Chilly brunch mix with alternating rare grooves tracks from producers Virgin Magnetic Material and The Reflex. Enjoy!

Going DEEP in this mix with some old and new tracks and classics for your eardrums. Get deep and enjoy!

Just a quick mix up for practice of some recent and not so recent purchases on 45. I hope you enjoy listening!

A house mix I recorded for an old friend in May 2020. Found recently and uploaded to enjoy. If you like it please click 'like'. All tracks are on vinyl. Equipment: Technics Turntables x 2, Pioneer 750DJM, Styluses=Shure whitelabel, Speakers by Mission and Amp by Denon. Software=Audacity.

Part two of The Rare Groove Show's feature on the productions of Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams. Vinyl only.

The Rare Groove Show selects favourite tracks produced and performed by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, as The Neptunes and NERD. Every track is played from vinyl collected over the past 20+ years. The Neptunes are some of my favourite producers and masters of the bridge and chord change. I see them as heirs to producers such as The Mizell Brother…

An hour of James Brown focusing on the period 1968- 1972 when The JBs were his house band and Bobby Byrd was his hype man. Enjoy!

Among the tributes to Phil Asher-many by his close friends- mine will not stand out for any reason other than I loved what he represented and the infectious vibe he created. He has been taken from us too soon. I didn't know Phil but he was clearly very approachable and I spoke to him a few times in record shops. He had a massive influence on me as …

Closing 2020 out with my best acquisitions of the year - deep mix of samba, bossa, psych, and funk grooves.Tracklist:Marconi Notaro - FidelidadeCravo e Canela - Estatutos De GafieiraAry Lobo - Terra De NinguemEliana & Booker Pittman - Vens SoWaltel Branco - Meu BalancoChico Lessa - Choveu Luli - BaleiroJackson Do Pandeiro - E So BalancoPerfume Azul…

The most signature sound of Brazil is 60s bossa nova, an endless category of beautiful grooves. This episode highlights some of the rarest of the rare, top shelf selections.Tracklist:Luli - PovoWerther - LendaFlora Purim - A Morte De Um Deus De SalGeraldo Cunha - Lamento NagoLuiza - Deus BrasileiroCarlos Lyra - Lugar BonitoRosely - MolequeSergio Au…

More breezy MPB vibes for the summer – mix of upbeat and emotional tracks to complement the times. Tracklist:Lo Borges - Clube da EsquinaSecos & Molhados - Sangue LatinoChico Lessa - Me Pega Me LargaLuis Vagner - Na Ponta Da SandaliaDjavan - NereciJoao Donato - E MeninaJoyce - Aldeia de OgumGal Costa - ClarioMilton Nascimento - Clube da Esquina…

Got the quarantine blues? Let the summertime grooves of Brazilian MPB cheer you up! This episode selects some obscure AOR style MPB grooves from the late 70s and early 80s. A few private press tracks in the mix, all killer no filler as always. Definitely one for the grown ups.Tracklist:Num Dia Azul - Num Dia AzulEdu Passeto + Gui Tavares - Sabia Na…

Part 2: Another hour long mix of music inspired by the artist Keith Haring, Paradise Garage, Club 57, The Loft, Wild Style, The Mudd Club, Jean Michel Basquiat, the vibe and artists of 80s, Lower Manhattan, New York

An hour long mix of music inspired by the artist Keith Haring, Paradise Garage, Club 57, The Loft, Wild Style, The Mudd Club, Jean Michel Basquiat, the vibe and artists of 80s, Lower Manhattan, New York

Top shelf 60s bossa nova jazz instrumentals for the sophisticated listener. Only the best and rarest in this episode.*Visit: www.novedos.com for pics of all the records, and to subscribe for email updates of new episodes*Tracklist:Vitor Assis Brasil - EugenieMoacir Santos - Coisa No 9Paulo Moura Quarteto - Meu LugarDom Um Romao - Samba NagoAecio Fl…

My favourite jazz singer- beloved of the underground and UK jazzers- is Mark Murphy. Here is my selection of Mark Murphy's best in an hour long show for www.shoreditchradio.co.uk

Founded by Gene Russell in Oakland, California, in 1971 and very much revived during 1996 by UK label, Universal Sound Records, on their retrospective compilation, Black Jazz Records released a sum total of 20 recordings. These LPs- mostly by independent, little known players- had a strong, instantly recognisable identity in their cover art and hav…

Since owning their intriguing LP 'The Apple' on cassette back in the early 90s A Man Called Adam have been bubbling away in my consciousness and I've got slowly deeper into their music. My interest in their excellent label, 'Other Records' began with 'Planet Jazz 2' a stunning compilation of sophisticated music where blissed out balearic meets dub …

Stuck for something non controversial and popular to play this festive season? What better than all the Peanuts Christmas Songs in one mix! All tracks composed and performed by the late cool jazz maestro, Vince Guaraldi.

I credit Vince Guaraldi with inspiring my love of jazz. As a kid I was a fan of Charles Schulz' 'Peanuts' in the versions produced for TV by Lee Mendelson & written by Bill Melendez. Guaraldi's cool yet melancholic jazzy licks permeated those cartoons creating the perfect muscial backdrop to the colourful goings on of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodsto…

I have wanted for some time to record a definitive artist focus on Blaze-also known as Josh Milan & Kevin Hedge, the house legends from New Jersey who make up a cornerstone of my record collection. Chris Herbert- a third founding member and lead singer- left after their Motown LP '25 Years Later'. Despite that blip, Blaze have been big in the house…

The music I listen to most at home is the brilliant jazz produced independently on several key labels of the 1970s: Strata from Detroit, Black Jazz Records from Oakland, California, Strata East of New York and of course, Tribe Records, also from Detroit. Five talented ex Motown session musicians were the driving force behind the Tribe collective: P…

Father/Son in the cut

Leon Ware passed away on February 23rd 2017. My first introduction to his music was when my Dad put Marvin Gaye's album, 'I Want You' on cassette for me. That C90 meant a lot. It was impossible for an 11 year old to understand that Leon Ware was the undisputed master of sensual soul, I just liked the music and Marvin's voice. Leon wrote and produce…

6th October 2016 Rod Temperton: Where can I begin? His own biography on Twitter states 'From Cleethorpes, destroyed the World'. This is a great statement because the songwriting genius of Temperton literally took the world by storm. From early career hits in the band he led- Heatwave- to Thriller, Rod Temperton left an indelible mark on black popul…

Not initially designed as a mix, this is a showcase, for a friend, of new and not so new music from Chicago & Detroit. My friend was lamenting the lack of quality music in the vein of Underground Resistance and the Detroit/Chicago originators. I just had to prove him wrong. The first hour is mostly by 'new school' producers from these two influenti…

This is the Rare Groove Show tribute to one of my biggest influences, Maurice White: outstanding vocalist, arranger, producer, drummer, kalimba player, friend of Charles Stepney and Skip Scarborough, businessman, he changed my life and the life of countless others. Dance music as it is would not exist without Maurice White. Earth Wind and Fire were…

Mo' Wax + 4 is a mix for a friend who's moving away. I dug out a load of my Mo'Wax vinyl and played it- no preparation and perhaps in a couple of places that can be heard. Many of these records, which I collected between 1993 and 1998 haven't been played in those intervening years. It was nice to get back to them and the culmination of an idea gest…

I'm not a house DJ but now and then I like to round up a selection of records I've acquired - mostly for my own listening pleasure. This is a group of records I've been playing this year- most of them would be classed as house, although they go beyond 4/4 beats into jazz and soul territory. Most tracks here are 2015 releases with a few classics thr…

More music less chat. This 80 minute selection features some of what I'm listening to at the moment, featuring soul and jazz rarities and new music from Kaidi Tatham and Dego (4hero)

Since 1995 when 'Jerusalem EPs' was released on Peacefrog Records I've followed the progress of Glenn Underground and collected his vinyl. Not that I know a lot about him, other than what he creates. That is a superior form of house music, tinged with jazz and soulful elements. Complex live sounding drum patterns which feature lately an African inf…

I initially made this short mix for a friend who knew Gil Scott Heron only as a spoken word artist. This version is tweaked a little. I'm a big fan of Gil's work with Brian Jackson and of both as vocalists. Gil's honeyed world weary tones never sound better than with Brian as his foil. Their work with the Midnight Band is some of the most cherished…