For International Women’s Rights Day, we play tribute to all women in music with this Strictly Female mix going from afrobeat, Lusophone sounds & ethiogrooves over Arab, reggae & dub to Latin, hip-hop & global bass. Power to the Women! Tracklist: Organic Soul – Frap Frap The Afrorockerz feat. Ruth Tafébé –…

Nightshop for November via Radio Campus Bxl and shared on Rhythm Passport & Groovalizacion Radio with +3 hours of new global sounds. 3 songs of the day via Angola, Lebanon and Colombia (La Perla). Our albums of the month take us to Mali via mandinke guitar strings of Boubara Badian…

Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below:     Track List: 1. Cimafunk – Caramelo [from El Alimiento; Terapia Productions] 00:00…

At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some…

Worcester-born Will Holland aka Quantic returns to Manchester off the back of the recent Quantic y Los Míticos del Ritmo ‘Hotline Bling’ single, an inspired accordion band cover of Drake backed with the more electronic leaning ‘Doombia’. Holland is certainly prolific – a talented bandleader, producer and DJ, the multi-instrumentalist…

Last year Groovalizacion Radio selected monthly the best albums for you. What better way to celebrate the new year than looking back at these fine albums from 2017? Out of our selections, we distilled a top 20 from the past year. The higher the album is ranked, the more it is supported by our…

A big revelry for exciting Brighton-based independent label Tru Thoughts, as they celebrated their coming-of-age with a punching all-day party! Full of friends and fans, there were queues to see their newest acts that not even a wink or a press pass could sneak you through. A sign that they…

The last decade has seen a shift in the role of record labels in the music industry.  More artists are choosing to sign with independent labels to maintain creative collaborative control. Tru-Thoughts are a UK indie label based in Brighton, created in 1999.  Praised by Gilles Peterson, they have a…

Curao brings together the mystical music traditions of the Colombian Pacific Coast with captivating modern day production to spectacular effect. Will ‘Quantic’ Holland and Nidia Góngora, who is considered one of the foremost artists of the typical marimba music of the South Pacific region, mix those unique & rich traditional…

Random Activities of a Heart is the debut album of Retrospective for Love, a London-based international neo-soul band active since 2010. Released on 10th March on Wormfood Records — the same label of Afriquoi, to give you a clue — the much-awaited long player follows two EPs that made them…

With his fourth studio album, Hellvisback, released a little over a year ago, he reached the top of the Italian charts and earned platinum certification for having sold more than 50’000 copies. Now Salmo can also boast a European Tour on his music CV, with sold out gigs in major…