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06/12/2024

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist is all about the cutting edge of global club music. While British dance music has sometimes felt a little stuck in recent years, phenomenally forward-thinking sounds have emerged from Lisbon, Mexico City, Shanghai, Kampala, and Cairo. Here we have hard, percussive tracks from North African producers, 3Phaz, Abadir and Nahash, and Lisbon’s diaspora sounds from Nídia and Valentina Magaletti. Also, hybrid dembow / techno sounds from Florentino, DJ Fucci, Siete Catorce, and Amor Satyr. Forward thinkers closer to home are the likes of Kincaid, 96 Back, and Lanark Artefax.

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29/11/2024

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist, inspired by Valentina Magaletti, is all about experimental approaches to percussion. We have bits from Magaletti’s Q***r Anthology of Drums, as well as one of her collaborative projects, Holy Tongue, with Al Wootton. There are pieces from avant-garde forebears like Martin Saint-Pierre and Steve Reich’s iconic Drumming, and percussive styles across the world, from Dadawah’s Jamaican nyabinghi, Moroccan gnawa music from Mahmoud Guinia, and the trance inducing tabla of Ustad Bismillah Kahn’s shehnai ragas.

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22/11/2024

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist pays tribute to 35 years of British club music, from the sci-fi sound design of bleep techno to the breakbeat sounds of hardcore and jungle, the bass-driven 140 sounds of dubstep and grime, and skippy 2-step rhythms of UK garage. We have late 80s / early 90s entries from A Guy Called Gerald, LFO, Origin Unknown and Dillinja, feeding into the stripped back garage and funky sounds of Oris Jay, Sticky, and Jeremy Sylvester. Into the 00s we have the likes of Loefah, Skream, Dizzee Rascal, and Ruff Sqwad, and the early hybridisations of Hessle Audio, from Pearson Sound and Pangaea. Contemporary cuts appear from Anz, LUXE, and Angel D’lite.

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15/11/2024

Weekly Picks! Following the article on Ukrainian musicians reappraising folk tradition that we shared earlier this week, our playlist explores folk-influenced artists from former Soviet states and satellite states, from Ukraine to Armenia, and Hungary to Georgia. We have vintage traditional recordings from the Domra Orchestra and the Ukrainian Bandurist Choir, as well as more recent experimentalists like Svitlana Nianio, Księżyc, DhakhaBrakha, and Laboratorium Pieśni. There’s also an appearance from the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir who made a surprise splash in the UK with a compilation album on 4AD, in 1975.

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31/10/2024

Spooky Picks! 👻 This week’s playlist is for long shadows and dark night, on this day of the year when the curtain between worlds is at its thinnest... Featuring some of the greatest gothic music for witching hour walks, late night dancefloors, and unsettling scenes. We have film music from Popol Vuh’s soundtrack to Nosferatu, David Lynch and Alan R. Splet’s music for Eraserhead, Wendy Carlos’ theme for The Shining, and Paul Giovanni’s stunning Willow’s Theme, from The Wicker Man. There are gothic folk tracks from Pentangle and Trees, and essential music from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Black Sabbath, and Dead Can Dance.

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25/10/2024

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist focuses on the UK club sounds of Broken Beat, or Bruk, which fused hybridised rave genres with British soundsystem music and jazz. Broken Beat coincided with a dubplate culture among DJs, and has since seen little revivalist interest, despite its under-appreciated influence. This means that actually very little of the genre is represented on streaming platforms, but we’d direct you to the discography of the 2000 Black label for further digging. But here we’ve got originators, D**o and Kaidi Tatham, in various guises and groups like 4Hero, Bugz in the Attic, and 2000 Black, along with peers like Seiji and Domu. We also have some likeminded contemporaries and influences from outside the scene, including Ron Trent, Moodymann, and Goldie.

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23/10/2024

Great feature here from Mixmag, on the vastly underappreciated UK club genre, broken beat. Fusing elements of house, techno, and jungle, and drawing the lines back to their origins in Black dance music forms from jazz and soundsystem music, the emergence of broken beat in the late 90s and early 00s was a moment of self-reflection that laid the oft-forgotten blueprint for dance music today.

You may not know that Adelphoi’s history is tightly entangled with the formation of the genre. In the mid-90s, Adelphoi’s studio and record label provided a space for London producers creating both house and D’n’B, hosting the likes of scene luminary, Seiji, while his hybridising sound developed into what would become broken beat.

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18/10/2024

Weekly Picks! This playlist focuses on the long history of girl bands. We have iconic acts from the 90s/00s golden age, including Destiny’s Child, TLC, and All Saints, but we’ve looked far beyond that to the forgotten pioneers making moves in the very early days of pop, rock’n’roll, and soul. We have the Beatles’ Liverpool peers, The Liverbirds, 20s swing group The Andrews Sisters, and Motown icons, The Supremes, The Vandellas, and The Shangri-Lahs. Along with The Bangles, we’ve got 80s new wave groups, Strawberry Switchblade and Sophisticated Boom Boom.

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10/10/2024

Weekly Picks! This week playlist is all about introspection, as we dig into all things ambient. We of course have music from Brian Eno, but also from drone pioneer, Pauline Oliveros, west coast New Age visionary, Iasos, and head-spinning vocal music from Meredith Monk. Newer music appears from the likes of Oliver Coates, Kali Malone, and Emily A. Sprague.

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08/10/2024

Great podcast here from Pitchfork, on Brian Eno’s pioneering Ambient 1: Music For Airports. The first album in his four-part Ambient series, which saw features from fellow luminaries Harold Budd and Laraaji, was released in 1978, coinciding with both the aftermath of punk music and the invention of the Walkman. Eno’s work in this period is a pole apart from the noise and aggression of punk, but it’s in a way just as confrontational, demanding a lot from listeners by stripping away the music to its barest elements. At the same time it reflects the Walkman’s concept of being able to recreate acoustic space anywhere, through recorded sound.

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04/10/2024

Weekly Picks! With the sad news of Kris Kristofferson’s passing at the weekend, we’ve tipped our cowboy hats to the outlaw country progenitors: Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash. As well as individual entries for each it includes an incredible live rendition of (Ghost) Riders In The Sky by the supergroup they eventually formed, The Highwaymen. Also included are less well known, but equally influential outlaws like Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver, and Townes Van Zandt.

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03/10/2024

New Roots! Adelphoi Music’s returns, taking us on another eclectic journey of old, new, overlooked and lesser-known tracks with musical roots in Africa. Now into its seventh year and the 36th edition. For the uninitiated, the Roots playlist showcases an eclectic range of music from across the globe of unfamiliar, forgotten, or recently discovered, to the most upfront sounds of now, all with the common theme of being rooted in Africa. Highlights this time round include a fresh bit of Afro-house from Elmi Original, flipping samples from traditional Somali music, a reggae classic from Johnny Clarke, and ska-infused highlife from Pat Thomas with Marijata, as well as the massively underrated electronic music pioneers, Yellow Magic Orchestra.

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27/09/2024

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist explores the heady blend of diverse musical cultures that characterised music in New York and parts of the midwest at the end of the 70s and early 80s. It was a time when when post-punk sensibilities meshed with the fringes of disco hedonism and art school experimentalism, while the motorik drum machine-laden sounds of European dance music met with the Black American sounds of funk and diaspora genres from the Caribbean. Including music from Richie Weeks, Dinosaur, Alan Vega, Patrick Cowley, and Liquid Liquid.

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20/09/2024

Weekly picks!! This week we’re embracing the changing seasons with a playlist of autumnal folk rarities from the early 70s, featuring some incredible and under-appreciated music from the Third Ear Band, Spriguns of Tolgus, Vulcan’s Hammer, Comus, and Dr Strangely Strange…

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11/09/2024

Adelphoi Music are proud to have received a Creativepool Bronze Award for the sonic logo we created for the peri-peri powerhouse, Nandos! The brand’s first-ever sonic logo was inspired by the its Southern African heritage and its iconic ‘Afro-Luso’ music playlists in restaurants. Adelphoi hand-picked artists Onipa to create an authentic mixture of pan-African traditional and contemporary styles, closely aligned with the strategy and spirit of the brand.

05/09/2024

Inspired by the new documentary, this week’s playlist places Jimi Hendrix in context, situating his music alongside his influences, including Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry...

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03/09/2024

There are countless documentaries about the life and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, as a person and a guitar hero, but this one piqued our interest. The forthcoming film, Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, explores the studio he left behind, which enabled him to break free from major studios, changed the nature of the studio experience, and has continued to facilitate recording for major pop acts in the decades since. You can read about in the article linked in our story…

29/08/2024

Weekly picks this week centre on sound system culture and bass pressure, with a selection of dub and roots reggae, and dancehall. Featuring the likes of King Tubby, Johnny Osbourne, Red Rat, Vybz Kartel, and Stylo G

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