An hour of favs, mostly from the new wave released in the last few years or so (Funky 2.0?) - some might be a bit bait if you know the genre, but deffo essential listening if you don't

TRACKLIST:
DJ Polo - Doldrums
DJ Gregory - Afromobile
Sho Madjozi - Amadoda (Shy One Remix)
VV Pete - Frauds (Mall Grab Remix)
SNØW - Move & Breathe (ft. Serocee)
Gracious K - Kazu
Geeneus - Get Low (ft. Ms Dynamite)
JD Bale - Koko
DJ Polo - Swervin'
MA1 - Mutombo
Free Movement & XL Mad - Over The Wall
Roska & Razzler Man - Neutral Grounds
Bushido - Picayune
Roska - Pez Dispenser 2
Hagan - Ultra
Lighter - Skanker
Champion - Landslide (ft. Riko Dan)
Hagan - Right Here
Strict Face - Whirlpool
Nativ - Shifty
LR Groove - Simone Says
Coen - Pressure Drop
Nan Kolè & Prynce Mini - Drop That
DJ Polo & Ramzee - Shutters (ft. Gracious K)
Kouslin - Weh Mi Come From (ft. Logan)
Murder He Wrote & SNØW - TBC

Monthly Mix: UK Funky

Josi Devil with Low End Activist - 11 March 2025

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

jazzy; dubby; soulful; sumptuous

Shouts to Femme Boat Mafia for the magical energy

OUTMIX006: Beatrice M. & AliA [Live From OO25]

The gifted London DJ and curator goes big on bass futurism.

"To pull a thread." This old English adage means to follow a small detail that might unravel into something larger and more significant. It's also the inspiration behind London artist mi-el's NTS Radio show, and a neat way of understanding her approach as a DJ. 

Take mi-el's rich archive of mixes. From NTS to The Trilogy Tapes, they show her to be a deeply personal selector and curator, pushing past functionality into something more expressive, narrative and often political. A show about Refugee Week? Afrofuturist world-making? Interlocking systems of domination? All material is putty in her hands. 

Now based in Berlin, mi-el is simply a wicked club DJ. In just a few years she's played Panorama Bar, De School and FOLD, as well as festivals including Waking Life, Terraforma and Field Maneuvers. 

Alongside peers and predecessors like Josey Rebelle, she represents a new generation of Black British artists reinventing the wheel, and as we mark the beginning of UK Black History Month, no other candidate felt more fitting. 
 
RA.1007 shows why. The 55-minute session is a deft balancing act of depth and playfulness, humour and heaviness, rooted in club intensity and the futurism of the UK hardcore continuum. It's firm confirmation that, in mi-el's hands, the art of the DJ mix is alive and well.

@miellllllll
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1026

RA.1007 mi-el

✨🤲✨ Here’s a set recording at one of the last of a festival-filled summer: @sustain-release-nyc

No set theme/mood, just a journey thru a bunch of tunes I really do love and hoped people would enjoy; but to quote my girl @livwutang, it was rooted in a love for Black music (this mix cover was taken by her during the set <3). Stitching together threads of dubstep, jazz, house, breaks, garage, hip hop, dub, etc.

At some points this kinda feels more like a beat tape with selector style mixing + no long blends. A lil fusion of tired/nervous/letting the tunes shine

Thank you @itsallhalal + the rest of the team for the opportunity to close The Gym on Fri night and for looking after me. And ofc out to the amazingly welcoming dancers inside ❤️

MK closing set @ Sustain-Release Festival [NY, Sept '25]

Identified Patient & Mia Koden at The Nest - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Born from the essence, Black Rave Culture lifts up the torch and begins to walk forward spreading the message of Black Rave. Amal, James Bangura, & Nativesun Hailing from the District of Columbia, come together to bring you a new sound, the sound of their city.

https://www.instagram.com/brc_dc

 

Black Rave Culture @ The Lot Radio 10-19-2025

Recording of Coker & Joker's set at the Nest stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Coki & Joker at The Nest - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Rinse FM Podcast

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Grime Originals: Argue b2b Neffa T - New Generation Set - 20th Febrauary 2018

Hijack the aux cord at your local maid cafe and play this.

1. SOPHIE - NOTHING MORE TO SAY / EEEHHH
2. Sylvere - Smashing Stars
3. Kid Antoine - Bodypaint
4. Famous Eno, Trigganom, Serocee, Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones - Gunshotta
5. Air Max '97 x Oklou - Like Rainbow horse Running Through Misty Brain (Dis Fig Bootie)
6. TRC & Nyah - Butterflies (Ziro Remix)
7. Plata - Kru (MssingNo Remix)
8. TSVI - Aquaflush
9. Georgia Girls & Trapdoor - So Seductive
10. Scratcha DVA - MUHAMMAD ALI [LADY LYKEZ]
11. Cassie - All My Love (Kingdom Edit)
12. Fallow - Touch Ya Knees
13. MikeQ & Sinjin Hawke - Thunderscan
14. Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (DJ J Heat Remix)
15. A. G. Cook - Beautiful (Rustie Edit)

Convention Mix

Kouhai