We’re back on air at 8pm tonight, with the return of our Allsorts show. 4 hours of musical wanderings from across the genres, as chosen by Blunt residents Agent M and the Erbalist. This show is like Ronseal. It does exactly what it says on the tin (but it tastes nicer…)

Blunt Beats radio presents Allsorts. Sets from Blunt residents Agent M and the Erbalist. Live from 8pm UK time Wednesday 6th January. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

Well… Yet another tasty selection of crunchy hip hop, heavyweight funk, and sweet latin beats were on the menu in last nights Soul Food live radio session.

As per usual, a full tracklisting is below, and you can also download the full 4 hour show via our radio page for the next 7 days.

Well worth a listen (…if I do say so myself!)

Part 1 – Agent M

1. The Commander Pipe – Chocolabor (Headphonica)
2. Bright Expressing Time (2007 Edit) – Violent Public Disordraz (Dusted Wax)
3. The Gift (Tongueless) – Black Era (A Quiet Bump)
4. Rainy Dayz – Menthos (2003)
5. Flashback 98 – Sage Francis (Strange Famous)
6. Think Or Feel Something – Flow Inc.(Dusted Wax)
7. Time Machine – Blue Monk (Dusted Wax)
8. Krazy Kings – Company Flow (Rawkus)
9. The Emperor – DJ Cam feat. Erik Truffaz (Blue Note)
10. GrittyPascal – Spacedisease (Demux Digital)
11. Lactose And Lecithin – Viktor Vaughn (Sound Ink)
12. Pitty Party People – Anticon (Anitcon)
13. Buddy – De La Soul feat Q-Tip, The Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah and Monie Love (Tommy Boy)
14. NoFun NoFun (Crookram Remix) – Ez A Divat (Buda Beats)
15. A Veles Comfort Fit feat. Anita Tijoux and Hordatoj (Tokyo Dawn)
16. El Diaro Secreto Del Principle Azul – Laguna (Dusted Wax)
17. Twilight Days – Skipless (Dusted Wax)
18. Hip 2 Hip – Pete Rock (BBE)
19. Smokin’ With The Motherman – Stereo MCs (Island)
20. 10 Crack Commandments (instrumental) – Notorious B.I.G.(Bad Boy)

Part 2 – Marcus G Hurley

1. Flavor Of The Month – Black Sheep
2. Can I Kick It – Tribe Called Quest
3. Show And Prove – Big Daddy Kane
4. Flava For The non Believers – Mob Deep
5. Return Of The Funky Man – Lord Finesse
6. Break It Down Like A Shotgun – Murs & Shug
7. Give In The Moment – 1 Self Devine
8. MS Fat Booty – Mos Def
9. Drop It like It’s Hot – Snoop Dog
10. Hot Thing – Talib Kwali
11. We’re Trying To Stay Alive – Wyclef Jean
12. Bump & Hustle Music – Tommy Stewart
13. Forget Me Nots – Patricia Rushen
14. And The Beat Goes On – The Whispers
15. Nights Over Egypt – The Jones Girls
16. Family Affair – Sly & The Family Stone
17. The Groove – Rodney Franklin
18. Shame – Evelyn “Champagne” King
19. Life On Mars – Dexter Wensel
20. We Can Make It If We Try – The Sylvers
21. Don’t – Dorris Classy
22. For The Love Of Money – Philly Armada Orchestra

Part 3 – Doug

1. Street Guru (Part one) – Nitin Sawhney (V2)
2. Stormy Cloud (Raindrop mix) – DJ Krush ft. Ken Shima (Sony)
3. Manchester – DJ Vadim (BBE)
4. Too Cold – Roots Manuva (Big Dada)
5. Our House – Milez Benjamin (Tru Thoughts)
6. Last Night (Bassnectar remix) – Me & You (Tru Thoughts)
7. Talk To Me – DJ Vadim ft. Sena (BBE)
8. Rock It Right (Mr Thing mix) – Life (Tru Thoughts)
9. 2 Tha left (The Nextmen remix) – Dynamic Syncopation ft. Mass Influence (Scenario)
10. Something That’s Real (Nappa & Mr Thing mix) – The Quantic Soul Orchestra (Tru Thoughts)
11. Sao Negrao – Possemente Zulu (Rough Guides)
12. Return Of The Tres – Delinquent Habits (Manteca)
13. Sneaker Thief (Hint remix) – Me & You (Tru Thoughts)
14. Where Love Shines (Kyoto Jazz Massive remix) – Incognito (Compost)
15. Tell Me – BB Boogie ft. Andrea Clark (Laws Of Motion)
16. The River – Nitin Sawhney (V2)

In keeping with the summertime barbecue vibe (Big up to all the crew at the inaugural Ribstep cookout last weekend!), we’re doing another Soul Food special on this weeks live radio show.

Live from 8pm tomorrow night, Blunt Residents Agent M, Marcus Hurley, and Doug will be providing another stoop-sittin’, dice-playin’, chicken-munchin’ soundtrack with lots of quality soul, funk, hip hop and associated head noddin’ beats in the mix.

Best put the 40’s in the fridge, player….

Blunt Beats Radio presents Soul Food. Live from 8pm UK time Wednesday 29th July. Sets from Blunt Residents Agent M, Marcus Hurley, and Doug. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

Yep, we’re getting ready for another stoop-sittin’, dice-playing, 40oz slurpin’ Soul Food session this Wednesday night. (Kool-Aid optional). Best clean your kicks, and get some Phillies. Because we will.

Heavyweight soul, funk, and hip hop beats will be provided by Blunt Residents Marcus Hurley, the Erbalist, and Agent M to make the heads nod and the smokers smile!

Word has it that the Erbalist will be treating us to a set of some classic ghetto soul cuts from the legendary Stax record label. We’re looking forward to it. If you have any sense, you will too….fool!

Blunt Beats presents Soul Food. Live from 8pm Uk time Wednesday 17th June, with Resident Blunt DJs Marcus Hurley, the Erbalist, and Agent M. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

This weeks live radio show sees your favourite Blunted musical chefs serving up another deep-fried, hi-carb, ghetto-sized portion of Soul Food.

Straight-up funk, soul and hip hop from Agent M, the Erbalist, and Marcus Hurley. Live from 8pm tomorrow night. Tasty

Something a bit different from Agent M in this weeks show…he’s been busy reading his sleevenotes, and donning his trainspotter anorak again. But, don’t worry. It’s all in a good cause. He’s going to be playing some well-known (and some harder to come by) hip hop tunes, and then dusting off the original track which provided the sample for the song in question.

For a lot of you, this should be an interesting insight into exactly “where” some of the tunes in your record collection come from. For those in the know, well, it’s a damn good excuse for him to play some old funk, soul, and disco tracks that you just don’t get to hear that often.

Blunt Beats Radio presents Soul Food, with Agent M, the Erbalist, and Marcus Hurley. Live from 8pm UK time Wednesday 25th March. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

Don’t forget you can download the entire show for the next 7 days via our radio page.

Details on all the worldwide contributors, and where to find out more, is below.

Part 1 – Riot Control 14

Burt Fox and Sonny Noir bringing the heat once more, live from their Brooklyn studio….Tracks from artists including Eazy E, Shed, and Flying Lotus.
www.riotcontrolnyc.com
speak[at]riotcontrolnyc.com

Part 2 – Mixtapeshow.net – Episode 108

The biggest hip hop podcast on the net. Simple. Dex Digital comes through with an off the hook selection of tracks from Suburb. Mad shit. No more to be said.
www.mixtapeshow.net
dex[at]mixtapeshow.net

Part 3 – Bastard Jazz Radio – Episode 3 (courtesy of brooklynradio.net)

Brooklyn based record label Bastard Jazz Records crew go digging in the crates with DJ DRM, Sema4, and Paul Digs. Classic, classic stuff, from a crew who have a passion for what they do.
www.bastardjazz.com (label)
www.brooklynradio.net/bastard-jazz-radio

Part 4 – Baron Studio Sound – High Grade Mix part II

Heavyweight dub and roots from top quality UK selectas, and good friends of Blunt Beats, Baron Studio Sound. Serious stuff.
www.baronsound.podomatic.com

Part 5 – Focuz – Episode 3

Blunt Beats very own Doug sets us up with a slick mix from his Focuz podcast series. Tracks from all the right people, mixed in the right places. You’ll see what I mean. Fresh as the proverbial daisy.
www.focuz.eu

I got this sent through to me yesterday. It’s the new video from Swedish electro-pop meister Tommy Sparks. Word has it that it’ the first music promo to use hypnotism. I think I’d disagree. If it was the first music promo to use hypnotism, it’d make explaining the success and following of Basshunter a lot more tricky!

Anyway, it’s a cool video. Take a look. If you like his stuff ,you can catch him live at Kill ‘Em All at Fabric on Friday 23rd January, alongside premier French electro beatmaker Yuksek, and many others. A full line up for the event can be found here.

Talking for Fabric, if you’re in the London area, you’d be well advised to take a look at another of Fabric’s projects. Matter. Essentially there are some great lineups, and it turns the 02 Arena into a bloody big club. Take a look at their events calendar here. Some good stuff coming up, including the Louis Vega birthday party at Soul Heaven. Nice

Funk, Soul and Hip Hop in equal portions from The Erbalist, G Hurley and Agent M, spanning over the last 40 years.

If you’re into the old school you won’t want to miss this…

Download for 7 days via the Radio page.

Part 1 – Erbalist

1. Brother Soul – Lou Donaldson (Blue Note)
2. Senior Thump – Alan Hawkshaw (KPM)
3. In Your Eyes – War (United Artists)
4. Coffy Is The Color – Roy Ayers (Polydor)
5. Eclipse – Kyoto Jazz Massive (Sony)
6. Do Your Thing – Isaac Hayes (Stax)
7. Do What You Gotta Do – Four Tops (Tamla Motown)
8. Shoes – Bobby Bland (Kent)
9. Lets Get It On – Marvin Gaye (Tamla Motown)
10. Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
11. The Happy Song (Dum Dum De De De Dum Dum) – Otis Reading (Atlantic)
12. I Just Want To Celebrate – Rare Earth (EMI)
13. Psycadelic Shack – The Temptations (Tamla Motown)
14. You Never Come Closer – Doris (Blue Note)
15. You Gotta Have Love In Your Heart – The Supremes & The Four Tops (Tamla Motown)
16. HomeworkOtis Rush (Kent)
17. Burning Spear – Soulful Strings (Cadet)
18. The Vulture – Labie Siffre (Blue Note)
19. Sunshower – Alphonso Mouzon (Blue Note)
20. Sure Thing – St Germain (Blue Note)
21. Bridge To Bama – Soulive (Blue Note/Rawkus)

Part 2 – Marcus Hurley

1. Shining – Ramsey Lewis (CBS)
2. The Masquerade – George Benson (Warner Bros)
3. Not Yet Better – Groover Jr. Washington (Arista Records)
4. Hot Stuff – Wayne Henerson (Polydor)
5. Together Forever – Love, Togetherness, Devotion (A&M Records Ltd)
6. Never Make a move Too Soon – B.B.King (Abc Records)
7. Give Me My Blues – Albert Collins (Sonet Records)
8. Call It Stormy Monday – Willie Hutch (EMI Records)
9. Theme From “Shaft” – Isaac Hayes (Stax Records Inc.)
10. Gotcha Theme from “Starsky and Hutch – Tom Scott (Ode Records)
11. Superfly – Curtis Mayfield (CBS)
12. Let’s Clean Up The Ghetto – Phili International Allstars (Philadelphia International Records)
13. Do It Anyway You Wanna – People’s Choice (K-Tel Records)
14. Can You Get It – Mandrill (Arista Records)
15. Papa Was A Rolling Stone – Was Not Was (Phonogram Ltd.)
16. Work It Out – Beyonce Knowles (Freestyle Records)
17. War – Carla Whitney (Jazzman)

Part 3 – Agent M

Tracklisting to follow…….

Tomorrow night sees the Blunt Beats resident chefs serving up another large al a carte portion of Soul Food, live from 8pm UK time. The Erbalist, Marcus Hurley, and Agent M will be dishing out family sized portions of funk, tasty hip hop morsels, and a good heap of soul. The whole thing will be drizzled with disco cuts and jazzy flavourings, and left to simmer for 4 hours. Nice.

Blunt Beats Radio presents Soul Food. Live from 8pm UK time Wed May 7th with the Erbalist, Marcus Hurley, and Agent M. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

2 Djs, 2 hours each, and 2 very different approaches….First up, Doug stepped up to the controls, putting down 120 minutes of crisp broken beat and nu-jazz sounds. Fully enjoyed by the crew at Blunt HQ, this little session is a super-slick chill pill. Spot on fresh tunes to get you in the mood for summertime, for sure!

Next up was Agent M, who took it upon himself to pay a complete mish-mash of soul classics, hip hop beats, film scores, house tunes, disco sounds, with a little bit of electro, and a touch of French conversation thrown in (just for the sophistication of it!). We had a right giggle with this set at HQ, especially with the Percy Thrower narrative and the disco Star Wars theme.

The mix is a bit bumpy in places (as M himself admits), but it was all very late and hazy at HQ by the time we reached our Destination Midnight, and this session was more for the blunted, smoked-out fun of it than the slick mixing by the late hour of broadcast.

We enjoyed the night. We hope you did too! – A full tracklisting is below, and, as we mentioned above, you can download the whole show (conversational French and all) for the next 7 days via our radio page.

Part 1 – Doug

1. Are you Ready – Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw)
2. Can We Go Back – Ayak and First Man (Brownswood)
3. Nothing Else – Ben Westbeech (Brownswood)
4. Tell ‘Em – Chris Barker (Five20East)
5. Miss Moral – Benny Sings And Rednose Distrikt (Brownswood)
6. Beautiful Night – Damage Is Done (Up My Alley)
7. Bring Back The Love – Bebel Gilberto (V2 Germany)
8. Nunce Never – Democustico (Far Out)
9. Amazon Adventure (Jazzanova remix) – Azymuth (Far Out)
10. Different Drum (Phuturistix remix) – London Elektricity (Hospital)
11. Biology (2004 mix) – Jonny Miller (Jus’ Listen)
12. Shadows On The Sun (Yukihiro Fukutomi remix main) – Loop Session ft. Jean Paul “Bluey” Maunick (Loop Sounds)
13. Coming Back Around (Domu Rebeat mix) – Pete Simpson (Papa)
14. Lucy Said (Landslide remix) – Fenomenon (HiFi Terapi)
15. Navigator (single edit) – Brotherly (SunTzu Sound)
16. Belong – Dharmaone feat Tuomo (Nine2Five)
17. Sundrops – Inverse Cinematics (Pulver)
18. Come Away (Zumen remix) – TM Juke (Tru Thoughts)
19. Elephant Takeover – Me & You (Tru Thoughts)
20. Dime La Verdad – Aklimatize ft. Totin Agosto (Future Elements)
21. Roda Piao (Spiritual South rmx) – Azymuth (Far Out)
22. Treeknocka – Cone ft. Colonel Red (Bagpak)
23. Inner City Blues (4Hero main version) – Allen Hoist (Soulab)
24. Ebatule (Ennio Styles’ samba funk rmx) – Belladonna (Irma)

Part 2 – Agent M

1. Hip Hop (Don’t Stop) – Man Parrish (Unidisc)
2. Transit Ride – GURU (Chrysalis)
3. Ex Girl To Next Girl – Gang Starr
4. That’s The Way Love Goes – Janet Jackson (Virgin)
5. Summertime (instrumental) – Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (Jive)
6. Let’s Get It On (MPG groove mix) – Marvin Gaye (Motown)
7. Family Affair – Sly and The Family Stone (CBS)
8. Fairground – Pete Rock (BBE)
9. Smiling Faces Sometimes (Futureshock Main Ingredient mix) – Undisputed Truth (Motown)
10. ? – Boombip (Mush)
11. Theme from The French Connection – Geoff Love and his Orchestra (MFP)
12. Sleep – Dan The Automator (75 Ark)
13. Only The Strong Survive – DJ Krush feat. CL Smooth (MoWax)
14. 1-900-2 Compton – NWA (Ruthless)
15. Music (instrumental) – Erick Sermon (NYLA)
16. May – Percy Thrower (Response)
17. Standard – Pete Rock (BBE)
18. Interlude 2 – Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw)
19. Paris By Night – Geoff Love and his Orchestra (MFP)
20. Basic Conversational French – Daily Express (?)
21. Neither One Of Us Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye (Kenny Dope mix) Gladys Knight and The Pipps (Motown)
22. I’ve Been Thinking – Handsome Boy Modelling School feat. Cat Power (Atlantic)
23. Protection – Massive Attack (Wild Bunch)
24. You Can Do It Baby – Masters At Work feat. George Benson (Mercury)
25. Things Don’t Exist – Goapele (BBE)
26. Just Don’t Bite It – NWA (Ruthless)
27. Express Yourself – NWA (Ruthless)
28. Dayz Of Wayback – NWA (Ruthless)
29. Words To Give By – Roy Davis Jr (Large)
30. Cant Stop – Reel People (Defected)
31. Days Like These – Kenny Latimore (Defected)
32. The Turn – Method Man (Def Jam)
33. This Old Heart Of Mine – The Isley Brothers (Motown)
34. Always There (12inch version) – Incognito (Talkin Loud)
35. Take Me To The Stars – The O Jays (TSOP)
36. Theme From Shaft – Geoff Love and his Orchestra (MFP)
37. Walk The Line – Johnny Cash (Sun)
38. Magnificent Seven Theme – Brian Dee (Pickwick)
39. Star Wars (main theme) – Boris Midney (?)