Richie Vegas cut his DJing teeth in his late teens - messing about with hip hop and breaks - before plundering his family’s record collections and forging a sound that includes soul, funk, jazz, afrobeat and reggae.
An integral member of the Jiggery Pokery collective running eclectic hip hop nights in Liverpool and beyond - Rich’s distinctive style has found him playing countless gigs over the intervening 15 years: holding residences at some of the finest bars and clubs, and supporting visiting dignitaries such as Lee Scratch Perry, Hot 8 Brass Band, Don Letts, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80.
Test Match Special is an opportunity to showcase a selection of tunes that doesn't quite fit with live DJ sets, explore less-travelled paths and distill 20 years of musical musings. Expect lost monsters, obscure reworkings, stubborn earworms and wickets galore.
Tracklist
JOB Orquestra - Govinda
Kuti Mangoes - Keep You Safe
Four Tops - Still Water - Peace
Hiromasa Suzuki - Screwdriver
The Comet Is Coming - Birth Of Creation
PBDY - Bring Me Down
Sarathy Korwar - Bol
Shabaka & The Ancestors - Joyous
Yussef Kamaal - Remembrance
Silent Majority - More Beautiful Sounds
Bobby Hutcherson - Goin Down South
Yazz Ahmed - Ruby Bridges
Calvin Keys - B.E
Jean-Luc Ponty - Mirage
Thundercat - Black Qualls (FEAT STEVE ARRINGTON & STEVE LACY)
Stretch - Why Did You Do It?
A Certain Ratio - Dont You Worry Bout A Thing
Cry Babies - Caminhos Diabolicos
Ezra Collective - Chris & Jane
Idris Muhammad - Super Bad
Kamaal WIlliams - High Roller
Horace Silver - The Sophisticated Hippie (Easy Mo Bee Remix)
EZRA Collective - Space Is The Place
Greg Foat - The Mage
Theon Cross - CIYA
Probable Cause - Never Come Close
The Nobodies - You Don’t Know Me
108 - Critical Meltdown
Bobby Blanchard & Andy Aaron & The Mean Machine - You’re The Only One
Idris Muhammad - Hard To Face The Music
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