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The often unheard sounds of Thailand got the show off to an Asiaticly tropical start this week and the Plearn Promdan track was from another winning compilation from Soundway entitled The Sound Of Siam, Thailand never sounded so cool. The sounds of Guadelouple followed courtesy of the unfeasibly soulful Marie-Line Dahomay, roots music at it’s rawest and best. Now the Congotronics series has been given an inspired set of remixes over the course of a double CD from the likes of Shackleton through to Animal Collective and Optimo and amongst others I’m particularly liking the Aksak Maboul rework of the Kasai Allstars. I then followed that by another track from Lone’s nu/old school house EP which dropped recently, vintage flavoured, electronic soul.

The Compost disco sub-label has further cemented it’s growing reputation with a great new disco number by John Gazoo – one for all you dancing queens. The rising stars of Ben Butler & Mousepad then followed but only because they’ve been given a future 80s soul style rehash from the talented Eero Johannes. Silkie then kept the future 80′s vibes running but on a dubstep riddim, a great new release on the ever interesting Deep Medhi label and just to prove the 80′s synth soul sound is here to stay I had to drop another cut from the excellent Opolopo album which is getting better with every listen.

George FitzGerald is back with another great EP on one of my labels of the year Hotflush, expect more great soulful post garage beats and a tougher techno remix on the flipside from the label boss himself. Downliners Sekt are a mysterious production collective with an unrepentantly forward looking musical agenda as their track on this weeks show ‘White Dawn’ perfectly highlights. Tshaka is a great urban poet and with the ‘We’ track backed up by some great beats courtesy of Me Raabenstein, if you like Saul Williams you’ll be feeling the new ep out on Nonine round about now. Brownswood are about to release some new Worldwide family compiled selections kicking off with a stellar collection of beats that have tickled Simbad and Lefto look out for it. The show ended up on a darkly soulful note courtesy of the new Freddie Cruger and Anthony Mills Wildcookie project coming out on Tru-Thoughts soon, check the video for a harsh reality check.

Plearn Promdan – Wan Maha Sanook (Soundway Records)
Marie-Line Dahomay – Yo (Playasound)
Aksak Maboul vs Kasai Allstars – Land Dispute (Crammed)
Lone – The Birds Don’t Fly This High (Magic Wire)
John Gazoo – What Happened (Compost disco promo)
Ben Butler & Mousepad – Other Islands II, Eero Johannes rmx (Lo Recordings promo)
Silkie – Wonder (Deep Medi promo)
Opolopo – Step Into The Light (Tokyo Dawn)
George FitzGerald – Don’t You (Hot Flush promo)
Downliners Sekt – White Dawn (Disboot)
Tshaka – We (Nonine promo)
Andreas Saag – Nobody Here (Brownswood promo)
Wildcookie – Heroine (Tru-Thoughts promo)

The often unheard sounds of Thailand got the show off to an Asiaticly tropical start this week and the Plearn Promdan track was from another winning compilation from Soundway entitled The Sound Of Siam, Thailand never sounded so cool. The sounds of Guadelouple followed courtesy of the unfeasibly soulful Marie-Line Dahomay, roots music at it’s rawest and best. Now the Congotronics series has been given an inspired set of remixes over the course of a double CD from the likes of Shackleton through to Animal Collective and Optimo and amongst others I’m particularly liking the Aksak Maboul rework of the Kasai Allstars. I then followed that by another track from Lone’s nu/old school house EP which dropped recently, vintage flavoured, electronic soul.

The Compost disco sub-label has further cemented it’s growing reputation with a great new disco number by John Gazoo – one for all you dancing queens. The rising stars of Ben Butler & Mousepad then followed but only because they’ve been given a future 80s soul style rehash from the talented Eero Johannes. Silkie then kept the future 80′s vibes running but on a dubstep riddim, a great new release on the ever interesting Deep Medhi label and just to prove the 80′s synth soul sound is here to stay I had to drop another cut from the excellent Opolopo album which is getting better with every listen.

George FitzGerald is back with another great EP on one of my labels of the year Hotflush, expect more great soulful post garage beats and a tougher techno remix on the flipside from the label boss himself. Downliners Sekt are a mysterious production collective with an unrepentantly forward looking musical agenda as their track on this weeks show ‘White Dawn’ perfectly highlights. Tshaka is a great urban poet and with the ‘We’ track backed up by some great beats courtesy of Me Raabenstein, if you like Saul Williams you’ll be feeling the new ep out on Nonine round about now. Brownswood are about to release some new Worldwide family compiled selections kicking off with a stellar collection of beats that have tickled Simbad and Lefto look out for it. The show ended up on a darkly soulful note courtesy of the new Freddie Cruger and Anthony Mills Wildcookie project coming out on Tru-Thoughts soon, check the video for a harsh reality check.

Plearn Promdan – Wan Maha Sanook (Soundway Records)
Marie-Line Dahomay – Yo (Playasound)
Aksak Maboul vs Kasai Allstars – Land Dispute (Crammed)
Lone – The Birds Don’t Fly This High (Magic Wire)
John Gazoo – What Happened (Compost disco promo)
Ben Butler & Mousepad – Other Islands II, Eero Johannes rmx (Lo Recordings promo)
Silkie – Wonder (Deep Medi promo)
Opolopo – Step Into The Light (Tokyo Dawn)
George FitzGerald – Don’t You (Hot Flush promo)
Downliners Sekt – White Dawn (Disboot)
Tshaka – We (Nonine promo)
Andreas Saag – Nobody Here (Brownswood promo)
Wildcookie – Heroine (Tru-Thoughts promo)