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 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 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

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?

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 folks, here’s The Golden Hour #4 – the double A-side accompaniment to Episode 4 of our radio show “The In-Tray”. This time we start off in mellower jazzier territory, before taking some weirder and wilder turns, boosted by some boom bap beats here and there.

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

Happy listening!

01 Air – High Point
02 Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – Spiritual Ideation
03 RSI-MSK – Eye and the Egg
04 Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Mission Control
05 El Jazzy Chavo – Stealing The Moonlight
06 LTF – Give The Horns Some
07 Kiyoshi Yamaya – Nanbu Ushioi-Uta (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
08 Tom Skinner – The Journey
09 Black Flower – O Fogo
10 Makaya McCraven – Coppin’ The Heaven
11 Poets Of Rhythm – Discern-Define
12 Husnu Ozkartal Orkestrasi – Su Derenin Sulari
13 Swollen Members – Sinful Bliss (Instrumental)
14 Adrian Younge & The Delfonics – Love’s Melody (Instrumental)
15 ATA Records – Nuclear Wind II
16 Asa Greenwood – Hyperfocus
17 Dorothy Ashby – For Some We Loved (Kleptones Beat Overdub)
18 Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Drowned World (Kleptones Half-Speed Stretch)

Hey folks, here’s The Golden Hour #3 – the double A-side accompaniment to Episode 3 of our radio show “The In-Tray”.

This Golden Hour is a little different, as after having a cracking time at Le Guess Who festival in Utrecht last month, I thought I’d try and condense our entire festival experience into a Golden Hour, not least as a personal reminder of who we actually got to see – I think it works, see what you think…

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

Happy listening!

01 Sote – Life
02 Asher Gamedze – Interregnum
03 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – The Bird Prays for Allah
04 Oki – Kane Ren Ren Dub
05 Nia Archives – Ode 2 Maya Angelou
06 Fulu Mziki Kolektif – Mesami
07 Hatis Noit – Jomon
08 Dry Cleaning – Liberty Log
09 Trees Speak – Pyramid
10 Jana Rush – Suicidal Ideation (Aural Hallucinations Mix)
11 Masayoshi Fujita – Thunder
12 Muriel Grossmann Quartet – Resonance
13 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – It Hit Me
14 Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – Rhapsody in Berlin
15 Tirzah – Hive Mind (Speakers Corner Quartet Remix)
16 Surya Botofasina – Beloved California Temple
17 Kokoko! – Azo Toke
18 Zohra – Badala Zamana (from Habibi Funk DJ Set)
19 Wau Wau Collectif – Yay Balma
20 Maria Reis – Balurdio
21 Kuunatic – Titian
22 Valentin Clastrier – Viell’mania
23 Abdullah Ibrahim – Blues For A Hip King / District 6
24 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Livin’ In The After
25 Oumou Sangare – Kêlê Magni
26 Zara McFarlane & Dennis Bovell – East Of The River Nile (Dub Mix)

Back again with the second episode of “The Golden Hour”, a one-hour (see what we did there?) DJ mix that will accompany each episode of “The In-Tray”.

Following on from the style of our Lockdown Radio mixes, each one will be a random deep dive into different sections of the DJ box, this one getting very spacious in the 160 realm, layering up a few classics with some more modern beats and sequences, getting deeper and deeper as the hour progresses, and there’s a rather cheeky off-the-cuff bollywood n bass mash in there to boot!

Hope you enjoy!

01 Technimatic – Cold Shoulder
02 Eleven8 – Colours of Distance
03 Fracture & Neptune – Customtone
04 Alphabets Heaven – Astral Trails (Kleptones Slowdown Edit)
05 Falguni Pathak – Pal Pal Teri Yaad (Kleptones Etched Mix)
06 Coco Bryce – The Cosmic Muffin
07 Goldie – Inner City Life (Instrumental)
08 Biome – Afray
09 JMJ & Ritchie – Universal Horn (Kleptones Re-Drum)
10 Hendy – Morning Time
11 NameBrandSound – Like A Spaceship
12 Jonny Faith – Le Sucre
13 Rashad x Spinn x Taso – Roll Up That Loud
14 Deee-Lite – Call Me (Method One Jungle remix)
15 DJ Shadow – What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt. 4 (Teklife Remix)
16 Truth feat Taso – Propaganda
17 IOWLA – Spark
18 Djrum – Induction
19 Clams Casino – Uncle
20 Female – Grvty

This is the first episode of “The Golden Hour”, a one-hour (see what we did there?) DJ mix that will accompany each episode of “The In-Tray”.

Following on from the style of the Lockdown Radio mixes, each one will be a random deep dive into different sections of the DJ box, the first one taking in some slinky psychedelic rock, new turkish funk, a few obscure crate digs and a very spontaneous slice of live mashing between two legends. And then some!

We thought splitting the show in two would be useful, so folks can enjoy a fresh “chat-free” mix if they’re not in the mood for my dulcet tones.

We’re hoping to be doing one “pair” of these every few weeks, but we’ll see how it goes… if you have suggestions of new tunes for the In-Tray, send ’em in, that’s what it’s there for.

As always, hope you enjoy!

01 Large Plants – La Isla Bonita
02 Lalalar – Abla Deme Lazim Olur
03 Caliph8 – Offset Negative 27
04 Glen Fallows & Mark Treffel – Faith In Time
05 Pierre Henry – Teen Tonic (Dimitri From Paris Remix)
06 Saitana – The Disco
07 The Heliocentrics – Phantom Of The Panther
08 Bobby Darin – Light Blue
09 Dr. John – Kingdom Of Izzness
10 Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal (Instrumental)
11 Mandrill – Two Sisters Of Mystery
12 Frog – Living Dead
13 Joao Donato – Lunar Tune
14 Funkadelic vs Sun Ra (Kleptones Live Jam)
15 T.L. Barrett & Youth for Christ Choir – Like a Ship
16 Horace – Waiting For The Moon