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Hairy Hands - Suns

Wood Brass & Steel - My Darling Baby

In Hour 2 it's a mix from the excellent reissue label Athens of the North. Label owner Euan Fryer has always worked hard to find the most interesting reissue material for his label, from Deep Soul Ballads to Tropicália. His taste is driven by his record collecting, which is in turn driven by the dance floor where ultimately these records should be played (yes even the slowys!). As well as searching out old and exotic records he’s working on new music with Linkwood and several other producers and musicians. He recently co-produced ‘Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand’: a collaboration between pianist Greg Foat and Warren Hampshire from the Grammy-nominated rock band The Bees, which was released last month to critical acclaim.

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Hour 2 - Athens of the North

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Diane Tell - Mon Ami-E
Wayne Carter - Mad Mouth Woman
Diana Ross - Stormy
Billy Young - Suffering With A Hangover
Cold Fire - Dancing 
Frank Boatwright Jr. - Only You
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Frankie Gee - Date With The Rain
Rabbits and Carrots - Get On The Good Foot (C/U) 
Machine - My Baby Loves Me
Constellations - I Didn't Know How To Tell You
Manu Dibango - Salt Popcorn
Gene Faith - Family Man
Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution
Lavell Kama and His Afro Soul Review - Soft Soul
Communicators & Black Experiences Band - Is It Funky Enough
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Della Humphrey - Don't Make A Good Girl Go Bad
The Lost Weekend - The Bridge Of Love
Marie Queenie Lyons - See and Don’t See
A Library Record
Jean Terrell - No Limit 
Helio Matheus - Briguenta
Junior Mendes - Toque Tropical

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Solid Steel Radio Show 4/8/2017 Hour 2 - Athens Of The North

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997). 

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar. 

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch. 

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys. 

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett - Are These My Memories? (ES011/BEWITH062LP)

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Nightlife Blues

Poolside – I Feel High (Vibes4YourSoul Remix), taken from the compilation: THE SUNSET MANIFESTO
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Poolside - I Feel High (Vibes4YourSoul Remix)taken from The Sunset Manifesto

Feiertag steps in for Alex Barck and presents two hours of music which inspires the busy producer from Utrecht.

New album 'Time To Recover' drops 28.05.2021. 
First single 'Yearn' out now: https://sonarkollektiv.lnk.to/Yearn

Tracklist: https://worldwidefm.net/show/ww-berlin-feiertag/

Worldwide FM Berlin - Feiertag 26.01.2021

A vibrant kaleidoscope of sound, colour and emotion, British multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright’s songs soundtrack fertile daydreams, esoteric dancefloors, languorous reflection, and wild excursions in nature and beyond. His voice, pitched somewhere between Eddie Chacon, Beck and Michael McDonald, is an immediately recognisable signature while impressive multi-instrumentalism sees him perform on guitar, keys, programming, percussion, production and myriad quirky effects.

The past six years has seen James release a veritable treasure trove of music: ‘Mallorca’ and ‘Strange Folk’ EPs, debut album ‘Headroom’, joyous second ‘Float’, an album of collaborations and reworks with cosmic Americana-disco DJ/producer duo Flying Mojito Bros, and a new project with Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay as Bright & Findlay. 

James’ music making is commonly a family affair. Although initially written and recorded at his home studio in the rolling hills of the Hampshire countryside, his tracks involve regular collaborator Peter Lyons in East London alongside old friends and new to contribute vocals (Kerry Leatham and Katharine Alice) and drums (Gillan McLaughlin and Joris Feiertag). He has also collaborated with Letherette, Daudi Matsiko, Fink, Fred Everything, Scrimshire and contributed three songs to Groove Armada’s ‘Edge Of The Horizon’ album 

James balances music alongside the creative duality of a job in illustration and the responsibilities and constraints that come with raising a young family. Utilising any spare moment to write and record new ideas, his creative output under various projects had been relentless. Turning his back on apathetic major label offers in his early 20s, he’s released through cult DIY label Tape Club Records, German stalwart !K7 Music and now with Scottish tastemaker Athens Of The North, presenting an evolving vision of a sound that has touched on everything from outsider art-rock to machine funk, mystic folk to experimental jazz.

His music has been played across BBC Radio, Amazing Radio, Bandcamp Weekly, FIP Radio France, NTS, KCRW, Soho Radio, Triple J, and Worldwide FM.

Collected press:
“Blissful choruses, sweetly nagging refrains and a lo-fi sensibility. Hard not to love” MOJO
“Intoxicating, highly evocative, sun-dappled soul” Uncut
“Pastoral 21st century electronic psychedelia that knows all the best clubs in town” Electronic Sound
“Brilliantly laidback…an ever evolving journey that feels at once fun and adventurous but also familiar and comfortable” Future Music
“It’s a lush, rich slice of soul that will permeate every pore. It’s the sound of the summer” Louder Than War
“Bringing influence and experience together in a wild, kaleidoscopic world of precarious elevations and cathedral emotions” BPM
“Vivid intermingling of buoyant breakbeat drum loops, sunkissed psychedelic folk song, retrofuturist synthesisers and hot buttered British soul” Test Pressing
“All the musical styles I love. I’m a big fan” Tom Findlay, Groove Armada
“One exceptional album” Bill Brewster
“A timeless record” The Bees’ Aaron Fletcher
“Moves stylishly through psychedelic patterns and multicoloured textures” Jack Wyllie from Portico Quartet