The Swap Meet 27 July 2025

Campbell digs Japan, and he's just back from a ten day jaunt of well curated record stores, incredible food and many greetings of "Arigato gozaimasu!" 

His set this month is full of raw, soulful heaters and cosmic jazz-funk that makes you screw your face up like you accidentally ate the ball of wasabi along with your sashimi. All time Swap Meet fave Garfield Fleming’s 'Don’t Send Me Away' still hits like heartbreak on vinyl, that pleading vocal over lush orchestration is pure modern soul gold. And then there’s Mystic Harmony’s Lovers Rock take on The Jones Girls' 'Nights Over Egypt' deep, spiritual, and epic. Add Freedom Suite 'Come Closer' to that category: a rare groove Trini disco dub with the kind of bassline that makes you look around the room for someone else who heard that. The funkier edges really pop off with Wild Fire 'The Dealer' another Trinidadian gem that’s psych-funk with fuzz guitar and heavy attitude. 

What keeps it interesting is how it moves. From the glistening disco of Chantal Curtis ‘Get Another Love’ to Booker Newberry III’s ‘Love Town’, there’s that roller-skate-ready shimmer. Then out of nowhere you’re in Brazil with Alma Brasileira ‘Peixeiro’ a choro inflect samba and Dom Salvador’s ‘Barumba’, all syncopated rhythms and raw, earthy joy. On the modern side, Cool Affair  ‘Motoric Patterns (Kaidi Tatham Mix)’ slides in with some proper bruk energy: Kaidi doing what he does best. Campbell can't keep away from Jazz - he's got you covered there too - also gotta keep pumping current faves The Circling Sun too.

Hanging our for part two of Ngata’s Nippon nuggets in August!

Odyssey & Company – Tattletale (1987)
Risco Connection – It’s my house radio edit (1979/2025)
Sisters Love – Give me your love (1973)
Brotherly Love  ft Grover Washington Jr – Whole lotta you in me (1990)
Mystic Harmony – Night over Egypt (1983)
The Circling Sun – Flora & fauna (2025)
Anli & Moses – Fuyu no mado (1977)
Dance Man – Miruku (2025)
Universal Minds – A chance at love (1970s)
Rose Royce – Love is in the air (1980)
Garfield Fleming – Don’t send me away (1981)
The Dukes- Mystery girl (1981)
Grand Strand – Laredo (1980)
Freedom Suite – Come closer (1978)
Wild Fire – The dealer (1977)
The Circling Sun – Mizu (2025)

Afronaut ft Just One – Ground zero (2025)
Staffan Abeleen Quintets – Mr. Minor (1974)
The Cannonball Adderley - Nat Adderley Quintet – Big P (1960/84)
Alma Brasileira – Pra oxala (1977)
Copa 7 – To maluco (1980)
Alma Brasileira – Peixeiro (1977)
Richard Beirach – Tokyo (1975)
Cool Affair – Motoric patterns (Kaidi tatham mix, 2025)
Nonato E Seu Conjunto - E De Nana (1978)
Dieter Reith – Join us (1979)
Dom Salvador – Barumba (1969)
John Thomas & Lifeforce – Maryke (1980)

Serge Ponsar – Out in the night (1983)
Chantal Curtis – Get another love (1979)
Revelation – Feel it (1980)
T.F.O – Let love come right on in (1981)
Chocolate Lips – Weekend lover (1984)
The Antilles – Let’s shake (1982)
Booker Newberry III – Love town (1983)
52nd Street – Look into my eyes (1982)
The Spirit of Atlanta – Messin’ around (1973)
Alfredo De La Fe – Hot to trot (1979)
Marvin Holmes – It’s about time (1983)
Africano – Satisfactorize your mind (1973)