In this week’s In In this episode new album tracks from Caribou, Cobblestone Jazz, JJ, Glimpse and Flying Lotus plus new stuff from Melodica faves Hot Toddy, Dub 13 and Tape Loops. [setlist] Caribou – Sun Cobblestone Jazz – Sun Child Floating Points – Shark Chase Hot Toddy – Down To Love (Fred Everything Lazy Days Mix) 6th Borough Project – Nights Over Memphis (The Revenge Dub) Matisyahu – One Day (Dub 13 Alpha Wave Bhajan) Tape Loops – Pass It On (Feat Finley Quaye) Jj – And Now Flying Lotus – …And The World Laughs With You Feat. Thom Yorke Bop – Nothing Makes Any Sense (Blue Mar Ten Remix) The Others – Karma Mudd & Pollard – Vincent (Mark E Remix)

Respect to Alan Sillitoe who died yesterday. He was a man who, through his writing, gave me so much of my, continuing, awkward attitude.

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Out on a sunny evening, round the bend in the river, to South Bank, to see Polar Bear. Their jazz meanderings can be hard to take on record but live they are a different prospect. The sound of well-blown sax morphs into a balloon being let down ever so slowly, and there they are together on stage, sax and balloon, balloon and sax, performing side by side. And she asks me, as we strain to see round the side of the speaker, what do you think the bass player is thinking, in there, in the music, slipping in and out of rhythm like it’s mercury. And I say, he’s probably thinking – I wonder what would happen if I put my head on upside down.

Down on Freedom street, we are getting hot in the kitchen. Micky shakes the salad seeds for City Reverb; and Ali Love pops in for the first ever Melodica live session. Cooking (as they say). And we all feel so fab we eat lollies in the sunlight.