Tru Thoughts Presents Unfold

New music from WheelUP with Abacus and Victoria Port (Anushka). Broken Beat / Bruk from Close Counters plus Jonny Faith remixing SMTHNG SMTIME. A great track from OneDa produced by Mr Scruff. Gospel Beats from J Rocc. The original Jerry Dammers demo of the classic Ghost Town. Dub & Reggae influenced Grime from Jus Rival & Joe Fire. Deep Soul from The Degrees (on Goldie’s label). Hip Hop from Ultramagnetic MCs and DJ Premier featuring Slick Rick. A Piano track from Ben Hauke. Plus plenty more music treats.

A classic from Public Enemy (influenced by watching the recent documentary from Chuck D). Hip Hop from YUNGMORPHEUS, Macklemore feat DJ Premier, Your Old Droog feat MFDOOM (produced by Edan) and a dubplate of a KRS One classic. Brand new music from Tru Thoughts artist Slowe. New Broken Beat from Haze City. Jazzy vocal beats from El Payo feat Sio and Born74 feat Arema Arega. Uplifting Disco Gospel Edit from Marc Davis & Sadar Bahar. A soulful tempo changing song from Penny Goodwin. Plus plenty more music treats.

An excellent Soul / Jazz track from Adja. Gospel Soul from SAULT. Orchestral Soul from The Bamboos. Grammy nominated Soul from Moonchild. A brand new track from IG Culture’s New Sector Movement feat Allysha Joy which is quality. Dancefloor tunes from Murder He Wrote and Kornél Kovács remix of Tevo Howard. Hip Hop from Robert, TrueMendos and YUNGMORPHEUS. Amapiano from DJ Black Low. A great Reggae track from Jah Thomas and Josey Wales. An interesting track from Mosca. Plus plenty more music treats.

Drum & Bass from Watch the Ride & Nia Archives remixed by Kings Of The Rolllers. Soul from Flying Lotus feat Devin Tracy, Tyson feat Delilah, Alice Russell and Mark Pritchard’s quality remix of Massive Attack. Hip Hop from The Beatnuts, Little Simz, Jurassic 5 and Truemendos. Deep beats from Bruise, WheelUP & Abacus. The big tune from Skrillex, Fred Again & Flowdan. A classic Dancehall dubplate from Beenie Man. Plus two songs in tribute to Terry Hall (Rest In Peace) from The Specials and his release with Mushtaq. Plus plenty more music treats.

We continue with Part 4 of some of the best releases of 2022. This show has many which were released recently, so will no doubt be big in 2023 too. With soul from muva of Earth and V.C.R. Hip Hop from Truemendos, Makeba Mooncycle, Little Simz, Your Old Droog, Westside Gunn feat Black Star, Ab-Soul (produced by DJ Premier). The show starts with a track featuring Maxi Jazz (Rest In Peace) by Benji Boko. Brilliant Jazz / Broken Beat from 30/70. Funky dancefloor basslines from Payfone & Edmondson. Plus plenty more music treats.

The 3rd Best Of 2022 show focuses on some of the Head Nod, Deeper and Downtempo tracks with a DJ mix from Robert. A tune from the amazing Jimetta Rose album. Hip Hop from Kendrick Lamar, Backwood Sweetie, Crafty893, Danger Mouse & Black Thought. Soul from Moonchild feat Lalah Hathaway, Searchlight, Sio and Natalie Duncan. A brilliant tune form Iman Houssein. Reggae from Chronixx and a track from SAULT (both produced by Inflo). Plus plenty more music treats. 

The second Best of 2022 show with Robert in the mix playing tunes that have been going down well in his DJ sets this year. Drum & Bass from MELONYX remixed by Zero T, Nia Archives, Workforce featuring Shady Novelle and Borai Lights. Uplifting Disco from Telephone Man and Tommy Rawson. TM Shall I Bruk It aka IG Culture with a great remix of Kendrick Lamar. Broken Beat from Murder He Wrote. Black Science Orchestra remixing Emma-Jean Thackray. Plus plenty more music treats.

The first Best Of 2022 show with Robert in a mix of tunes that have been sounding good this year in his DJ sets. With Hip Hop from Sonnyjim & The Purist, Meduulla, Loyle Carner, Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow. Deep building grooves from Sefi Zisling remixed by Obas Nenor. J Rocc with the Jazz Beats. WheelUP and SW2 with the Broken Beats. Casamena remixing Beyonce. Qualiy dancefloor deepness from Sampology. Plus plenty more music treats.

A play of the new single from Tyson feat Delilah Holliday. A quality track from Iman Houssein. Soul from Adja. A new song from Tiawa on Tru Thoughts. Hip Hop from Westside Gunn and a dubplate special of a KRS One classic on a J Dilla beat. A 12” Disco remix of Silk (the original was sampled by LF System). Broken Beat from Close Counters. Funk Soul from Experienced Unlimited. A Reggae classic from Fabian. A track from the excellent tyroneisaacstuart featuring Theon Cross and Moses Boyd. Plus plenty more music treats. 

UK Garage styles from Interplanetary Criminal & El-B remixing Aurora Dee Raynes. Broken Beat from Jonny Faith, Bruk Rogers, WheelUP & Abacus. A track from Gal Costa (Rest In Peace) plus the Kaytranda track that samples the tune. Hip Hop from Heavy D feat Q Tip produced by Jay Dee. A brilliant track from Iman Houssein. Deep Soul from Gene Dunlap. Plus plenty more music treats.

A track from the Ezra Collective album featuring Kojey Radical. Deep Broken Beat from WheelUP & Abacus. Jazz Dance from The Sultan’s Swing. Soul from SAULT and Rita Wright. Slowe has a quick chat with Robert Luis about her influences and her new single on Tru Thoughts. A great Nigerian Boogie track with synths by Gboyega Adelaja from his 1979 album. A classic track from Don Blackman. Hip Hop from Loyle Carner. Plus plenty more music treats.

Soulful sounds from Yazmin Lacey and BINA. Broken Beat from Bruk Rogers, Sentinela 793 and WheelUP. A track from the new STR4TA album. Jazz Beats from 30/70 and Byron The Aquariius. Reggae / Dub from King Tubby, Sister Nancy, The Heatwave feat Riko Dan, Terror Danjah and Scientist. Hip Hop from Ultramagnetic MC’s and Your Old Droog feat MF DOOM. Plus plenty more musical treats.

Obongjayar gets a quality remix from Vigro Deep. Classic Hip Hop from Artifacts (Rest In Peace Tame One) and Redman (Rest In Peace Hurricane G). New Hip Hop from TrueMendos featuring Skinnyman. Ghana influenced music from Bonobo. Deep Broken Beat from Don Pascal. A great track from El Payo feat Sio. Soulful groves from Karolina produced by Rejoicer. Dancefloor grooves from Steady Weather and TC4. Plus plenty more music treats.

Music from new Tru Thoughts artist Slowe. Soul from Alanna Royale on Colemine and Betty Black. A classic from Joyce Sims (Rest In Peace). Music from the excellent Cymande (check the documentary about them if you get the chance) plus a couple of Hip Hop tracks that sampled them from Master Ace and MC Solaar. A track from one of the five Sault albums recently released. A quality tune from South Africa’s El Payo. The hypnotic IG Culture remix of Nikitch & Kuna Maze. The Sindecut rework The Beatles with extra beats. A Brit Funk influenced track from The Jam and new from STR4TA. A track from the excellent album by DRS produced by Dub Phizix. Plus plenty more music treats.

A Sonic Switch DJ mix from Robert this week with tunes going down well at his Brighton club night residency. With Drum & Bass from Nia Archives, Think Tonk, Borai. Disco Gospel from Luman Child feat Robert Gee. Jazz Beats from The Natural Yoghurt Band, SW2 vs El-B and Dave Valentin. Bruk / Broken Beat from Haze City and Donsurf. Hip Hop from Loyle Carner, Sonnyjim & The Purist. A Capleton dubplate on the classic Neptunes produced Nothin. Plus plenty more music treats.

A themed show this week celebrating the remix, so every song on the show is a remix. Starting with Obas Nenor’s epic version of Sefi Zisling. Zed Bias with an anthem in the making remix of Murkage Dave. Ashley Beedle’s North Street West project remixing Maxin Scott and Alf E. Classic Hip Hop remixes from Da Beatminerz, DJ Premier and Pete Rock reworking of Public Enemy. Kaytranada’s dancefloor essential remix of Janet Jackson. The inspiring Larry Levan remix of Gwen Guthrie. Seiji taking Amy Winehouse into deep Broken Beat territory. One of the best remixes ever with Calibre’s rework of Jaheim. Plus plenty more remix treats. 

Hip Hop from Sonnyjim & The Purist feat MF DOOM & Jay Electronica, Crafty 893, Loyle Carner, Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow and Mos Def & Q Tip. Soul from Jimetta Rose and Searchlight. Deep beats from Enver Göyke. A classic from Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers (Rest In Peace Pucho). Uplifting previously unreleased Funk Soul from 1975 by Joe Graham. A great track from the new The Natural Yoghurt Band album. Jungle from Congo Natty and Pete Cannon. Shy One remixes Aurora Dee Raynes. Plus plenty more music treats.

A track from the new Sharky album on Tru Thoughts. Soul from Ari Lennox and Moonchild. Hip Hop from 12 year old Palestinian rapper MC Abdul, Stormzy, Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat MF DOOM. Jazz from Pharoah Sanders. A great uplifting Disco Gospel tune with strings from Tommy Rawson. Broken Beat / Bruk from Donsurf, Haze City and Landslide. Jungle from Nia Archives, Chimpo and Undercover Agent. Another great tune from dego and Samii. Plus plenty more music treats.

Music from Pharoah Sanders (Rest In Peace). Soul from Searchlight feat Tolü Makay and a classic from Soul II Soul. Hip Hop from JJ Doom, Jeshi (feat Obongjayar), Stormzy, Sly5thAve & JSWISS. Zero 7’s remix of Mos Def. Broken Beat with Bass from WheelUP & Sam Interface. Uplifting deep dancefloor music from Titeknots. Plus plenty more music treats.

A great new track from Loyle Carner (plus a spin of the original Pastor T.L. Barrett it samples). Hip Hop from Backwood Sweetie, Sonnyjim & The Purist, Sly5thAve & JSWISS. Jazz from JK Group & Chip Wickham. A soul classic from Martine Girault. A dubplate from Truth Hurts. The wonderful voice of Shazia Manzoor. Drum & Bass from Clipz feat Nia Archives & Beenie Man & DJ Die remixing Karime Kendra. The anthemic Zed Bias remix of Murkage Dave. Plus plenty more music treats.