The disc jockey duo Many Hands present their Basement Soul show 21 on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency, promoter and music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
Many Hands is the project of wide-ranging, music-focused DJs Jona J and Kava. Jona Jefferies was born in Barcelona and raised in Spain and the UK, where he began DJing in the flourishing free-party and rave scene of south-west England during the early 1990s.
After relocating to Ibiza, Jona was drawn to its Balearic sound and hedonistic character, returning to the island as both a raver and a DJ. He later moved to Bristol, whose inner-city outlook and sound-system culture informed several years spent developing his craft.
Jona became part of Berlin's international musical community and played at venues across the city before returning to the United Kingdom in early 2020. His release Nocturnal, made with Stardelta Mastering's Lewis Hopkin as Sapience for Tom Middleton's Sound Of The Cosmos label, received radio plays from Gilles Peterson, Mala and Laurent Garnier.
Originally raised in New Zealand, Kava has lived in Berlin for more than a decade. His musical education began in Wellington's melodic music scene, with regular exposure to Soul, Bashment, Hip Hop, Disco, House Music, Techno and Drum and Bass.
In New Zealand, Kava sold vinyl records and hosted shows for several radio stations. After moving to Berlin, he became an early resident of the monthly Float Some and Jet Some programme with Rodi Kirk of Scratch 22, broadcast on the now-defunct Berlin Community Radio.
He also played at numerous venues across the German capital. Jona and Kava met through a close ally near OYE Records in Berlin and quickly recognised their musical affinity.
That meeting led to Many Hands, an eclectic, dance-focused and restorative basement session in the heart of Berlin, hence the name Basement Soul. Jona J and Kava work across the rhythmic and harmonic cultural spectrum, bringing disco, soul, Latin and Afrobeat together with MPCs, drum machines, Jamaicans in New York, West Africans with synthesisers and funky Euro-freaks.
Many Hands' Basement Soul show 21 episode opens with Bongmaster's Brothers And Sisters on Kartel, an Abstract introduction followed by Butch Cassidy Sound System's Reggae dub of the same title for Olbap Music. Milton Wright's Brothers and Sisters on Athens Of The North then brings in Nu-Disco before Roger Knox's Whole Weird World on Strangelove Music turns towards Electronica.
Gee Dee's Night With Juno, released by Superior Elevation, restores the Nu-Disco thread after Wolf Müller and Niklas Wandt's Dub Dub Dub Dub Dub. Moodymann's Slow Down for KDJ Records introduces Rap/Hip Hop, while The Pharaohs' Black Enuff on Luv N' Haight supplies a Soul & Funk passage linked to Funk.
Donny Hathaway's Reflex Revision of Someday We'll All Be Free on Rhino Atlantic brings an R&B vocal moment into the sequence. Brooklyn Express follow with Love Is The Message on One Way Records, and Carlo's Paco Buyo for Una Vida De Barrio introduces Deep House.
Shogun Orchestra's Maman on Jakarta carries the electronic direction forward before Djeuhdjoah and Lieutenant Nicholson's Soleil Au Réveil arrives via Hot Casa Records. Femi Kuti's Kerri Chandler Version of Truth Don Die on Universal Music Division Barclay adds an African rhythmic focus, then Sentient Beings return to Deep House with Romário's Pants on Una Vida De Barrio.
Afrika Bambaataa & The Family's Bambaataas Theme (Assult On Precinct 13) precedes Idjut Dub's Lovehunter Dub, keeping the later selections loose and percussive. Wax Doctor's Kid Caprice on R&S Records then supplies a distinct Drum and Bass turn.
Aleke Kononu's N'gwode leads into Ras G's JD's Revenge and Dirty Cutlass, both released through Fat Beats Records and identified here with Trap. Pharaoh Sanders closes the programme with Africa, giving the final stretch an open-ended musical resolution.
Many Hands Basement Soul Show 21 26th of June 2020
Bongmaster - Brothers And Sisters
Butch Cassidy Sound System - Brothers And Sisters
Milton Wright - Brothers And Sisters
Roger Knox - Whole Weird World
Wolf Müller & Niklas Wandt - Dub Dub Dub Dub Dub
Gee Dee - Night With Juno
Moodymann - Slow Down
The Pharaohs - Black Enuff
Donny Hathaway - Someday We’ll All Be Free (Reflex Revision)
Brooklyn Express - Love Is The Message
Carlo - Paco Buyo
Shogun Orchestra - Maman
Djeuhdjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson - Soleil Au Réveil
Femi Kuti - Truth Don Die (Kerri Chandler Version)
Sentinent Beings - Ramarios Pants
Afrika Bambaataa & The Family - Bambaataas Theme (Assult On Precinct 13)
Idjut Dub - Lovehunter Dub
Wax Doctor - Kid Capprice
Aleke Kononu - N’gwode
Ras G - Jd’s Revenge
Ras G - Dirty Cutlass
Pharaoh Sanders - Africa
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