STREETNOTES!
Hi-lighting some of the artists that we played on today’s show:
The SBTRKT story starts from the sound system of an east London club called Plastic People, which is both underground in location and in the music it specializes in. It was here that SBTRKT met a gentleman named Tic and was schooled by the sounds [...]

STREETNOTES!
Hi-lighting some of the artists that we played on today’s show:
Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. “Most of the best music ever made [...]

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This last few weeks I have been really getting into my new discovery Hollie Cook, she sounds like a real reggae diva from the Trojan area but a new fresh approach she embodies the feel and style of our show!
Hollie Cook was born and bred in West London in a household dominated by music. She [...]

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This week marks the release of Grace Jones’s 2008 release “Hurricane”, re worked dub wise on Wall of Sound records
I think many people were wondering why in “A View To A Kill” James Bond was  kissing a man. Grace Jones played the androgynous villainess May Day whom according to the writers was ‘the product of [...]

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I continue my love affair with Graffiti6 by opening the show with another track from their current EP and their much anticipated full length “Colours”. “Stare Into The Sun” was the lead track on their original self released EP in July 2010. The track was used by the Sun newspaper for their Tv ads of [...]

We started the show where East coast amicably meets west in this spirited rework of Homeboy Sandman’s distinct indie-hip hop hybrid. The Queens, New York MC has long been revered for his rhymes, and on thus release Jason Drake takes the straight shooting track to task with a hint of instrumentals. The producer and LA [...]

Gil Scott Heron died May 27th at the age of 62. As far as popular culture is concerned he wrote one poem and then fell off the face of the earth.  Now, much as I appreciate how his death has led many writer, critics, and bloggers to write about Gil Scott-Heron as a man (who [...]

Todays show was chock full of exciting new releases here are a few highlighted…
SOWAT Music dips further into the fertile dance music talent pool of its home base of Istanbul. This time the label emerges with Pair Of Dirty Shoes, the collaboration of Kaan Duzarat (Shrimpy) and Emrah Arslan (Fattish), two veterans of the growing [...]

For todays show I decided to dedicate a good amount of time to late seventies early eight, soul / disco. I dug pretty dip and came up with some gems, if I don’t mind saying so myself!
So let’s skip the first part of the show and get straight to that era, although I should mention [...]

Our show started this week with a thunder!
Betty Davis’s “They Say I’m Different” really states it’s claim! If you cannot hear it in her antics and amazing delivery then your’e not listening. Davis is a true original, call her the sexy, slanky outrageous female Sly, and maybe your’e close!
Betty Mabry met Miles Davis in 1967 [...]