I had the pleasure of catching London-based DJ and producer Roska live at Sonar 2010 on Mary Anne Hobbs’ stage and had an absolute blast. Back then he contributed greatly to create the “UK Funky” genre that blends electronic dance music of the 2000s and African/Caribbean rhythms.

Whilst in many eyes, Roska is still shaping UK Funky standards, his sound has been transforming into something new over the last 18 months. He’s racking up extensive airplay on both Rinse and Radio 1 and in effect redefining what people have come to expect over the past 4 years.

He took some time out of his DJ/Producer/Labelowner schedule and stopped by Jubilee’s Fireworks on Brooklynradio.com for a memorable guestmix. Enjoy!

Tracklist – Roska
Roska ft Ruby Goe – Memories
Gemmy – Badman Ting
Redlight ft Ms Dynamite – What You Talkin’ About
T Williams – Zoop
Skepta – Punch in his face
Roska – ZZZ
Swindle & Takura – Have A Go
Roska ft Mz Bratt – Go
Roska & Pinch – Shoulda Rolla
Roska ft Juiceman – Dub Espionage
Champion – Cannon
Preditah – Circles
Doc Daneeka – Murdah Strings
Joker – Lost (Redlight Remix)
Brackles ft Cherri V – Chasing Crazy
Roska – Without It
Roska ft Sweetie Irie – Badman

Tracklist – Jubilee
LAZERSWORD-Seems Sane
Cardopusher-Hotbox (DVA Remix)
Sinden-Keep it 1000
Addison Groove-Beeps (ft. Spankrock)
Shy One-Aztec Bwoy
Ursa Major-Ghostwriter (Star Eyes Remix)

So the show is back on the road and on the regular with a great, generally soulful, selection this week – it should sound pretty good during what looks like the start of summer for large parts of the northern hemisphere. Portformat kicked things off in fine style from his great album about to drop on Tokyo Dawn. The album is full of great beats and production and with a dazzling array of guest vocalists, this boy just gets better and he was pretty good to start off with! The Jazzanova live group album has just dropped and if you like the classic sounds of black America then it will be right up your street. Vintage soulful jazz was then the order of the day from the reissued Solis Lacus album on Heavenly Sweetness as Favourite recordings also carry on their reissue series with another of the great Ray Stephen Oche albums, out about now.

Guido Mobius then weirded up the show a bit with ‘All Evil Ways’ from his interesting new album on Karaoke Kalk before sonic adventurer RYAT kept things off the beaten track from her forthcoming album on Brainfeeder, a bit Bjorkish vocally but certainly none the worse for that and generally a great unique sound. Slugabed’s album on Ninja has finally dropped and we’re particularly liking the cosmic soul vibes of ‘Unicorn Suplex’. Best use of a blues sample award goes to the debut single from The Allergies and their ‘Big Star’ tune on Riddim Fruit, a really fine start to the recording project from mix king DJ Moneyshot & Rackabeat. HornDogz then kept the funk flowing and enlisted the vocal talents of Ty to make some of that classic sounding hip hop, nice.

A little 4/4 section finished the show kicking off with a taster of the new Fantastic Mr. Fox EP on Black Acre, great leftfield house vibes. Auntie Flo then carried on the deep house mission from one of our albums of the year, Future Rhythm Machine – check it! Pitchben then went super deep and soulful with surely one of the warmest tunes of the summer, the Alexander Maier 1to11 remix of ‘Unique’ – lovely! Enawadan then kept the soul vibes flowing before Lone finished the show in fine style with ‘Earths Lungs’ from his excellent new album on R&S.

Tracklist

Portformat – It’s Been So Long feat. Astrid Engberg (Tokyo Dawn Records promo)
Jazzanova with Band & Paul Randolph – No Use (Sonar Kollectiv)
Solis Lacus – Utopic Cities (Heavenly Sweetness)
Ray Stephen Oche & His Matumbo – Peace Upon Kenemaland (Favouite promo)
Guido Mobius – All Evil Ways (Karaoke Kalk)
RYAT – Object Mob (Brainfeeder promo)
Slugabed – Unicorn Suplex (Ninja Tune)
The Allergies – Big Star (Riddim Fruit)
HornDogz – Movin’ On feat Ty, Breis & Peeda (Uptown Records)
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Yesterdays Fall feat Alby Daniels (Black Acre promo)
Auntie Flo – Futurismo (Huntleys & Palmers)
Pitchben – Unique, Alexander Maier 1to11 remix (Compost Records promo)
EnaWadan – Reborn, Inner Dimensions mix (Sonar Kolletiv Records)
Lone – Earths Lungs (R&S)

This mix comes courtesy of DJ Ayres & DJ Eleven and should get you through the next 10 days until the next The Rub @ Bellhouse in Brooklyn goes down. On Saturday, May 26th Ayres, Eleven and special guest Nick Catchdubs will give you the best party in NYC. Period.

Tracklist:

Young Dolph – Sky High feat. Juicy J
Big K.R.I.T – I Got This Here
Future – Same Damn Time
Rick Ross – Holy Ghost
Meek Mill – Lean Wit It
Meek Mill & Big Sean – Burn
Iggy Azalea – Murda Bizness ft T.I.
Iamsu! – Get It In
E-40 – Function feat. YG, IAMSU, Problem
Mac Mall – My Room
Mac Dre – Derido feat. Mac Mall & E-40
DJ Quik – Sexuality
Poison Clan – Low Life Mutha Fuckas
The 2 Live Crew – Throw the D
Justin Martin – Chicken Tetrazzini feat. Nav the Shah
The Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
NWA – Something 2 Dance 2
Kanye West – Mercy feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz (Tim Dolla Remix
+ Original)
Nick Catchdubs x Nicki Minaj – USBz in the Trap
Girl Unit – Club Rez
Jai Paul – Jasmine

Treat ‘em like boxing, Stick and Move! ‘Stick and Move’ takes you jab for jab with the likes of new joints from Cam’ron, El-P, Termanology, Joell Ortiz, Roc Marciano, Styles P, Curren$y, etc. If that hasn’t caught your eye, Episode 94 continues to stick to the 90′s chronological fitness regimen with a slew of Mandean’s favorite hip hop classics from 1994. Tune In for the rope-a-dopest mixture of new and old.

Tracklist:

Cam’ron, T.I. – Jungle
T.I., Cam’ron – Royalty (Crown Me)
Prince Rakeem (RZA) – We Love You Rakeem
Redman, Runt Dawg – Zip Lock
El-P – The Full Retard
1982, Freddie Gibbs, Crooked I – Make It Out Alive
Joell Ortiz – Cashin Out (Freestyle)
Action Bronson – 103 & Roosy
Wais P, Roc Marciano – Jewels On It
Prodigy – Keep It Thoro
Sir Micheal Rocks – Slice (Remix)
Styles P, Avery Storm, Curren$y, Nitty Scott – How I Fly (Remix)
Gang Starr – Mass Appeal
Nas – Represent
KMD – It Sounded Like A Roc
Notorious BIG – Gimme The Loot
O.C. – Time’s Up
Artifacts – C’Mon Wit Da Git Down
Method Man – Release Yo’ Self

DOWNLOAD Radio Edit 94 – Stick And Move

It’s a family affair on Fireworks this week, when Jubilee welcomes DJ Ayres for a guestmix. Ayres is not only part of The Rub on brooklynradio.com – Jubilee, him and Nick Catchdubs (Fools Gold) joined forces and brought you the Flashing Lights party series in NYC. Enough blabla, it’s time for DJ Ayres y’all!

Tracklist:

GLC – Angry Birds (prod. by DJ Ayres)
RL Grime – Treadstone
French Fries – Yo Vogue (Leroy Peppers Remix)
Santigold – Look At These Hoes
Surkin – Lose Yourself (Rustie Remix)
Lil Durk – I Get Paid
DJ Swizzymack – Back Up
Alfa Paare – A$AP Rocky Joint
Shontelle – Impossible is Nothing (Sliink Remix)
Disclosure – Tenderly (Kidnap Kid Remix)
Eli Escobar – I Believe
XXXChange – Scrying For You
DJ Ayres – Liberation
Claptone – Make Me Feel
Shadow Child – String Thing
Smalltown DJs – Loving the Vibe (f. Trigga Nom) (5kinAndBone5 Remix)

Episode 8 of The Aldo Vanucci Show. Hosted by none other than – well – Aldo Vanucci – UK’s renowned vinyl digger and producer.

Full Tracklist:

juicy Lolita – notorious del ray
never – skitz – dragon drop records
time for you – Dillinger – valve
who gonna make the dance ram serial killaz mix – Andrew paul – nice up
feel the love – rudimental – black butter
badungdeng – sleeping giants – tru thoughts
shining star joe goddard mix – nneka – decon
city full of lights gigamesh mix – Alexander Holland – download
I dream of you – dr meaker – sludge records
Minaj eater – Alvin risk – download
Falling down shogun audio mix – mz bratt
Hurt me – tarrus riley – smart move records
Dubby Diana – bangers r mashed – white
Community service announcement – kylie auldist – tru thoughts
Love makes a woman – Barbara acklin – brunswick
Givin up – hairy diamond – gut

DOWNLOAD: Aldo Vanucci Show – Episode 08

For the debut edition of Mixtape Riot Radio, head honcho Charlie B. Wilder (aka Captain Planet) serves up a small eclectic sample of the things we love. Mostly new(ish) tracks, this month’s selection touches on reggae, indie, downtempo, disco, house, EDM, african styles and tropical bass. Sounds a bit all-over-the-place, but we trust you’ll be able to hear the connections and follow along with us for 60mins of strictly GOOD MUSIC.

Tracklist:

1. Major Lazer – Get Free (ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors)
2. Stand High Patrol – The Big Tree
3. Gardens & Villa – Orange Blossom
4. AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It
5. Kouyaté & Neerman – Requiem Pour Un Con
6. The Ting Tings – Soul Killing
7. U-Tern – You Don’t Know Me
8. Astrobal – Trains (The Hue Re-Think)
9. Benny Sings – One II
10. Jolie Cherie – Star
11. Siriusmo – Simple
12. Eli Escobar – Anniversary
13. Hot Chip – Night And Day
14. Botnek – Panama Bass
15. Cloak Dagger – Ale’ Sofi (Captain Planet Remix)
16. Makossa & Megablast – Imimi (ft. OG Spiritual Goddess)
17. Zaki Ibrahim – Something In The Water
18. Hermitude – Hyperparadise
19. Wild Belle – Keep You

DOWNLOAD: Mixtape Riot #001

photo credit: Farah Sosa

This month we’ve got a special guest joining the show, New York’s own knomad. In addition to recently preforming alongside Sampled heros Bonobo, Falty DL, Machinedrum, and Mike Slott, knomad’s been helping blow up the bass scene on the east coast with the always free and amazingly fun onthesly parties every third Thursday at Le Poisson Rouge. knomad also holds things down the following night at Albany’s bass–music monthly, Outpost1. We’re honored to have had knomad do this month’s guest mix and glad he had plenty of fun doing it. Sit back, turn up the volume and enjoy this month’s special mix. Full tracklisting below.

Brian A Mix:

Disclosure – Just Your Type
GoldFFinch – Point of Entry
Daily – Kick Some
Wiz Khalifa – Guilty Conscience
Lapalux – Moments (feat. Py)
Synkro – Why Don’t You
Clicks & Whistles – Can’t Believe
Rustie – Hover Traps
RL Grime – Art Money
Mess Kid – Sipslow
Bok Bok – Silo Pass
Beyoncé – Dance For You (CartelMusicRemix / HotRod feat. DJ Sliink)
Clicks & Whistles – When I Feel
Clams Casino – I’m God

knomad Mix:

ASC & Vaccine – Bleep Test
Genotype – Version
Das EFX – 40 & A Blunt
Unknown – Unknown (Unreleased)
Ital Tek – Gonga
Looney – From Overhead (Unreleased)
Unknown – Reading Rainbow (Unreleased)
Diamond – I’m On One (Remix)
Unknown – Trap Don’t Judge (Unreleased)
Thefft – Start Slow (Hirshi’s Undercover Remix)
Baauer – No Good
Obey City – Intrigue
Copout – Luna (Unreleased)
Krueger – This Is Sick (4/16 Paradisiaca Records)
Obey City – IDID (Unreleased)

DOWNLOAD: Sampled Radio 07 – Brian A / knomad

No big introduction needed, by now you should know that Ayres & Eleven aren’t sorry for party rocking. New Yorkers, you can experience this sort of thing live: The next Rub is April 28th at Bell House in Brooklyn! Should be killer as usual!

Tracklist:

A$AP Rocky – Goldie
Danny Brown – Grown Up
Loverance – Up! (Remix ft. 50 Cent)
Meek Mill – I’m Rollin
Azealia Banks – L8R
Tyga – Rack City (Grandtheft Bootleg)
Jay Fay ft. G-Eazy – Starlife
Bunji Garlin – So & So
Sherwayne Winchester – Badder Than We
Cee Lo Green – Fuck You (Jr Blender Ska Remix)
Sticky ft. Natalie Storm – Look Pon Me (Soulforce & Motagen Remix)
J. Cole – Can’t Get Enough (Rock-It Scientists Remix)
Malente & Treasure Fingers – Crusaders
Breakbot – Fantasy (AB’s Return to [Disco] New York Mix)
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Penguin Prison Remix)
Oliver – I Need You
Azari & III – Into The Night
DJ Eleven feat. Sharina Doyle – Last Beat

DOWNLOAD The Rub Radio – April 2012 (DJ Ayres & DJ Eleven)

Bastard Jazz Radio’s DJ DRM returns with another diverse selection tunes for your listening pleasure. Brand new material from Quantic & Alice Russel, Kid Loco, Ta-Ku, The Monophonics, Souleance, Rootah, The Spy From Cairo and more. Tune in only on Brooklynradio!

Tracklist

1. Ta-Ku – Smile
2. Colm K. – Slipping (Into Tomorrow)
3. Quantic & Alice Russel – Here Again
4. Rotary Connection – Brave Ulysses
5. Kovacs – Reptilicus
6. Stereo77 – Mi Camino
7. The Monophonics – High Off Your Love
8. Souleance – Schack
9. Kid Loco – My Daddy Waza (Suonho Remix)
10. The Spy From Cairo – Taksim Square
11. Rootah – Mr. Vibes

DOWNLOAD Bastard Jazz Radio – April 2012