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Ring the Alarm, BaseFM, Saturday June 11 - playlist

So, I've decided to start putting up playlists from my radio show, partly so I can remember just what the heck I play each week. Enjoy.

Ethiopians – Muddy water
Skin flesh and bones – Do it til you’re satisfied
Maxwell implosion – Grasshoppper
Betty Wright -Clean up woman
Horace Andy – Just say who
Tanya Stephens – It’s a pity
DJ Format – The place
Skull snaps – It’s a new day
Black Twang – So rotten (upstate remix)
Roots Manuva – So cold (upstate remix)
Solephonic – What’s your style?
Kenny Dope – Supa
Kraftwerk -Computer love
Augustus Pablo – Assignment No 1
Damian Marley -Welcome to jamrock
Jimmy London – Cathy’s clown
The Bamboos – tighten up
Tiombe Lockhart – Mr Johnnie Walker
Ray Barretto – Mercy mercy baby
DJ Krush – Kill switch
Common – Testify
JA 13 and Rico Ridriquez – Wareika vibes
Brother culture – Foundation rockers (Twilight circus vs The Disciples remix)
Butch Cassidy Sound System -Burning sun
Kora – Burning
Romanowski – Why?
Womack and Womack – Teardrops
Dick Hyman – Give it up or turn it loose
James Brown – Funk bomb
Bic Runga – Something good (Submariner remix feat the Feelstyle)

Speaking of playlists, Simon Grigg's farewell show on GeorgeFM is listed here, with some pithy insights from him on 19 years of radio, starting out on BFM, back when all the alternative kids up there hated dance music.

" it was frustration that Roger Perry and I felt which led the two of us to approach bFm to do a regular dance based show in ’86. Nobody at all was playing the stuff we liked on the radio…that funky club stuff, that hip hop, that garage and funk-punk. And, to be honest, B was less than keen too.

"Murray Cammick had the killer soul show, Land Of The Good Groove, but that was purist soul...not the sort of stuff we wanted to play. Eventually we managed to find an ally in Lisa Van der Arde and were given a midday Saturday slot. So was born Asylum FM. The relationship was fairly symbiotic...we played in return for free ads for our club and it worked well enough for a while, until the all-disco-sucks regime moved us sideways in 87..."