Mx brightens your day with Fela Kuti, Harry Belafonte, Madonna, and Orbital.

Episode 87
Broadcast July 17, 2025

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We kick things off with Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke. Before rolling through tracks from Solipsism, Jazz-O-Tech’s Mattia Prete, Daniel Calvi & Leonie, and Lunar Disko’s Armonics. An old dubby house record from Marco Bernardi. Some great new house from Italy’s Marco Passarani. And the excellent electro of French producer Umwelt. All before the melodic richness of xxxy, and David Holmes’ remix of Orbital’s early anthem Belfast.

From here we switch things up, with Harry Belafonte singing chain gang songs, and the dreamy surfer rockabilly of Bailey’s Nervous Kats. You’ll hear the original 1970 version of a track frequently sampled in 90s hip-hop, by Jean-Jacques Perrey. Trust me, you’ll recognise it when you hear it.

There’s a track from Mara Simpson’s beautiful new record. Warm solo folk from Mark Lanegan. Then we get into a full on drum flex between two dons of percussion: Tony Allen and Ginger Baker. Playing with Fela Kuti in 1978. It’s an incredible recording.

In the final part of this week’s show, Uganda’s Geoffrey Oryema. Radiohead. Fugazi. And a double hitter from Massive Attack to close with two tracks the Bristol group worked on. One I knew, A Perfect Circle. And one I only recently discovered from the GOAT, Madonna.

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Each week Mx Darkfloor soundtracks your morning, setting you up for the day. Drawing in myriad styles and genres. From deep drone, ambient, and dub, through to jazz, rock, grunge, jungle, breaks, downtempo, trip-hop, hip-hop, bass, experimental, African rhythms, Asian beats, folk, no wave, shoegaze, psych, fuzz.

Basically, day friendly sound. Whatever Mx takes that to mean.

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