Groovement

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.

Just back from Worldwide Festival, Private Joy sits in with Jamie Groovement to talk her new EP Desire! on Rhythm Section, Manchester street soul, the festival performance of Jimetta Rose and the Voices of Creation and more. Plus new hip hop, soul and more from Om Unit, Essa and Pitch 92, Ruby Wood x Vice Beats, Pataka Boys, Multiverse 3 and more.

edd mystery - nocturnes pt. II Nocturnal soul music for nightfall wanderlust. Twisted r&b & neo trip-hop. Mixed at home on my Technics. Inspired by the transition from dusk to darkness. 70-83 bpm. trip-hop, r&b, soul, hip-hop, synth-pop Tracklist: cktrl - zero Dijit - Schi Summer Walker - Hardlife Dijit - Loli Anna Butters - Doo Wop Natural Wonder Beauty Concept - III TIRZAH - Tectonic...

Alex Figueira of Conjunto Papa Upa drops in to discuss three tracks from new LP Fruta Madura, buy that here https://musicwithsoul.bandcamp.com/album/fruta-madura Plus music from Samrai, GreenFinguz, ali dada, Laiz & The New Love Experience, Momo,, Ayom, Africa Negra, Meridian Brothers, Ferkat Al-Ard and Farouz. More: www.groovement.co.uk/alhara RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE - END THE OCCUPATION NOW  S...

*NightjaR - Jimi Goodwin from Doves talks his debut hip hop album, recorded live at Wax And Beans record shop in Bury.  *Jamie Finlay talks new LP Sun Dogs - 'a unique blend of electric soul, spiritual jazz and psychedelia. A deeply layered and personal album that explores themes of love, loss, grief, and finding strength through turbulent times'. *Mungos Hi Fi chat about their new single Born Wit...

Nocturnes Pt 1 mixed by Edd Mystery Nocturnal soul music for nightfall wanderlust. Twisted r&b & neo trip-hop. Mixed at home on my Technics. Inspired by the transition from dusk to darkness.55-69 bpm

Hailing from Birmingham, this mix has been put together by the taste maker Eugene Carbado, aka Stereo Master. This mix traverses through various sonic landscapes, including Disco, Italo-Disco, Funk, and all the way through to Afro fused house. https://linktr.ee/stereo_master