Natural Selection

14/06/2023

June's show is up to listen again via the website (link in the bio).

First of a new format - all vinyl - selection one section from my collection and making a show from the records in it.

This month, the section was worldwide goodies, with music from Africa, Brasil, India, Turkey, Syria, and other far-flung musical hubs across the globe - it made for a pretty good selection.

Opening up where we go with the next show to you. Give me a number between 1 & 34 and I'll make a show from the records in that section.

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20/03/2023

Tonight on
9-11
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23/02/2023

New mix up to listen back on Reform Radio - link below.

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic - Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow
Amanda Lear - I Am A Photograph
Yusef Lateef - Robot Man
Venus Dodson - Shoot Me With Your Love
Pat Kalla & le Super Mojo - Canette (Bosq remix)
Mercury Dance Band - Kai Wawa
d**o - Start Again (feat. Samii)
Barbara St. Clair - Teacherman
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (extended version)
30/70 - Acceptance
B.Cool Aid - Cnt Go Back (Tell Me)(Liv.e, Butcher Brown, Jimetta Rose, V.C.R & Maurice II)
Fallon Jennings - All Night Long
Monk One - Cut In The Mellow
Mr Beatnick - Shapeshifter
Crackazat - Monday Jam 15. Mangrove
Chaos In The CBD - Higher Elevation
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love
Harvey Sutherland - Changes
Cruisic - Jazz Carnival (edit)
Carlos Niño & Friends - Thankingtheearth LIVE (feat. Nate Mercereau & Josh Johnson)
Daniella Wizard - Déjà Vu
Yazmin Lacey - Late Night People
Hi-Tension - You Make Me Happy
Mildlife - Automatic
Sipho Gumede - Uthinina
Mary Pearce - Legacy
The Lahaar - Doin It

08/06/2022

June's show is up to listen again via the Reform Radio website.

Here's what was played...

Alastair Gudgeon - The Walk In

LeRoy Hutson - Love The Feeling

Kendrick Lamar - United In Grief

Jimetta Rose Music - When You Wake Up

Sly Johnson - Alive

TC & The Groove Family - Boss Fight (feat. Pariss Elektra )

Act One - Tom The Peeper

El Michels Affair - Kabhi

Your Grandparents - Somebody Told Me

Yusef Lateef - Robot Man

Caê - Bim Bim Bim

Mo Fingerz - Funk Tash

Rudy Norman - Back To The Street

Kingsley Bucknor - Keep On Luvin Me

Atmosfear - Dancing In Space

Focus - Hay-Hay

The Love Symphony Orchestra - Let Me Be Your Fantasy

Kenix - There's Never Been No One Like You (feat. Bobby Youngblood)

Kaidi Tatham - Ergonomic Structure

Kendrick Lamar - Crown

Action Bronson - Zambezi

Emma-Jean Thackray - Golden Green (feat. Wiki)

SAULT - Air

Floating Points - Grammar

Four Tet - Only Human

Yasuko Agawa - L.A. Nights

https://www.reformradio.co.uk/show/natural-selection-w-horace-james-7th-june-2022/

25/11/2021

Only a day late...Tuesday's show is up to listen again.

Thanks to everyone who listened back to last month's Broken Beat retrospective, it was really lovely to listen back to those records again.

Back to the newness this month.
Brand new music throughout.

Gloria Ann Taylor - Be Worthy
Rozi Plain - Silent Fan
Pique Roscoe - Gotta Stay Away From You
Tall Black Guy Productions & Ozay Moore - Har Hanz (feat. Ohmega Watts )
Lady Wray - Come On In
Butcher Brown - Remind Me
Rosie Lowe - Paris, Texas
Conclave - All That I Need ( Photay 's Lullaby remix)
Theon Cross - We Go Again
Swindle - Lost (feat. Loyle Carner , Kojey Radical and JNR WILLIAMS )
K S R - CGWY (feat. Children of Zeus )
Chip Wickham - Sais (Egypt)
Inkswel - Eachother (feat. Andrew Ashong )
Alfa Mist - Bumper Cars
Ego Ella May - For Both Of Us
Omar S - Evergreen (feat. SuperCool/Wicked)
Omar S - Psychotic Photosynthesis
OPOLOPO - In The Fast Lane
Jean Luc Ponty - In The Fast Lane
Paula Tape - Multiverso
Gordon Bass (aka Pépé Bradock) - Gothard Tunnel
Bonobo - Otomo (feat. O'Flynn )
Randy Muller - Deja Vu (Yvonner Turner Baby Powder main mix)
Ruf Dug X Lovescene - Make This Right
Pigeon - War (Jam)

https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/natural-selection-w-horace-james-23rd-november-2021/

27/10/2021

Last night was a fun show to put together!

Brought back some happy memories playing these records again.

Thanks to those who listened live and those that might listen back later.

Here's what was played...

Phil Asher - Nambi It Ain't
Spymusic - Cloak
Silhouette Brown - Spread That
Kaidi Totham- Betcha
Alex Phountzi feat. Xantone Black - Another Way (Daz-I-Cue remix)
Domu - Save It
Alison David - Dreams Come True (Afronought remix)
Afronought - Golpe Tuyo Calinda
Seiji - 3Dom
Bugz In The Attic - Zombi (feat. Wumni)
Lekan Babalola - A*o Kere (IG Culture remix)
Quango - Let Groove Come (Co-op mix)
Dalunatricks - Higher (Afrobeat mix)
Roisin Murphy - Sow Into You (Bugz remix)
Mark Force - Gypo
Jeremy Ellis - Bombakiss
Omar - It's So
Jazzanova - Soon (Domu vocal mix)
Sci-Clone - Close
Ayro - Let This
Karizma - Twyst This
New Sector Movements - The Sun

26/10/2021

New show going out tonight at 9pm.

Listen back to last month's at the link below.

Tracklisting

Little Simz - Introvert
Four Tet - 871 020
K S R - Harmless
LayFullstop - Postcards
Amp Fiddler - Energy
William Stuckey - The First Time
Hiroshi Suzuki - Shrimp Dance

*** Ailsa McLaggan (Living Room Dance Club - Guest Mix ***

Aretha Franklin - Master of eyes (the Deepness of your eyes)
Tony Drake - Suddenly
The Raelettes - If you want to keep him
Spice ft Bunny Davis - Sweet Norma Jones
Vivian Hill - Turn on you love light
Candi Staton - Sure as sin
Akofa Akoussah - I tcho tchass
Lonnie Smith - It's changed
Gabriels - Love & hate in a different time (alternative version)
The Truthettes - Make no mistake
Sylvester - I've been down
Trama - You should be dancing
Uneda Dennard - Fantasy ride
Patti LaBelle - The spirit's in it
Calvin Bridges - Fill me up, fill me up
Sylvester - You make me feel (mighty real), the Sam Redmore remix

*** End of Mix ***

Ruf Dug X Lovescene - Make This Right (Club Mix)
DJ Dez Andres - Praises

DJ Shadow Entroducing: EN-FOCUS

Best Foot Forward
Organ Donor
The Number Song
Midnight In A Perfect World
Building Steam With A Grain of Salt

José James - My Favourite Things

https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/natural-selection-w-horace-james-31st-august-2021/

26/10/2021

Tonight, tonight...

All vinyl, Broken Beat special.

9-11 on Reform Radio

Tune in, drop out etc etc...

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21/10/2021

Natural Selection is back next week with another show and we've an absolute belter lined up.

Just over three years ago we put together one of our favourite shows - a homage to early 2000s West London...a Love letter to the music of D**o, IG, Domu and Bugz...Two hours dedicated to all the classics and personal favourite Broken Beat records. All vinyl...all killer!

We'd always planned to give you a part 2, but what with studio closures and, you know, the world ending, part two has sat dormant as a list on my phone until now.

So here we go...I'm calling it The Flip Side, as going to try and dig a little deeper, pulling out those b-sides and forgotten gems.

As I said before, I hope we do it some justice.

This coming Tuesday, 9pm on Reform Radio

02/09/2021

Last night's show on Reform Radio is available to listen again via the link below.

Tracklisting:

Web Web feat. Max Herre and Brandee Younger - Satori Ways
Marco Woolf - With Love & Squalor
JIM - Phoenix
KillA CAD - Wya??
Cleo Sol - Promises
Your Grandparents - Sunlight
Duo - Lo**ta, No! (Don Carlos club mix)
Palms Trax & Nonki Phirri - Petu (Masalo remix)
Nala Sinephro - Space 3
Axel Boman - Bam! (Massproductions dub)
Joy Orbison feat. Kav - Swag
Joy Orbison feat. Léa Sen - Better
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana
Lynda Dawn - Roses (XL Middleton version)
Joe Armon-Jones feat. Goya Gumbani - Fix It
Cleo Sol - Don't Let It Go To Your Head
Nubiyan Twist feat. Ria Morgan - Morning Light
Gabriels - Love & Hate In A Different Time ( Kerri Chandler remix)
Kerri Chandler - Bar-A-Thyme
Tommy Rawson - Sound Crazy
EVM128 fear. Natalie May - Tell Me
MAGOU - Dejarte
Dauwd - La Nota
Crystal Winds - Lover's Holiday
Al-Dos Band - Doing Our Thing With Pride
Okyerema Asante Black Fire feat. Brian Jackson - Sabi

Natural Selection is a monthly journey, searching out obscure rarities and forgotten gems, syncopated rhythms and the down-right funky. Join Horace James as he joins the dots between an eclectic mix of global beeps, bleeps and squeaks.

04/08/2021

Tracklist for last night's show.
Thanks to those of you who tuned in to listen live.
Listen back should be available later today via Mixcloud and the Reform Radio

Lovely...

31/05/2021

Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight...

31/05/2021

Bag is packed and ready for this tonight at Escape to Freight Island for their Kantina Weekender.

I'll be holding things down outside from 6pm.

Come say hello if you're about...

22/01/2021

I said to someone recently that this is my favourite record of the past few years and, I don't know, maybe that was just hyperbole but, it's been on repeat since landing on my doormat and it really is a truly, truly special record.