Guest mix Vol 9: Oscar Godfrey

We're taking a break this week and bringing in a great guest mix from Oscar Godfrey. Enjoy the deep house sounds from start to finish. The Chaz Jankel track is a slice of boogie tastiness, then Oscar gets deep with some head nodding Detroit sounds from Theo, Andres, Rick Wilhite before wrapping things up with a classic track from Masters at Work. Listen below or download from here or listen on Sound Cloud. Big thanks to Oscar for getting in touch and sharing.

1. Konk - Your Life
2. Chaz Jankel - I Come Alive
3. Theo Parrish - Untitled One
4. Super Value Special Edits 5 - Zulu
5. Chicago Skyway - Heavens & Angels
6. Andres - Change My Mind
7. Rick Wilhite - Drum Patterns & Memories (Moodyman Mix)
8. Soundstream - Soultrain
9. Ron Trent - Afterlife
10. Kenlou - Moonshine

runtime 30 mins

New Charlotte Gainsbourg produced by Beck

Charlotte Gainsbourg "Heaven Can Wait".

Play Jazz Sessions 23

Mix bag of tunes culled from the harddrive but it's surprisingly coherent! Spiritual jazz & soul from Build an Ark, Landau Orchestra and Friends of Distinction backed up with some funky soul from Lilian Alexander and Uptown Funk Empire, throw in some let field hip hop from Doom and DJ Mitsu and sprinkle in some Air, Basement Jaxx and Danger Mouse and you go a perfect way to start the Thanksgiving week. Listen below or download from here or check it out on SoundCloud.

1. The Friends of Distinction "Great Day"
2. 4 Hero "Conceptions" (Landau Orchestra Version)
3. Build an Ark "This prayer, for the whole world"
4. Mr. Day & the Dynamics "Tears of Joy" (The Dynamics Version)
5. Lillian Alexander "A dream without you"
6. DJ Mitsu and The Beats ft. Wildchild "The Game Changer"
7. Doom "Ballskin"
8. Paul Murphy "Calypso redub"
9. Uptown Funk Empire ft. Ange "Celestial Blues"
10. New Look "Everything"
11. Beatconductor "Peace Officer" (Redub)
12. Basement Jaxx ft. Amp Fiddler "Possibility"
13. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse ft. Julian Casablancas "Little Girl"
14. Air "Eat my beat"
15. Alberto Iglesias "Sandy goes to the hospital" (Constant Gardner Soundtrack)
16. Eddie Harris "Exodus"

runtime 1:05 mins

Tatsuro Kiuchi

Great work from artist Tatsuro Kiuchi we've just discovered.

PlayJazzLoud Sessions Vol 22

We are really getting back into the weekly mixes thing, hopefully you are digging the regularity too! This week's selection is interesting starting with a Miike Snow track heard on KCRW yesterday and moving through some soul with Jonathan Jeremiah (big name for 2009/10), heading back with a few great tracks from the past few years with Koop, Beck, Two Banks of Four and Panoptikum. We have room this week for some rock with Phoenix and Radiohead but we don't leave out the jazz and we have a great track from Sahib Shihab that's a recent discovery for us. Listen below or download from here or check it out on SoundCloud.

1. Miike Snow "Animal" (Mark Ronson Remix)
2. Collen & Webb "No Wonder"
3. Sahib Shihab "Dijdar"
4. Jonathan Jeremiah "happiness" (Morgan Geist Remix)
5. Phoenix "Lisztomania" (Classixx Version)
6. Koop "Bright Nights"
7. Beck "Nausea"
8. Radiohead "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)"
9. Two Banks of Four "Unclaimed"
10. Panoptikum "Black land of the Nile parts 1 and 2"
11. The Daktaris "Musicawa Silt"
12. Tettorybad "Eternal Freedom"
13. Rosin Murphy "Through Tim"

runtime 1:05 mins
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Jazz Sessions Vol. 21

Just listening back to the mix as we drop this post, really liking the selection today and hope you all feel the same way. Starting off chill and easy, digging some old Sergio Mendes from the NY Sessions and winding up to GP's new Cuban project, which is blowing up in the speakers. Then getting heavy with some Bullion and Jonny Miller before wrapping things up with some worldwide tunes from Brazil to Africa. Listen below or download from here or check it out on SoundCloud.

1. Fudge Fingas "Situation Diminished"
2. Kafka "The Kafka Anthem"
3. Sergio Mendes "Maria Moita"
4. Can "Red Hot Indians"
5. Grizzly Bear & Feist "Service Bell"
6. Jazz Quintet "More Peace"
7. Gilles Peterson ft. Danay and Obsesion "Think Twice"
8. Jonny Miller "Everyday" (OK Ma Remix)
9. Bullion "Lond Promised"
10. Andres "Walk on through"
11. Bebeto "Princesa Negra de Angola"
12. Rob "Make it fast" (GERD Re-edit)
13. The Sahara all Stars "Alikaliadajo"
14. Mulatu & The Heliocentrics "Addis Black Widow"
15. Fat Freddy's Drop "The Raft" (Demo acoustic sessions at campus Paris)

Runtime just over an hour.

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