This mix by Fruitman is a little tongue-in-cheek: remembering where the funk, soul and disco music we love came from and who it was invented and pioneered by but also how influence can reach across race and what a leveller music can be.

read Fruitman – Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me!

Aloe Blacc (former ChoiceCuts guest back in 2005) and Stones Throw affiliated recording artist turns lunch to soul food... in Paris and dropping a nice rendition of I need a Dollar. Check out the second video too - soul power!

read Aloe Blacc – Live @ Lunch

Pal Joey (aka Joseph Longo) came up in the heady days of New York street culture, amidst B-boying, boom boxes and an unusually entrepreneurial spirit of beat-making. Beginning with crude “pause tapes,” he was soon…

read Pal Joey (Soho, NYC)

We are delighted to be presenting you once again with one of our favourite bands and collectives, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set…

read Competition: Win tickets to Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Perfect timing, a new Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings is released this week from the new LP with Better Things & Window Shopping featured on each side, as ever it’s the pure unadulterated funk music we have become…

read Better Things/Window Shopping

One third of the alternative Hip Hop super group A Tribe Called Quest joins us for a DJ set in advance of the release of his upcoming album. With an arsenal of skills, Ali is happy to play keys, bass, microphone, mpc but is of course at his most comfortable and natural on the turntables.

read Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest, New York)

A special podcast from the Fruitman has just arrived.  We’ve been waiting for this for a while and glad it’s here.  Download below via Soundcloud…

Fruitman aka Darren has been contributing to the ChoiceCuts…

read Fruitman Podcast

Just finalised the artwork last night for our first release. We think it is a special record and we have Didier from Timmion mastering it for us and Honest Jon’s in the mix for global distribution, more news on this…

read The Heritage EP

PKA Young Chris, MF Old Chris drops a soul delight via Brooklyns Truth & Soul label titled ‘All The Leaves Are Gone’. We recommend you give this a listen and take in some nice soul gems from years gone by mixed…

read All The Leaves Are Gone…

The anticipation for this LP is almost too much, Window Seat saw Badu back to her best form and was more than enough to keep us happy until the full length dropped, but lo and behold, she sneaks out another didn’t…

read Strawberry Incense

This coming May, the 4th to be exact Sharon Jones & the fantastic Dap Kings will release their 4th Studio Album entitled ‘I Learned the Hard Way’ on Daptone, and as you would guess it’s sounding amazing. The title…

read Sharon Jones – I Learned The Hard Way

The super talented T&S crew feature on this BunchTV production, the show is recorded from Cologne in Germany last month and we are working our best to make this show happen in Ireland this year, Lee Fields has a…

read Money is King

We had Aloe Blacc perform for us with Exile, Guilty Simpson & House Shoes a couple of years back at our Hip Hop Love event in The Village and since then he has been keeping a low profile, but has been in the studio…

read Aloe Blacc – I need a Dollar

Bless the people over at Brownswood and of course Jose James & Flying Lotus for slipping this track out on the net to help promote their new offering. From the recently released Black Magic LP, Jose James is in…

read Code

This is great, it’s not everyday that you get to see Marvin Gaye harmonizing his vocals on TV (this is from a PBS documentary – American Masters). It’s an auld shame the people don’t stop talking over his voice when…

read American Master

We have been following these guys since their first recordings and they delivered a superb live show for us last year in The Sugar Club, their new Lp came out last week – Rising Sun – and we just hawked this new…

read Rising Sun

Soulful boogie vibes from none other than Krystal Klear, hailing from Belize this mysteryman has been catching the attention of Benji B, Hudson Mohawke, Moovmnt Blog and a lot of the leading tastemakers around. This…

read Since Then

The excellent PutMeOnIt blog drop their We Love Vol 16, which is a zip file of the best music out there for free on the web. With immpecable taste PMOI and the crew filter through all the weak music out there to pull…

read We Love ….. Vol 16

Music is therapy – rhythms ease the mind and transport one to places and spaces far beyond their immediate surroundings. At the turntables, DJ Center soul-travels, navigating audiences with a crate of musical goods from…

read DJ Center – Leave The City Outside

‘If you got to pay for things that you’ve done wrong…I got a big bill coming at the end of the day’  – Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott Heron’s album ‘I’m new here’ was released this month on Xl Recordings and has…

read Im New Here