Tru Thoughts Presents Unfold

Deep Jazz Beats from Emanative & Liz Elensky. Classic UK Street Soul from Courtney Buchannon. The new single from Tru Thoughts signing Tiawa (sung in Portuguese). Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band return with a cover of Jay Z. Broken Beat from Swell Session featuring Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon) on vocals. Soulful UK Garage from WTS. Instrumental goodness from the new Hemai album. Breakbeats and Soul samples from Lay Far. The new single from Sampology. A great re-issue of the Jackie McClean & Michael Carvin dancefloor Jazz drums epic on Floating Points label. New Funky Disco from The Fantastics. Some quality early 90’s Hip Hop from Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Souls Of Mischief and Roxanne Shante. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Soul music from new Tru Thoughts signings MELONYX. A new track from Manchester's Evabee. Hip Hop from Ty and T Love (Produced by Jay Dee aka J Dilla). Broken Beat from Close Counters, Focus, Solid Groove and WheelUP. In tribute to Hector “Tempo” Alomar (R.I.P) a classic track from Quantic and Nickodemus. Jazz from Rebecca Vasmant and Emma Jean Thackray. Bollywood beats from R D Burman. Classic tracks from Portishead and Masters At Work. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Soul from Children Of Zeus, MELONYX and Hiatus Kaiyote. Broken Beat from WheelUP, Sault and Turbulace. Dancefloor Jazz from Jamie Branch. Drum & Bass / Jungle from Calibre, Chug, Shy FX, Break, Dr Meaker & Gold Dubs. Music from Hemai’s debut album on Tru Thoughts. A great remix of Scrimshire feat Omar by Photay. A track from the new dego album feat Samii on vocals. Plus plenty more musical treats.

In tribute to Shock G (Rest In Peace) there is music from Digital Underground and a track he produced for 2Pac. New Soul music on Tru Thoughts from Nottingham duo MELONYX. Heavy drums and Funky noise from the excellent Penza Penza. Broken Beat from WheelUP feat Abacus and a classic from Bugz In The Attic. Drum and Bass from Calibre remixing Lady Blackbird, S.P.Y remixing Zero 7 and Pola & Bryson & Ruth Royall on Brighton’s Shogun Audio. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Broken Beat from WheelUP (check the album on Tru Thoughts which is out now). Deep music from Ravi Shankar and Nitin Sawhney. A tribute to MF DOOM from Jaubi plus a cover of the Madvillain classic ‘Raid’ done Heavy Dancefloor Jazz style by Soul Supreme. Jazz from Pharoah Sanders. Doo Wop from Gabriels and The Bonnevilles. Hip Hop from Empress Starhhh, Mos Def and Slick Rick. A classic from Aaliyah feat DMX (R.I.P). New music from DJ Format and Hiatus Kaiyote. Plus plenty more musical treats.

New music from Yaya Bey on Big Dada. Soul from Children Of Zeus and India Arie. Deep Gospel from Los Hermanos. Prins Thomas’ Re-Edit of Quantic. A great track from Cut Chemist. Heavy Drums with psychedelic funky noise from Penza Penza. Classic music from Sault. A track from Crafty 893’s album on Tru Thoughts featuring Manga Saint Hilare. Check the lyrics on the track from Genesis Owusu. Jazzy Beats from Rebecca Vasmant. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Starting the show with music from the Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders album. Then continuing with the deep music with a track from Kutiman. Music from new Tru Thoughts signing Hemai. A classic from DJ Shadow. Mid-tempo Disco / Boogie from Hadiya George, Samii (produced by dego) and Larry Levan’s remix of Central Line. Broken Beat from Marc Mac, EVM128 remixed by Cengiz and WheelUP remixing Anushka. Brazil influenced beats from Prequel’s new album. Uptempo Colombian dancefloor synth grooves from Jimmy Salcedo. Drum and Bass from the new Hospital 25 compilation. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Quality Broken Beat from Close Counters feat Allysha Joy. The new single from Hiatus Kaiyote featuring Arthur Verocai and keeping with that theme a spin from Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro with a track also featuring Arthur Verocai. New Music channelling Brit Funk from STR4TA. A VIP version of a Skream classic. Brand new single from Anushka (from their forthcoming album on Tru Thoughts). The amazing Chameleon tune from Herbie Hancock in tribute to Paul Jackson (R.I.P) who played bass on and co-wrote the track (as sampled by so many artists). Plus plenty more musical treats.

Soul from Kaisha, Kinny, Aaron Frazer and Gabriels. Brand new music from Anchorsong on Tru Thoughts. A classic from The Fugees. Deep Boogie from The Secret Soul Society. A great dancefloor track from Close Counters. Music from STR4TA on Brownswood. Hip Hop from Organised Konfusion and A Tribe Called Quest. A great uplifting Soul re-issue from Roz Ryan. Plus plenty more musical treats.

New music from Hiatus Kaiyote featuring Arther Verocai. Doo Wop from The Flamingos. Soul from Kaisha, Tiawa and Gabriels. Hip Hop from Rasco (a Stones Throw classic), Common,  L'Orange & Solemn Brigham. New music from Crafty 893 and Grime from Norf Face and JME (with a little nod to Orbital’s Chime…which also gets a spin). A big tune by Victor Uwaifo from the new Analog Africa compilation. Drum & Bass from GLXY feat Rhi, Danny Breaks, Kings Of The Rollers feat Chimpo. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Bryony Jarman-Pinto joins Robert via Zoom for an interview about her recent releases on Tru Thoughts and her music journey plus some of her excellent tunes. Plus Robert spins Broken Beat from WheelUP, Daz I Cue remixing Hector Plimmer and Close Counters feat Allysha Joy. Hip Hop from The Notorious B.I.G and The Herbaliser feat MF DOOM and a track from the Judas and The Black Messiah soundtrack by Masego feat JID & Rapsody. New music from Greentea Peng and Brighton based singer Kaisha. Plus plenty more musical treats.

A track from Common’s latest album feat Black Thought and PJ, plus Hip Hop from Strange U and Viktor Vaughn. Deep soul music from Sly5thAve feat Denitia, Mara TK and Master Soul Boy. Broken Beat from WheelUP feat Tiawa (who both have albums out this year on Tru Thoughts). Big Percussive Dancefloor Bass from Trends. Drum & Bass / Jungle from Roni Size, DJ Gunshot, Heist and Jonny Faith. A classic from Major Force on Mo Wax. A great tune from the latest Analog Africa compilation. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Starting off the show with a track from the highly recommended Aaron Frazer album (soul vocals / good drums). Keeping on that tip, there is music from Rhye, MidnightRoba, Bryony Jarman-Pinto and Erykah Badu. Plus some tunes from the pioneer U-Roy (R.I.P) including his collaboration with Quantic’s Flowering inferno. Hip Hop from All Natural (sampling the old Spiderman cartoon theme), MF DOOM and the game changing tune from the Disco 3 aka the Fatboys (R.I.P Prince Markie Dee). A tune from the new Madlib album (plus a spin of the original sample). Uptempo bouncing tracks from Focus, Yadava, Samii and plenty more. Press play.

Pleased to finally be able to play the first single from Anushka from their forthcoming album on Tru Thoughts. Brand new music from Calibre (not Drum and Bass but a good deep bass line on it). A classic from Burial (as have been watching the new Adam Curtis series and a few of the Burial memes associated with it made me laugh this lockdown week). A great Afro(Broken)Beat track from Daniele Baldelli. Classic Independent 90’s Hip Hop from Shadez Of Brooklyn. A track from People Under The Stairs (Rest In peace Double K). Soulful Boogie from Samii and Luther Vandross. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Lots of good tunes including a deep remix of vocalist Tiana Khasi. Soulful Boogie from Samii (produced by dego) and Blaze remixed by Phil Asher. Brand new music from UNKLE (a percussive builder). Hip Hop from Mad Skillz (produced by Jay Dee aka J Dilla), MF DOOM and a new Nirobi Edit of De La Soul. Jumping Tropical beats from Nebeyu Hamdi. Brand new music from Anchorsong with uplifting choir vibes. Broken Beat from WheelUP and Kjell Anderson. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Plenty of music on the show this week celebrating the music of Phil Asher (Rest In Peace). Lots of quality across his great catalogue so Broken Beat, Boogie, House and Abstract Beats too. The show starts with a great track from Tiana Khasi plus dego (4 Hero) remixing Bryony Jarman-Pinto on Tru Thoughts. A track from the excellent Samii EP. Hip Hop from Mad Skillz, Q Tip, Large Professor, MF DOOM, Prince Paul and Run DMC. A classic cover from Quantic & Alice Russell. Plus plenty more musical treats.

A special Jazz DJ mix this week with music from Theon Cross, Thijsenterprise, LCSM (Broken Beat meets Jazz), The Heliocentrics with MF DOOM, a classic track from Salah Ragab. Piano and heavy drums from Sun Ra. An already classic track from Steam Down. Spiritiual Jazz from Michael White. Plus plenty more musical treats. Also some music from Phil Asher (Rest In Peace). Celebrating some of the tunes we have been playing over the years on the radio and in clubs (and there will be more on next weeks show too).

Soul from Lianne La Havas, UNKLE feat. Eska, and Moonchild. Hip Hop from MF DOOM aka Viktor Vaughn and Duke Bootee (Rest In Peace) ...who wrote and performed on the classic Grandmaster Flash song “ The Message”. Percussive dancefloor grooves from Peter Luedemann & Pit Troja. Drum and Bass from Nu:Tone feat Lalin St Juste (from The Seshen), Mutt and Calibre. A great uplifting soul / funk track by Jelly reissued on 7” vinyl by Forever Love Records. Broken Beat from Sivey remixing Nikitch & Kuna Maze. Badbadnotgood covering a Johnny Hammond classic with MF DOOM on vocals. Plus plenty more musical treats.

A special tribute to MF DOOM DJ mix this week. Includes his first ever feature as Zev Love X with 3rd Bass on Def Jam, the KMD releases with his brother and starting off with the classic Scooby Doo sampling track on the influential Fondle Em records. Collaborations as NehruvianDOOM (with Bishop Nehru), DANGERDOOM (with Dangermouse) and JJ DOOM (with Janeiro Janell) on Lex Records. The all time classic Madvillain (with Madlib). Features with Kool Keith and YOTA. A track from the excellent Viktor Vaughn album. Some of the original tracks as sampled on the releases are in the mix too. Celebrating some of the inspiring tracks from one of the best Hip Hop artists ever. Plus music from Nikitch & Kuna Maze (remixed by Sivey), IG Culture reworking a James Brown classic, a big tune from Trends, plus lots more musical goodness.

The final Best of 2020 show (Part 4) with some music that only came out recently and lots of music that will be sounding good in 2021 too. Starting off with the excellent Lady Blackbird. Hip Hop from Westside Gunn (feat. Black Thought), Che Noir, Marlowe and MF DOOM (R.I.P). Soulful dance music from Sault, The Seshen (remixed by Ben Hauke) and Roisin Murphy. New Tru Thoughts signing Hemai. A big tune from Samii (produced by Dego). Tunes from Photay, Fybe:One, Enny, Amia Brave and plenty more goodness.