Groovement

The final Groovement of the years sees a gang of friends choose some tracks for the first hour, with new independent music rounding out the second hour. See Bandcamp buy links and the full track list over on Groovement.co.uk - thanks to everyone who contributed! This may or may not be the 300th episode of the show too, I'm not too sure, but it's a nice way to celebrate if so. 

Daudi Matsiko - How Can I Love ft  Ríoghnach Connolly

Social Lovers - Love Come Down

Hermanito - Funk Mantis

Dementira - Extraviado

Souleance - Movin' On 

Burland & Zongo Abongo - Work Hard

Ana Frango Elétrico - Não Tem Nada Não ft Marcos Valle

El Palmas - La Baja

Grupo Um - Absurdo Mudo

El Dragón Criollo - Ponte A Trabajar

Whodamanny - La Fiesta

Mulukèn Mèllèssè - Djèmèrègn  

Elftraps drop in to talk about their debut EP Sunflowers In A Blue Sky, and MC-producer Blacksmith introduces his new single Last Days. Plus, Agent J has new music from El Train and Miki Rose, Sonnyjim and Morriarchi, Pouya Ehsaei, Tara Lily, Navy Blue and more.

Bastien Keb - Nighthawks  

Jamie Finlay - Family (Quiet Dawn Remix) ft Ellen Beth Abdi 

El Train & Miki Rose - Twin Flame

Oliver Night - Boss ft Roots Manuva

Levitation Orchestra - Sanctuary

Elftraps - Sunflowers in a Bl...

What an honour to play for The Great Oven's Disco Cantina at All Together Now Festival 2025 - here's my banquet soundtrack.
Read more about the project below:

** THE GREAT OVEN DISCO CANTINA **
with TANG, RADIO ALHARA & MIXMAG

Since its inception in 2019, The Great Oven has been forging giant, beautifully decorated, community ovens – installing them in refugee camps, conflict zones and informal settlements across Lebanon and South Africa.

This year, their mission is to expand to the West Bank whilst creating a cultural bridge between Palestine and a homebase in...

Momoko Gill -  When Palestine Is Free

Sonnyjim, Morriarchi - The Real Thing (ft Tay Jordan, Jay Worthy). 

Bambu - It’s Happening, Again

Joker Starr - Stop Acting Like A ft Micall Parknsun and Jazz T 

Ego Ella May - 'We're Not Free'

Victoria Port - I Won't Wait

The Womack Sisters - If You Want Me

Yazmin Lacey - Water

Sudan Archives - COME AND FIND YOU

Alex Nut - andthenitstarted ft James Mollison

Obeka - Pon Ya He...

Natureboy Flako - Shape Of Things To Come

Delia Derbyshire - Falling

Ahmed Malek & Flako - Tape 23 Track 5

Gazelleband - Ghorba

Victor Jara - Lazo

Perri Alleyne - Taxi (Ave Maria)

Lone - Coming Into Being And Passing Away

Aphex Twin - #3

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Hania Rani - Glass

Tinariwen  - Imidiwaren (KMRU remix)

Massive Attack - Angel ft Horace Andy (Mad Professor remix)

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Displacement (KMRU rework)

KMRU...

Two Detroit titans for the price of one this month on Groovement - I was hanging with Guilty at the end of August when he was over for Jimi Goodwin's NightjaR gig, then we did a show at the Rat & Pigeon the following day, all courtesy of Broken Wing who brought him over to the UK. Phat Kat was here a year ago, performing at the sadly-missed Hip Hop Chip Shop , and we sat down before hand with Blacksmith, who was also on the line up. 

It's humbling to say the least to be in t...

The Great Oven builds giant community ovens and sends them to places of need - at All Together Now festival in Ireland, two new ovens were debuted. One will stay in Dublin at Bohemian FC while the other goes to the Wonder Cabinet in Palestine, where Radio Ahara is based. Co-founder James Gomez Thompson sits down with Groovement's Jamito to talk the history of the project, some details of their work including their response to the Beirut port explosion, how his abuelita was an influence and how the GO started while he was working with food writer Nigel Slater...

A selection of Yasiin Bey Breaks. Black Star on tour in November! 

Live mix, broadcast Radio Alhara 6 July 2025

DJ Jazzy Jeff hits Manchester for the Magnificent House Party, and I warmed up. We caught up in the back later together with the MAG crew plus AnnaOnTheMic. Plus, all new hip hop to jazz and back round again. 
1O years ago: https://groovement.co.uk/2015/04/interview-dj-jazzy-jeffs-first-45s-set-for-20-years-rbma-uk-tour-wax-works/

Charif Megarbane - Istintaj (live in Manchester)

Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa Band – Palestine Is My Homeland

Werkha & Ríoghnach Connolly  - Everyday

Darkhouse Family - Heart Of Medina

Om Unit - Ascension 

Mammal Hands - Deep Within Mountains

Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Radicalise (urself)

Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Wavy

GreenFinguz - Leila

GreenFinguz - Shaitan (Parrisian)

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Direne Direne

Bakaka Band - Geesiyada Halgamayow (Brave Fighters)

Gal C...

Special guest Rob Mitchell from Abstract Orchestra talks about their work with Guilty Simpson, Slum Village and more, plus new label Abstract Records.
Pan Amsterdam talks new album Confines, dedicated to his dad. Lafayette Stokely is over in the UK for the first time and JoeJas has UK dates too. Naomi Kalu is a powerful new Mancunian singer / songwriter, and producer/rapper Arshaq Malik talks his new work.

Gangster Doodles talks the completion of his compilation trilogy for All City Records, with contributions from Mr Scruff, Don Leisure and Homeboy Sandman. Plus an hour of new hip hop and jazz from Greg Surmacz, KUTMAH, Harry Shotta x Metrodome, Zola Marcelle, Poppy Daniels, Oddisee, Murs, Nana Benz du Togo, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Offica and more

Harry Shotta - Imposter Feat. Spyda, P Money & Rag'n'Bone Man

Greg Surmacz - Rust And Glass

KUTMAH - encore

KUTMAH - night owls

Silas Short - GUY (Karriem Riggins Remix)

Zola Marcelle...

Forced to leave Lebanon in his initial wave of creativity, and only now returning to the stage years later following the re-release of his music on the Habibi Funk label, Rogér is on tour with Charif Megarbane - Rogér very kindly took some time out to jump on Liber[té] for Radio Alhara to talk about his history and choose some songs for us. Tickets for his tour including Manchester: https://theatresonline.seetickets.com/tour/roger-fakhr-charif-megarbane
LP Fine Anyway: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-016-fine-anyway-2
LP East of Any Place: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/alb...

Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective) talks his first LP in six years, All The Quiet (Part 1) - Ella May Sueref talks her eponymous debut solo album on Village Live Records - Homeboy Sandman is in Manchester with guest schwarma reviews from DJ Trumastr and Oddy Gato - Ellen Beth Abdi introduces her two lead singles from her upcoming debut album

First broadcast on Reform Radio Monday 7 April 2015.

Newen Afrobeat - Chaltumay

Ezra Collective - Ajala

Tremor - Caracol

Totó La Momposina - La Verdolaga

Novalima - La Danza

Chancha Via Circuito - Sueño en Paraguay

Malphino - Molienda

Quantic & Nidia Góngora - E Ye Ye

The Garifuna Women's Project - Mérua

The Garifuna Collective - Black Catbird

Cumbiasound - En Estos Tiempos Peligrosos....

Rio Mira - Adios Morena

Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Amor En Francia (Nicola Cruz Remix)

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Mark Ski celebrates his sophomore album RECLESS with a Groovement deep dive - the LP features the likes of Homeboy Sandman and Guilty Simpson. Sandman drops in briefly to talk his UK tour dates for March and April, plus new music from The Colonel, Kid Acne, Sonnyjim, Chuck Strangers, PremRock, Ella Mae Sueref, Move 78 and more.

Angie Stone - I Wish I Didn't Miss You (Live)

Angie Stone - No More Rain (In This Cloud) (Wookie main mix)

Homeboy Sandman x Illingsworth - Too Deep

Doechii...

New music selected by Jamito.
First broadcast on Radio Alhara 2.3.25
Telemachus - The Emerald Buddha
Phi-Psonics - Prelude: Expansion
Vega Trails - Sleepwalk Tokyo
Kaidi Tatham - So Happy
Greg Surmacz - Loft Music
Nyron Higor - Ciranda
Footshooter - Folding (Instrumental)
WheelUP - Juggle feat. Abacus
Inês Loubet - Quatro de Dezembro
Sabrina Malheiros - Terra de Ninguém
Celia Wa - DÉMOUNAJ
Allexa Nava - In the Final
Florence Adooni - Vocalize My Luv
Florence Adooni - A.O.E.I.U...

As the legendary Welsh label Sain Records back catalogue get archived and digitised, Don Leisure of Darkhouse Family reinterprets classic tracks and talks about the influence of Andy Votel, Dom Thomas and Gruff Rhys' Welsh Rare Beat on Finders Keepers.

Originally broadcasts 10 February 2025 on Reform Radio. Hosted & produced by Agent J.

Victoria Port guests on Groovement to talk with Agent J about her debut EP on First Word Records, Did It Again, reflecting on motherhood and family legacy.

Did It Again is available now on vinyl and digital www.victoriaport.bandcamp.com

Originally broadcast 10 February 2025 on Reform Radio.

An hour mix of new music from Brother Ali, Om Unit, Kid Acne, Dub Phizix, Rita Donte, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Don Leisure and more

A mix to accompany the book What Do You Call It? From Grassroots to the Golden Era of UK Rap' by David Kane, out now via Velocity Press.
velocitypress.uk/product/what-do-you-call-it-book/

“Unravels the complicated calculus between hip-hop and its offshoots (UK garage, grime, drill) against a backdrop of resistance (the Met police’s highly controversial Form 696/Operation Domain policies) with mathematical precision and a genuine fans warmth”

MOJO (4 STARS)

“Kane builds bridges in a rich musical universe full of heroes and villains—and plot twists. With an in...

A retrospective of the vital voice of Lowkey, mixed by Jamito.
Liber[té] is broadcast on Radio Alhara monthly.
Originally broadcast 5 Jan 2025. 
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Lowkey feat Mai Khalil - Iraq2Chile 

Lowkey feat Mai Khalil  - Palestine Will Never Die

Lowkey - Everything I Am

Lowkey - Alphabet Assassin

Lowkey - Goat Flow

Lowkey ft Akala & Black The Ripper - I Still Believe 2020

Lowkey ft Shadia Mansour - Too Much 

Lowkey - Soundtrack To The Struggle

Lowkey ft Noam Chomsky - Sou...

Fresh off the back of new album You Never Really Know, JSWISS sits in with Agent J of Groovement to talk about the making of the album, collaborations, his family legacy and dearly missed friend, MC and actor, Rowdy.

Download the album on Bandcamp now:
https://jswiss.bandcamp.com/album/you-never-really-know

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JSWISS - Everything You Need

JSWISS ft Sly5thAve - Out Of Bounds

Sly5thAve & JSWISS - Energy

JSWISS ft Carmen Rodgers & CARRTOONS - For Your Consideration 

JSWISS ft V...

An hour of Chilean folk from Violeta y Victor - love and resistance.
Selection by Jamito aka Jamie Groovement.
First broadcast on Radio Alhara 1 Dec 2024.

The Manchester duo celebrate Full Circle, their debut album for HIgh Focus Records. Having met at Manchester hip hop event In The Loop, the pair worked together in The Mouse Outfit before finding their own paths, Now, they return - older, but wiser.

More info and pre-order the album: https://groovement.co.uk/2024/11/fullcircle/

First broadcast on Radio Alhara 3 Nov 2024. Mixed by Jamito. 

9 November sees the return of An Afternoon Of Dilla at Brix in London.

Featuring live performances, DJ sets, beat sets, a Dilla beat cypher plus exclusive merch and competitions, this is an official fundraising event for the James Dewitt Yancey Foundation, the charity established by Ma Dukes.

All money raised from the event will be donated to the charity to support the amazing work they do surrounding music production for young people - offering free sessions and access to industry standard music equipment.

The event is family friendly, with great...

An autumnal RnB selection from choice selector WatchDeez.
https://www.instagram.com/watchdeez/
Featuring Marsiell, Jon B, Kuartz, Jill Scott, Alexander O'Neal, Maeta, Jade, Maxwell, Mint Condition, Mobb Deep, Terri Walker, Muni Long, Tsana, Zhané and Silk.

Agent J plays music from The Pro Teens, Greenfinguz and Angry Blackmen plus two guest mixes: Vice Beats' Dilla tribute ahead of An Afternoon Of Dilla on Nov 9 in London, plus a super soulful mix from WatchDeez with his Love (This) Season selection.

Please donate: 
RESTLESS BEINGS https://donate.restlessbeings.org/pages/mabrur-ahmed/lebanon-urgent-support
THE GREAT OVEN https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sustainable-food-relief-in-Lebanon

Agent J catches up with Trackstar The DJ (Run The Jewels) about his recent tour with Killer Mike, plus High Focus Records boss Fliptrix opens up about the personal inspirations behind new album Dragonfly.

Plus new music from Vice Beats, Sly5thAve remixed by Jamz Supernova and Sam Interface, The O'My's, Spectacular Diagnostics and Mulatu Astatke with Hoodna Orchestra.

An in-depth chat with Jaubi before the release of their second LP, A Sound Heart (out 6 Sep), with cofounder and sarangi master Zohaib Hassan Khan. 

Zohaib is a 7th generation sarangi maestro and one of only 5 professional sarangi players left in Pakistan practicing this ancient art form. Today he talks about his family legacy, the dying art form of playing and his grandfather, Ustad Hussain Bakhsh Amritsari. We also hear about the fruits of meeting Tenderlonious and their work together.

Thanks to 2Kings for joining in, to explain why they chose Jaubi to r...

Thugs From Amritsar is the debut album from Pataka Boys, aka PAV4N, Sonnyjim and Kartik. 
We get some insight into the project from PAV4N and producer Kartik plus talk about music, identity and Indian hip hop.

Private Joy - All Eyes On You

Tara Lilly - Breathe Now

Jaubi - Chandrakauns

JWISS - Make Space feat. Demi Grace

Matt Wilde, [ K S R ] - When it Comes Together

Hania Rani - It Comes In Waves (Studio 1, Warsaw)

Greeenfinguz - Refugee

S...

An hour of pioneering Palestinian hip hop crew DAM, mixed by Jamito.

Just back from Worldwide Festival, Private Joy sits in with Jamie Groovement to talk her new EP Desire! on Rhythm Section, Manchester street soul, the festival performance of Jimetta Rose and the Voices of Creation and more. Plus new hip hop, soul and more from Om Unit, Essa and Pitch 92, Ruby Wood x Vice Beats, Pataka Boys, Multiverse 3 and more.

edd mystery - nocturnes pt. II

Nocturnal soul music for nightfall wanderlust.
Twisted r&b & neo trip-hop. Mixed at home on my Technics.
Inspired by the transition from dusk to darkness.
70-83 bpm.
trip-hop, r&b, soul, hip-hop, synth-pop

Tracklist:
cktrl - zero
Dijit - Schi
Summer Walker - Hardlife
Dijit - Loli
Anna Butters - Doo Wop
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept - III
TIRZAH - Tectonic (FAUZIA Remix)
Jabu - Us Alone (Time Cow remix)
Chanel Beads - Ef
Eartheater...

Alex Figueira of Conjunto Papa Upa drops in to discuss three tracks from new LP Fruta Madura, buy that here
https://musicwithsoul.bandcamp.com/album/fruta-madura
Plus music from Samrai, GreenFinguz, ali dada, Laiz & The New Love Experience, Momo,, Ayom, Africa Negra, Meridian Brothers, Ferkat Al-Ard and Farouz.
More: www.groovement.co.uk/alhara

RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE - END THE OCCUPATION NOW 

SAMRAI - END THE OCCUPATION NOW (PROTEST REMIX)

GREENFINGUZ - LEILA

CONJUNTO PAPA UPA - REOS DEL DESEO

CONJUNTO PAPA UPA - TU MAMA T...

*NightjaR - Jimi Goodwin from Doves talks his debut hip hop album, recorded live at Wax And Beans record shop in Bury. 
*Jamie Finlay talks new LP Sun Dogs - 'a unique blend of electric soul, spiritual jazz and psychedelia. A deeply layered and personal album that explores themes of love, loss, grief, and finding strength through turbulent times'.
*Mungos Hi Fi chat about their new single Born With It featuring Aziza Jaye, Eva Lazarus and Gardna. 
*Manchester underground producer GreenFinguz takes us through some personal stories, thoughts on the Manchester scene and how Drake vs Ke...

Nocturnes Pt 1 mixed by Edd Mystery

Nocturnal soul music for nightfall wanderlust. Twisted r&b & neo trip-hop. Mixed at home on my Technics.

Inspired by the transition from dusk to darkness.55-69 bpm

Hailing from Birmingham, this mix has been put together by the taste maker Eugene Carbado, aka Stereo Master. This mix traverses through various sonic landscapes, including Disco, Italo-Disco, Funk, and all the way through to Afro fused house.
https://linktr.ee/stereo_master

Agent J here... I caught up with Brainstory in Manchester's Blues Kitchen where they hit the stage with Lady Wray. 
Homeboy Sandman and I chat in front of an audience at Wax and Beans record store in Bury, with Luke Warmth also in attendance, who's worked with Sand for the last couple of years. 
Manchester artist Piqass0 I first heard last year, then he contributed a track to the From Manchester To Palestine compilation on Bandcamp. Today he talks us through a selection of his favourite tracks. 
Thanks to Reform Radio for broadcasting. 

Brother Ali sits down with Jamito (aka Jamie Groovement) for the first interview about new album Love And Peace, food, family, his time in Gambia, and the censorship experienced while launching Love And Peace with unJUST.

Head to www.brotherali.com for more...

Sly5thAve joins Agent J to talk B+, Sly’s new LP Liberation on Tru Thoughts, musicians on the album, meeting Dre, his time with Prince and the passing of Casey Benjamin - plus a world premiere from JSWISS and music from Silent Knight, Analog Africa's new Congo Funk LP, Yaya Bey, Bryony Jarman-Pinto, KING, Robert Glasper, Kassa Overall and Jamie Finlay with Ellen Beth Abdi.

Agent J takes you through new music from Fatima, Kid Acne, Ana Tijoux, Samrai, Cassie Kinoshi's seed, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jlin and more. Hip hop, jazz, beats.

J Dilla - Time (The Donut Of The Heart)

Jaubi - Time (The Donut Of The Heart)

Koralle ft Illa J - New Levels

Essa - What Eye See, Pt 2 (ft Devise)

DJ Harrison - You Were Too Good To Be True

Jneiro Jarel - 4 U

Boombaptist - Krush On You (Queen B Remix)

Tab One...

Thank you for your voicemails of hope to the people of Gaza. This episode is those, with music.

various contributors – voice messages 25-29.10.23
lone – coming into being and passing away
om unit – the silence (instrumental dub mix)
raheel khan – a rock to bullet proof intention*
mr scruff – innocent*
iceboy violet – mothpocket*
zoir – morning surfer*
mecca 83 – descent*
steel traxx – 48000 cop*
contours & yadava – low slung
strange soul music – stakes is high remake*
nasima bee – i will not kneel down*
aminab – we want you to live in a better way*
gazell...

Agent J hosts new music from Homeboy Sandman, Danny Brown, Lone, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Black Josh, Daudi Matsiko and more. Special guest Jamie from Agbeko previews new album There Must Be Another Way and picks new music from Mali Hayes and Caitlin LM.
Intro by Homeboy Sandman.

Homeboy Sandman - Ignoring Sh*t (feat. Shad)

Special Feelings - Kinky

J-Felix - Anemoia feat. Juga-Naut (Inkswel Remix)

El Búho - Cenizas de Agua Feat. Nita

NuShape Orchestra - Nothing Left

Rissa Boo...

Agent J has special guest Erin Buku talking about her latest single The Way and her label Inner Tribe Records, based in Adelaide. There's also new music from Matthew Halsall, Wiki, Caveman, Les Mamans du Congo, Mito y Comadre, Kramer, Bastien Keb, JSWISS, Fielded and lots more. 

https://innertriberecords.bandcamp.com/

Jamie Groovement aka Agent J, Millennium Buggin' Out with a turn of the century hip hop mix. J co-produces the Huey Show Presents: The Hip Hop Mixtape which you can find on BBC Sounds. Here he shows you what you've been missing.

First broadcast BBC 6Music Sat, 5 Aug 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p81x

This episode I was honoured to be joined by Jimetta Rose, who talks about her choir The Voices Of Creation.
I talk to Gaby Hernandez, solo artist and member of The Voices Of Creation, about her Chilean heritage.
We hark back to Ras G, friend of Jimetta, with an archive chat from 2009.
Finally, we head to Zanzibar to catch up with BluRum 13 about his new LP Hypersonic with Inkswel.

Image: Isilda Del Carmen Lang being filmed talking about her nalca plant, July 2021, for Chileans Of The North film. an hour of energy. 

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KonKoma - Sibashaya Woza (Chico Mann Remix)

Marcos Valle - Besteiras De Amor (Jazzanova Remix)

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Minkou E So Non Main

Pigeon - War (Jam)

Womack & Womack - Teardrops

MJ Cole - Sincere

Mbiri Young Stars - Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe (Batida 1977 Remix)

Unknown - La Bilirrubina

Okmalumkoolkat - Allblackblackkat

Fresh off Second Record, her sophomore album with Illa J, Harleigh has blessed Groovement with a soul strengthening summertime selection of hip hop and soul.

Portrait: Sarah Samira https://www.sarahsamira.com/illa-j-x-harleighblu-album-campaign-second-record
Buy and stream Second Record: https://tr.ee/XAhpuQCD7z

Warming up for the Hot 8 in Manchester at the Albert Hall on Saturday night - not the actual set as it didn't record! So I redid it. Thanks to Band On The Wall and Albert Hall and Manchester Jazz Festival. Big up Hot 8 all day long!   

Music from Mestizo, Louis Armstrong, Jay Electronica, Allen Toussaint, DJ Jubilee and many more. 

All new music for this month's Groovement show, kicking off with a Lover's Rock flex from MELONYX on the Joe Buddha-produced At The Door. Manchester's repped by J.Chambers and BROOMMAN while our old friend Mecca:83 remixes Vice Beats' recent killer single, Connected.

We're very lucky this episode to have LA producer Mo Serious guide us through his latest EP, The Dark Light. A long time associate of MCR'S Left & Right crew and producer TURNA in particular, Mo's well-known for reworks but this is his second collection of original material.

Head to: https://moserious...

This month's Reform Radio show, mixed by Agent J and featuring new music from Vice Beats ft Blu, Illa J and Harleighblu, Kutmah, Spectacular Diagnostics, Ghrelin, Lafeyette Stokely, Abstract Orchestra remixed by Ghost Life and many more new releases.   

Track listing: groovement.co.uk

Known to many as the voice of Submotion Orchestra, Ruby Wood is busy preparing the release of her new solo EP. The singer, writer and selector has worked some magic with this mix for Groovement, a hand picked, dreamy collection of songs that make her happy.

More info: https://groovement.co.uk/category/podcasts/

jamito plays records by ahmed ben ali vs krs-one / brother ali / charif megarbane kutmah / gaye su akyol / wiki & subjxct 5 / chung / victor jara / ana tijoux lone apostrophe / phi-life cypher / riz mc / pekojdinn / jay electronica dam / deli deli / tapioca / milos kaiser / public enemy

Groovement is very happy to welcome Mark Torkington stepping up to the plates.

A veteran of the world-famous Fat City Records shop and legendary Friends And Family and C'mon Feet parties in Manchester, Mark is a collector and lover of soul and breaks, including salsa, jazz, Bollywood and Brazil.

As well his online Social Distancing Soul mixtapes, you can catch Mark occasionally hosting Still Diggin' parties celebrating the dustier end of the record collecting world.

Enjoy this selection celebrating wax from Raipur to Rio, featuring Sabah, Salma...

Feb 2023 on Reform Radio - featuring Saundra Williams, J.Rocc, Philip K Dick, Eddie Chacon, Say She She, J-Felix, Juga-Naut, loads mate.

Tracklist: groovement.co.uk

Dedicado a mi tío, Gustavo Ivan Lastra.

The second part of Edd Mystery's all vinyl ambient mix with Floating Points, Shigeto, Swarvy, Leon Vynehall and many more.

Our friend Edd Mystery returns with a laid back mix in two parts... 'I just gathered a load of ambient tracks from my record collection and pressed record."

Block Party, The Huey Show, Sat 3rd December 2022 // 

A mix to promote The Huey Show presents: The Hip Hop Mixtape, a weekly BBC 6Music and BBC Sounds show presented by Huey Morgan and produced by T-Bone and Agent J. //
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fb3z
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1992 hip hop - originally broadcast on
The Huey Show Presents The Hip Hop Mixtape - Volume 2
BBC 6Music and BBC Sounds, December 2022

Offcuts from projects I've been working on this year, interviews and mixes. 

A guest mix from our longtime friend, Edd Mystery. 

Brand new music including Om Unit, Vice Beats, Rise and the Heritage Ensemble, Lady Lykez, BeTheGun, Marlowe, The Mighty Mocambos, YUNGMORPHEUS, Scrimshire, Fliptrix, Reggie B and lots more. Mixed by Agent J.

Coburg crusaders Surprise Chef, newly signed to Big Crown Records, join Agent J for an in depth interview, some tune selections and another airing of their College Of Knowledge mix for Creating Patterns on Reform Radio. 

Recorded in Manchester, UK, August 2022. 

6 year old DJAY ANA MAY spins 45s down at Manchester's famous Hip Hop Chip Shop. Gentle editing of gaps has occurred!

Check upcoming events at The Hip Hop Chip Shop:
https://thehiphopchipshop.com/
First broadcast on Reform Radio 22.8.22
https://www.reformradio.co.uk/

My latest show for Katbrownsugar's Sweet Vibrations Radio - 80s soul, sampled and interpolated by the 90s. A mellow one, for sure. 

Track list: groovement.co.uk

Recorded live over at my residency at The Daisy in Manchester, July 2022. 
Music from Wiki, Peyton, MIKE, Jaylib, Phyllis Nelson, El Train, loads more - title track from Oddisee (who's back in Manchester in September, at The Blues Kitchen).
Track list:
https://groovement.co.uk/2022/07/groovement-no-skips-reform-radio-30/

Recorded live, June 2022, in Manchester. 
Herrotics, 52nd Street, Odyssey, WheelUP, Aurra, Rosa Maria and lots more. 
Soul, hip hop, Brasilian... 

THE ALLERGIES drop in to choose a couple of tracks from their Promised Land LP.
MAMAS GUN - ahead of their Manchester show this Thurs 2 June at The Bread Shed - talk their new LP Cure The Jones and choose some influential tracks.
New music from Amanda Whiting, Jaroo, BROOMMAN, Souleance, Kidkanevil, Inkswel, Doomcannon, Kaidi Tatham and many more.

2 hour mix from Agent J recorded live at The Daisy, Manchester... no chat. 

Guest intros from Kutmah, 2Kings, Chairman Maf, Renegade Brass Band and Don Leisure!
New music all the way - tracklist and buy links over on Groovement.co.uk...
https://groovement.co.uk/2022/04/groovement-maybe-tomorrow-reform-radio-28/

Originally broadcast reformradio.co.uk 4 April 2022
More fabulous Reform shows:
https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/

Some classic soul and soul-infused hip hop for my bi-monthly on Katbrownsugar's Sweet Vibrations Radio. 
All mixed: Joyce Sims, Mtume, Meth and Mary J, LL, Luda, Royce, Quantic, Common, De La, Dam-Funk, Mos and a sweet Dilla-fed reinterpretation of Thundercat's Them Changes from Father Yöd.

An hour of big Dilla samples for Katbrownsugar's Sweet Vibrations Radio. That's Jay Electronica at the start talking Dilla beats, when I warmed up for him Manchester this week.

Broadcast 30 January 2022.

sweetvibrationsradio.com
Art: me

Ft Quantic, Azambuja & Cia, Cameo, Benny Sings, Tata Vasquez , Dwight Trible, The Midnight Hour, Secret Night Gang x Zed Bias, DJ Seinfeld, Chimpo, Erykah, Busta, Tchiss Lopes

(Roughly) 50 friends and family drop by to share their favourite tracks across the soul, hip hop, beats and jazz spectrum. Happy Holidays. 
Find track lists and links to buy music on groovement.co.uk

Big thanks to our contributors - in order of appearance: 
BJORN (MIGHTY MOCAMBOS / BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND) 

NATALIE EVE-WILLIAMS (BBC INTRODUCING) 

ANDY SHAKE'N'FINGERPOP 

MALI HAYES  
KINKAI 

FERNANDO VELEZ (THE DAP-KINGS) 

LEVI LOVE (MAS O MENOS RECORDS) 

DJ FORMAT 

AVER (MOVE 78)

MATTHEW HALSALL 

LACK OF AFR...

Brand new music for November - beats, hip hop and more.

reformradio.co.uk

New music from across the board including a world premiere for DJ Nu-Mark & Danny Drive Thru's Break Ya Neck, plus Kid Acne, Strategy, Sam Redmore, Secret Night Gang, Portico Quarter, Ruf Dug x Lovescene, Swindle, Pan Amsterdam, Kutmah, Park Hye Jin, Space Afrika, Sega Bodega, Ross From Friends, Layfullstop, Cid Rim, Abnormal Sleepz, Vice Beats, Quantic & Nidia Gongora, J'Von! 

Originally broadcast www.ReformRadio.co.uk Sep 2021
https://www.reformradio.co.uk/residents/groovement/
Mixcloud.com/reformradio 

New music from across the spectrum: Chimpo, DRS in a new guise 'Asif Ahwud' with Goldteeth, Peyton, Damu The Fudgemunk and Blu, Pursuit Grooves, Pan Amsterdam, Lone, Secret Night Gang, ScratchDVA, Cutterz, Joel Culpepper, Murlo, Ruf Dug, Contours and loads more.

Part three of three.

The final part of sunshine selection of 80s and 90s inspired tunes put together with California in mind, by our old friend Edd Mystery (Taste The Diff'rence).

Follow Edd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eddmystery
Check some of Edd's previous Groovement mixes here:
https://groovement.co.uk/tag/mr-e/

Part two of three.

A selection of 80s and 90s inspired tunes put together with sunny California in mind, by our old friend Edd Mystery (Taste The Diff'rence).

Follow Edd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eddmystery
Check some of Edd's previous Groovement mixes here:
https://groovement.co.uk/tag/mr-e/

Originally broadcast on The Huey Show, BBC 6Music, 22 May 2021.

A live mix accompanying a screening of Back To The Future, in a cave, courtesy of The Village Screen.

What if Marty landed in those years between 1955 and 1985? What songs might be in the movie?... was the concept.

Tyler Daley and Konny Kon join Agent J on the eve of the release of their new album, Balance.

Originally broadcast on https://www.reformradio.co.uk/

Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band - Dirt Off Your Shoulder

KUTMAH - SWEET STUFF

Mo Serious - Where U Have Smoke?

Topaz Jones - Who? (feat. Maxo & Phonte)

Mammoth - Erlanger

Tawiah - Lost In A Dream (Bobby Xennial Remix)

Themba Lunacy - Home ft. Andrew Ashong

Flying Lotus - Your Screams

DJ Format - Brainstorm

Tawiah - Lost In A Dream (Bobby Xennial Remix)

Themba Lunacy - Home ft. Andrew Ashong

Flying Lotus - Your Screams
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Recorded for Reform Radio on International Jazz Day 2021.

All Gondwana Releases are available on Bandcamp
https://gondwanarecords.bandcamp.com/
More from Reform Radio: https://www.reformradio.co.uk/

Aver joins Agent J to talk the new Move 78 album 'The Algorithm Smiles Upon You' on Village Live Records, plus the loss of friend Joey Deez, hip hop vs jazz, Manchester and his current home, Berlin.

There was thud on the doormat of Groovement HQ the other day with a mixtape from fruit baron Johnty DelMonte.

JDM says he’s been holed up in a DelMonte cargo freight in Runcorn for a year now with only his turntables and pineapple chunks to sustain him.

Things took a dramatic turn in Dry January when he started fermenting the pineapple and hosting raves to an empty dock. Fortunately he pressed RECORD on his SANYO and sent it over. Expect fruit laced funk, party hip hop, Latin and dancehall, all mixed up like your favourite fr...

Rance Allen to start then two hours of new music, originally broadcast on Reform Radio 16 Nov 2020.

https://groovement.co.uk/2020/11/groovement-reform-radio-18-rejoice/

Special guests Stas Thee Boss and Georgie Sweet on the show to talk about their new projects - plus brand new hip hop and beats.

Recorded for KatBrownSugar's Sweet Vibrations Radio show, which you can catch here: https://www.katbrownsugar.com/sweet-vibrations-radio

Mostly new music, recorded on my 40th birthday with a little help from Baby Groovement.

Originally broadcast on Reform Radio 27th July 2020, find it here https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/groovement-27th-july-2020/

More info and buy links
https://groovement.co.uk/2020/08/groovement-podcast-agent-j-look-up/

Pic: Potato Head Beach Club, Seminyak, by me

Originally broadcast on Reform Radio 29.6.20

https://groovement.co.uk/2020/07/groovement-podcast-agent-j-still-at-it/

Mostly new music.

https://groovement.co.uk/2020/06/groovement-podcast-a-little-different/

Always ahead of the curve, self-made fruit juice billionaire Johnty Del Monte has been in self isolation since 2008.

Speaking via his platinum satellite phone in the Bahamas, JDM said:

“These are dark times, and I appreciate not everyone is able to play golf on their yacht.

So I thought I’d do what I do best- no, not tinning fruit, but playing records.

So here’s a mix to bring some sunshine into your lives. And it’s all killer no filler, there’s no obscure funk 45s on this- I had to chuck t...