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Beth brightens up your Saturday with a healthy dose of tunes, laughs and caffeine!

Beth brightens up your Saturday with a healthy dose of tunes, laughs and caffeine! This week’s playlist is ever-eclectic, featuring jams from Portraits of Tracy, David Byrne, bar italia and so much more. Beth celebrates Rave Forever x The Music Is Black with a Caffeine Kick full of classic, timeless house music, selecting Steve Poindexter, Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk and more. Elsewhere in the show, she brings you a listener-suggested Matter of Life and Beth from the elusive folk trio Sunforest, and uplifting Saturday energy in abundance. If you have any requests for the Caffeine Kick, or you’d like to get in touch with the show, get in touch at [email protected].

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Music Played

  • IKE & Tina Turner

    Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter

    • Capitol Records.

  • Laurie Anderson

    Language Is A Virus

    • Warner Records.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Love Plus One

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 002.

  • Brian Eno & David Byrne

    Strange Overtones

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Todo Mundo/Opal.
    • 1.

  • Charli xcx

    Camera

    • Atlantic.

  • Lianne La Havas

    Weird Fishes

    • Lianne La Havas.
    • Warner Records.
    • 7.

  • Portraits of Tracy

    Caught In A Jam

    • Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate? A: MTV!.
    • Self-released.

  • Funkadelic

    Can You Get To That

    • Westbound Records ‎.

  • L’Rain

    soulless cycle

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Sunforest

    Magician in the Mountain

    • The Orchard House.

  • Erykah Badu & The Alchemist

    Witch Doctor

    • Control Freaq Records.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    Dedicated To The One I Love

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Strange Things Happening Every Day

    • Decca.

  • Fana Hues

    Icarus

    • Bright Antenna Records.

  • France Gall

    Teenie Weenie Boppie

    • Goldenlane Records.

  • Steve Poindexter

    Computer Madness

    • Square Roots.

  • Steve “Silk” Hurley

    Jack Your Body (Club Mix)

    • Hold on to Your Dream.
    • London Records.

  • Farley Jackmaster Funk, Jesse Saunders & Darryl Pandy

    Love Can't Turn Around

    • Love Can't Turn Around.
    • 4 Liberty Records Ltd.

  • Grace Jones

    Demolition Man

    • The Island Def Jam Music Group.

  • Test Icicles

    Circle. Square. Triangle

    • For Screening Purposes Only.
    • Domino.
    • 5.

  • Lime Garden

    Clockwork

    • So Young Records.

  • Slant 6

    Victim of Your Own Desires

    • Dischord Records.

  • bar italia

    skylinny

    • WORLD MUSIC.

  • Rahim Redcar (AKA: Christine and the Queens)

    People, I've Been Sad

    • Because Music.

  • Saul Williams

    List of Demands (Reparations)

    • FADER Label.

  • Rick Wakeman

    Olympus Mons

    • Rick Wakeman.

  • Special Interest

    Young, Gifted, Black, in Leather

    • 996364 Records DK.

  • John Glacier

    Bond Girl

    • Young.

  • Cochemea

    Chito's Song

    • Daptone Records.

  • William DeVaughn

    Be Thankful For What You've Got

    • Roxbury Records.

  • B.W.H.

    Stop

    • House Of Music/Best Record Italy.

  • Solange

    Don't Touch My Hair (feat. Sampha)

    • Columbia Records.

  • Amber Mark

    Heart-Shaped Box

    • Virgin EMI.

  • Kiddy Smile

    Teardrops in the Box

    • Glitterbox Recordings.

  • Bush Tetras

    Too Many Creeps

    • ROIR.

  • The Strokes

    Lonely in the Future

    • Cult Records/RCA Records.

  • Kate Bush

    Army Dreamers

    • Never for Ever.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 10.

  • Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

    HAHA

    • Bounty & Banana.

  • Buzzcocks

    Why Can't I Touch It?

    • United Artists.

  • Usher

    Nice & Slow

    • My Way.
    • LaFace.
    • 3.

  • Ms. Lauryn Hill

    Ex-Factor

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Healing Power Of Horses

    TOURNIQUET

    • section1.

  • Midnight Magic

    Beam Me Up

    • Permanent Vacation.

  • Cerrone

    Love In C Minor

    • Alligator.

  • Ten City

    That's The Way Love Is

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

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