The Swap Meet

It's your funkle Campbell back again with silly season selections to soothe the sore head after too many [insert cheapest beverage work can get away with paying you] at the work Xmas party. Soul, jazz, tropical and disco nuggets to help you forget!

This week on the show, our guest Jonathan Bywater turns up with a crate that demonstrates he’ll follow musical inspiration wherever it happens to be hiding, genres be damned. One moment he’s floating through The Midnight Express Show Band's "Tri-Fire" boogie demo or the globe-trotting boom-bap of Chillin’ Villains, the next he’s swerving into Cash Money Millionaires like it’s still 2000 and everyone’s wearing unbelievably large denim.

Then he returns to the roots: Vernon Garrett preaching, U.S. Warren doing tough-love blues, even Kahil El’Zabar’s deep-water ritualism sits comfortably next to Cooper-Moore and Hamid Drake’s shimmering “Five Angels by the Stream.”

Then we're heavy loungin' with Enoch Light’s "Shaft" and some private press business courtesy of the Randon Bros, before jettin' south to break out the claves and acordion for Conjunto Miramar's Columbian Cumbia heater "Carruseles", Nuyorican swinger Ricardo Ray and other latin treats. Enjoy

RIP to the great Jack DeJohnette - we spin a couple for him including Miles electric, solo gears and sideman material. A decent swath of new material and vintage faves in the mix today. Slip slop and slap it on.

This week on The Swap Meet, we’re joined by Leon D, probably the busiest DJ in town - maybe just the busiest person, period. His selections providing the perfect soundtrack to the first proper baking evening in Auckland town this seaon: from Theo Parrish’s lopsided rework of Jill Scott’s “Slowly Surely” (2002) through to the Charles Stepney classic  “I Am the Black Gold of the Sun” (1971/1997), Barry White’s original bedroom rocker, and on to Metro Area’s “Piña” (2002) and ESG’s “Moody” (1981). Tracing the thread between disco’s dustier corners, boogie, proto-house and that New York bassline swing - eclectic in all the right ways.

Before that, a small salute to D’Angelo, who left us this week. Rather than the obvious choices, a few deep pulls: the Questlove-leaked “Really Love” demo, RH Factor’s cover of “I’ll Stay” with that unmistakable falsetto, and Don-E’s “So Cold” slept on killer. Even an unreleased studio vamp on “Ex-Girl to Next Girl” that reminds you of the deep fertile wellspring of black music that D and crew were mining when assmbling "Voodoo".

Leon rounds out his second set with Moodymann, and a late blend of his own “Your Love” with (adopted Aotearoan) Recloose’s “Get There Tonight” - a fitting close for a night built on love and lost groove.