Ring The Alarm playlist, April 26

George Benson  -World is a ghetto
Gary Bartz - Celestial blues
Blundetto - Nautilus - dub version
Rhythm and sound feat Cornell Campbell - King in my empire
Rhythm and sound feat Jennifer Lara - Queen in my empire
Nitin Sawmhey - Dead man - Fink dub
Dub asylum - Jumping jack skank
Estere - Culture clash (Free download)
Quantic - Duvido
Oddisee - Viva Brasil
Marva Whitney - Things have got to get better
Yvonne Fair - I found you
Lyn Collins - Rock me again and again and agaiun
Fred Wesley and the JBs - You can have Watergate but give me some bucks and I'll be straight
Society's bag - Let it crawl
Young Holt unlimited - Wah wah man
La Toya Jackson - If you feel the funk
Ebonee Webb - Something about you
Sola Rosa - Can we get it together
Mo kolours - Little brown dog
Fat Freddys Drop - Barney Miller
3 generations walking - Midnight bustling
Round four feat Tikiman - Find a way
Tony Allen - Ole - Mauritz von Oswald remix

Ring The Alarm playlist, April 19

Nina Simone - Seeline woman - MAW remix
Nightmares on wax - Ease Jimi
Fat Freddys Drop - Hope - Sonsine remix
Rhythm and sound feat Sugar Minott - Let Jah love come
Thievery Corp - 38-45
Jackie Mittoo - Voodoo moon
Esso Trinidad steel band - I want you back
Silvertones - Tamborito swing
Mala - Como como - Theo Parrish remix
James Brown - Get on the good foot
Bill Withers - You got the stuff
Gonzalez - Just let it lay
Parlet - Help from my friends
James Blood Ulmer - Litte red house
Mulatu and the Heliocentrics - Cha cha
Longsy D -This is ska - Greg Churchill edit
Laurel Atkin - Skinhead train
The Survivors - Rawhide
Adrian Younge and the Delfonics - Lover's melody
Dennis Edwards - Don't look any further - Bobby Busnach edit
Bobby Womack -You're welcome, stop on by - Beaten space edit
Dexys midnight runners - Geno

Ring The Alarm playlist, April 12

Jackie Stoudimire -Invisible wind -Shoes re-edit
Quantic - Dreaming mind pt 1
Sola Rosa - Can we get it together
Rocky Dawuni - Freefall - Jeremy Sole remix
Vin Gordon - Steady beat
Bitty Maclean - I'm the one who loves you
Prince Fari - Give love
Orange juice - Rip it dub - Dicky Trisco edit
B52s - Planet Claire
Henry Mancini - Baretta's theme
Johnny Hammond - Rocksteady
Jimmy McCraklin -The walk
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Butta - O'kwawa se
Stephen Encina -Lypso illusion
Lion rock - Rude boy rock
Romanowski - Romjack steady
Derrick Morgan - I'm the ruler
Alton Ellis- Girl I've got a date
Brenton Wood - Oogum boogum
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - Better things to do
Janet Jackson - Don't mess up a good thing
Zapp - More bounce to the ounce Pts I&II
Candi Station - When you wake up tomorrow
Hackney colliery band - All of the lights - Scrimshire remix
Nuyorican soul - Black gold of the sun - MAW remix feat Q-Tip
Yasiin Gaye - B stands for beef inst

Ring The Alarm playlist, April 5

Cherelle - Saturday love  - extended version
St Etienne - Only love can break your heart
Tackhead - I'm afraid of Americans - Adrian Sherwood mix
Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerusalem
Gene Dudley Group - Hilo bay halfway - Gene Dudley disco dub
Chaka Khan - Any old Sunday
Johnny Bristol - I sho like groovin with ya
Sister Love - Give me your love
David Joseph - You can't hide your love from me - Greg Wilson edit
Lloyd Williams - Reggae feet
King Tubby - Tubby get smart
Horace Andy - Aint no sunshine
Yabby You - Heads a roll dub
Dennis Brown - Blessed are the men - extended
Kode 9 and the Spaceape feat Cha Cha - The cure
Lee Scratch Perry - Like the way you should -Mala Digital Mystikz remix
Myagi - I got beat up by a 303
Hairy Diamond - Giving up
Cymande - Bra
Brenton Wood - Oogum boogum
Morgan Clarke with benny's Five - Haka boogie
Keil Isles - Monkey stomp
Nick Waterhouse - This is a game
John Gibbs - Steel funk
Sola Rosa feat Noah Slee - Can we get it together
Trio Valore - Crazy
George Clinton -RnB skeletons in the closet
Ardijah - Watching U
Stephen Encinas - Lypso illusion
Tito Puente - Take five

Ring The Alarm playlist, March 29

MAW - MAW expensive (tribute to Fela)
Lonnie Smith - Straight to the point
Breakestra - Family rap
Mayer Hawthorne - Wine glass woman
Bettye Swann - Chained and bound
Lee Dorsey and the Meters - What you want
Nick Waterhouse - Aint there something money can't buy
Robb - Fourbyfour
Machito and his Afro-Cubans - Knock on wood
Ray Lugo and the boogaloo destroyers - El ritmo de nueva york
Henri-Pierre Noel - A fifth of Beethoven - the Reflex revision
Andrew Ashong - Love the way
Kraftwerk - Telephone call - remix
Fat Freddys Drop - Mother mother - Theo Parrish translation
Esther Phillips - Home is where the hatred is
Graham central station - Tell me what it is
JBs - 40th anniversary mix
The Emotions - I like it
Mickey and them - UFO
Henry Mancini - Shot  in the dark
Lee Thompson ska orchestra - Mission impossible
Damian Marley, Stephen Marley  -The mission
Lovejoys - Long lost lover
Horace Andy - Prophesy dubwise

Ring The Alarm playlist, March 22

Big Mama Thornton - Hound dog
Staple singers - Sitting on the dock of the bay
Dixie cups - Two way poc a way
James Brown - Funky drummer
Mighty Hannibal - Somebody in the world for you
Mark Ronson - No one knows
Dub funk association - Enter the chuzzler
Michael Prohpet -  Been talking
Junior Dan - Look out for the devil;
Jah Wobble - Get Carter
Ranking Joe - Don't follow Babylon - BAF meets Waiwan remix
Overproof sound system  -The model
Keith Lawrence - B-bwoy skank
Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte - DJ Kentaro remix
Opensouls -Falling in (Playing free, at Nixon Park, Kingsland this arvo)
Vibes alive - Mantra
Afrodisiac sound system - Fela spider rap
Ian Dury and the blockheads  -Reasons to be cheerful pt 3
Larry Graham - Sooner or later (instrumental)
Nick Waterhouse - It no. 3
Hannah Williams and the tastemakers - I'm a good woman
Kashmere stage band - Aint no sunshine - JRocc remix
Q-Tip - Manwomanboogie
VV Brown  - Crying blood - Andrew Weatherall remix

Machinedrum - Stirrin

Rebel MC - Comin on strong
Born Jamericans - Boom shak a-tack
Upsetters - Popcorn

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, March 15

Betty Harris - Trouble with my lover
Tony Owens - Gotta get my baby back home
Shalamar - Right in  the socket
League unlimited orchestra - Love action
James White and the Blacks - Contort yourself - August Darnell remix
Nick Waterhouse - This is a game
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - get up and get out
Jackson 5 - It' s great to be here - Kenny Dope remix
Chaka Khan - Life is a dance
Daddy Ous - Hard like a rock - Groove Corp remix
Morwell unlimited meets King Tubby  - Morpheus special - Kid loco remix
DJ Vadim - Watch that sound - JStar remix (DJ Vadim at Ponsonby Social Club 20 & 21 March, free!)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Hope -3 Generations Walking remix
Rae and Christian - Ready to roll
Antibalas feat Mayra Vega - Che che cole makossa
Lightning head - Bokoor sound special
Los Silvertones - Tamborito swing
Tyrone Taylor - Move up Blackman
Adrian Sherwood and Lee Scratch Perry - Kingston tower
Little John - Fade away
Prince Fari - Hello love brother
Lord Echo - The creator has a master plan
Takuya Kuroda - Rising son
New mastersounds - Treasure
Sly and the Family Stone - Same thing makes you laugh, makes you cry (Happy 70th birthday, Sly Stone!)
Janet Jackson - Don't mess up this good thing
James Brown - Shoot your shot

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, March 8

Black Uhuru - Party next door
Sylford Walker - Deuteronomy
Prince Jammy - BQE dub
Prince Fari - African queen
Fat Freddys Drop - The raft - Steppers dub
Robb - Fourbyfour
New mastersounds - Treasure
Pacifican decendants - Tuesday blues
Machito and his Afro Cubans - Knock on wood
Patti Jo - Make me believe in you
Melodians steel orchestra -Voodoo ray
Screaming Meemees - Stars in my eyes pt 1
Kraftwerk - Tour de France - Francois K remix
Nona Hendryx - B-Boys
Prince Charles and the city beat band - Jungle stomp
Marijata -Mother Africa
Kaleta and Zozo afrobeat - Get up stand up
Mala - Como como - Theo Parrish remix
Mo kolours - Drum talking
Gwen McCrae - Funky sensation - MAW remix
Darondo - Didn't I -  Trishes edit
Chakachas - Jungle fever - Greg Wilson edit
Gloria Gaynor - Casanova Brown
Eddie Kendricks - It's not what you got

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, March 1

3 generations walking -Midnight bustling - Francois K dub
Skip MacDonald - Hammerhead
Electric wire hustle - Waters
Boozoo bajou - Yoruba road
The Liberators - Water somewhere
Pablo Crikta - Lima
Chancha via curcuito - Zorzal
Ray Barretto - Acid
Jay Epae - The creep
Scott Wood - Chicken rock
The Meters - Chicken strut
Jackie Mittoo - Chicken and booze
Jo-Jo and the fugitives - Chips, chicken, banana splits
Chickenwing allstars - Celestial dub (Anderson version)
Yabby You  - Dub it to the top
The Congos - Bring the mackaback
Keith le Blanc - Taxcider
African head charge - Somebody touch I
Upper hutt posse - No worries in the party tonight
Three degrees - Do it (use your mind)
Johnnie Taylor - Disco lady
Gwen McCrae - Funky sensation - MAW remix
Brenda Russell - A little bit of love  -Souleance edit
Neneh Cherry - Everything
Stinky Jim - Phantom bazaar (outside) demo mix
The Pharaohs - Pharaohs love y'all
Bobby Marin - Cisco kid
Revolution of St Vincent - The little you say

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Feb 22

Western roots - Bogus buddy
Herbs - Meteli
Randys Allstars - Mission impossible
Hopeton Lewis - Take it easy
Wayne Smith (RIP)  - Under mi sleng teng
Tenor Saw - Pumpkin belly
Compass allstars - Peaut butter
Janet Jackson - Don't mess up this good thing
Shalamar - Right in the socket
Three degrees - Do it (use your mind)
George McCrae - You treat me good
Charles Wright and Watts 103rd st rhythm band - Loveland
Dee Felice trio - Nightingale
Melodians steel orchestra - Voodoo Ray
Chuck Brown and the Soul searchers - We need money
Goon squad - Eight arms to hold you
House shoes - So different
Pablo Crikta - Lima
Ray Lugo and the boogaloo destroyers - El ritmo de Nueva York
Andrew Ashong  - Love the way
Bev Lee Harling - Why don't you do right - Suonho remix
Beginning of the end - Come down baby - Kenny Dope remix
Brenton Wood - Some got it, some don't
Morgan Clarke with Bennys Five - Haka boogie
Zilla Mayes - Calypso blues
Breakestra - Northeast to Nippon
Mavis Staples - Koochie koochie koochie
Betty Davis - Anti love song
Taka Boom - Dance like you do at home
Grandmaster Flash - Message is conga

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Feb 8

Bomb the bass - Bug powder dust - Kruder and Dorfmeister remix
Rae & Christian  feat Bobby Womack - Wake up everybody - Rae & Christian remix
Nightmares on wax - Flip ya lid
Fat Freddys Drop - Hope - Sonsine remix
Sound foundation - Ram dancehall
Johnny Osbourne - Budy bye - Kenny Dope remix (re-edit)
J-Live - Satisfied
Todd Simon - Richmond line
Pimps of joytime - PJT's high stepping
Young Holt Unlimited - Wah wah man
Osibisa - Fire
Jermaine Jackson - Let's get serious
The Upsetter - Bingo kid
Junior Murvin and the Upsetters - Get ready - Bongo mix/dubplate version
Che Fu - Get up stand up
Sluggy Ranks - Nah bow down
Beat pharmacy feat Paul St Hilaire - Sunshine
Manasseh - Skenga 12" mix
 Machinedrum - Stirrin
Collen and Webb - Golden
Cutty Ranks - Who say me done
LCD soundsystem - 45:33 - Padded cell remix
New order - Confusion
Jonzun crew - Space is the place

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Feb 1

Lord Echo feat Mara TK - Put it inside my head
Timmy Thomas - Freak in, freak out
Donald Byrd - Love has come around - Combo re-edit
Soul generals - Granma's funky popcorn
Kashmere stage band - Superstrut
Marva Whitney - Unwind yourself
Vicki Anderson - I'm too tough for Mr Big Stuff (hot pants)
Gladys Knight and the Pips - On and on
Ohio players - Mr Mean
Jay Z - Show me what you got inst
Eric B and Rakim - Relax with pep
Damian Marley - Welcome to jamrock
Shaggy - Broadway
Luciano - Police and thieves - State of Bengal remix
Bitty Maclean - It's running over
Shy FX - Soon come
Andrew Ashong - Love the way
Nuyorican soul - Nautilus
Joe Bataan - The bottle
Bronx river parkway - Donde
Junk - 99c strut
Mad lion - Girlzzz
Wreck allstars - Hit em like this
Wrath of donkeyman - Donkey twist
Queens tag team - Can u feel it - Bentley mix
Dj Spinna -  Everybody get down - Superblast mix
Funkmaster Flex - Safe sex, no freaks
Brentford allstars -Greedy G
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - Stranger to my happiness
Society's bag - Let it crawl

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Jan 25

Leon Haywood - If you're looking for a night of fun
The believers - Mr hot pants aka across the tracks
Sola rosa - Sol electric
Scritti politti - Absolute - version
Roy Ayers - Funk in the hole - Platinum pied pipers remix
Johnny Osborne - Budy bye - Kenny Dope remix
Vin Gordon - Steady beat
Cedric Im Brooks - Jah light it right
Bitty Mclean - I'm the one who loves you
Lord Echo - Digital haircut
Jake One and Mara TK - Look what you've made of me
Lee Feilds and the Expressions - Ladies
Pointer sisters - Send him back
Ike and Tina Turner - Somebody somewhere needs you
Chi-lites - For god's sake give more power to the people
Staple singers - Everyday people
Jean Knight - Carry on
Darondo - Didn't I  - Trishes edit
Brockaflower - Gotham
General Levy - Champagne body
Papa Levi - Mi god mi king
Billy Preston - It's my pleasure
Bassomatic - Funky love vibration
Shreikback - Lined up - disco mix
Laura Mvula - Green garden
Manu Dibango - Abele dance - 85 remix

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Jan 11

Minnie Riperton - Strange affair - Karim funk madness edit
Talking Heads - Psycho killer - Greg Wilson edit
Lee Oskar - Haunted house - Leftside wobble edit
Taka Boom - Dance like you do at home
Labelle - Moon shadow
Ann Sexton - You're gonna miss me
The Gaturs - Gator bait
Laura Lee - Crumbs off the table
Lee Fields and the Expressions - Ladies, Soul dynamite, Problems, Money is king
[Lee Fields and the Expressions - live in Auckland, Powerstation, tonight!]
El Michels affair - Detroit twice
Bronx river parkway - La valla
Mongo Santamaria - We got latin soul
Pete Rodriguez - I like it like that
Manu Chao - Merry blues
St Etienne - Only love can break your heart
Primal scream - Higher than the sun - The Orb remix
Scientist -Sunshine version
Prince Jammy - Stalawatt version
King Tubby - Bag a wire dub
Adrian Sherwood and Lee Scratch Perry - Kingston tower
Jackie Mittoo - Moonwalk
SOS Band  - SOS
Edwin Starr - Contact
Lee Fields and the Expressions - The right thing
Lynn Collins - Give it up or turn it loose

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Jan 4

Brenda Russell vs Souleance  - A little bit of love (Free DL)
Chakachas - Jungle fever - Greg Wilson edit
De la soul feat Chaka Khan - All good
Freddie Cruger - Bap yo head
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot in Lagos
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Victorious dub
Fat Freddys Drop - Midnight marauders dub
Delroy Wilson - Get ready 12" mix
Lord Echo - Haircutdub (free DL)
The Family - High fashion
The Delegates - Pygmy pt I
Johnny Hammond - Summertime/the ghetto
Herbie Hancock - Wiggle waggle
Temptations - Zoom
Elvis Costello and the Roots - Cinco minutos con vos
Snap - Sidewalk city
James Brown - Stone to the bone
Estere feat Oddisee - Flashlight
Mala - Como como - Theo Parrish remix

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Dec 21

Lord Echo - Put it inside my head
Wally Badarou - Hi life
George Duke -Percussion interlude - Jeremy Sole edit
Dub traffik control - Fresh prince of babylon
The Orb feat Lee Scratch Perry - Hold me upsetter
Loopless - Pink blue hotel
Nathan Haines - Sonovabitch
Ramsey Lewis - Back in the USSR
Charles Wright - Doing what comes naturally
Betty Davis - Anti love song
The Tennors - Ride your donkey
The Pioneers - Trouble deh a bush
Lee Thompson ska orchestra - Napoleon  solo
Cheryl Lynn vs Kool Keith - Got2blarge
Ladi6 - Diamonds - Oddisee remix
James Brown - Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto
Electric jungle - Funky funky christmas
Souleance - Mais um
Shriekback - All lined up - disco mix
Aretha Franklin - I am in love - Cutec edit
Jose James - Blackmagic - Joy Orbison's recreation
U-Roy and Francois K - Rootsman
Beat pharmacy feat Paul St Hilaire - Sunshine
Robert Glasper Experiment -Twice - Questlove's twice baked remix

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Dec 14

Shoes - El bantu
Liberators - Water somewhere
DJ Shinya - Nigerian reggae edit
Lord Echo - Molten lava
Junior Murvin and the Upsetters - Get ready - Bongo mix
Joe Tex and U-Black - Standardization
Jimmy London - I'm your puppet
Fat Freddys Drop - Hope -Sonsine remix
King Errison - Conga man
DJ Nu-Mark feat Aloe Blacc, Charles Bradley - Don't play around
Quantic - Linda Morena
Liquid crystal project  -Tribute to Dilla
Eddie Senay - Cameo
War -World is a ghetto - special US disco mix
Ariya astrobeat arkestra - Crosstown traffic
Onra - The anthem
Son palenque - Palenque palenque
Prince Charles and the City Beat Band - Cash (cash money)
Cameo - I just want to be
Prince and 3rd eye girl - Da bourgeoisie
Ladi6 - Diamonds - Oddisee remix
Dub traffik control - Fresh prince of babylon
Blood sisters - Ring my bell
DLT feat Mighty Asterix - One love
Adrian Sherwood - Zero zero one

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Dec 7

Reuben Wilson - Got to get your own
Milton Hamilton -We have all the time - Danny Kriivit edit
Chic - Open up
Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd st rhythm band - Loveland
Sly and the Family Stone -You can make it if you try
Archie Bell and the Drells - A thousand wonders
Sister Sledge - Love dont you go thru no changes on me
Loraine Ellison  - Got my baby back
Esther Phillips - Just say goodbye
Ella Fitzgerald - get ready
Joanie Sommers - Dont pity me
Mark Williams - Yesterday was just the beginning of my life
Dalvanius and the Fascinations - Love train
OJays - 992 arguments
Erykah Badu  -Baglady
Nona Hendryx - B-boys
Electric wire hustle - Numbers and steel
Souleance -Mais um
Yellow magic orchestra - Comupter games
Kevvy Kev - Higher dread
Lord Echo - Bohemian idol
Busy signal - Well prepared
Lee Perry and the upsetters - Big neck cut
Junior Murvin - Roots, train, Police and thieves
Lee Perry - Jungle youth - Congo natty remix
Jose James - Desire - Moodymann remix
Andrew Ashong and Theo Parrish - Flowers

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm, Nov 30

Romanowski - Why?
Wally Badarou - Chief inspector
MAW - Zoe
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - Mama don't like my man
Jermaine Jackson - Let's get serious
War - Galaxy 2000
Shoes - In the mood for dub
Staple singers - Something aint right
Angie Stone - Wish I didn't miss you
Lee Fields - My world (live in Auckland Jan 11 , tickets onsale now)
Blackbyrds - Rock creek park
Beat pharmacy  - Ghost ships
Butch Cassidy sound system - Ready dread
Che Fu - Get up stand up
James Brown - The Bose - Geisha boys remix
Larry Gold - Aint no stopping us now
Philadeplhia allstars - Let's clean up the ghetto - Danny Krivit edit
Leon Huff - No greater love
Magic circle express - Magic fever

Ring The Alarm playlist, Basefm

Keith Le Blanc - Taxcider
Eric B and Rakim - Relax with pep
DLT - Duel of the assassins feat Billy TK
Electric wire hustle - Numbers and steel
Innerzone orchestra - Bug in the bassbin
3 generations walking - Midnight bustling - midnight rockers mix
Chosen few - Do your thing
Sugar Minott - Devil's pickney
Thievery corporation - 38 45
Jose James - Black magic - Joy Orbison's recreation
Ralph MacDonald - The path pt II - Lac's seeker edit
Betty Wright - Keep feelin'
Chic - Hangin'
Alexander O'Neal - Fake - extended version
Roy Ayers - Love will bring us together
Eddie Kendricks - It's not what you got
Lord Echo - Digital haircut
Wajeed - Jeedo suave
Shogun orchestra - Mifune
Ross McHenry - Distant oceans pt II
Adi Dick - Thief dub
Visioneers - Runnin'
Scratch 22 - Shivani strut
Beastie boys  -Sureshot
Slim - It's in the mix