Stop Making Sense

STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF, MADERA

A very special edition of the SMS show featuring head honcho of Strut Records QUINTON SCOTT talking about his wonderful label, how it came to be and flourished. Dragging world music kicking and screaming onto the cool dancefloors of Europe since the late 90s with excellent club crew collaborations & compilations (SOUL 2 SOUL, HORSEMEAT DISCO, GOOD TIMES, SOFRITO) and now signing artists direct from Africa and beyond (EBO TAYLOR, FANGWANA), STRUT has never ceased to push the envelope. One of a handful of small UK labels keeping the faith, Strut we salute you!

DON'T MENTION THE "O" WORD
Like some malevolent Dickensian fog, a siege mentality is engulfing London. With only 100 days til the Oly***cs, public service announcements scream from the sides of busses and taxis at the panicking masses: go shopping at night, avoid all eye contact, stock up on batteries and fresh water, brace, brace. Enough already says MADERA, inviting like minded Londoners to radically change their usual travel patterns and come along to Croatia for the STOP MAKING SENSE FESTIVAL instead.

MADERAGRAM  v. 1.0

This show was created using the new MADERAGRAM app. Once downloaded to your radio station of choice, it. cleverly picks relevant music from all over the world, creating a stylish show for you to enjoy and share  with your virtual nearest and dearest. Available now for £1 billion. Bargain!



SOULEANCE, La Plage
MOODYMANN, Hold It Down
THE SOUL SESSIONS, Hamjam (Tofu Mix)
ROCKET JUICE & THE MOON FT FATOUMATA DIAWARA & M.ANIFEST, Lolo
IRIS BELL & THE JIVE-ETTES, Honky Games

QUE CALOR MADERA

Unseasonally hot weather in London always brings back early childhood memories of Tintin in "L'Etoile Mysterieuse", where a shooting star heads closer and closer to Earth causing it to swelter apocalyptically.... But maybe this sense of stiffling panic and impending doom can simply be attributed to the fact that the A/C is on the blink in the studio. In any case, the heat kind of goes well with the selection of ( mostly) Tropical bangers on offer today. So, its shirts off and heads down for another SMS episode of musical hotness...

CARRY ON MADERA

Full of the Joy of Spring and with flaring nostrils, MADERA gallops through a selection of exuberant musical treats just for you. The odd saucy samba, breathless bossa, and frisky funk numbers slip in amongst the usual brand spanking new worldclash bits. Brazen yes. Kitch perhaps. Camp never...

THE SLITS,  Man Next Door

BONOBO,  Ghost Ship (Remixed)

THE MELLOTONES, What A Botheration (Pan Mix)

JUAN LAYA & JORGE MONTIEL, Cumbanchero

KODE 9, You Don't Wash (Dub)

SMS 71

C'EST ÇA, MADERA, C'EST ÇA!

A delighted MADERA bounds into the studio today, flushed with excitement after interviewing AMADOU & MARIAM in French at a nearby hotel (...to be broadcast next week). He then proceeds to quiz MR BRETT from YAABA FUNK in English in the studio. Will next week's interview be conducted in Swahili in the Soas canteen? Tune in to find out...

FREEDOM IS AN AKA

Us music types like to hide behind acronyms, nicknames, aliases, nom de plumes or whatever you wanna call 'em. It gives us the freedom to reinvent ourselves when changing musical tack. No harm in that says MADERA VERDE aka BOIS VERT aka CHRISTO PACHANGA aka C*** although accusations of multiple personality syndrome could be hard to refute...Nevertheless, in the studio talking nuff sense about his new project AFRIQUOI, and a recent musical trip to Ethiopia, we have BOBBY GANDALF aka HAILE BADASSIE aka ANDRE MARMOT.

ALGORYTHM & BLUES

The game is up. " We know what you are up to, MADERA, We have detected a pattern in your show" said the eagle eared SOAS production team. "You start off all sweet & nice with worldy electronica and then BANG on the half hour you hit em hard with a bunch of dancefloor bombs. Then you drop a cheeky retro disco number at quarter to and then simply freewheel to the top of the hour with your random vinyl bits. Whats that all about hmm?" We've been rumbled, but in a good way...

Tracklisting

CAPTAIN, I DONT THINK THE SHIP CAN TAKE IT...