Isle of Wax 016 comes courtesy of Berlin's chewchew (@chewchew_cc). chewchew has delivered us two hours of top notch selections filled to the brim with downtempo chillers, pop oddities, street soul groovers, and house rarities from her diverse collection. Tune in and turn up.

Isle of Wax 016 by chewchew

San Francisco's 45 king Mr. Big Happy jetted in on the first leg of his European tour packing a giant bag of small records and brought longtime sparring partner Ill Logic along to join us in the Brilliant Corners booth.

Buckle up for three hundred and twenty three minutes of transatlantic soul selections, recorded live in high-definition at Brilliant Corners on 27/5/2023.

https://soundcloud.com/bighappy
https://soundcloud.com/illlogicofficial

What’s Good? w/ Customs, Mr. Big Happy & Ill Logic

Weaving together sounds from all corners of the Globe, James Falco connects the dots between Japan, Brazil & Jamaica to Venezuela, South Africa & Spain. This offering was cooked up along the Italian coastline, where James is based and busy pulling together parties & festivals for the upcoming summer. A mellow soundtrack which evokes daydreams of distant tropical lands and sun-soaked days on the beach.

@jamesfalco

LIFE CLASSICS 62 JAMES FALCO

Üllar Siir & Renno Paat - In The Night Mix

Recorded live at Giant Steps 09.02.25

@johngomezldn
@aneeshp

John Gómez at Giant Steps

17012025 restaurant recording by @user-731649684

cornerstore during service • #36 • A GOOD CHRISTIAN

Next up with magic mix numero eighty eight is @jacobsoso

Based out of Toronto, Canada his mixes for Invisible City via the Outsiders series on @kioskRadio really caught our ears.

Here he bring those sounds of reggae, rnb, rap and street soul for you to enjoy :)

M a g i c a s t - 0 8 8 🎇 - Jacob Soso

Pa Pwena Sa

Buy on Bandcamp

Ras Ninin - Pa Pwena Sa

This is a French (my mother tongue) EPx17 song for those who’d rather be awake than reassured—the ones who’d rather KNOW & GROW than BLOW & SHOW blindly, even if “Some Truths Are Harder to Swallow” 🍌💦  i.e. my BJ (banana joke:) sister-song of “L’Embobinage”… 

The lyrics are rooted in one of Carl Sagan’s most haunting and relevant psychological insights: 

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: 
If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge (even to ourselves) that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

“Une des leçons les plus tristes de l'histoire est celle-ci: si nous avons été embobinés assez longtemps, nous avons tendance à rejeter toute preuve de l'embobinage. Nous ne sommes plus intéressés à découvrir la vérité. L'embobinage nous a capturés. Il est tout simplement trop douloureux de reconnaître, même pour nous-mêmes, que nous avons été dupés. Une fois que vous donnez du pouvoir à un charlatan sur vous, vous ne le récupérez presque jamais.”

It’s a story rooted in the GROWsutra spirit: a philosophy of fierce compassion, where curiosity is stronger than comfort, where questioning is a form of kindness, and where truth, though sometimes bitter, is ultimately the beginning of healing.

—
Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
Une des leçons les plus tristes de l’histoire,
Est celle-ci, Carl Sagan nous a dit,
Embobinés depuis longtemps, c’est illusoire,
Chercher la vérité, c’est si troublant,

[Chorus]
L’embobinage nous a pris,
Trop douloureux, la vérité,
Nous avons été trahis,
Le charlatan a pris pied,

[Verse 2]
Difficile de reconnaître,
Que nous avons été dupés,
Le pouvoir au charlatan,
Jamais récupéré,

[Chorus]
L’embobinage nous a pris,
Trop douloureux, la vérité,
Nous avons été trahis,
Le charlatan a pris pied,

[Outro]
La vérité, toujours elusive,
Nous sommes capturés, l’embobinage nous tient,
Le charlatan règne, et nous restons perdus.


[11] L'Embobinage (d'après Carl Sagan) • French GROWsutra World Peace La Poesita Flamenco INDIE DUB

Wax'o Paradiso residents Edd Fisher and Simon TK. Recorded summer 2014 by the Australian Ocean.

Wax'o Balearico

Üllar Siir - Just Another Day Of Searching

2025

11/08: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
09/08: NTS Radio - Last Resort
26/04: w/ Floor Length Skirts @ Brilliant Corners
17/04: Behind This Wall
14/04: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
28/02: w/ Ty @ Brilliant Corners
10/02: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
10/01: SPACE TALK
02/01: WSA (Leaving This Earth Party)

2024

27/12: Ōdiobā
07/12: NT's Loft
10/11: SPACE TALK
19/10: House Party @ Brilliant Corners
14/10: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
04/10: Do!!You!!! Radio
14/09: Brilliant Corners
12/08: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
27/07: Brilliant Corners
04/07: Moko w/ Discothèque Tropicale
10/06: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
31/05: Jolene (Copenhagen)
15/05: NTS Radio - The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo
20/04: WSA (RSD In-Store)
06/04: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
31/03: Giant Steps
16/03: Brilliant Corners
12/02: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
09/02: NTS Radio - Between The Sheets mixtape 🌹 
10/02: Brilliant Corners

2023

02/12: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
25/11: Nam (Manchester)
04/11: Brilliant Corners
07/10: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
16/09: Brilliant Corners
02/09: Villa Pozzolo (Florence)
19/08: Decimo, The Standard
05/08: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
03/08: Behind This Wall
26/06: Diggers Dozen @ Brilliant Corners
03/06: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
27/05: w/ Mr Big Happy @ Brilliant Corners
30/04: w/ Orpheu The Wizard @ Brilliant Corners
01/04: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
01/04: The Standard
12/02: Giant Steps
04/02: Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
21/01: The Standard

2022

10/12: Minus Eden, Skopje  (North Macedonia)
09/12: BKW, Skopje (North Macedonia)
27/11: Gasoline Radio (Kyiv)
27/11: The Apartment, LayLow
01/10: Quinta da Comporta (Portugal)
30/09: Melides Art, Comporta (Portugal)
25/06: Decimo, The Standard
07/05: Brilliant Corners
02/04: Brilliant Corners
29/01: The Standard

2021 - 🦠

06/11: The Standard
16/10: Brilliant Corners
27/05: Dublab (Cologne)
06/03: Refuge Worldwide Radio (Berlin)

2020 - 🤣

18/11: NTS Radio - The Spaces In Between
05/09: Rimbobo Invites Customs @ Costa Del Tottenham
2̶6̶/̶0̶7̶:̶ ̶K̶i̶n̶g̶d̶o̶m̶ ̶F̶e̶s̶t̶i̶v̶a̶l̶,̶ ̶B̶e̶l̶v̶o̶i̶r̶ ̶C̶a̶s̶t̶l̶e̶ POSTPONED
1̶1̶/̶0̶4̶:̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶W̶a̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶R̶o̶o̶m̶ POSTPONED
0̶4̶/̶0̶4̶:̶ ̶B̶r̶i̶l̶l̶i̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶C̶o̶r̶n̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ ̶(̶L̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶F̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶)̶ POSTPONED
06/03: Secretsundaze
29/02: Tanzparty @ arkaoda (Berlin)
14/02: The Four Quarters
25/01: Montezuma Cafe (Paris)
01/01: Crate Brewery

2019

22/11: NTS Radio - The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show
09/11: NTS Radio - Last Resort
21/09: Giant Steps Closing Party
07/09: Pender Street Steppers Meet Customs @ Giant Steps
14/07: w/ Time Is Away @ Brilliant Corners
29/06: Giant Steps
14/06: NTS Radio - The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show
08/06: Crate Brewery
30/05: Nuits Sonores (Lyon)
08/05: w/ Trujillo @ Brilliant Corners
04/05: Jolene (Copenhagen)
13/04: Phaserboys Meet Customs @ secret loft TBA
12/04: w/ Phaserboys @ Brilliant Corners
16/02: Décalé w/ Bufiman @ IBOAT (Bordeaux)
15/02: Cafe Mancuso (Bordeaux)
31/01: NTS Radio - The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show
12/01: w/ Suzanne Kraft & Jonny Nash @ Giant Steps
05/01: NTS Radio - Last Resort

2018

14/12: Bruits De La Passion Meets Customs @ secret loft TBA
13/12: w/ Bruits De La Passion @ Brilliants Corners
07/12: Giant Steps
06/12: NTS Radio - The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show 
16/11: Hunee Residency @ XOYO
02/11: NTS Radio - The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show
27/10: w/ Joscha Creutzfeldt @ Brilliant Corners
20/10: Tate Modern
05/10: Beesmunt Soundsystem Meets Customs @ secret loft TBA
04/10: w/ Beesmunt Soundsystem @ Brilliant Corners
01/09: w/ Jeremy Spellacey @ Jaguar Shoes
18/08: w/ Calypso Steve @ Radnor Rooms (Bristol)
11/08: Tate Modern
04/08: w/ Nu Guinea, Mr Mendel and La Mamie's @ Macki Off (Paris)
27/07: House of St Barnabas
30/06: w/ Zaltan and PAM @ Giant Steps
16/06: w/ Mikkel O. Brask @ Brilliant Corners
09/06: Giant Steps
01/06: Selvagem Meets Customs @ secret loft TBA
31/05: w/ Millos Kaiser @ Brilliant Corners
25/05: Nica (Barcelona)
30/03: Edit Bar (Bristol)
29/03: Brilliant Corners
16/03: No Fun Radio - Pacific Spirit (Vancouver)
11/03: w/ The Pilotwings @ Brilliant Corners
10/03: The Pilotwings Meet Customs @ secret loft TBA
04/03: Dublab (Cologne)
03/03: Acephale (Cologne)
23/03: Red Light Radio - London Pop-Up Event
03/02: Brilliant Corners
27/01: Plein Sud @ Kumiko (Brussels)
06/01: NTS Radio - Last Resort

2017

25/11: w/ Riccardo Schirò @ Jaguar Shoes
08/11: NTS Radio - Okonkole Y Trompa
13/10: Garage Noord (Amsterdam)
13/10: Red Light Radio - Dekmantel (Amsterdam)
28/09: w/ Lauren Hansom @ Brilliant Corners
08/09: Brilliant Corners
26/08: The London Loft Party
19/08: NTS Radio - Last Resort
11/08: w/ Prequel @ Jaguar Shoes
22/07: Brilliant Corners
21/07: w/ Dene (La Casa Tropical) @ Club Makossa
02/07: w/ DJ Vegetable @ Brilliant Corners
01/07: w/ Magic Touch @ Jaguar Shoes
24/06: Red Light Radio (Amsterdam)
18/06: w/ Calypso Steve @ Brilliant Corners
17/06: Redlight Records Meets Customs w/ Calypso Steve @ secret loft TBA
08/06: RA Live w/ Chee Shimizu @ Brilliant Corners
20/05: w/ Kejeblos @ Club Makossa
13/04: w/ Julian Horn & Cedric Bardawil @ Brilliant Corners
07/04: w/ Marcel Vogel @ Bloomsbury Bowling
18/03: NTS Radio - Extended Play Sessions
12/03: Deriday w/ La Mamie's, Le Camion Bazar, Charlie Bones & Donna Leake
04/03: NTS Radio - Last Resort
25/02: Morning Fever Meets Customs @ secret loft TBA
22/02: w/ Patrick Mocan @ Brilliant Corners
17/02: w/ DJ D.DEE @ Jaguar Shoes
15/02: w/ DJ D.DEE @ Brilliant Corners
10/02: w/ Mr Pedro & PAM (Okonkole Y Trompa) @ B75 (Paris)
09/02: w/ Théo Top & DJ D.DEE @ La Maison Sage (Paris)
05/02: w/ Jan Schulte @ Brilliant Corners