BBC Radio 3 Late Junction: Equiknoxx’s Mixtape
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape curated by Time Cow, part of the forward-thinking Jamaican collective Equiknoxx. Plus avant-garde Tuareg folk and Japanese improv from 1982.
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape curated by Time Cow, one member of the forward-thinking Jamaican collective Equiknoxx. Based in Kingston, Equiknoxx are a group of producers and vocalists who blend dancehall with eclectic samples, glitchy rhythms and other experiments in sound. The collective has been around for over a decade and is currently a five-piece, with founding members Gavin ‘Gavsborg’ Blair and Bobby Blackbird, vocalists Shanique Marie and Kemikal Splash, and long-time producer Jordan Chung aka Time Cow. Time Cow compiles the mixtape on behalf of the group, reflecting their varied influences and tastes, from Ennio Morricone to the dancehall vibes of Buccaneer, taking in Japanese psych, library music, French pop along the way.
Elsewhere in the show, there’ll be cosmic country guitar from Bobby Lee, experimental Tuareg folk from Sahel trio Les Filles de Illighadad, and some loose crooning dubs from Keith Hudson. Plus an unearthed live recording of Japanese underground musician Phew performing with sound artists John Duncan and Tatsuo Kondo in 1982 at Tokyo’s Hosei University.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
1 Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks – My Generation
2 Time Cow & RTKAL – Elephant Man
3 Paola Torres Núñez Del Prado & The People Of Tupicocha – To Wear Quipus Or Cables
4 Les Filles de Illighadad – Eghass Malan
5 Moon Reflecting – Once Nurtured Earth Nostalgia
6 Deng Fu Mei & Zhang Wu Mei – Kai Tian Pi Di (Open The Sky)
7 Peter Zummo – Tone Bone Kone
8 Keith Hudson – I Can’t Do Without You
9 Keith Hudson – Still Need You Dub
10 Bobby Lee – Four Skies Above
11 Puppy Disco O – Last Of The Mohicans
12 Equiknoxx – Enter A Raffle Win A Falafel
13 Billy Cobham – Crosswind
14 Buccaneer – Soca Nama
15 Equiknoxx – Porridge Should Be Brown Not Green
16 Osamu Kitajima – Benzaiten (God Of Music And Water)
17 André Popp – Jalousie
18 Ennio Morricone – Il bisturi
19 Jim Tarbutton & The Memphis Sound – The Mysterians
20 Alan Hawkshaw – Solar Energy
21 Ichiko Hashimoto – Sculptured Blue
22 Buccaneer – Interlude – Dancehall Vibes
23 Apache Chief & Sarge – Excerpts
24 Black Uhuru – Shine Eye Gal
25 Billy Cobham – Bolinas
26 Letta Mbulu – Down By The River
27 P. Willsher & K. Chesher – Veteran Car
28 Buffy Sainte‐Marie – The Dream Tree
29 Félicia Atkinson – Lush
30 Roger Robinson & The Black Space Quartet – You Know
31 Phew, John Duncan & 近藤達郎 – Backfire
32 foodman – Gallery Cafe
33 Ayuune Sule – Life Is A Journey
34 Irma Thomas – Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)