Illicit Grooves was born in the mid-90s as an event with DJs playing music from the worldwide leftfield with jazz tinged beats, breaks, rhymes and grooves. Bob Hill, founder and resident DJ is a performance poet, music journalist and music lover who considers himself a citizen of the World and therefore a citizen of everywhere and his mixes reflect themes that are important to him as a world citizen and as an advocate for greater cultural exchanges. This mix traces the exchanges and musical cross pollinations that came out of the horrors of the triangular trade in human beings which linked the UK, west Africa and the Caribbean and Latin parts of America and the colonial and post-colonial exchanges of ideas, philosophies and arts. Thankfully, these links are now written large in the rhythms and the time signatures of Afro-Cuban Jazz and percussive Funk that are represented in this mix.
A black, a blue and half of a red ring.
Tracklist:
Yussef Kaamal – Lowrider
Shamrock – Black Mamba
Pablo Schneider – Amor en Llamas
Maisha – The Night Trance
Jimmy Sherry and the Musik Agents – Nwaeze
Joni Haastrup – Wake Up Your Mind
Afrocubism – Djelimady Rumba
Working Week – Venceramos