• DTW FM #457 •

Hosted by:
Marco Weibel
(@marcoweibel)

✧TRACKLIST✧
☆ Wilson Tanner - Blush
☆ Citation - Inspiration Of My Life 
☆ dreamcastmoe ft. NAPPYNAPPA - flowers
☆ DJ Python & Jawing - Dai Buki
☆ Kutmah - Times Is Hard
☆ corto.alto - 31. Bleep (01)
☆ Michael Prophet - Body Fusion (Version)
☆ Joy Spheres Rees - Trust The Feeling
☆ Purelink - Kite Scene
☆ Blvck Spvde & Stefan Ringer - Patterns
☆ Avila Santo - Groove
☆ Joe Sample ft Take 6 – U Turn (Kai Alce Remix)
☆ Trinidadian Deep - Eggs
☆ Chaos In The CBD - Marlboro Sounds
☆ Oye Manny - Thoughts
☆ Jimpster - The Phoenix
☆ Hanna - Sanctuary 
☆ Kassian - Sun
☆ Anthony Naples - Scanners
☆ fleet.dreams - Secret of the Golden Flower
☆ BOOF - I Want C & B To Fix My Car
☆ Big Stick - Deep Don’t Die
☆ George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair
☆ Rahaan - Woman Of The Party
☆ Sewell And The Gong - Better Words (Wallace Remix)
☆ Joe Armon-Jones - Hurry Up & Wait
 

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Darker Than Wax FM #457 w/ Marco Weibel • 29th March 2025

Music selected by Twit One & Lazy Jones, recorded on April 5th, 2025   

Hi-fives, drinks and music at dublab in Cologne celebrating the latest LP by Twit One & Lazy Jones infamous “Flatpocket” project. "III" out now via A.U.D.D.A.

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Flatpocket Release Hangout  (April 2025)

Indonesian Classic Selection by Thee Marloes

A mixtape full of rhythm, nostalgia, and funk. 100% Indonesian jams!

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BCR Radio Episode 045 - Thee Marloes - Nada Indonesia

Brazilian 7" singles (compactos) are often the source of hidden treasures. Those special obscure nuggets that tend to be overlooked and flicked past in shops and flea markets. Carlos Bivar's 'Amargo Amar' is one such find, nestled as a B2 on the end of a four-track 7" EP on Esquema Records from 1978. This seldom-seen slice of Brazilian sunshine is the second single taken from miche’s third With Love compilation on Mr Bongo.

The ZBETO EP is one of only two 7” singles that we are aware of, released by the pianist, singer, and songwriter Carlos Bivar. 'Amargo Amar' starts with the swagger of a ‘70s Blaxploitation soundtrack, transitioning into a loose Brazilian MPB-funk. Floaty keys, uplifting horns, and backing vocals elevate the energy, as Carlos' lyrics ride the groove. This song is a sheer delight and an example of the talented output of independent Brazilian musicians, as equally great and bold as their major label contemporaries.


Amargo Amar

Silver Spade

10 random vinyl selections, random sonic adventures...

Ghostpoet's Mood Dependant (001)

@theseshen

On the “Unravel Remix EP”, out 17th July, San Francisco 7-piece The Seshen unveil six stunning reworks of tracks from 2014’s “Unravel” EP which gained widespread support from Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft, Don Letts, Nemone, THUMP, Line Of Best Fit, Afropunk and many more tastemakers around the world. The buzz surrounding their debut EP on Tru Thoughts added to their high demand as a live act, with major bookings including official SXSW showcases and support for tUnE-yArDs, Thundercat and Haiyatus Kaiyote. 

Mixing live and electronic elements, The Seshen create beat-driven compositions with a strong emotional core, with an experimental approach that makes for a compellingly creative experience both live and on record. Here, their hook-laden songs - fusing influences from psychedelia, hip-hop, pop, R&B, West African music, dub and indie rock - retain their innate beauty and lyricism while being spun out in exciting new directions by Lost Midas, AKDK, Astronauts, Etc., Jonny Faith and Uhuru Peak as well as the band’s very own synchronizer/sampler wizard Kumar Butler.

www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

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The Seshen - Shapes (Jonny Faith Remix)

Ata Kak's first new song in over 30 years!

Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. While it barely made a ripple at the time of its release in 1994, the cassette found a new life online in 2006. A not-so-underground cult obsession grew after it appeared on  the blog Awesome Tapes From Africa as its very first post, a sort of manifesto for the project. His addictive amalgam of left-field electronic music and Twi-language hiplife reached surprising levels of awareness among music fans of many stripes. The mystery behind the musician’s identity grew. Eventually Yaw Atta-Owusu came out of the shadows, from his quiet home in Kumasi, to tour the world playing high-energy, sweat-soaked performances at major festivals like Glastonbury, Sónar and Pop Montreal. 

Now, for the first time since 1994, Ata Kak releases new music. Honed in studios around Kumasi over the last several years, the songs feature the rapper-singer’s acrobatic rap, signature scatting, dramatic drums and even traditional Akan harp. The compositions are more ambitious than his earlier work, with more complex arrangements and layered harmonies. Ata Kak’s new songs are also the natural expression of a restless artist—he is a prolific poet and author of a half-dozen books, as well as an active gardener and busy painter. 

Born in Ghana in 1960, Ata Kak wasn’t always involved in music. But his travels and openness to the world lead him into the music industry. While living in Germany, he was invited to play drums in a reggae band and subsequently played in highlife bands in Ontario after moving to the Toronto area. He recorded “Obaa Sima” there at his home studio and released it in Ghana in 1994. He didn’t participate in music much in the intervening years until “Obaa Sima” was reissued in 2015. He started performing his song live with the help of a brilliant cast of London-based musicians and has toured three continents and played to thousands of fans in venues of all kinds.

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Yasi Town

SCORE - DREAM SEQUENCE

Over the years, some of us have grown to shudder at the term Easy Listening, but not Teen Daze. In the face of such harsh realities, we need some Easy Listening more than ever, and so once a month, Teen Daze hits the dublab airwaves to play two hours of music that is easy to listen to! Whether that’s mellow jazz, peaceful ambient, soft house, smooth rock, whatever! When the music is breezy, the listening is Easy!

For more info: www.dublab.com/shows/easy-listening

Tracklist

Mind Over Matter - Being One (Air)
Hiroshi Yoshimura - In The Sea Breeze
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Deep Echoes
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
Shiho - Red Sunlight
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sunrise
Ian O'Brien - A Midwestern's Night Dream
Yoshio Suzuki - What Do You Do When It's Spring?
Joseph Shabason - Our Place (featuring Thom Gill)
Aragon - Horridula
Double Fantasy - Food For Fantasy
Total Blue - Corsair
Benny Sings - Dreamin' (Sam Wilkes Remix)
Heathered Pearls - Soft Lock
Modern Living - Snow Bird
Space Dimension Controller - Variation Five
Alex Kassian - Orange Coloured Liquid (Part II)
Haruomi Hosono - Heliotherapy
Loidis - Why Do
Coral D - Cuttin' Out
Benedek - Lost Groove
Superstructure - Escape
Teen Daze - One For Paradise (Ambient Mix)
Warp 69 - Natural High (Global Communications Remix)

Easy Listening - Episode 22 (08.20.25)

The first single to be taken from СОЮЗ (SOYUZ)'s enthralling fourth album KROK, sees the release of the emotive and personal title track. “Krok” means “step” in Belarusian - and for Alex Chumak and his band this word comes with a lot of meaning. It’s a theme running throughout the album, reflecting the journeys the band has navigated in recent years. 
 
In early 2022, Chumak and original members, Mikita Arlou and Anton Nemahai, joined tens of thousands of Belarusians seeking safety from the political unrest in their homeland and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Resettling in Warsaw, the band released Force of the Wind in October 2022, garnering widespread acclaim, a string of major European gigs, and led to Polish musicians Albert Karch and Igor Wiśniewski joining the band.
 
Embracing the uncertainty became both the inspiration and main lyrical theme for Alex Chumak, SOYUZ’ composer and arranger. ‘Krok’ was one of the initial songs written for the new album and was the first to feature lyrics. It paved the way for Chumak to find the new poetic language on the record - for the first time in his native Belarusian language. Chumak demoed the song whilst he was still in Minsk in early 2022, and then, as he and his band moved to Poland, he continued developing it. In September 2024, together with other songs, Alex took it on a trip to São Paulo, where he recorded it with the help of his longtime friend and collaborator Sessa and extraordinary musicians Biel Basile and Marcelo Cabral.
 
It is a song about transition and migration, in which this act is poetically reduced to “a step” – into the unknown and unexplored. While singing about it, Chumak also makes a step forward musically. He delivers his very atypical view on samba, which doesn’t pretend to sound Brazilian. A strict yet loose rhythm section is covered with layers of tense acoustic guitars, aleatoric piano lines, and a lush yet restrained arrangement for strings and flutes.
 
This ethereal opening track is taster of the magic to come from СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) new career-defining album.


Крок / Krok

Record Label • Brighton (UK)
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