This week in the stack we celebrate birthdays of Joe Sample and Rick James. RIP Sly Dunbar. It's forty years since Janet Jackson's Control dropped, so that's in the mix too...
Otherwise it's the usual - papering over the cracks between Brazilian boogie, Turkish psych, bit of Latin, jazz-funk, soul, whatever else made sense at the time. Three hours from the crates as usual.
Top shelf new releases are coming at us thick and fast and we are absolutely here for it! Noda & Wolfers, societeetrange, Elijah Minnelli, Birds and Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers were just a few of the fresh faves we aired. Don't worry though, there are plenty of bonafied bFM bangers sprinkled throughout as well!
We stuffed the record bag full to the brim and played a bunch of b2b heaters on this week's show! Marengo, Coyote, Froid Dub, East Coast Love Affair, Toussaint and Grace Jones were just a few artists that matched the heat of the weather.
We kicked off this week's show in 1995 and progressed from there. Alpha Stone, Laughing Eye, mess/age, DJ Sensitive, Olodum and Pandit Pam Pam were some of the intl. artists we celebrated and leading into Waitangi Day it would be remiss of me if I didn't shine a light on some of Aotearoa's finest recent releases like Bic Runga, MĀ & WYNONA and Dudley Benson.
David Herkt joins the show for this week's Audio Culture. This week's focus is David's recent piece about Mojo's on Queen. An iconic venue that was home to New Zealand’s first, largest, and longest-running transgender show.
Thanks to Audio Culture!
And, Folk artist Fables chats to Nick about her gorgeous new track 'Eyes Closed'.
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