Head in the Clouds - Radio ARA

Track list:

1. LARS BARTKUHN – Every morning I meditate
2. REGGAE DISCO ROCKERS – The whistle song (Silent Dream version)
3. THE ZENMENN – Bella fantasia
4. HELADO NEGRO – Pais nublado
5. JAIME E NAIR – Sob o mar
6. SIVUCA – Ain’t no sunshine
7. ERICK COSAQUE – Guadeloupe, île de mes amours
8. VS QUARTET – A pou zot
9. TWYLYTE ’81 – Some go up
10. DOC DANEEKA & ABIGAIL WILES – Tobyjug
11. SAULT – Wildfires
12. HUGO MOLENAAR – We can live together
13. SERGINHO MERITI – Bons momentos
14. SONYA SPENCE – Let love flow on
15. NATHAN HAINES – U see that
16. LAURENT BARDAINNE & TIGRE D’EAU DOUCE – Kinshasa
17. ARP FRIQUE & MARISEYA – Nyame ye
18. MAUSKOVIC DANCE BAND – Space drum machine (Dam Swindle Flute remix)
19.VALÉRIA – Marcação (Delfonic edit)
20.BAIANASYSTEM – Água (Jimpster remix)
21. CLUB PARADISO – Romagna tropicale
22. NU GENEA & CELIA KAMENI – Marechià
23. STR4TA – Rhythm in your mind
24. EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – Say something
25. THE CONGOS – Solid foundation — Rest in Power Lee “Scratch” Perry £$P Music Master Mind —

Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 1 // 21.09.2021

Track list:

1. JUN FUKAMACHI – At the cutting edge
2. ETUK UBONG – Uyai mi Margaret
3. SONS OF KEMET – To never forget the source
4. DOS SANTOS – City of mirrors
5. DAZION – Eu não sei
6. VICTORIA SANTA CRUZ – Me gritaron negra! (Daniel Haaksman edit)
7. GRUPO MAGNÉTICO – Hermanos latinos
8. NILAMAYÉ – Tierra
9. ARNAU OBIOLS & KAYYAK – Chang’an (Kalabrese remix)
10. SHEITAN BROTHERS – Gardien volcan
11. GHETTO KUMBÉ – Tambó
12. THE QUIET ONES – Matamba
13. FRANK M. – What JAH give
14. KHRUANGBIN & QUANTIC – Pelota (Cut A Rug mix)
15. BEBETO – A beleza é você menina
16. EMÍLIO SANTIAGO – O amigo de Nova York
17. LAMAR THOMAS – Feel so good inside (Waxist edit)
18. EL TURRONERO – Si yo volveria a nacer
19. FLAMINGO PIER – Cosmic sunset
20. HERBIE HANCOCK – Stars in your eyes
21. MARVIN GAYE – I want you
22. LORD SHORTY AND FRIENDS – Who is she?
23. MELVIN VAN PEEBLES – Quittin’ time    —RIP Sweet Sweetback—
** Let the spirit take you to where it wants you to go **

Head in The Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 2 // 19.10.2021

Track list:

1. ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP – Blabber
2. MARCEL VOGEL – Human being
3. JORJA SMITH – Rose rouge
4. OSCAR JEROME – Gravitate
5. DJOSA – Amazone
6. JOSEPH MALIK – I don’t want
7. THE NEW AGE ORCHESTRA – Let’s dream together, pt. 4 (Kenneth Bager refix)
8. BIANCA – Tabú
9. MUNGOLIAN JET SET – Moon jocks n prog rocks (Montezuma’s Rache remix)
10. HOLGER CZUKAY, JAH WOBBLE, JAKI LIEBEZEIT – How much are they?
11. BOTS & GAS – Nasty beings
12. DENIS MPUNGA & PAUL K. – Criola
13. GRATIEN MIDONET – Osana (Kuniyuki remix)
14. MENDES & MENDES – Riqueza & valor
15. JOHNNY HAMMOND – Los conquistadores chocolates
16. LETTA MBULU – Kilimandjaro take us higher
17. BURNIN’ BEAT – Searchin’
18. MARTEN YORGANTZ – Ammenain serdov (de tout coeur)
19. BEL – Ready to die (Mudd’s extended mix)

Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 3 // 16.11.2021

Track list:

1. LUCIO BATTISTI – Angel (Mars & Jupiter Numero Uno vocal mix)
2. NED DOHENY – Get it up for love (demo version)
3. R.J. RIGGINS – I need you now
4. LLOYD McNEIL (Rest In Power) – Samba for the animals
5. ANA MAZZOTTI – Agora o nunca mais
6. BO & RUTH – You’re gonna get next to me
7. AHMED FAKROUN – يا فرحي بيك (Ya farhi beek)
8. TATSURO YAMASHITA – Love talkin’ — one for the Manila city pop dons…

——————Interview with THE HOME CURRENT——————

9. BOMB THE BASS – Megablast
10. THE GRID – Floatation
11. FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – Papua New Guinea
12. THE UNDERGROUND SOLUTION – Luv dancin’
13. THE HOME CURRENT – Leave your fears
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DJ mix by THE HOME CURRENT:

14. STEIGER – Lambda
15. STUFF – Waksi
16. TOITOITOI – Goliards
17. EMERSON KITAMURA – 窓から (Mado kara)
18. DANIEL ÖGREN – Kristinehamn by night
19. ANN SOREL – L’amour à plusieurs
20. SERGE GAINSBOURG – Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais (instrumental)
21. ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI – Losy 2 (mid-guitar theme)
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22. THE HOME CURRENT – Exit signs

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Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 4 // 21.12.2021 // The Home Current

Track list:

Intro: DAVID BOWIE – Moss Garden

Giuseppe’s 2021 Favorites

INOYAMA LAND – Hair Air
FLOATING POINTS & PHAROAH SANDERS – Movement 5
FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO – Planalto
MANDUKA – Patria Amada, Idolatrada, Salve
AMARO FREITAS – Nascimento
ARTHUR VEROCAI – Sylvia
HARUOMI HOSONO – Something Stupid
THEO CROKER- Soul Call // Vibrate
INSIGHT – Fantasy (feat. Ashaye) [Insight Mix]
KINA TOMOKO – Ink
JAMBAL – Kind Of Being (feat. Culture The Kid)

Mike’s 2021 Favorites

PAULINE ANNA STROM – Tropical Convergence
AYANE SHINO – Kodomotachi
G.S. SCHRAY – Diverted By Faint Pathway
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY – Swallow Tail
MNDSGN – Masque
MARA TK – Te Kete Aronui
PAINTED PICTURES – Air
MAWIMBI – Kakraa (feat. K.O.G.)
TONY ALLEN & HUGH MASEKELA – Robbers, Thugs And Muggers (O’Galajani)
TENO AFRIKA – 8 Ubers
MOODYMANN – Let Me Show You Love
NIGHTMARES ON WAX – Wonder (feat. Haile Supreme & Shabaka Hutchings)
SISONKE XONTI – Newness
MATTHEW HALSALL – Tropical Landscapes (Live at Hallé St. Peters)

Outro: PARCELS – Shadow

Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 5 // 18.01.2022 // Best of 2021

In this episode, we’re celebrating Radio ARA’s new frequency for Esch-Sur-Alzette and surroundings (87.8 FM) and the launch of the Esch European Capital of Culture 2022 festivities. We’re at Vinyl Harvest, the only record shop in Esch, to play some of our records over the shop sound system (featuring a pair of Technics 1200 turntables and lovely rotary DJ mixer custom built in Australia by Mehdi El-Aquil).

Track list:

1. ELZA SOARES – Aquarela do Brasil
2. DONALD BYRD – Cristo redentor (background music)
3. THE BRKN RECORD – His mother’s eyes
4. TERRY DURHAM – Crystal telephone
5. BELLYDANCE – 3 day man! (extended mix)
6. THE SHYANNES – Asso-kam
7. CARLINHOS SANTOS E GRUPO CÉU – Nagô
8. NETINHO – Du du du domingo
9. BIXIGA 70 – Grito de paz
10. PAQUITO D’RIVERA – La patica
11. VINCENT ARTHUR AND DAGOMBA – Jubilation
12. ROY AYERS – Silver vibration
13. MADRID GROOVE – Suave
14. WILSON BOATENG – Asew watchman (Mendel’s extended edit)
15. GENERAL EHI DUNCA AND THE AFRICA ARMY EXPRESS – Africa my no. 1 (Captain Planet mix)
16. SOICHI TERADA – Double spire
17. JOE CLAUSSELL – Spiritual insurrection
18. ELEMENTS OF LIFE feat. JOSH MILAN – Children of the world (Ben Brophy mix)
19. SOLÀ AKINGBOLÁ – Ninu opon ori tiwa (Kiko Navarro re-edit)
20. MARIAH CAREY – Dreamlover (David Morales mix)
21. BOOF – Chicken and waffles
22. BACKBEAT CONVENTION – Love and happiness (Quartz dub all over mix)
23. GIGI TESTA – Moments in time

Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA // Episode 6 // 16.02.2022

We are two Luxembourg-based record diggers who love warm, organic, analogue, eclectic and deep sounds which bring to mind tropical sunsets, campfire parties on the beach, humid jungle nights and star-filled skies. Maracas, vintage synths, saxophones, drum computers and echo machines are common ingredients. 

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @editionsdelux.

Head in the Clouds is a monthly show on Radio ARA focused on new, rare, and rediscovered underground music, 100% on vinyl records from our own collections. Genres covered during the show could be labelled Balearic, electronic, deep house, jazz, Brazilian, funk, Japanese, African, folk, cosmic disco, boogie, Afro-Caribbean, ambient, New Age, dub reggae, soul, downtempo, vaporwave, Fourth World…

Overlooked records, forgotten gems, or classic masterpieces, no bias and no limits when your head is in the clouds!

Artwork by @JanineCharlotte (Instagram).

Hear more music from Editions de Lux at 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/sWhnp and https://www.ara.lu/shows/head-in-the-clouds/

Playlist with songs played in the shows: 
Head in the Clouds // Radio ARA
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JNn2QD5ckILm7PEpaKjvB?si=148b7670a89646d6