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My show this week was devoted entirely to music issued in 2009. The Notorious bWg has noted that music usually gets better in harder economic times, and 2009 was no exception. For me, what was surprising how a lot of indie groups embraced house and disco, and how a lot of house and techno DJs [...]  

This week I was surprised to look out the studio window to see my first snow of the season (there was some snow in October, but I wasn’t here to see that ). The standout tracks this week were Oona’s “Tore My Heart,” Gui Boratto’s minimal “Notations,” Jose...  

Regular listeners have probably figured out that the tone of show in recent months has moved away from strictly latin and downtempo. This isn’t because of any change in my tastes, but rather because of all the new music that’s coming from all corners of the world that doesn’t exactly fit...  

It was great to be back in the studio after a six-week hiatus due to all the traveling I’ve been doing lately. Such pauses are always great because there’s an embarrassment of new music to play; the vast majority of this week’s show was new stuff - at least new to me. So many tracks, but...  

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This week’s show was a joy to put together, as there was so much cool new music to play. Plus, I kinda had to put together a themed set in celebration of Rio de Janeiro’s naming as the city hosting the 2016 Olympics. Man, that’s gonna be a _serious_ party. I also loved the video [...]  

It’s nice to be back in the studio after a few weeks away, first due to vacations, then to business travel. But that has also meant that I’ve been able to compile a lot of new material, and today’s show was heavy on the new stuff: Little Dragon, Bebel Gilberto, Miike Snow, atd. atd. But the...  

This week, as usual, there was a lot of new stuff, including new singles from Little Dragon, Nouvelle Vague, and Simian Mobile Disco. The standout tracks for me were Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings’ cover of Prince’s “Take Me With U,” and the utterly unclassifiable Swedish...  

This week’s show had a metric buttload of new music, including new singles from Simian Mobile Disco, The Very Best (featuring Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend), and Clara Moreno. But the real star of the show was Jorge Ben, because I played several songs from his long career, ranging from his 1963...  

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For this week’s show, I wanted to play a few rarities related to Michael Jackson, so I reached into the archives for a few very cool things, including one from the “Motown Remixed Vol. 2″ CD, the Miami mix of the Jackson 5’s “Dancing Machine,” which reimagines the Jackson...  

This week’s show had some excellent new music from The Whitest Boy Alive, Little Dragon, Boozoo Bajou and Rosalia de Souza, as well as some straight-up classics from Joao Gilberto and Marcos Valle. But the happiness was also mixed with sadness about the passing of Curtis Jones, who died this...  

This week’s show had an awful lot of new material, possibly owing to the summer festival season, or possibly just because people like putting out records in May. Regardless, I’m happy The standout new tracks this week were the Mexican Institute of Sound’s “Yo Digo Baila (Shir Khan...  

This week’s show was a lot of fun to put together, but was also marked by multiple technical problems. To make a short story boring, I ended up doing most of the show from my iPod. Nonetheless, it was fun to work on this week’s themed setlist: Brazilian women singers. I got quite a few [...]  

This week I had a lot of new material, and it was really fun to put together this week’s themed set, which was about places and spaces. The great singles this week were Jack Penate’s “Tonight’s Today:” Kaskade’s “Move For Me” and Tortured Soul’s...  

This week’s show really arranged itself; the first hour more or less was devoted to new stuff, specifically in the electro genre, the second hour was more salsa and latin, and the third hour was marked by a set devoted to the weather, which has suddenly turned rainy and colder. April showers bring May...  

This week’s setlist was especially in honor of Barack Obama’s visit to Prague, and had quite a few songs about the economy. Among the new stuff this week was the outstanding “Paris,” a remix of the Friendly Fires by the Belgian duo Aeroplane which essentially remade the song and put...  

I really enjoyed the challenge on my previous show of having to put together a set around a theme, so I decided to do it again this week. This time the last hour of the show was devoted to songs about spring, because, after all, it’s the first day of spring. The entire setlist is here [...]  

Radio 1 is celebrating its 18th birthday as an official radio station, and they came up with an interesting way to mark the occasion: For 18 days, we’re playing only songs from an individual year. My set therefore comes only from 2001, and it was a lot of fun to put together. Some of the music [...]  

This week’s show was interesting to put together, partially because I did so from airplanes traveling here and there. One of the more personal songs this week was Caetano Veloso’s “Os Argonautes,” because one of the places I traveled to was Batumi, Georgia, home of the Golden Fleece...  

This week’s show had so much new material I didn’t know where to start, and that’s always a good position to be in. The standout tracks this week were Gelka’s “Soon,” Sarah Winton’s “Summer Brass” and Nekta’s “No Need to Rumble.” The...  

This week I had a lot of fun going through the archives, and I came up with what I think are a few gems. The standout is Chris Montez, an American singer of Mexican origin who popped back into my consciousness thanks to Boing Boing. The two singles I played were “Call Me” and “The [...]  

This week I had the good luck of finding two outstanding music sites, the Sir Shambling site and Loronix. Sir Shambling is a British record collector who has an astounding collection of soul music, where Loronix specializes in out-of-print Brazilian rarities. Both have lots of music linked from the...  

This week’s show had a couple of standout new releases: Stephane Pompougnac’s Hotel Costes 11 was one of them, but the absolute winner was Alice Russell’s “Pot of Gold,” which blew me away. Her cover of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ was absolutely...  

This week’s show had a whole lot of new material, including the excellent “Rituals” by Nicola Conte, “Ninja Tuna” by Mr. Scruff, “Fried Samba” by Malena, “Radio Free DC” by the Fort Knox Five and “Radio Retaliation” by Thievery Corporation....  

This week’s show was devoted almost exclusively to music from today’s South African scene, with an emphasis on house, Afropop, hip-hop, kwaito and jazzier sounds. It was definitely pleasant to spend time in such a vibrant music scene, and to get to drop in on the Moshito music conference was...  

This week’s set focused a lot on the groove, with my personal favorites being Eddie Harris’ “Listen Here” and Nina Simone’s scorching version of “Mood Indigo.” It’s good to be back in the habit of doing my show after the summer break. I’m also looking...  

This week the standout new tracks were from Jair Oliveira’s ‘Simples’. But this was the week Orchestra Baobab played the Lucerna Music Bar, so I had to play a couple of tracks from their classic album ‘Pirate’s Choice.’ But truth be told, I’m still loving the...  

This week’s show was all about grooooove, with standout tracks from the most excellent new Fania remix album, “I Like It Like That.” I think we may have a strong candidate for track of the summer in the Louie Vega remix of Hector Lavoe’s “Mi Gente” - it’s a smart...