Show Notes
This week it was the guy with the strange name's turn up to bat. We ran some fresh 2026 heat from corto.alto, Batuk & Spoek Mathambo, Sløy Gange, Nebraska & Dubi Drat, Akusmi, Dudù Kouate, Alex Nut/Steve Spacek and Inter-City repping the new stuff, before folding in classics from Ethiopian jazz, 80s and 90s hip-hop, the ever-present Brazilian rare groove, smatterings of dub and cumbia, and generous helpings of our comfort food: 70s deep soul, jazz, disco and boogie.
RIP to soul giant Latimore, hip-hop OG Keith Keith, and jazz guitarist Gene Bertoncini. And happy celestial birthday to the one and only Sylvester.
More from 95bFM: The Swap Meet
Kirk's back at it. This week we celebrated 2 birthdays on the 11th, Mr. Daryl Hall turned 80 & Mr. Brian Jackson turned 74, so played some of their tunes. We had some amazing local business from new 'Soft Chaos' album & played a couple of jams from friend of the show & one of Kirk's favorite producers, not only in NZ but out of all the producers worldwide, Mr. Doug Allen the man behind 'Sudo Records', do yourself a favour & check his stuff out on Bandcamp. On sader news we lost Mr. Freddie Jackson on the 5th, 3 days after his 80th, so played a few of his solo jams, a couple of classics with him on backup vocals & also 2 songs from Mystic Merlin with him on lead vocals, R.I.P to yet another legend! A whole bunch of other heat as well. Hope you enjoy it, folks. Turn it up!
It was the four o'clock roadblock this week, with in studio crew pulling up to the Swap Meet including: heavy collectors Campbell Ngata & Cassawarrior from Tairāwhiti, and also local hearoes Dylan Biscuit & Leon Aoki of Arcade Radio.
This week the show is brought to you by the don Campbell Ngata, broadcasting out of Gisborne/Tairāwhiti. As the 28th September 2026 marks a half century since Stevie Wonder's "Songs In the Key of Life" - which we need mark obviously! From there Boogie and post-disco rarities sit next to newer material from Paris Ford, Summer Vee and Another Taste, moving thru African funk and highlife heaters, K Frimpong and the Nkengas alongside a couple of Sun Ra and Marvin Peterson cuts that push things toward jazz for a while.
K & J back for te reo for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, a handful of waiata reo. We selebrate anniversaries for Funkadelic Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, James Brown Gravity, DJ Shadow Entroducing, The Roots Illadelph Halflife and Jeru the Damaja Wrath of the Math (all landing on round numbers this year).
Kirk's back, fresh from 'The Other Crate Record Fair' the day before. This week we had 2 birthdays, Don Was & Gene Page both on the 13th, so played a few from them. Also this week marking 50 years since the 'Car Wash Soundtrack' was released & 40 years for 'Cameo's - Word Up!' LP. Plus 2 years since we lost Frankie Beverly from Maze. Some old stuff & new stuff.