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02/10/2025

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 ninth year and the 41st 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 a stunning bit of contemporary neo-soul, from Ley Soul, a happily reissued digger’s gem in the form of Taxie’s Rock Don’t Stop, and a latter days disco classic from Nightlife Unlimited, which inspired the first wave of house music.

12/09/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist is inspired by the soulful, proto-liquid drum & bass sounds of A Guy Called Gerald’s pioneering album, Black Secret Technology. The album isn’t listed on Spotify, one if the many gaps on the platform that distort our histories of popular music. But we do have works from Goldie, Tom & Jerry (aka 4Hero), LTJ Bukem, Source Direct, Andy C, and Photek.

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24/07/2025

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 ninth year and the 40th 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 seductive slice of late 70s boogie / soul from Fern Kinney, Eric B & Rakim’s contribution to the iconic Juice soundtrack, and a gorgeous bit of Cumbia from Medellín, from Los Hermanos Martelo.

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30/05/2025

Weekly picks! Celebrating the anniversaries of the enormous, 35,000 person rave at Castlemorton in 1992, 40 years of the Battle of the Beanfield, and the release of a new documentary exploring the history of free party soundsystems like Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, and DIY in the early 90s, this week’s playlist collects some of the music heard at these seminal parties. Featuring psychedelic downtempo music from Nail, Higher Intelligence Agency, and A Positive Life, as well as the blistering sonic assault of free tekno, by Tribe affiliates, Crystal Distortion, R-Zac, and Meltdown Mickey.

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16/05/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist highlights some of the artists that resolutely kept things underground, while hip hop was hitting the peak of its popularity in the years between 1995-2005. Many of these tracks were self-released or issued through independent labels and stuck to the uncompromising realism and social conscience of early hip hop, a far cry from the glorified brutality of the gangsta rap that was hitting the charts at the time. Featuring the likes of MF Doom, Black Star and Common, Smif-n-Wessun, Company Flow, and Capone-n-Noreaga.

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09/05/2025

Weekly picks! This week’s playlist is packed with new music from club bangers and hyperpop mutations to dreary transfusions of trap and post-punk. We’ve got ethereal reggaeton from VVUTURA and Mayah Alkhateri, tessareims and Explicitt, and Isabella Lovestory; big club cuts from Katiusha, Ploy, and Metrist, with pop inflections from Nazar, aya, Creams and Aghnie, and Bitgurl; and finally some 80s goth inflected cuts from ambient trap icons Yung Lean and Rainy Miller ft. Graham Sayle.

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08/05/2025

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 39th 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 include an early funk cut from 80s boogie legends, Cameo; a gorgeous bit of modern soul from Fatback Brother Bill Curtis, best known for being the founder of the pioneering funk group, The Fatback Band, who arguably recorded the first hip hop record; and a stunning collaborative composition from Brazilian icons, João Bosco and Aldir Blanc.

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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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