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This week’s show marked two important events: The passing of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, and Cinco de Mayo. The first hour was devoted to some of my favorite Beasties tracks, including this one, which is probably my favorite video:
The last hour was devoted to Mexican music, both new and traditional. Here’s a classic clip from Los Lobos.
The entire setlist is here as a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akv6Emv2Lo0EdHZWNElyVV9DS09OTm56T05EOUI1eHc&pli=1#gid=0
This week’s show on Radio 1 had a lot of great music, but one of the standout releases this week was Thundercat’s “The Golden Age of Apocalypse” is definitely worth checking out. Here’s “Walkin’”
Videos from most of the tracks on the show are available thanks to the excellent Dragontape service: http://www.dragontape.com/#!/5015029
The whole setlist is here as a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akv6Emv2Lo0EdDItS3YwbDVteUVQQmxqS2k4SmRCWmc&pli=1#gid=0
This week’s clear winner is the new album by Quantic and Alice Russell with the Combo Barbaro, “Look Around The Corner,” which is a clear candidate for album of the year. It’s that good.
This week’s clips are here as a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akv6Emv2Lo0EdENpYy1SQU1EZlliZEVfMUIxSTJlSGc&pli=1#gid=0
And you can check out clips from the show here thanks to Dragontape: http://www.dragontape.com/#!/4931165
This week’s show had some excellent new music, including Nite Jewel’s “One Second of Love,” the new release from Batida and the new project Cibelle is involved in, A.B.R.A. na Pre Ca.
Most of the clips are up as a video mixtape on Dragontape here: http://www.dragontape.com/#!/4742159
The entire setlist is here as a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akv6Emv2Lo0EdDFLeUw5MWdlTjJpNEhZT2F6Z3VYNmc#gid=0
This week’s Radio 1 show had two standout discoveries (at least for me they’re new). As I spent some time this week at the LIFT12 conference in Geneva, I soaked up some French influences. This is most visible in the discovery of Louise Vertigo, who is just great.
The other discovery was The Mighty Sparrow, whose best-of compilation, “Sparromania – Wit, Wisdom and Soul from the King of Calypso” is hilarious, groovy and eminently danceable. Great stuff.
Here is this week’s setlist in Google Spreadsheet form.
Here is this week’s setlist as a Dragontape: http://www.dragontape.com/dragonplayer_v2?tapeid=4581116-radio_1_25_2_2012&autoplay=0&fullscreen=1
This week we had our annual Sourcecamp developers’ and users’ summit, as well as Mediafabric, a one-day conference focusing on the future of journalism. We had people from literally all over the planet, and that global reach had an influence on this week’s setlist, which pulled from a lot of places and styles.
This week’s standout new tracks were as follows:
The Internet, “They Say”
Lana Del Rey, “Video Games”
Tokimonsta, “Little Pleasures”
Frank Ocean, “Swim Good”
Rochelle Jordan, “Shot”
and then there were two classic tracks from Ruben Blades:
Like a lot of people worldwide, I spent this morning tracking the fall of NASA’s UARS satellite, and started off my set with a classic track from XTC, “Another Satellite.”
I had a lot of new music this week, including Gui Boratto’s III, and the track “The Third.”
I also liked Frank Ocean’s new track, “Swim Good.”
Natalia Lafourcade’s “Hu Hu Hu” continues in heavy rotation on my iPod. Here’s the title track.
But one of the coolest new albums this week belongs to Miguel Migs. I really like the track with Bebel Gilberto, “Zuzu,” which is available as a free download on Soundcloud:
As always, the entire setlist is here as a Google Docs spreadsheet.
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:”
