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Guest mix from one of our favourite Leeds selectors, NikNak

Tune in for an ace, eclectic mix

Tracklist

WOOD BRASS & STEEL BAND _ THE DIRTY LOW DOWN _ KON REMIX  
Onipa - Forget 2020                                                                                               
Gams - Alphabets Heaven x SMBD Remix                                                                      
Crackazat - Called My Name (12')
Addison Groove - Changa 
Quantic MH - Happening                                                                                    
Moses Boyd - Y.O.Y.O 
KOKOROKO - Carry Me Home 
Ouri - Ego Extent
Four Set - Locked  
Yelfris Valdés - Ancestry (K15 Remix)                                                                                                                                              
Gladys Knight - Grapevine (Mr. Carmack Remix) 
Benga - Loose Synths
Jafu - Spooked                                                                                                   
Egoless - Super Echo                                                                                                                                          
Foamplate - 7.5                                  
Grams - Joken        
Hebbe - Mad Hatter  
Hebbe - Mad Hatter (Headland Remix) 
J.Sparrow - High Fidelity 
Emalkay - Angie Got Stoned                                        
LAS - Your Eyes                                                         
Mungk - Warrior Dance 
Thundercat - Funny Thing                                        
Mungo’s Hifi - Haffi Rock (
TC And The Groove Family - Temple - Kalaux Remix 
ROCHELLE JORDAN - HOW U WANT IT 
Reni Size - Brown Paper Bag 
Kaytranada - BUS RIDE (feat. Karriem Riggins & River Tiber) 
Smoke City - Underwater Love  
Mark Pritchard - Lately - Massive Attack - Mark Pritchard Remix 
Labi Siffre - I Got The

NikNak - Guest Mix

This weeks Macondo Mix comes from Leeds-based Jordanian DJ and radio host Yasmeen, the brilliant mind behind SouqSounds; a fantastic project showcasing art and culture from the SWANA region and it’s diaspora. Through charity events and regular slots on Sable Radio and Narr Radio, Yasmeen is always creating spaces for open discussion and her shows always make for an incredibly fascinating listen, exploring everything from Turkish Cinema to experimental Sufi music in great depth. 

This week Yasmeen has once again put together a mind blowing selection of music, this time diving into the world of Arabic film scores;

 ‘Acid swells, and tableh drums, this hour mix travels across the Arabic speaking world showcasing film scores from Toufic Farroukh and Hany Mehanna, love songs from legends Warda and Bandaly Family and funky guitar riffs and organ work from The Scorpions and Saif Abu Bakr.’

Tracklist

Toufic Farroukh - Blues for Ali 

Islam Chipsy - El Moftah

Ali Hassan Kuban - Mabruk 

The Scorpions + Saif Abu Bakr - Nile Waves 

Warda - Batwanas Beek 

Omar Khorsheed - Pop Corn 

Groupe Amarna - Choufou Zineb 

Dur-Dur Band - Yabaal 

Toufic Farroukh - Y Nassim Alrouh 

Hamid El Shaeri - Reit 

Hany Mehanna  - Less Al Thulatha 

Dijif Sanders - Jaipong 

Bandaly Family  - Ya Kalbi Ya Sgeer 

Hamid El Shaeri - Maktoub Aleina

Macondo Mix 006: Yasmeen

Rahel, head of cult dinner club Spoons plays some more tracks inspired by her native cuisine - an hour of 100% Indonesian spicy bangers.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/spoons-w-rahel-11th-july-2023

Spoons w/ Rahel 110723

Memory of a warm and sunny summer day at CDV, opening Jooice's takeover from 3 to 7:30PM.

Live at Club der Visionaere - Jooice - 13.07.2023

Suave w/ Mami Chula & Princess Elf Bar - 27.04.24

Homework

Naga DJ 26/05/24

Dive into Donna Leake's ever developing taste, drawing sounds from all over the globe and all over the clock including jazz, reggae and psych. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/donna-leake/episodes/donna-leake-5th-september-2024

Donna Leake 050924

A real Roxanne masterclass super percussive super jumpy super sexy

ROXANNE - Pride Pumpathon 21.07.24

like HGreezy says at the 55min mark, if you not turning up right now you're crazehh! Nadine really took us down a rabbit hole with club classics, euphoric anthems, sexy dancehall....come see if you can match their freak!

Nadine Noor - Pride Pumpathon 21.07.24

There Are No Genres - 29.09.24

Kat Richmond’s last Distant Dreams (Part Three) show of 2024 showcases newly released ‘avant garde’ house music and psychedelic minimal from across the globe with music from Akatuki, Crihan, Fedo, Les, dN / Danielle Nicole, Alex Barbu, Club Therapy, and more

Kat Richmond Podcasts

Distant Dreams (Part 3) w/ Kat Richmond  08/11/24

Recorded live at Freedom of Movement party at The Vinyl Whistle, Leeds, on 8th November 2024.

Freedom of Movement: Rachel Jazz b2b Michael Upson

a recording from such a fun club set down in Bristol with the GirlonGirl crew (first Bristol headline set)

remember this was live club set, so there was issues meaning the mixing wasn't as tight as I would've liked (trying to not focus on perfection currently), levels are all over the places and there was emergency loop issues but had so much fun playing for the queer girlies of Bristol :)

girlsongirls club set

Apéritif beats for NARR’s 4th Birthday

Shona B 06/12/24

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Daria Kolosova’s passion for the depths of electronic music have transformed into her striking versatility and proficiency as an artist. Welcome to her world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/daria-kolosova/episodes/daria-kolosova-8th-january-2025

DARIA KOLOSOVA 080125

aNNA delivers a meandering of dubby drums, stirring spells and contemporary classical bits to ease you through your hibernation month

aNNA 17/01/25

DJ & producer Shy One oversees the chatroom nonsense and brings that necessary get-up-and-go vibe every other hump day...  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-shy-one/episodes/soup-to-nuts-shy-one-29th-january-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One: Grime Special 290125

Ascensions - 25.01.25

Thorn Wych is a musical instrument maker
and musician based in Lancashire,
specialising in work made from uk native
tree branches. With these unique
instruments, crafted in her backyard
workshop, she creates music that evokes
m e m o r i e s of a n u n k n o w n w o r l d - o u t of
sync with time and place and beyond the
boundaries of the material realm. Her
pieces consist mainly of bowed string
instruments, flutes and percussion, which
she loops round, and grinds through pitch
bending glitches and delay pedals; strange
devotional songs sung in tongues, mashed
up, chewed and spat out.

Thorn Wych 31/01/25

a little from column A, a little from column B. dilettante.
Hull, & occasionally Leeds

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