Groovement

DJ Jazzy Jeff hits Manchester for the Magnificent House Party, and I warmed up. We caught up in the back later together with the MAG crew plus AnnaOnTheMic. Plus, all new hip hop to jazz and back round again.  1O years ago: https://groovement.co.uk/2015/04/interview-dj-jazzy-jeffs-first-45s-set-for-20-years-rbma-uk-tour-wax-works/

Charif Megarbane - Istintaj (live in Manchester) Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa Band – Palestine Is My Homeland Werkha & Ríoghnach Connolly  - Everyday Darkhouse Family - Heart Of Medina Om Unit - Ascension  Mammal Hands - Deep Within Mountains Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Radicalise (urself) Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Wavy GreenFinguz - Leila GreenFinguz - Shaitan (Parrisi...

Special guest Rob Mitchell from Abstract Orchestra talks about their work with Guilty Simpson, Slum Village and more, plus new label Abstract Records. Pan Amsterdam talks new album Confines, dedicated to his dad. Lafayette Stokely is over in the UK for the first time and JoeJas has UK dates too. Naomi Kalu is a powerful new Mancunian singer / songwriter, and producer/rapper Arshaq Malik talks his...

Gangster Doodles talks the completion of his compilation trilogy for All City Records, with contributions from Mr Scruff, Don Leisure and Homeboy Sandman. Plus an hour of new hip hop and jazz from Greg Surmacz, KUTMAH, Harry Shotta x Metrodome, Zola Marcelle, Poppy Daniels, Oddisee, Murs, Nana Benz du Togo, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Offica and more Harry Shotta - Imposter Feat. Spyda, P Money & Rag'n...

Forced to leave Lebanon in his initial wave of creativity, and only now returning to the stage years later following the re-release of his music on the Habibi Funk label, Rogér is on tour with Charif Megarbane - Rogér very kindly took some time out to jump on Liber[té] for Radio Alhara to talk about his history and choose some songs for us. Tickets for his tour including Manchester: https://theatr...

Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective) talks his first LP in six years, All The Quiet (Part 1) - Ella May Sueref talks her eponymous debut solo album on Village Live Records - Homeboy Sandman is in Manchester with guest schwarma reviews from DJ Trumastr and Oddy Gato - Ellen Beth Abdi introduces her two lead singles from her upcoming debut album First broadcast on Reform Radio Monday 7 April 2015.

Newen Afrobeat - Chaltumay Ezra Collective - Ajala Tremor - Caracol Totó La Momposina - La Verdolaga Novalima - La Danza Chancha Via Circuito - Sueño en Paraguay Malphino - Molienda Quantic & Nidia Góngora - E Ye Ye The Garifuna Women's Project - Mérua The Garifuna Collective - Black Catbird Cumbiasound - En Estos Tiempos Peligrosos.... Rio Mira - Adios Morena Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Amo...

Mark Ski celebrates his sophomore album RECLESS with a Groovement deep dive - the LP features the likes of Homeboy Sandman and Guilty Simpson. Sandman drops in briefly to talk his UK tour dates for March and April, plus new music from The Colonel, Kid Acne, Sonnyjim, Chuck Strangers, PremRock, Ella Mae Sueref, Move 78 and more. Angie Stone - I Wish I Didn't Miss You (Live) Angie Stone - No More Ra...

New music selected by Jamito. First broadcast on Radio Alhara 2.3.25 Telemachus - The Emerald Buddha Phi-Psonics - Prelude: Expansion Vega Trails - Sleepwalk Tokyo Kaidi Tatham - So Happy Greg Surmacz - Loft Music Nyron Higor - Ciranda Footshooter - Folding (Instrumental) WheelUP - Juggle feat. Abacus Inês Loubet - Quatro de Dezembro Sabrina Malheiros - Terra de Ninguém Celia Wa - DÉMOUNAJ Allexa...

As the legendary Welsh label Sain Records back catalogue get archived and digitised, Don Leisure of Darkhouse Family reinterprets classic tracks and talks about the influence of Andy Votel, Dom Thomas and Gruff Rhys' Welsh Rare Beat on Finders Keepers. Originally broadcasts 10 February 2025 on Reform Radio. Hosted & produced by Agent J.

Victoria Port guests on Groovement to talk with Agent J about her debut EP on First Word Records, Did It Again, reflecting on motherhood and family legacy. Did It Again is available now on vinyl and digital www.victoriaport.bandcamp.com Originally broadcast 10 February 2025 on Reform Radio.

An hour mix of new music from Brother Ali, Om Unit, Kid Acne, Dub Phizix, Rita Donte, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Don Leisure and more

A mix to accompany the book What Do You Call It? From Grassroots to the Golden Era of UK Rap' by David Kane, out now via Velocity Press. velocitypress.uk/product/what-do-you-call-it-book/ “Unravels the complicated calculus between hip-hop and its offshoots (UK garage, grime, drill) against a backdrop of resistance (the Met police’s highly controversial Form 696/Operation Domain policies) with math...

A retrospective of the vital voice of Lowkey, mixed by Jamito. Liber[té] is broadcast on Radio Alhara monthly. Originally broadcast 5 Jan 2025.  -- Lowkey feat Mai Khalil - Iraq2Chile  Lowkey feat Mai Khalil  - Palestine Will Never Die Lowkey - Everything I Am Lowkey - Alphabet Assassin Lowkey - Goat Flow Lowkey ft Akala & Black The Ripper - I Still Believe 2020 Lowkey ft Shadia Mansour - Too...

Fresh off the back of new album You Never Really Know, JSWISS sits in with Agent J of Groovement to talk about the making of the album, collaborations, his family legacy and dearly missed friend, MC and actor, Rowdy. Download the album on Bandcamp now: https://jswiss.bandcamp.com/album/you-never-really-know --- JSWISS - Everything You Need JSWISS ft Sly5thAve - Out Of Bounds Sly5thAve & JSWISS...

An hour of Chilean folk from Violeta y Victor - love and resistance. Selection by Jamito aka Jamie Groovement. First broadcast on Radio Alhara 1 Dec 2024.

The Manchester duo celebrate Full Circle, their debut album for HIgh Focus Records. Having met at Manchester hip hop event In The Loop, the pair worked together in The Mouse Outfit before finding their own paths, Now, they return - older, but wiser. More info and pre-order the album: https://groovement.co.uk/2024/11/fullcircle/

First broadcast on Radio Alhara 3 Nov 2024. Mixed by Jamito. 

9 November sees the return of An Afternoon Of Dilla at Brix in London. Featuring live performances, DJ sets, beat sets, a Dilla beat cypher plus exclusive merch and competitions, this is an official fundraising event for the James Dewitt Yancey Foundation, the charity established by Ma Dukes. All money raised from the event will be donated to the charity to support the amazing work they do surroun...

An autumnal RnB selection from choice selector WatchDeez. https://www.instagram.com/watchdeez/ Featuring Marsiell, Jon B, Kuartz, Jill Scott, Alexander O'Neal, Maeta, Jade, Maxwell, Mint Condition, Mobb Deep, Terri Walker, Muni Long, Tsana, Zhané and Silk.

Agent J plays music from The Pro Teens, Greenfinguz and Angry Blackmen plus two guest mixes: Vice Beats' Dilla tribute ahead of An Afternoon Of Dilla on Nov 9 in London, plus a super soulful mix from WatchDeez with his Love (This) Season selection.

Agent J catches up with Trackstar The DJ (Run The Jewels) about his recent tour with Killer Mike, plus High Focus Records boss Fliptrix opens up about the personal inspirations behind new album Dragonfly. Plus new music from Vice Beats, Sly5thAve remixed by Jamz Supernova and Sam Interface, The O'My's, Spectacular Diagnostics and Mulatu Astatke with Hoodna Orchestra.

An in-depth chat with Jaubi before the release of their second LP, A Sound Heart (out 6 Sep), with cofounder and sarangi master Zohaib Hassan Khan.  Zohaib is a 7th generation sarangi maestro and one of only 5 professional sarangi players left in Pakistan practicing this ancient art form. Today he talks about his family legacy, the dying art form of playing and his grandfather, Ustad Hussain Bakhs...

Thugs From Amritsar is the debut album from Pataka Boys, aka PAV4N, Sonnyjim and Kartik.  We get some insight into the project from PAV4N and producer Kartik plus talk about music, identity and Indian hip hop. Private Joy - All Eyes On You Tara Lilly - Breathe Now Jaubi - Chandrakauns JWISS - Make Space feat. Demi Grace Matt Wilde, [ K S R ] - When it Comes Together Hania Rani - It Comes In Waves...

An hour of pioneering Palestinian hip hop crew DAM, mixed by Jamito.