Steve says the programme tends to take a more historical or educational approach, rather than concentrate on new releases. It's music that opens up and embraces. It's music with a great sense of space. New releases as well as original 1970s funk releases. If you want to hear the original baselines that so much hip -hop lift samples from, this is the place to listen.
Contemporary music owes a lot to black music.
Jeff is also a contributor to Isis , a quarterly Sydney magazine devoted to black music and culture. The music I play is a culture in itself. He features artists that have been top of their field for many years. Paul credits Youssou N'Dour as the creator of modern Senegalese music, however, N'Dour has only just been recognised here, following successful appearances at Womadelaide, the international music festival held in Adelaide recently. There's not enough black music on radio, perhaps there should be a 24 hour black station.