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Weekly picks! This week’s playlist explores the heady blend of diverse musical cultures that characterised music in New York and parts of the midwest at the end of the 70s and early 80s. It was a time when when post-punk sensibilities meshed with the fringes of disco hedonism and art school experimentalism, while the motorik drum machine-laden sounds of European dance music met with the Black American sounds of funk and diaspora genres from the Caribbean. Including music from Richie Weeks, Dinosaur, Alan Vega, Patrick Cowley, and Liquid Liquid.

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Weekly picks!! This week we’re embracing the changing seasons with a playlist of autumnal folk rarities from the early 70s, featuring some incredible and under-appreciated music from the Third Ear Band, Spriguns of Tolgus, Vulcan’s Hammer, Comus, and Dr Strangely Strange…

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Adelphoi Music are proud to have received a Creativepool Bronze Award for the sonic logo we created for the peri-peri powerhouse, Nandos! The brand’s first-ever sonic logo was inspired by the its Southern African heritage and its iconic ‘Afro-Luso’ music playlists in restaurants. Adelphoi hand-picked artists Onipa to create an authentic mixture of pan-African traditional and contemporary styles, closely aligned with the strategy and spirit of the brand.

Inspired by the new documentary, this week’s playlist places Jimi Hendrix in context, situating his music alongside his influences, including Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry...

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There are countless documentaries about the life and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, as a person and a guitar hero, but this one piqued our interest. The forthcoming film, Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, explores the studio he left behind, which enabled him to break free from major studios, changed the nature of the studio experience, and has continued to facilitate recording for major pop acts in the decades since. You can read about in the article linked in our story…

Weekly picks this week centre on sound system culture and bass pressure, with a selection of dub and roots reggae, and dancehall. Featuring the likes of King Tubby, Johnny Osbourne, Red Rat, Vybz Kartel, and Stylo G

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Weekly picks this week centre on sound system culture and bass pressure, with a selection of dub and roots reggae, and dancehall. Featuring the likes of King Tubby, Johnny Osbourne, Red Rat, Vybz Kartel, and Stylo G

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This week’s playlist invokes the sunshine (please come back!) with a sunkissed selection that ranges from spiritual jazz and shehnai ragas, through psychedelic folk, synth pop, and microhouse. Featuring Alice Coltrane, Bismillah Khan, Erkin Koray, The Incredible String Band, Kyoto, and Matthew Herbert.

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We’re glad to see this new archive featuring over 500 mixes from the late and legendary jungle icon, the godfather of breakbeat, DJ Randall. Wheel it up and start again!

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This week’s playlist explores the wildly idiosyncratic career of Scott Walker. From pop heart-throb and baritone lead vocalist with The Walker Brothers, to the avant-garde experimentalist behind solo albums like Tilt and The Drift. Linked in the story 👆

If you follow the Adelphoi Music newsletter you’ll know we post regular playlists exploring exciting genres and subcultures, both emerging and historic. The summer weather this week has had us bumping the sounds of 3-step and amapiano, the South African dance sensations that have been pushing the prism for electronic music, and taking over the world in the process. Featuring the sounds of Thakzin, Teno Afrika, the gqom king DJ Lag, and the unstoppable Amaarae.

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