Session 081 December 2025

Posted on December 15, 2025 by bobbykins

This is a special mix, dedicated to my brother’s record collection. The records are all pretty much from the 1980s, and reflect that moment when hip hop, house, and rave music collided spectacularly.

Some of these records were, at the time, US imports which you had to get from specialist record shops. The record shop, in this instance, was probably Spinadisc, in Northampton, which, remarkably, lives on today.

These early records hugely influenced my taste in music, and inspired my own lifelong obsession with record collecting.

Title: Session 081 December 2025
Duration: 00:46:51
File Size: 67.4MB

Tracklisting:

1. 3rd Bass – Brooklyn Queens
2. Sugar Bear – Don’t Scandalize Mine
3. Doug Lazy – Let It Roll
4. Royal House – Can You Feel It?
5. Jungle Brothers – I’ll House You
6. Nitro Deluxe – Let’s Get Brutal
7. Dynamix II – Give The DJ a Break
8. Marshall Jefferson – Move Your Body
9. D Mob – We Call It Acieed
10. Stakker Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid
11. Farley Jackmaster Funk – Love Can’t Turn Around
12. Joe Smooth – Promised Land
13. Cece Williams – Someday
14. The Night Writers – Let The Music (Use You)
15. Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full (Coldcut’s 7 minutes of madness mix)

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Session 080 August 2025

Posted on August 29, 2025 by bobbykins

Title: Session 080 August 2025
Duration: 01:20:13
File Size: 192MB

Tracklisting:
1. Session Victim – Crystal Maze – Delusions Of Grandeur
2. Brian Eno – The Plateaux Of Mirror – Polydor
3. Stars Of The Lid – even (out)+ – Kranky
4. James Devane – 27-32 – White
5. Photek – DNA – Science / Virgin
6. Shimon – Predator – Ram Records
7. Nucleus & Paradox – who? what? – Reinforced Records
8. Omni Trio – Rogue Satellite – Scale Records
9. Chakharta – L9house – Temporary State
10. Benjamin Brunn – Queen Mary – Smallville Records
11. Gerardo Frisna – Descantado – Schema
12. David Bowie – Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) – Parlophone
13. Jazzanova – Theme From Belle Et Fou (Danny Krivit Edit) – Sonar Kollektiv
14. Aged In Harmony –  You’re a Melody – Melodies International
15. LTJ Bukem – Inner Guidance – Good Looking Records
16. Quincy Jones – Tell Me a Bedtime Story – A&M Records
17. Harmonic 33 – The Rain Song – Alphabet Zoo
18. Roy Ayers – The Third Eye – Polydor
19. Leisure Suit Larry 3 – Nontoonyt Island Theme – Sierra

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Session 079 May 2025

Posted on May 14, 2025 by bobbykins

To celebrate getting my vinyl out of storage, audited, and meticulously sorted, here’s a little old school jungle mix.

This mix reflects the kind of drum & bass records I would play on pirate radio in the mid-nineties…

Title: Session 079 May 2025
Duration: 01:10:48
File Size: 113MB

Tracklisting:

  1. Rae – Free Rollin’ (Deep Media Da Intalex Remix) – Fat City
  2. Cloud 9 – Teach Me To Fly – Moving Shadow
  3. Cold Mission – Coming On Strong – Reinforced
  4. DJ Die & Suv – Outta Sight – V Recordings
  5. Blu Mar Ten – Suspended Animation – Ascendant Grooves
  6. The Architex – Steps – Basement Records
  7. EZ Rollers – Rolled Into One – Moving Shadow
  8. Sounds Of Life – A Spice Of Jazz – Certificate 18
  9. Danny Breaks – Volume 2 (EZ Rollers Remix) – Droppin’ Science
  10. Hieroglyphix – Rhythm Is Back – Looking Good
  11. Omni Trio – Twin Town Karaoke (Guardians Of Dalliance Remix) – Moving Shadow
  12. DJ Pulse – Destiny – All Good Records
  13. Sentinel – Toulepleau – Basement Records
  14. Roni Size – Step Off – V Recordings
  15. Higher Sense – People Of The Universe – Moving Shadow
  16. Nookie – Celebrate Life – Reinforced

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Session 078 September 2024

Posted on September 7, 2024 by bobbykins

Tracklisting
1. Unknown – Portland Bill Theme
2. Feist – The Redwing – Taken from the album Multitudes – Polydor – Buy
3. Steve Hauschildt & Julianna Barwick – Saccade – taken from the album Dissolvi – Kranky – Buy
4. Eddie Chacon – Wicked World – Taken from the album Pleasure Joy and Happiness – Day End Records – Buy
5. Commix – Call To Mind – Taken from the album Call To Mind – Metalheadz – Buy
6. Quiet Village – Reunion – Quiet Village – Buy
7. The Alliance – First Impressions – Taken from Enforcers 6 – Reinforced Records – Buy
8. Unkle – Sunrise – Taken from The Road Part 2 – Songs For The Def – Buy
9. Vince Watson – A Very Different World – Taken from the album VW20 – Everysoul – Buy
10. Christopher Bear – Bedroom – Taken from the soundtrack to Past Lives – A24 Music – Buy
11. Odyssey – Expressions – 720 Degrees – Buy
12. Oak – Fire Seeker – Oxygen Records
13. Versalife – Lambda – Taken from the Asimov’s Code EP – 20/20 Vision – Buy
14. Nadia Reid – The Arrow & The Aim – Taken from the album Preservation – Basin Rock – Buy
15. Matthew Bourne – Isotach – Taken from the album Isotach- Leaf – Buy

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Session 077 August 2024

Posted on August 26, 2024 by bobbykins

This is essentially a follow up to my disco mix from a couple of years ago, exploring a slightly wider range of funk and soul records, some obscure, some well known.

Title: Session 077 August 2024
Duration: 00:58:58
File Size: 141.6 MB

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Tracklisting:

01. Chantal Curtis – Burning
02. Deodata – Sweet Magic
03.Norman Conners – Look Ahead
04. Steely Dan – Aja
05. Candido – Thousand Finger Man
06. Roy Ayers – Our Time Is Coming
07. Jay Richardson & Gary Stevan – Running Fast
08. George Benson – The World Is a Ghetto
09. Donald Byrd – Dominoes
10. Larry Young’s Fuel – Turn Off The Lights
11. Doobie Bros – What a Fool Believes
12. Velly Joonas – Stop Segu Ei
13. EWF – After The Love Has Gone (Live mix)

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Session 076 October 2023 – Library music special

Posted on October 22, 2023 by bobbykins

This is a follow up to my first library mix, which I put together two years ago. There’s such a huge cache of library music online now, that it felt inevitable that there would be a follow up, and here it is.

It’s really very enjoyable to hear the sheer ingenuity of these musicians grappling with what must have been very new music tech, back in the 70s, and producing things that were previously unimaginable. Some of these people really did pioneer the electronic music that we now know and love – and are mostly unknown, unsung heros.

Title: Session 076 October 2023
Duration: 00:56:01
File Size: 128.5 MB

Tracklisting:

1. Giampiero Boneschi – Prima Classe – Elettrorama – link
2. Garnegy Et Maties – Biceps – Sports Music II – link
3. Henryk Debich / Orkiestra Polskiego – Zwierzenia – Horyzonty – link
4. Tonio Rubio – Dead Slow – Rhythms – link
5. Les Hurdle & Frank Ricotti – Dissolves – Unusual Sounds – link
6. Stringtronics – Tropicola – Unusual Sounds – link
7. Soul City Orchestra – Waiting In The Wings – Meeting Point – link
8. Alan Feanch & Ted Atking – Snow Song – Kaleidoscope – link
9. James Asher – Cosmos – Bruton Music – link
10. C Cordio & F Vinciguerra – Quips and Cranks – Unusual Sounds – link
11. Geoff Bastow – Tomorrow’s Communication – Bruton – link
12. Tom Elliot – Turbulence – Media Music The Professional – link
13. Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw – The Difference – Music De Wolfe – link
14. Noel Mirol – Very Cool – Guamont Music – link

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Session 075 June 2023

Posted on June 25, 2023 by bobbykins

The regular mix series returns after a rather long hiatus. Quite a broad mix this month, covering some 70s funk, late 80s acid house, some classical pieces, and ending with a duo of gloomy electro pop songs.

I’m quite late to the Ramp cover of Everybody Loves The Sunshine – I spotted it recently as it’s been reissued with Daylight on the A Side. Followers of this website will know that D’Angelo’s cover originally featured on my old jazz fudge mixtapes. I do think Ramp’s version is marginally better though!

This is certainly quite a strange mix, but I hope you enjoy it.

Title: Session 075 June 2023
Duration: 01:21:09
File Size: 185 MB

Tracklisting:

  1. Leon Vynehall – Julia (Footnote IV) – taken from the album Nothing Is Still – Ninja Tune – buy
  2. Common – I Am Music – taken from the album Electric Circus – MCA – buy
  3. Money Mark – Bossa Nova 101 – taken from the album Push The Button – MoWax – buy
  4. Ramp – Everybody Loves The Sunshine – South Street Soul – buy
  5. Carol Shinette – Cyanide Love – Optune Records – buy
  6. NZCA Lines – Pure Luxury – taken from the album Pure Luxury – Memphis Industries – buy
  7. Inner City – Do You Love What You Feel? – taken from the album Paradise – 10 Records – buy
  8. Tom Wolgers – Vinterpassage – taken from the album Stockholmssviten – buy
  9. Craig Armstrong – Choral Ending – taken from the album As If To Nothing – Virgin – buy
  10. Jocelyn Pook – Forver Without End (Solo Voices) – Taken from the album Flood – Virgin – buy
  11. Angelo Badalamenti – Rita Walks (Excerpt) – taken from the Mulholland Drive Soundtrack – Milan – buy
  12. Krzysztof Penderecki – Agnus Dei – taken from the album Sacred Choral Works – Apex – buy
  13. Use of weapons – Switchblade – Droppin’ Science – buy
  14. Tropics Of Cancer – Stop Suffering – Blackest Ever Black – buy
  15. King Moot – Closed Eyes – Moot Point – buy

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Session 074 September 2022

Posted on September 13, 2022 by bobbykins

This month’s podcast is dedicated to 70s disco music. I am a big fan. In this mix, I’ve tried to dig out the more obscure side of disco, so you won’t be getting any of the big ones, apart from one Chic-produced number.

There’s also a bit of funk at the tail end of the mix, where we slow things down very slightly. Hopefully the sum of this mix is still coherent.

Title: Session 074 September 2022
Duration: 01:21:09
File Size: 185 MB

Tracklisting:

  1. Madleen Kane – Fire In Your Heart / Forbidden Love
  2. A Taste Of Honey – Boogie Woogie Oogie
  3. Two Man Sound – Que Tal America (12″ mix)
  4. Chantal Curtis – Get Another Love – Discovatin-
  5. Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face (Female Vocal)
  6. Martin Circus – Disco Circus (Extended Mix)
  7. K.I.D – Hupendi Muziki Wangu?! (You Don’t Like My Music) (Original Jonathan Fearing 12″ Club Mix)
  8. Alphonze Mouzon – Everybody Get Down
  9. Constellation Orchestra – Perfect Love Affair
  10. Joe Thomas – Plato’s Retreat
  11. Norma Jean Wright – Sorcerer
  12. Norman Connors – Look Ahead
  13. Lamar Thomas – Feel So Good Inside
  14. Cerrone – Supernature
  15. Carol Shinnette – Cyanide Love
  16. D Train – Keep On
  17. Positive Force – We Got The Funk
  18. The Whatnuts – Help Is On The Way

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Session 073 July 2022

Posted on July 10, 2022 by bobbykins

This is a dnb mix I put together to promote my new EP, Per Ardua IV, which was released recently on the Context Audio label.

Title: Session 073 July 2022
Duration: 59:54
File Size: 138.9MB

Tracklisting:
1. King Moot – A Lifetime In The Wilderness – Context Audio – buy
2. Subjective – Rift Valley – Subjective Records – buy
3. King Moot – Croquenbouche – Context Audio – buy
4. Oak – Mongoose – Microfunk – buy
5. Bop – Untitled Pattern 62 – Hospital – buy
6. King Moot – The Pleasure Protocol – Context Audio – buy
7. Lomax – Too Real – Soul:R – buy
8. Kid Drama – Separation – Pleasure District – buy
9. Blu Mar Ten feat.Kite – Forest Fires – BMTM – buy
10. Bop – So Unloved – Hospital – buy
11. Kid Drama feat Skeptical – Luv – Exit Records – buy
12. Phil Tangent – Billies Smile – Soul:R – buy
13. Seba & Paradox – Over Now – Seba & Paradox – buy
14. BCee & Blu Mar Ten feat. Lucy Kitchen – Draw The Line – Spearhead – buy
15. Lenzman – Roseland – Metalheadz – buy
16. Luke LSB & DRS – Rise & Fall – Footnotes – buy
17. King Moot – Follies – Context Audio – buy

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Session 072 July 2022 – Exotica 22

Posted on July 3, 2022 by bobbykins

This is a mixtape of exotic music, covering anything with a Latin or Brazilian edge; perfect for a summer barbecue or beach party. Make yourself a pina colada and enjoy…

Title: Session 072 July 2022
Duration: 01:15:21
File Size: 172.5 MB

1. Henry Mancini – Lujon
2. Edu Lobo – Upa Neguinho
3. United Future Organisation – Cosmic Gypsy (Descargo Dub)
4. Ananda Project – Free Me
5. Erik Escobar – Arcanjo Miguel
6. Felbm – Tartufai
7. John Beltran Featuring Sol Set – Aztec Girl
8. Dino & Terry – Summertime Blues
9. Faze Action – Samba
10. Audio Montage – Wild Lights
11. Jazzanova – Fedimes Flight
12. Airto Moreira – Celebration Suite
13. Funkadelic – Brettinos Bounce
14. Toco – Guarapiranga
15. Orlandivo – Onda Anda A Meu Amor
16. Erik Escobar – Samba For Petrucciani
17. Beastie Boys – Song For Junior
18. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer)

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