Groovement

The Manchester duo celebrate Full Circle, their debut album for HIgh Focus Records. Having met at Manchester hip hop event In The Loop, the pair worked together in The Mouse Outfit before finding their own paths, Now, they return - older, but wiser.

More info and pre-order the album: https://groovement.co.uk/2024/11/fullcircle/

First broadcast on Radio Alhara 3 Nov 2024. Mixed by Jamito. 

9 November sees the return of An Afternoon Of Dilla at Brix in London.

Featuring live performances, DJ sets, beat sets, a Dilla beat cypher plus exclusive merch and competitions, this is an official fundraising event for the James Dewitt Yancey Foundation, the charity established by Ma Dukes.

All money raised from the event will be donated to the charity to support the amazing work they do surrounding music production for young people - offering free sessions and access to industry standard music equipment.

The event is family friendly, with great small plate food provided by BRIX, and an amazing competition supported by Minirigs, Scratch Pro Audio, Monkey Shoulder and more. AAOD is supported by University Of Bristol and Hip Hop Coffee Shop.

The event features:

Essa - Dilla tribute set
Mysdiggi
Christopha
DJ Prime Cuts
Dj Kishmeister
DJ Shorty
Eahwee- beat set
Stereo Mike - Dilla beat breakdown
Vice beats Dilla tribute talk
Dilla beats cypher

An autumnal RnB selection from choice selector WatchDeez.
https://www.instagram.com/watchdeez/
Featuring Marsiell, Jon B, Kuartz, Jill Scott, Alexander O'Neal, Maeta, Jade, Maxwell, Mint Condition, Mobb Deep, Terri Walker, Muni Long, Tsana, Zhané and Silk.

Agent J plays music from The Pro Teens, Greenfinguz and Angry Blackmen plus two guest mixes: Vice Beats' Dilla tribute ahead of An Afternoon Of Dilla on Nov 9 in London, plus a super soulful mix from WatchDeez with his Love (This) Season selection.

Please donate: 
RESTLESS BEINGS https://donate.restlessbeings.org/pages/mabrur-ahmed/lebanon-urgent-support
THE GREAT OVEN https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sustainable-food-relief-in-Lebanon

Agent J catches up with Trackstar The DJ (Run The Jewels) about his recent tour with Killer Mike, plus High Focus Records boss Fliptrix opens up about the personal inspirations behind new album Dragonfly.

Plus new music from Vice Beats, Sly5thAve remixed by Jamz Supernova and Sam Interface, The O'My's, Spectacular Diagnostics and Mulatu Astatke with Hoodna Orchestra.

An in-depth chat with Jaubi before the release of their second LP, A Sound Heart (out 6 Sep), with cofounder and sarangi master Zohaib Hassan Khan. 

Zohaib is a 7th generation sarangi maestro and one of only 5 professional sarangi players left in Pakistan practicing this ancient art form. Today he talks about his family legacy, the dying art form of playing and his grandfather, Ustad Hussain Bakhsh Amritsari. We also hear about the fruits of meeting Tenderlonious and their work together.

Thanks to 2Kings for joining in, to explain why they chose Jaubi to remix a track of theirs featuring Douniah

More info: https://groovement.co.uk/alhara
A Sound Heart https://jaubi.bandcamp.com/music

Thugs From Amritsar is the debut album from Pataka Boys, aka PAV4N, Sonnyjim and Kartik. 
We get some insight into the project from PAV4N and producer Kartik plus talk about music, identity and Indian hip hop.

Private Joy - All Eyes On You

Tara Lilly - Breathe Now

Jaubi - Chandrakauns

JWISS - Make Space feat. Demi Grace

Matt Wilde, [ K S R ] - When it Comes Together

Hania Rani - It Comes In Waves (Studio 1, Warsaw)

Greeenfinguz - Refugee

Strategy - Lanterns

2tall - shifting tides

Om Unit - Dark Sunrise

Om Unit - Understand

Phillip K Dick - Future Shock

Om Unit vs Kromestar - Solar Cycle

Kartik -  S(KAITO)

Kartik - VAPURS

Kartik - Shallowater

Kartik - SeekThru_

Kartik - kuul_aid

Pataka Boys - Black Sabbath

Seedhe Maut - Chalta Reh

Seedhe Maut - Kranti

Prabh Deep  - Chitta

Jaubi - Time (Donut of the heart)

Partaka Boys - Megaloblast

Pataka Boys ft M.O.N.G.O. - Bappi Lahiri 

Pataka boys ft Sikander Kahlon - Punjabi Munde  

Pataka Boys - Bud Bud Ding Ding

Pataka Boys - Ganaur Lemon Tree 

PAV4N - KARMA

Sonnyjim & The Purist - Barz Simpnson]

MUD Family - Itchy Town

Jehst - Nightbreed

Foreign Beggars 3AM (ft Bess Cavendish)

An hour of pioneering Palestinian hip hop crew DAM, mixed by Jamito.