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to my new subscribers: hello! i’m a dj and broadcaster (and 🆕 promoter 🆕 ) based in sheffield, under the name linga sound. everything i do there is rooted in new jazz, funk, groove, etc, and if that’s why you’re here — that stuff will always be rounded up at the end of the newsletter
however, this substack is a much broader monthly digest of stuff i’ve been listening to: not just new stuff, not just jazz; broad brush, anything goes, plus a bit of a diary as well. the queer + heavily online gym bro sibling of my radio show.
to my old subscribers: heyyyy guys what’s up? tell me your news. xoxo
club action - yo majesty
the last couple of years, i feel like i’ve been sitting, waiting for The Summer to happen and then suddenly it’s september. a trip to shetland, hardly your first thought for a canonical summer holiday, but needs must. a sweet little staycation weekend in a northern english city. i met some friends in beer gardens; took some time off work to sit around my flat and crack thru some novels. all very pleasant.
it might be the weather, but something is in the air. that something is imbuing me with joie de vivre. a new raison d’etre. like this song. let’s go lesbian crunk!!!
a reel that kay and i have been sending back and forth for months
other tracks which are my own personal Sound of the Summer:
morocco - matt gold & dustin laurenzi
the vibration on dustin laurenzi’s saxophone here is gorgeous. captures a v ethio sound.
summer nights - dana & alden
little bit khruangbin-y (complimentary)
?jerk alfredo again gang? - kaicrewsade ft. jazzbois
absolutely mad for chicago’s kaicrewsade. 100% at the forefront of jazz rap in 2026. keep those mixtapes comin man.
i ran (so far away) - a flock of seagulls
of course, i still had to have a trip to shetland. hardly your first thought for a canonical summer holiday, but needs must, one might say. while everyone was melting here, we got fogged in at the airport for an extra night with the fam. this was a classic case of an earworm playing from a central european oldies station on their dab radio over dinner, possibly at the time my recently retired parents announced they were off on their first retirement holiday… to uzbekistan?
listen, fair play.
back home, july 2026
olbap - cosmic vibrations ft. dwight trible [mark de clive-lowe remix]
cosmic vibrations was a group of extremely high calibre spiritual jazz musicians in LA, brought together by vocalist dwight trible. they recorded together in 2018 and released an album, pathways and passages, in 2020. the original is absolutely incredible, expansive, north african percussion and his deep, resonant vocal, but since it’s summer i’ve been obsessing over this lovingly rendered remix from japanese-new zealand producer mark de clive-lowe. i work four days a week now, in part so i can focus on my ~creative pursuits~, and so i found myself walking home from nether edge on a friday morning, bopping past the botanics to this broken beat masterpiece.
blow it up with dynamite! - hill collective
brighton based jazz collective, surprisingly fucking good to run to. since i got on testosterone (happy one year anniversary!!) i have really been focused on getting more hench, and so running has taken a back seat. however, due to aforementioned testosterone and resulting shift in self-confidence about bro-ing down, i think this might be my last year in the non-binary category of the sheffield 10k and thus my last chance to be the fastest non-binary at the sheffield 10k. run e run!!
rio de felicidade - rosa maria
nice bit of brazilian boogie, also surprisingly good to run to.
cairo fm - alewya
love this. of course the el shab arrab beat is a complete vibe, but it’s the reference to zebra katz & njena reddd foxxx’s ima read that really hooked me in. and also made me feel slightly nauseous to realise that it is fourteen years since lee and i saw them supporting azealia banks at the o2 in glasgow 🤢
bring your love - madonna & sabrina carpenter
to touch grass and connect with the pop girlies i did a b2b listen of the charli xcx album, which i appreciate artistically but can’t really be bothered to listen to again, and the madonna album, which i loved.
radio
this month’s sound service station featured the usual jazz ensembles, flautists, a fair chunk of prog-y post-punk-y angularity and a few electronic and rnb bits for good measure <3
if you are going to be at we out here i’ll be wearing my producer hat and representing kitchen radio on a panel/workshop about the joys and importance of community radio on the sunday afternoon at the lemon lounge! come say hi!
live
i have started promoting gigs for footprints jazz club! i get to fuckin actually bring some of the bands and artists i’m excited about and sharing and playing on my show to come and play live on my doorstep! and to have the chance to convince other people that they should come and appreciate them too! sick.
first up, murgatroyd, a v. energetic young jazz/hip-hop fusion band from leeds to come and play in the alder courtyard on thurs 6th august. they’ll be supported by shugacoma, a up-and-coming sheff funk band.
it’s free, hopefully sunny, should be a banger. come thru.
also i’ll be dj’ing all night in the bar at hagglers corner on fri 28th august.
plus me and ethan, aka dj i don’t mind, have been organising a bank holiday day party at forge as a kitchen radio fundraiser, 3-8pm on sat 29th august. see you some of these places i hope!!
& finally
sound service station will also be shifting into the physical realm in the autumn. a monthly midweek treat for your ears, your body, your mind. will be dropping further info soon but some dates for your diary:
24th september // 22nd october // 26th november 💖
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