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Curtis Radio 47th episode proudly presents a 10 song selection carefully hand-picked by Junmin Cho, known in the musical world as Livigesh. A very accomplished producer and explorer of sounds with 7 albums under his belt, originally from South Korean, he has travelled extensively around the world. His "modus operandi" in the studio has found a very personal and genuine way to incorporate into his...

Bienvenidos a una nueva edición de nuestro querido programa Curtis Radio, con dos años recién cumplidos de sonora andadura. En este nuevo episodio nos complace mucho presentar a Delise, madrileña afincada en Southampton (UK), donde da clases de cine y participa activamente en el circuito hip hop de la ciudad formando parte del colectivo Mass Appeal.  Agitadora de la escena hip hop de su Madrid nat...

Curtis Radio cumple 2 años! 45 episodios presentando 10 canciones seleccionadas por algunos de los mejores músicos, DJs, selectores y coleccionistas de tesoros musicales de todo el planeta. Demasiados nombres ilustres para nombrarlos todos aquí, os invitamos a dar un repaso al catálogo del programa para conocer y disfrutar de las selecciones de estos artistas excepcionales: https://curtisaudiocafe...

Skygaze es el proyecto musical del gijonés Jaime Tellado, arquitecto de profesión y explorador musical por pasión. Lleva más de una década "in the game", y en estos diez años de constante evolución todo el material que hemos escuchado de él ha sido siempre muy creativo y de altísima calidad, una exquisita fusión de géneros, un tapiz sonoro multicolor con la poderosa fuerza de groove como denominad...

Estamos muy emocionados de compartir un nuevo episodio de Curtis Radio seleccionado por la legendaria DJ y productora Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy. Su apasionante y exitoso viaje musical se extiende a lo largo de 4 décadas, desde su adolescencia trabajando en tiendas de discos y estaciones de radio en su ciudad natal, hasta su vinculación y amistad con el padrino de la música Disco David Mancuso y sus s...

Here it is! The 42nd episode of our Curtis Radio Show, a place for discovery and celebration of our deep love for music! This month's show is curated by Vincent Roussarie, also known as Psycut, a highly respected digger and DJ from Paris with more than two decades of experience unearthing and spinning musical treasures in the organic music vibrant scene, be it funk, rare grooves, jazz, hip hop, re...

Every first Sunday of the month we present a new episode of our Curtis Radio show, introducing an exclusive 10 song selection put togehter by some of the best artists, diggers, DJs, musicians and record collectors from around the globe. Today's 41st show is curated with love by Brasil born, London based turntable wizard D.Vyzor. A staple in the vibrant groove music London circut, resident at the J...

Curtis Radio is back!! After a short break and an improved website section (check check check !!!), today we proudly present a new episode of our beloved Curtis Radio Show. With 39 dope shows in our archive you know the formula by now. We reach out to DJs, musicians, diggers, collectors, and any other breed of vinyl aficionado from around the world and ask them to select 10 songs that they keep cl...

We at Curtis are longtime fans of Rainer Trüby. A constant and always reliable source of music discovery thanks to his DJ sets, productions, remixes, compilations, Trüby Trio, Compost, Sonar Kollectiv, Glücklich, Brazilian music, A Forest Mighty Black...all consistently dope, never a bad note, music for the soul. We met Rainer personally when our local duderino and Curtis skipper Guille de Juan wo...

It's with great pleasure and excitement that we present a new series of Curtis Radio shows, announced as "Curtis Radio Meets", where we expand the "10 songs" format to include a conversation with an artist and/or music aficionado from any corner of the world, who wants to share his music and thoughts and vision with us. In our first instalment of the series we are so honored to present Brazilian c...

We met Nickodemus about 15 years ago in Barcelona at a common friend's dope music basement and tasty Mexican restaurant called Dostrece. We were already big fans of his music and his globe-trotting gigs when we got to shake hands with this good man. But getting to meet the person Nico Simone behind the revered artist Nickodemus, only increased our admiration and respect for him. He is not only an...

Yo mama Joe Bataan is playing on Curtis radio!! Yes, yes you heard that right! THE Joe Bataan, THE legendary musician from NYC, king of Latin Soul...from the streets of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) in his teenage years, to recording eight essential albums for seminal label Fania Records, to founding his imprint Salsoul and pioneering a new music genre (hip hop) with his smash hit Rap-O Clap-O, to hi...

Marcos Valle, Nicola Conte, Prime Cuts, Mark de Clive-Lowe, bwoy stakes are higher than high with our Curtis Radio series...and the list of dope guests goes on for 35 sensational episodes covering all sorts of amazing records from all eras, tempos and colors. Every second Sunday we unveil a 10 song selection handpicked with love by a A-List of DJs, musicians, producers, diggers and collectors from...

Essential New Episode Alert! "Way before jazz hybridity became a worldwide phenomenon, de Clive-Lowe was busy designing its blueprint". This is a quote and a true statement taken from an article in renowned Jazziz magazine that perfectly encapsulates the pioneering and unorthodox musical approach of Japanese-New Zealander composer, jazz musician, remixer, and electronic music producer, Mark de Cli...

An avid record collector since his early teens, Joel aka DJ Prime Cuts has spent the last 25 years rocking crowds across the globe with 15 years as resident at iconic London's Fabric nightclub. Hip Hop was the first calling and via the music's foundations in Funk, Soul and Jazz, Joel began a lifetime obsession with digging for the extraordinary. With an almost peerless DJ battle history, both solo...

For today's very special Curtis Radio episode we step into the territory of modern jazz royalty, with a 10 song selection carefully handpicked by italian composer extraordinaire Nicola Conte. Nicola Conte established himself as one of the finest and most eclectic musicians, producers, and composers in the Italian and international jazz scene. As a classically trained guitarist, bandleader, crate-d...

The broad concept of eclecticism takes on a new level of excellence and depth when Lydia González, known in the music world as T.Modet, stands behind a mixer and a pair of turntables. Born in Seville, she received a valuable family musical heritage that was quickly expanded and enriched with a new and enormous spectrum of sounds and influences resulting from her extensive travels around the world...

En nuestra búsqueda constante para conectar con selectores, DJs, buscadores de oro negro, coleccionistas, y demás especies apasionadas de ese precioso y amado formato musical que es "el disco", teníamos que cruzar caminos de forma inevitable con Ainara Marañon, also known as Sama Yax. Bilbaína nacida en México y afincada en Barcelona, lleva ya largo tiempo compartiendo su pasión innegociable por l...

We met Gino Grasso and Luca Trevisi aka LTJ Xperience, two of the finest DJs and most avid record collectors from Italy, in Soundcloud. Back then the platform was a very fertile and active hub for music discovery and exchange for likeminded music lovers from around the globe. We instatly connected with the deep, slow but heavy on the beats and bass, discofied dope sound they were releasing, and we...

Numbers are important. They let us humans understand and anchor our possition in relation to time, space and the cosmos. Ever since the days of early civilizations, people have used numbers to keep track of time, predict the future, and map out the stars. One sunny June afternoon in Barcelona, while chatting with trailblazer DJ and voracious record collector Ben* (Turntablejazz/Yasiin Bey's DJ/Lov...

And now for our next number we'd like to return to the classics...today we proudly present a guest show by none other than Marcos Valle, a true legend of bossa nova, samba and popular brazilian music in general. Valle started playing the piano at the age of five, educated in classical and soon leaning towards jazz and soul, he began his recording career in the mid-sixties, when he was still a teen...

En nuestra constante peregrinación por las sendas del ritmo para encontrar a los mejores coleccionistas de discos y a los más ávidos selectores del panorama nacional e internacional, teníamos que dar de forma inevitable con el bueno de Javi Bayo. Figura clave de la escena underground de este país desde hace más de dos décadas, Javi es un DJ de DJs, tanto en el club como en la radio (Radio Relativa...

The Curtis Radio "10 songs only" series keep gaining momentum, the list of very special guests keeps growing strong and today we reach episode number 25 with another top musical talent and international star. We follow DJ Vadim's extended and highly prolific career since day one. It was the early 90s and Vadim aka The Dub Catcher was already on our radar as he was starting from a foundation in ins...

They say that there are 2 eras in modern music. The one that came before the invention of the Roland TR-808 drum machine and the era that came after. We believe that statement to be true. Such is the massive influence of that seminal and powerful machine in the music that we play and listen today. And if there is a particular genre intrinsically linked to the sounds and drum patterns of a Rolant T...

Important Curtis Radio Show Alert! Today's very special guest in our Curtis Radio "10 songs" series is none other than Amir Abdullah. Amir is part of Hip Hop history as a sample excavator, music historian, compilation curator and DJ who’s already acknowledged alongside some of his childhood heroes. As a DJ he’s rocked parties from Brooklyn to Berlin, where he’s been based for the past few years; a...