Groovement

Tamer Nafar, of Palestinian hip hop crew DAM, launches his solo album this week - In The Name Of The Father, The Imam and John Lennon. Join us for some close personal insight into the project. 
First broadcast in edited form on Radio Alhara, 23 Jan 2026

Some of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite labels, kicking off with their newest 45, Albert Nadeau's I Am Black.
Support their releases at: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com
See the full track list and buy links at https://groovement.co.uk/2026/01/analog-africa-liberte/ 
First broadcast 4 Jan 2026 on Radio Alhara - Liber[té] is the first Sunday of each month.


| Albert Nadeau - | I Am Black
| Mukhtar Ramadan Idii -  | Check Up Your Head
| Sonido Verde De Moyobamba - | Zarzamora
| Ranil -  | Bahia
| Los Cisnes -  | Safari en la selva
| Ousmane Kouyaté -  | Kefimba (edit)
| Ousmane Kouyaté -  | N'Ny
| Leon Keita - | Dalaka
| Ernesto Djédjé - | Bliwana
| Junior y Su Equipo - | Bien Bailadito
| Bro. Valentino -  | Stay Up Zimbabwe
| Cumbia Machuca - | Cumbia de los bee gees
| Gnonnas Pedro and His Dadjes Band - | Dadge Von O Von Non \83\"
| Antonio Sanches - | Buli povo
| Zig-Zag Band - | Ndzirombi (Conflict Monger)

Jamie Groovement aka Agent J

Black Star Legacy Mix for Afrodeutsche and the People’s Party

Celebrating nearly 30 years of Black Star and their debut album which changed the course of artist-led hip hop. A mix including artists who follow in the footsteps of their work. 

00:00 Black Star -  Astronomy (8th Light)  (instrumental)

00:17 Black Star -  K.O.S. (Determination)  (instrumental)

00:29 Black Star -  Children's Story  (instrumental)

00:49 Black Star -  Respiration (instrumental)

01:01 Nihal Arthanayake - Introduction

01:39 Black Star - RE:DEFinition (instrumental)

02:04 Black Star - RE:DEFinition (live)

02:38 Strong Arm Steady - Get Started ft Talib Kweli

03:13 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Calypso Gene ft Silka & Cleo Reed

04:34 Little Simz - Little Q, Pt 2

05:53 Common - CBC Music 2019 Interview Excerpt

05:54 Common - One-Nine-Nine-Nine

06:41 Immortal Technique - Leaving The Past

07:58 M.I.A. - Paper Planes

09:01 Lowkey - Voices Of The Voiceless

10:17 Brother Ali - Shadows On The Sun

11:48 Boogie Down Productions - Stop The Violence (sample for Black Star - Definition) 

11:54 CEEJ (StillMCR) - Black Star Pick

12:23 Black Star - Definition

12:33 Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes To Worst

13:42 Jurassic 5 - Freedom 

14:33 Reflection Eternal - Move Somethin'

15:18 Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)

16:07 Little Simz - Gorilla

16:50 D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

17:36 Slum Village - Fall In Love

17:53 Talib Kweli - Get By 

19:07 Mos Def - Hip Hop 

20:38 Blu & Exile - The World Is (Below The Heavens)

21:47 Mckinley Dixon - Sugar Water ft Quelle Chris and Anjimile

23:01 Quasimoto - Microphone Mathematics

23:43 Pharoahe Monch - The Light 

24:35 Common - The Light ft Erykah Badu (J Dilla remix)

26:00 R.A.P. Ferreira - Leaving Hell

26:36 Homeboy Sandman - Too Deep 

27:17 Jay Electronica - A.P.I.D.T.A.

29:01 The Roots - Dynamite!

29:11 Oddisee - Belong To The World

30:08 Dead Prez - I'm A African 

31:11 Sampa The Great - Final Form

31:46 Kae Tempest - Europe Is Lost

32:35 A Tribe Called Quest - We The People… (instrumental)

32:56 Don Randi - Theme from The Fox (sampled for Black Star - Respiration)

The final Groovement of the years sees a gang of friends choose some tracks for the first hour, with new independent music rounding out the second hour. See Bandcamp buy links and the full track list over on Groovement.co.uk - thanks to everyone who contributed! This may or may not be the 300th episode of the show too, I'm not too sure, but it's a nice way to celebrate if so. 

Daudi Matsiko - How Can I Love ft  Ríoghnach Connolly

Social Lovers - Love Come Down

Hermanito - Funk Mantis

Dementira - Extraviado

Souleance - Movin' On 

Burland & Zongo Abongo - Work Hard

Ana Frango Elétrico - Não Tem Nada Não ft Marcos Valle

El Palmas - La Baja

Grupo Um - Absurdo Mudo

El Dragón Criollo - Ponte A Trabajar

Whodamanny - La Fiesta

Mulukèn Mèllèssè - Djèmèrègn  

Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical  - Bahia

Temporary Blessings - Solitary Islands Theme 

Elftraps drop in to talk about their debut EP Sunflowers In A Blue Sky, and MC-producer Blacksmith introduces his new single Last Days. Plus, Agent J has new music from El Train and Miki Rose, Sonnyjim and Morriarchi, Pouya Ehsaei, Tara Lily, Navy Blue and more.

Bastien Keb - Nighthawks  

Jamie Finlay - Family (Quiet Dawn Remix) ft Ellen Beth Abdi 

El Train & Miki Rose - Twin Flame

Oliver Night - Boss ft Roots Manuva

Levitation Orchestra - Sanctuary

Elftraps - Sunflowers in a Blue Sky

Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid - The Sun Never Sets

Two Shell - Mum Is Calling

Elftraps - Metrognome

Zig-Zag Band - Ndzirombi (Conflict Monger)

Pouya Ehsaei - Varvara

Navy Blue - Orchards

Temporary Blessings - Goblin Mode 

Eero - Colectiva

Jambal - Start like This

Sonnyjim & Morriarchi -  New Jersey Drive ft Fly Anakin

junclassic - roots and culture

junclassic - the factory

Alfa Mist - Reincarnation ft Homeboy Sandman

Blacksmith - Last Days ft Westside Boogie

Blacksmith - Price Of Love

Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes To Worst

Fred Wesley and the JB's - Damn Right I'm Somebody

Pan Amsterdam - Kimchi ft Guts

Tara Lily -  Tropical Storm feat. King Krule

Tara LIly -  Corcovado

Von Pea & The Other Guys - Knew It All ft Oddisee

Hermanito - Tamarindo

Lone - Sickly, Sweetly Summer Movie

DJ HARRISON - Stay Ready ft Yaya Bey

Ata Kak - Yasi Town 

Originally broadcast on Reform Radio, 17 Nov 2025

What an honour to play for The Great Oven's Disco Cantina at All Together Now Festival 2025 - here's my banquet soundtrack.
Read more about the project below:

** THE GREAT OVEN DISCO CANTINA **
with TANG, RADIO ALHARA & MIXMAG

Since its inception in 2019, The Great Oven has been forging giant, beautifully decorated, community ovens – installing them in refugee camps, conflict zones and informal settlements across Lebanon and South Africa.

This year, their mission is to expand to the West Bank whilst creating a cultural bridge between Palestine and a homebase in Ireland. Artists from both countries have been collaborating all year to construct two Great Ovens that will be decorated at IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art and unveiled at All Together Now 2025.

You’ll find them at The Great Oven Disco Cantina: a feast for the senses where festivalgoers can dance, dine and support the journey of a Great Oven to Palestine. An exceptional lineup of longstanding partners and allies have gathered all together now, to bring this vision to life.

Leading the Disco Cantina’s culinary experience is beloved Middle Eastern eatery, Tang who are shutting all their Dublin sites for the weekend to send their talented team to host this gastronomic extravaganza. Cherished recipes from Great Oven refugee cooks will feature alongside favourite dishes from the restaurant. Once a day, 100 diners will be given the opportunity to attend a DJ Banquet where special guests will perform a once-in-a-lifetime, intimate show at the cantina. The rest of the day Tang will be serving up a buzzy BBQ feast with freshly made Saj bread, all cooked live in this unique setting.

Bringing the disco is Palestinian radio station turned global cultural phenomenon, Radio Alhara. From day to night, DJs from Palestine and across the Middle East, along with renowned Irish and international acts, will spin a soundtrack of sonic solidarity. The entire experience will be captured and amplified by Mixmag, the world’s largest and longest-running electronic music platform. The Disco Cantina’s dancefloor will host Ireland’s first-ever Mixmag Lab, which will be streamed globally.

When the festival lights go out, the voyage of these Great Ovens begins. One will make its way to Palestine, where it will be housed at the Wonder Cabinet, a creative hub in the West Bank. The other will find its home at Dalymount Park, Bohemian Football Club’s historic ground. These twin ovens will nourish communities, honour shared struggle and will create a cultural bridge between Ireland and Palestine where recipes, art, music and solidarity will be shared for generations to come.

Momoko Gill -  When Palestine Is Free

Sonnyjim, Morriarchi - The Real Thing (ft Tay Jordan, Jay Worthy). 

Bambu - It’s Happening, Again

Joker Starr - Stop Acting Like A ft Micall Parknsun and Jazz T 

Ego Ella May - 'We're Not Free'

Victoria Port - I Won't Wait

The Womack Sisters - If You Want Me

Yazmin Lacey - Water

Sudan Archives - COME AND FIND YOU

Alex Nut - andthenitstarted ft James Mollison

Obeka - Pon Ya Head ft WOST

Obeka - Kuduro! ft Yemi Bolatiwa

Obeka - A World No More

Meduulla & Ethan Hill -Good Food ft Gio Genesis

Vice Beats - Snowfall In The Summer ft Phat Kat, Blu and JabbaThaKut

Werkha -  Narrow In ft Daudi Matsiko

Zach Tenorio - What'd It Take

Apollo Brown & Ty Farris - Flawless Victory ft Top Hooter

bat zoo - The Origin Of Things 

D'Angelo and the Vanguard  - Back to the Future (Part I)

D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Back to the Future (Part II)

El Train - Run Around ft Miki Rose

Joe Armon Jones - One Way Traffic

Lone - Ascension.png

Tom Skinner - The Maxim ft Meshell Ndegeocello

NOVINE - Shot Me Down

Peyton - Eye Love ft Brian Alexander Morgan

slowerpace 音楽 - Tackle-it Tuesday

Remulak - Natural

EX GENERATION - Shringara

Leif Maine & L.A. Salami - SOY

Matt Wilde - Yellow Days

Natureboy Flako - Shape Of Things To Come

Delia Derbyshire - Falling

Ahmed Malek & Flako - Tape 23 Track 5

Gazelleband - Ghorba

Victor Jara - Lazo

Perri Alleyne - Taxi (Ave Maria)

Lone - Coming Into Being And Passing Away

Aphex Twin - #3

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Hania Rani - Glass

Tinariwen  - Imidiwaren (KMRU remix)

Massive Attack - Angel ft Horace Andy (Mad Professor remix)

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Displacement (KMRU rework)

KMRU - OT

Nyokabi Kariũki - Nazama (A Colors Show)

Muslimgauze - Every Grain of Palestinian Sand

First broadcast Sunday 5 October 2025

Two Detroit titans for the price of one this month on Groovement - I was hanging with Guilty at the end of August when he was over for Jimi Goodwin's NightjaR gig, then we did a show at the Rat & Pigeon the following day, all courtesy of Broken Wing who brought him over to the UK. Phat Kat was here a year ago, performing at the sadly-missed Hip Hop Chip Shop , and we sat down before hand with Blacksmith, who was also on the line up. 

It's humbling to say the least to be in the presence of either of these two, let alone have them both on one radio show, so I extend my sincere thanks to both of them for their time and energy. Obviously they're both inexorably linked with the legacy of J Dilla, and we talk about him too, but they both very much fully carry the weight of their own art. 

Manchester producer and longtime friend of Groovement, Mecca:83, has both of these cats on his new album, so let's start with that track. DJAY ANA MAY on the co-hosting duties!