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This week I managed to get a lot of new great music, much of it available on Soundcloud, including this new track by Holy Ghost! featuring Michael McDonald (yeah, he of the Doobie Brothers):

Poolside’s really nice cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon:”

Little Dragon’s title track from their new album, “Ritual Union:”

Here’s Little Dragon’s cover of Crystal Waters’ “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless):”

The Jojo Effect remix of the Andrews Sisters’ “Rum and Coca Cola:”

The Sonar Kollektiv Orchester’s cover of Georg Levin’s “I Got Somebody New:”

And then there’s Bebel Gilberto’s cover of “Acabou Chorare” (originally by Novos Baianos):

As usual, the setlist is here as a Google Spreadsheet.

This week it was all about the new Red Hot + Rio compilation. A serious monster of a record, and a really good cause at the same time.

I also got my virtual hands on the title track of Little Dragon’s upcoming “Ritual Union,” which will finally hit the shelves on 26 July. Yeah!

The Weeknd’s new “Rolling Stone” track is also great:

As always, the setlist is here as a Google Spreadsheet.

This week I traded places with Radio 1′s other Saturday morning DJ, Jarda Dušek, and maybe it was the nice weather or the different slot, but I played a lot less Latin music than usual this week. It also helps that there’s so much good music being made these days

Standout tracks this week came from Parov Stelar, whose “La Fete” is a real stomper:

Raphael Saadiq’s “Stone Rollin’” is also great, and I loved the track featuring Little Dragon, “Just Don’t:”

Speaking of Little Dragon, while we wait for the release of their new album, Ritual Union, I played this track, “Wildfire” by SBTRKT featuring Little Dragon and then remixed by Drake:

I also reached into the archives to find the Mary Jane Girls:

But by far the coolest track and coolest video this week comes from Curitiba, Brazil. The group is called “A Banda Mais Bonita Da Cidade” and the track is “Oração:”

The entire setlist is here as a Google Spreadsheet.

This week’s show had a lot of new music – I think there were only a few tracks I’ve played before out of a 3-hour show.

The standout tracks came from completely different worlds and parts of the world. One track that absolutely _killed_ me was from Cleveland Jones, “Sensitive:”

Another excellent track is Tracey Thorn’s “You Are A Lover” with the remix by Clock Opera:

Finally, there was the completely outstanding OMG GET THIS DISC NOW! compilation called (deep breath): Cartagena!
Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962 – 1972.

Check out these tracks:

As usual, the setlist is here
as a Google Spreadsheet.

This week’s show was really diverse even by my own standards, with music from West Africa taking a large part of the spotlight (I was in Senegal for two weeks at the end of March/beginning of April).

I can’t recommend highly enough the Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque compilation, which I also played a lot of this week.

Plus there was this outstanding track from 1969/70 from a group called Soft Soul Transition:

The setlist is available here as a Google Spreadsheet.