Wild Pitch Records special people!!

The first WhatYouWant Radioshow of the year and I’m hoping you’ll agree it’s a corker. First up, tons of stuff you may have missed from the end of 2011 including the snorter of a single off of the Canyons LP on Modular People, beats from Letherette and Ho Tep, the best James Blake song of last year, something great from Small Black (thanks Aaron!) plus a capsizing-ship-themed tune off of Undun, the Roots album that snuck out at the end of the year. Almost topical!

Also worth looking out for is a track off the absolutely excellent and FREE download by Jonti, available through Stones Throw – simply no excuse to get this brilliant album as a new year present to yourself.

But it’s not all new stuff, or even all digital. Vinyl makes a comeback in this show too, with some selections from tunes picked up in New York in November. Aretha’s sister Carolyn sings ‘I Don’t Want to Lose You’ from the all round excellent LP ‘Baby Dynamite’ – every tune a winner from ’69. Also in the mix is a Soul Searchers track from ’72 but the real deal comes from a special mini-mix of Hi-Phat tunes on the famed Wild Pitch label out of New York – home of such Golden Age hip hop as Main Source, Ultramagnetic MC, Chill Rob G and O.C., amongst others. Pure golden wonder for your ears…

What else? Kate Bush, The Park, Driver Drive Faster – they’re all in, and then we have a slept on track by Lack of Afro and an instrumental off of the 40th anniversary edition of Marvin’s ‘What’s Going On’ LP – a tasty Christmas present if ever there was one.

There’s house, oh yes, with a couple of tracks off a great new 12″ on House of Disco, Julio Bashmore from the end of last year, Dean Sunshine Smith goes uplifting once more PLUS Todd Terje getting all jiggy with the Arp2600 on the superbly named ‘Inspector Norse’. That Todd!

Finally, I believe there are only a handful of people on the planet who were given a Julio Iglesias LP on vinyl this Christmas, but I am one of them. WYWRadio leaves you with the sounds of ‘La Mer’, a close of the night tune that makes you want to party like it’s 1980 round Julio’s house. Nice.

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