 out of this world! Kwaito really an enchanting sound... yoh! Bless the kwaito Gods

https://www.nts.live/shows/donna-leake/episodes/donna-leake-2nd-december-2021

Donna Leake brings her musical expertise to the NTS airwaves.

Donna Leake - 2nd December 2021

Following their anticipated second album ‘Made Of Static’, electro-soul duo Stubborn Heart return with the first release of their remix series ‘Out Of Our Hands’. The three track collection features Plaid, FUMU and Tolouse Low Trax. The latter of which is premiered exclusively by MIMS today.

Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax hones in on the beats of ‘Everything Matters’ to craft an infectious but distant club anthem. Elsewhere on the EP, Warp signees Plaid expand haunting single ‘Talking Gold’ with eerie atmospherics, brazen horn sections and a shuffling, ominous beat and Manchester producer FUMU turns ‘Proves To Be’ into a grinding, industrial cut seeped in a grimy and threatening aura.
 
Stubborn Heart’s poetic lyricism and icy, left-field R&B is refreshed with these reimaginings, taken to occasionally radical directions and deconstructing the very idea of what pop music can do. 
 
On ‘Made Of Static’, the successor to their lauded 2012 self-titled debut, Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald once again struck a fine balance between ominous synth-soundscapes and introspective songwriting. Fitzgerald lead the production and manned the machines to create a rawer sound. Santucci provided the heart and with it his aching, obsessive lyrics and a desire for something grittier in its presentation.
 
Santucci has amassed an impressive list of writing and vocal credits in his time, with the likes of XL and Warp signee Leila Arab, Plaid, Riton and Soulwax amongst them. Fitzgerald has also been hard at work at his home studio programming various styles of music for artists and producers from around the world. As Stubborn Heart, they come armed with some serious experience and a wealth of influences. There’s an honest simplicity in the way they create, with lyrics written in an immediate, direct fashion with the aim to catch a feeling rather than emulate one.
 
On their first album Stubborn Heart garnered praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and the UK broadsheets. It was named album of 2012 at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards and Rough Trade placed it in their top 20 best albums the same year. However, it’s now that we’re presented with an album they feel better represents their dynamic – an album born from the duos combined creative static – as such, ‘Made Of Static’ and its accompanying remixes are the first fruit of their reunion, aiming to step on from where they left off, and with the promise of much more to follow.
 
Tracklisting:
 
Talking Gold (Plaid Remix)
Proves To Be (FUMU Remix)
Everything Matters (Tolouse Low Trax Dub)
 
Art credit:
Trevor Jackson
 
Photo credit:
Niall Green

Exclusive Premiere: Stubborn Heart "Everything Matters" (Tolouse Low Trax Dub)

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com


Mab'Ish @ Kiosk Radio 14.12.2022

tracklist in the comments here: https://www.mixcloud.com/kkaybie/amani-to-african-bass-cultures/

Amani to Africa Bass Culture

Mixtape para Mondosonoro
http://www.mondosonoro.com/noticias-actualidad-musical/mixtape-dj-raff-tropical/
TRACKLIST:
1. Atuka Mhondoro 808 (Club Edit) - Jacob Mafuleni & Gary Gritness [Nyami Nyami Records]
2. Tzantza - Nicola Cruz [Multi Culti]
3. Intermezzo B (Dazion Remix) - Denis Mpunga & Paul K. [Music From Memory]
4. Océano - DJ Raff [Nacional Records]
5. Arenga - Klik & Frik [Waxploitation Records]
6. Umi - Populous [Enchufada]
7. Los Días - Dany F [Self released]
8. Todo Lo Demás - DJ Raff [Bootleg]
9. Por Você - DJ Raff [Nacional Records]
10. Solitario - Mitú [Polen Records]
11. Berlombia - Cero39 [Self released]
12. Tummy Tummy feat. Nonku Phiri & Makadem (Esa’s Afro Synth Bubblegum Remix) - Africaine 808 [Golf Channel Recordings]
13. Falso Progreso - Cardopusher [Boysnoize]
14. Y-Riddim feat. Creepside (Zutzut Remix) - Santa Muerte [Symbols Recordings]
15. Chain (Iydes remix) - Galtier [Infinite Machine]
16. Sirin - Cain [Highlife Edits]
17. El Rey Del - DJ Raff [Nacional Records]
18. Sudakaizbeautiful (Remix) - DJ Raff [Pirotecnia]
19. Mascha - Rampa [Keinemusik]
20. Changa - Addison Groove [Self released]

Mixtape Tropical (MondoSonoro) - DJ Raff

Guy Dermosessian:
› https://www.facebook.com/kalakutasoulrecords/ 
› https://www.facebook.com/guydermosessian

Guy Dermosessian (Kalakuta Soul records)

from "GB Presents the Abstract Eye," out now on Eglo
www.giftedandblessed.com

Grandfather Fire

Kwai Rantzausgade mix

Samfundssindsmix

Nothing sparks so much joy, nothing makes me happier than old highlife music. I love cadence or cumbia, sometimes salsa, i can dive deep into the melancholy of brazilian or lusafrican music, but really...the feeling of just being happy to be alive? It has to be highlife... to be high on life. So here's another #anticabinfever minimix (50/50 Ghana & Nigeria, vinyl only) for all my quarantinos y quarantinas. 
Enjoy, stay home, stay safe and be happy!

Tracklist:


1. The Powerful Believers & B.B.Collins - Anoma Antu A (Ghana)
2. Rex Lawson - Osima Atoru Korote (Nigeria) 
3. Coroware Musaka & his I.K. Brothers - Etonwei Miene (Nigeria)
4. Kyeremateng Atwede - Okwantuni (Ghana)
5. Kyeremateng Atwede - I go die for you (Ghana)
6. Opambuo Int. Band of Ghana - Show me your love (Ghana)
7. Chief Echo Oyerigha Toikumo - Imiyen ye Nimi (Nigeria)
8. Atakora Manu - Super Obu Bebu (Ghana)
9. Ali Chuks & his Peacemakers Int. - Late Celestine Ukwu (Nigeria)
10. Sir Waziri Oshomah - Chief J A Aigbokhaode (Nigeria)

Highlife Minimix

Volume 35 comes to us from far away to the east. Shuya Okino offers up 2 hours of club jazz and crossover music.

He is the founding member of KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE who released their first album in 1994. KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE made history as the only Japanese artists ever to have a single at No.1 on the BBC Radio ZUBB chart for 3 consecutive weeks with 'Eclipse' which was on their second album ’Spirit of the Sun’ 2002.  These albums made KJM one of the most influential groups in the crossover scene worldwide and Shuya has performed in over 40 countries and 140 cities. 

Shuya Okino is also the producer of The Room club, Shibuya, one of the most vital venues worldwide in supporting Club Jazz/Crossover music.

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TRACKLIST
- The Land of Spirit and Light (Part 1)/Michael White
- That's What She Said/George Duke
- Touch/12 Senses
- One 2Gether/Mausiki Scales
- This Is Not Your Job (Art Of Tones Afrobeat Dub) / Da Lata ft.Diabel Cissokho
- 2000 Blacks Got to Be Free/Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers Ubiquity
- Can't You See Me/Boogsie
- The Path 2011/Lovebirds
- Carypso Breakdown/RALPHMcDONALD
- Funky Pippo (Original Mix)/Paul Older
- Strength (Freeform Reform)/Freeform Five & Carolyn Harding
- Remember Me (Yuksek Extended Remix)/Risk Assessment ft.Jemeni G
- Mountains (Extended Mix)/The Vision ft.Andreya Triana
- Jazz Carnival (DJ Meme Original Discotheque Mix)/Azimuth
- Venus & Mars (Jamie 3:26 Edit)/BSTC
- DOWN TOWN/Sugar Babe
- My Baby's Got ESP (12" Version)/Four Below Zero
- How have you been(Hollins)/Blood Hollins with Jean Lang
- Naked (feat. IVAR & Berenice van Leer)/Kraak & Smaak
- We Are the Sun/SAULT
- The Blessing Song/ Michael White

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