Adrian Leach brings the first Happy Jazz session of the season and, as you would expect, it’s superb. Augusto Martelli, Rimona Francis, the Free Design, and a little pachanga keep things moving during hour two.

This week it’s our great pleasure to share the a recent set from Toronto’s Foot Prints Collective—Jason Palma, General Eclectic, and DJ Stu. Foot Prints is one of the world’s few club nights where a crowd enthusiastically dances to the sort of music we play on Waxing Deep. With this set, the Collective digs deep to provide a taste of the scene they’ve lovingly built in Toronto. Unfortunately, a misbehaving CD recorder cuts the show’s second hour and introduces some frustrating distortion. Bare with us; we’ll have the bug fixed for the next show.

Edition Two of the Soulpusher African sessions! We received a hugely enthusiastic response to the first part and the tracks Soulpusher has selected for this week are just as good.

DJ Soulpusher is currently living in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a city he uses as the starting point for regular West African digging trips. On this edition of Waxing Deep, Soulpusher shares some of his favourite recent finds in the first of a two part series. The regular Waxing Deep mix-up follows, including a standout rendition of the “The Best Has Yet To Come”.

This edition of Waxing Deep sees our regular mix-up happily interrupted by a brief mix from the infamous Beatdawg. Direct from his secretive Toronto studio, Beatdawg shares Japanese modern soul, library funk, and enough breaks and beats to make even the jaded producers salivate. A little digital distortion towards the show’s end courtesy of CHSR’s shoddy CD recorder is no match for the quality of this edition’s selections.

Tom Noble of Lotusland Records joins Waxing Deep to discuss his label’s new releases. Tom also shares a heavy hour-long selection of sweet soul, modern soul, and funk—the perfect sound for a sunny fall afternoon. We follow Tom’s mix with the regular Waxing Deep mix-up, including a reissue from the new French label Sausage Records.

After a four month hiatus, we return with a proud anouncement: the first release on our new label, Waxing Deep Records. Learn about our soon to be released compilation of Cuban funk and listen to some killer Cuban records, obscure fusion, and lots of eclectic goodness presented Waxing Deep style

We celebrate the last in-studio Waxing Deep for several months with another instalment of Adrian Leach's Happy Jazz sessions. Put simply, it's brilliant. The second hour is filled with Canadian obscurities and dancefloor sounds.

Why did it take Waxing Deep so long to showcase dub? Whatever the reason, we can think of few people better than New York's Johnny Paycheck to properly bring the sound to Waxing Deep. He shares selections from his storied collection housed in numerous caches throughout Manhattan, NYC where Mr. Paycheck is the proprietor of Good Records NYC and a jet-set DJ. He's also a talented raconteur and obligingly shares tales from the record store trenches. We follow up Johnny's mix with the regular Waxing Deep mix-up.