Melodica Radio Show 13 April 2015

Friday April 10th, 2015

Melodica Radio Show 13 April 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
Some London Grooves from Kerrier District and Jamie XX, a fragrant slice of nostalgia thanks to some new songs having the same titles as some classic old songs from Nick Drake and Velvet Underground plus new music from Lapalux, Ryley Walker and Mo Kolours. Melodica – technicolour music.

1 Kerrier District – London Grooves
2 Jamie XX – Gosh
3 Palmbomen II – Carina Sayles
4 High Flying Birds – Riverman (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
5 Nick Drake – River Man
6 Francis Bebey – Sanza Tristesse
7 Mo Kolours – How I
8 Lapalux – Midnight Peelers
9 Kidaudra – Sunday Morning
10 The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning
11 Nev Cottee – Follow The Sun
12 Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
13 Samantha Whates – Trees & Gold
14 Nils Frahm – Merry

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Wednesday April 8th, 2015

Melodica Radio Show 6 April 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
Is three or four degrees off kilter, not quite what it seems, like pink blossom in orange street light, it’s not one shade or another. So that’s pop but not as we know it from Jamie XX; echoes of parties past in the Balearic sound of Blank & Jones; and the world’s biggest piano played by Nils Frahm. Melodica. Intriguing.

1 Mo Kolours – Sumerian Mother
2 Jamie XX (feat Romy) – Loud Places
3 Palmbomen II – Cindy Savalas
4 Kassem Mosse / Simon White – Flowers In May
5 Benoit Pioulard – Of Everything That Rhymes
6 Nils Frahm – Circling
7 Chilly Gonzalez – Solitaire
8 Skuli Sverrisson – Instants

LIFE’S A BEACH
9 Blank & Jones – Lovelee DAy (Morning Breeze Version)
10 Coyote – Sin Distracciones

11 Okay Kaya – Damn, Gravity
12 Trance Farmers – Lone Star
13 The Result – Endeavour

Melodica Radio Show 23 March 2015

Friday March 27th, 2015

Melodica Radio Show 23 March 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
Is a sort of soundtracky journey through various quite extraordinary musical moods from super deep electronica to African highlife and psychedelic sanza; from Mark Barrott’s Ibiza to Chris Coco’s acoustic London.

1 Roman Rauch – Vibe Tribes
2 Bok Bok & Sweyn Jupiter – Papaya Lipgloss (Sour Mix)
3 Flako – Gelis
4 Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues
5 Djrum – Plantain

LIFE’S A BEACH
6 Jonny Nash – Exit Four

7 Nigerian Union Rhythm Group – Abeni
8 Francis Bebey – Bissau
9 Mark Barrott – Bush Society

STRINGS, WOOD & A BOX OF AIR
10 Jose Gonzalez – With The Ink Of A Ghost
11 Kirill Nikolai – In Which Her Distaste For Noise Music Drew Us Apart
12 Nev Cottee – If I Could Tell You

Melodica Radio Show 30 March 2015

Melodica Radio Show 30 March 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
Ambient, ambient house, modern composition, hi hat soul, in other words mostly an hours worth of really good, atmospheric music, mostly new, with a few links to the past. Melodica. It is what it is.

1 Mo Kolours – How I
2 Kassem Mosse Simon White – Long Moon
3  Wick Blaze – You Took My Love
4 Baldo – Animals
5 Don Carlos – Alone

LIFE’S A BEACH – NU AMBIENT/MODERN COMPOSITION
6 Flako feat Miguel Atwood-Fergueson – Twelve O’Clock Shadow
7 Jonny Nash – Exit One
8 Leandro Fresco – El Edad Do Oro
9 Bing & Ruth – TWTGA
10 Linkwood – Sonrise
11 Steve Moore – Val Sans Retour
12 Florian Fricke & Popol Vuh – Spirit Of Peace 1
13 Chilly Gonzales – Cello Gonzales

14 Francis Bebey – Sanza Nocturne

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Wednesday March 18th, 2015

1 Sabre – Streets of Love / Blaze
2 Ragtyme feat Byron Stingily – Stay Away (Ron Hardy’s Club Mix)
3 Joubert Singers – Stand On The Word (Larry Levan Mix)
4 Leon Sweet – Sunny Bigler (Leftside Wobble Remix)
5 Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (Luxxury Edit)
6 Elias Malueke and Mavamba Girls – Khombo Ranga
7 Pearson Sound – Six Congas
8 Romare – Roots
9 Gonno – Obsucrant (Inna Loft Mix by Call Super)
10 Voyeur – Tonight
11 Route 8 – Sunrise In Her Eyes
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Friday March 6th, 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
Included in our various musical diversions – new Voyeur and International Feel, piano music from the masters – Chilly Gonzalez and Nils Frahm, some Foxcatcher soundtrack and more from that excellent Romare LP.

1 Jonny Faith – Zheng
2 Daniel Haaksman – Sabado
3 Ata Kak – Adagya
4 Esa – Sabela De Cuba (Afro Synth Mix)
5 Voyeur – Why
6 Maya Jane Coles – Something In The Air (Bonobo Remix)

LIFE’S A BEACH
7 Gonno – A Life With Clarinet
8 Leandro Fresco – El Salto Del Angel

8 Chilly Gonzales – Freudian Slippers
9 Nils Frahm – You
10 Rob Simonsen – Corruption

STRINGS, WOOD & A BOX OF AIR
11 Bob Dylan – This Land Is Your Land
12 Romare – The Drifter

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Friday February 13th, 2015

Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…
A little journey inspired by Debussy’s Arabesque; a deep dive into the world of sci-fi soundtracks including amazing music from the brilliant Ex Machina; and a dreamy journey towards sunset in life’s a beach inspired by a particularly grey and windy day in London city.

1 Private Agenda – Freefalling
2 Woman’s Hour – Our Love Has No Rhythm (Richard Formby Remix)

ARABESQUE TRAIL…
3 Panda Bear –  Lonely Wanderer
4 Fracois-Joel Thiollier – Arabesque No 1
5 Harold Budd – Arabesque 1

6 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Ava
7 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Falling
8 Walls – Voluta
9 Alaskalaska – Kings
10 Mild High Club – Weeping Willow

LIFE’S A BEACH
11 Zen Baboon – La Maison Vert
12 N Grandjean – The First Picture (RocknRolla Soundsystem Remix)
13 Bjarno – Factor 30

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Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode… is a dopers’ diversion, a trip, man, inspired by The Dude and Doc. Thanks to a confluence of beneficial star alignments we have music from the Inherent Vice soundtrack, Jeff Bridges trying to send us to sleep and a soporific John Hopkins Late Night Tale, all on one show. How fortuitous.

1 Jeff Bridges – Good Morning, Sweetheart
2 Can – Vitamin C
3 Jonny Greenwood – Under The Paving Stones, The Beach
4 Jon Hopkins – I Remember
5 Dos Palos – I’ve Been Around (BJ Smith Wax Sirens Remix)
6 Jonny Greenwood – Spooks

LIFE’S A BEACH
7 Seahawks – Island Dream
8 Dreadzone – Just Let Go

9 Sam Sally – Ghetto Blaster
10 David Moore – TWTGA
11 Jeff Bridges – Ikea
12 Jo Johnson – Ancestral Footsteps
13 Teebs – Verbena Tea With Rebekah Raff
14 Aby Ngana Diop – Michael Ozone’s Liltal Rhythm
15 Teleskop – Entropolis

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Chris Coco’s award winning weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music.
This Episode…

A little of that good old fashioned house music; a couple of tunes from Aphex Twin’s Soundcloud treasure trove; something new from Balearic legend Jose Padilla; a Big Chill Classic and some modern classical piano music. Lovely stuff.

1 Wax Stag and Bibio – Night Trek
2 Aphex Twin – Floating
3 Jeff Bridges – Feeling Good
4 Aphex Twin – Notting Hill Bus
5 Alaskalaska – Kings

LIFE’S A BEACH
6 Jose Padilla – Day One (Telphones Club Dub)
7  Manabu Nagayama –  Low Tension
8 Teleskop – WMAP

9 Todd Terje – Leisure Suit Preben (I:Cube Remix)
10 Bryan Ferry – Driving Me Wild (Leftside Wobble Dub)
12 Minnie Ripperton – Les Fleurs
13 Gigi Masin – The City Lights
14 Nils Frahm – You

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Friday January 16th, 2015

1 Sam Sally – Ghetto Blaster
2 Alaskalaska – Kings
3 Theo Parrish -Ah
4 Panda Bear – Crosswords
5 Chickenwing All Stars – Celestial Dub
6 The Rongetz Foundation – Antoines

LIFE’S A BEACH
7 DF Tram – Whalesong
8 Trevor Deep Jr – Othaway
9 Faze-O – Riding High

STRINGS, WOOD & A BOX OF AIR
10 Arthur Russell – Maybe She

11 Golden Ratio Syrup – Bay Windows
12 The Notwist – Object 5
13 Wild Beasts – Soft Future