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Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show 7 February, 2010

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 ...

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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 bas ...

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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 ...

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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 stat ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, intric ...

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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 Liz ...

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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 d ...

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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 interg ...

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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. ...

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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 gr ...

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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 dro ...

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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 (Broadci ...

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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 w ...

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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 ...

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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, i ...

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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. Aft ...

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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 S ...

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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 ...

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