Broken beat, or bruk, is intrinsically collaborative. Its London originators often recorded together, taking inspiration from jazz, hip-hop, deep house, drum & bass and Afrobeat. Because the genre was born of fusion, it brought together heads from all corners of the music spectrum—sound system purists to junglists to Latin Nuyorican aficionados—who each resonated with bruk's complex rhythms in their own ways.

Ian Grant, AKA IG Culture, is an early pioneer of bruk, and his story underlines the style's synergetic nature. Starting out as an MC, he struck fame in the early '90s as one half of Dodge City Productions but quickly grew disillusioned with the major label business. After immersing himself in early George Duke records, Fela Kuti, Fuji music, The Headhunters and the like, he started experimenting in the studio. The jazz inspiration, plus his roots in reggae and background in hip-hop and acid jazz, led to his now-seminal, late '90s productions as New Sector Movements—widely considered as the starting point in bruk history.

Since then, Grant has kept building infrastructure for the hybrid sound. Alongside Bugz in the Attic, Phil Asher, Dego of 4hero, Demus and Orin Walters, he cofounded the legendary CoOp party, which became a meeting place for diverse musical minds and enabled bruk to keep evolving. Grant remains deeply committed to co-creating, as seen by the Selectors Assemble artist collective he runs with Alex Phountzi (the two are also known as NameBrandSound), his releases with Psykhomantus as Shall I Bruk It, his Afrofuturist take on bruk as Likwid Continual Space Motion and various other projects.

On his RA Podcast, the veteran artist presents a forward-thinking portrayal of bruk, adjacent styles that were directly inspired by it and other global club cuts. There are cerebral, jazzy cuts from his CoOp label, Nigerian cruise music, percussive UK garage, 2-step swing, dancehall dub and much more. This is Grant's world, where rhythmic and swung beats reign supreme.

@ig-culture

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RA.897 IG Culture

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/yusucmix
Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/yusumixmag

"The mix was recorded after playing at the Outburst Stage (where the DJ booth was built around a big oak tree in the middle) at Houghton Festival. Rarely has an experience DJing at a festival has [left] me still reflecting the energy days after, and I wanted to capture that and tell the story in short in its own twists and turns."

The Cover Mix: Yu Su

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.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/alexander-nut/episodes/alexander-nut-7th-october-2023

Alexander Nut w/ Aleqs Notal 071023

An Exploration of the Deeper, Darker side of Techno, House, Detroit, Acid, Jazz, Dub, D&B, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Electronica and whatever moves your soul.

https://www.instagram.com/analog_soul_

ANALOG SOUL @ The Lot Radio 10-25-2023

Part of the NTS family since day dot, Moxie has held her Wednesday show since the stations first broadcasts. Inviting esteemed guests for interviews & mixes and breaking new, unreleased music, she’s got your Wednesday afternoons covered... Tune in to hear anything from Soulful House, Garage, Afro beats and all the way through to rolling techno. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-1st-november-2023

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At this point, Shy One might be familiar to most music fans as one of the hosts of NTS's daily breakfast show, Soup To Nuts, where she helps listeners across the UK and Europe settle into their morning routines with an eclectic and soulful selection of dance music and downtempo. But the London artist has been around a lot longer than that, with a discography that goes back well over a decade. 

She started releasing music as a regular on Scratcha DVA's label, and it was there that she sketched out a recognizable but impressively varied approach rooted in her home base of London. On her records, Shy One sometimes feels like London incarnate, synthesizing the histories of Black British dance music—drum & bass, grime, UK funky, broken beat, jazz, you name it—into one syncretic and immensely appealing sound. But her music glows with the warmth of American deep house, too, which lends it a timeless, ageless quality that has proven immensely appealing. She furthers this mission with Private World, a party she started with Ruby Savage. The name kind of says it all: she's inviting you to her own personal space, but what awaits is a whole wide world of music and culture.

Her RA Podcast feels like a hybrid between a club DJ set and her morning show, and here, she zeroes in on a the lineage of American house music from the '90s and beyond, featuring tracks from the likes of Green Velvet, Marcellus Pittman, Roy Davis Jr., Wbeeza, Jay Daniel and more, plus a spotlight from Baltimore club king DJ Technics. It's patient and easygoing but perfect for a small dance floor (or a livingroom party), focused but stylistically diverse. It's everything we've come to expect from an artist like Shy One, who weaves stories and histories with her DJ sets, and does it effortlessly, too.

@shyonebeats

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/911

RA.911 Shy One

happy new year y'all! 
the first show of the year is here and I am so happy to be back.

'meditate levitate' is the new weekly morning show by suze ijó. here to lift your spirits and get your day started in the most gentle way. no pounding club music here, just gentle downtempo songs and soul-nourishing melodies.

join me every wednesday from 10am to 12pm CET on ox.space!

don't forget to subscribe to my new 'meditate levitate' spotify playlist which I'll be updating weekly!
link to spotify playlist : shorturl.at/euET4

Michael Colson - Opening Night 
Guerrinha - Edificio Argentina 
Devin Morrison -   Sunrise Pleasantries 
musclecars -  Keep On Keepin' On (feat Robert Owens) 
Benedek - After Midnyte 
Courtney Jackson -  Everybody Amp Fiddler Remix 
Giants Are Real - '97 
Enrico Mantini feat. Sabatino Matteucci & Domingo Muzietti  - Poem Of No Words 
Arnheim  - Nightlight / Daylight 
 Blair French -   Ancestarians (Physical Mix) 
Mamadou Tangoudia  - Kori
Reginald Omas Mamode IV -   Trippin 
unkle G -  an honest meal 
Avila Santo -  WOLE 
Cheo - Agujas en el pecho (ft. Catalina García) 
 Lefto Early Bird - I sing to find a Peace of Mind (feat. Simbad)
Bô'vel  - Do It Your Way (feat. Yoda) 
Melati ESP - BAHASA BARU 
H31R - Down Down Bb (feat. Quelle Chris) 
 X-Press - Tranz Euro X-Press (Ballistic Step) 
 DOMU - Ya Nah Gonna Get It 
XL Regular - Bruk Up 
Osunlade -  A New Day (Quentin Harris Remix) 
Alton Miller & Amp Fiddler -   When The Morning Comes (GU Nostagic Forever Mix) 
jada-amina - let(me)be.led jada-amina 
Angles Morts - Doobidida 
Astrud Gilberto - Take It Easy My Brother Charlie 
Linda Evans- I Am Gold

Meditate Levitate 09 @ OX.radio - Wed Jan 10 2024

For the love of House! Guus Christian is a DJ, promoter, and the label manager of Blauwdruk Records from Nijmegen. He’s known for his Deep & Soulful selections, honoring the early pioneers from New York, Detroit, & Chicago. This mix features music by the likes of Trinidadian Deep, Louie Vega, Kerri Chandler and is a prime example of going back to the foundation of House music. Get familiar with the Blauwdruk sound!


Tracklist: 
1. Trinidadian Deep & Bradford James - Spirits in Motion / Photay - Existince
2. Dj Profile - Fuck You all
3. Benklawk & Mabutana ft Tshepo King - Dance
4. Tasters Choice- Instant Coco (Afro Conga Mix)
5. Roi Azulay - Universal Being
6. Sunshine Anderson - Force Of Nature (Joe Claussell Edit)
7. Mateo & Matos - Evolution
8. Louie Vega - Mozalounge (12’’ Mix)
9. Variable Frequency Technician - Cross Section
10. Brother Charles - Let Love Guide You
11. Scott Ferguson - Dump Days
12. Steal Vybe - My Soul Cries Out (Vocal)
13. Kerri Chandler & Jerome Sydenham - Esprito Du Tempo (Babatunji’s Dub)
14. Roy Ayers - Brand New Feeling (Shelter Vocal)

Guus Christian - United Identities Podcast 040

Kyle Hall [30.12.2023]

In this live talk with Tama Sumo, Lakuti and musclecars, the New York legend sets the record straight.

DJ, producer and remixer Yvonne Turner was one of the only women instrumental in shaping New York's early house scene, yet her story has gone largely undocumented. Born in Harlem in 1953, she started DJing regularly by the late '70s, playing weekly parties in Flatbush and getting her musical education at The Loft. There, she says, she learned how "good music" should sound. It inspired her to start going to the studio and sharing her musical revelations with other people.

As a woman producer, she was often relegated to the small print on records, bumped to associate or co-producer status or marked as a mixer instead of a remixer. Many of the male vocalists she worked with got credit for the music. But Turner penned some acclaimed house tracks, such as "Set Fire To Me," "Music Is The Answer" and the official remix of Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight." While Turner took a back seat for a few years, deciding to teach in elementary schools and wind down her touring, she recently got back in the studio and wants to set the record straight about the history of house and her place—and many other women's—within it. 

This conversation was moderated by Tama Sumo, Lakuti and the DJ duo musclecars live at Public Records in New York. Listen to the conversation in full.

EX.697 Yvonne Turner

Recorded live at Nowadays in Queens, NY on Friday, January 5, 2024.

ANALOG SOUL @ The Lot Radio 10-25-2023

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