Adelphoi Music Ltd, 26 Litchfield Street, London (2025)

15/04/2025

Adelphoi Music are proud to have picked up Silver at the Awards Europe for Best Audio Brand (Consumer), for the sonic logo we created for the Peri-Peri powerhouse, 🥳

The brand has been making moves in recent years to celebrate its South African origins. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, Nando’s owners were inspired by the Portuguese colonial style of cooking chicken, found across South Africa, Angola, and Mozambique. The brand has embraced this heritage by rolling out its iconic ‘Afro-Luso’ music playlists in restaurants and customers can’t miss the bumping, smooth and syncopated sounds of contemporary South African dance music, adding fire and flavour to their meals.

Adelphoi’s Head of Production, hand-picked the London-based Afrofuturist band, to create an authentic mixture of pan-African traditional and contemporary styles, closely aligned with the strategy and spirit of the brand.

We’re really pleased to see this recognised. A brief with real cultural depth, brought to life through a proper collaboration between the team at Nando’s, Adelphoi, and the brilliant Onipa. Big thanks to everyone involved — especially Sarah Warby, Hannah Smith, Sophie Archer, Joshua Smith, Victoria Peacock, Henry McMaster from the Nando’s team, Jonathan Watts and Jamie Masters at Adelphoi.

04/04/2025

Weekly picks! The sun’s been out this week and we’ve been revisiting the classic sounds of UK Funky, the late 00s synthesis of house, garage and dancehall rhythms, which has been back at the forefront of club culture in recent years. With a nod to the dancehall influences, with tracks by Shabba Ranks and Buju Banton, we quickly move into classics of the genre by Dennis Ferrer, Lil Silva, Roska, Crazy Cousinz, Cooly G, and Stush.

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21/03/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist examines just the tiniest sliver of the dizzyingly impressive catalogue Dilla amassed in his short time here. We’ve included some picks from Donuts, but many others here are seminal productions for his fellow Aquarian visionaries, and other influential peers, including the likes of Erykah Badu, Common, Q Tip, Madlib, Busta Rhymes, and of course his legendary work with The Pharcyde and Slum Village.

14/03/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist is inspired by the otherworldly compositions of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebrou. We’ve got a few picks from Gebrou along with piano influences from the likes of Erik Satie, Debussy, and Chopin. Also a number of tracks from the legendary Ethiopiques series, that released her work, including the likes of Mulatu Astatke, Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, and Tesfa maryam-Kidane.

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28/02/2025

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist focuses on the genii of Afrofuturist music, from the mid-20th century to the present. It features the likes of Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, George Clinton, Drexciya, Juan Atkins, and Underground Resistance, along with those flying the flag in recent years, like Speaker Music and Lorraine James.

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20/02/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist explores the sounds of NYC house music in the late 80s and early 90s, a time when the blueprint for modern dance music was pioneered and perfected. We’ve got tracks from legendary producers like Kerri Chandler, Chez Damier, MK, and Mood II Swing, as well as underground classics like Men From The Nile’s ‘Watch Them Come’, Karizma’s ‘The Power’, and Romanthony’s heart-breaking ‘Hold On’. Also included is the track that arguably kicked the whole thing off, ‘The Music Got Me’ by Visual and Boyd Jarvis.

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14/02/2025

Weekly picks! All new music this week, with 2025 off to a wicked start. We’ve got cuts for the club and tunes for the living room, with a standout from FKA Twigs’ stunning Eusexua album, and unplugged music from Kelela, along with new tracks from aya, Oklou, Shygirl, Joy Orbison, and 96 Back.

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07/02/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist worships the drone in its myriad forms. We have a vitally important cross-cultural collaboration between US drone pioneers, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Marian Zazeela, with their inspiration, the Indian classical singer and master of the Kirana gharana singing style, Pandit Pran Nath. We’ve also included the transcendental choral music of the 12th century German mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, and more recent vocal works by Annea Lockwood and Meredith Monk. And of course, this playlist wouldn’t be complete without the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue, and Brian Eno.

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31/01/2025

Weekly Picks! This week’s playlist explores the sonic worlds of David Lynch, including music from the visionary director’s movies as well as records he produced. In the former camp we’ve got artists as diverse as Roy Orbison, Marilyn Manson, This Mortal Coil, African Head Charge, Chris Isaaks, and Connie Stevens. Lynch was also behind incredible music from Julee Cruise, Jocelyn Montgomery, and Chrystabell. We also have Lana Del Rey’s cover of Blue Velvet, as well as a track from Ethel Cain’s lauded new album, which has a definite Lynchian influence.

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16/01/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist is all about the 90s dance scenes of the East coast and Chicago, featuring Jersey club tracks like the iconic and endlessly sampled Ha Dance, by Masters At Work, and Armand Van Helden’s Witch Doktor, alongside Bmore classics from Miss Tony, DJ Technics, and Rod Lee. Finally we have ghetto house bangers from DJ Deeon, and its uptempo offspring, footwork, represented here by DJ Rashad and DJ Nehpets.

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31/12/2024

Happy new year! We want to thank all the clients, friends and family who have made this year such a special one. Wishing you all the best for 2025!

Here’s a special NYE picks playlist full of dancefloor heat and new year bangers, from Donna Summer, Bronski Beat, Sylvester and many more…

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18/12/2024

New Roots! Adelphoi Music’s Jonathan Watts 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 37th 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.

Some of the highlights this time round include an influential and prototypical bit of early Brazilian soul, from Cassiano, a phenomenal Korean blues recording by Shin Joong Hyun, and the immortal reggae saxophone playing of Roland Alphonso.

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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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