A totally tropical club mix special this week with MADERA on the ones & twos. Recorded at Bedroom Bar, Friday 6 November 2015.

PROPA-GHANDI MEETS MADERA X

Joining MADERA today is the living legend that is AKI NAWAZ, free spirit, FUN-DA -MENTAL band leader and head honcho of the World Dance defining label NATION RECORDS. "Feel free to really grill drill kill me with questions if you wish - I enjoy it like that", he said. So we did. Sort of. With questions put forward by ex label mates NATACHA ATLAS, GUY MORLEY (Yam Yam), TIM WHELAN (Transglobal Underground) & NICK DUBBULAH (Dub Colossus), some cud was chewed, some sparks did fly, but most importantly, some home truths were delivered. Respect ...

MADERA MOMENTS

Like a box of chocolates with no handy description insert, you never know what your going to bite into ... musically that is. Share the joy!

MAKE MINE A MADERA WITH A TWIST

Continuing the occasional series where we ask musicians to make us a mix tape of what is currently floating their musical boat, this week Sao Paolo based Afrobeat outfit BIXIGA 70 do the honours. In the words of compiler/musician Mauricio Fleury:

"I put two Brazilian tracks that were written by Pedro Sorongo, plus a Cumbia that influenced us a lot in the album, an Angolan Semba and our track 'Mil Vidas' from the last album in the end, so it's a little about Afro-Latin-Brazilian influences and a track that mixes all that”

MADERA ON SOAS ... 2015/16 season ... show #1

EAT. SLEEP. MADERA. REPEAT ...

Back back back for more more more ... featuring a mini mix from NICK PAGE aka DUBULAH/DUB COLOSSUS/XAOS on a sonic journey from Ethiopia, to Greece via Albania & Syria.

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, MADERA

Like David Hasselhoff straddling the Berlin Wall "lookin' for freedom" in tight whitewash denim, MADERA prepares to stride off to radio pastures new on DAB at Mi Soul... but not before a final hurrah at SOAS with special guest SUBCULTURE SOUNDS bringing the niceness live in the studio. Big thanks to all the SOAS Radio massive for all their support & help over the last 5 years, you know who you are XXX

MADERA'S SUMMER CHECKLIST

Sunny (tick), warm (tick), exams over (tick), new tunes (tick), tune in to SOAS Radio (tick) ...

MADERA HEADS SOUTH

Tudo Bom? MADERA VERDE welcomes legendary DJ / Producer Spiritual South to the show to chat about what is currently floating his boat and his remixes on a great new compilation called "Brazilika: Brazil & Beyond", celebrating 20 years of the legendary Far Out Records. Also on the show, global glitch galore with Amara Toure, Ginger Johnson, Ebo Taylor, Tabu Ley, Uproot Andy, Salif Keita, Manolito Y Su Trabuco. Obrigado!

The third show in MADERA's occasional All Vinyl #Oldschoolawesomeness series is a blistering dance-floor orientated romp of tried & tested Salsa gold! Starting in Spanish Harlem in 1972 with TITO PUENTE and finishing in Cali Colombia in 1991 with ORQUESTA GUYACAN, prepare to feel some proper Latin connoisseur vibes to get them beards a-stroking and hips a-snaking! A Gozarrrrr!

Мадера Верде на SOAS РАДИО

Priviet Tovarischi! With MADERA back from a Russian crate digging session, its a 80s Soviet Disko vinyl special today , da da da! Pioneering electronic music from ZODIAC, RAIMONDS PAUL, KRUG, RITMICHESKAYA GIMNASTICA, EDVARD ARTEMIEV & YURI BOGDANOV + a couple of East German bangers slipped in for your listening pleasure, vy znaete kto vy!