Friday Night Session April 5th 2013

 
Hosted by Andrew Jervis, DJ Tomas, and Cez

After 17 years at KUSF/KUSF in Exile this episode will be the last Friday Night Session on the station. It’s been a blast. Thanks to everyone at KUSF in all it’s incarnations, to all the listeners, and to all the guests – couldn’t have done this so long without you. And to my co-hosts over the years – Caspar, Tomas, Mike Bee, Cez, Jantine et al. And also (and especially) to my amazing wife who put up with my Friday night radio habit, and with me coming home late (and raiding the kitchen,) for longer than anyone should have to endure.

We’ll be taking a break. We will come back. Probably with a monthly. Probably just here on The Sport of Selection.
There will be news on Tuesday about a big new show that I’m involved with.
Until then, Fridays will never be the same.
Cheers,
Andrew Jervis x
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KUSF in studio interviews

The Friday Night Session has been fortunate to have many great artists pass through the KUSF studio over the past 17 years and we caught some of them on video. Here’s a handful of our favorite interviews from the past few years (make sure to check out the rest of them on our YouTube channel.)

First up Parisian’s Onra and Buddy Sativa stopped by before playing at San Francisco’s Sweater Funk party. Onra talks about his album Long Distance, his favorite places to play in the US and musical inspirations.

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Friday Night Session March 29th 2013

 
Hosted by DJ Tomas

This week’s Session features tracks by new talents we think will be lighting up the music world for years to come. Artists like Ninja Tune’s Letherette, Submerse, Dauwd and Astronautica. We also hear new music from some confident veterans acts at the peak of their sonic powers including The Heliocentrics, Bonobo and Patchworks. Great vocalists and MCs like Yannah Valdevit, Sarah Gessler, Ty, Nia Andrews and Trek Life add their aural elements to the mix. So settle in for two hours of fresh and interesting sounds, curated especially for you by the Friday Night Session crew! Continue reading

Friday Night Session March 22nd 2013

 
Mixes by Andrew Jervis

I’ve been waiting for a reason to air these mixes on the Friday Night Session. I made them for other radio shows last year. The “22 Steps To Soul Mix” was for the Stolen Moments show hosted by John Bailey in Australia. And the California Soul mix was made for the Paris DJs. A week spent battling a nasty cold and facing impending deadlines left me with little time to prepare a new show, and led me to glue these 2 mixes together and present them for you, for tonights session. Raw, rare, and rootsy jazz, hippie soul, freedom funk and tropical goodies abound…enjoy! Continue reading

Friday Night Session March 15th 2013

 

Hosted by Cez

Cez holds down this weeks show with a selection of brand new material, as well as a few old favourites. Kicking things off with Philip Owusu, Kirk Degiorgio’s great remix of Ambient Jazz Ensemble and Mr. Bird, who adds his flair to a classic First Choice track. We also get into the spaced out electronics of Oakland’s own, AYBEE, with a cut off his latest album ‘Worlds’, as well as brand new material from Space Dimension Controller. Great new uptempo business from Yannah Valdevit & Lay-Far via the Tru Thoughts camp and Aera. We re-visit the Latin American via UK sounds of Barry Morgan & Ray Cooper, Modern Romance and Kalima. Finishing things off with a few more uptempo jams from the likes of , Mr. Beatnick, Basic Soul Unit and Kuniyuki Takahashi.

01. Philip Owusu – Goodnight (promo)
02. Ambient Jazz Ensemble – Jazz Face (Kirk Degiorgio Remix) (Here And Now)
03. Mr Bird – Funky Albatross (Vital Force)
04. King Knut – A Lil’ Soul (download)
05. Black Renaissance – Magic Ritual (GB Remix) (Luv N’ Haight)
06. Moon B – Untitled (People’s Potential Unlimited)
07. Aybee – What Is (Deepblak)
08. Electric Street Orchestra – M.F.A. (Dirty Tech Records)
09. Space Dimension Controller – The Love Quadrant (R&S Records)
10. Takuya Matsumoto – Jump Rope Music (iero)
11. Yannah Valdevit & Lay-Far – Brave (Tru Thoughts)
12. Aera – Leaving The Fiction (promo)
13. Barry Morgan & Ray Cooper – Street Samba (Strut)
14. Modern Romance – Salsa Rappsody (WEA)
15. Mo Kolours – Promise (One Handed Music)
16. Kalima – Land Of Dreams (Factory)
17. Ian Pooley – Swing Mode (promo)
18. Mr. Beatnick – Symbiosis (Don’t Be Afraid)
19. Basic Soul Unit – Breathe (Still Music)
20. Lorca – Giant Stars (promo)
21. Fujimoto Tetsuro – Puddle (download)
22. Sieren – Blue Memories (Project Mooncircle)
23. Bering Strait – Surya (Apollo Records)
24. Kuniyuki Takahashi – The Session (Mule Musiq)

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Friday Night Session March 8th 2013

 
Hosted By Andrew Jervis
3FromMe Guest: Andrew Jervis
Exclusive Guest Mix: DJ Sureshot / Sureshot Symphony Solution

Heavyweight show tonight with massive new tracks from the likes of Bonobo with Erykah Badu, Atoms for Peace, Inc., Jamie Lidell, Qtier and Matmos. Delighted to have two connoisseurs of vintage funk, soul, and jazz joining me tonight, too. Jazzman Records head honcho Gerald drops a forthcoming release on his label from The Sign of Four and plays an all time fave from Ella Fitzgerald. Also, SF-based DJ Sureshot weighs in with a fantastic mix of soulful boogie, funk and beyond. Read on for the tracklist and a few words from Jazzman Gerald… Continue reading

Friday Night Session March 1st 2013

 
Hosted by Andrew Jervis
Special Guest Mix: Richard E (E Type/Further Out)

This weeks show features an hour of my favorite tracks of the moment followed by a stellar mix by Richard E. Record collector, producer, musician, dj and head of Further Out Recordings, Richard has been releasing a series of re-edits on E-Type Records and is working on a debut album with his partner Annabel – he squeezed some exclusives from their collaboration into the mix and they are beautiful! The Session opens with the brand new Hairy Hands track (his best yet!) and we run through recent releases by SF’er Kacey Johansing, the outerworldly sound of Noyce, and some juicy tropical joints from MopMop, Bomba Estereo and Sheila Rickards. Read on for the playlist . . . Continue reading

Friday Night Session Feb 22nd 2013

 
Hosted by Tomas

This week we’ll hear new music from established talents like Thievery Corp, Nickodemus, Ian Pooley and Georgia Anne Muldrow, as well as fresh, up-to-the-minute producers and bands like Dauwd, Brisa and MopMop. We get a flashback of J-Dilla’s brilliance and hear an emerging star in Nia Andrews. Along the way we’ll bop to the headnodic rhythms of beat-makers Spaced Out Family, Lapalux, and Hackman. This one’s for the groovers, so enjoy! Continue reading

Friday Night Session Feb 15th 2013

 
Hosted by Cez
Special Guest Mix: Senor Oz (Afrolicious)
3FromMe: Mo Kolours (One Handed Music)

Cez holds down this weeks show with a selection of current favorites, including the new soulful sounds of Rhye, Philip Owusu and Jamie Lidell‘s collaboration with Brandt Brauer Frick. We also get into the raw, lo-fi electronic funk of Moon B, Electric Street Orchestra (Waajeed‘s new all-star project) and brand new material from FNS favorite Mo Kolours. Speaking of which, Mo Kolours gives us this weeks 3FromMe selection, where he touches upon classic hip hop, funky reggae and a little something that he’s connected to. A couple of uptempo jams from the Bay Area’s Damon Bell (under his D^Bo alias) and Kyle Hall, before we get into the the second half of the show, where Senor Oz gives us a mix full of Afrolicious original productions, remixes and exclusive edits, which embody the good time vibes of their long running San Francisco party… Continue reading

Friday Night Session Feb 8th 2013

 
Hosted by Andrew Jervis
Special guest: Mitzi

All Music Guide credits Donald Byrd on over 1600 productions, he was a musical genius, R.I.P. 3 of my Byrd favorites from 3 different albums (New Perspectives, Places and Spaces, and Stepping Into Tomorrow) are sprinkled amongst the bag of new tracks that I was eager to play tonight. Guesting in the 3FromMe segment is Australian band Mitzi. They have a new album on Future Classic dropping in a week or two, and you will like them if Toro Y Moi and LCD Soundsystem are your cups of tea. Their indie-leaning, garage-y disco sound was inspiration for a set of new tracks that blur the lines between electronic, indie, and dance, including new bits from Atoms for Peace, Misfot Mod, PVT, Vex Ruffin & James Pants, Javelin and Lusine. Also in the mix is classy soul from Charles Bradley and San Francisco based The Sureshot Symphony Solution, cinematics from The Kramford Look, uptempo goodies from Glenn Jackson, Emilie Nana and Ian Pooley, and swampy folk funk from William Adamson, the new project from Earl Zinger/2Banksof4. Read on for the playlist . . . Continue reading