In the beginning there was rhythm

Weeds up to me knees give a big shout to Chris The Rhythm Doctor who was interviewed on this week’s Gilles Peterson’s breakfast show on Worldwide FM. After a while of waiting for the show to go up online yesterday, the show is now finally up in all its glory on Mixcloud.

At 1.37.00 on the show is the interview featuring Chris chatting about his early days in Birmingham and Coventry, a good bit about the Jazz Funk days and bit on his involvement in the early days of House music. Trouble is, there’s loads more that can go in there! Any chance of a part two or three, Gilles?

At 2.33.00 in there’s an exclusive mix from Chris. Cheers to him for playing two Jasmine Tutum & Madtone tracks alongside lots of great eclectic stuff including the brilliant Don Cavalli “Fire Fire”, Arina Singh and the crazy dub of The Detonators “Lift Off” (which as the legend goes, after hearing it, Jerry Dammers contacted the tune’s producer John Collins and got him to produce The Specials’ Ghost Town).

Do check RD’s label Almost Unknown on Bandcamp here and expect more releases on the label. And as we keep mentioning, do check out his Monday morning show here on IDA Radio (Tallin) which has a fine mix of tunes for the start of the week.

Here’s the full tracklistings of the mix as it’s a bit sketchy on the Worldwide site at the present moment:

01. Uku Kuut – Visions of Estonia (PPU)
02. Collage – Uni,Tule Silma Peale!/Sleep,Come On The Eye! (Melodiya)
03. Treee vs Hüpnosaurus – Suveöö/Summer Night – Rhythm Doctor Rub (Umblu)
04. N.Ae. – Fatum/Fate (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
05. Arina Singh – Persian Glitter Carpet (Unreleased)
06. Jasmine Tutum & Madtone featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry – Livicate (Unreleased)
07. Maarja Nuut – Kutse Tantsule/A Call To Dance (Self Released)
08. Gunars Rozenbergs – Disko Roze (Melodiya)
09. Konstantin Orbelyan – Vocalese (Melodiya)
10. Medey – The Hunter Suite (pt 1) mix Stanton Davis (Melodiya)
11. The Detonators – Lift Off (Special Request)
12. Jasmine Tutum & Madtone – What Is Man (Unreleased)
13. Don Cavalli – Fire Fire (Rag Records)
14. The Outlaws – Crazy Drums (His Masters Voice)
15. Chyskyyrai – Khara Tüün – Rhythm Doctor radio edit (Indigenous Lifeforms)
16. Vladimir Tarasov – Monotipijos 45 (Melodiya)
17. Skeet – Meathouse (Almost Unknown)
18. Mad Musician – Jazz In (Tribe Recordings)
19. Ajukaja & Ats – Signal (Mida)

One more before the night is over

Seekae – Test & Recognise (Flume Re-Work)

Here’s a great tune heard earlier today whilst doing the washing up with the Gilles Peterson show on.

I was looking out of the kitchen window dreaming of being in the garden forking over a couple of veg beds and listening to Flume‘s reworking of Seekae’s Test & Recognise. Trouble is the rain was lashing it down and it was hard to think that later on in the year the sun will be shining!

Thursday night on the blog

Guts – You Don’t Have To Worry – Heavenly Sweetness

http://soundcloud.com/guts/dont-worry

We featured a track from guts last week but gilles p played another one on his last show and it’s a right old cracker! We do love a bit of nice slow-mo french hip-hop here, and it turns out it’s on on the Heavenly Sweetness label which is home of the great blundetto. Big thanks to dj dick (rockers hi-fi) from birmingham for putting us onto blundetto after hearing it on his blog and dick is interviewed on the recent free school podcast which is great listening and features some nice tunes too!

http://wearefreeschool.com/post/34184358585/free-school-podcast-16-dj-dick-rockers-hi-fi