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Cover from the forthcoming collaborative Keleketla! album
Song of the Day: Embracing the South African musical protest style toyi-toyi borne out of anti-apartheid, this new track fuses dance, jazz, gqom beats, hip hop and Afrobeat featuring Tony Allen alongside collaborators Coldcut, Soundz of the South, DJ Mabheko, Tenderlonious, Afla Sackey and Afrik Bawantu
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The cover of Number’s album, Binary
Song of the Day: Restlessly itchy and catchy, inspired by postpunk’s A Certain Ratio, Talking Heads, plus P funk and scratchy dub, this single is from a new band featuring Ali Friend and Rich Thair, co-founders and rhythm section of Red Snapper
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The Allergies: Roy Spencer (aka DJ Moneyshot) and Adam Volson (aka Rackabeat)
Song of the Day: Today's offering is a mixture of old and new – a classic dancefloor tune by the Bristol-based British duo of Roy Spencer (aka DJ Moneyshot) and producer/DJ Adam Volson (aka Rackabeat) from their forthcoming album, Say The Word
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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From the video for Moses Sumney’s Cut Me
Song of the Day: A death-defying cri de coeur of soul, electronica, jazz, topped with delicate piano chops, horns, ambulance sounds and the American singer’s extraordinary falsetto voice reminiscent of the fabulous David McAlmont with a dash of Prince
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Nick Hakim
Song of the Day: A woozy, chilled melancholy that slowly builds into a beautifully floating portrait of personal tragedy. The new song by the Brooklyn-based producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist is an ode to a late friend and “a reminder to check on your loved ones”
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Expanded cover of Lightning Orchestra’s forthcoming album Source and Deliver
Song of the Day: A profound and glorious piece of cosmic, psychedelic, afro-jazz-funk by the collective based in Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by the sounds of Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, Tony Allen, Talking Heads and Jimi Hendrix
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Mute Choir’s debut album, Silent Conversations, is out now
Song of the Day: Crisp, full-throated funk-indie rock-pop from the fairly new Toronto band of Sam Arion, Milan Sarkadi and Iris Waters, with a song about the danger of how fear and negativity can overcome your spirit
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The Orielles
Song of the Day: After the retro-funk disco of Róisín Murphy, another new track with a parallel style but a new twist from the young Halifax quartet, who have their own unique blend of fresh, pace-changing indie-dance-funk-pop
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Pregoblin’s Alex, Jessica and friend
Song of the Day: The latest single, like the previous by the south London band, fizzes with pop-funk maturity, a piano-led soulful disco number from Jessica Winter and former White Fat Family member Alex Sebley
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Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.
Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.
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Dr John, the Night Tripper, aka Mac Rebennack, 1941-2019
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
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Save your work: Toro y Moi
Song of the Day: Focusing on the difficulties of creative self-employment, this is in an engagingly funky, eccentric off-the-wall new single by the South Carolina songwriter, record producer and graphic designer from his forthcoming 2019 album Outer Peace
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Tim Buckley
Song of the Day: From one nighthawk, Tom Waits, to another American singer-songwriter - father to Jeff, and here singing about his early career when he worked as a New York cab driver, picking up a crazed customer
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John Schroeder
Song of the Day: After three belters from Quincy Jones, today let’s move on to full fat funk TV and movie orchestra sounds from the 60s and early 70s, with tracks rarely recognised, but whose still hits home instantly
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Get Carter (1971) starring Michael Caine, with soundtrack by Roy Budd
Song of the Day: Resuming a thread of film soundtrack music that transcends their original source - this time the classic thriller starring Michael Caine and directed by Mike Hodges from 1971
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Bullitt (1968)
Song of the Day: Continuing the funk-orchestral movie-theme thread, another colossus of the genre, the Argentina-born American composer and conductor famous for so many outstanding film and TV soundtracks
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Shaft (1971) with the lead role played by Richard Roundtree, but perhaps best known for Isaac Hayes’s music
Song of the Day: Who is the man? Isaac Hayes - that is. Damn right! Today’s choice of orchestral funk, and another film theme, comes from the great Stax songwriter and singer from Tennessee, king of the deep voice
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Curtis Mayfield on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Baby Huey, whose brilliant only album was produced by Curtis Mayfield, let’s turn to the man himself with a trio classic tracks from 1972 that show the full range of his funk and orchestration prowess
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At work and play: Baby Huey, as shown on his sole album of 1971
Song of the Day: We move from Britain’s Labi Siffre to a funk-soul legend from Indiana, who died at the age of just 26 and whose album, The Baby Huey Story: Living Legend was released posthumously in 1971
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