Sunday 30 June 2013

130630 ep. 33⅓ the last broadcast

Final transmission of The Big Racket! on IC Radio. Coincidentally nodding to our LP's RPMs, being the 33rd episode in 3⅓ years. A lovely farewell after 3⅓ years of aerially racketeering aural receptors, bowing out with the 5th instalment of Channeling the Spirit of Jazz, joined by Jazzmaster Phrij (co-founder of Imperial College London's Musictech Society) plus textile/visual artist, Kumi.

A double serving of afrocentric reverberations and intoxicating grooves; the first hour blessed by a waxwork of Phrij's finest funky jazz selection, the second a back-to-back stagger on a minefield of flashbacks and crack-ups with fella Kumi. (Fun fact: the 2nd track of the 2nd part was the previous record spun backwards to buy time in the search for a 45RPM adaptor, rather the curious catastrophe.)

Ears up to the penultimate tune, the mesmerizing 'Din Ya Sugri' from Ghana's Christy Azuma & Uppers International – an absolute gem uncovered in the inimitable Soundway Records's Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981 compilation.


SÃO PAULO UNDERGROUND Pombaral
HARRY WHITAKER Black Renaissance
AZYMUTH Meu Mengô
HERBIE HANCOCK Sly
DON BLACKMAN Heart's Desire
EARTH, WIND & FIRE Getaway
DON BLACKMAN Never Miss A Thing
EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING I'm In Love
PLEASURE Space Is The Place
PHRIJ Zigzaggard

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RON DEACON Workshop 10
01 pohskroW NOCAED NOR
JUNIOR MURVIN Cool Out Son
RAS G Lisa Bonet
KING SUNNY ADÉ Ja Funmi (Ja Waka Version)
HYPE WILLIAMS Love You
BRAND NEW FUNK Interlude
FLYING LOTUS 1983
BROTHER JACK McDUFF Oblighetto
CHRISTY AZUMA & UPPERS INTERNATIONAL Din Ya Sugri
MADLIB Montara