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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Beastie Boys Drinkin Wine The In Sound From Way Out! Capitol Grand Royal 1996 instrumental album
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead Crackle Beggar's Banquet 1998 release
Karl Bryan & Count Ossie Black Up Studio One Scorcher Soul Jazz
The Upsetters Blackboard Jungle Dub (Version 2) Blackboard Jungle Dub Abraham/Clocktower The original album came out in '73, the remixes were released in '81
Jah Shaka The Truth Dub Dub Salute Greensleeves RIP, died April 12, 2023
* Alabaster DePlume Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke) Come With Fierce Grace International Anthem
Tom Misch & Yussef Days Storm Before The Calm (feat. Kaidi Akinnibi) What Kinda Music Blue Note 2020 release
* Hidden Orchestra Reverse Learning To Dream is to Forget Lone Figures Album title is from a poem by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa: "No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us"; the project is led by Joe Acheson, multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer, out of Edinburgh, with rotating guests. Two drummers on this album: Time Lane & Jamie Graham.
* Irreversible Entanglements root <=> branch Protect Your Light Impulse! Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) on vocals; Keir Neuringer on sax; Luke Stewart on bass; Aquiles Navarro on trumpet; Tcheser Holmes on drums
* The Hatch Expansion Houston Part 1 Texas Edition Astral Spirits
* Kris Davis Alice in the Congo Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard Pyroclastic
Malcolm Mclaren Double Dutch 7" Charisma 1983 release
J Dilla Track 1 Dillatronic Green Streets Entertainment A compilation of unreleased material courtesy of Dilla's mom, Ma Dukes. 41 instrumental tracks.
* Illa J No Traffic No Traffic BBE Artist is John Derek Yancey, out of Detriot, younger brother of the late J Dilla and a member of the iconic hip-hop group Slum Village. Mom is a singer & dad is a jazz bassist.
David McCallum The Edge Music: A Bit More of Me Capitol 1967 release
David Axelrod Holy Thursday Song of Innocence Capitol 1968 release
Peter Gabriel Intruder Plays Live Geffen 1983 release
Japan Alien B side of the 7" single European Son Hansa 1981 release
* Nation of Language Weak in Your Light Strange Disciple PIAS Singer-songwriter Ian Richard Devaney
* Richard Youngs Benevolence I + II Modern Sorrow Black Truffle
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin Vento Calido Dolphin Strut
Jon Lucien Who Will Buy Believe In Me: The Essential Selection, Original RCA & Columbia Recordings 1970-76 Decision
* Jalen Ngonda Takes A Fool Come Around And Love Me Daptone DC born and now UK based
MSFB Picnic In the Park Summertime Philadelphia International Records 1976 release
* Wajatta Again And Again (feat. March Adstrum) Waiting For The Get Down Brainfeeder
* Quelza Le Noctambule Nocturne Les Somnolentes Mord A regular at Berlin's Berghain, Fabric in London. This is his debut album; translation is "The Sleepy Ones."
* Aphex Twin zin2 test5 Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 Warp
Autechre Pule Chiastic Slide Warp 1997 release