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Roots Manuva Exclusive

Mary Anne Hobbs has the exclusive first play of Roots Manuva's new single. Plus Manuva, aka Rodney Smith, delivers a 3 Minute Epiphany on how to become an MC.

Mary Anne enters the headspace of a Saturday morning though some extraordinary tunes including the exclusive first play of Roots Manuva's new single.

Mr Manuva aka Rodney Smith marks this release single by delivering a 3 Minute Epiphany answering "How Do You Become An MC?"

In addition expect a unique breakfast blend of tunes from the likes of The Beach Boys, Mala, Bob Marley, Grace Jones, James Blake, Billie Holiday and some of the newest music that's landed within her digital travels this week.

She will also go diving for musical pearls in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Live Music Archive...

3 hours

Last on

Sat 3 Aug 2013 07:00

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Music Played

  • Bob Dylan

    Positively Fourth Street

    • Columbia.
  • Arctic Monkeys

    Do I Wanna Know

    • Domino Recording.
  • Spoek Mathambo

    You Should Have Called (My Heart) ft BB James

  • Radiohead

    Jigsaw Falling Into Place

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
  • Cocteau Twins

    Cherry Coloured Funk

    • Heaven Or Las Vegas.
    • 4 AD.
  • Laura Marling

    Devil's Resting Place

    • Virgin EMI.
  • Snoop Dogg

    Gin And Juice

    • Interscope.
  • The Cure

    Close To Me

    • Fiction.
  • Queens of the Stone Age

    I Sat By The Ocean

    • Matador.
  • Devendra Banhart

    Never Seen Such Good Things

  • Dennis Brown

    Money In My Pocket

    • Reggae Love Songs (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.
  • Supergrass

    Moving

    • Parlophone.
  • Arcade Fire

    City With No Children

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.
  • WORLD EXCLUSIVE FIRST PLAY

    • Roots Manuva

      Stolen Youth

  • Belle and Sebastian

    I Want The World To Stop

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.
  • John Grant

    Black Belt

    • Bella Union.
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Christine

    • Polydor.
  • HAIM

    The Wire

  • Gang Starr

    Jazz Thing

    • 4 Th And Broadway.
  • Laura Mvula

    She

    • RCA.
  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

  • Al Green

    Take Me To The River

    • Beechwood.
  • Pixies

    Bagboy

  • denitia and sene.

    Cassanova

  • The Shins

    Phantom Limb

    • PHANTOM LIMB.
    • Sub Pop.
  • Outfit

    House on Fire

    • Double Denim Records.
  • New Order

    Ceremony

    • Factory Records.
  • Buzzcocks

    Lipstick

    • EMI.
  • Bloc Party

    Ratchet

    • French Kiss/Co-Operative Music.
  • Deap Vally

    Bad For My Body

  • EELS

    Novocaine For The Soul

    • Columbia.
  • Disclosure

    F For You

    • PMR Records.
  • 3 MINUTE EPIPHANY

    • Roots Manuva: How To Become An MC

      Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva reveals how MC-ing is just mysticism, ghosts and aliens.

  • Roots Manuva

    Stolen Youth

  • The Specials

    Ghost Town

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 1981 (VARIOUS).
    • Two Tone.
    • 5.
  • Phoenix

    1901

    • CD SINGLE.
    • V2 / Cooperative.
    • 1.
  • Public Enemy

    Get Up Stand Up

  • Pond

    Xanman

    • Modular.
  • SONG FOR EDITH

    • Willis Earl Beal

      Too Dry To Cry

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Aug 2013 07:00