#svelt

I was in Greece on a family tip (thoughts with all the Greeks voting today, as wikipedia says, you are experiencing a current event). So left the studio in the hungry and capable hands of Sensible Family Barnikoff and Jesse, two of the guys behind Svelt, and they took us on a  nice coast from cumbia, to grime, to footwork, and of course, ‘our spirit music’, jungle war.

Linking with Balkan Riddims’ Mr Kentro in Athens. They’ve got a slew of new releases blowing up on their bandcamp.

Of course while in Greece I took a moment to link up with Mr Kentro from Balkan Riddims at the 420 bar in Athens where he’s a resident. These guys are all over the map at the moment, producing collaborations with artists from Jamaica, UK, and Brazil, their latest a nice Brazilian number Supersan featuring Soraia Drummond:

Lastly I’d like to shoutout Cowley Carnival, which took place this weekend in my other homeland of OX4. It’s a few years since Sensible Dancehall dominated the return of the carnival to Cowley Rd, and one of the Sensible founders Ollie Castell sent me this radio excerpt of my handling a somewhat conservative presenter, prosletyzing for ‘the vibe’ of carnival.