Ez Duzzit (Groovy Beats Mix)

This month on Cherish, Emma Kiko was live with 60 minutes of laid back soul, hip hop and R&B. Tracks inside from the likes of Mara TK and International Observer.

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Cherish w/ Emma Kiko - May 2023

Poppy Richler invited Brixton-based musician RY-GUY for two hours of psychedelic sounds, new and old. Music inside from the likes of Portishead, Thelonious Monk, and Crack Cloud.

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Poppy Richler w/ RY-GUY - September 2023

DJ & music supervisor Taylor Rowley forages for the forgotten musical past every month, uncovering soundtracks, psych rock & other treasures.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-windmills-of-your-mind/episodes/the-windmills-of-your-mind-5th-october-2023

The Windmills of Your Mind w/ Taylor Rowley 051023

Hiatt is back this month’s with leftfield, electronic and disco tracks from the likes of Hiroshima, The System, Mudd, Lee Oskar and more. 

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Mystery Zone w/ Hiatt DB - October 2023

01. DJ CHILE – Intro
02. MANIVI - Come with me
03. CARRTOONS feat. Bad Snacks - Sparkle
04. FRANK ZAPPA - Blessed Relief
05. AZYMUTH - Morning (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)
06. THE MODULATIONS - I can't fight your Love
07. BREAKWATER - Let Love In
08. SHARON PAIGE - Tonight's The Night
09. BLACK IVORY – Mainline
10. SIR LSG - Hold my Hand
11. EDDIE PALMIERI - Everything Is Everything
12. DONALD BYRD - Book's Bossa
13. GATO BARBIERI – Bahia
14. ANTARES FLARE - Bonsai Jungle
15. HANK JACOBS & Don Malone - The World Needs Changin'
16. ROAD RUNNERS - Every Man For Himself
17. A.A.B.B. - Pick up the pieces One by One
18. CARLEEN & THE GROOVERS - The Thing
19. ODDYSEY 5 - Everybody's Complaining
20. THE RIGHT TRACK - I Gotta Move With The Groove
21. JOHNNY OTIS SHOW - Don't it make you feel Good
22. GRANT GREEN – Dracula
23. HAROLD VICK - H.N.I.C
24. AFRO BLUES QUARTET – Spartacus
25. SERGE GAINSBOURG - Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
26. THE ARCHIVES - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (I Grade Dub Mix)

RADIO.D59B / JAZZADELICA #43 w/ DJ Chile

Lapalux - Autumn (Tape Interlude)
Lapalux - Puzzle ft. Andreya Triana
DjRUM - Dam
Teebs - LSP ft. Austin Peralta
Mndsgn - overwhelming gratitude
Alice Coltrane - Galaxy in Turiya
Flying Lotus - Archway (Teebs Remix)
Nala Sinephro - Space 1
Pharoah Sanders - Harvest Time
Low Leaf - Inlight
Lonnie Liston Smith - Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
Skalpel - Wonderland In Alice (Big Band Live)
Taylor McFerrin - Awake To You
A. Whales - Stay
Mejiwahn - Lumaby ft. hrlum
Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Ano Yo
Hiatus Kaiyote - Prince Minikid
Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Kiseki
Jaga Jazzist - Tomita
Robert Glasper - Main Theme
Floating Points - For Marmish
Caravan - Can’t Be Long Now 
Alice Coltrane - Sita Ram
Floating Points - Elaenia
Low Leaf - How to Open a Portal

RADIO.D59B / STRANGE WORLDS #24 w/ Pawelg

Tropical rhythms, devotional boogie and soulful shenanigans with a heavy jazz undertone, Patrick Forge gathers it all up for your listening pleasure.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/patrickforge/episodes/patrickforge-4th-december-2023

Patrick Forge 041223

ک†ȋ‽˄˄▲ - MARRY ME

super old this was supposed to be my first drop ever 11/16/2022

revival samples (2022).wav

🌑 ALBUM PRESENTATION — “The Land of Incense”
🔥 A cross‑continental ritual told in French, Vietnamese, and bass frequencies
🌍 A Journey That Became a Language

“The Land of Incense” isn’t just an album — it’s a threshold.
Mario doesn’t travel through Southeast Asia as a tourist; he moves like a sensor, absorbing layers of scent, neon, humidity, and memory.
This record is born where geography dissolves and becomes perception.

It’s an album that breathes like a DSLR camera at night —
grainy, intimate, close to the skin, capturing the world in fragments of light and shadow.
🎸 A Sonic Architecture Built on Minimalism

At the core of the album lies a musical philosophy inspired by that psychedelic Texas trio known for reinventing global minimalism —
not quoted, not imitated, but echoed.

The foundation is unmistakable:

    🎚️ Fretless saturated bass — serpentine, warm, hypnotic

    🎸 Minimal electric guitar — clean, liquid, shimmering

    🎧 Turntable textures — scratches like blades cutting through humid air

    🥁 Dusty drum machines — slow, ritualistic, breathing like a street at dawn

    🎼 Vietnamese instruments — đàn bầu, đàn tranh, bamboo percussion

Every sound is a doorway.
🇫🇷🇻🇳 Why French? Why Vietnamese?

Because this album isn’t about “world music.”
It’s about worlds layered on top of each other.
🇫🇷 French

The language of balconies, old radios, colonial ghosts, and neon rain.
It carries nostalgia, elegance, and a cinematic melancholy.
It represents the upper layer of the city — the rooftops, the reflections, the memories.
🇻🇳 Vietnamese

The language of markets, incense smoke, riverbanks, and motorbikes at midnight.
It vibrates like bamboo drums and street vendors calling through the heat.
It represents the ground layer — the earth, the sweat, the pulse.

Together, they form a dual‑layer narrative, like two friends walking the same night in two different tongues.
🛕 A Ritual in Motion

This album doesn’t sit still.
It walks.

It walks through:

    🏮 Narrow alleys glowing with red neon

    🛕 Old temples breathing incense

    🐦 Memories of Pompei and childhood birds

    🛵 Motorbikes slicing through humid air

    🎤 Street‑level rap whispered like a confession

    🪕 Banjo lines that feel like ancestral threads

    🔥 Mantras invented from pure instinct

It’s a diary, a rite, a night‑walk, a glitch in the matrix of the city.
⚡ The Heart of the Project

At its core lies a simple, luminous idea:

Life is a river, and we are feathers learning to follow its current.

The mantra — Mama baba, mama lehna, mamma nena —
is not tied to any culture, and precisely for that reason,
it resonates with all of them.

It’s a call to return, to wander, to rise, to breathe.
🌌 Conclusion

“The Land of Incense” is not an album you listen to.
It’s an album you enter.

A place where:

    languages become rivers

    bass becomes gravity

    neon becomes memory

    and every step becomes a sign

It proves that music can still be a location,
a ritual,
a map of the soul.
