Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show November 28, 2009

Off to a mellow start this week with a track from the Paper Of Pins album courtesy of Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead, Stefan Schneider & Barbara Morgenstern a great album full of quirky folk, jazz, electronica with some nice avant-garde touches. I then dropped a track from Jay Haze's new album under his Fuckpony moniker - terrible name, great house music. Laroca have been given the remix treatment and the Aaron Jerome remix of Unit 125 is my favourite - lovingly stitched together, lush, intricate future breaks.

Protassov new material isn't half bad but A New Beginning is particularly nice and Lone is coming through with a new album of his trademark sounding beats. Mapstation aka Stefan Schneider has just released his excellent The African Chamber album on the reliable Scape label - full of great African percussion and deep electronica. Jah Wobble is a long way from his P.I.L. roots with his dub version of Roy Budd's, Get Carter theme tune and I for am all for it, great version of this well covered track.

Tapes is a super lo-fi digi-dub project with all the tracks getting transferred to tape and back for full analog hiss effect, a million miles away from the clean new digital world and all the better for it. Space were back in the day disco dons and Architeq has slashed the tempo and provided the remix highlight of the new single package on Tirk. BBE provide this weeks original disco moment with Maxx Traxx's 1982 gem, Don't Touch It - from yet another amazing collection of forgotten gems on the Mr. Peabody Records compiled, The Real Sound Of Chicago.

Silkie has just released one of those rare things a dubstep album that isn't half bad and I'm personally favouring the Turvey track as Faib, another of those rare dubstep things - a female producer, hailing from Moscow and with a great melodic sensibility drops a great double A side single. The Heritage Orchestra and DJ Yoda end the show with a track from their recent album that brings the world of classical music and Prokofiev in particular into the 21st century with an interesting collaboration and plenty of interesting remixes.

Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead, Stefan Schneider & Barbara Morgenstern - The Hermitage Of Braid (Karaoke Kalk)
Fuckpony - I'm Burning Inside (BPitch Control)
Laroca - Unit 125, Aaron Jerome 126 remix (Just Music promo)
Protassov - A New Beginning (Switchstance Recordings)
Lone - Karen Loves Kate (Dealmaker promo)
Mapstation - Holland Wax (Scape)
Jah Wobble - Get Carter (Pressure Sounds)
Tapes - Gold Love Riddim (Jahtari)
Space - Carry On, Turn Me On, Architeq Remix (Tirk)
Maxx Traxx - Don't Touch It (BBE Promo)
Silkie - Turvey (Deep Medi Music)
Faib - Ticking Clocks (Ranking Records)
Heritage Orchestra feat DJ Yoda - Tivannagh L'Abbe Overture (Non Classical)

Check out a this clip about Mr. Peabody Records from Chicago who have compiled the new, soon to be released, compilation on BBE.

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show November 21, 2009

Gargarin provide this weeks gentle introduction to the show with the mellowest of the recent remixes of their material courtesy of Beesley Rothko, look out for the Robert Logan remix as well - an altogether darker nastier affair. The Heavy take a break from their more normally more raucous material with a nice mellow track called In Time. I then whip through a couple of beat snippets from the new Melting Pot Music double CD showcasing the talents of Uno, Testiculo & Suff Daddy.

The new Lizz Fields remixes are a pretty sorry bunch with the exception of The Journey remix of When I See Love which takes this soulful lady into, for her, uncharted leftfield territory. The DJ Bootsie album is sounding great, hailing from Budapest his album is a great collection of hip hop and cinematic beat excursions and a great listen from start to finish - look out for it really shortly. I also had to drop another Portformat track from his great interstellar debut this time including the vocal talents of Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow.

Huess is a great new beat making talent from the seemingly endless UK production line. Taking his inspiration from people like Take, keep your eye on him it looks like he's developing into a unique voice. After the release of their acclaimed double CD earlier this year Senseless are gearing up for 2010 with some new material and the beatmaking talents of Ghosttown and rising vocal star of Badness are a great combination. One of my favorite party rocking DJs Saffrolla is also gearing up for a BIG 2010 as I tease you with a forthcoming release called Catch Their Breath with MC Angel, he's got some other more than tasty little tracks to come as well, trust me!

Martin Kemp, with the best haircut on Myspace, is providing some welcome deepness to the UK Funky scene, look out for his new 12 coming really soon on Blunted Robots. Ray Lugo is a NYC modern day Latin don and his latest cut for Milan's Record Kicks label is a dancefloor jazz winnner. Mamadou Barry's debut album during his twilight years is a great listen and I'm particularly liking his version of Take Five. Los Amigos Invisibles from Venezuela have always been worth a listen for some great electronic latin fusion and their new EP on Lovemonk is great and I'm particularly liking the Boohgaloo Zoo Rmx. To end the show I then finish with another killer track from the DJ Spinna compiled disco compilation on the mighty BBE.

Gagarin - Straiff, Beesley Rothko Bassic Mix (Geo Records promo)
The Heavy - In Time (Counter Records)
Suff Daddy - D.I. Luv (MPM promo)
Uno - 3rd (MPM promo)
Lizz Fields - When I see Love, The Journey Remix (Blue Fields Records)
DJ Bootsie - Kormenet/Procession (BBE promo)
Portformat - Mothership feat Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow (Tokyo Dawn Promo)
Huess - A Simple Method (Inaudible Answer)
Ghosttown ft Badness & Dajila - You Know (Senseless Records promo)
Saffrolla - Catch Their Breath feat MC Angel (Test)
Martin Kemp - After The Night (Blunted Robots promo)
Ray Lugo's L.E.S. Express - Roda de Samba (Record Kicks)
Mamadou Barry - Africa Five (World Village)
Los Amigos Invisibles - Plastic Woman, Boohgaloo Zoo rmx (Lovemonk Promo)
South Bronx - The Bottom Line (BBE Records)

Here's a couple of little tasters of the incredible new DJ Bootsie album - a little album sampler and a great video for the Mosquito Dance track from the album:

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show November 14, 2009

It's all about the soul music to start the show with a great new track from The Inns & Miles Bonny, beautiful stuff. I then trip down to Burkina Faso for some old school African Soul from the newly discovered vocal genius of Victor Deme, who's been singing all his life in local clubs with no recognition outside his local area - until now! Dokaka is a lunatic Japanese beat boxer but not as you know them. His album has now been released outside the land of the the rising sun and you can now discover more easily why he was involved on Bjork's last album.

Lou Rhodes from Lamb is the first signing to Jason Swinscoe's new record label Motion Audio, look out for the album in March 2010 with more releases planned. Mr. Scruff is about to release a rare non Ninja outing on Prime Numbers with multi instrumentalist and all round musical don Kaidi Tatham and it's a winner. To follow I drop a track from the excellent compilation coming on BBE very soon that takes a look at the disco remix talents of the under recognised John Morales check the killer disco of Curtis Hairston!

Analog Africa have recently released another lovingly packaged compilation (other labels take note!) this time focusing on the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - just buy it is all I can say! Jose Roberto Bertrami from Azymuth has also recently put out a, rather too suave, album of jazzy bossa vibes but there are a couple of less cheesy tracks on there and No Tempo Da Bossa is one of them.

Medline hails from a funky crew running out of Paris, look out for a killer little 7" about to drop on his own Propaground label coming very soon. I've mentioned the new King Midas Sound album before and this week I'm treating you to yet another taster from the album - watch out and hold tight for the release at the end of November. Unni Lovlid is a great Norwegian folk singer prone to some little electronic leftfield excursions and ambient field recordings, I saw her live recently in concert and I recommend, if you get the chance, that you do as well.

Julien Dyne's album is about to drop on BBE and it's deep and just to show you how deep I drop a spiritual jazz inspired number from the forthcoming release. DJ Food is one of the best dj's in the world and his new LP, produced with the aid of King Cannibal, is about to drop, check the instrumental version of the The The cover which is fine way to end the show.

The Inns & Miles Bonny - J. Birly (MPM promo)
Victor Deme - DJon'maya (Chapa Blues Records)
Dokaka - Rest in Peace (Dual Plover)
Lou Rhodes - There For The Taking (Motion Audio promo)
Mr. Scruff & Kaidi Tatham - Fresh Noodles (Prime Numbers promo)
Curtis Hairston - I Want You (BBE promo)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Agnon Dekpe (Analog Africa)
Jose Roberto Bertram - No Tempo Da Bossa (Far Out Records)
Medline - Mercado Negro (Propaground promo)
King Midas Sound - Miles and Miles (Hyperdub promo)
Unni Lovlid - Bak Vaker Verda (Grappa)
Julien Dyne - Spirits (BBE promo)
DJ Food - Giant, Instrumental (Ninja Tune promo)

For you visual obsessives here are a couple of videos one highlighting just how mental Dokaka is and one just to highlight why you should be listening to Victore Deme - enjoy..

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show November 7, 2009

Straight in at the deep end this week with one of my new Womex music discoveries, Kouyate & Neerman. I was fortunate to see this due live a couple of weeks ago and the project with Kouyate on Balafon and Neerman on his vibes linked to an effects unit and distortion pedals is great forward thinking Afro Jazz fusion. The Jazz Chronicles album is out and although some of the beats are a bit rigid at times they really did the business with the One For Joe track. Portformat is a great new intergalactic hip hop project with an amazing roster of vocal talent including Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Shaunise amongst many others.

Robert Strauss is coming through with some nice new material with a future soul touch but using the decidedly old school vocalist and previous collaborator, the evergreen Leroy Burgess. Kylie Auldist has been given an amazing edit by Ashley Beedle to turn her In A Week, In A Day track into an end of night soul diamond. Tony Allen is working on more projects than your average government this year and his latest is a couple of tracks soundtracking an imaginary blaxploitation movie, deep afro funk flavour.

Soundway have just released a new compilation focusing on the vintage sounds of the French Caribbean and I'm happy to report it is up to their usual impeccably packaged and selected standards although the Biguine and Creole rhythms will be news to a lot of listeners, check it for some vintage global freshness. Another discovery at Womex was Cacique'97 a great Afrobeat project from Portugal taking the sound in interesting new directions with some pan African flavours and even the sound of Brasil, great project and top guys.

Debruit is going from strength to strength as I drop one of his new tracks on Civil Music, with nods to his Congo Whoomph track earlier this year but with some great more melodic African touches. Incidentally I saw him live last night in Barcelona and he rocks the party as well! Pinch has just dropped a new track with the vocals of Yolanda which I've dispensed with by playing the dub as the dirty tribal dubstep rhythm doesn't really need any help. The King Midas Sound album is on it's way this month so I give you a little taste with a great vocal track called Earth A Kill You. Look out for the album it's a really diverse bassline offering.

Scuba can always be relied on to deliver some bassline deepness and with his new EP on Hot Flush he's done just that with some nice tempo variations as well. I close the show with another of my Womex discoveries in the form of the Basque group Oreka TX who are single handedly reviving the old traditional regional instrument, the Xtalaparta - a great sounding wooden percussion instrument a bit like an oversized vibes played with wooden circular blocks rather than mallets - check it!

Kouyate & Neerman - Niokome (No Format)
Jazz Chronicles - One For Joe (Futuristica)
Portformat - Life Water feat Thesauras Rex (Tokyo Dawn Promo)
Robert Strauss - Love & Self Respect feat Leroy Burgess (BBE promo)
Kylie Auldist - In A Week, In A Day, Ashley Beedle Streetsoul Edit (Tru-Thoughts promo)
MC Jean Gab'1 & Tony Allen - E Nan Mian Nuku (Crammed Discs)
El Rego Et Ses Commandos - E Nan Mian Nuku (Soundway Records)
Debruit - Nigerian What? (Civil Music promo)
Pinch - Get Up Dub (Tectonic promo)
Kind Midas Sound - Earth A Kill You (Hyperdub promo)
Scuba - Ice Tx (Hot Flush promo)
Oreka TX - Ice Tx (World Village)

Check out another Cacique'97 track from their album and it's nice little video here:

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show October 31, 2009

Rejoice, all the albums Fela Kuti ever recorded are being re-issued by Knitting Factory records and let's face it you can't have enough Fela so to celebrate I play the whole 11 minutes of Water Get No Enemy one of my favourite Fela tracks. King Cannibal has finally released his album on Ninja Tune, a multi-genre specialist he revels in perverting accepted notions of genres and twisting them in his own image, usually taking them to darker realms - watch out for him, this is just the start. On another Afrobeat tip Jimi Tenor has teamed up with Tony Allen and they've brought out the best in each other, Allen reveling in the deeper Avant-Garde world of the maverick Tenor and the deeper jazz flavours - this album is the best of Tony Allens many projects this year.

Percussion master Trilok Gurtu is always doing something interesting and I'm particularly liking the Indian Middle Eastern fusion of Dive In. Lloyd Miller is an amazing jazz ethnologist and his constant experimentation with jazz and Eastern styles is being celebrated by a wonderfully selected Jazzman compilation. I had to drop another Reason or Romanza track from their forthcoming Civil Music EP, they really are that good and the same with Trus'me as I give you another taste of his new album on Fat City Records which segues perfectly into a slice of new old style house music courtesy of SE62. Boddhi Satva has given George Levin the remix he needed and turned his soulful vocal track The Better Life into an excellent slice of deep deep afrocentric house music.

A Mountain Of One are producing some great balearic prog/kraut rock cosmic mash up type of stuff and I'm particularly liking the Sky Is Folding from their recent album. To finish the show I had to drop a track from the latest Matthew Halsall album another great slice of modern jazz from this Manchester youngster who is punching well above his years with both his music and the fact he is self releasing his music on his own excellent Gondwana label which he is also using as a vehicle for some other excellent British players notably Nat Birchall and his amazing recent spiritual jazz album

Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (Knitting Factory Records promo)
King Cannibal - Virgo feat Face-A-Face (Ninja Tune)
Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Ceila's Walk (Strut promo)
Trilok Gurtu - Dive In
Lloyd Miller - Hue Wail (Jazzman Records)
Reason or Romanza - Seven Uses Of Difference (Civil Music promo)
Trus'me - Pretend (Fat City promo)
SE62 - Wall Ride, Eddie C rmx (Home Taping Is Killing Music promo)
George Levin - The Better Life ft Clara Hill, Boddhi Satva Ancelstral Soul rmx (BBE promo)
A Mountain Of One - Sky Is Folding (
Matthew Halsall - Colour Yes (Gondwana promo)

Check Lloyd Miller live back in the day:

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show October 24, 2009

The Life Force Trio start procedings this week with a great slice of musical spirituality which was taken from the excellent Echo Expansion records compilation featuring a roster of 'who's who' and 'who's about to be'in the world of quality underground leftfield music. I then steal a Milt Jackson track from a possibly even better compilation, Peter Kruder's Private Collection one of the nicest selections I've heard in a while - essential purchase and the Portico Quartet have been given a great sympathetic dubstep remix from Sbtrk who beefs up the bottom end but keeps the musicality, great job.

Eskmo goes to show that not all dubstep comes from small bedrooms in South London as Planet Mu kindly showcase this great producer from San Francisco and Gang Gang Dance are given a nice remix by Dj Rupture and Matt Shadatek which has been lifted from their new mix CD - Solar Life Raft. Civil Music have come up trumps again with Reason or Romanza who are about to release their EP full of great original tracks and some excellent remixes - watch out for these boys and always keep an eye on what Civil Music are putting out.

Chickenwing All Stars are a South London reggae dub collective under the leadership of Anderson and Craig Tamlin, percussionist with Anthony Joseph & the Spasm band and their debut is a nice deep reggae cover of the classic Gary Bartz track Celestial Blues. Lambent is a hot Japanese producer now resident in Berlin who has just released an album of his mellower offerings on the always interesting Project Moon Circle and Eglo come through yet again this time courtesy of progressive soul boy Funkineven and a great slice of future boogie feat Fatima.

Happy Days - Trus'me is back with a new album after his acclaimed debut and you wont be disapointed, just wait till you hear it and look out for some great guests as well. Moonstar is still whacking out the fresh jazz beats in his inimitable style this time with the help of some crazy keys from Tony Ezzy and there's a great compilation coming out on Tirk of some of Greg Wilson's finest edits - you know that's essential. Keeping on the compilation tip, the disco compilation kings BBE are coming through soon with a DJ Spinna compiled disco selection and the Jan Leslie Holmes track is just a taster of the aural delights to come.

The Life Force Trio - Alice! Live At The Natural History Museum (Porter Records)
Milt Jackson With The Ray Brown Big Band - Enchanted Lady (G-Stone)
Portico Quartet - Lines, Sbtrk More Hang Mix (Real World Records promo)
Eskmo - Let Them Sing (Planet Mu Promo)
Gang Gang Dance - Bebey, DJ Rupture & Matt Shadatek rmx (The Agriculture Promo)
Reason or Romanza - Two Times Three Times (Civil Music promo)
Chickenwing All Stars - Celestial Bingi, Find Yourself version (Heavenly Sweetness)
Lambent - After All (Project Moon Circle)
Funkineven 1956 - Kleer feat Fatima (Eglo promo)
Trus'me - Put It On Me (Fat City promo)
Moonstar - Laham Baagine feat Tony Ezzy (PTR promo)
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk, Greg Wilson edit (Tirk promo)
Jan Leslie Holmes - I'm Your Superman (BBE promo)

Reason or Romanza also do a nice line in videos as well as great music - check it:

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show October 17, 2009

Kicking off this week with some deep dub techno hybrid late night lushness courtesy of Rooflight, a promising talent if ever there was one. Tony Allen drops a raw percussive, surprisingly non Afrobeat, gem and Gamal Goma show that it's not just the Africans who do amazing percussion. Mordant Music provide a slice of mesmerising, leftfield, boundary pushing house music that you wouldn't know which section of the record shop to put it in.

The forthcoming Ogris Debris ep is so good that I drop the original late night floor destroying cut after dropping the more cerebral Dorian Concept mix last week. Troy and Shea Soul show that UK Funky can be well produced and super soulful and I also drop another track from the excellent new Paten Locke album, just how hip hop should be sounding.

DJ Devastate provides another slice of deep lazy jazzy hip hop taken from his excellent forthcoming album on BBE Records, all you beat heads looking for some chilled beats watch out for that one. To be honest I'm having trouble telling a lot of the Dam Funk tracks apart, as much as I like his sound but he's hit 'kick back with your girl' gold with the super mellow 10 West, pure easyness. The new Impossible Ark compilation of jazz covers is a wonderful thing as The Fiction Trio tune ably demonstrates, France's finest Afrobeat boys Fanga come up trumps yet again as do the ever excellent Soundway boys as I play a track from their incredible Panama II compilation - look out for Volume 3 coming soon, you know it's going to be essential..

Rooflight - In Your Hands (Styrax)
Tony Allen - Gbedu (Honest Jons)
Gamal Goma - Shara Saidi (Pirhana)
Mordant Music - Symptoms, Version (Mordant Music)
Ogris Debris - Raid The Itch (Compost Black Promo)
Troy and Shea Soul - Fools Gold (Broadcite Promo)
Paten Locke - Just Me (Tres Records)
DJ Devastate - Don't Stop (Tres Records)
Dam Funk - 10 West (Stonesthrow)
The Fiction Trio - Haitian Fight Song (Impossible Ark)
Fanga - Ni I Ma Toro (World Music Network)
Chilo Pitty - Piculina (Soundway Records)

Check a bit of the multi talented Paten Locke below, some proper hip hop in these troubled times for the genre.

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show October 10, 2009

No rundown this week as I've been on holiday and I'm catching up on a million things, just a list of good tunes and links so you can do your own research on the artists and record labels involved.

VoicesVoices - Flulyk (Manimal Vinyl)
Collage - Ehted Kadunud (Wool Recordings)
Calima - Lunita (Putumayo promo)
DJ Devastate - Spoken (BBE promo)
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune Promo)
Paten Locke - Auto Reverse (Tres Records)
Shed - Estrange (Ostgut)
Joy Rose - Waiting (Broadcite promo)
David Baxter - All This Broken Lushness (Unreleased)
Ogris Debris - G-Thong, Dorian Concept Restring (Compost Black promo)
Gold Panda - Back Home (Various Production)
Knalpot - AV 1 (Eat Concrete Records)
Talen - Sniper Sniper, A Cutty Ranks Tale (Mouthwatering Records)
The Very Best - De Cuba (Green Owl)
Ruth Tafebe And The Afrorockerz - De Cuba (World Music Network)

Global SoulJah and BBE Records Radio Show October 3, 2009

Not a show this week for people with attention defecit disorder as I cut down the track count and get into some longer grooves kicking off with a slice of new tango with an electronic jazzy twist from UK outfit Tango Siempre. Grackle have been one of my discoveries of the week and I'm liking the mish mash of styles from this US duo, friends since childhood. Nancy Elisabeth is producing a fine blend of folktronica from her Manchester base and Virgil Howe is a talented multi-instrumentalist who is making interesting music as befits the son of a member of prog rock outfit Yes.

Julien Dyne is a hot new producer coming through with a deep blend of soul and jazz inspired beats and probably the best thing to come out of New Zealand since The Lord Of The Rings, look out for his album on BBE coming out this autumn. Floating Points has just released a great EP on his own Eglo imprint and is finishing off the year how he started it - STRONG. Zwicker is a Swiss based deep house bod and the John Talabot remix has taken his 'Oddity' track into wonderful deep disco house territory.

The Revenge are just about to release some singles influenced by some of the classic sounds of years gone by aptly summed up by the title 'Forever In Their Debt'. The Bulgarian public voted for some of their favourite pop songs in a big public contest and the winners, in a fit of inter country collaboration, were given to some UK producers to remix. I don't know what they were expecting but Ramadanman has chopped up the catchily titled 'A Nie Dvamata S Bobi Piem Kafe' track from ska popsters Wickeda into an amazing broken percussive dubstep joint - tune! Still on the dubstep track I also throw in another more techno inspired cut from the new 2562 album and then finish with some Cuban inspired Congolese Rumba from Papa Noel just to give you a little warm feeling on these cooler autumnal nights.

Tango Siempre - Triphop & Fugue (Rough Guide promo)
Grackle - We Are It (Supersoul)
Nancy Elizabeth - Feet Of Courage (Leaf Recordings)
Virgil Howe - Someday (3 Bar Fire promo)
Julien Dyne - Fallin' Down ft Parks (BBE promo)
Floating Points - Argonaut (Eglo)
Zwicker - Oddity, John Talabot Dub (Compost Black promo)
The Revenge - Forever In Their Debt, Red Rack'em Remix (White)
Wickeda - A Nie Dvamata S Bobi Piem Kafe, Ramadanman Refix (White)
2562 - Love In Outer Space (Techtonic)
Papa Noel - Kin Havane (Tumi Music)

Here's a little video taster of Julien Dyne live in session with some mates at The Red Bull Academy in Auckland - I'm telling you LOOK out for this boy!

Tru-Thoughts 10th Anniversary – Various Artists. (Tru-Thoughts)

Happy Birthday to Tru-Thoughts, 10 years young, a major achievement for any independent record label especially in these turbulent time of falling record sales, thoughtless free loaders/uploaders and distributors going bust (which happened to the label last year).

To celebrate this milestone the label is releasing a 2 CD best of with CD1 focussing on the mellower side and CD2 on the arse shakers. The first CD kicks off with the gentle strains of a pre-Ninja Tune Bonobo closely followed by Nostalgia 77 who utilises the sweet vocals of Beth Rowley on a mellow jazz number that segues nicely into one of the UK’s finest soul voices, Alice Russell and the old time soul of ‘Hurry On’.

Natural Self lays down some soulful drum and bass with ‘The Rising’ before Milez Benjiman gets all big electro bass and fresh beats on us with the nu-soul of ‘Chop That Wood’. The dream team of Quantic and Nickodemus throw some Latin spirit into the mix with the catchy Latin beats of ‘Mi Swing Es Tropical’, which some of you might remember from an Ipod advert a few years ago!

The killer tracks just don’t stop and this is only disc one! Lizzy Parks injects more soul with the jazz flavoured ‘Raise The Roof’, The Hot 8 Brass Band show brass bands aren’t all situated in remote northern colliery towns as they get all funk and jazz on ‘Whats my name’, Flevans adds the disco flavour and Quantic injects some Latin reggae before Kinny adds her vocal prowess to an Afro flavoured slice of quality soul and Freddie Cruger goes all nu-soul to wrap up the first disc.

Disc Two kicks off with some new style samba rock and Quantic’s orchestra get all funky with the swinging ‘Super 8’. The Bamboos add their trademark raw funk and TM Juke goes all nu-jazz with ‘Come Away’ featuring the vocals of Sophie Faricy. Lanu reminds us of the glory days of broken beat with a great jazzy soulful dancefloor winner and that’s before we even get to Belleruche and more Alice Russell and you can’t forget about the soul genius of Kylie Audist and she reminds us why with the modern northern soul classic ‘Community Service Announcement’.

For those of you quick enough there is also a limited 3CD box set with the third disc consisting entirely of un-released material from the label roster but don’t sleep to get your hands on one of those.

Happy birthday Tru-Thoughts, here’s to another ten.