Tru Thoughts presents a ‘Best of Quantic’ mix. Compiled, re-edited, and mixed by Jeremy Sole.

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Tru Thoughts artist Hint whips up a late-’90s hip-hop mix in time for Wax Po’s Hip-Hop Issue.
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Producer and selector Quantic first met Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke in 2004, while hunting down records in Addis Ababa with Soundway’s Miles Cleret and photographer/filmmaker B+ (as featured in Wax Poetics Issue 14). Five years later, they were reunited at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles for the Mochilla/VTech production of Timeless, where Mulatu played with a full orchestra and jazz vets Bennie Maupin and Phil Ranelin. Quantic’s hour-long opening DJ set, dubbed Addis to Axum and comprised almost entirely of music discovered during his 2004 trip to Ethiopia, is available now as a free download.

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Preorder the DVD box set Timeless that includes the Mulatu performance as well as Arthur Verocai and the Ma Dukes Suite.

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Analog Africa Soundsystem

With his innate sense of old vinyl and tape detection, Samy Ben Redjeb has spent a good deal of his life searching through dusty warehouses in countries like Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Colombia on a mission to rescue forgotten music from oblivion. He has amassed an incredible collection of rare records and tapes, from which he compiles selections for his highly respected Analog Africa label, which has released two compilations of the legendary Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou. read more »

Courtesy of Binky Griptite

There’s nothing like the sweet sounds of soul, and for this special holiday edition of Wax Poetics Radio, we welcome Dap-Kings frontman Binky Griptite to the vinyl vault. Binky brings host Monk-One up to date with the Daptone scene and world-premieres the latest from Sharon Jones—a Christmas record! The boys then kick off a heavy listening session that includes soulful Christmas favorites from James Brown to Big Daddy Kane and a heap of funk-filled soundtrack treats, including Black Dynamite!