Ring The Alarm playlist, 31 July

Prince - Emotional pump

Cameo - Rigor mortis

Dalvanius - Who said that

Angelique Kidjo - Once in a lifetime

Gil Scott-Heron - The revolution will not be televised (Tahira Abayomy afrobeat version)

James Brown - Get on the good foot

The JBs - The grunt 

Eric B and Rakim - I know you got soul

Jurassic 5 - Quality control

Betty Wright - Clean up woman

Helene Smith - You got to be a man

Marie 'Queenie' Lyons - Your thing aint no good without my thing

Cold Blood - I'm a good woman

Dennis Mobley - Superstition

The Chi-lites  - We are neighbours

Marlena Shaw - Woman of the ghetto (live)

Keith Mansfield - Morning Broadway

Young Holt Unlimited - Wahwah man

Ramsey Lewis - Hey, Mrs Jones

Archie Bell and the Drells - There's gonna be a showdown

James and Bobby Purify - Let love come between us

The Supremes - You keep me hangin' on

Jamie and the Numbers - If this is love

Conclave - Sunny (Seven Davis Jr remix)

Sampology feat Jordan Rakei - My place

African Head Charge - Animal law (remix)

Althea - Downtown thing

Herbs - French letter dub

Double hit of Troy Kingi

 

Two slices of goodness from the very talented, very prolific Troy Kingi, check em out! Collab with The Nudge in Te Reo Maori, great funky dirty rock song, and a soundtrack tune with Diggy Dupe and choicevaughan from the 6 part tv drama about the Polynesian Panthers, screening soon.

Cool new tune from Karl Steven

"Karl Steven is a composer and producer, currently based in Pārāwai (Thames). While working mainly with music to picture, Steven's has also been a part of groups Queen Neptune, The Drab Doo-Riffs, Heart Attack Alley and Supergroove.

Today he shares Freedom Bells, the first single from All of Human Emotion on Microfiche, an album planned for release in the later months of 2021.

Steven's upcoming output is a collage of organic and electronic sources, synthesised down into an ambitious and enigmatic sound.

"My intention with 'Freedom Bells' was to make something a bit anthemic about freeing oneself from existing paradigms" says Steven. "In the process I tried to get away from the computer and plug things in, experiment, and whack stuff. I wanted to depart from using membranophones or sounds inspired by them (like kicks, snares, and toms) and try idiophones instead, so you'll hear there's lots of wood hitting wood and wool hitting metal!"

Ring The Alarm playlist, 24 July

 Tony Allen and Africa 70 - Hustler (Mad Rey remix)

Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble  -The colours that you bring

MAW - Zoe

Lightning Head - NPG

Ikebe Shakedown - Tujunga

Jimi Tenor - Mystery spot

Miriam Makeba -Lumumba

Manu Dibango - Big blow

Tina Turner - Whole lotta love

Betty Davis - If I'm in luck I just might get picked up

Martha High - Don't throw your love in the garbage can

James Brown - Don't tell it

Eddie Bo - The thang pt2

Betty Harris - Mean man

Lil Buck and the Top Cats - Monkey in a sack

Third Guitar - Baby don't cry

Carla Thomas  -Where do I go

Rufus Thomas - Chicken scratch

Dusty Springfield  -Every ounce of strength

Ollie Nightingale - It's a sad thing

Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band - Dirt off your shoulder

Miyiam Solomon - Pushing the tide

Kutiman - Guruji

Kamo Mphela - Nkulunkulu

DJ Format  -Strange sensations

Jeb Loy Nichols - Can't cheat the dance

Mara TK feat Troy Kingi - Every hori is a star

Fat Freddy's Drop  -Midnight marauders (DJ Vadim remix edit)

Salmonella Dub - Soul love trippa (David Harrow 7" mix)

Ring The Alarm playlist, 10 July

Mosquito Hawks - Mosquito eater pt2

Bobby Byrd - If you got a love, better hold on to it

Sugarman 3 - Soul donkey

Cook E Jar and the Krums - Whole new world

Poets of Rhythm - 50 yards of soul

Charles Wright - You gotta know whatcha doin'

Spanky Wilson - Kissing my love

The Hawk feat Little Hannah Collins - Don't judge a book by its cover

The Supremes - Nothing but heartaches

Mary Wells - Bye bye baby

Gene Chandler - If you can't be true

Dionne Warwick - You can have him

Dee Dee Warwick - Suspicious minds

Bill Coday - When you find a fool bump his head

Ann Peebles - I can't stand the rain

Little Sister - You're the one pt2

War - Corns and callouses

Poopee and the NY Squirrel - Bust that nut (downtown mix)

Skyy - No music

The Totals - Total man

The Yandall Sisters - Sweet inspiration

Dalvanius - Voodoo lady

Mara TK - Highly medicated

Sisters Underground - In the neighbourhood (pacific acoustic mix)

Ardijah - Way around U (swing gat mix)

Sola Rosa feat Troy Kingi - Star to star

Lewis McCallum feat Deva Mahal - Take a step back

Benny Tones feat Dallas - Home

Nicola Conte - Missione a Bombay

Cal Tjader - Soul sauce (rough mix)

Daptone Super Soul Revue "LIVE at the Apollo" LP coming

Daptone celebrates 20 years of soulful music with the release of The Daptone Super Soul Revue "LIVE at the Apollo".

"Performed and recorded over three nights in front of a sold-out crowd at The World Famous Theater in Harlem, NY (December 4th - 6th, 2014), this album brings the electrifying performances that helped put Daptone on the map directly to your living room! 

 

Featuring live sets from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Antibalas, The Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, Saun & Starr, The Sugarman 3, as well as our em-cee, Binky Griptite. This album is lovingly dedicated to the memory of our dear friends Sharon, Charles, Naomi, and Cliff."

Pre-order now, ships late September. And check out their other 20th anniversary merch including 45 centres, and custom record boxes.

Ring The Alarm playlist, 3 July

Parlet - Pleasure principle

War - The world is a ghetto (Special US disco version)

Ann Winley - Watchdog

James Brown - Get up, get into it, get involved

Donny Hathaway - Come little children

Lyn Collins - We want to parrty parrty parrty

Taana Gardner - Heartbeat

Prince - Hot thang (dub version)

Shannon - Let the music play (12" version)

A Certain Ratio - Shack up

Steel N Skin - Afro punk reggae dub

Rhythm and Sound feat Jah Cotton - Dem never know

Lovejoys - Let me rock you now

Tubbs feat Dallas - Five day night (Fat Freddys remake)

The Dapkings - NBL

Volcanos - Gotta be a false alarm

Gene Pitney - She's a heartbreaker

Swingin' Medallions - Here it comes again

Fontella Bass - Recovery

Donnie Elbert -  A little piece of leather

Claudine Clark - Party lights

Laura Lee - If you beat me rockin' you can have my chair

B.B. King - The B.B. Jones

Betty Wright - Shoorah shoorah

Hector Plimmer - Step (Daz I Kue remix)