit State Of Mind'.

Sepalcure are back with their second release on Hot Flush and I'm happy to report they've cemented their reputation with another quality release of future beats with some nice melodic touches, it really has been quite a year for Hot Flush this year - great A&Ring. Boxcutter has just sneaked out a little release with fellow Irish producer and muso Kab Driver and it's great, just check the future boogie badness of '2time' if you need any convincing. Clara Moto has been given some excellent remix treatments and the deep DOP twist just beat the slo-mo Ritornel rework to the show but it was close. The new Dubulah Arabic project Syriana then followed for all you world music virgins followed by a wonderful UK urban/indie mish mash from Breton who I (un)confidently predict to win next years Mercury music prize if they keep up the good work.

Space Invadas - Imaginist (BBE promo)
Samiyam - Catch Me Riding Dirty (Poobah)
The Blessings - Arisseee Henson (Nod Navigators)
Buddy Sativa - The Pilgrim (Favourite promo)
Ras G - Sunrise (Poobah)
Cheikh Lo - Bourama (World Circuit)
Bad Jazz Troupe - Breakdown Treat (Jazz n Milk promo)
Krystal Klear - Tried For Your Love
Anthony Shakir - Detroit State Of Mind, Space Dimension Controller (Rush Hour)
Sepalcure - Fleur (Hot Flush promo)
Boxcutter & Kab Driver - 2time (Kinnego)
Clara Moto - Deer & Fox, DOP rmx (Infine promo)
Syriana - The Road To Damascus (Real World)
Breton - December (Hemlock promo)

Well that's enough of vinyl back to the digital..

Pedestrian kicked off the show with a lush slice of electronica from the new Brownswood Bubblers compiled by that nice man Gilles Peterson before I dropped a little Scratch 22 remix of the excellent Electric Wire Hustle from New Zealand, now that's what I call soul. I then followed that with a beautiful cut from a beautiful soundtrack album. It's the music to The Assassination of Jesse James composed by Nice Cave & Warren Ellis, a truly breathtaking piece of music and thanks to King Cannibal for turning me on to it.

Souad Massi then kept the mellow vibes rolling with some Algerian folk music from her new album before the Starkey remix of Balearic proggy new boys Starlings crashed the show back into the hear and bassline now. Arp 101 then kept the future flavour rolling in a proper fashion, courtesy of the ever interesting Eglo Records. J.Rocc is about to release an album after years of DJing at the highest level and I am proud to present a little future disco cut from the project which is guaranteed to destroy even the stiffest of dancefloors.

There is a great compilation of tropical disco delights out called Disc 'O' Lypso which is an audio delight start to finish and the Tappa Zukie track 'Freak' was a little taste of the delights if you purchase the compilation. Speaking of comps I then hit you with some vintage Africa courtesy of the latest Analogue Africa compilation of wonder - Afro Beat Airways. If you want to know what a compilation should look like as well as sound like then I suggest you sprint to your nearest record store (could be a long way these days) and buy it.

flako has just produced a nice little concept EP (don't be scared, its great!) soundtracking a film future beat style and my hat goes off to him, check the Shaunise vocal track for a taster of the eclectic delights. I then had to drop a cut off the excellent Opolopo album about to drop on Tokyo Dawn, it's a killer future soul and boogie thing, check the 'Glide' track for a little taster. I couldn't resist dropping the main cut from the new Debuzz release - French hip hop at it's very best before DJ Vadim's new project, The Electic, ended the show on a Hip Ital Boogie tip, baaaadd...

Pedestrian - Hei Poa, Bubblers edit (Brownswood promo)
Electric Wire Hustle - Again, Scratch 22 remix (BBE promo)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely Thing (Mute Records)
Souad Massi - Un Sourire (Wrasse)
Starlings - Weight In Gold, Starkey remix (Civil Music promo)
Arp 101 - Flush (Eglo promo)
Taylor - CMB (Super promo)
J.Rocc - Party, Boogie Man remix (Stones Throw promo)
Tappa Zukie - Freak (Trans Air)
Apagya Show Band - Ma Nserew Me (Analogue Africa)
fLako - Love Opera featuring Shuanise (Project Moon Circle promo)
Opolopo - Glide (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Debuzz - Rcveillez Vous (Propaground promo)
DJ Vadim presents 'The Electric' - Beautiful, Suonho Italian Boogie mix (OGS promo)

Welcome to the all vinyl Global SoulJah & BBE Records Radio Show! To be honest I'm more concerned about the music than the format these days and I'm an unashamed convert to the convenience and portability of digital music formats. Typing an artist name or song title into a search option is certainly a damn site easier than trying to search through my 4,000+ records to find a track and being as I now spend half my life sitting in front of a computer then it makes sense to have my record collection on the screen as well, not to mention the savings! I no longer have to pay €10 for a 12" just to get the one remix that I like, it now costs me €1, now if they would just lower the cost of a digital album then I'd really be happy.

I now buy about 20 new vinyl records a year, basically stuff that doesn't get a digital release or stuff that is particularly collectible and here's a few of my purchases from the last year or so, that you wouldn't have heard on the show previously.

Lloyd Miller Trio - Way Out East (Jazzman)
Francisco Mora Catlett - Baba Lu Aye, Empyreal Version (Premiere Cru Music)
Amadou Et Mariam - Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Dance (Bara)
Nzimade Allstars - Highway Sporo Disco, Edit (Sofrito)
DJ Nature - This Side Of Heaven (Golf Channel)
DJ Nature - Everyone (Golf Channel)
Jamie Woon - Night Air, Ramadanman refix (Candent Songs)
Mistanomista - Detroit Session (Black label)
The Black Souls - Baki Mutane Nakuka (BBE)
Midlake - Roscoe, The Beyond The Wizard Sleeve Re:animation (Is It Balearic)

Just in case you didn't click on the Lloyd Miller link above then here's the video it linked to:

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Paul White - Goes To Hollywood (White)
Wayman Tisdale - Every Now And Then (Rendevous)
Debuzz - Voilo Le Buzz (Propaground promo)
Baker Brothers - Once I Had A Friend (Record Kicks)
Sugar Ice Tea - Palo Bonito (Nascente)
The Black Seeds - Rotten Dub, Rotten Apple D-Duff rmx (Easy Star promo)
Flying Lotus - Pie Face, My Dry Wet Mess rmx (Free download)
Ruckazoid - Crush (All City promo)
Taprikk Sweezee - Mercury (Zoik)
Starkey - Paradise, Rudi Zygadlo rmx (Civil Music promo)
Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
Marsmobil - Gonna Be My Day, Henrik Schwarz Acoustronic rmx (Compost promo)
Coyote - Moving, Still Going rmx (International Feel)
Francesco Tristano - Idiosynkrasia (Infine promo)

With only 10 tracks in this weeks show it's not one for the attention deficit disorder crew or the owners of Ibiza Sonica! Funnily enough this show got me removed from the Ibiza Sonica radio station in Ibiza. This is what the email said "I'm writing to let you know that my bosses have decided not to run Global Souljah anymore on Sonica as they don't think some of the more experimental and urban sounds played in the show fit on the station or appeal to many of our listeners. We’ve been discussing for a few weeks, but there have been tracks near the beginnings of the last 2 shows that have not gone down well!"

All I can see is that it is a shame that commercial considerations are decimating the FM radio landscape but it's obviously good news for internet radio & the more progressive stations which are increasingly picking up listeners who don't want to be dictated to by unimaginative programming, accountants and advertising executives.

Lee Perry - Exercising, HP Remxi (Tempa promo)
Asusu - No Kya (Project Squared promo)
The Reboot Joy Confession feat Dwight Trible - Spirit Of The Planets (Philpot)
Ekoplekz - Stalag Zero (Punch Drunk promo)
The Sound Of Lucrecia - Ara (Pruna)
Long Arm - After 4AM (Project Moon Circle)
The Rongetz Foundation - Congas In Action (Heavenly Sweetness)
Ebo Taylor - African Woman (Strut)
Lone - Cloud 909 (Magic Wire promo)
Sunship feat Warrior Queen - Almighty Father, Solid Grooves Underground SoulJah rmx (SoulJazz)

Optimo music reaches release number 10 with a release straight out of Jakarta(!) and it's a wonderfully diverse ep and the 'less is more' approach of Space System's 'Petik' track is a very worthy start to this weeks' show. Darkstar then keep the quality flowing with the great 'Under One Roof' track from their newly released North album which is this weeks album of the week for sure. 'Mass Dreams Of The Future' then followed as R&S march into 2010 cherry picking the cream of new wave producers, look out for this killer cut and a wicked flip side from Untold coming to a discerning record store near you soon.

The new wave of US urban stars (rarely rich with new ideas) are about to pay musical tribute to one of the all time greats Quincy Jones and I've picked up on the instrumental version of 'Soul Bossa Nostra' which somehow straddles the line between cheese and forward thinking dubstep quite admirably and which led me nicely into the purplish bassline workout of Velour from their recent Night Slugs ep. Dam Funk then held down the 80's vibes with a killer synth wig out from the latest All City release also featuring the talents of Computer Jay.

The Funk League and Raashan Ahmad then gave us all a reminder of how funky fresh hip hop used to be before the accountants took over and the new Balearic project from the Incarnations collective kept the sunshine vibes rolling and slid nicely into the classic 80's soul vibes of Raw Silk's 'Do It To The Music' now available via the great G.I. Disco compilation on BBE for a 99c download as opposed to the €20 slab of vinyl I brought not 5 years ago. How times have changed and to be honest I'm quite happy to have both formats.

A couple of quality deep house tracks with pleasing production twists and turns then followed by Eliphino and Bloody Mary before I finished the show with some quality fresh hip hop courtesy of the Swede:art remix album just out on Tokyo Dawn which was sadly cut short by my big clumsy fingers hitting the record stop by mistake 34 seconds before the usual 60 minute end to the show, ooooopps

Space System - Petik (Optimo)
Darkstar - Under One Roof (Hyperdub)
Untold - Mass Dreams Of The Future (R&S promo)
Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nostra, instrumental (Qwest/Insterscope promo)
Velour - Booty Slammer (Night Slugs)
Dam Funk - Love Affair (All City promo)
The Funk League - Why You? featuring Speech Defect (Favourite)
Raashan Ahmad - Sunshine feat Noelle Scaggs (Trad Vibe)
Incarnations - Make You Mine (Love Monk promo)
Raw Silk - Do It To The Music (BBE)
Eliphino - I Just Can't (Somethinksounds promo)
Bloody Mary - Arabesque feat Sam Leigh Brown, original (Dame promo)
Swede:art - Linguistics feat Stray, Ishfaw remix (Tokyo Dawn)

It's some of that new school old school house vibes to kick off the show this week from N.E.R.D (produced by Daft Punk) and obviously sacking the crap vocal in favour of the instrumental cut. A track from the excellent Philpot label's latest twisted release followed which has been described quite aptly by Boomkat as sounding like 'Bugz In The Attic having a nervous breakdown' - nice! Ninja Tune are keeping up their fine run of form post the release of their amazing box set with a great release from Stateless which is some forward thinking Afro tinged soulful wonkiness with some nice remixes by the like of Rustie and others for good measure. Perhaps my musical find of the week though is Sara Mitra, a lady brimming full of soulfolkjazz goodness, her album is coming out in November on the great Impossible Ark label who are mercilessly holding down the quality control with all their output and long may that continue.

Some serious slo-mo action then followed courtesy of boy wonder James Blake who I've been championing since day one and who never fails to disappoint followed by a great little lethargic soulful jazzy electro workout from the in-demand Jimmy Edgar. Nelson Marquez then livened up proceedings with a little latin flavoured slice of soul from an excellent compilation on Brawl records featuring T-Love, the whole Brawl crew and a host of great cross genre musical delights. Ethiopian jazz inspired crew Woima Collective then sent the show off to a shady Addis Ababa club late at night with the wonderful 'The Cave' track, make sure you check their great sub Saharan flavoured album on Kindred Spirits.

Sub Swara are back with a new album after their inspired debut and still one of my favourite dubstep albums Coup D'Yah. The production is still tight but the style has now changed and is sounding a bit more mainstream which has thrown me slightly but respect to them for moving on even if it's a bit like losing an old girlfriend. My favourite track is a bit of a throwback to their original sound and the super deep yet rugged 'Vagabond Knowledge'. The new Numbers label offering which is produced by Sbtrkt and utilising the vocal talents of Jessie Ware then followed and is destined to become a bit of an anthem in the world of bass music if you ask me.

Slakah The Beatchild is about to drop his new album on BBE and I'm loving the soulful title track 'Something Forever'. I am also happy to report the return of Kelpe moving from DC Recordings to pastures new with a solid new EP and the particularly pleasing 'Taps On' track. A little African section then rounded off this weeks selection with a killer dancefloor cut from the new Alex Wilson cross cultural collaboration Mali Latino, make sure you check the album, it's a marvel and a testiment to Alex's determination, that it ever got made and the world of music is all the better for it. Emmanuel Jal, via a Henrik Schwarz rmx, then closed the show with a killer slice of Afro House blessed by the vocals of one of Africa's finest rappers.

N.E.R.D. - Hypnotize U, Instrumental (Geffen/Interscope promo)
The Reboot Joy Confession - Funkin Facets (Philpot Records)
Stateless - Ariel, Album version (Ninja Tune promo)
Sara Mitra - The Old Country (Impossible Ark promo)
James Blake - I Only Know What I Know Now (R&S promo)
Jimmy Edgar - My Balance, Last Priority (Non Plus)
Nelson Marquez - So Fly (Brawl promo)
Woima Collective - The Cave (Kindred Spirits)
Sub Swara - Vagabond Knowledge (Low Motion promo)
Jessie Ware & Sbtrkt - Nervous (Numbers promo)
Slakah The Beatchild - Something Forever (BBE promo)
Kelpe - Taps On (Black Acre)
Madou Sidiki Diabete, Ahmed Fofana, Alex Wilson - Bamako 2000 (Alex Wilson)
Emmanuel Jal - Kuar, Henrik Schwarz rmx (Innervisions)

Not much time for a proper show review this week but I'd just like to let you know that the show has just been picked up by two new FM stations - RBS 91.9FM in Strasbourg and Gaudeamus 93.6FM in Kaunus, Lithuania. If you are in their area then check them out and support the stations that are supporting great independent music.

Quick notes though check out the oOoOO ep, it's as fresh as anything I've heard this year - respect to Tri Angle Records and respect also goes out to Favourite Records who are about to hit their 50th release a great milestone for any independent label - nice one boys, keep the tunes coming..

oOoOO - Mumbai (Tri Angle)
Finn Peters - Brain Solo (Mantella promo)
Tom Ze - Augusta, Angelica e Consolacao (Luaka Bop promo)
The Spencer Jackson Family - Ain't Nobody Gonna Treat Us Like They Used To Do (Jazzman)
Dojo Cuts - Ain't So Low (Record Kicks promo)
Maxmillion Dunbar - Girls Dream (Ramp)
Gonjasufi - Candylane, Bibio remix (Warp)
Belleruche - Bobby (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Marbert Rocel - Love Me, Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt rmx (Compost promo)
Peverlist - Roll With The Punches (Punch Drunk promo)
The Bug - Skeng, Autechre rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
The Bug - Catch A Fire feat Hitomi (Ninja Tune promo)
Human Egg - Love Like This (Favourite promo)
The Philly Armada Orchestra - For The Love Of Money (BBE REcords)

So another week whizzes past marked by another show and what a groove to kick off with, the evergreen Eddy Senay's 'Cameo', simple but devastatingly effective and now available courtesy of the DJ Spinna compiled, Strange Games & Funky Things 5 comp from BBE. Another re-issue then followed in the shape of 'O Mi Shango' from Mongo Santamaria presented on the Salsa Explosion: The New York Salsa Revolution 1969-179, yet another great compilation from the reborn and re-energised Strut records. Juxtaposing tropical grooves old and new I then dropped the Da Lata remix of rising Brazilian star, Luisa Maita from a great forthcoming bunch of reworks of her recent album due soon on Cumbancha.

Deep house was then the order of the day thanks to Mahon - check our their new EP about to drop on R2 records, deep soulful niceness. My boy Space Dimension Controller is about to release his latest ep of cosmic soulful boogie on R&S (result!) and it's as solid as eps come. Seaworthy & Matt Rosner went to a lake in New South Wales and recorded its ecosystem which formed the basis for their Two Lakes album, a great electro-acoustic project where once technology and nature sit side by side harmoniously.

John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto have been recording under the I'm Not a Gun name for a while and the 'Coloured Sky Coloured Mind' track from their latest album is a little future Balearic nugget. I then succumbed to the hype as I should have done in this case by dropping the Burial remix of Commix which is now finally out on digital and about time. Now Ninja Tunes are celebrating their 20th birthday, a major achievement for an independent record label, with a slew of releases and, after seeing them in concert recently, I couldn't resist playing the Fourtet remix of the Anti Pop Consortium 'Volcano' anthem. Paul White's characteristically good remix of FOE then followed neatly running into Duke Dumont's inspired reworking of Brazilian musical tripper Terror Babe.

Darkstar's new single on Hyperdub is an emotive winner and a pleasing departure for this increasingly eclectic label and long may that continue as whatever they put out the quality control is always there. I couldn't resist finishing off the show with a track I was caning a while back, Joker's remix of The Heavy which is undoubtedly one of my favourite dubstep tracks and also available on the Ninja tune XX box set. Incidentally watch out for King Cannibal's Way Of The Nina mix, he's put together 247 tracks from the labels catalogue into an awesome 74 minute mix in masterful style, don't say I didn't warn you!

Eddy Senay - Cameo (BBE)
Mongo Santamaria - O Mi Shango (Strut promo)
Luisa Maita - Fulaninha, Da Lata rmx (Cumbancha promo)
Mahon - Closer (R2 promo)
Space Dimension Controller - Mercurial Attraction (R&S promo)
Seaworthy & Matt Rosner - Meroo Lake Pt. 1 (12K)
I'm Not A Gun - Colored Sky Colored Mind (City Center Offices)
Commix - Be True, Burial remix (MetalHeadz)
Anti Pop Consortium - Volcano, Four Tet Remix (Ninja Tune promo)
FOE - A Handsome Stranger Called Death, Paul White remix (Free download)
Babe, Terror - Epicentro, Duke Dumont Rework (Phantasy promo)
Darkstar - Gold (Hyperdub promo)
The Heavy - How You Like Me Now? Joker remix (Ninja Tune)

So here we go and damn the new Morgan Packard album is good! It's lovingly crafted electo acoustic versions of club and home music - look out for Moment Again Elsewhere, released on Anticipate recordings on October 11, an essential purchase. DJ Rocs album is coming as well and it is surprisingly listenable for a juke album which let's face it is yet another genre where its all about the singles. Pavel Dovgal is a producer to watch and another nice addition to the Project Moon Circle family. Teebs is getting a lot of press at the moment due to his album on Brainfeeder about to drop. I've got to say despite being well produced it is a little bit samey but with some great moments - check his art output as well, talented guy.

Daedelus has just come out with a really nice side of submerged soul and disco cuts which have been Daedelusised within an inch of their life, the flipside by Teebs is also worth checking, big up the All City Dublin crew for another interesting release. Couldn't resist dropping 'Faded Lady' from the SSO band again as it's one of my new favourite soul cuts, big thanks to DJ Spinna for introducing me to the tune through his wonderful Strange Games and Funky Things 5 comp for my boys at BBE.

The ANBB album is an all over the shop experimental hybrid coming out on Raster Norton but the 'One' track is a delicate little flower of a tune in the otherwise wilder more abrasive, yet interesting album, an absolutely lovely track. I couldn't resist dropping another track from the Heart comp on Tokyo Dawn - big up Blaktronics for this weeks offering. Now the Truth's album is a bit samey and doesn't take advantage of the opportunities an album offers for diversity and story telling but I do like 'Indigo Mood' from it, great melodic dubstep.

Natacha Atlas has just released her new album and has largely ditched the electronics in favour of a more rootsy Arabic vibe and I have to say I like it, she's improving with age. Supersoulsonic are otherwise known as Michael Rutten and Christian Prommer and they are the latest boys to release on the new Compost Disco label offshoot and both cuts from the release are more than doing it for me. Kenton Slash Demon are fast becoming one of my favourite house producers and their new release 'Matter' has got massive crossover potential they could turn out to be the new thinking mans Daft Punk if they're not careful! Moonstarr then closed the show with his latest release a great slice of Detroit flavoured vocal house all the way from Canada.

Morgan Packard - Moment (Anticipate promo)
DJ Roc - Lost Without U (Planet Mu promo)
Pavel Dovgal - Lyra Bird feat BekBekson (Project Moon Circle promo)
Teebs - Why Like (Brainfeeder promo)
Daedalus - LA6 mini mix - Global SoulJah edit (All City)
The SSO Orchestra - Faded Lady (BBE Promo)
Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld - One (Raster Norton promo)
Blaktronics - Fais Moi Fremir feat Sheila Monique (Tokyo Dawn)
Truth - Indigo Mood (Chemical Records)
Natacha Atlas - Batkallim (6 Degrees Records)
Supersoulsonic - Eddy Is Dead (Compost Disco promo)
Kenton Slash Demon - Matter (Tartelet promo)
Moonstarr - Monopoly feat Tash (Public Transit Recordings promo)

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So the posting on this show is a little late but it's a nice little journey through the world of modern basslines, classic reggae, psyched out beats, modern jazz fusion, deep house and fresh electronica.

The new Aardvarck album in out on Eat Concrete and is a great exercise in restrained, minimal yet soulf basslines and beats. The Dug Out series of reggae re-issues is amazing - make sure you buy them all. If you didn't know Gaslamp Killer was a tripper then you need to check out his collaboration with Computer Jay on this weeks show! Hidden Orchestra are a great eclectic cinematic, jazz crew who you need to check and Senking has produced a massive album of atmospheric stretched out dubstep - do yourself a favour and invest in a new subwoofer before listening though.

LV has teamed up with Okmalumkookat for some UK meets Kwaito funky fresh fusion, Pariah is yet another killer UK producer making future garage mutations and has an old head on young shoulders. Blue Daisey is back and stretching out his production horizons and John Talabot takes him into unchartered deep house territory. Bara Brost are on a mission to stretch the definition of minimal to brave new frontiers and the genre is all the better for their input. The new Gold Panda album contains melodic beats with attitude and I like it loads, Letherette are Alexander Nuts new signing for Hotep and more than worth some of your time and money and The Rongetz Foundation relocate from France to New York to produce one of the best jazz albums of 2010 - Enjoy!!

Aardvarck - Heal (Eat Concrete Records)
Little John & Billy Boyo - What You Want To Be, Disc Jockey (Dug Out)
King Kong - Try Not I (Dug Out)
The Gaslamp Killer - Shattering Inner Journeys feat Computer Jay (Brainfeeder promo)
Hidden Orchestra - Wandering (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Senking - Skidozer 301 (Raster Norton)
LV & Okmalumkoolkat - Zharp (Hyperdub promo)
Pariah - Prism (R&S)
Blue Daisy & Anneka - Raindrops, John Talabot's Cosmic rework (Black Acre)
Bara Brost - Elephancycle feat Conan Kowalski (BBE Promo)
Gold Panda - Marriage (Ghostly International)
Letherette - Cherryade (Ho Tep)
The Rongetz Foundation - Bulgarian Basketball (Heavenly Sweetness promo)

This weeks show has got the electo funk for sure but kicked off with some more quirky West coast beat making in a pysched out, fuzz, tape hiss style from Yuk who's pleasingly doing his own thing with his new a d w a album - nice artwork as well. Tropics, the latest Planet Mu discovery and another disconcertingly young UK producer, then followed with a great dreamy, creamy slice of ethereal poptronica, surely another talent in the making. After BBE head honcho Pete moved to Berlin he started mining the German scene for release inspiration and the latest compilation is a look back to some of the soul, funk, r&b and disco brought to the country by the GI's stationed in the country during the cold war years and I for one am more than happy to playing tracks like 'Rumours' by the Timex Social Club again! Look out for GI Disco in a store near you soon.

Squarepusher has just released a track on a non Warp label shock! His latest release is a little electro funk number on Ed Banger and a welcome soul injection for the label. The Tokimonsta album has finally dropped and is a nice little debut from this young lady who adds a welcome feminine sensitivity and melodic touch to the otherwise male dominated beat making world. Pablo Mandelbrot is a warped disco moniker for hire and I'm loving the new EP of twisted disco cut ups, apparently produced by someone we all know. Now Mark E has been making waves for a while but not a lot of his work has really grabbed me until he released his new EP on Running Back records last week and the 'Nobody Else' track is something else, dark, dirty but emotive bassline driven disco at it's finest..

The Bilal album is about to drop and the new single, 'Restart' is now on the shelves and download sites and another great little teaser for what is sure to be a killer album. DOP are my favourite sort of house producers - musical! Coming to production from an instrument playing world they've been making some killer tracks over the last couple of years and impressing with a great little live show as well. Well their debut album, funnily entitled 'Greatest Hits' is coming shortly and is one of those very rare things a house music album that works as a start to finish listen, tells a story and is well crafted rather than a collection of dancelfloor bangers laughingly called and album, which is often the case in the house genre - make sure you check it when it comes out.

The Owiny Sigoma Band is a great slice of Afro London musical cross polination facilitated by Gilles Peterson and his Brownswood label, taking some forward thinking London musicians down to Kenya to record with some great local musicians and they've come up with a gem of a release, watch out for the album. Sushi chef Kay Suzuki then ends the show with his personal take on the sounds of Africa made in collaboration with some great Malian musicians and given a little musical house rub, quality.

Yuk - Onlywhenshesmiles featuring Teebs (Leaving Records)
Tropics - Give It Up (Planet Mu promo)
Timex Social Club - Rumours (BBE promo)
Kab Driver - E-M-O Transistor Array (Unreleased)
Squarepusher - Cryptic Motion (Ed Banger)
Tokimonsta - Death By Disco (Listen Up)
Pablo Mandelbrot - Hot Swap (Modisch Aber Unrentabe)
Mark E - Nobody Else (Running Back)
Bilal - Restart (Plug Research)
DOP - 1 Gram (Circus Company promo)
Owiny Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Brownswood)
Kay Suzuki - Music featuring Babacarr Dieng & Jally Kebba Susso (Round In Motion)

Couldn't resist posting this classic 80's video from Timex Social Club, check it on the new BBE compilation, G.I. Disco - coming soon!!

Kicked off the show this week with the amazing new, simple but devastatingly effective, single from Oneohtrix, Anthony and Fennesz a wonderfully packaged little 7" gem of a tune and one of my favourites of the year so far, I urge you to check it out, it's called 'Returnal' find it on the Editions Mego label. The contemplative vibe then continued with a track from the new Teho Teardo retrospective on Expanding records. Now I didn't know this Italian soundtrack producer before this compilation of his 2004-2008 work but I'm sure as hell glad I do now. Shed then came along and shattered the peace with a funky arse slice of techno from his new album coming really soon on Ostgut Ton, a really nice diverse techno showcase. LA Vampires and Zola Jesus are a couple of ladies with a penchant for the leftfield and I'm loving their pyschedlic, scuzzy dubwise collaboration called 'Searching'. Balam Acab has been getting enough blog hype recently and for once it's actually justified his recent See Birds EP is as fresh sounding as it comes, I'll leave you to describe it though!

After the dirty dub comes The Resonators and one of the sweetest reggae tunes of the year, 'Sweet Love Affair' - pure niceness in the dance followed by one of my all time favourite soul tunes, Starvue's 'Body Fusion' from the new Strange Games and Funky Things Volume Five expertly compiled by DJ Spinna for BBE, killer selection. I then dug out a great slice of Detroit flavoured nu-soul from a couple of years back sung by Inohs Sivad and produced by Carl Craig before dropping into some deep UK hip hop vibes remixed from the Foreign Beggars crew featuring the vocals from my favourite South African MC, Ben Sharpa. The 'urban' vibe baton was then taken up Ahu and her new quirky nu-soul cut 'To Love', look out for that on One-Handed Records coming soon. The little soul/hip hop mix was then sweetly rounded off by the wonderful Bottom Fly cut 'Rhyme Or Reason' - classic!

A little 4/4 mix ended the show, kicked off with the new Prime Numbers cut from graphic designer extraordinaire (responsible for the Soundways record look for instance) Discreet Unit and a lovely deep nu/old school house cut which runs nicely into some super fresh UK Funky vibes courtesy of the DVA remix of Cooly G before ending on one of the soulful house cuts of the year the wonderful Maddslinky and Omar collaboration 'Special' on Tru-Thoughts.

Oneohtrix, Anthony and Fennesz - Returnal (Editions Mego)
Teho Teardo - II Divo: Che Cosa Ricordare Di Lei? (Expanded Records promo)
Shed - Keep Time (Ostgut Ton promo)
La Vampires & Zola Jesus - Searching (Not Not Fun)
Balam Acab - See Birds, Moon (Tri Angle)
Resonators - Sweet Love Affair (WahWah 45's)
Starvue - Body Fusion (BBE promo)
Inohs Sivad - Somewhere Else (Third Ear)
Foreign Beggars ft Ben Sharpa - Asylum Bound, DJ Trouble Remix (Dented Records promo)
Ahu - To Love (One Handed promo)
Bottom Fly - Rhyme Or Reason (Jazzy Sport)
Discreet Unit - Shake Your Body Down (Prime Numbers promo)
Cooly G - Disboy, DVA Hi Emotions rmx (DVA promo)
Maddslinky - Special featuring Omar, At Jazz remix (Tru-Thoughts promo)

I like this weeks show. Every week I check the new promo arrivals, add a couple of new purchases and maybe some old favourites until I hit 60 minutes of music and then I arrange the tunes into a sensible order and then in one live take mix them (if possible), loop them or just run them together and say a few words about the music, hoping I sound half sensible whilst being informative. If there is a mistake then that goes in as well. Generally I think the show is of reasonably consistent quality but some weeks it just comes together better than others and this week is definitely one of the better ones.

Serph starts proceedings this week a great young producer and musician from Tokyo he is one to watch and his Vent album works start to finish flitting through the worlds of pop, jazz, electronica and soundtracks to great effect, hopefully it will soon get some proper worldwide distribution to avoid the expensive Japanese import price tag. Soweto Kinch swiftly follows and if you don't know this young Sax playing MC from the UK you need to rectify that quick, he is a rare talent look out for his new album The New Emancipation coming soon on his own self titled record label, it's one of the freshest jazz albums of the year. Eskmo is another great young electronic producer from San Francisco with some nice musical touches look out for more from him on Ninja Tune. Lorn isn't sleeping after the summer release of his album on Brainfeeder and has just dropped a new EP with a couple of little remixes on and some new material and I'm particularly liking the 'Until There Is No End Track' which is displaying a nice soulful side to this otherwise quite agressive beat maker.

The Juke bandwagon is well and truly rolling so I thought I'd help give it a little push with a track from the deeper side of the scene courtesy of DJ Earl and a more cerebral track from this largely raw, lude, uncultured scene quite surprising coming from a teenager! Downliners Sekt are coming out with some downright dirty, dark and uncompromising music and 'Dirty Meinz' is definitely one for a certain time and place, I'll let you decide where and when. There is a great new compilation showcasing the LA beat making scene's talent roster called Proximity One: Narrative Of A City and it's a great listen start to finish and will undoubtedly be one of my compilations of the year, check the Take and Dam Funk tracks for a taste of what to expect.

Games are otherwise known as Oneohtrix Point Never & Joel Ford and you need to know about this genre bending space cadets as the Heartland track illustrates whereas you probably alread know a bit about Mathew Dear of whom I'm not a massive fan but the 'Honey' track from his new album is definitely tickling my lobes in all the right places. Christopher Willits is a Ghostly International label mate of Dears and his new album is a thing of gentle, natural folk beauty mixed up with some nice electronic touches and well worth getting your hands on. Now the 80's are well back in fashion and Hint has just released his little musical homage to the soulful side of the decade, 'Give It Up'.

I couldn't resist dropping another Space Dimension Controller track this week and I'm sure it's not going to be the last on the show, I'm liking his style. Afrology is an interesting little project out of France which due to it over reliance on samples in unreleasable so it's up for free download and is a nice little blend of Africa and hip hop sampleology. Crewdson is the latest release on Slowfoot records, those nice people that brought Robert Logan to the world and it's a fitting end to a heavily electronic biased show.

Serph - Snow (Noble)
Soweto Kinch - On The Treadmill (Soweto Kinch Recordings promo)
Soweto Kinch - Raise Your Spirit (Soweto Kinch Recordings promo)
Eskmo - Cloudlight (Ninja Tune promo)
Lorn - Until There Is No End (Brainfeeder promo)
DJ Earl - Sounds of Footwork (?)
Downliners Sekt - Dirty Meinz (Disboot)
Take - Converations With Yesterday (Proximal Records)
Games - Heartlands (Hippos In Tanks)
Matthew Dear - Honey (Ghostly International)
Christopher Willits - Sun Body (Ghostly International)
Hint - Give It Up, Instrumental (True-Thoughts promo)
Dam-Funk - A Day At The Carnival (Proximal Records)
Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant (Kinnego)
Afrology - Togo Soul (Free Download)
Crewdson - Mime (Slowfoot promo)

Another week another nice selection, this week with some unashamed help from Boomkat and one of their latest 14 Tracks selections which provided 3 tracks, cheers boys!

The SSO Orchestra - Faded Layd (BBE promo)
So Percussion, Matmos - Water (Cantaloupe Music)
Luisa Maita - Fulaninha, Maga Bo rmx (Cumbancha)
1000 Names - Long Early Morning (Black Acre)
Hidden Orchestra - Footsteps (Tru Thoughts promo)
Shed - Estrange (Ostgut)
Patrick Pulsinger - Future Back feat Fennesz (Disko B)
Fout Tet - Angel Echoes, John Hopkins rmx (Dominoe)
Space Dimension - Journey To The Core Of The Unknown (Royal Oak)
Muallem - Holland Tunnel (Compost Black promo)
Strand - Mac 8 (Laid Back Radio)
Optimum - Crash Riddim (Planet Mu promo)
Becoming Real - Fast Motion (Ramp Recordings)

Not a lot to say this week due to time constraints except that some weeks show turn out better than others and for some reason I reckon this episode is especially nice, check it out..

Rokia Traore - Dianfa (Universal Jazz)
Donso - Kono (Comet)
Malombo - Sangoma (Nascente)
Johnny Colon - Merecumbe (Fania)
Joey Pastrana and His Orchestra - Dance Donna (Cotique)
Dan Mela and His Crew - Happy Birthday Compost (Compost promo)
Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom - Rebuff (Big Dada)
ESQ & Chikaramanga - My Intellect (Tres promo)
Superisk - Find Your Way (Punch Drunk)
Falty DL - Endeavour (Planet Mu promo)
George Levin - Late Discovery (BBE promo)
Pete McCrae Strings - Dance and Sing (Million Dollar Disco)
Adultnapper feat Big Bully - Low Point On High Ground, Dj Sprinkles rmx (Simple promo)

Not enough hours in the day this week so no show summary or links to the artists, google is your friend if you want to research the artists.

Pantha Du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer (Rough Trade)
Friedman Liebezeit - The Librarian, Friedman Rmx (Non Place)
Gideon Van Gelder - Artic Queen (Kindred Spirits)
Nosaj Thing - Light 1 (Alpha Pup)
Free The Robots - Turkish Voodoo (Alpha Pup)
Mount Kimbie - Ode To Bear (Hot Flush)
Andreya Triana - Draw The Stars (Ninja Tune)
Izzi Dunn - All Good Things (Idunnit promo)
Lalo Schifrin - Quiet Village (CTI)
Oriol - Joy FM (Planet Mu)
The Longcut - Repeated, Toro Y Moi rmx (Melodic)
Funkineven 1956 - Heart Pound (Eglo promo)
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics - Rain Dance (Strut promo)
Flanger - Crime in The Pale Moonlight, Rashad Becker rmx (Non Place)
Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even (BBE)

Scuzzy dub experiments to kick start the show this week, inspired by the new 14 tracks comp from Boomkat (pretty much always an inspiring selction) with Forest Swords and then a track from the nice new NoNine records release from Lagerfeltz, closely followed by some cinematic funk from a great Richard Strauss rework, given a bit of resuscitation courtesy of the new Part Keller compilation on the otherwise housey Drum Poet Community. Strut continue their rich vein of 2010 form by teaming Lloyd Miller with The Heliocentrics for a great new album of ethno jazz fusion vibes - wonderful.

Bilal is about to drop his third album on the independent Plug Research after some major label politics resulted in the 'accidental' leaking of his second album, some free spirits just shouldn't be and can't be shackled. Vikter Duplaix is back with some overdue tunage and the ancestral style rerub by Boddhi Satva keeps it nice and deep. Compost have set up a new disco flavoured imprint and I'm looking forward to what they have up their sleeves after a promising start. Spoek Mathambo has an album coming shortly on BBE and is melding her South African heritage with some fresh northern hemisphere beats to fresh effect.

Donso is a nice new project on Comet out of France with Krazy Baldhead of Ed Banger fame mixing up the studio wizadry with some great Malian musicians to nice effect. ASC is branching out from his D&B roots into interesting new directions and I'm liking the slo-mo electro vibes of Textura. Jean Jacques Perrey's new album is remixed rather uninspiringly by most of the many modern producers on the album with a couple of exceptions, Jega's remix being one of them before Low Density Matter closes the show with some great melodic dubstep vibes.

Forest Swords - Glory Gongs (Old English Spelling Bee)
Lagerfeltz - Evenaar (NoNine promo)
Richard Strauss - 2001, CF Peters Corps version (Drum Poet Community promo)
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics - Nava (Strut promo)
Bilal - Free (Plug Research promo)
Vikter Duplaix - Electric Love, Boddhi Satva rmx (Libra Som Unlimited)
Stefano e Bene feat Hard Ton - Why Your Love, Snuff Crew rmx (Compost Disco)
Spoek Mathambo - Out The Box (BBE promo)
Donso - Mogoya (Comet)
ASC - Textura (Nonplus)
Jean Jacques Perrey & Cosmic Pocket - Cheng Guy, Jega rmx (Invitro)
Low Density Matter - Blue Street (KeySound recordings)

Wow middle of July already, time is flying but luckily so are the tunes and Natural Self has come up with a winner to kick off the show, re-recording DJ Shadow's, Organ Donor with some Radiohead lyrics to great effect before chill wave new boys Solar Bears come through with some Irish musical niceness - watch out for them, album due on Planet Mu soon. Aloe Blacc is also dropping an album at the end of the summer and after the success of 'Need a Dollar' comes another taste of things to come, this time a cover of The Velvet Underground's, 'Femme Fatale'. Sly Johnson started off with The Sian Super Crew from France but has since gone solo and is surely one of France's top soul boys, his 'I'm calling you' is classic soul music in every sense.

Kenton Slash Demon are better known for their Danish indetronica but I'm loving their house side project, a really fresh take on the genre with a great remix on the flip. Now I'm not big on Tiga but he's just been remixed and Martyn has done the business with a great bass heavy breaks twist. I will stop raving about the Mount Kimbie album as soon as it's released but in the mean time it's my pleasure to drop another great slice of their tasty electronic pie on you in the shape of their 'Mayor' track, wicked.

Mothboy is an eclectic electronic producer who could go somewhere but he's starting life on the net label Arcoplane with the help of some vocals from Brian Greene from Kinnego Flux, great deep minimal house music with soul. Lone is kicking off a new small label called Magic Wire Recordings to release his output and he's off to a great start with the first release due very soon, warm old school/new school house music. Onra has just put out a new single with some Waheed remixes that don't better the original but he's added a little bonus beat that is the nuts, he's always quality.

Electric Wire Hustle are about to hit Europe with a release on BBE and I for one am happy to be spreading the word about this laid back bunch of forward thinking Kiwi soul boys. I also had to drop more tracks from Jono McCleery and Taprikk Sweezee who are both also full of soul in their own ways but with very different approaches to how their soul should be expressed, I urge you to check them both. Throwing Snow then close the show, they are the first release for the tireless Alex Nuts new label Ho Tep, which will be showcasing all sorts of new directions in electronic music and I'm sure the world of music will be all the richer for it.

Natural Self - Street Spirit (Tru-thoughts promo)
Solar Bears - Photo Negative Living (Planet Mu promo)
Aloe Blacc - Femme Fatale (Stones Throw promo)
Sly Johnson - I'm Calling You (Universal)
Kenton Slash Demon - Sun (Tartelet promo)
Tiga - Gentle Giant, Martyn's Heaven rmx (Turbo Recordings)
Mount Kimbie - Mayor (Hot Flush promo)
Mothboy feat Brian Greene - Whisper Echo (Arcoplane promo)
Lone - Angel Brain (Macic Wire promo)
Onra - Bonus Beat (All City)
Electric Wire Hustle - Gimme That Kinda (BBE promo)
Jono McCleery - Tomorrow (Ninja Tune promo)
Taprikk Sweezee - Runner (Musik Aus Strom/Zoik Musik)
Throwing Snow - Un Vingt (Ho Tep)

Another quick rundown of a show..

Gorrilaz - Melancholy Hill, Last Skeptik rmx (White)
Mount Kimbie - Would Know (Hot Flush promo)
L-OW - Diver (Project Squared)
Digitonal - Cantus V (Just music)
M+M Theme - M+M Theme (BBE promo)
Lone - Once In A While (White)
Jo Stance - Hey Girl (Ricky Tick promo)
Pyser, Riggins & Jackson - Funky Butt, part 1 (Stonesthrow free download)
Herbie Hancock - Tempo De Amor feat Ceu (Hancock records)
Electric Wire Hustle - Waters (BBE promo)
Roy Ayers - Everybody (Soul Jazz Records)
Toto - Georgy Porgy (Harmless)
DJ Nate - See Into My Eyes (Planet Mu promo)
Peverelist - Fighting Without Fighting (Punch Drunk promo)

So what's hot this week? Soundway records as ever, just picked up their new comp and a couple I missed, quality. The Jaimie Lidell album is great adventurous soul, Eglo Records new signing, Arp 101 is wicked, Hindi Zahra is mixing Berber and English with aplomb, Jono McCleery is an amazing singer songwriter, the Greymatter remixes are out and all blinding, Spoek Mathambo is bringing the sounds of Africa into western ears and it looks like Juke is coming to Europe in the next few months, make sure you check some 'footwork' dance moves on Youtube!

Missing Linkx - Got A Minute (Philpot)
La Tromba - Calaba Calabao (Soundway)
Arp 101 - Dead Leaf (Eglo promo)
Jamie Lidell - She Needs Me (Warp)
Hindi Zahra - Set Me Free (Blue Note)
Hedzolez Soundz - Mee Bee (Soundway)
Joyce Moreno - Aquarius (Far Out)
Cacique '97 - Rwanda's Lament (Footmovin)
Jono McCleery - Tomorrow (Ninja Tune promo)
Falty DL - My friends Will Always Say (Planet Mu promo)
Greymatter - Raw Foot, Klic rmx (Unique/Uncut promo)
Spoek Mathambo - Gwababa, Affie Yusuf rmx (BBE Promo)
Dark Sky - Something To Lose (Black Acre)
DJ Spinn & Dj Rashad - Daydreamin (Ghettophiles)

So it's another short ramble this week due to Sonar week in Barcelona and the madness surrounding it kicking off with the HYPERDUB/PLAT DU JOUR Party which will undoubtedly be one of the weeks highlights and then it's all downhill from there (for my health anyway!)

Jyoti - Psalm Of The Rubble (Someothership Connect promo)
Frank Brettschneider - Crystal Dub (Raster Norton promo)
James Blake - Footnotes (R&S)
Taprikk Sweezee - Conversea (Musik Aus Strom/Zoik Musik)
Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti - Can't Hear My Eyes (4AD)
Ben Loncle - Soul Man (Motown France)
Quantic presents Flowering Inferno - Dub Y Guaguanco (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Cumbia Moderna De Soledad - Shacalao (Now & Again)
Gold Panda - You, Osborne rmx (Ghostly International)
Al Tourettes & Appleblim - Mr Swishy, Linkwood rmx (Aus promo)
Ogris Debris - Night Aery (Affine promo)
Kode9 - You Don't Wash, Dub (K7 promo)
George FitzGerald - Weakness (HotFlush promo)
Sbtrkt & Sampha - Break Off (Ramp promo)º

Just a quick line this week as Sonar is coming plus a host of work deadlines, help! Loving the Dadawah re-issue from Dug Out, deep spiritual roots reggae, the new Georgia Anne Muldrow, Jyoti project is sounding quality as well. The new Actress album is fire as well, hypnotising deep eclectronica and I had to drop another cut from the Ital Tex album as well.

Anyway loads of good bits to keep you occupied for another hour, enjoy.

Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations (Dug Out)
Kalbata & Mixmonster - Suger Plum Dub (Soul Jazz)
Jyoti - The Black Mother (Someothership Connect promo)
Ametsub - Repeatedly, Helios rmx (Mille Plateaux)
Ian Simmonds - Lutherstreet Blues (Musik Krausse)
Kinnego Flux - Dansak (Shockingly unreleased I think!)
Ladi6 - Walk Right Up (BBE promo)
Luisa Maita - Ai Ven Ele (Cumbancha promo)
JSBL - Der Mann mit den Schwankngen, Urbs rmx (Affine)
Ital Tek - Moment In Blue (Planet Mu)
Actress - Lost (Honest Jons)
Nacho Patrol - Cheetahman (M Division recordings)
DFP presents Electra 80 - Rock This Town, DFP Night Dubbin rmx (SSOH promo)

Seu Jorge kicks off the show this week with his crack at covering 'Everbody Loves The Sunshine' by Roy Ayers and a fine version it is as well. Keni Okulolo then funks things up with a welcome reissue courtesy of Hot Casa, an essential 7" purchase. I was more than happy to learn this week that Electric Wire Hustle from New Zealand have teamed up with the mighty BBE for their European album release, watch out for that but in the meantime enjoy the KILLER single 'They Don't Want'. The BlackJoy album is now available and all soulsters and disco queens should be running to the record shop, quick style.

I followed that up with a classic slice of simple but devastatingly effective house music from Zwicker, give a deep John Talabot remix that I was happy to restumble upon, released last year but still sounding fresh. Greie Gut Fraktion are a couple of German ladies who have spent a long time hanging around building sites and machines recording the sounds and then sculpting them into a surprisingly listenable album with great production, just check the onomatopoeic 'Cutting Trees'. Ghostpoet is the latest signing to Brownswood recordings and another great UK MC talent, quality lyrics and deep beats, I like him a lot.

I'm happy to present more Africa Hitech the musical lovechild of Steve Spacek and Mark Pritchard and the project is sounding as good as it should and is also ridiculously eclectic, everything from future dancehall and house to deep bassline chill out, essential. David Starfire isn't all that but Sub Swara have come up trumps again with another killer remix, they've got the midas touch for real. Ital Tek is coming through with a great sounding new album with an extra slice of melody to warm up the beats and electronic heart and it's sounding great.

Sepalcure are great and their new EP for Hotflush is a great deep soulful bassline workout, excellent, excellent EP, i then dropped a bit of Radiokijada my favorite Afro Peruvian electronic fusionists, I've been sitting on the album for ages but finally unwrapped it and it's a joy from start to finish. Ill Blue is coming with a nice slice of UK Funky for Hyperdub with a double A-Side slice of dancefloor bounce which will be all over the place this summer before Mount Kimbie (hurry up and get that album out) end the show with a great remix from a great original by Andreya Triana, look out for her Bonobo produced album coming really soon.

Seu Jorge and Almaz - Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Now and Again promo - free download)
Keni Okulolo - Call Me A Fool Today (Hot Casa promo)
Electric Wire Hustle - The Don't Want (BBE promo)
Blackjoy - 52 Devil's St (Discograph)
Zwicker - Oddity, John Talabot Dub (Compost)
Greie Gut Fraktion - Cutting Trees ()
Ghostpoet - Gone (Brownswood promo)
Africa Hitech - One Two (Warp promo)
David Starfire - Cobra, Sub Swara Remix (Six Degrees promo)
Ital Tek - Moon Bow (Planet Mu)
Sepalcure - Love Pressure (Hot Flush promo)
Radiokijada - Quema (Wrasse)
Ill Blue - Bellion (Hyperdub)
Andreya Triana - A Town Called Obsolete, Mount Kimbie rmx (Ninja Tune promo)

Another hour long amble through my ever changing musical landscape as I kick off on a French jazz fusion tip from the newly re-issued Cortex album and the very pleasant 'Matin Gris' track. Moving Ninja then keep the mellow vibes flowing albeit on a more experimental tip and it's just one of the many great tracks on the fifth anniversary celebratory compilation from Tectonic and it's related labels called Multiverse 2004-2009 : Dark Matter - a 2CD selection of just some of the fine musical moments from the last 5 years from this Bristol based crew. Ladi6 is a new signing to BBE records and is a fresh new soul talent from New Zealand on a relentless touring schedule, check her live in your area soon and pick up the album for some nice modern soulful summer vibes, niceness.

Luisa Maita is a new Brazilian singer who's just about to release a great album on Cumbancha, lovely sweet vibes perfect for those lazy warmer days to come. Rough Guide are just about to release their guide to Salsa divas, a look at some of the key ladies in the macho world of salsa and I'm particularly liking the Omara Portuondo track, quality Cuban Salsa from this veteran of the scene. More Richy Pitch then followed with yet more Ghanaian goodness (album coming soon on BBE) before I welcomed the return of Alex Cuba and his simple, feel good approach to music arranging.

I then took a trip down Balearic memory lane with a great slo-mo funky arsed bass disco tune courtesy of John Tropea before coming right up to date with an amazing new production talent Swede:art. He's about to release his debut album on Tokyo Dawn records but what makes it more remarkable is he is only 20 years old. The album is really strong and diverse, surely a major talent in the making. The Funk League are part of the funky fresh new/old school of hip hop and I'm loving their new ep featuring some great lyrical talent, proper hip hop.

Jaga Jazzist are always interesting and they're just about to put out some remixes of a few of their recent album tracks and I'm favouring the Skwee remix by Sprutbass, a Scandi musical love in of the highest quality. Pinch then followed with another seminal track from the new 5 year birthday label comp and his track 'Qawwali/Brighter Day' track which still sounds fresh and relevant unlike a lot of other dubstep from a while back and even earlier this year! The Mount Kimbie album is one of my most anticipated of this year and I'm super happy to get my mits on a little taster with the 'Field' track, a tasty appetizer for the main course coming in the summer. The show then finishes off with a 3 part epic from GB, part of the latest ep from the prolific All City label from Dublin which also contains work from the prolifici Carlos Nino.

Cortex - Matin Gris (Trad Vibes)
Moving Ninja - Uranium (Tectonic promo)
Ladi6 - Question? (BBE promo)
Luisa Maita - Marie E Moleque (Cumbancha promo)
Omara Portuondo - Mueve La Cintura Mulato (World Music Network)
Richy Pitch - Ninsuo feat Kwesi Dankwa (BBE promo)
Alex Cuba - If You Give Me Love (Caracol promo)
John Tropea - Living In The Jungle (TK Disco)
Swede:art - Embrace The Chill feat Comfort Fit & Persuit Grooves (Tokyo Dawn promo)
The Funk League - The Boogie Down Bombers feat Diamond D & Sadat X (Favorite Recordings promo)
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit, Sprutbass mix (Ninja Tune promo)
Pinch - Qawwali/Brighter Day (Tectonic promo)
Mount Kimbie - Field (Hot Flush promo)
GB - Sketches Of Crop Circles (All City)

No time for idle chatter this week (although I have to say I like the way the show flowed) just the track listing with no links either I'm afraid - you're on your own this week - go on you can do it

Charles Mann - Do It Again (BBE)
Teddy Prendegrass - The More I Get, The More I Want (BBE)
N.E.R.D. - Hot-N-Fun feat Nelly Furtado, Instrumental (Startrak/Interscope promo)
Grasscut - Old Machines (Ninja Tune promo)
Skitz - Rainy Day Sicence ft Task Force (Dragon Drop promo)
George Lenton - Guiness (Wicky Lindows promo)
Rudi Zygadlo - Opiate Of The Mass (Planet Mu promo)
Guillamino - Son Of A Beach (Bank Robber promo)
Balkan Beat Box - Balkumbia, Sub Swara rmx (Crammed promo)
Rich Pitch - Only Your Walkings fat Wanlov the Kubolor & M3ENSA (BBE promo)
Rocky Dawuni - Freefall, Jeremy Sole feat Ticklah (Aquarian promo)
Tobrock - 6AM (Auge promo)
Paul White - Marshan Signals (One Handed promo)
Ikonika - Video Delays, Edit (Hyperdub promo)
Scratcha DVA - New World Audio (DVA Music promo)

Off we go again, this time with the sound of summer thanks to Oriol from his forthcoming Planet Mu ep, hints of broken beat and oodles of sunshine - perfect. Bing Ji Ling then follows suit with the aptly titled 'Sunshine Love' a pretty onomatopoeic song title if ever there was one, lovely. I then dropped another essential cut from the super fresh eclectic Richy Pitch Ghanaian project hitting the streets soon courtesy of BBE. Now Soweto Vol. 2 has hit the streets it's time to start tickling your eardrums with teasers from Vol. 3 which is focusing on the vintage jazz side of South African music and believe me it's another winner.

I'm happy to report Robot Koch is keeping up this years good work with a nice little remix of the exciting nu-soul talent Numaads, yet another Project Moon Circle winner. I'm happy to report classical pianist, composer and electronic experimentalist Max Richter is back with another great album and I've recently discovered the mellow wonders of folk singer Laura Gibson and electronic tinkerer Ethan Rose, look out for their new album soon if pastoral soundtracks are your thing.

Nat Birchall is just about to release another spiritual jazz wonder on the exciting Gondwana label, if beautiful jazz is your thing then don't ask, just buy it. Blundetto's output is not bad but I'm more impressed with the vocal talent of Hindi Zahra on his latest album teaser, look out for her and don't forget about the Lorn album which is due anytime now on Brainfeeder, more exciting US of A beat craftsmanship.

Talking of the States, Open Mike Eagle is an unapologetic art rapper from L.A. and his new album is as fresh as any hip hop I've heard this year, great beats and crafted thoughtful lyrics. The Simonsound have smashed it with their cover of the Bboy classic 'Its Just Begun', cover versions don't get much fresher if you ask me. Sonarpilot's choice of remixer is better than the original productions and it was a toss up between the Simbad and Ramadanman remix of his new work, great summer house vibes before Giulio DJ ends the show with more warm house runnings on the fresh Elevator People label, big things are coming from them this year.

Oriol - Coconut Coast (Planet Mu promo)
Bing Ji Ling - Sunshine Love (Lovemonk promo)
Richy Pitch - Fufuo feat AB (BBE promo)
Malombo - Sangoma (Strut promo)
Numaads - Now, Robot Koch rmx (Project Moon Circle promo)
Max Richter - Infra 6 (Fatcat promo)
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Tall Grass, Dark Star (Baskaru)
Nat Birchall - Open Up The Gates (Gondwana promo)
Blundetto - Voices (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Lorn - Cherry Moon (Brainfeeder promo)
Open Mike Eagle - Mistakes (Mush Records)
The Simonsound - It's Just Begun (Project Blue Book)
Sonarpilot - Osaka, Simbad rmx (Sonarpilot Audio promo)
Giulio DJ - Coco's Nut's, Social Disco Club rmx (Elevator People promo)

This last week for me has been all about the release of the Flying Lotus album and I am happy to report that the reality lived up to the hype and I celebrate that fact this show by dropping a couple of tracks from it, just buy it you'll like it. I then had to drop another track from the incredible new compilation on Strut records Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2 - soul, funk and organ grooves from the townships 1969 - 1976. Grupo Fantasma followed with a track from their great new album, this one featuring the Latin all time great, Larry Harlow. Check the album for a scintillating blend of all sorts of Latin rhythms and if you ever get a chance see them live, they rock it.

Raf and o are a fresh sounding London trio who are just about to release a great album full of lazy, glitchy, cinematic vocal shenanigans on Geo, it's a super nice listen start to finish. I then had to drop a track from the really exciting debut album from Rudi Zygadlo who has taken all sorts of ravey dubstep and IDM cliches and twisted them into a poptronica wonder, a really fresh sounding album due anytime now on Planet Mu. Richy Pitch then made another appearance on the show with another track from his great Ghanaian project due soon on BBE, hold tight for more tracks in the coming weeks the album is an Afro joy before Saravah Soul keep the Afro vibe but this time with a cheek funky Brazilian twist.

Yosa is an exciting young producer from Japan and his new ep on Drumpoet Community is a raw house journey and I'm particularly liking the jazzfunk flavoured Rough Trade cut which takes me nicely into another Flying Lotus cut where he single handedly puts 90% of house music producers to shame with the deeper than deep 'Do The Astral Plane', outstanding. This was followed by a pleasing little jazz disco number by K'bonus, you need to look out for their new ep coming on Lovemonk soon. I then dropped a great new disco project by Kings Go Forth who have dragged Tom Moulton out of retirement to give them an original disco edit like only the disco remix originator could.

The show then ended on a deep downtempo vibe as I finally got my copy of the Gonjasufi album through the post which I am happy to report also lived up to my expectations. 2010 style I then dropped a free download and another sterling remix effort from Debruit who has given Grovesnor's 'Taxi' track a top summer soul rerub before Onra ends the show with another great 80's soul inspired groove, be sure to check his new album coming soon on All City.

Flying Lotus feat Thundercat - Mmmhmm (Warp)
Heroes - Funky Message (Strut)
Grupo Fantasma - Juan Tenorio feat Larry Harlow (Grupo Fantasma)
Raf and o - The Seam (Geo promo)
Rudi Zygadlo - Magic In The Afternoon (Planet Mu promo)
Richy Pitch - Odo yea feat Gouda Traditional Music (BBE promo)
Saravah Soul - Alforria (Tru Thoughts promo)
Yosa - Rough Trade (Drumpoet Community promo)
Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane (Warp)
K'bonus - Kletsmariet (Lovemonk promo)
Kings Go Forth - Don't Take My Shadow, Tom Moulton re-edit (Luaka Bop)
Gonjasufi - Change (Warp)
Grovesnor - Taxi, Debruit rmx (Free Download)
Onra - Send Me Your Love (All City)

I can't embed this weeks video as it keeps getting banned from hosting sites but it's a cheeky little Flying Lotus production and an even cheekier video!

Dance Floor Dale

All over the shop this week as usual kicking off with another slice of pop music niceness courtesy of Morr music, this time from Isan and their nice new album called Glow In The Dark Safari Set. I then had to play 'The Saddest Kiss' possibly my favourite track from the great new Robert Aaron album from Heavenly Sweetness, it's a soul jazz killer start to finish. I then go all Balearic, whatever that means, with a classic slice of Ned Doheny before Mudd and Pollard provide the new millenium Balearic vibes closely followed by some great lo-fi Romanian jazz beats from Hubert Daviz just before Marbaya Sound creep in with some Cosmic Disco.

There's an incredible new compilation coming out on Strut, called Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2 focussing on long lost soul, funk and hammond grooves from back in the day South Africa, it's sounds like the soundtrack to a southern hemisphere Quadraphenia. New school Afro dons Fanga come from France and are flying a modern Afrobeat flag and holding down the quality big style, check their new album on Cosmic Groove. I had to give you a first taste of a a great new project from Richy Pitch, having decamped to Ghana for two years he has produced an amazing modern Afro gem incorporating loads of the best vocalists from the region but giving them a fresh 2010 Northern Europe lick of production values - immense! Coming on BBE soon.

Caribou has been getting enough hype recently and I'm loving his new 'fluid' house music, fresh. Gold Panda have also been given a super fresh house twist with the Minotaur remix, if only all house music was this interesting. Ramadanman's recent effort for Hessle Audio is amongst his best work of recent times (the flipside is a killer as well) and to end the show one of my new school favourites, James Blake, this time teaming up with Airhead.

Isan - Channel Ten (Morr music)
Robert Aaron - The Saddest Kiss (Heavenly Sweetness)
Ned Doheny - Get It Up For Love (Colombia)
Mudd/Pollard - Vincent (Claremont 56)
Hubert Daviz - Intr-o Lume Plina De Caine (MPM promo)
Marbaya Sound - Non Reciprocal (Tirk)
Soul Throbs - Little Girl (Strut promo)
Fanga - Follow Me (Cosmic Groove promo)
Richy Pitch - Dey Suffer feat Yasmeen (BBE promo)
Caribou - Bowls (City Slang)
Gold Panda - You, Minotaur Shock remix (Notown Records)
Ramadanman - Glut (Hessle Audio)
Airhead & James Blake - Pembroke (Brainmath)

Off we go again kicking off with a great slice of deep sprawling kraut rock flavoured electro tribalism from Kreidler before my favourite Dutch hip hoppers, The Q4, come through with a great mellow slice of beat craftsmanship. Afria Hitech, otherwise known as Mark Pritchard and Steve Spackek, then provide a beautiful moment of bassline soul from their great new EP on Warp. Ital Tek then does the same albeit at a higher tempo aided by a sensitive Ikonika remix, look out for the summer album. T++ then darkens proceedings with some nasty techno breakbeats sampling the 30's and 40's recordings of African ndingidi player Ssekinomu, thank you Honest Jons.

Eric Lau is without doubt one of the shining lights on the UK hip hop scene and this marriage with Oddisee is hip hop how I like it to sound. Mono/poly then drops some Summer Madness vibes with a distinctive 2010 twist, can't believe I missed this one when it came out last year. Tokimonsta has just released a nice EP full of nice beat exursions and I'm particularly liking the more melodic Aching Nodesand it's always good to see the girls invading the testosterone dominated beat scene.

My find of the week though is definitely Kammerflimmer Kollektief, a German crew, who've just made a great start to finish listening experience full of quirky, melodic, folky, jazz, electronic vibes exquisitely stitched together, the album is called Wilding - fantastic late night or mellow moment listening, track it down. Mweslee is one of Spain's hottest beat makers, despite his lack of output and his forthcoming EP on Nod Navigators is a great varied showcase for his talents.

I also had to drop another track from Bonobo's new album, definitely his best to date, out on Ninja Tune before I slid into my favourite remix from the Ty album, Wajeeds UK Funky flavoured rerub of Emotions - make sure you check the album it's finally released! Hold tight people the new Dimitri from Paris compilation, Get Down With The Philly Sound is about due and just to give you a little taster I drop his disco blend of the classic Harold Melvin tune, The Love I Lost - it's a wonderful thing.

Kreidler - Impressions d'Afrique (Italic Records)
The Q4 - Lose Control (Project Moon Circle)
Africa Hitech - The Sound Of Tomorrow (Warp)
Ital Tek - Moment In Blue, Ikonika rmx (Planet Mu promo)
T++ - Cropped (Honest Jons)
Eric Lau - No Regrets ft Oddisee (Kilawatt V2)
Mono/poly - Oil Fields (Fat City)
Tokimonsta - Aching Nodes (Ramp)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Move Right In (Staubgold)
Mweslee - Nova Olimpia (Nod Navigators promo)
Bonobo - We Could Forever (Ninja Tune)
Ty - Emotions, Wajeed rmx (BBE Records)
Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes - The Love I Lost, Dimitri's super disco blend (BBE promo)

Check the new Ty video for the great title track from his album:

Mr. Day is one of my favourite French soul boys and he starts this weeks show in lovely soulful style, check the album it's great. I then drop one of the mellower moments from Starkey's new album out on Planet Mu right about now, it's a Balearic bassline winner. UK soul star Omar has been given an amazing remix by house don Henrick Schwarz - it really is deep house heaven and Hatchback has remixed Tycho to lovely atmospheric deep house effect and it's available for free on a great little compilation laid on by the nice people at Ghostly International.

Me Raabenstein has given David Minor a great rework as well to create some great unsettling but grooving avante-garde beats that don't really sound like anything else. Gotan Project are returning with a new album and from my promo it sounds like business as usual for the tango fusionists. I had to drop another cut from the great sounding new ep by Saffrolla featuring vocal gymnastics by Blu Rum 13, it's about to drop - just buy it. Madlib is going deep this year and his new Young Jazz Rebels project is about as uncompromising as jazz gets. Talking of jazz Impossible Ark, fast becoming one of my favourite labels, is putting out some great releases by some of the UKs best young players, don't worry it's coming soon!

Suff Daddy is about to drop his Gin Diaries album and I'm particularly liking the vocal cuts, deep and smokey soul. I also like the new Kon and Amir Off Track III compilation loads, full of boogie, ghetto funk and Afro goodness - deep digging from the NY boys. Stereotyp has just dropped a deep EP of ghetto basslines and Gangstap feat Warrior Queen is just plain nasty. I also got my hands on a killer deep remix by Cess of the interesting RaAH Project, look out for this young remixer, he's got a future for sure. I end this weeks musical meanderings with a nice slice of latin beats, bongos and basslines from Argentinian Ezequiel Lodeiro - one for the floor.

Mr. Day - Both Sides (Favourite)
Starkey - Neck Snap (Planet Mu)
Omar - Feeling You, Henrik Schwarz rmx (Peppermint Jam)
Tycho - Coastal Break, Hatchback's Cosmic Caviar Dub (Ghostly International FREE download)
David Minor - Ajaja, Me Raabenstein rmx (Nonine)
Gotan Project - La Gloria (XL promo)
Saffrolla - Those Days feat Blu Rum 13 and Bass 6 (Disc.la.tik promo)
Young Jazz Rebels - Black Freedom (Stones Throw records)
James Allsopp, Tim Giles, Riaan Vosloo and Ross Stanley - Mr. Day (Impossible Ark promo)
Suff Daddy - Deep Shit feat Mar (MPM promo)
Bomp - Funk ina Ghatto feat Austin & Jones (BBE promo)
Stereotyp - Gangstap feat Warrior Queen (Raw Fusion)
RaAH Project - TOTL, Cess rmx (Unreleased)
Ezequiel Lodeiro - El Latinazo (Lovemonk promo)

Here's the video to the new Gotan Project single, La Gloria.

It's a hip hop start to the show this week, kicking off with a great tune from one of my favourite party rocking DJ's Saffrolla from his new Love To Hate War ep featuring the excellent but underused Blu Rum 13, to follow that I dug out an old Blue Note classic from Guru, Medeski, Martin and Wood which is still sounding fresh. Lorn then followed that with a great slice of instrumental beat trickery from his great sounding album forthcoming on Brainfeeder. UK MC stalwart Skitz closes the hip hop section with some rapid fire delivery over a quality roots reggae riddim, lovely.

I couldn't resist dropping another track from the Afro Rock Vol. 1 compilation re-released by Strut, it's an all killer no filler affair, check this link for a great article on the trials and tribulations of putting the compilation together - you wouldn't believe!. El Chavo are a bunch of Fania inspired Latin musicians based in Budapest under the expert guidance of jazz don Paul Murphy and I have to say they are sounding like the authentic Latin soul deal. Half Seas Over are a great quirky hybrid folk jazz group from Brooklyn and their self titled forthcoming album on Brownswood is a great listen start to finish.

Onra is one of my favourite French beat makers and his new EP for the great Dublin based All City label is a thing of 80's soul wonder as he takes those classic sounds and propels them into the future. Funkineven 1956 always demands you take notice and the submerged 80's soul, acid squelches and fresh beats of his forthcoming She's Acid track are sounding like not much out there, Eglo win again.

Kon and Amir who dig deeper than most are about to release their new Off Track volume 3 compilation for BBE and I can only thank them for introducing me to the delights of Donny McCullough amongst many others - another stellar compilation. DJ Naughty is about to drop a nice little UK Funky EP for Roska's Kicks and Snares label and I'm liking the simple but effective joys of Firepower. If you are familiar with this show then you already know about Kyle MF Hall, well he's come up trumps again with a great Detroit flavoured remix for New York disco popsters The Hundred In The Hands. Hyperdub are holding down the quality in 2010 and I'm loving the flipside of the new LV & Quarta330 release which is their remix of the rather unfortunately named Japanese chiptune artist Dong.

Saffrolla - Love To Hate War feat Blu Rum 13 (Disc La Tik promo)
Guru, Medeski, Martin and Wood - Whatever Happened To Gus, Word To The Drum Remix (Blue Note)
Lorn - None An Island (Brainfeeder promo)
Skitz ft Buggsy - Born Inna System (Dragon Drop)
Steele Beauttah - Africa (Kona/Strut)
El Chavo - Hit The Boogaloo (Vinyl Vibes)
Half Seas Over - Sad Mona (Brownswood promo)
Onra - High Hopes (All City)
Funkineven 1956 - She's Acid (Eglo promo)
Donny McCullough - From The Heart (BBE promo)
DJ Naughty - Firepower (Roska Kicks and Snares)
The Hundred In The Hands - Dressed In Dresden, Kyle MF Hall rmx (Warp)
Dong - Suzuran, LV and Quarta330 rmx (Hyperdub promo)

Here's another taster of the excellent Half Seas Over project:

An old school UK dubwise start to the show with a late 80's community center window rattler courtesy of the new Sound Iration comp before Mickey Murka chips in with some more UK reggae history this time early vocal digi-dub style thanks to another impeccable Honest Jon's comp called 'Watch How The People Dancing' - tasty. Medline then graces the airwaves with another sublime slice of blaxploitation style deep instrumental soul which is part of a multi-media art and music show this multi-talented producer has just put together - hit the link in the tracklist to check it out.

Keeping the old school 70's vibe I then drop a slice of classic Nu-Yorican psyched funk from Benitez and Nebula before old school multi-instrumentalist Robert Aaron provides some great new soul jazz vibes of the highest order and if this taster is anything to go by then I'll be queueing overnight for the album. Tosca have just dropped a load of remixes of last years album and the jazz vibes of Nicola Conte are doing it for me the most.

Lady Daisey is the hot new signing from BBE records and she is about to launch her fresh blend of soul over some nicer than nice beats - watch out for this girl and a whole host of quality remixes. Paul White is coming through with some Scandi prog rock vibes in his new album but don't worry it's a damn sight better than it sounds as you'd expect from this boy currently on top of his game. Kazumasa Hashimoto is about to drop a dreamy collection of ethereal pop flavoured tracks on his new album using the unique vocal tones of Gutevolk, lovely stuff.

Robot Koch is on a roll this year and I am absolutely loving his new work on Project Mooncircle, a wonderful selection of dark, measured, percussive, super fresh beats with some great soulful vocal touches, don't try to categorise it just check it out. Portformat are just about to drop a load of remixes of their last album and there are some choice cuts on there and I'm particularly loving the Comfort Fit rub of Mothership, it's a future funk phenomenon. Pursuit Grooves is a musical curve ball from techno dub dons Tectonic, some mad beats and tasty vocals - look out for the ep coming soon.

Egyptrixx has just realeased a wonderful ep of wobbly rather than wonky beats, both originals are super fresh and there's a rather tasty Ikonika remix there as well, respect to Night Slugs for putting it out with some great artwork as well, I'm absolutely loving it. Now this year is going to be big one for Mount Kimbie, the album is coming, there's a few tasty gigs booked but we'll have to content ourselves with a little remix of last years winning ep with the Falty DL rub tickling my lobes the mostest. I then finish the show with a great slice of bassline funky techno from the fresh Triangulations album from Scuba who seems to be helping redefine techno one bassline at a time.

Sound Iration - Satta Licht (Year zero promo)
Mickey Murka - We Try (Honest Jons)
Medline - Entre Matiere et Esprit (Sans Fin art poetry music project)
Benitez And Nebula - Vida Nocturna (Vaya)
Robert Aaron - The Saddest Kiss (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Tosca - My First, Nicola Conte version (G-Stone promo)
Lady Daisey - Magical (BBE promo)
Paul White - My Guitar Whales (One Handed promo)
Kazumasa Hashimoto - Slow Motino (Noble)
Robot Koch - Brujeria (Project Moon Circle promo)
Portformat - Mothership feat Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow, Comfort Fit rmx (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Pursuit Grooves - Cosy (Tectonic)
Egyptrixx - The Only Way Up (Sluga Beds)
Mount Kimbie - Serged, Falty DL rmx (Hot Flush)
Scuba - On Deck (Hot Flush)

As there is no link to Benitez and Nebula above then I suggest you check them doing it live instead - great hair..

Off to a modern Balearic start to the show this week with man to watch Red Fulka. I played his latest release recently but this is a great warm slice of musical sunshine from his killer debut 10" on the excellent Elevator People label which led nicely into a particularly odd Balearic number called 'In Vitrous' from the excellently named group 'Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits' - catchy. Kyle Hall is another youngster to watch, this time from Detroit, and Hyperdub have put out his latest work - deep beats from a producer with a mature musical head on young shoulders.

Now I like a cover version and the steel pan and the 20th Century Steel Band have come through for me big time with their version of 'Papa was a rolling stone' - great stuff. Cedric Brooks & The Light of Saba's album - The Magical Light Of Saba is a no filler all killer album on Honest Jons which had somehow passed me by until recently, shame on me, it's a stunner. The new Angelique Kidjo album is a bit hit and miss but there's a couple of blinders on there and her version of Curtis Mayfields 'Move on up' feat John Legend is one of them.

Mayra Andrade is another of the new generation of Cape Verdean singers making waves and her new album has a warm Brazilian glow all over it. Space Ranger are a little crew of cosmic warriors, look out for their new ep on Lovemonk soon and especially the B-side cut, 'Galactic spice'. Knxwledge can't spell but his beats are hot, check out his new album on the adventurous All City label and shop hailing out of Dublin. La Fine Equipe are a true school hip hop crew coming out of France and their new album is fire for the hip hop heads, don't miss it.

After helping define the early trip hop sound of Ninja Tune more years ago than I care to remember Funky Porcini is still about and is about to bang out his 5th album and it's undoubtedly his best to date, enhanced by an increasing use of live musicians to embellish all those well chosen samples. The Souljazz Orchestra's album is out and all lovers of souljazzafrolatin spiritual flavours need to know about it, can't believe their Dutch. Anouar Brahem with the help of Björn Meyer & Khaled Yassine have just recorded a beautiful deep late night listener of an album which could loosely be termed as etno jazz but is just perfect for those late night or more contemplative listening moments.

Red Fulka - Moai Sunset (Elevator People)
Cyro Baptista's Banquet Of The Spirits - In Vitrous (Tzadik)
Kyle Hall - You Know What I Feel (Hyperdub promo)
20th Century Steel Band - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Mr. Bongo)
Cedric Brooks & The Light Of Saba - Sabasi (Honest Jons)
Angelique Kidjo feat John Legend - Move On Up (Razor & Tie)
Mayra Andrade - Storia, Storia (Sony)
Space Ranger - Galactic Spice (Love Monk promo)
Knxwledge - Wait (All City)
La Fine Equipe - The Hokey Pokey (Nowadays promo)
Funki Porcini - Bright Little Things (Ninja Tune promo)
The Souljazz Orchestra - Consecration (Strut)
Anouar Brahem, Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer & Khaled Yassine - The Lover Of Beirut (ECM)

Cyro Baptista isn't quite all there, check the vid for some mad jazz fusion, vocal madness and crazy headwear:

Get Down With The Philly Sound (Compiled by Dimitri from Paris)
The Sound Of Philadelphia, Where Disco Was Born

Due for release Late May 2010 – on BBE Records

BBE Records proudly presents its 5th and arguably most exciting compilation with the French DJ and ambassador of disco, Dimitri from Paris. This compilation focuses on Dimitri’s essential disco era tracks - made in Philadelphia, that feature the core of the rhythm section that created and defined the sound of the genre. For this compilation Dimitri has exclusively reworked 5 tracks from the original multi-track tapes of Gamble and Huff with a further 4 being edited from the original 2 track stereo masters.

It should be noted that nearly all of the disco output from Philadelphia between 1973-1980 featured the work of the same studio musicians known as –The Family, MFSB (Mother, Father, Sister, Brother), The Salsoul Orchestra, Baker - Harris -Young Productions, The John Davis Monster Orchestra or the Montana Sextet depending on who the recording was for. The classic line up of musicians included Karl Chambers and Earl Young (Founder of The Trammps and creator of the disco drum pattern which laid the template for every dance record since) on drums; Norman Harris, Roland Chambers, Bobby Eli (Original MFSB member), and TJ Tindall on guitar; Winnie Wilford and Ronnie Baker on bass; Vince Montana (vibes/arranger and founder of the Salsoul Orchestra) and Larry Washington on percussion and Leon Huff, Thom Bell and Ron Kersey on keyboards. Don Renaldo taking care of strings and horns featuring soloist John Bonnie Rocco Bene on Trumpet.
Last but not least the remixers and Tom Moulton (Pioneer of the Disco Mix, the 12 inch vinyl format, the break down sections of records and supplier of missing masters for this compilation) who influenced the popularity of songs with his legendary mixes. For Salsoul Walter Gibbons was the owners choice. Honorable mentions go to Larry Levan and Shep Pettibone for their contributions in this field.
These guys were the bridge between the labels and the club dancers and understood how to make a record work in a club.

Undisputedly, as producer’s Thom Bell and Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia soul sound evolved from the simpler arrangements of the late 1960s into a style featuring lush strings, thumping basslines and sliding hi-hat rhythms; Philadelphia gave birth to and defined the brand new Disco genre. The anthemic “The Love I Lost” is recognized as the first commercial disco record and was recorded at the legendary Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia in 1973.

Recording engineer, Joe Tarsia founded Sigma Sound in 1968 where virtually all the disco recordings on Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International, Salsoul, Philly World, Gold Mind, Atlantic were made, thereby maintaining the unique sound of Philadelphia. Located at 212 N. 12th Street in Philadelphia, it was the second studio in the USA to offer 24-track recording and the first in the country to use console automation. David Bowie recorded his Young Americans album at this legendary studio as did Dusty Springfield - A Brand New Me. Elton John's 1977 Philadelphia sessions were in such demand recently that they provided a hit single ('Are You Ready For Love') and CD re-issue 3 decades after the recordings were first made.

By 1975, Philadelphia International and the Philadelphia soul and disco genre’s it helped define had largely eclipsed Motown and the Motown Sound in popularity and Gamble and Huff were the premiere producers of soul with nearly 200 gold and platinum records to their credit. Salsoul capitalized on the success of the sound by employing the same musicians whilst focusing on club music.

Notable acts rushed to Philadelphia to capture the sound. Ex Motown cohorts The Jacksons and Eddie Kendrick’s utilized the above classic line up of musicians to embrace the new sound and extend their careers. Simultaneously, Salsoul Orchestra and the John Davis Orchestra were essentially a moniker core rhythm section of MFSB and recorded several disco hits outside of the PIR umbrella.

Now for the first time ever Gamble and Huff have given a label access to the multi track tapes of some Philly International platinum selling classics such as The Love I Lost, Bad Luck featuring the vocals of the late great Teddy Pendergrass, the first black male to release 5 consecutive platinum albums in the United States.

Dimitri's selection on CD1 traces the evolution of the 70’s disco groove from the first ever-disco hit record, to the rejuvenation of the Jackson 5’s career. Interspersed with obscurities such as Charles Mann to the magnificent Teddy Pendergrass, Philly International’s answer to Marvin Gaye. CD2 of the compilation pays homage to the original creators and innovators of the remix and extended edits with re-workings exclusively by Dimitri from Paris.

This tribute to the creators of disco is presented on a limited edition 10,000 copies double cd and multiple deluxe vinyl exclusively featuring Dimitris remixes and edits.

A bit of a rip roaring start to the show this week as I launch into Soil and Pimps cover of the fantastic 'Papas got a brand new pigbag' which they've done more than justice to and is more than an appetizer for their forthcoming album in April. I then keep the jazz covers rolling with a fantastic version of Rolando's 'Jaguar' courtesy of Christian Prommer watch out for the latest installment of his Drumlesson project. I then drop a Scott Hardkiss track with which Joe Claussell has done wonders by ignoring most of his sickly vocals and sacharine production and smashing it up with a tough angry driving firing jazz tech house monster which should be RIPPING up every house dancefloor over 2010 if there is any justice - NASTY!!

Ikonika is then given a great bumping house mix by Altered Natives watch out for the album in April, before I drop a track from the seminal self titled Virgo house lp from way back when which has been lovingly re-issued by Rush Hour who are on a roll this year. Buzzin Fly have reached their 50th release a great achievement and are celebrating with a real quality deep leftfield house release courtesy of a team effort from Ben Watt, Stimming and Julia Biel. I then followed that by a fantastic slice of UK Funky meets hip hop courtesy of a Philly/Lewisham tie up as Ty get remixed by Wajeed. More hip hop with a twist follows with a great Paul White remix of Tranqill before Flying Lotus remixes Ninja Tune new girl Andreya Triana to great effect.

A cheeky little dubstep duo follows with a great atmospheric slice of bassline science from Distance before Joker purples up the airwaves with his forthcoming release on Kapsize. Fatima then proves that she is a great UK soul talent with another track from her new Mind Travellin EP and it's a great way to end the show.

Soil & Pimp sessions - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (Brownswood promo)
Christian Prommer - Jaguar (K7 promo)
Scott Hardkiss - Come On, Come On, Joe Claussell Humidity Dub (God Within promo)
Ikonika - Idiot, Altered Natives rmx (Hyperdub promo)
Virgo - Going Thru Life (Rush Hour)
Stimming, Ben Watt & Julia Biel - Bright Star, Sunset mix (Buzzing Fly promo)
Ty - Emotions, Waheed rmx (BBE Promo)
Tranqill - Payroll, Paul White rmx (One Handed Music)
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong, Flying Lotus rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
Distance - Beyond (Chestplate)
Joker - Tron (Kapsize promo)
Fatima - Higher (Eglo promo)

Just a super quick blog entry today as I got taken away on a surprise holiday (obviously against my will) to celebrate my birthday and I'm right out of time this week so no waffle and links but I'm sure you'll survive - a nice quirky little show this week with more electronic experimental jiggery pockery than anything else.

Here's the tracklisting:
Asura - Voxels (Non Projects)
Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar (Stonesthrow promo)
Michael Olatuja feat. Lynden David Hall & Andrew Roachford - Hold On (Brownswood promo)
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Sabu Yerkoy (World Circuit)
Osborne - Afrika, Bullion rmx (Ghostly International)
Sunlightsquare - I Believe In Miracles (Sunlightsquare)
Holly Miranda - Sweet Dreams (XL)
Illum Sphere - Chasing The Midnight Moth (Fat City)
Dimlite - As We Arrive (Sonar Kollectiv)
Reagenz - Freerotation (Workshop)
Strange Worlds - Broken Dub (Universal Vibes promo)
Ty - Emotions, Wajeed rmx (BBE Promo)
Efterklang - Collecting Shields (Leaf)
Trayer - Carbon Copy of Nouktoub Ritual (Porter Records)

Sunlightsquare also kick it live and do a nice version of Stevie Wonders - Pastime Paradise:

Strut's Afro Rock compilation from 2001 is due to be re-issued and is full of great vintage African dance music as my opening track testifies, killer comp start to finish. Mounam is the vocalist with French reggae dudes The Dynamics but proves she's not a one trick pony with a nice modern Afro flavoured joint about to drop. Mandre is another star of days gone by who's home recorded early 80's self released album (most of which got destroyed by an accident making it rare as hell) has been re-issued by Rush Hour and we can only thank them for that.

Buddy Sativa is another of the French soul jazz mafia who is about to release a great double A sided 7" and his cover of the Roy Ayers classic Mystic Voyage is well worth having. Number 5 in the great compilation series Brownswood Bubblers compiled put together by Gilles Peterson is due to drop sometime in March and is another great compilation of where music is at in 2010. Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop have covered the electro classic 'Al Naafiysh' but it is the remixes that are doing it for me and Beatfanatics house version is a winter warming winner. Atki2 & Dub Boy are two more of the endless supply of bassline warriors from Bristol and I'm loving there steel pan laced slice of UK Funky, in fact I just love the steel pan.

Debruit is always one to watch and he's put out a little release where he's cut and chopped some original Haitian vibes and all the money is going to Haiti to help their recovery, nice. Nochexxx have crafted one of the maddest UK hip hop releases ever and both sides are an exercise in way out of the box hip hop thinking. Ty is coming with his new album in a couple of months and I tease you with another little taster of its future delights. Georgia Anne Muldrow is a busy girl at the moment with two albums dropping both of which are sounding really strong check the Endure track from her ablum with Declaime which she also produced. B.Bravo is another synth obsessed funkateer in the Dam Funk mould and I like him. Tory Y Moi has just released a great album full of cosmic, 80's pop, funk and electronic vibes which is sounding fresh and I finish the show this week with a track from the outstanding new Monolake album a labour of love for sure, blending the abstract sounds of nature with deep electronics in a craftsmanlike way - excellent, excellent stuff.

Jingo - Fever (Strut promo)
Mounam & Trevor & Lisa - What Needs Mama, Dwilt Sharp rmx (Favourite promo)
Mandre - Magic Woman (Rush Hour)
Buddy Sativa - A Mystic Voyage Favourite promo)
Electric Wire Hustle - They Don't Want (Brownswood promo)
Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop - Al Naafiysh, Beatfanatic rmx (MPM promo)
Atki2 & Dub Boy - Tigerflower (Idle Hands)
Debruit - Changement (Civil Music)
Nochexxx - Sinbliss ft Sensational (Werk)
Ty - I Get Up feat D-Cross (BBE promo)
Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime - Endure feat M.E.D. & Big Pooh (Mello Music)
B. Bravo - Twilight (Frite Night)
Toro Y Moi - Low Shoulders (Car Park)
Monolake - Infinite Snow (Imbalance)

Here's a little taster of how Debruit rocks it live style - he's great live, trust me:

A nice mellow start to the show kicking off yet again with Lou Rhodes and a great track from her album which will be dropping soon on Jason Swinscoes exciting new Motion Audio label. Las Ondas Marteles then provide some great progressive bolero inspired acoustic niceness and La Brass Banda then show that music from Bavaria and Bavarian lyrics aren't as crusty as you might think. Dexter then got the beats flowing with some nice jazzy hip hop from the latest in the producer series from Melting Pot Music.

Fourtet's album is out and about and not disappointing and I'm liking, amongst others, the great delicate slice of electronic soul known as Angel Echoes. Just A Band are a Kenyan group with some nice ideas and an eclectic nature, not everything comes off but check them out you might be pleasantly surprised. Si*Se are self releasing their own music now and This Love is a slice of super sweet soul and then just before the sugar rush takes over I drop a cut from the darker side of soul - Gil Scott-Heron's new album. It's a welcome return for one of the most insightful social commentators of the 70's and 80's.

Wedge and Aesoteric are exploring the more melodic side of dubstep and starting to get some deserved props and the new Funckarma ep coming soon on Eat Concrete shows that dubstep is now established worldwide with Holland coming up trumps again. Joy Orbison is back and his good run of form shows no sign of abating with the snappily entitled 'The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow' on Aus recordings - deep and long, you know you like it....

Doc Daneeka is putting the UK into Funky from his Swansea studio and I'm loving the 'Drums In The Deep' tribal bassline workout, one to get even the stiffest wallflower sweating on the floor. Razia Said is coming up with an altogether different form of 140bpm dance music from her home in Madagascar with some sweet soulful vocals to boot. DJ Mujava has contributed another dance floor winner to a great compilation of African House music from Out Here records and George Levin gave the show a beautiful soulful poppy balearic end with 'I Need To Understand' from his great album 'Everything Must Change'.

Lou Rhodes - There For The Taking (Motion Audio promo)
Las Ondas Marteles - Love In Outer Space (Corida)
La Brass Banda - Rotes Hoserl (Trikont)
Dexter - The Future (MPM)
Four Tet - Angel Echoes (Domino)
Just A Band - Tingiza Kichwa (Akwaaba Records)
Si*Se - This Love (Si*Se)
Gil Scott-Heron - Me And The Devil (XL Recordings)
Wedge and Aesoteric - Use Only As Directed (Apple Pips)
Funckarma - Delibel (Eat Concrete promo)
Joy Orbison - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow (Aus)
Doc Daneeka - Drums In The Deep (Fabric)
Razia Said - Salamalama Aby (Cumbancha promo)
Dj Mujava - Mugwanti - Sgwejegweje (OutHere promo)
George Levin - I Need To Understand (BBE)

If you don't much about Madagascar and it's music hit the video below - lovely:

Off we go again and the show is all over the shop this week, just how it should be. Kicking off with a track from the amazing sounding Vex'd album, if you like your dubstep dark, musical, leftfield and deep then forthcoming album on Planet Mu is for you - watch out for it in March. Gilles Peterson has orchestrated an interesting little Cuban project bringing together the old and new schools under the expert guidance of Robert Fonseca - nice stuff. Mr. Day is a very soulful French man and Small Fry is a great slice of Shuggie style disco pop. Silhouette Brown is a pseudonym for the creative talents of Dego, Kaidi Tatham and Bembe Segue with Lady Alma on vocals - the album is out and a great listen if you like you soul music progressive.

Ty is back with a new album and a new record label. BBE have snapped up this UK hip hop don, look out for the album in late Spring but in the meantime check a nice remix of the new single, Emotions and I'll hit you with the even better Wajeed remix next week. The Jose James album is out and is one of the best soul albums of the year, simply wonderful. Carrying on the soulful vein Fatima is making moves as part of the soul new school and she's another great signing for the super fresh Eglo records. The Love Supreme are a bunch of Kraut Rock inspired Milanese boundary breakers. To be honest I dont really like their album but Tiefferre is a great slice of tripped out drugged up Ital Disco.

Speaking of boundary breaking check the new James Blake ep due out on Hessle Audio - this boy is always coming up with something interesting and definitely a talent to watch. Charlie Alex March is a mellow fellow and his new album out on Loaf Recordings is very pleasant indeed - splendid, harmonious and melodic stuff. The Internal Tulips have made a great album of experimental pop with more than a touch of the Beach Boys but with some great twists and electronic turns - another Planet Mu gem about to drop in March. Daedelus has gone all concept album for Brainfeeder with a soundtrack to the last days of the Boxer revolution (check your Chinese history) and I would describe it as evocative, lovely stuff. Tru-Thoughts are releasing one of the their annual Shape roundups of what's floating around on the label and it's a great eclectic selection. Finally I drop a short little cover from Mocky and Gonzales of one of Mocky's album tracks from last year.

Gabriel Prokofiev - Sutring Quartete No. 2, Vex'd Remix (Planet Mu promo)
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - La Revolución del Cuerpo Pt.2 Featuring Roberto Fonseca (Brownswood)
Mr. Day - Small Fry (Favourite Recordings)
Silhouette Brown - Strawberries In Vinegar (2000 Black)
Ty - Emotions feat. Sarina Leah & Shaun Escofrey, Dego & Akwasi's 2000 Black Rmx (BBE Promo)
Jose James - Promise In Love (Brownswood)
Fatima - Soul Glo (Eglo promo)
The Love Supreme - Tiefferre (Tirk promo)
James Blake - The Bells Sketch (Hessle Audio promo)
Charlie Alex March - Mao (Lo Recordings)
The Internal Tulips - Bee Calmed (Planet Mu promo)
Daedelus - Order Of The Golden Dawn (Brainfeeder promo)
Nostalgia 77 Sessions Featuring Keith & Julie Tippett (Tru-Thoughts)
Mocky & Gonzales - Guiding Light, duo version (Crammed Records - freeload)

Here's a little taster of The Internal Tulips - album coming in March:

Kanyor eases us into this weeks show with a wonderful slice of new soul courtesy of the French funk, soul and hip hop obsessed French label Padlem. Starkey then shows his versatility and keeps the mellow vibe rolling with a great slice of future soul coming to Planet Mu soon. You're going to have to wait until late summer for DJ Cam's album but from what I've heard it's going to be worth the wait and I'm loving the organic, cinematic slice of bassline music called Seven. Then to destroy the mellow vibe along comes Aarvarck with a track from his Bloom series of white labels on Kindred Spirits with a nasty yet hypnotic slice of leftfield dubstep.

Pretty much anything by Mike Ladd is alright with me and Kick Anthem from his Infesticons twisted rock project is no exception, album due sometime in April. First there was Akon, rather surprisingly and quite an inspired choice K'naan is the new musical voice of Coca Cola in this summer's world cup and now Nneka looks like she could be the next African to start making noise on the global urban music scene and I'm particularly liking the Changes track - album out now. The catchily entitled The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble is Madlibs latest project and it is a thing of jazzual wonder - Madlib has long left the tag of beat maker behind, this is just next level musical shizzle.

I couldn't resist dropping another slice of Cuban inspired vintage African music in the form of the late great Pedro Gnonnas and then one of his heirs apparent The Soul Jazz Orchestra follow with a great slice of uptempo Fela inspired Afro Jazz and it's whetted my appetite for the album no end - quality through and through. Keeping the vintage vibes I then dropped another slice of classic disco from possibly the best Disco compilation of the year Al Kent's Disco Love, lovely.

Alif Tree's Clockwork album from last year was one of my favourite albums of 2009 and Compost are keeping his vibe alive with some nice remixes via a remix competition and I'm particularly liking what Homegroove have done with Aurevoir. Prime Numbers are holding down the quality big time and the forthcoming Fudge Fingas ep is another winner, 3 tracks of quality house music. Bonobo's latest album is dropping at the end of March and an inspired set of remixes of the first single Eyesdown have just started to circulate. Personally I'm feeling the Floating Points rub but also check the bassline dancefloor winner remix from Warrior One.

Kaynor - Antidote (Padlem promo)
Starkey - Stars (Planet Mu promo)
DJ Cam - Seven, album version (Inflammable promo)
Aardvark - 1 (Kindred Spirits white)
The Infesticons - Kick Anthem (Big Dada promo)
Nneka - Changes, J.Period rmx (Decon inc promo)
The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - Two Stories for Dwight (Stonesthrow)
Pedro Gnonnas - Adigbedoto (Honest Jons)
The Soul Jazz Orchestra - Agbara (Strut promo)
Smile Street People - Lypso Disco (BBE Records)
Alif Tree - Aurevoir, Homegrown Project (Compost promo)
Fudge Fingas - It's About Time (Prime Numbers promo)
Bonobo - Eyesdown, Floating Points rmx (Ninja Tune promo)

Look out for Ty's album coming in April on BBE, here's a little word with the man himself:

So it's all about the fresh beats this week. Hip hop beats, drum and bass beats, UK Funky beats, Balearic beats, deep almost spiritual 2-step beats, Baile Funk beats and from the motherland Kuduro beats.

Mancini & The Creepers are back with their trademark UK hip hop wonkyness - original delivery, great lyrics and fresh for 2010 beats, love it. The lovely people at BBE are rolling out the 'Kings of' series with 4 Hero and DJ Marky dropping a tight selection of some of the best drum and bass tunes of all time - essential. The Raah Project are a couple of Australian boys from Melbourne putting their slant on a variety of musical styles and they've rustled up some great remixes of their recent material with the Patchworks remix being the pick of the bunch, 2-step never sounded so deep.

Robot Koch has also been given the remix treatment from some of the hottest names around and the Blue Daisy mix of his 'While' track is tickling my lobes no end. Hip Hop is big in the show this week. Madlib has just produced underground Californian crew Strong Arm Steady and what I've heard is sounding great. DJ Center is a long time party rocking Brooklyn boy who has finally got into the studio, his output is eclectic and I'm particularly drawn by the quality hip hop of 'Leave The City' featuring the vocal talent of Oddisee. The more established Mos Def has been given a hefty bass heavy rerub from my favourite New York bassline warriors Sub Swara, another in a great line of remixes from them, they've got that Midas Touch.

Silhouette Brown is back for 2010 and 2 Banks of Four have taken the quality 'Constant Questions' original into even deeper territory, lovely. My discovery of the week is the Elevator People label. I finally picked up their first release from last year on a rare vinyl buying excursion and it's a thing of balearic wonder and destined for discerning beach bars all over the world for a long time to come. So anyway the nice people at the label sent me through their next release, also from the mysterious Red Fulka and the original cut is a lovely warm slice of cosmic tropical house and i've put it in my beach bag already.

Werk records threw a Lone curve ball at me recently with a 125bpm old school flavoured feel good uplifting house track which has got sunrise written all over it, the man just doesn't do downtempo cinematic afterall - keep taking the uppers mate. It looks like Hyperdub are set for another major year with some quality releases in the pipeline and first off is a tropical tinged stripped back slice of UK Funky courtesy of DVA - dancefloor killer for sure. Greymatter is about to drop his debut album after teasing us with some great re-edits in 2009 and I am happy to report that 'Eu Fumo' from the album is going to be ripping up every Baile Funk dance from Dalston to Rio - absolute killer! I finish the show with a slice of Kuduro from Killamu made in a shack in Luanda but guranteed to get the sweat flowing worldwide.

Mancini & The Creepers - Trouble (Lula's Kitchen promo)
Q Project - Move On (BBE Promo)
The Raah Project - Will You Be There, Alex Patchwork Remix rmx (Summer Dawn Records promo)
Robot Koch - While, Blue Daisy rmx (Project Moon Circle promo)
Strong Arm Steady - Follow Me (Stones Throw Records)
DJ Center - Leave The City Outside featuring Oddisee (Push The Fader promo)
Mos Def - Quiet Dog, Sub Swara rmx (Free download)
Silhoutte Brown - Constant Questions, 2 Banks of 4 40 Degree Rinse (2000 Black promo)
Red Fulka - Crazy Meera (Elevator People promo)
Lone - Once In A While (Werk promo)
DVA - Natty (Hyperdub promo)
Greymatter - Eu Fumo ft Deize Tigrona (Unique Uncut promo)
Kilamu - Flaminguinho (Akwaaba Music)

Check out this intersting little Kuduro report about Kilamu:

This weeks show kicks off with the admirable sentiment 'World Peace Now' one of the many great tracks on the new Build An Ark album, Love Part 1, if folk vibrations mixed with spiritual jazz sounds interesting to you then I urge you to buy it and don't forget to dig out their past offerings. The Fromwood remix of the Atjazz track Together closely follows. This was the product of a remix competition held last year and goes to show how much production talent is hidden away in bedrooms across the nation.

Floating Points is back big style with a great new track called 'People's Potential' showing that his 2009 emergence wasn't just a flash in the pan and I can't wait to see what else he has up his sleeve. Monnette Sudler is a little known guitarist, arranger and composer based in Philadelphia and Heavenly Sweetness have teamed her up with French soul boy Blackjoy and the product is a pleasing tropical palm wine flavored remix to warm away these frosty nights. Orchestre OK Jazz make an appearance courtesy of a nice new compilation on Honest Jons called Africa Boogaloo a nice selection showcasing the vintage cross pollination of Cuban rhythms with the traditional music of the mother land.

Carl Craig has come through with a great new jazz project, as is his want from time to time, and it's a winner. Reuniting members of the classic jazz collective The Tribe from Detroit they have recorded some brand new material as well as breathing new millennium life into a host of classics. More vintage grooves follow with a rare disco outing from Sun Ra, produced by disco production don Bob Blank whose work is being reappraised by an excellent compilation on Strut Records. Looking at his early disco work right through to his work with No Wave producers like The Aural Exciters this is a great retrospective. Thriller (not his real name) then comes through with a nice and scuzzy boogie edit 'Freak For You', who is this man of production mystery?

The Q4 are a great hip hop crew hailing from the smokey depths of Amsterdam who devote great attention to production detail. They lovingly segue obscure samples and sympathetically combine them with live instrumentation and vocal touches, look out for the album coming soon on Project Moon Circle. Pangaea is is one of the great new breed of bassline experimentalists pushing the boundaries of the genre into unchartered territory and Hessle Audio is his latest home, check out the new EP. Georgia Anne Muldrow is dropping her new album in February and from what I've heard it's sounding great, look out for that on Ubiquity who are increasingly leading the charge with forward thinking hip hop and nu-soul.

24-Carat Black's second album has just been released after a 30 odd year wait after being shelved for being too non commercial, always a good sign. Admittedly it's not the cheeriest album ever produced but I'm telling you it's deep with some crazy little leftfield touches and a worth successor to Ghetto Misfortunes Wealth. Funk Deluxe provide a fitting end to this show rich in soul and jazz and it's another choice selection from the now available comp on BBE, John Morales - The M&M Mixes a timely look back at the work of John Morales courtesy of those nice people at BBE Records.

Build An Ark - World Peace Now (Kindred Spirits)
AtJazz feat Mr. J - Together, Fromwood Old Summer rmx (AtJazz)
Floating Points - People's Potential (Eglo promo)
Monnette Sudler - Baby Erik, Blackjoy rmx (Heavenly Sweetness promo)
Orchestre OK Jazz - Ven Y Ven Y Ven (Honest Jons)
Tribe - Denekas Chant (Planet E)
Sun Ra - Where Pathways Meet (Strut promo)
Thriller - Freak For You (Thriller)
The Q4 - One Of These Days (Project Moon Circle promo)
Pangaea - Because Of You (Hessle Audio)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Thrones (Ubiquity Promo)
The 24-Carat Black - The Best Of Good Love Gone (Numero)
Funk Deluxe - This Time (BBE)

Here's a bit more info about Carl Craig's Rebirth project:

So here it is a New Year and it's looking like a good one musically already although all years are good ones if you look hard enough. I'm happy to report that the show is now available in the Balearics in FM courtesy of Ibiza Sonica, the island's best radio station - check me out on Mondays at 4pm. Rather sadly the show is now no longer available on Planet Radio in Tenerife since it's takeover and impending metamorphosis into yet another commercial music radio disaster like every other station on the island. Respect goes out to Juan, no longer with the station, who worked hard the last two years to bring the island a much needed musical alternative.

So a bit of Miles Davies to kick off the show and the new year, amazingly recorded 52 years ago this is from his soundtrack to the old French film Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud and has been lovingly repackaged and thrown together with some other recording sessions from that period by Jazz beat - lovely stuff. I received the Fog album Rebuilding Vibes this week and it could possibly be one of my albums of the year already, it's a wonderful exercise in deep, late night listening - smokey, sultry and cerebral - one for those candlelit, contemplative moments. Also soon to be released is the Jose James album which I'm thoroughly looking forward to if the sampler is anything to go by. The album is produced by Flying Lotus this is how I want all my soul music to sound.

I then dug out a nice slice of soulful hip hop from a couple of years back from Panacea given a nice DJ Spinna remix - timeless, thoughtful but to the point, if only the more commercial side of hip hop was the same. One of my favourites from last year, Bullion, has made a statement of intent for 2010 with his new single about to drop on One Handed music, I'll leave you to work out how to describe it, answers in an email please. Soundway Records released the Ghana Special compilation at the end of last year and it's another thing of African musical wonder. Two CDs (or 5 LPs!!), lovingly packaged and notated containing an impeccably selected collection of Ghanaian highlife, afro sounds and Ghanaian blues.

Rise Ashen provide a great dubbed out slice of Brazilian electronic trickery as Xxxy drop a some genetically modified UK funky post garage electronic mutation, or something like that. Taken from the new compilation on Fabric Records, 'Elevator Music' which documents the new wave of 140bpm bassline music currently sweeping across the UK, highly recommended and I couldn't resist dropping another slice of musical goodness from the IG Culture album, 'Zen Badizm' and his excellent version of the Eddie Kendricks classic, 'Girl You Need A Change of Mind' - inspired.

Maxmillion Dunbar has come up with a killer release on Ramp Recordings bringing soul and boogie into 2010 and perfect for warming you up in this cold mid winter. Al Kent is my favorite modern day disco don, Joey Negro is now officially number two there is no doubt and lucky us he is about to release a compilation of his disco inspirations, it's not only the artwork that is the real 70's deal, wait until you hear the selection - essential!! Andrew Peckler has made a nice album on Scape of downtempo dark experimental noodlings, great for those late night sessions and 2010 is going to be a big year for Gonjasufi, a rare and unique vocal talent sounding like no one else from LA way with all the right production friends from the locality, watch out for him on Warp records coming soon. A nice little mellow dubstep excursion ends the show from Ation on a Hot Flush subsidiary label, limited white label coming right about now.

Miles Davies - Generique (Jazzbeat)
Fog - Waterfall (Flau)
Jose James - Detroit Loveletter (Brownswood)
Panacea - Flashback To Stardom, Dj Spinna rmx (Rawkus/Glow In The Dark)
Bullion - Say Goodbye To What (One Handed Music promo)
Dr. K Gyasi & His Noble Kings - Noble Kings (Soundway Records)
Rise Ashen & Stephan Lefrancois - Venenosa, Sambastate Version (Balance House)
Xxxy - Sing With Us (Fabric promo)
IG Culture - Girl U Need A Change Of Mind (Freedom Sound)
Maxmillion Dunbar - Wouldn't Matter (Ramp)
Black Rock - New York City Bump (BBE promo)
Andrew Peckler - Arches (Scape)
Gonjasufi - Ancestors (Warp promo)
Ation - Love For The Heads (Abucs)

Check out a bit more about Al Kent and hold tight for one of the best disco compilations ever coming soon on BBE!

So here it is my end of year roundup, my little addition to the abundance of end of year/end of decade charts though after the Copenhagen debacle I'm personally looking forward to the impending end of the world charts coming in the not too distant future - but that's another story.

So despite much doom and gloom in the record sales business it appears that music creation shows no sign in slowing down and whilst none of the brave new generation of producers and bands will be driving luxury cars into swimming pools more and more artists and groups are trying their hand in this murky and exciting business. The trick these days seems to be not the tricky second or third album but actually producing a coherent album if you manage to make it past the 3 weeks when you are suddenly the hottest new thing on the planet before the attention deficit disordered blogoshpere and public chews you up, spits you out and proclaims you are history and crowns a new king or queen.

Sure the digital age has democratised the music industry but it's becoming harder and harder sifting through all the hype, dross, RSS feeds, newsletters, record lists and badly mastered digital releases to reach the decent shit.

It's increasingly not about the quality, depth and longevity of the art, simply what's new or some apparently 'fresh' micro genre. What's the rush people? Stop trying to keep up with the Jones - it's a thankless task, sit back, have a listen to that album, think for a moment and then maybe even listen again, I'm sure your brain will appreciate the respite.

Rather perculiarly I start the show with a pre 2009 track but one which appeared on my favourite compilation and mix CD of the year - The Grandfather Paradox selected and mix by Ame, Dixon and Henrick Schwarz. It worked on so many levels for me, as an introduction into the world of minimal music, one which I had largely overlooked. The breadth of the selection spanning decades was truly inspired and the final mix was outstanding, a true labour of love.

Being a bit of a Balearic bunny the Brennan Green remix of Mudd & Fakround tickled my fancy and sounded particularly wonderful when I played it in a little festival in a beautiful location in the Pyrenees during the summer. Floating Points was one of the success stories of the year, managing a whole 9 months in the limelight, but for me his first release on R2 records was the best of his 2009 output. Mayer Hawthorne created one of the sing along tunes of the year and a track that will mature with age and just shows that soul will never die as new fads and genres mutate, cross pollinate and then rapidly wither.

Mount Kimbie produced one of the best dubstep eps of the year as they took the genre, swung it round by the balls and reassembled it's dna into an experimental and melodic thing of wonder. Kinnego Flux teamed up with Boxcutter to create a Belfast dream team and add some much needed musicality and soul into the bassline genre. Watch out for the Kinnego boys and their various guises, they're versatile, musical and I'm predicting big things for them in 2010.

Civil Music were undoubtedly one of the labels of the year with more good releases and artists than most and Kotchy created a wonderful album fusing a love of the latest studio trickery with some wonderful pop moments, weighty basslines and nice lyrics - a pleasingly rounded producer. After languishing with much credibility in the leftfield jazz scene for longer than I care to remember Mark Pritchard is finally getting the props he deserves and Wind It Up was a wonderful crazy dubstep banger, ignoring what everyone else was doing and carving it's own path through the sea of unimaginative clones and sheep.

Oblong produced another slice of wonderful pop as I started to dip my toe into a genre I had long decided was a dirty word - thanks to people like Oblong, Mocky, Alif Tree and Kotchy for fusing musical credibility with those pop hooks and showing me the light. The Nacho Patrol ep was a genre bending fusion that sounded like Mulatu Astake was fed pyschedlic drugs and ended up in a padded recording studio with Logic and the latest technology somewhere just outside Kinshasa - Love It.

Staff Benda Bilili were one of the feel good success stories of the year. Four paraplegic street dwelling polio suffers, one adopted street orphan with a home made one stringed instrument made from a tin can and 3 able bodied Congolese musicians came together to create a great modern rumba album with touches of funk and reggae. I had the pleasure to see them live as well and I can report they rock it and when you see a musician with no legs jump from his wheel chair and start rolling about the floor in time to the music with a big smile on his face you can only be amazed and humbled, check the videos below for a bit more info. K'Naan released his second album and unfortunately seems to be going for the money (good for him I guess but bad for those who liked his more quirky productions which have largely bitten the dust) but he still managed to produce the hip hop track of the year - America, tropical hip hop banger!

Lord Cobra was one of many great tracks I could have picked from any of the Soundway compilations that came out this year but special respect has to go out for their Ghana Special release and the Panama series of comps. Any labels looking to release a compilation should really have a look at the sleeve notes and packaging on the Soundway releases - BIG respect to the crew. Another young producer whose star shone in 2009 and who looks like he'll still be talked about in 2009 was Paul White and as well as loving the unique packaging on his great debut album I also loved his 'versus the BBC' single, hip hop never sounded so interesting and less like hip hop. Finn Peters, my favourite UK sax player, got the remix treatment for some of his Butterfly album tracks which took his spiritual jazz sound in some crazy dark electronic directions but it was jazz inclined producers 2b04 who really did the business.

So that's it for this year, I'm going to park my lazy arse up for a couple of weeks before I get back into the show in 2010. Big thanks to all the listeners on the various stations and increasingly the thousands on the podcast. Love to all the record labels and producers who send me their music to keep the show nice and fresh, I hope I repaid you by helping spread your musical message a little bit wider.

Over and out for this year, hold tight for 2010 and if you are in Barcelona for the end of the year celebration come and check me out here.

Besos..

Metamatics - Blue Water from The Grandfather Paradox CD (BBE Records)
Mudd & Fakroun - Drago, Brennan Green version (Claremont 56)
Floating Points - Love Me Like This (R2 Records)
Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No (Stonesthrow)
Mount Kimbie - Vertical (Hot Flush)
Boxcutter & Kinnego Flux - A Familiar Sound (Kinnego)
Kotchy - Check Out My Key Chain (Civil Music)
Mark Pritchard & Om'Mas Keith - Wind It Up, Freak Mix (Hyperdub)
Oblong - Playing On My Mind (Exceptional)
Nacho Patrol - Africa Space Program (Kindred Spirits)
Staff Benda Bilili - Je T'Aime (Crammed Discs)
Lord Cobra - Colon Colon (Soundway)
K'naan - America (A&M/Octone)
Paul White - Versus The BBC (One Handed Music)
Finn Peters - Moyse, 2bo4 rmx (Accidental)

Due to time restriction, no preamble, links or videos this week, just a list
of good music:

DJ Food - All Covered In Darkness, Mr P rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
Blockhead - Farewell Spaceman (Big Dada promo)
Sub Swara - Koli Stance, David Starfire rmx (Low Motion)
Sqaramouche - Thinkin (Nonine Records)
Skeletons - Marathon Man (Impossible Ark promo)
Gizelle Smith - June (Record Kicks)
Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada - Vendendo Saude e Fei, DJ Obah rmx (ESL)
Osunlade - Break It Down (Defected promo)
Medline - Mercado Negro, Gusby rmx (Propaground)
Comfort Fit - Ask The Devil ft Howard Marks, Atjazz Deeper rmx (Tokyo Dawn promo)
Carl Taylor - Walk On By (Dust Science)
Martin L. Dumas Jr. - Attitude, Belief & Determination (BBE promo)
Sticky ft Natalie Storm - Look Pon Me (Mixpack)

Off to a mellow start this week with a track from the Paper Of Pins album courtesy of Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead, Stefan Schneider & Barbara Morgenstern a great album full of quirky folk, jazz, electronica with some nice avant-garde touches. I then dropped a track from Jay Haze's new album under his Fuckpony moniker - terrible name, great house music. Laroca have been given the remix treatment and the Aaron Jerome remix of Unit 125 is my favourite - lovingly stitched together, lush, intricate future breaks.

Protassov new material isn't half bad but A New Beginning is particularly nice and Lone is coming through with a new album of his trademark sounding beats. Mapstation aka Stefan Schneider has just released his excellent The African Chamber album on the reliable Scape label - full of great African percussion and deep electronica. Jah Wobble is a long way from his P.I.L. roots with his dub version of Roy Budd's, Get Carter theme tune and I for am all for it, great version of this well covered track.

Tapes is a super lo-fi digi-dub project with all the tracks getting transferred to tape and back for full analog hiss effect, a million miles away from the clean new digital world and all the better for it. Space were back in the day disco dons and Architeq has slashed the tempo and provided the remix highlight of the new single package on Tirk. BBE provide this weeks original disco moment with Maxx Traxx's 1982 gem, Don't Touch It - from yet another amazing collection of forgotten gems on the Mr. Peabody Records compiled, The Real Sound Of Chicago.

Silkie has just released one of those rare things a dubstep album that isn't half bad and I'm personally favouring the Turvey track as Faib, another of those rare dubstep things - a female producer, hailing from Moscow and with a great melodic sensibility drops a great double A side single. The Heritage Orchestra and DJ Yoda end the show with a track from their recent album that brings the world of classical music and Prokofiev in particular into the 21st century with an interesting collaboration and plenty of interesting remixes.

Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead, Stefan Schneider & Barbara Morgenstern - The Hermitage Of Braid (Karaoke Kalk)
Fuckpony - I'm Burning Inside (BPitch Control)
Laroca - Unit 125, Aaron Jerome 126 remix (Just Music promo)
Protassov - A New Beginning (Switchstance Recordings)
Lone - Karen Loves Kate (Dealmaker promo)
Mapstation - Holland Wax (Scape)
Jah Wobble - Get Carter (Pressure Sounds)
Tapes - Gold Love Riddim (Jahtari)
Space - Carry On, Turn Me On, Architeq Remix (Tirk)
Maxx Traxx - Don't Touch It (BBE Promo)
Silkie - Turvey (Deep Medi Music)
Faib - Ticking Clocks (Ranking Records)
Heritage Orchestra feat DJ Yoda - Tivannagh L'Abbe Overture (Non Classical)

Check out a this clip about Mr. Peabody Records from Chicago who have compiled the new, soon to be released, compilation on BBE.

Gargarin provide this weeks gentle introduction to the show with the mellowest of the recent remixes of their material courtesy of Beesley Rothko, look out for the Robert Logan remix as well - an altogether darker nastier affair. The Heavy take a break from their more normally more raucous material with a nice mellow track called In Time. I then whip through a couple of beat snippets from the new Melting Pot Music double CD showcasing the talents of Uno, Testiculo & Suff Daddy.

The new Lizz Fields remixes are a pretty sorry bunch with the exception of The Journey remix of When I See Love which takes this soulful lady into, for her, uncharted leftfield territory. The DJ Bootsie album is sounding great, hailing from Budapest his album is a great collection of hip hop and cinematic beat excursions and a great listen from start to finish - look out for it really shortly. I also had to drop another Portformat track from his great interstellar debut this time including the vocal talents of Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow.

Huess is a great new beat making talent from the seemingly endless UK production line. Taking his inspiration from people like Take, keep your eye on him it looks like he's developing into a unique voice. After the release of their acclaimed double CD earlier this year Senseless are gearing up for 2010 with some new material and the beatmaking talents of Ghosttown and rising vocal star of Badness are a great combination. One of my favorite party rocking DJs Saffrolla is also gearing up for a BIG 2010 as I tease you with a forthcoming release called Catch Their Breath with MC Angel, he's got some other more than tasty little tracks to come as well, trust me!

Martin Kemp, with the best haircut on Myspace, is providing some welcome deepness to the UK Funky scene, look out for his new 12 coming really soon on Blunted Robots. Ray Lugo is a NYC modern day Latin don and his latest cut for Milan's Record Kicks label is a dancefloor jazz winnner. Mamadou Barry's debut album during his twilight years is a great listen and I'm particularly liking his version of Take Five. Los Amigos Invisibles from Venezuela have always been worth a listen for some great electronic latin fusion and their new EP on Lovemonk is great and I'm particularly liking the Boohgaloo Zoo Rmx. To end the show I then finish with another killer track from the DJ Spinna compiled disco compilation on the mighty BBE.

Gagarin - Straiff, Beesley Rothko Bassic Mix (Geo Records promo)
The Heavy - In Time (Counter Records)
Suff Daddy - D.I. Luv (MPM promo)
Uno - 3rd (MPM promo)
Lizz Fields - When I see Love, The Journey Remix (Blue Fields Records)
DJ Bootsie - Kormenet/Procession (BBE promo)
Portformat - Mothership feat Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow (Tokyo Dawn Promo)
Huess - A Simple Method (Inaudible Answer)
Ghosttown ft Badness & Dajila - You Know (Senseless Records promo)
Saffrolla - Catch Their Breath feat MC Angel (Test)
Martin Kemp - After The Night (Blunted Robots promo)
Ray Lugo's L.E.S. Express - Roda de Samba (Record Kicks)
Mamadou Barry - Africa Five (World Village)
Los Amigos Invisibles - Plastic Woman, Boohgaloo Zoo rmx (Lovemonk Promo)
South Bronx - The Bottom Line (BBE Records)

Here's a couple of little tasters of the incredible new DJ Bootsie album - a little album sampler and a great video for the Mosquito Dance track from the album:

It's all about the soul music to start the show with a great new track from The Inns & Miles Bonny, beautiful stuff. I then trip down to Burkina Faso for some old school African Soul from the newly discovered vocal genius of Victor Deme, who's been singing all his life in local clubs with no recognition outside his local area - until now! Dokaka is a lunatic Japanese beat boxer but not as you know them. His album has now been released outside the land of the the rising sun and you can now discover more easily why he was involved on Bjork's last album.

Lou Rhodes from Lamb is the first signing to Jason Swinscoe's new record label Motion Audio, look out for the album in March 2010 with more releases planned. Mr. Scruff is about to release a rare non Ninja outing on Prime Numbers with multi instrumentalist and all round musical don Kaidi Tatham and it's a winner. To follow I drop a track from the excellent compilation coming on BBE very soon that takes a look at the disco remix talents of the under recognised John Morales check the killer disco of Curtis Hairston!

Analog Africa have recently released another lovingly packaged compilation (other labels take note!) this time focusing on the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - just buy it is all I can say! Jose Roberto Bertrami from Azymuth has also recently put out a, rather too suave, album of jazzy bossa vibes but there are a couple of less cheesy tracks on there and No Tempo Da Bossa is one of them.

Medline hails from a funky crew running out of Paris, look out for a killer little 7" about to drop on his own Propaground label coming very soon. I've mentioned the new King Midas Sound album before and this week I'm treating you to yet another taster from the album - watch out and hold tight for the release at the end of November. Unni Lovlid is a great Norwegian folk singer prone to some little electronic leftfield excursions and ambient field recordings, I saw her live recently in concert and I recommend, if you get the chance, that you do as well.

Julien Dyne's album is about to drop on BBE and it's deep and just to show you how deep I drop a spiritual jazz inspired number from the forthcoming release. DJ Food is one of the best dj's in the world and his new LP, produced with the aid of King Cannibal, is about to drop, check the instrumental version of the The The cover which is fine way to end the show.

The Inns & Miles Bonny - J. Birly (MPM promo)
Victor Deme - DJon'maya (Chapa Blues Records)
Dokaka - Rest in Peace (Dual Plover)
Lou Rhodes - There For The Taking (Motion Audio promo)
Mr. Scruff & Kaidi Tatham - Fresh Noodles (Prime Numbers promo)
Curtis Hairston - I Want You (BBE promo)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Agnon Dekpe (Analog Africa)
Jose Roberto Bertram - No Tempo Da Bossa (Far Out Records)
Medline - Mercado Negro (Propaground promo)
King Midas Sound - Miles and Miles (Hyperdub promo)
Unni Lovlid - Bak Vaker Verda (Grappa)
Julien Dyne - Spirits (BBE promo)
DJ Food - Giant, Instrumental (Ninja Tune promo)

For you visual obsessives here are a couple of videos one highlighting just how mental Dokaka is and one just to highlight why you should be listening to Victore Deme - enjoy..

Straight in at the deep end this week with one of my new Womex music discoveries, Kouyate & Neerman. I was fortunate to see this due live a couple of weeks ago and the project with Kouyate on Balafon and Neerman on his vibes linked to an effects unit and distortion pedals is great forward thinking Afro Jazz fusion. The Jazz Chronicles album is out and although some of the beats are a bit rigid at times they really did the business with the One For Joe track. Portformat is a great new intergalactic hip hop project with an amazing roster of vocal talent including Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Shaunise amongst many others.

Robert Strauss is coming through with some nice new material with a future soul touch but using the decidedly old school vocalist and previous collaborator, the evergreen Leroy Burgess. Kylie Auldist has been given an amazing edit by Ashley Beedle to turn her In A Week, In A Day track into an end of night soul diamond. Tony Allen is working on more projects than your average government this year and his latest is a couple of tracks soundtracking an imaginary blaxploitation movie, deep afro funk flavour.

Soundway have just released a new compilation focusing on the vintage sounds of the French Caribbean and I'm happy to report it is up to their usual impeccably packaged and selected standards although the Biguine and Creole rhythms will be news to a lot of listeners, check it for some vintage global freshness. Another discovery at Womex was Cacique'97 a great Afrobeat project from Portugal taking the sound in interesting new directions with some pan African flavours and even the sound of Brasil, great project and top guys.

Debruit is going from strength to strength as I drop one of his new tracks on Civil Music, with nods to his Congo Whoomph track earlier this year but with some great more melodic African touches. Incidentally I saw him live last night in Barcelona and he rocks the party as well! Pinch has just dropped a new track with the vocals of Yolanda which I've dispensed with by playing the dub as the dirty tribal dubstep rhythm doesn't really need any help. The King Midas Sound album is on it's way this month so I give you a little taste with a great vocal track called Earth A Kill You. Look out for the album it's a really diverse bassline offering.

Scuba can always be relied on to deliver some bassline deepness and with his new EP on Hot Flush he's done just that with some nice tempo variations as well. I close the show with another of my Womex discoveries in the form of the Basque group Oreka TX who are single handedly reviving the old traditional regional instrument, the Xtalaparta - a great sounding wooden percussion instrument a bit like an oversized vibes played with wooden circular blocks rather than mallets - check it!

Kouyate & Neerman - Niokome (No Format)
Jazz Chronicles - One For Joe (Futuristica)
Portformat - Life Water feat Thesauras Rex (Tokyo Dawn Promo)
Robert Strauss - Love & Self Respect feat Leroy Burgess (BBE promo)
Kylie Auldist - In A Week, In A Day, Ashley Beedle Streetsoul Edit (Tru-Thoughts promo)
MC Jean Gab'1 & Tony Allen - E Nan Mian Nuku (Crammed Discs)
El Rego Et Ses Commandos - E Nan Mian Nuku (Soundway Records)
Debruit - Nigerian What? (Civil Music promo)
Pinch - Get Up Dub (Tectonic promo)
Kind Midas Sound - Earth A Kill You (Hyperdub promo)
Scuba - Ice Tx (Hot Flush promo)
Oreka TX - Ice Tx (World Village)

Check out another Cacique'97 track from their album and it's nice little video here:

Rejoice, all the albums Fela Kuti ever recorded are being re-issued by Knitting Factory records and let's face it you can't have enough Fela so to celebrate I play the whole 11 minutes of Water Get No Enemy one of my favourite Fela tracks. King Cannibal has finally released his album on Ninja Tune, a multi-genre specialist he revels in perverting accepted notions of genres and twisting them in his own image, usually taking them to darker realms - watch out for him, this is just the start. On another Afrobeat tip Jimi Tenor has teamed up with Tony Allen and they've brought out the best in each other, Allen reveling in the deeper Avant-Garde world of the maverick Tenor and the deeper jazz flavours - this album is the best of Tony Allens many projects this year.

Percussion master Trilok Gurtu is always doing something interesting and I'm particularly liking the Indian Middle Eastern fusion of Dive In. Lloyd Miller is an amazing jazz ethnologist and his constant experimentation with jazz and Eastern styles is being celebrated by a wonderfully selected Jazzman compilation. I had to drop another Reason or Romanza track from their forthcoming Civil Music EP, they really are that good and the same with Trus'me as I give you another taste of his new album on Fat City Records which segues perfectly into a slice of new old style house music courtesy of SE62. Boddhi Satva has given George Levin the remix he needed and turned his soulful vocal track The Better Life into an excellent slice of deep deep afrocentric house music.

A Mountain Of One are producing some great balearic prog/kraut rock cosmic mash up type of stuff and I'm particularly liking the Sky Is Folding from their recent album. To finish the show I had to drop a track from the latest Matthew Halsall album another great slice of modern jazz from this Manchester youngster who is punching well above his years with both his music and the fact he is self releasing his music on his own excellent Gondwana label which he is also using as a vehicle for some other excellent British players notably Nat Birchall and his amazing recent spiritual jazz album

Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (Knitting Factory Records promo)
King Cannibal - Virgo feat Face-A-Face (Ninja Tune)
Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Ceila's Walk (Strut promo)
Trilok Gurtu - Dive In
Lloyd Miller - Hue Wail (Jazzman Records)
Reason or Romanza - Seven Uses Of Difference (Civil Music promo)
Trus'me - Pretend (Fat City promo)
SE62 - Wall Ride, Eddie C rmx (Home Taping Is Killing Music promo)
George Levin - The Better Life ft Clara Hill, Boddhi Satva Ancelstral Soul rmx (BBE promo)
A Mountain Of One - Sky Is Folding (
Matthew Halsall - Colour Yes (Gondwana promo)

Check Lloyd Miller live back in the day:

The Life Force Trio start procedings this week with a great slice of musical spirituality which was taken from the excellent Echo Expansion records compilation featuring a roster of 'who's who' and 'who's about to be'in the world of quality underground leftfield music. I then steal a Milt Jackson track from a possibly even better compilation, Peter Kruder's Private Collection one of the nicest selections I've heard in a while - essential purchase and the Portico Quartet have been given a great sympathetic dubstep remix from Sbtrk who beefs up the bottom end but keeps the musicality, great job.

Eskmo goes to show that not all dubstep comes from small bedrooms in South London as Planet Mu kindly showcase this great producer from San Francisco and Gang Gang Dance are given a nice remix by Dj Rupture and Matt Shadatek which has been lifted from their new mix CD - Solar Life Raft. Civil Music have come up trumps again with Reason or Romanza who are about to release their EP full of great original tracks and some excellent remixes - watch out for these boys and always keep an eye on what Civil Music are putting out.

Chickenwing All Stars are a South London reggae dub collective under the leadership of Anderson and Craig Tamlin, percussionist with Anthony Joseph & the Spasm band and their debut is a nice deep reggae cover of the classic Gary Bartz track Celestial Blues. Lambent is a hot Japanese producer now resident in Berlin who has just released an album of his mellower offerings on the always interesting Project Moon Circle and Eglo come through yet again this time courtesy of progressive soul boy Funkineven and a great slice of future boogie feat Fatima.

Happy Days - Trus'me is back with a new album after his acclaimed debut and you wont be disapointed, just wait till you hear it and look out for some great guests as well. Moonstar is still whacking out the fresh jazz beats in his inimitable style this time with the help of some crazy keys from Tony Ezzy and there's a great compilation coming out on Tirk of some of Greg Wilson's finest edits - you know that's essential. Keeping on the compilation tip, the disco compilation kings BBE are coming through soon with a DJ Spinna compiled disco selection and the Jan Leslie Holmes track is just a taster of the aural delights to come.

The Life Force Trio - Alice! Live At The Natural History Museum (Porter Records)
Milt Jackson With The Ray Brown Big Band - Enchanted Lady (G-Stone)
Portico Quartet - Lines, Sbtrk More Hang Mix (Real World Records promo)
Eskmo - Let Them Sing (Planet Mu Promo)
Gang Gang Dance - Bebey, DJ Rupture & Matt Shadatek rmx (The Agriculture Promo)
Reason or Romanza - Two Times Three Times (Civil Music promo)
Chickenwing All Stars - Celestial Bingi, Find Yourself version (Heavenly Sweetness)
Lambent - After All (Project Moon Circle)
Funkineven 1956 - Kleer feat Fatima (Eglo promo)
Trus'me - Put It On Me (Fat City promo)
Moonstar - Laham Baagine feat Tony Ezzy (PTR promo)
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk, Greg Wilson edit (Tirk promo)
Jan Leslie Holmes - I'm Your Superman (BBE promo)

Reason or Romanza also do a nice line in videos as well as great music - check it:

Kicking off this week with some deep dub techno hybrid late night lushness courtesy of Rooflight, a promising talent if ever there was one. Tony Allen drops a raw percussive, surprisingly non Afrobeat, gem and Gamal Goma show that it's not just the Africans who do amazing percussion. Mordant Music provide a slice of mesmerising, leftfield, boundary pushing house music that you wouldn't know which section of the record shop to put it in.

The forthcoming Ogris Debris ep is so good that I drop the original late night floor destroying cut after dropping the more cerebral Dorian Concept mix last week. Troy and Shea Soul show that UK Funky can be well produced and super soulful and I also drop another track from the excellent new Paten Locke album, just how hip hop should be sounding.

DJ Devastate provides another slice of deep lazy jazzy hip hop taken from his excellent forthcoming album on BBE Records, all you beat heads looking for some chilled beats watch out for that one. To be honest I'm having trouble telling a lot of the Dam Funk tracks apart, as much as I like his sound but he's hit 'kick back with your girl' gold with the super mellow 10 West, pure easyness. The new Impossible Ark compilation of jazz covers is a wonderful thing as The Fiction Trio tune ably demonstrates, France's finest Afrobeat boys Fanga come up trumps yet again as do the ever excellent Soundway boys as I play a track from their incredible Panama II compilation - look out for Volum 3 coming soon, you know it's going to be essential..

Rooflight - In Your Hands (Styrax)
Tony Allen - Gbedu (Honest Jons)
Gamal Goma - Shara Saidi (Pirhana)
Mordant Music - Symptoms, Version (Mordant Music)
Ogris Debris - Raid The Itch (Compost Black Promo)
Troy and Shea Soul - Fools Gold (Broadcite Promo)
Paten Locke - Just Me (Tres Records)
DJ Devastate - Don't Stop (Tres Records)
Dam Funk - 10 West (Stonesthrow)
The Fiction Trio - Haitian Fight Song (Impossible Ark)
Fanga - Ni I Ma Toro (World Music Network)
Chilo Pitty - Piculina (Soundway Records)

Check a bit of the multi talented Paten Locke below, some proper hip hop in these troubled times for the genre.

No rundown this week as I've been on holiday and I'm catching up on a million things, just a list of good tunes and links so you can do your own research on the artists and record labels involved.

VoicesVoices - Flulyk (Manimal Vinyl)
Collage - Ehted Kadunud (Wool Recordings)
Calima - Lunita (Putumayo promo)
DJ Devastate - Spoken (BBE promo)
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune Promo)
Paten Locke - Auto Reverse (Tres Records)
Shed - Estrange (Ostgut)
Joy Rose - Waiting (Broadcite promo)
David Baxter - All This Broken Lushness (Unreleased)
Ogris Debris - G-Thong, Dorian Concept Restring (Compost Black promo)
Gold Panda - Back Home (Various Production)
Knalpot - AV 1 (Eat Concrete Records)
Talen - Sniper Sniper, A Cutty Ranks Tale (Mouthwatering Records)
The Very Best - De Cuba (Green Owl)
Ruth Tafebe And The Afrorockerz - De Cuba (World Music Network)

Not a show this week for people with attention defecit disorder as I cut down the track count and get into some longer grooves kicking off with a slice of new tango with an electronic jazzy twist from UK outfit Tango Siempre. Grackle have been one of my discoveries of the week and I'm liking the mish mash of styles from this US duo, friends since childhood. Nancy Elisabeth is producing a fine blend of folktronica from her Manchester base and Virgil Howe is a talented multi-instrumentalist who is making interesting music as befits the son of a member of prog rock outfit Yes.

Julien Dyne is a hot new producer coming through with a deep blend of soul and jazz inspired beats and probably the best thing to come out of New Zealand since The Lord Of The Rings, look out for his album on BBE coming out this autumn. Floating Points has just released a great EP on his own Eglo imprint and is finishing off the year how he started it - STRONG. Zwicker is a Swiss based deep house bod and the John Talabot remix has taken his 'Oddity' track into wonderful deep disco house territory.

The Revenge are just about to release some singles influenced by some of the classic sounds of years gone by aptly summed up by the title 'Forever In Their Debt'. The Bulgarian public voted for some of their favourite pop songs in a big public contest and the winners, in a fit of inter country collaboration, were given to some UK producers to remix. I don't know what they were expecting but Ramadanman has chopped up the catchily titled 'A Nie Dvamata S Bobi Piem Kafe' track from ska popsters Wickeda into an amazing broken percussive dubstep joint - tune! Still on the dubstep track I also throw in another more techno inspired cut from the new 2562 album and then finish with some Cuban inspired Congolese Rumba from Papa Noel just to give you a little warm feeling on these cooler autumnal nights.

Tango Siempre - Triphop & Fugue (Rough Guide promo)
Grackle - We Are It (Supersoul)
Nancy Elizabeth - Feet Of Courage (Leaf Recordings)
Virgil Howe - Someday (3 Bar Fire promo)
Julien Dyne - Fallin' Down ft Parks (BBE promo)
Floating Points - Argonaut (Eglo)
Zwicker - Oddity, John Talabot Dub (Compost Black promo)
The Revenge - Forever In Their Debt, Red Rack'em Remix (White)
Wickeda - A Nie Dvamata S Bobi Piem Kafe, Ramadanman Refix (White)
2562 - Love In Outer Space (Techtonic)
Papa Noel - Kin Havane (Tumi Music)

Here's a little video taster of Julien Dyne live in session with some mates at The Red Bull Academy in Auckland - I'm telling you LOOK out for this boy!

A great mixture of electronic experimentalism and soul music this week, kicking off with a great Japanese talent, Yosi Korikawa, a sound designer who likes mixing up the sound of the world with some great beats. The mysterious AFMB come up with a great house remix of the Maze classic 'Sunshine and Rain' and I pull out some old school Philly goodness with Executive Suite. The latest Dillanthology is about to drop and is another well compiled retrospective look at the mans work.

N'Dambi, one of my favourite nu-soul artists from the last few years, is about to drop a new album on the resurrected Stax records and it's sounding nice. I had to drop more vintage Estonian jazz pop folk fusion from Collage, the album really is that good. New York post garage soulful electronic fiddler, Falty DL, is coming through with a new ep on Planet Mu and 'Must Sustain' is a great slice of future electronic soul. Red Snapper return a recent favour and remix the mighty Robert Logan in their dark electronic jazzy style and The Eerier Child come through with my favourite track from the interesting new forward thinking Mindtricks/Redrum compilation Frequencies Of The Mind.

Fink is still putting out some remixes of his recent album and his Sideshow alter ego beefs up the bass to great dubby effect on his rework of Dub It All. Architeq is another of the seemingly endless supply of promising UK electronic producers and I play a track from his great debut album available soon on Tirk recordings. I'm liking The Baker Brothers reworking of the Steve Winwood classic 'Fly Like An Eagle', mainly because I'm a sucker for the original and Bei Bei and Shawn Lee have come up with an outstanding version of Billy Paul's 'East' and I'm looking forward to hearing what their forthcoming album is like.

Yosi Korikawa - Painting (Eklektic promo)
AFMB - Here & There (White)
Executive Suite - When It Comes To Loving Me (BBE test)
J Dilla - Crushin (Rapster promo)
N'Dambi - Can't Hardly Wait (Stax promo)
Collage - Memme Vaev (Wool Recordings promo)
Falty DL - Must Sustain (Planet Mu promo)
Robert Logan - Accurate Spit Boy, Red Snapper rmx (Slowfoot promo)
The Eerier Child - Into The Sun (Mindtrick/Red Rum)
Fink - Dub It All, Sideshow rmx (Ninja Tune promo)
Architeq - Birds of Prey (Tirk promo)
The Baker Brothers - Fly Like An Eagle (Freestyle Records)
Bei Bei and Shawn Lee - East (Ubiquity Promo)

Back to normality, familiar studios and better sound quality this week kicking off with wonderful singer song writer Jeb Loy Nichols and possibly my favourite track from his new album on Impossible Ark. The Portico Quartet are back with a new album soon to come and a new record label, if you liked their previous outing you wont be disappointed. Collage are being re-issued and their album is a great quirky mixture of late 60's Estonian folk, jazz and pop, check it - I think you'll like it, it's better than my poor description!

Mr. Thing is returning with his new installment of Strange Breaks and Mr. Thing rare breaks compilation on BBE chock full of great sounding soul and funk that I never knew existed - good work. Aardvark is about to unleash his latest album on the ever interesting Eat Concrete records and the Kronos Quartet have released their 40th album (spread over 30 years!) of string led adventures and it's a wonderful thing.

Anti Pop Consortium are coming out of their self imposed 6 year solo project time out and have a new offering on Big Dada and The incredible Funk League have enlisted the Large Professor for some great golden age hip hop vibes. Raz Ohara and The Odd Orchestra win the best name of the week award and have just released a great quirky jazz flavoured eclectic electronic album which is well worth a listen and Kelpe has produced one of the best album of beats you'll hear this year, familiar but avoiding the cliches and coming through with his own flavour, I like it alot.

Dancer vs Politician are some sensitive Anglo German folksters who are sounding nice and one of my favourite mixtape DJs ever Ruckus Roboticus has just given LA based Electro Hopsters LMFAO a great Latin makeover - BIG party tune. Edu K has done wonders remixing Daniel Haaksman, minimal forro is now officially the future of dance music. Point B wraps up the show with an atmospheric dubstep corker from his new album on Combat Recordings.

Jeb Loy Nichols - Probably Never Stop (Tru Thoughts)
Portico Quartet - Dawn Patrol (Real World promo)
Collage - Halb Sirp (Wool Recordings promo)
Frank Pleyer Big Band - Sally (BBE promo)
Dick Walter - Spooky Doo (BBE promo)
Aardvarck - idlunt (Eat Concrete promo)
Kronos Quartet - Tashweesh, Interference (Nonesuch Records)
Anti-Pop Consortium - New Jack Exterminator (Big Dada promo)
The Incredible Funk League feat Large Professor - Through Good and Bad (Favorite promo)
Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra - Varsha (Physical promo)
Kelpe - After Gold (DC Recordings promo)
Dancer vs Politician - Die Fantastischen Vier (Mono Music Records promo)
LMFAO - I'm In Miami Bitch, Ruckus Roboticus Remix (White)
Daniel Haaksman - Kid Conga feat MC Miltinho & Edu K, Mininal Forro rmx (Man Recordings promo)
Point B - To Follow You (Combat Recordings promo)

Here's a quick look at the ever adventurous Kronos Quartet getting all 'Purple Haze' with their strings:

Back on the airwaves after a weeks break due to other commitments and broadcasting from the Planet Radio studio down in Tenerife whilst on a little break. It's always a bit of a weird one though working in a new studio with a whole host of new equipment and being thrown in at the deep end with no engineer but at least the music is still good even if the presenting is a little shaky as I'm trying to work out what to slide or press!

Kicking off this week with a trio of Big Dada releases. After the Speech Debelle Mercury prize win they are hotter than hot and certainly not resting on their laurels with a whole host of great releases in the pipeline. The reclusive DSL has given Boozou Bajou their hottest remix by far and I can only wish he was a bit more active! Bonobo is about to drop his latest album, check a great little remix from the first single from the project.

Nailah is a hot new vocal talent from the West Coast of the states with a great voice, expect big things from her. Keeping it jazzy i also drop another spiritual jazz work from the great Dutch crew, Kindred Spirits Ensemble and some fresh dancefloor jazz from the Milano Jazz Dance Combo. Al Kent is a modern day disco don right up there with Joey Negro and his new Disco Sex track is a dancefloor bomb.

Drumpoet Community carry on their deep house mission with a great Alex Dallas and Ron Shiller compiled EP, essential house music. Subeena is a hot new talent and it's always nice to hear the girls doing it. Her forthcoming EP on Planet Mu is a killer and the inclusion of Jaimie Woon on vocals and Om'mas Keith on keys is a new generation dream team. Pinch and Rudey Lee's 'One Blood' gets a wicked Distance remix for all you dubstep lovers. Paul White's new limited 7" is a great slice of 'hip rockdelica' and Captain Planet is a New York producer with a love for all things soulful afro and latin and a mission to add his twist on the genres..

Speech Debelle - Spinnin (Big Dada)
Thavius Beck - Go, Offshore remix (Big Dada promo)
Anti-Pop Consortium - End Game (Big Dada promo)
Boozou Bajou - Sign, DSL remix (K7)
Bonobo - The Keeper, Grasscut Bitter Peace Remix)
Nailah - Beautiful Anyway (NaiMuse Records)
Kindred Spirits Ensemble - John Coltrane (Kindred Spirits)
Milano Jazz Dance Combo - Much More ft Colonel Red (Record Kicks promo)
Al Kent - Disco Sex (BBE promo)
The Lost Men - More Of That (Drumpoet Community promo)
Subeena feat Jamie Woon and Om'Mas Keith (Planet Mu promo)
Pinch ft Rudey Lee - One Blood, One Source, Distance remix (Techtonic promo)
Paul White - Versus The BBC (One Handed Records)
Captain Planet - Fresh Delivery (Bastard Jazz promo)

Another episode this week pushing the global side of my musical world, kicking off with an incredible track from 3 oud playing Palestinian brothers otherwise known as Le Trio Joubran, amazing. The mysterious Clutchy Hopkins follows with one of his dubbier creations closely followed by a killer rework of Soldier, my favourite track from Vadim's recent album. Keeping it urban I then drop my hip hop track of the year without a doubt, K'naan's, America - the maddest break of the year and some Somalian lyrical flavour - just BRILLIANT.

Gangbe Brass Band are from Benin and mixing the local rhythms with some nice soul jazz touches and putting most of the recent brass band efforts in Europe to shame. Manteca was an old school Cuban percussionist and also a comedian and his Abacua track is a great example of original drum and bass. I couldn't resist dropping The Sausage a cheeky calypso track from the well named Baldhead Growler(what was his mum thinking) that makes me crack me up every time I hear it, full of great, none too subtle double entendres.

My recent fascination with the Congolese legend Franco continues, so check another track from the excellent Stern's compilation (which includes great sleeve notes). Brownout are another Grupo Fantasmo offshoot exploring the scuzzier more phychedelic side of latin funk, look out for the album soon. After last weeks little global vocal showcase I highlight a couple more amazing vocalists - the African flamenco soul jazz sound of Buika and the Portugese/Cape Verdean sweetness of Sarah Tavares.

I'd forgotten about my Max Richter albums until I got sent a great new compilation exploring the collision of the classical and electronic worlds compiled by Me Raabenstein - a really interesting listen, as you would expect. Taken by Trees is a great new Swedish Global Folk Poptronica project and Lusine is coming through with some great new atmospheric cinematic beats from his Seattle home. I finished the show with a Les McCann penned jazz dance classic from Anita Moore forthecoming on BBE sometime this year.

Le Trio Joubran - Masar (Randana)
Clutchy Hopkins - Lord Kenji (Ubiquity)
DJ Vadim - Solidier, UK Flex rmx (BBE promo)
K'Naan - America (Octone)
Gangbe Brass Band - Yonnatche (Contre Jour)
Manteca - Abacua (Nascente)
Baldhead Growler - The Sausage (Trojan)
Franco et le T.P. OK Jazz - Kinsiona (Sterns)
Brownout - Framed By Deats (Six Degrees promo)
Buika - La Nina De Fuego (Warner)
Sara Tavares - So Imgagina (World Connection)
Max Richter - Arboretum (Universal)
Taken By Trees - To Lose Someone (Rough Trade promo)
Lusine - Baffle (Ghostly International promo)
Anita Moore and the TSU Jazz Ensemble - Compared To What (BBE Test)

If you want to know a bit more about Buika and I suggest so(!), then check the video below:

There's a really nice global flavour in this weeks show as I catch up on some world music album buying which tends to go through phases rather than be constant. Kicking off with more Dub Colossus and some wonderful jazzy Ethiopian dub closely followed by a second play for Joker's dubstep rework of Bristol's funky rockers, The Heavy. Tres Records keep up the independent hip hop pressure with another great release and hot new Tru-Thoughts signing Stonephace gives Kinny a little drum and bass rework.

I give you another slice of unreleased Kinnego Flux and a some Caribbean soul and funk from the re-energised Strut Records. Soul Jazz records can always be relied on to release well thought out compilations and Brazil 70 their collection of post Tropicalia Brasilian artists is no exception, check the Erasmo Carlos track. Keeping it Brasilian I also drop a track from the excellent Beto Villares album which explores his interest in all aspects of his countries rich musical diversity.

Lura is one of the new generation of singers from Cape Verde building on the exposure of the islands music created by the success of Cesaria Evora. Rokia Traore isn't news to most world music fans but to anyone who hasn't explored the music of Africa and Mali in particular she has quite simply got one of the best voices in the world. Peter Fish was better known for his work in tv and film music in New York in the 70's but he also found time to record some great jazz which you can now listen to courtesy of the great re-issue series from Kindred Spirits. Linkwood has slowly been making a name for himself amongst the lovers of the deeper side of house music and is about to release a great album full of boogie, disco, electro, dub and house flavours on the pleasingly reliable Prime Numbers label. On the Tears tracks that I played from him I am happy to report a rare appearance from Reggie Watts on vocals a great vocal talent and full time comedian! Finishing the show is SelfSays a young but promising MC talent from the UK riding a neat little Bullion produced beat.

Dub Colossus - Negus Dub (Real World)
The Heavy - How You Like Me Now, Joker remix (Ninja Tune Promo)
CO$$ & Fonetic Simbol - La's Best (Tres promo)
Kinny - Afro Forest Love, Stonephace Remix (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Kinnego Flux - Lend Us A Tender (Unreleased)
Joblonski And The Randy's Allstars - Soul Makossa (Strut Records)
Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Orchestra - 90% Of Me Is You (Strut Records)
Erasmo Carlos - Mane Jaoo (Soul Jazz Records)
Beto Villares - Santo Negro (Six Degrees Records)
Lura - Um Dia (LusAfrica)
Rokia Traore - Dianfa (Nonesuch)
Peter Fish - Friend And Lover (Kindred Spirits)
Linkwood - Tears (Prime Numbers promo)
SelfSays - Same Space (Unreased)

I've been checking the new book 'From Jazz Funk & Fusion To Acid Jazz - The History of The UK Jazz Dance Scene' by Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove this week and can't recommend it highly enough for anyone with an interest in the scene, the music or dance in general. It also offers a fascinating insight into an important period for the development of black music in the UK and is chock full of interesting interviews with all of the major players in the scene - great work. It's also inspired me to check out some old jazz dance footage, here's a little taste:

An amazing amount of new music has just come my way and it's my pleasure to start sharing it with you. Kicking off with a fantastic South African musical export Tumi & The Volume, a great new hip hop project with it's influences more in Afro America than Africa but none the less great stuff. Mary Anne Hobbs, queen of the electronic new school is going to be releasing her latest compilation for Planet Mu in September and I drop two tracks from this gateway into the musical future - the excellent Sunken Foal 'folktronica' project from Dublin and the majestic, atmospheric slice of UK Funky from Bristol bad boy Gemmy who actually shares a house with Appleblim and whilst making some quality beats also passes on his production knowledge through his teaching job.

Lobisomem hails from Chicago and is making great uncategorizable (easier to spell than say - just listen to this weeks show!) music, he also runs an excellent blog, with great mixes from the cream of the Chicago musical underground. I also played another track from The Brave New World Of Bernard Fevre and expect more tastes in the coming weeks. Crown City Rockers are a funky fresh five piece hip hop crew from Oakland, check them if you despair at what is classed as hip hop these days, ditto Shafiq Husayn, one third of the boundary pushing Sa Ra Creative Partners crew.

David Baxter is back with some new solo efforts and collaborations, look out for this great young talent from Belfast under his Filaria moniker or with his Kinnego Flux team efforts. My favourite Afro Peruvian electronic fusionists, NovaLima, have just had their last album remixed and the Da Lata rerub is probably the pick of the bunch and I give you a taste of the new Fat Freddy's Drop album another slice of down under (depending on your gps co-ordinates) reggaefied soulful goodness.

Culture Musical Club are taking East Africa`s Arabian musical heritage, adding Swahili lyrics and a good percussive Afro twist to produce some great culture clash musical goodness and I finish off the show with some great old time gems. Nigerian guitarist Victor Coker comes through with some old time hi-life, Alerth Bedasse & Ivan Chin provide a little Mento gem and Slim Smith shows some of those Jamaican boys sure have soul.

Tumi And The Volume - Johnny Dyani (Mr. Bongo promo)
Sunken Foal - Of Low Count and Light Pocket (Planet Mu promo)
Lobisomem - Plasma Is For Lovers (Tall Corn Music promo)
Bernard Fevre - Stay On Grey (Lo Recordings promo)
Crown City Rockers - Soul (Gold Dust Media Promo)
Shafiq Husayn - Nirvana (Plug Research/Rapster promo)
David Baxter - Hare's Gap (Unreleased)
Gemmy - Rainbow Road (Planet Mu promo)
Lady Chann & Sticky - Sticky Situation (Free Fabric download)
Novalima - Tumbala, Da Lata remix (Cumbancha Records)
Kinnego Flux & Defcon - Unravel feat Def Con (Unreleased)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Pull The Catch (The Drop promo)
Culture Musical Club - Muziki Ni Kazi Yetu (World Village)
Victor Coker - Ilu Oyinbo Dara (Honest Jons)
Alerth Bedasse & Chin’s Calypso Sextet - Guzoo Doctor (Pressure Sounds)
Slim Smith - I Need Your Loving (Jah Slams)

Any regular followers to my musings will know about my developing sand art fetish, well I've found the best example so far a truly moving mixture of sand art, story telling, history and music plus the artist is good looking enough for me to forgive her rather overly dramatic theatrics and the fact the clip is from the tv program Ukraine's Got Talent!!

No time for roasting my flesh in the sun as the radio show rolls on into the summer. Not so many releases at this time of year but I've been receiving plenty of good promos from projects that will be released once everyone gets their lazy arses back to work in September and onwards.

The Phantogram album is coming on BBE and sees a bit of a departure for the label with this mixture of shoegaze, pop, electronica underpinned by some great drums, often hip hop flavoured - a really unique sound, make sure you check it. The Strange New World of Bernard Fevre is without doubt one the albums of the year and definitely the most mysterious. Red Snapper are back and have created a dream team by asking Robert Logan for a remix and Oblong has created a majestic slice of pop flavoured house music which by rights should be ripping up every sunny dancefloor this summer.

I also dig out a classic slice of Malik Alston. One of the unsung Detroit heroes he has worked with the likes of Dwele, Slum Village and Recloose - hear why here. The Kindred Spirits Ensemble are part of a new wave of spiritual jazz warriors alongside Nat Birchall and Finn Peters and are about to release a welcome album of covers bringing back to life some of the genres classic tracks. The Radek Azul Band are a great new soul jazz outfit coming out of France and promising big things.

Mr. Bongo have picked up the Jose Conde Y Ola Fresca album for release later this year and it's a real mix of Latin rhythms, great tropical fusion as befitting a group from the New York cultural melting pot. Comfort Fit have come through with a really interesting album of experimental beats and varied vocal styles even including Mr. Nice, Howard Marks! The Herbaliser band are dropping their second album and Wah-Chu-Ku is gracing Drumpoet Community with some great future beats.

Phantogram - 10,000 Claps (BBE promo)
Bernard Fevre - Dali (Lo Recordings promo)
Red Snapper - Deathroll, Robert Logan remix (Lo Recordings)
Natural Self - The Origin (Tru-thoughts promo)
Oblong - Playing On My Mind (Exceptional Records)
Malik Alston - Butterfly (Third Ear)
Kindred Spirits Ensemble - Ja-Mil (Kindred Spirits promo)
Chynna Blue and Radek Azul Band - Give You All (Q-Sounds promo)
Jose Conde Y Ola Fresca - Descarga Inez, Old School Cuban Jam Session (Mr. Bongo promo)
Zion Train - Why, Alambic Conspiracy rmx (Universal Egg promo)
Comfort Fit - Rendevous, Dub (Tokyo Dawn Records promo)
The Herbaliser Band - Blackwater Drive (K7 Records promo)
Wah-Chu-Ku - Flowin' (Drumpoet Community promo)

Here we go again. Kicking off this week with pop hero (albeit with a touch of soul) Jack Penate and a great quirky beatless remix of 'Tonight's Today'. Ezekiel Honig supplies a slice of his trademark warm acoustic electronica before I launch into a future Balearic classic from DJ Hell's recent album, co produced by Peter Kruder (more on him later) amongst others. Rhythm Of Elements continue a string of great releases on R2 this year with a great piece of jazz flavoured house, replete with Japanese scatting, now you don't hear that everyday.

Peter Kruder marks the 50th release of the excellent Compost Black house label with an an amazing piece of deep electronic but super soulful house music and Faze Action provide some of their increasingly trademark disco deepness. Dub Colossus has been one of my favourite projects of the year so far and Colombia's Sidestepper gives this Ethiopian reggae project a further global fusion twist - wonderful.

Lynx & Kemo have produced possibly the best conceptual drum and bass album of all time and I drop this great bassline ethno inspired percussive track from their album, although it's about as far removed from most peoples perception of drum as bass as you can get. There is a great new compilation on Freestyle of Cuban Funk compiled by Tom Wieland and the Orquesta Riverside track is just one of the many great tracks on the album. If you don't know Tom Wieland he is a deep deep digger so expect a great original selection of previously obscure gems.

I've only just stumbled across Dollboy and wanted to share this great new folktronica find from this ex-bigbeat producer. DJ Day & Miles Bonny are just about to release an EP of Raphael Saadiq covers and I'm loving their interpretation of Skyy, Can You Feel Me, although with such great source material you can't go too far wrong. Robert Glasper is about to drop his new album and this hip hop inspired jazzer has enlisted Bilal amongst others on the project. Finally I end up with deep jazz beats by Venetian Snares which I meant to play last week but somehow overlooked - the joys of one take, live radio

Jack Penate - Tonight's Today, Julianna Barwick rmx (XL)
Ezekiel Honig - Broken Marching Band (Anticipate)
DJ Hell - The Angst (International Gigolo)
Rhythm Of Elements - Praia (R2 Records)
Peter Kruder - After The Dawn (Compost Black promo)
Faze Action - Starship (Faze Action Records)
Dub Colossus - Black Rose, Sidestepper remix (Real World records)
Lynx & Kemo - Tribes (Soul:R)
Orquesta Riverside - En Casa Del Trompo No Bailes (Freestyle)
Dollboy - California (Static Caravan Recordings)
DJ Day & Miles Bonny - Skyy Can You Feel Me (MPM promo)
Robert Glasper - All Matter ft Bilal (Blue Note promo)
Venetian Snares - This Bitter Earth (Addict Records)

It's funny how some shows just seem to come together with a bit of a theme and this weeks could loosely be described as 'bass line atmospherics'. I kicked off this week with a track from the epic Moritz Von Oswald Trio release on Honest Jons - amazing stuff from Mr. Oswald, Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer - 4 tracks and 45 minutes of deep percussive afro leaning dubbed out techno flavour. Clubroot is an ex drum and bass producer turned dubstep don and his latest album is laden with bottom heavy haunting soundscapes. Mount Kimbie are another outfit taking dubstep in brave new directions and I am loving the Vertical track from their recent ep.

The Heavy are a bunch of Bristol funk rockers (terrible description) and Joker has brought their sound into the dubstep arena in wonderful style. Prince Fatty are the best reggae group you have probably never heard of but this year could be their year and this ODB cover should at least give them exposure on all good party dance floors over the warmer months.

It somehow took me 3 years to hear about Root 70 and their jazz take on Burnt Friedman so this week, better late than never, is a great slice of left leaning jazzy reggae from them. Ricky Tick have been one of the most consistent jazz labels of the last few years and their forthcoming single from Timo Lassy featuring Jose James is going to do that reputation no harm whatsoever. Impossible Ark will be releasing one of this years finest compilations and The Rhythmatic Orchestra's take on African Mailman is just a little taster of the musical joys to come.

Tres Records, home of consistently good independent hip hop, are 5 years old this summer and have just released a great compilation to celebrate, check out the rising star of Paten Locke. Sarah Linares drops a quality slice of forward thinking soul music and Blue Daisy drop their eagerly awaited single of lo-fi, hazy crazy, forward thinking beats. Young David is a young house inclined producer I've had my eyes on for a while and this new track from him is a great slice of slo-mo cosmic/balearic goodness. As if Floating Points hadn't done his reputation enough good this year I finish the show with KG Beat, another stellar production with a hint of Mark Princhard's infamous Carambola remix, this time on Planet Mu.

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Pattern 3 (Honest Jons)
Clubroot - Low Pressure Zone (Lo Dubs)
Mount Kimbie - Vertical (Hot Flush)
The Heavy - How You Like Me Now, Joker remix (Counter Records promo)
Prince Fatty - Shimmy Shimmy Ya (Mr. Bongo)
Root 70 - Get Things Straight, instrumental (Nonplace)
Timo Lassy - The More I Look At You feat Jose James (Ricky Tick promo)
The Rhythmatic Orchestra - African Mailman (Impossible Ark promo)
Paten Locke - Funky Hit Record (Tres Records)
Sarah Linares - It's All True (Public Transit Records promo)
Blue Daisy - Fall (Black Acre Records)
Yound David - Over Again (Unreleased)
Floating Points - KG Beat (Planet Mu)

Kicking off this week with a track from my favourite Balkan obsessed producer Dunklebunt and a nice mellow remix of global fusionists Watcha Clan before Woon gives a great melancholic twist to Olive's pop smash You're Not Alone. Discovery of the week for me is a great young jazz label hailing from Manchester, called Gondwana. Two albums strong they are shaping up to be one of the freshest new labels to appear on the jazz scene for a while and Nat Birchall's new album in particular has been on repeat and flooding my living rooms with spiritual vibes all week, great stuff.

I had to drop some more tracks from a couple of great albums of recent note. Check out the downtempo side of the versatile Karizma and more beautiful Angolan 60s/70s pop from the excellent new project on Out Here Records, Comfusoes 1. Stones Throw can usually be relied on to hold down the quality and Dam-Funk is doing just that with his synth funk soul killer, 'On and On'.

Cessa is a great sounding new project from a couple of mystery producers but there is no mystery about the quality of the music, great bassline, techno fusions - look out for the ep, highly recommended. The boss of one of the homes of avant-garde electronica, No Nine has just released his last album and here is my favourite track from it, the wonderfully titled, 'Chimps in Space Part I and II'. Terror Danjah is showing his versatitlity with a new release on Planet Mu, due soon and I've picked up on the soulful synths of Zumpi Hunter.

Rather randomly I then threw in a couple of recent global discoveries with Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz. Franco was one of the most prolific and influential African musicians ever having recorded literally thousands of tracks and here he gives us his take on the sound of Cuba as does the following track from Rhany but in his own inimitable North African way. Just to randomise this weeks show even more I then finsish off with a great quirky disco style cut up from Labulo due out soon on Eklektik.

Wathca Clan - Ch ilet Yani, Dunkelunt Remix (Piranha)
Woon - You're Not Alone (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Nat Birchall - Many Blessings (Gondwana Records)
Matthew Halsall - Sending My Love (Gondwana Records)
Mauricio Pacheco - Anglole (Out Here Records)
Karizma - If You Don't Know (R2 Records)
Dam-Funk - On and On (Stones Throw promo)
Fulgeance - Smartbanging (One Handed Records)
Cessa - Movement (White label)
Me Raabenstein - Chimps in Space Part I and II (No Nine)
Terror Danjah - Zumpi Hunter, Swindle Remix (Plant Mu promo)
Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz - Tcha Tcha Tcha De Mi Amor (Sterns)
Rhany - Chan Chan (World Music Network)
Labulo - Don't Be (Eklektic promo)

Couldn't resist droppin in another sand art video which rather handily has a Matthew Halsall soundtrack

No musings this week on the show due to the fact I was away in the Pyrenees this weekend on a little holiday so you've just got the track listing and links for you to do your own investigation, I'll be back to a more verbose state next week.

Mark Pritchard and Om'mas Keith - Wind It Up, Freak mix (Hyperdub promo)
Jack Sparrow - The Chase (Techtonic promo)
Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify (Apple Pips)
Echaskech - Deserted (Just Music promo)
Robert Glasper - Butterfuly (Blue Note promo)
Kissey Asplund - Move Me (Record Breakin)
Marcio Local - Samba Sem Nenhum Problema (Luaka Bop)
Moreno Veloso - Kappopola Makongo (Out Here promo)
Sonia Santos - Poema Ritmico Do Malandro (Strut promo)
Edson Frederico E A Transa - Bobeira (Strut promo)
Kassin and Berna Ceppas - Kapakiao (Out Here promo)
George Levin - Runaway (BBE Records promo)
TJ Kong - Music, The Clashing Egos Interpretation (Compost promo)
Karizma - How Fly This Life Is (R2 records)

Joe Lovano starts the show this week on a nice deep leftfield jazz vibe - the best track from his new album on Blue Note. Obba Supa is about to release his new album on the always interesting Project Moon Circle label - gritty and intelligent tales of UK inner city life riding some quality jazz beats. Shafiq from Sa Ra is dropping his solo album in September (those Sa Ra boys are ubiquitous this year) and you can hear a little taster this week. Another album forthcoming is from George Levin, best known for his killer souful house cuts a while back, shows his versatility with a nice building nu-soul cut and is a wicked little taster of the album due later this year on BBE.

Amede and The Soundsmith is yet another of the new young beat producers that I love to showcase on the show, 19 years old and a big talent with a bright future ahead. Bretzel Zoo is the bastard beat making love child of Eat Concrete records stalwarts Herrmutt Lobby, Cupp Cave, Dalcym and Dr. Vaen. Mad programming, bass bin bashing eclecto funk at it's most twisted. Eat Concrete also have a nice line in tripped out sand artists - check the video below! 2562 returns after his acclaimed album of last year with a nice new ep on Tectonic as Ceu provide a nice mellow Brasilian counter to all the electronic madness with a sweet acoustic track from her great new album.

Andy Ash is a versatile house producer and I'm loving the deep percussive soulful vibes of Going Down. New Nolder is an Lithuanian ex piano prodigy who has been lured to the electronic dark side and will be releasing a album full of disco glitch tech micro house goodness on Planet Mu shortly and I'm loving the post Herbert avant-garde house style of Lizzy Mercier Descloux on Ze. Kylie Auldist adds a bit of quality old school soulfulness to procedings and the Ragga Twins get a mentalist remix by dub step hero Ramadanman.

Joe Lovano - Drum Song (Blue Note)
Obba Supa - Fly On Turntable Planet Moon Circle Promo)
Shafiq - lil Girl feat. Fatima (Plus Research/K7 promo)
George Levin - Falling Masonary (BBE Promo)
Amede & The Soundsmith - The Underground reprise (Bohemian Music promo)
Bretzel Zoo - Shugaring Emrod Baywatch (Eat Concrete promo)
2562 - Love In Outer Space (Techtonic promo)
Ceu - Vira - Going Down (6 Degrees promo)
Andy Ash - Going Down (Universal Vibes promo)
Few Nolder - Pillow (Planet Mu promo)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Hard-Boiled Babe (Ze Records)
Kylie Auldist - Ship Inside A Bottle (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Ragga Twins - Spliffhead, Ramadanman rfx (Soul Jazz promo)

Kicking off this week with the title track from the interesting new Laroca album, they are still not the finished item but are bursting with ideas and heading most definitely in the right direction. This was closely followed by another track from the excellent new Quantic album which is, without doubt his finest work to-date, let's hope he stays in Colombia it's doing his music no end of good. Little brother of J.Dilla, Illa J gets his new single, laughably called a remix, but in fact completely re-invented by Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, although the original is a solid slice of nu-soul. BlackJoy comes correct with his take on Cosmic Disco using the quirky French vocals of Sandra Nkake, a future Balearic classic if there is any justice.

Stevie J comes up with a post broken/Dilla hybrid for 2009 proving sometimes less is more for the ever interesting Eglo Records and Phreek Plus One drop a slice of classic instrumental disco, loving those spacey keys. Pepe Bradock rips apart the mellow vocals of Zero 7 whilst retaining the soul and upping the tempo to deliver a broken house goodie and I finally drop an AtJazz track from his album and can only apologise for the delay in doing so. I am glad to report that my favourite Afro house don, Issa Bagayogo, had just got the remix treatment for several of his recent album tracks and here I present the epic and rather good Soft Rocks remix of Filaw.

Rob Tex comes up with one of the party hip hop tunes of the summer if there is any justice with his jazzy and cheeky rework of Method Man and Redman, bootlegs are rarely so good. Ouch - check the new Reso releases, essential for anyone with an interest in bass bin destroying interesting new direction in dubstep, an artist to watch for sure. In a perfect example of art responding to life comes Inja's (and in fact most of the UK's urban youths) response to the CCTV proliferation in the UK, just "wear your hat LOW, hat LOW, hat LOW", BIG tune for the summer. Mark Pritchard, always one to watch has just created a twisted dubstep monster with a little help from Om'mas Keith from Sa-Ra, who seems to be cropping up everywhere at the moment, a mad, twisted, quirky, fun floorfiller, I like it loads. Pearson Sound, a little side project of prolific and ever reliable Ramadanman, closes the show and again is a dubstep mutation this time showcasing a deeper, melodic approach to the genre and is a suitably cosmic dub ending to this weeks show.

Laroca - Valley Of The Bears (Just Music)
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind Part 1 (Tru-Thoughts Promo)
Illa J - Sounds Like Love, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's In Space Remix (Delicious Promo)
Sandra Nkaké - La Mauvaise Réputation, Blackjoy Vocal Mix (Discograph Promo)
Stevie J aka FUNKINEVEN - Mad Swing! (Eglo Promo)
Phreek Plus One - That's it (Compost Promo)
Zero 7 - Today, Pépé Bradock Wtf Happnd Mix (BBE Records)
Atjazz feat. Dawne B - Parallels, Alt. Album Version (AtJazz)
Issa Bagayogo - Filaw, Soft Rocks Remix (Six Degrees)
Rob Tex presents The Red Method - How High (White label)
Reso - Beasts In The Basement (Civel Music Promo)
Inja - Hat Low featuring Skinny Man and Fallacy, Mr. Thing remix (In Records Promo)
Mark Pritchard and Om'mas Keith - Wind It Up, Freak Mix (Hyperdub promo)
Pearson Sound - So Far Ago (Soul Jazz)

So the Sonar festival madness has ended, big ups to Mulatu Astake and The Heliocentrics who rocked the house despite bad sound problems - shame on you Sonar, it really was awful. Konono No 1 smashed it big style and got everyone in the hall dancing and trying their best to bust some African style moves - not a pretty site but the energy was great! Debruit did himself loads of favours by delivering a killer set of wonk funk and Bullion dropped a wonderfully eclectic dj set of future beats mixed with classic soul, jazz, latin and disco obscurities, too slow for most but it got my groove on. Respect also goes to Culoe de Song for getting me and most of the rest of the crowd into a deep pure afro house trance proving you don't need to be a headbanging 128bpm+ house mentalist to get the crowd going, it's all about the groove people not the BPMs!

So to the show. Rainer Trueby is back from his post nu-jazz obscurity with a couple of wonderful house chuggers on Compost produced with Danilo from Motor City Drum Ensemble - deep, deep. The Belletunes come through with some nice retro funky newness and I drop more soulful lovelisness from the eagerly anticipated Sa Ra debut lp. Debruit is sounding like he's really coming of age with his new material which you can expect soon on the great Civil Music who are also responsible for the future beats of the hotly tipped Reso who is mashing up the dubstep dance in his own fresh sounding way. The Jega album coming on Planet Mu is sounding hot and the new Quantic And His Combo Barbaro album is by far his most accomplished effort yet and I look forward to more musical adventures utilising his new South American musical friends.

The Cha Cha Shaw album re-issue on Kindred Spirits captures this old school twisted jazzer at his quirky funky best and the decision not to re-master this poorly recorded live album adds an interesting authenticity and aged charm to the re-issue. I had to finish with a little house trio, kicking off with the stellar PanOptikum remix of the little known Arabic artist Sheharzad - Detroit meets the Ayatollah. More Pepe Bradock appears courtesy of the essential new Pepe Bradock compilation on BBE and Noze provide a Ethiopian jazz/Minimal soundclash where the only winner is fresh new music for 2009.

Rainer Trueby - Ayers Rock (Compost promo)
Brother Jack McDuff - Oblighetto, J Dilla remix (Rapster promo)
The Belletunes - Stare It Cold, Dublex Inc remix (Infracom promo)
Sa Ra Creative Partners - The Bone Song (Ubiquity promo)
Debruit - I'm Goin Wit You Feat Om'Mas Keith Sa-Ra Creative Partners & Jamie Woon (Civil Music promo)
The Clonious - One At A Time feat Muhsinah (Affine Rec Promo)
Jega - Antiphon (Planet Mu promo)
Reso - Busted Crunk (Civil Music promo)
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind Part 1 (Tru-Thoughs promo)
Stanley Beckford - Sam Fi Man (Calaloo Records)
Cha Cha Shaw - Melted Soul (Kindred Spirits)
Sheharzard - Yalla Yalla, PanOptikum remix (Fine Art Recordings)
Charles Webster - I Am Falling, Paris-Bordeaux Remix (BBE promo)
Noze - Songs On The Rocks (Get Physical)

Love them or hate them, mash ups and re-edits on bootleg vinyl or free download are here to stay and I kick off the show with one of the better reggae ones courtesy of the excellent Heatwave crew from the UK, cheers boys, BIG tune. Build An Ark are back and keeping it deep and uncompromising in today's increasingly disposable music world. Sounds dodgy but it works - West Papuan tribal sounds meet dubstep with Inkling's remix of The Lani Singers and Sa Ra are back with their most accessible music to date, their album is about to drop and will be one of my summer albums for sure, oozing soul, quality beats and production.

Funky DL has got together a collection of amazing UK lyrical talent on his latest track for BBE, quite an achievment to get that many stars in the same room and rising star The Clonious, only 23 and from Vienna, gives us a taste of his forthcoming album - watch out for him. You are never far away from some classic disco re-edits these days, most of them rubbish or just plain unnecessary but I dropped a couple of the better ones with the fantastic Greymatter rework of the Brit funk classic Dancing In Outer Space and a teasing rework of the soul boy classic Georgie Porgy. Show-B has crafted a MASSIVE house tune for the summer and Roy Davis Jr comes through with some deep, classic Chicago vibes from his new lp.

If you are coming to Barcelona next week for Sonar then be sure to check out the Brainfeeder Records party on Thursday night hosted by the Plat Du Jour crew in a nice space overlooking the port. Flying Lotus and an amazing line up of guests are in the house and to be honest I'm more excited about this party than Sonar!!

Spice and Horace Ferguson - Fight Ova Sensi, The Heatwave Refix (Cheeky Download)
Build An Ark - Morning Glory, Stargazing From A Rooftop Garden Remix by Carlos Nino(Kindred Spirits promo)
Build An Ark - In Her Smile, Daedelus Remix (Kindred Spirits promo)
Lani Singers - Wologwe, Inkling remix (Dancing Turtle Records)
Sa Ra Creative Partners - Spacefruit (Ubiquity promo)
The Latin Project - Legal, album mix (TLP Musica Records promo)
Funky DL and the London Allstars - The London Convention featuring Funky DL, MCD, Skinnyman, Blak Twang, ESP, TY, Phoebe One, Kwes (BBE promo)
Mancini And The Creepers - Ever So Calm (Lula's Kitchen promo)
The Clonious - Fogged Spacesuit (Affine rec promo)
Toto - Georgie Porgy, OOFT Rework (L.E.S.S. Productions)
Show-B - Moory (Compost Black Label promo)
Roy Davis Jr - What Is Love feat Mark (Nice and Smooth promo)
Atmosfear - Dancing In Outer Space, Greymatter Re-Edit (Wolf Music)

Kicked off the show with another play of the great forthcoming King Midas Sound cut, excellent new dub adventures - I like their style, leading not following. Discovery of the weeks is Paradise Found, lovely new folktronica on the quirky and diverse Dancing Turtle records. This took me nicely into a couple of Pepe Bradock remixes which are part of a great compilation of the mans work which is about to drop on BBE. If you don't know him he's one of the few house producers with a really distinctive sound and is and was way ahead of his time, even his old stuff is sounding like music from next year - a criminally underrated production legend, just buy the compilation and pay your respects.

Rising UK R&B star Cherri V comes through with an Amerie style party winner and there is some great new hip hop from Funky DL (in a Bugsy Malone style!) and New Jack Hustle - Tres Records coming up trumps again. As if there weren't enough already the Finnish produce another great jazz group on the wonderful Ricky Tick label - watch out for new kid on the block, Dalindeo.

I dropped a little latin fusion trio kicking off with the great Angolan Salsa flavour of Carlitos Vieira Dias. Good to see Jazz and Milk back with the latest installment of their Jazz and Milk breaks series and I'm liking Cesars Salad's version of Manteca a lot before I finished off my Latin trio with a a great tune from the impeccable Pacifico Colombiano compilation from Otrabanda, undoubtedly one of my favourtite compilations from the past few years and right up there with the Soundway releases.

Just to really mix things up I finished with a bit of flavour from the Indian sub-continent. Punjabi dons Tigerstyle produce another winner this time with the new Yugraj track and Heavenly Sweetness take a break from the leftfield jazz world to release young Nepalese flute prodigy Sunil Dev Shrestra - horizontal and enlightening in equal measures.

King Midas Sound - Too Long Dub (Hyperdub promo)
Paradise Found - Like Attracts Like (Dancing Turtle promo)
Cesaria Evora - Angola, Bateau Ivre rework by Pepe Bradock (BBE promo)
Roy Ayers - I Am Your Mind, Pépé Bradock's Asynchronous Adventures (BBE Promo)
Cherri V - Til The Sun Comes Up (6060 Music)
Funky DL - 1947 featuring Lei-an and Xantone Blacq (BBE promo)
New Jack Hustle - Lionel (Tres Records promo)
Dalindeo - Vintage Voyage (Ricky Tick Records promo)
Carlitos Vieira Dias - Mukajame (Tratore)
Cesars Salad - Manteca (Jazz and Milk promo)
Markitos Y La Sabrosa De Buenaventura - Linda Portena (Otrabanda)
Yugraj - Chan Warga Chamkara (Kamlee Records)
Sunil Dev Shrestra - Improvisation 1 (Heavenly Sweetness promo)

Kicked off the show this week with some of the better recent experiments in global music. One of the heirs to Tito Puentes percussion crown, Luisito Quintero, drop his inspired version of the Ray Barreto classic, Acid. French dj and producer DJ Click gives Manu Chao's mestizo sounds a credible electronic edge, Ocote Soul Sounds take their dark, dubby, tropical vibe into Fela inspired African territory and Haaksman and Haaksman give the rumba sounds of Papawa a fierce breakbeat rerub.

Sbtrkt drops a great wonky tech house track, he's on the up for 2009, look out for him. Avant-Garde sounds come courtesty of Some Freak, Andreya Triana & Ritornell and their new track The Light, whilst beat box don DJ Scratch combines interestingly with one of my favourite leftfield producers Elmore Judd on one of the tracks from his latest album. Delicate, beautiful, shoegazing electronic pop comes courtesy of Franklin.

UK trumpet don Abram Wilson composes a great jazz tribute to Barack Obama and Floating Points is on a roll at the moment with another killer single about to drop, this time on Eglo - great new lazy cosmic vibes. Dam-Funk continues his quest for global synth funk domination and UK beat maker du jour Paul White is just about to release his new album on the ever reliable One Handed Music so I drop a little 3 track sample of the beat tape musical wonders to come and then remind you how good new BBE signing Phantogram are - look out for their album later in the year.

Luisito Quintero - Acid (BBE Records)
Manu Chao - Tombola, DJ Click rmx (White)
Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada - Vampires (ESL promo)
Papawa vs Haaksman & Haaksman - La Flaca (Lovemonk Records)
Sbtrkt - Breakout (White)
Some Freak, Andreya Triana & Ritornell - The Light (Wald Entertainment)
DJ Scratch feat Elmore Judd - So Hard To Find My Way (Gold Dust Media)
Franklin - Big Cities (Wool Recordings)
Abram Wilson - Obama (Dune Records)
Floating Points - Truly (Eglo promo)
Dam-Funk - Latrifying (Stones Throw Promo)
Testiculo y Uno - Deetermeter (Melting Pot Music promo)
Paul White - Floating Free (One Handed Music promo)
Paul White - Sugar Free Airlines (One Handed Music promo)
Paul White - The Magic Tunetop (One Handed Music promo)
Phantogram - Running From The Cops (BBE promo)

Kicking off with a long overdue cut from Mocky's outstanding new album Saskamodie, a truly crafted album full of old school musical flavour but sounding fresh for 2009 and a rare album that both your mates and your mum will like. David Baxter drops more of his unique take on future funk and the b-side Ost & Kjex rmx of German jazz maverick Wigald Boning is a deep glitchy house classic. It took me a while to check it (I blame living in Spain!) but I'm loving the Afrocentric Donaeo UK Funky track and Busy Signal comes up with a wicked Afro vibe on his latest dancehall banger.

The last year has seen the Colombian Cumbia rhythm infiltrating music styles worldwide and I had to drop the deep Moonrra track from chief Cumbia hype-monger Russ Jone's great 'Arriba La Cumbia' compilation. Paten Locke is dropping his album in the summer and from the little sampler I received it's sounding great - some great jazzy breaks and quality lyrics and Notes To Self come through with another solid slice of hip hop due out on BBE soon. The wonderfully titles PANTyYRAID drop a future bassline Balearic classic and I drop the Yoggyone track that I meant to play two weeks ago (but by mistake I played another one oops. Live one take radio - love it!). I finished the show with a couple of tracks from the new Tru-Thoughts, Shapes compilation due out anytime - check the wonderfully lush Charles Stepney inspired 'Arianita' from Quantic.

Mocky - Birds Of A Feather (Crammed Discs)
David Baxter - A Brujo's Might (Test)
Wigald Boning - Kobra Dance, Ost & Kjex rmx (Compost promo)
Donaeo - Party Hard (Myish/Zephron)
Busy Signal - Da Style Deh (White)
Moonrra Y Su Batallon - La Cumbia Del Monrra (Crammed Discs)
Roots Manuva - Do Nah Bodda Mi, Roots Manuva meet Wrongtom (Ninja promo)
Paten Locke - Just Me (Tres promo)
Notes To Self - Jetlagged (BBE promo)
Dizz1 - Konotakosuke Yaro (Rush Hour promo)
Pantyraid - Get The Money (Marine Parade promo)
Yoggyone - Electric Bird (Eklektic promo)
Unforscene - Dangerous, Part Time Heroes Remix (Tru Thought promo)
Quantic and His Combo Barbaro - Arianita (Tru Thoughts promo)

Too much good music and not enough time - help!! Started off the show on a mellow tip with some new artists and fresh musical adventures. Beautiful music from Susumu Yokota (minus the vocal - sorry Susumu!) on the ever interesting Lo Recordings before heading into some of today's freshest beatmakers, James Blake (BIG prospect), Subeena (HOT prospect) and Dorian Concept. Some great dubby Brasilian flavour followed courtesy of Ceu with her sweet vocals and the ever reliable Digitaldubs - look out for these Brasilian rude boys touring Europe over the summer. I had to drop a track from the excellent compilation 'Vocals and Versions Vol. 1" on Senseless Records, two cds of killer modern dubstep flavour with a great array of vocalists - check it! I had another little disco moment as well with Aurra's, Such A Feeling from the now released Nightdubbin album on BBE followed by a fresh nu-disco offering from the ever reliable Aniligital Records and the even more reliable Kinnego Flux with a brand new killer from them, they seem to be going from strength to strength, make sure you keep your eyes on them. The new Shapes comp on Tru-Thoughts is about to drop and is sounding great and the new King Midas Sound on Hyperdub is just next level dub flavour - these boys are musical shepherds, not sheep. To finish the show I finally fitted in an All City release, this one from Dimlite - a true bonkers madathon end to the show.

Susumu Yokota - Love Tendrilises, Montag Instrumental rmx (Lo Recordings)
James Blake - Air and Lack Thereof (Hemlock promo)
Subeena - Solidify feat Jamie Woon (Recorded at RBMA, Barcelona)
Dorian Concept - Be Tween (Rush Hour promo)
CeU - Sonambulo (Six Degrees)
Digitaldubs - Youth Samba Dub (Muzamba)
Sarantis ft Bunnington Judah - One Day (Senseless Records)
Aurra - Such A Feeling, Shep Pettibone mix part 2 (BBE)
Tal M. Klein and Anthony Mansfield - Disco Villainy (Aniligital)
Kinnego Flux - Cause and Affect (Test)
Marco and Orpheu - Six To Midnight (Rush Hour promo)
Natural Self - In The Morning, Paul White rmx (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada - Tu Fin, Mi Comienzo (ESL promo)
King Midas Sound - Too Long Dub (Hyperdub promo)
Dimlite - Quiz Tears, Instrumental (All City Records)

A few Global SoulJah recent favourites rear their heads once again on this weeks show. Sub Swara have dropped some remixes of their outstanding album from last year, Coup D`Yah, one of my favourite dubstep albums todate. I had to play another Enemy Earth track - if you like beats deep, interstellar and hazy then he's your man. Finally I played a Mrs. Jinx track from her new album of mellow electronica - one for your lazier moments. ESL have got some great new albums in the pipeline and I'm overjoyed at the prospect of more slow dubby tropical goodness courtesy of Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada. Staff Benda Bilili's, Je T'Aime is still bringing me close to tears whilst making me dance every time I hear it and Arcadion's, Fly Vision is undoubtedly one of the nu-disco tracks of the year. You heard both Kotchy and Phantogram last week and the albums are so good you're gettng more this week, two albums where the mish mash of many styles come together to create great wholes. Kinnego Flux have blessed me with an advance listen of their album and I'm over the moon, Herbie Hancock in his funk heyday meets the Northern Irish IDM/dubstep generation. To finish some great new house music from D Stephanie, Detroit inspired broken house music with a killer African vocal, look out for it on the new Broadcite compilation.

Sub Swara - Alabaster Dub, Kush Arora's Industrial Espionage Rmx (Low Motion Records promo)
Ancient Astronauts - Oblivion feat Dj Zeph and Azeem (ESL)
Enemy Earth - Motto Sh*t (Eat Concrete Records)
Mrs. Jynx - Kites (Planet Mu)
Lizzy Parks - Deluge (Tru-Thoughts promo)
Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada - Coconut Rock (ESL promo)