Magic Number - Badly Written SongsDJ Support: Danny Krivit, Craig Charles (BBC Radio 6 Music), Hallex M, Jazzanova, Delite Radio, Mi Soul, Pointblank, Totally Wired Radio, XFM, Radio Solar, Tony Minvielle, Simon Phillips, Chris Phillips (Jazz FM), KCRW DJs, Ian Friday, Aroop Roy, Samantha Badd (Caf Del Mar), Mr. V, Simon Harrison (Basic Soul), Greame Park, Mike Fossati, Timo Mass, Deli G, Servino (Horse Meat Disco), Hyenah. Badly Written Songs is, of course, a tongue in cheek title.

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echoing the same rough and ready low tech intuition as Jamaican trailblazers King Tubby

Tx and around the globe

reworked into future funk classic by Boca 45

DJ residents Luke Walker

and this absolute winner of an album

It was “hard to find many jazz players around here who haven’t played with the band” said Smith in a 1980 interview with The Oregonian

bumpin' basslines and often killer drumcomputer programming

new age and the works of Cluster & Eno

First to add his own spin to it is Periodica associate Whodamanny from Naples

this selection explores some of the finest Disco and Boogie music released on the legendary Nippon Columbia label in the late seventies and early eighties

Guest appearances are handled by rising Manchester star [ K S R ] and The North Quarter boss Lenzman