I enter the festive season with the best intentions, I’m gonna make a lot of beef stew, have mulled wine with friends everyday, wear a scarf and generally be as festive as fuck.

As with most people, I guess, those good intentions fall foul of real life and all its time sapping things… so I don’t do as much festive-ing as I’d like.

Nils Frahm used to do these beautiful Christmas mixes and Fred Deakin always drops a banging mix at this time, and I wish I had the prior planning abilities, or the headspace to be as regular as my heroes.

So, it seems, at best, I start this old show from 2017 with these intentions, dropping Frank Eddies’ version of East 17s’ Stay Another Day, and how glorious is it? However, as it was a show that went out on boxing day, and possibly live, I wasn’t so prepared as to carry on in that vein.

However, it is a round up of 2017 with some incredible music.

2017 was the year I think I spent the most of vinyl, and it was quite the year for music, so it seems at least I was in the right place at the right time with enough money to expand my record collection.

So this goes back to when I used to do regular three hour shows, which is quite some work, but I kinda liked digging in for that extra hour, it really gave me time to breathe and play a ranging show, I guess I could do it again, if I wanted to?

I did a round up of 2025 last week on my main show, which you can go back to check out, but I hope you enjoy this one, from 8 (jeez) years ago, which only feels like yesterday.

I hope you all had a good Christmas and wishing you a great start to 2026.

Love, as always.

Cx

Tracklist:

Frank Eddie - Stay Another Day

Ben Lucas Boysen - Good Times Vol 1

Radiohead - I Promise

Eabs - Waltzing Beyond

Giorgio Gaslini - V Movimento

Sly5thAve - Still D.R.E.

Rodney P - Untitled feat Lanre Sulola

London Grammar - Rooting For You (Accapella)

Floating Points - Kelso Dunes

Phil France. and Mr Scruff - Joy of Brass (Mr Scruff Remix)

Gorillaz - Strobelite (feat Peven Everett)

Quantic and Nidia Gongora - Ojos Vicheros

Fruko y Sus Tesos - Botando Corriente

Nebula - Silent Journeys

Nicola Cruz - Puente Roto (Quantic Remix)

Sampa The Great - Healing

Girma Beyene - Yebeqagnal

Nautilus - Root Down (feat Fleur Earth)

Wojtek Mazolweski Quintet - London

Moses Boyd - After Tomorrow

Rava String Band - Verde Que Eu te Quero Ver

Ruby Rushton - Where Are You Now? Pt2

Danger Mouse - Chase Me (feat Run the Jewels and Big Boi)

Jordan Rakei - Eye To Eye

Abtract Orchestra - Dilla Mix 2

Meeka Kates - Fault Line (Ambassadeurs remix)

Avalon Emerson - 2000 Species of Cacti

Four Tet - Planet

Four Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen

Zara McFarlane - Allies or Enemies

Melanie De Biasio - Your Freedom is the End of Me

Melanie De Biasio - Gold Junkies

Kamasi Washington - Truth

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