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The Swap Meet 16 November 2025

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

Delroy Wilson - I'm in a dancing mood
Tenorio Jr - Nebulosa
Little Starsky - Dancin' Party People
Trifire - Breeze up
Chillin' Villains - All over da globe
Cash Money Millionaires - Baller Blockin'
Linda Tillery - Markin' Time
Charles Brinkley & Fully Guaranteed - In the pocket
Southern Energy Ensemble - Energy
Vernon Garrett - We the people in the ghetto
U.S. Warren - hard-Headed Woman
Cecil Lyde - Funk is here to stay
The Prolifics - Boy Child
Pure Release - I know it's love for sure
Donny McGhee - It Ain't no big thing
North End - Kind of life (kind of love)
Ullanda - Want ads
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Par Toon Ki Janay
Daniel Sahuleka - Lorraine
Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual - Ocean Deep
William M Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake - Five angels by the stream
Enrique Olivarez Y Los Vampiros - Arriba Tipo
Lito Barrientos en Onda Nueva - Para que
LaCleve Milon - Take a giant step
Enoch Light - Shaft