Right…Those of you who have been following us for some time will realise that the website hasn’t been updated for a while. Those of you who have just found us will probably think not much has happened with us since early April. Not so.

Essentially, we’ve had a bit of a pow-wow/board meeting/cup of tea and a chat here at BBHQ, and have decided to make a few changes.

For years now, we’ve been putting out a weekly 4hour live radio show (available for download for the following 7 days) across a variety of musical styles. And jolly good fun it has been, too. However, although we get good feedback from our listeners, we’re acutely aware that a 4-hour show is a hell of a lot to download in todays snappy 20-minute podcast world. Also, if this weeks music genre isn’t your style, then you’ll have to wait for another show (and another week) for something that might be up your street.

Also, the Family Blunt is not getting any younger, and our day-jobs/lives have been keeping us more than busy. We’re all a little more spread out, both location-wise, and waistline-wise. All of this has impacted on our ability to bring you, our much-loved listener, quality Blunt Beats approved music. And we apologise.

But, we’re gonna fix it.

Rather than struggling to do a fresh 4 hour show every week that is a mammoth download file, we’ve decided to move our focus onto shorter, regular podcast/mix series based on our existing radio show brands (e.g. Dub Chamber, Soul Food, Electric Noodles etc), which will be a little bit more directed for you the listener, and a little easier for us to manage. We’ll also be posting special one-off mixes, archive sets, and material from our friends and guests.

Have no fear, we’ll still be doing live radio shows, with our resident DJs and guests. We’ll post about them here on the site, and also put details of upcoming shows on our radio page.

Essentially, “less is more”, as they say. Think of it as a new, streamlined, low-carb Blunt Beats (ok…..scrub the low-carb bit, but you get the idea)

Marcus, Adam and myself put together four hours of funk, soul, nujazz and afrobeat for your listening pleasure, with a spattering of DnB and dubstep. Grab the download while you can (before next Thursday), and check the tracklisting below.

Part 1 – Marcus G Hurley

1. Something Special – Max Sedgley (Jalapeno)
2. Let It Blow – Dazz Band (Motown)
3. Happyness – A Skillz (?)
4. Money Inc. – Mr Konfuse (Nova-Gain)
5. Azua Azua – Deela (Switchstance)
6. Funk For Me – DJ Asparagus (GAMM)
7. Afro Elements – Aroop Roy (Fresh Out Of The Box)
8. Oh Why – Defkline & Red Polo (Hot Cakes)
9. Flat Toes – Defkline & Red Polo (Booty Breaks)
10. Twang Banger – A Skillz (Insane Bangers)
11. All This Lovin’ – Gwen McRae (?)
12. Funky White Brother – Featurecast (Good Groove)
13. How Is The Party – Funk Thomas (Good Groove)
14. Punk Rolla – Grape Vine (?)
15. Pro Nails (Rusko rmx) – Kid Sister (Fools Gold)
16. Cockney Thug – Rusko (Sub Soldiers)
17. Darkside – Unknown (dub)
18. Swagga – Datsik & Excision (dub)

Part 2 – Adam Williams

1. Wu Tang – Method Man (Wu)
2. Live Sciences – Purple Zones (?)
3. Ain’t It Funky – James Brown (Polydor)
4. You Can Do It Baby – George Benson (Giant Step)
5. Carnaval De São Vicente (Jazzy Carnival mix) – Cesaria Evora (Lusafrica)
6. Infinite Rhythm – Afro Mystik (Om)
7. Attend! – ?
8. Brick House – MoD & Staffan Thorsell (Purple Music)
9. We Love This Music – Soulmagic (Purple Music)
10. Everyday – Central Living (Naked Music)
11. It’s Complete – Atjazz (Collision)
12. Fish – Mr Scruff (Ninja Tune)
13. In The Picture – The Underwolves (Compost)
14. The Sea – Saint Etienne (Heavenly)
15. Travellin’ Man – Syncopix (Hospital)
16. Natty Dread – Defidom (white)

Part 3 – Doug

1. African Rhythms (intro) – Oneness Of Juju (Shekere)
2. Funky In The Middle – Nickodemus ft. Jay Rodriguez & Ticklah (Eighteenth Street Lounge Music)
3. Psychedelic Woman (Bonobo rmx) – Honny & The Bees Band (Soundway)
4. Blow Your Horn – Quantic ft. Ohmega Watts (Tru Thoughts)
5. Why Me – Kinny & Horne (Tru Thoughts)
6. Take Me Back From Piaui (Dubben mix)- Bigga Bush (Stereo Deluxe)
7. Afrobeatnik – Gecko Turner (Love Monk)
8. Zuzukus People (Lightning Head remix) – Bigga Bush (Stereo Deluxe)
9. Mister Sinister (original Kokolo mix) – Kokolo Afrobeat Orchetra (Jamayka)
10. We Dey Suffa – Oghene Kologbo & Afrobeat Academy
11. Ilegal – Couscous Party (Love Monk)
12. Mother Earth (LP version) – Lanu (Tru Thoughts)
13. Power Brain (Hi-Perspective rmx) – Franck Biyong ft. Wunmi (Love Monk)
14. Don’t Follow Fashion – Oghene Kologbo & Afrobeat Academy (MK2)
15. Can’t Buy Me – Femi Kuti (UWE)
16. Ye Ye De Smell – Fela Kuti & Africa 70 (Universal)
17. Bukom Mashie (Quantic remix) – Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band (Bottletop)

This weeks live radio show sees us return once more to The Dub Chamber. Blunt Residents Agent M and the Erbalist will be providing you with 4 hours of straight-up heavyweight dub reggae from across the years. Expect to hear some 60’s and 70’s dub classics, mixed up with some newer bits and pieces, and a few rarities too…..

You can listen to the whole show, live from 8pm UK time this Wednesday, via the link on our radio page.

Blunt Beats Radio presents The Dub Chamber, with Blunt Residents Agent M and the Erbalist. Live from 8pm UK time, Wednesday 24th March. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

Yep. We’re back on the air again tonight with another 4 hours of top-quality audio wandering. It’s time for Allsorts. Sets tonight will include music from Blunt Resident Agent M, along with an extended live recording from the family Blunt’s recent outing to Bar Absolute, where residents Doug and Marcus Hurley were joined by blunt-buddy DJ Morocco for a night of funk, breakbeat, hip hop beats, and pretty much anything else they fancied.

If you made it down, it’s a chance to listen again. If you didn’t, it’s a chance for you to hear what you missed, so you know better for next time! Catch all of tonights music live from 8pm UK time via our radio page.

Blunt Beats Radio presents Allsorts. Wednesday 10th March, live from 8pm UK time. Sets from Blunt Residents Agent M, Doug, Marcus Hurley, and DJ Morocco. www.bluntbeats.com/radio.

On tonight’s live radio show, the family Blunt will be cooking another wholesome portion of Electric Noodles. A 4-hour menu of downtempo, ambient, and electronic beats will be dished up piping hot by Blunt Residents Doug and Marcus Hurley. Hold the Soy sauce…

Blunt Beats Radio presents Electric Noodles, with Doug and Marcus Hurley. Live from 8pm UK time Wednesday 24th February. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

Yep, who needs fruit when you can gorge yourself on Allsorts?

Blunt Residents the Erbalist and Agent M are back for another 4 hour stint of playing whatever they like. Because they can. Rest assured, the tunes will be of the usual high-quality, whatever the genre may be…Nice, methinks.

Blunt Beats Radio presents Allsorts, with Blunt Residents the Erbalist and Agent M. Live from 8PM UK time. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

If you weren’t able to make it down to Bar Absolute in Hitchin last Friday, fear not! We got the while night in the can and it will be revisited in tonight’s Soulfood show.

Tune in from 8pm to catch sets from Morroco, Marcus Hurley and myself. Spanning hip hop, nu-jazz, funk, breaks, electro and DnB, it was a top night of tunes. Don’t miss out a second time!

Here’s the tracklisting for last weeks Moonstompin’ show with myself and the Erbalist…

As always, you can grab the show for the next 7 days via the Radio page..

Erbalist

1. Skinhead Moonstomp – Symarip (Treasure Isle)
2. Rough Ridder – Prince Buster (White Label)
3. unknown Bob Marley & The Wailing Souls (white label)
4. 54-46 That’s My Numbxer – The Maytals (Pyramid)
5. Tiger In Your Tank – Lord Bryner (Island)
6. Fire Corner – King Stitt (New Beat)
7. Dry Acid – The Upsetters (Punch)
8. Clint Eastwood – The Upsetters (Punch)
9. Rodie All Around – Joe White, Lynn Taitt & The All Stars (Doctor Bird)
10. Picture On The Wall – Freddy McCay (Studio 1)
11. Double Barrel (version 2) – Dave & Ansil Collins (Techniques)
12. Guns Of Navarone – The Skatalites (Island)
13. Monkey Man – Toots & The Maytals (Trojan)
14. My Boy Lollipop Millie (Fontana)
15. Birth Control – Lloyd Terrell (Pama)
16. Fever – Junior Byles (Pama)
17. Skinheads A Bash Them – Claudette (Grape)
18. Skinhead Revolt – Joe The Boss (Joe)
19. Brixton Fight – Pamadice (Reggae)
20. One Eyed Giant – Baba Brooks & His Band (Ska Beat)
21. Guns Fever – Baba Brooks Band (Treasure Isle)
22. Dr No – Baba Brooks (King Edwards)
23. You Can Run – The Hurricanes (Black Art)
24. Natty Dread – Sambo Jim (Harry J)
25. Swing & Dine – The Melodians (High Note)
26. Sharking Up Orange St – Prince Buster & The All Stars (Prince Buster)
27. Pressure & Slide – The Tennors (Studio 1)
28. King Of Kings – King Stitt (Clan Disc)
29. Collie Bud – Skatalites (Randys)
30. El Cid (Dahil Sayo) – King Sporty & Roland Alphonso (Top Deck)
31. A Shot In The Dark – Roland Alphonso (Top Deck)
32. Ska-Ra-Van – Roland Alphonso (Top Deck)
33. Ska Down Jamaica Way (South Of The Boarder) – Ferdie Nelson & Ivan Yap (Top Deck)
34. Scare Him – The Maytals (Beverleys)
35. Street Girl – Derrick Morgan (Black Swan)
36. It Miek – Desmond Dekker & The Aces (Pyramid)
37. Red Red Wine – Tony Tribe (Down Town)
38. She’s But A Little Girl – Max Romeo (Unity)
39. Popatop – Andy Capp (Treasure Isle)
40. Living For The City – Pat Rhoden (Attack)
41. Whine & Grind – Prince Buster & The All Stars (FAB)

Agent M – tracklisting coming soon….

That’s right, we’re Moonstompin’ once again on tonights live radio show. 4 hours of classic ska, rocksteady, and skinhead reggae as selected by Blunt Residents Agent M and the Erbalist. All on wax. As it should be.

We’re live tonight from 8pm UK time, and you can listen live via our radio page. On which, you’ll also see a handy video player, which will be streaming from a webcam here at Blunt Towers throughout the show. Isn’t technology wonderful…?

Blunt Beats Radio presents Moonstompin’. Live from 8pm UK time Wednesday 3rd February. www.bluntbeats.com/radio

After a few initial teething problems we got things ironed out and some smooth jazz influenced tunes were spun. This was the first of what could be many at this stylish new venue, so keep your eyes peeled for more dates. The download has been available since last Thursday, and will still be on our Radio page until this Thursday. So if you haven’t grabbed it yet, you’ve only got a couple of days left to do so.

Part 3 – Agent M

Coming soon…

Part 2 – Marcus G. Hurley

1. Would you Cry – Thomas Ashley (A Tale of Two Cities)
2. City Madness – Yannah Valdevit (Atjazz)
3. Gonzales Ride – Fabric Souls (white label)
4. Prince Maharajah – J Knox 5(Fortknox)
5. Sard Boogie – B-Funk(Sard Boogie)
6. Superstition – U Tern vs Neighbour (Roxanne)
7. Sister – Snek Kristian (Last Night)
8. Rose Rouge – Perspective (Atjazz)
9. Friends – J&M Brothers (All Night Deep)
10. Favela Funk – Roland Schwartz (Shantizam)
11. Gypsy Breaks – Quasamodo (Basement Freaks)
12. Dibidy Dop – White Mink (Club de Belugus)
13. Top Formula – Superslick (Top Formula)
14. 77 Game – Feeling (Trotter)
15. Manero – Shantisan Disco Boogie (Trotter)
16. The Smurf – Tyronne Brunson (white)
17. Righton – Dj Axe (Funky 40)
18. Human Nature – Pure P (Baby B)
19. Hip Hop to Funk Ed Royal (Vienna Scientists)

Part 3 – Adam Williams

1. Million Dan – Lambada feat. Ralph Dog
2. Amosphere Funk – Wax Doctor (Metel Headz)
3. The 37th Chamber – Courtney Pine
4. Fedine’s Flight – Jazzanova(Jazzanova)
5. Indian Summer – Ring Rooba
6. True Love – Ming’s Petal Pusher (Aquanote)
7. My Precious Things – Lorca
8. It’s Complete – Uschi (Atjazz)
9. Trying Times – Courtney Pine
10. It’s Jazzy – Roni Size (V Recordings)
11. It’s LIke That – Dj Zinc (Bingo)
12. Travellin Man – Syncopix
13. Circles – Adam F (White)
14. Cold Hand – X R S
15. Freefall – Peshay (Galliano records)