Mixtape 13: Roots
In this week’s mixtape we go digging for our musical roots, attempting to find some sense in these uncertain times.
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30 June 2020
In this week’s mixtape we go digging for our musical roots, attempting to find some sense in these uncertain times.
Hosted by: Charles Leonard
Production: The Good People at Between Productions
Playlist:
1. Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together
2. Sun Ra Arkestra – Seductive Fantasy
3. Bishop Nehru – Meathead (feat MF DOOM)
4. St Vincent – Pills
5. Kamasi Washington – The Rhythm Changes
6. Asha Bhosle & Kronos Quartet – Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke)
7. Joan Armatrading – Love And Affection
8. John Coltrane – Alabama
9. Robbie Jansen, Alex van Heerden, Errol Dyers, Hilton Schilder, Ivan Bell, Spencer Mbadu – Alabama
10. Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning (official theme tune of The Sopranos)
11. Cecilia Bartoli & György Fischer – Sposa Son Disprezzata
12. David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
13. Gibson Kente – Overture
14. Charles Mingus, Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge & Tommy Flanagan – Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
15. Mos Def – UMI Says
16. X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents (BBC Radio One “John Peel” Session 6/11/1978)
17. Pharoah Sanders – Our Roots (Began In Africa)
18. The Moody Boyz – Destination Africa (Spirit of Freedom version)
19. IAM – Red, Black and Green
20. Stetsasonic – Africa (Norman Cook remix)
21. Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture
22. Roots Manuva – Witness (1 Hope)
23. Sister Nancy – Only Woman DJ With Degree
24. DJ Rupture – Little More Oil
25. Jazz Jamaica – My Girl
26. Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
27. Marxist Brothers – Little Swallow
28. The Four Brothers – Mbereko Yakaramba
