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07.11.26 A chat with Peven Everett, and Georgia Anne Muldrow in the studio
Galaxy 2 – Journey of the Dragons
Model 500 – The Chase (Smooth Mix)
Stevie Wonder – Contusion
Gato Barbieri – Ngiculela – Es Una Historia
First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder (Shep Pettibone Remix)
Peven Everett – In Session From Maida Vale
Peven Everett – Testin’ Me
Betty Carter – How High the Moon
Betty Carter – Open the Door
Betty Carter – All I Got
Peven Everett – Can’t Do Without
Roy Hargrove – Gentle Wind
Roy Davis Jr. feat. Peven Everett – Gabriel (The Live Garage Mix)
Peven Everett – Burning Hot (Peven Everett Original Vocal Mix)
GENA – Howweflow
Simon Popp & Polygonia – Pollination Beats
Abase – Bring Us, God, The Day
Surprise Chef – Where the Crows Fly Backwards
Twit One – Focafi
DVYN – In My Face
Omasta Morrow – Gato No Telhado
Joyce – Aldeia De Ogum
Voision – Xi Muse (for Joyce)
Yu Arauchi – Two Shadows
Cheryl Durongpisitkul – Time
Dexter Story – The Tigre
Culross Close Dawn – Harriet Tubman A Black Song
Tony Williams – Via the Spectrum Road
Blood Orange & Georgia Anne Muldrow – Runnin’
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Seeds
Joe Armon-Jones & Georgia Anne Muldrow – Yellow Dandelion
Dr. Lonnie Smith – In the Beginning
Model 500 – Be Brave
Yohan Kebede & Lex Amor – Manhattan Reflections
Chemise – She Can’t Love You
31.10.26 megiapa in the studio
Philly Joe Jones – Blues For Dracula
Wayne Shorter – Witch Hunt
Azizzi Romeo & Guiding Star Orchestra – Selassie I Reigns
Kelissa – Jah Ɔdɔ (Jah Love)
NAO – Burst
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Real Life
Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Yakhal’ Inkomo (Big Band Version)
Daudi Matsiko – I Am Grateful for My Friends
Josh Johnson – Strays
Franklin Kiermyer – False Prophets
Black Flute Brigade – Everybody Wants to Rule The World
Dawn Coulshed – Knowing
Michael J. Blood – ASID
Moses Boyd – It is Well
Jana Saleh – Al Maktaa al Awwal
Group Titan – Aman Yavrum Nazlanma
El Michael’s Affair (feat. Ahemaa Nwomkro) – Oh Medaase!
American Gypsy – Inside Out
Billy Always – It’s Just Not Enough
Conclave (Toribio) – Time & Space
Peven Everett – Easy Livin’
MATTERS UNKNOWN (feat. megiapa) – Dream of the Contest
Don Blackman – Heart’s Desire
megiapa –….!
megiapa – Dreaming About You
megiapa – Black Gold of the Sun
Erykah Badu – Rimshot (Intro)
megiapa – Can’t Believe
Qur’an Shaheed, Sharada Shashidhar – Mixing Colors
Damon Locks & D-Composed – We Stay Beginning
Pra Gira Girar Homem Nagô – Aécio Flávio Sexteto Aleluia
Illinois Jacquet – Mambocito Mia
Jah Shaka & Mad Professor – Natural Roots
The Womack Sisters – If I Let You
The Tiffanys – I Just Want to Be Your Girl
Philly Joe James – Blues for Dracula
Roots Radics – Your Teeth in My Neck
Patricia Barber – Black Magic Woman
Nina Simone – I Put a Spell on You
Sun Ra Arkestra – Halloween in Harlem
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – The Witch Doctor
The Upsetters – The Vampire
Peter Tosh – Vampire
Freddie Hubbard – The Thang
Dizzy Gillespie – Umbrella Man
Stevie Wonder – I’m Into Living
Leon Bridges & Lydia Kitto – All Day, All Night
Haroldo Bontempo – Na Casa Do Jornalista
Adventure Unlimited – Rainy Day Blues
Nabihah Iqbal – Heaven Can Wait
Tim Maia – Let’s Have a Ball Tonight
Knats – 7 Bridges (Nadine Sah and Man Power Remix)
Stray – EMDR
Monkz – Doce Coelhinha
MC Zignani – Barulho de Trem
Lourenço Rebetez – Maestro Maestro
Lourenço Rebetez – Sim e não (Yes and No) (Domo Domo Remix)
Lin Xiaochuan – Harvest
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly – X
Facta & K-LONE – Yoyogi Park
Jazz Is Dead – Domo Domo Happening In The Streets (Domo Domo Rework)
Young Disciples – Young Disciples Theme
Joe Kaptein – On My Mind
Ali Shaheed Muhammed & Adrian Younge – Constellation
A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour
A Tribe Called Quest – Jazz (We’ve Got)
Weldon Irvine – We Getting Down
Horace Tapscott With Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Desert Fairy Princess
NAO – I Believe In You
NAO – Save The World
The Ahmad Jamal Trio – I Love You
NAO – Burst
NAO – Eugene
NAO – Living Room
Nomi – Sweet Talk
Sam Crowe – Mychophelia
Perry & Sanlin – You Can’t Hide Love
megiapa –…
Tirzah feat. Coby Sey – Devotion
Susobrino – Escúchame
Tears for Fears – Heels (Wool Hall Rework)
Appendix – Autumn Song
17.10.26 Gilles spins new tunes and invites saxophonist Tamar Osborn into the studio. Plus, Pos from De La Soul tells us about the making of Stakes Is High, 30 years later.
Charles Overton – Dawn
nao – Burst
Jonah Yano – Spin
Edu Lobo & Metropole Orkest – Zanzibar (Instrumental)
MidnightRoba – Peace. Love. Life. (Surya Botofasina Remix)
Actress – Withending
Return to Forever – 500 Miles High
Tony Williams – Via the Spectrum Road
Mike Reed’s Separatist Party – If I Were A Song
Jake Ferguson – Esplanada (feat. Malcolm Catto)
Danielle Ponder – Sun and Moon
Sly, Slick & Wicked – Love’s Gonna Pack Up & Walk Out
Rapsody feat. Nomisupasta, JOJO ABOT and George Clinton – OMG! (Love to Sun Ra)
Lourenço Rebetez – Maestro
De La Soul – Dog Eat Dog
De La Soul – Supa Emcees
De La Soul – Stakes Is High (J Dilla Remix)
Steve Spacek feat. Frank-N-Dank – Eve (J Dilla Remix)
Steve Spacek – Still Waiting
Tamar Osborn – Heartbeat No1 (Berlin)
Collocutor – Here to There to Everywhere
Asher Simiso Gamedze – Melancholia
Tamar Osborn – Space
Sarathy Korwar and Upaj Collective – Earth (from My East Is Your West)
Tamar Osborn – Trance
Paul Desmond – From the Hot Afternoon
George Kawaguchi – Take 5
Sammy Davis Jr. – You Can Count On Me
4th Street Orchestra – Hawaii Five O Five
Stairsteps – Pasado
Fifth of Heaven – Just a Little More (Mixed)
Five Special – Why Leave Us Alone (12″ Long Version)
Mystic Merlin – Just Can’t Give You Up (Dave Lee’s Full Moon Mix)
Tulei – Volo
JNR Williams – Air Balloon
Lonnie Liston Smith – Quiet Moments
NAO – Living Room
TOWA TEI – Technova
A Tribe Called Quest – Find A Way
Ishmael Ensemble feat. Pete Josef – Equinox
10.10.26 Gnawa-inspired jazz, Sun Ra reworks, and resurfaced soul hits. Gilles picks the best new tunes from across the world, including gnawa-inspired jazz from JD Allen, reworks of Sun Ra’s music by Jimetta Rose, and Lithuanian rock from Brokenchord.
megiapa with (u) well
Damon Locks & D-Composed – We Stay Beginning
Sam Crowe – Atlantis
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – Breezy
Monogem – Dame La Fuerza
Gotta Street Park – Lay Low
The Tiffanys – I Just Want to Be Your Girl
King Pleasure – Jazz Jump
Marian McPartland – Coming Home Baby
Amado Maita – Samba de Amigo
Tino Conteras – Orfeo
sparklmami – si
Joyce & Mauricio Maestro – Natureza
Boca Livre – Um Canto De Trabalho
Zara McFarlane – Police & Thieves
Prince Fatty & The Vision – Heaven (feat. Andreya Triana)
Selda Bağcan – Selda Bağcan
Ray Bryant – Up Above The Rock
Brokenchord – CRACK!
Ciarán K-Bar – Aksak Maboul
Aksak Maboul – Charles Undresses (and Goes to Bed) (Aksak Maboul Edit)
Aksak Maboul – Montagne
Aksak Maboul – Here and Now, a Free Rock Tentet
Benny Sings – You Love Me
JD Allen – Moussayé
Jutna Wélé – Romaal
Kultan – Put The Soul Into The Machine
Omasta Morrow – Listen Love
Jon Lucien – Listen Love
Roni Size / Reprazent – Sounds Fresh (2017 Re-Edit)
Alex da Kid – BLUH BLUH BLUH
Sun Ra – Springtime Again
Jimetta Rose – Sleeping Beauty
Jimetta Rose – I’ll Wait For You
Kampinos – Head To The Sky
Camille Munn – Luv Song
Freddie Jackson – Rock Me Tonight (For Old Time’s Sake)
Freddie Jackson – Calling
Mystic Merlin – Mr. Magician
Meli’sa Morgan – Fool’s Paradise
Lillo Thomas – Settle Down
The Star Beams – Disco Stomp
Boogsie – Can’t You See Me
Sessa – Zanzibar
03.10.26 New music galore! Gilles plays an exclusive track from The Comet Is Coming, and new music from Brazilian musician Ed Motta. Plus, we hear from Lefto about Belgian jazz.
Coleridge Goode – Bowskill Tape 1-1
Geoffrey Kirkwood & Fiona Brice – Movement 2
Edu Lobo – Memórias de Marta
Sare – Josh Johnson
Yoshio Suzuki – Morning Picture
Stevie Wonder – I’m Into Living
Leroy Hutson – So Nice
Temu – Running Away
Gino Soccio – Try It Out
Change – Hold Tight
Daniele Baldelli – Peppery
The Comet Is Coming – Late Night Party Jam 2
Àbáse – Gondolatok A Régiekről
Danksy Worm & God feat. Dweezil Zappa – Tyreek McDole
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly – TURBULÊNCIA
Hugo Blanco – Cumbia con Arpa
De-Frank and The Professionals – Psychedelic Man
Thakzin – Mayphorisa
Tomoki Sanders – Jazz Is Just A Game (feat. Nicholas Payton & Melanie Charles)
OLA TUNJI – Sun Meditation
Ragini Trio – Abheri
Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton – Native Land
Blind Yeo – Right Side of the Round
СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) – Калі ты запытаеш (Kali ty zapytaješ)
Erlend Øye & La Comitiva – For The Time Being (Live at Maida Vale, 2024)
Enchantment – Give It Up
Ed Motta – O Grande Plano
Ed Motta – Um Dia De Sol
Ed Motta – Toc-Toc
Mello Brass – I Need To Love You
Nick de Caro – Under The Jamaican Moon
Walid Itayim & Sami Shabshab – The City
High Rise – I Know Yo’ Game
Leroy Hutson – Betting On My Love
sparklmami – penso en voce
26.09.26 Gilles chats to Wally Badarou and Coalface Records label owner Paul Waller
John Coltrane – Equinox
Pu Poo Platter – 地下河 Undercurrent
Mr Beatnick – Footprints In The Clearing
Tian Qiyi – Take Five
megiapa – Black Gold Of The Sun
GENA – LEAD IT UP (Kaytranada Remix)
HUG – Cow with Half Moon Parasol
Faun Tempol – IN A SHELL PART I
Nat Birchall – Meditation for Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks
Cedric “Im” Brooks – Dubism (re-edit)
R – eolô Allah
Space Afrika – If This Is Hell feat. Deuén
Level 42 – Sandstorm
Level 42 – The Pursuit of Accidents
Level 42 – Forty Two
Level 42 – Starchild (Live at Maida Vale)
Tumblack – Chunga Funk
Wally Badarou – Chief Inspector
M – Pop Muzik
Wally Badarou – One Day Won’t Give It Away
Level 42 – Starchild
Lizzie Mercier Descloux – Lady O K’pele
Grace Jones – Private Life
Wally Badarou – Vesuvio Solo
Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together
Wally Badarou – Mambo
Massive Attack – Daydreaming
Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass
Fela Kuti – Just Like That
Fela Kuti – Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nothing
Rob – Make It Fast, Make It Slow
Standing On The Corner & Claudette Ortiz – Secrets
Mike James Kirkland & Monophonics – The Business
Lô Borges – A Força do Vento
Heatwave – The Star of a Story
Anita Baker – Mystery
Elements Of Life feat. Lisa Fischer – Soar
L.D.F & Trinidadian Deep – African Dream
Electric Light Orchestra – Last Train to London
19 Sep 2026 Knats in session, corto.alto in the studio, and Atjazz in conversation
Gilles presents a fierce Geordie Jazz session from Mercury Prize-nominated quintet Knats, who recorded three never-heard-before tracks specially for the show.
Michael Kiwanuka – Love in my Heart
DVYN – In My Face
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – Black Box (feat. Kamasi Washington)
Miguel Atwood‑Ferguson – Naima (feat. Brandee Younger)
Miguel Atwood‑Ferguson – Compassion (feat. Flying Lotus, Immanuel Wilkins)
corto.alto – Chubbby (Live from Maida Vale)
corto.alto – DON’T LISTEN
corto.alto – PAPER
corto.alto – GO (feat. Vector)
corto.alto – TEMPLE
corto.alto – Noblehill (feat. Jacob Alon)
Average White Band – When Will You Be Mine
Knats – Never Gonna Be A Boxer (corto.alto Remix)
Knats – Black Narcissus
Knats – G.O.D. / Bowling Ball (Live at Maida Vale)
Knats – Azure Blues
Knats – Spiral Tunnel (Live at Maida Vale)
Knats – UNTITLED 666 (Live at Maida Vale)
Fabio Santanna – Beijo Árabe
Boca Livre – Um Canto de Trabalho
Joyce – Respiro Fundo
Lourenço Rebetez – Maestro
Christian McBride & Ursa Major – No Rhyme No Reason
Roy Ayers – Pathfinder
Atjazz – Day 2001
Atjazz – Going Somewhere
Atjazz – Wind and Sea
Atjazz – L’arrivée (feat. Fred Everything)
Leon Ware – On The Beach (Atjazz Love Soul Remix)
Fred Everything – Mercyless (Atjazz Vocal Mix)
Atjazz – Let’s Talk (feat. OMAR & Max Beesley)
Omar – Gave My Heart
Brigitte Fontaine – Comme À La Radio (English Version)
Sadeedo – Way Too Chill
Earl Zinger – Escape from Ibiza
Ghalib Ghallab – Love Desire
Metalik Funk Band – Road Man (Mystic)
Louie Vega – Happening In The Streets (feat. James D‑Train Williams)
12.09.26 Louie Vega exclusive disco mix
Gilles presents an exclusive 90-minute mix of disco edits and reworks from DJ, producer, and mastermind Louie Vega, ahead of the release of his new album Disco 3000.
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Constellation
Latimore – Sweet Vibrations
Lady Jane – Never Liked The Ghetto
Saul Williams – The Dagger
Shadow Child – Song for Sophia
Jan Hammer Group – Don’t You Know
La Pirámide – Pirámide
Joyce – Aldeia De Ogum
Edu Lobo – Zanzibar
Rodney Franklin – Endless Flight (Hot Biscuit Edit)
Elements Of Life – People Make The World Go Round (feat. Dee Dee Bridgewater)
Louie Vega – Don’t Think About It
Louie Vega – Everybody Get Down
Louie Vega – The More I Get
Louie Vega – Get Down
Louie Vega – I’m Alright
Louie Vega & Moodymann – Love the Skin I’m In
Louie Vega – The Music Never Left Me
Louie Vega – Hot To Trot
Louie Vega – Happiness Is Around the Bend
Louie Vega – Dance Dance Dance
Louie Vega – Do Your Dance
Louie Vega – Dance and Shake Your Tambourine
The Salsoul Orchestra – Getaway (12″ Disco Mix)
Gazeebo – Boob Holder
Frank and Fozzy – Super Hyped Hip House
Aly-Us – Follow Me (Club Mix)
En-To End – Money Talks
Chapter and the Verse – Black Whip (Live)
05.09.25 Carlos Icaza in the studio, Cassandra Wilson tribute, words from anaiis
Sadeedo – Preguntas Cosmicas
anaiis – P4P
Elliot Skinner – DON’T BE A RUNNER
The Chico Hamilton Quintet – Blue Sands (feat. Buddy Collette)
Cassandra Wilson – You Don’t Know What Love Is
Daniel Masson – Baul Dimension (Roy Vision Higher Self Dub)
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – Breezy
Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash – At The Emerald Pool
Mike James Kirkland – What Have We Done
Marvin Gaye – Where Are We Going
anaiis – Sunshine
Cassandra Wilson – Run The Voodoo Down
Turn On the Sunlight – Cosmic Feathers (feat. Laraaji)
La Pirámide – Pirámide
Christoph El Truento – Pep The Conqueror
Dahi – Love Me (feat. Obongjayar)
The Powerful Believers & B.B. Collins – Anoma Antu A
Virgínia Rodrigues – Afrekêtê
Henry Solomon, David Binney, Mateo Ottonello – Rambla y Carnelli (Primaera Montevideana)
Wonky Logic – Strange Attractor
Cleo Sol – All Because Of Love
corto.alto – Temple
Polygonia & Simon Popp – Biotic Circuits
Flobama – Haunted Tape
Courtney Pine – Don’t X’plain (Flytronix Mix)
Antonio Zepeda Y Eugenio Toussaint – Viento de Lluvia
Tito – Anáhuac
Xavier Zetina – Bahía Azteca
Tino Contreras – Papaztrato
S.O.S – Buscaya Da Yada
Patrones – Festejo
Char – Fall On Me
Julion De’Angelo – Consciousness
Cassandra Wilson – Voodoo Reprise
Mele – Ay Si (feat. RIA)
The Breakfast Band – Funksters
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – What the People Say (Apostle 1)
David Murray Black Saint Quartet – Prophet of Doom (feat. Cassandra Wilson)
15.08.26 Jumpin Jack Frost in the studio, and a focus on Gayance
Gilles features music and words from Canadian‑Haitian producer Gayance and is joined by drum and bass DJ/producer Jumpin Jack Frost as part of BBC’s “The Music is Black” season.
Marshall Allen, Jamaaladeen Tacuma – Bass Thrust
Ricardo Villalobos – I Have Forgotten feat. Tara Middleton
Ed Rush & Optical – Naked Lunch
Nova Fellowship – Lions of Judah
Butcher Brown & Nicholas Payton – All Blues
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – Witch Doctor
Yasiin Bey – Quiet Dog
Azekel & Céline Dessberg – Moon & I
Jaki Byard – Cinco y Quatro
Korlakang – Samongsai
A Certain Ratio – Tumba Rumba (EM)
Dur-Dur Band – Introduction (Vol. 4)
Dur-Dur Band – Meedey (Where Is She?)
Close Counters – Bruk of Lucien
Finn Rees – Feel The Sun (Close Counters Remix)
IZCO & P Wavey – Beauty Inside (Darren Price Fabric Mix)
Violinbwoy meets Laboratorium Pieśni – Pieśń IV
Dynamite MC – Different Language
Luci Gang – HEADLOCK
Gayance – Podjab feat. Waahli & Jarreau Vandal
Manno Charlemagne – Lamayot
Gayance – Nunca Mais
DJ Nervoso – KUIA
Wookie – Joy My Pride
Gayance – Kind Silence
Foxy Mademoiselle – Jumping Jack Frost Burial (Lovers Rock Mix)
Tom and Jerry – Maximum Style (Lover to Lover)
Roni Size – It’s A Jazz Thing
LTJ Bukem – Music
Blame – Jazz Testament
Daylight – RAMP
Roy Ayers – The Memory
threetwenty – Who u think u foolin
Jack Wilkins – Red Clay
Angie Stone – The Ingredients Of Love feat. Musiq Soulchild
Camille Munn – Get Down
Dana and Alden – Summer Nights
Isaac – Walking In Rhythm
James Hamilton – Dancin’ Vibes
Billy Chears – Free Your Mind
Homegrown Syndrome – Confrontation
U.S.T – Topaze
Keep The Beat – Backwater Boogie Band Git On Down
Homebrew – Once I Had A Friend
Phil Brown & God’s Earth With Love – I Know He’s Watching
Mike Kirkland – James What Have We Done