Here’s the next slice of Golden Hour action, quite a heady blend this time, hitting the 160/80 axis that is cherished around these parts, starting off on a very melodic, electronic edge, but, then veering off into heavier & bassier territory before bringing you back to earth with a gentle finish. At least that’s what it sounds like to us, ymmv, of course!

01 Sam Gendel – Sustain
02 Summit – Aerial Desert
03 VVV & Holly – 2353A8
04 Peter Power – Jungle Junk
05 Equator Club – Homeward
06 Me & Myself x No Light – Stuff Like That
07 Ulrich Schnauss – Between Us And Them
08 Future Sound of London – All This Has Happened Before
09 Danky – The Calm
10 Om Unit – The Mirror
11 e-Plume – Fountain Trip
12 Broken Promise – Hidden Dub
13 Hatti Vatti & Es.Tereo – Forgotten Scores
14 Suzanne Doucet & Christian Buehner – Shiva’s Dance
15 Rob – Inform 74
16 Radar Bird – Saphire
17 Getz & Nuage – Is The Way
18 Mark Kloud – Encom
19 dBridge – Wij Zijn

Back again with another In-Tray packed full of fine unusual sounds plucked from recent releases as per the usual.

01 Quasi – Last Long Laugh
from “Breaking The Balls Of History”

02 Michal Jan & Immortal Onion – OK Boomer
from “Screens”

03 Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian – Bayeh Bayeh Suite (Narrative to Seyed Arash Shahriari)
from “Songs Of Horoman”

04 Ulrika Spacek – If the Wheels Are Coming off, The Wheels Are Coming Off
from “Compact Trauma”

05 Deerhoof – The Poignant Melody
from “Miracle Level”

06 µ-Ziq – 4am
from “1977”

07 Jan Jelinek – The Water Seems Changed To Mist And Vapor
from “Seascape Polyptych”

08 Cornelius – Quantum Ghosts
from B-Side Of “Sparks” single

09 Mui Zyu – Rotten Bun
from “Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century”

10 Baby Cool – The Sea
from “Earthling On The Road To Self Love”

11 Naima Bock – Dim Dum
from “Giant Palm”

12 Faten Kanaan – Fin Août, Début Septembre
from “Afterpoem”

13 Ultramarine – Dawn
from “Send And Return“

Back again with Golden Hour #8, starting off happily skanking and dubby with a red stripe in one hand and something herbal in the other, and ends up… well, maybe one smoke too many, somehow in a different club to before, floating off into space? We’ve all been there, right?

01 Bas Lexter Ensample – Down By The River
02 88.3 Feat. Lisa May – Wishing On A Star (Neekeetone Dub Mix)
03 Portishead – Roads (YNGN Remix)
04 Neekeetone – Valley Of Dub
05 Version Big-Fi – Up Town Top Banking
06 Linton Kwesi Johnson – Reggae Sounds (The Noodleman Dub Maintenance)
07 Horace Andy – Do You Love My Music (Black Star Liner Remix)
08 Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart (Familjen Remix)
09 Brandy – Can You Hear Me Now (Purple Dolphin, Blaxton & Jarreau Vandal Bootleg)
10 Pink Floyd – Paintbox (Datashat Remix)
11 Alphabets Heaven – Pho
12 Mr. Mitch – Corona (Peace Edit)
13 Calibre – Round Box
14 Elvis Presley – Blue Moon (4am Dub)

Back again with another In-Tray packed full of fine unusual sounds plucked from recent releases as per the usual.

01 Lonnie Holley – Testing
from “Oh Me Oh My”

02 Shit & Shine – Miami
from “New Confusion”

03 Steve Hiett – Kinda Knew Anna
from “Girls In The Grass”

04 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Big Rig
from “Land Of Sleeper”

05 Gold Dust – Go Gently
from “The Late Great Gold Dust”

06 Neil Cowley – Scarab Beetle
from “Battery Life”

07 Allysha Joy – Let It!
from “Torn Tonic”

08 The Roots of Orchis – Red Mannequin
from “Empty Lands Ahead And Behind”

09 Hammered Hulls – Rights and Reproduction
from “Careening”

10 Medline – Payé Entièrement
from “Je Sais Que Tu As De L’?A?me” (Secret bonus track!)

11 Charlie Cawood – Shringara
from “The Divine Abstract”

12 James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra – Keeping Up With The Grandchildren, Yeah
From “The Great White Sea Eagle”

13 Nighttime – Veil
From “Keeper Is The Hearts“

Back again with Golden Hour #7, flying off on a deep groove African tangent, with sounds from Nigeria, Congo, Cameroon, South Africa, Guinea, Angola, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and more.

01 Globe Trotters – Drums of Africa
02 Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) – Kalahari
03 Cedric Im Brooks – Silent Force
04 Alemayehu Eshete – Alteleyeshegnem
05 Lijadu Sisters – Life’s Gone Down Low
06 Dick Khoza – Chapita
07 S. E. Rogie – Diemman Noba Smoke Tafee
08 Moji and the Tropicals – Duniani Mateso
09 Bembeya Jazz National – Petit Sékou
10 Levis Vercky’s – Meca
11 Quintette Guinéenne – Mansane Cisse
12 Manu Dibango – Hibiscus
13 Bobongo Stars – Koteja

Back again with another double header; In-Tray S02 E02 is packed full of fine unusual sounds plucked from recent releases as per the usual – hope you enjoy!

01 Yanti Bersaudara – Gumbira
from “Padang Moonrise”

02 Jazz N Palms – Milano (Radio Edit)
from “Milano”

03 Edrix Puzzle – V11
from “Coming Of The Moon Dogs”

04 Jah Wobble – 345 Towards South Ken
from “The Bus Routes Of South London”

05 Sarathy Korwar – Remember to Look Out for the Signs  
from “Kalak”

06 Matthew Halsall – The Temple Within
from “The Temple Within”

07 Slow Hand – Blood Oranges
from “JBDubz Vol. X” (pay what you want!)

08 Say She She – Blow My Mind
from “Forget Me Not / Blow My Mind”

09 Sault – In the Air
from “11”

10 Imarhan – Adar Newlan
from “Aboogi”

11 Marie Modiano – L’Indiana
from “Pauvre Chanson”

12 Andrew Wasylyk – Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls
From “Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls

Here’s Episode 6 of The Golden Hour, which finds us on a funky and optimistic vibe, I guess we’re trying to start the year in a positive and balanced mood, being mindful of the horrible state of affairs in certain parts of the world, and the further damage that could occur this year if a certain orange evil gets their way. Here’s hoping for peace, common sense and a positive groove for 2024!

01 Skull Snaps – It’s a New Day
02 Rufus Thomas – The Breakdown
03 The O’Jays – For The Love Of Money
04 Ikebe Shakedown – Shifting Sands
05 Jerzy Milian – Wsród Pampasów
06 Gladys Knight & The Pips – Come Together
07 Buddy Miles – Dreams
08 Daisy Dumakude – Early In The Morning
09 Jacky Giordano – Don’t Be Cool
10 The Zorro Five – Barcarolle
11 Trinidad Steel Drummers – Cissy Strut
12 Soul Supreme – Check The Rhime
13 Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Psycles
14 Serge Gainsbourg – Requiem Pour Un Con (Kleptones Re-Edit)
15 Queens Community Show Band – Ghetto Funk
16 Linda Lewis – Sideway Shuffle
17 Wilson Pickett – Engine Number 9 (The Reflex Revision)
18 Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
19 Doris – Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby?

Finally back with Season Two of The In-Tray and The Golden Hour. Took a bit longer to get this sorted due to one thing and another (real world shit getting in the way as usual) but it’s finally ready, and there should be at least half-a-dozen episodes between now and the summer, if all goes according to plan.

Anyways, here’s Episode 1 of The In-Tray, packed full of fine unusual sounds plucked from recent releases, details of the tunes and where you can buy them can be found below – hope you enjoy!

01 Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra – The Unfolding
from “The Unfolding”

02 Run the Jewels – Unas Palabras Para El Pelotón De Fusilamiento (Radiación) (Adrian Terrazas-Gonzalez & El Producto’s Versión)
from “RTJ Cu4tro”

03 Ezra Collective – Welcome To My World
from “Where I’m Meant to Be”

04 Emma-Jean Thackray – Venus (Black Science Orchestra Remix)
from “Venus (Remixes)”

05 Robyn Hitchcock – The Shuffle Man
from “Shufflemania”

06 FaltyDL – XTOC (feat. Brad Laner)
from “A Nurse To My Patience”

07 The Besnard Lakes – She’s An Icicle
from “The Besnard Lakes Are The Prayers For The Death of Fame”

08 The Hardy Tree – A Garden Square in the Snow
from “Common Grounds”

09 Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)
from “Lucifer On The Moon”

10 Telefís With Jah Wobble – Falun Gong Dancer
from “Falun Gong Dancer EP”

11 Beautify Junkyards – Dupla Exposição (Live)
from “Cosmorama Moving Images”

12 Princess Diana of Wales – Swing
From “Princess Diana of Wales“

Hey folks, here’s The Golden Hour #5 – the double A-side accompaniment to Episode 5 of our radio show “The In-Tray”.

This time we’ve got a real mix of left-turns, start off ambient, yet banging, yet jazzy… and then brighter and more melodic, and then somewhere else entirely. All probably as expected, and very enjoyable too, even if we do say so ourselves.

01 Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin – Snake Charmer
02 Nadastrom – Dub-A-Bluma
03 St.Germain – Rose Rouge
04 Archie Pelago – Brown Oxford
05 Lone – Approaching Rainbow
06 As One – Chiaro
07 Mr. Scruff – Kalimba (Petko Turner Edit)
08 DNA – La Serenissima
09 Dirty Jesus – Don’t Fuck With My Shit (Pete Herbert Remix Parts 1+2)
10 As One – Queen Constance
11 Biosphere – The Fairy Tale
12 Krystal Klear – Tried For Your Love
13 Breach – Turtle Dance
14 Maarius – Feelin U
15 Tornado Wallace – Bit 1 (Nina’s Amnesia Remix)

Hey there, here’s Episode 5 of “The In-Tray”, which, if you don’t already know, is a radio show / podcast-style hour of some mighty fine new & recent releases, plenty of which don’t really fit into any of the DJ mixes we’re doing, but we still wanted to give them a big-up and bring them to your attention.

Thanks for the comments, they’re really appreciated, seriously.

Hope you enjoy!

01 Flore Laurentienne – Fleuve No. 1
from “Volume II”

02 Gabriels – To the Moon And Back
from “Angels & Queens Part 1”

03 Goat – Do The Dance
from “Oh Death”

04 Yehaiyahan – Love Hurts
from “Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers”

05 Robocobra Quartet – Labyrinth
from “Living Isn’t Easy”

06 Yuzo Iwata – Neverland
from “Kaizu”

07 Mavis Staples – If It Be Your Will
from “Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen”

08 Noori & His Dorpa Band – Jabana
from “Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast”

09 The Future Sound of London – All This Has Happened Before
from “A Space of Partial Illumination E7?.?002”

10 The Advisory Circle – Away Days
from “Full Circle”

11 Mabe Fratti – Mil Formas De Decirlo
from “Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos”

12 The Waeve – Sleepwalking
From “The Waeve“