Steven Julien

The Apron Records boss takes his anything goes approach to an continually surprising hour of radio every month, featuring everything from dusty leftfield house to energetic jazz, and anything else that he's feeling.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/funkineven/episodes/funkineven-30th-october-2024

Steven Julien Presents: The Apron Show 301024

The Apron Records boss takes his anything goes approach to an continually surprising hour of radio every month, featuring everything from dusty leftfield house to energetic jazz, and anything else that he's feeling.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/funkineven/episodes/funkineven-27th-november-2024

Steven Julien Presents: The Apron Show - DJ-KICKS SPECIAL 271124

NTS Apron Show DJ-Kicks Special - 27th Nov 2024

The Apron Records boss takes his anything goes approach to an continually surprising hour of radio every month, featuring everything from dusty leftfield house to energetic jazz, and anything else that he's feeling.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/funkineven/episodes/funkineven-22nd-january-2025

Steven Julien Presents: The Apron Show 220125

DJ MARCIA CARR

London born and raised, globe trotting music selector and tastemaker Marcia Carr, also known as Marcia DaVinylMC has been contributing to the UK dance music scene over four decades already.  She’s a stalwart, an aficionado, and a woman who’s definitely not content with sitting still.

As a DJ – in the last few years she's helds residencies at Jazz Cafe, The Cause and Soho House – her club sets weave together a plethora of sounds that pay homage to the Black roots of dance music – past, present and future.  You can find her spinning everything from house to disco, gospel, funk and dubstep, but there’s always a distinct soulfulness or jazzy touch that permeates her selections

That versatility is something she’s honed over the years from playing at venues across the world with some of the biggest names in house, Detroit techno and broken beat, on top of hosting regular broadcasts on different radio stations, including Rinse FM - alongside guest appearances on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Reprezent, Soho Radio, Balamii - her monthly show "¡Take the Con!" on theboatpod.com draws in a diverse support of followers.

But not only will you find Marcia front of house, she also works behind the scenes helping others with their own musical endeavours.   

Marcia is currently receiving much interest for her joint compilation album project 'Soul Damn Funky' Vol. 2, a release with Brighton's Russell Ruckman.   

As well as being a music journalist and independent consultant, she also runs music PR and artist agency, Talking Music Productions, and is the founder of Girlz B Like – a vinyl-only platform held at Grow, its home in Hackney Wick that spotlights women selectors and DJs - celebrating their tenth birthday in the autumn of  2025, with the release of a debut, limited edition 7-inch vinyl release to mark the milestone.

Follow Marcia Carr on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/djmarciacarr_official/

Coloring Lessons Mix Series 072: Marcia Carr

Eglo Records' main man Alexander Nut joins us for some slick late night futurism. Broken beat, soul, and whatever else happens to take his fancy.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/alexander-nut/episodes/alexander-nut-30th-august-2025

Alexander Nut 300825

Recording of Gilles Peterson's last 3-hour closing set at RDC Stage on Friday night.

RDC 094 - Gilles Peterson at Rainbow Disco Club 2025

NTS Apron Show - 3rd Sep 2025

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-24th-september-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One 240925

Forever learning and evolving her sound, globe trotting dj/producer Suze Ijó is back at the Lot radio to share her latest finds!

https://www.instagram.com/suze.ijo
https://www.soundcloud.com/suze_ijo

 

ijó's echoes with Suze Ijó and François K @ The Lot Radio 09-24-2025

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-8th-october-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One 081025

https://soundcloud.com/enterthelloyd
https://www.instagram.com/enterthelloyd

DREAM ON with Lloyd  @ The Lot Radio 10-24-2025

🎶 De Cimolais a Ert – Papa Boo Loo

✨ This is not a simple album. It begins with two shamanic drum pieces, BPM 176, double kick. But the structure itself is a spell:

    🔺 Triple beat (3/4): opens perception.

    🔹 Trance groove (6/8): frame drums and hand percussion.

    🔸 Powerful cycle (9/8): the door to the spirits.

The drum opens the ceremony, the door swings wide, and the dance begins. From this ritual rhythm, built on Open D tuning, we recreate the magical environment to connect with our ancestors.

🪄 The Mantra

Every track is a fractal reflection of the mantra:
 
O mama baba mama nena mama lehna
O mama baba mama nena mama lehna
O mama baba mama nena mama lehna

🌄 Baba is Ovalda, named after Mount San Osvaldo. She was my putative mother, speaking Ertano, a dialect of Ladino, very old, born in Erto, part of a magical family.

    🌿 Nena is Maddalena, her sister. We loved each other deeply, like son and mother. Tall, beautiful, green shining eyes, dark mountain skin — a woman of class and strength.

    🌙 Lehna is my daughter Lene, who died at age 11 in Milan, taken by pollution.

This album asks the world of spirits to deliver the most beautiful message to them: we never forget.
🏔️ The Place of Erto

Erto lies in Friuli Venezia Giulia, at the crossroads of three regions, yet it stands alone. Tradition says it was founded before the Roman Empire by a tribe of Cimbri women fleeing war. They found a small island in the lake and called it Eretto — “standing.”

    🔮 Refuge of prophetesses.

    🚫 Men were not welcome: violent, greedy, liars.

    🎨 Only artists were accepted: liminal beings, bridges between the realm of the dead and our world, the radio of connection.

🎤 The Production

Even though the mastering was done with Suno, we created the voices in overtuning. The producer sings with the throat technique Khoomei, perfect for this ritual sound. The result vibrates powerfully, like an ancestral call.

❤️ The Legacy

This album carries that heavy, ancient legacy. It tells my granddaughters that magic can be real — not fantasy, but memory. Memory keeps alive the magic of love.

Because at the end of the day, it is always and only a matter of love.

P.S. This work is a bridge: between Erto and America, between past and future, between the world of the living and the spirits.


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