Global SoulJah & BBE Records - April 22, 2011

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)

Global SoulJah & BBE Records Radio Show - April 15, 2011

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)

Global SoulJah & BBE Records Radio Show - April 8, 2011

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)

Global SoulJah & BBE Records Radio Show - April 1, 2011

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)