Series: cypher — Theme: Chain of custody, after midnight. Duration: 59m · 12 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
Chain of custody, after midnight. Twelve rows off the shelf the diggers built: Cobalt's Rare Funk series and Harmless's Pulp Fusion volumes, plus the MCs, orchestra men and Bristol producers those comps were assembled around. Every record tonight took something from somebody — a Cameroonian hook chased across the continent and onto a British import LP, a Philadelphia orchestra bowing an Earth, Wind & Fire single, a jazz prodigy's eight-minute Prestige side reissued for crate hunters, and two Bristol drummers who went and hired the band instead of chopping it. Marcus reads the receipts, slow.
Tracklist: Nairobi Afro Band — Soul Makossa · Group Home — So Called Friends · Love Unlimited Orchestra — Strange Games · Erma Franklin — Light My Fire · Patrice Rushen — Haw-Right Now · Jackie Mittoo — Stereo Freeze … (+6 more)
