Mixtape 13: Roots

In this week’s mixtape we go digging for our musical roots, attempting to find some sense in these uncertain times.

In this week’s mixtape we go digging for our musical roots, attempting to find some sense in these uncertain times.

Hosted by: Charles Leonard
Production: The Good People at Between Productions

Playlist:

1. Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together
2. Sun Ra Arkestra – Seductive Fantasy
3. Bishop Nehru – Meathead (feat MF DOOM)
4. St Vincent – Pills
5. Kamasi Washington – The Rhythm Changes
6. Asha Bhosle & Kronos Quartet – Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke)
7. Joan Armatrading – Love And Affection
8. John Coltrane – Alabama
9. Robbie Jansen, Alex van Heerden, Errol Dyers, Hilton Schilder, Ivan Bell, Spencer Mbadu – Alabama
10. Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning (official theme tune of The Sopranos)
11. Cecilia Bartoli & György Fischer – Sposa Son Disprezzata
12. David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
13. Gibson Kente – Overture
14. Charles Mingus, Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge & Tommy Flanagan – Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
15. Mos Def – UMI Says
16. X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents (BBC Radio One “John Peel” Session 6/11/1978)
17. Pharoah Sanders – Our Roots (Began In Africa)
18. The Moody Boyz – Destination Africa (Spirit of Freedom version)
19. IAM – Red, Black and Green
20. Stetsasonic – Africa (Norman Cook remix)
21. Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture
22. Roots Manuva – Witness (1 Hope)
23. Sister Nancy – Only Woman DJ With Degree
24. DJ Rupture – Little More Oil
25. Jazz Jamaica – My Girl
26. Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
27. Marxist Brothers – Little Swallow
28. The Four Brothers – Mbereko Yakaramba

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