Author: Reform Radio

The People’s Party with Afrodeutsche had another jam-packed month of guests in April.  Produced by us at Reform Radio, April saw conversations and mixes from Overmono, Elkka, Not Bad For A Girl, Elena Colombi and more.

The beginning of the month saw the team travelling down to Cardiff for the BBC 6 Music Festival. Co-hosting with Tom Ravenscroft, Afrodeutsche interviewed Electronic duo Overmono, as well as Welsh native DJ Elkka.

We had some massive unmixable attempts in April too. In this feature artists are tasked with mixing two seemingly unmixable tracks together, and you decide whether it works. In April the challenge was attempted by Italian artist Elena Colombi, electronic legend Luke Slater, and jazz-electronic artist Rebecca Vasmant who helped us to celebrate this year’s Record Store Day. We were also very excited to welcome Metronomy drummer and solo artist Anna Prior. How do you think Anna did?

Last month, The People’s Party also had some great guest mixes, including Bristol experimental producer Ploy, and local collective ‘Not Bad For A Girl’.

Means&3rd aka Ben Marsden played out the show with a ‘Phone’s Down Finale’ mix as part of Record Store Day celebrations. We heard about his journey securing a place behind the counter at Eastern Bloc Records, one of the UK’s finest record stores, for which he currently curates the House and techno sections.

The People’s Party airing every Friday night 7-9pm hosts the freshest musical guests every week. Listen back to the unmissable features on BBC Sounds now. 

The Life and Death Podcast produced by Reform Radio, in collaboration with Ashgate Hospice returns for a third series. Stephen Rumford, talks to people who have experiences of death and dying to get a deeper understanding of what life and death means to them. This series welcomes guests from stateside as the charity meets guests from as far as Arizona who have experienced bereavement, death and conversations around dying.

Each episode welcomes experts, writers, doctors and people who have experienced end-of-life care to discuss their unique relationships, hospice life, and how death affects the living. 

The first episode was released on Monday 2nd May to coincide with Dying Matters Awareness Week. In the first episode, host and Senior Physiotherapist at Ashgate Hospice, Stephen Rumford, meets 45-year-old Kimberley Greaves to discuss life as a young widow and mum to two children. The pair discuss the awkward conversations Kimberley faces when she tells people her husband has died and how her children kept her going through the darkest of times. 

Among the guests featured in season three include Sunday Times best seller and journalist Clover Stroud, author of the recently released ‘The Death of My Blood’ and neuroscientist Mary-Frances O’Connor, an author and associate professor at the University of Arizona, as well as Seamus O’Mahoney, well-regarded commentator on modern medicine and healthcare systems.

Episode 1 & 2 with Kimberley Grove and Seamus O’Mahoney are available to listen below and episodes will be released fornightnightly.

To listen back to series one, two and the special one off Christmas episode you can search for ‘The Life and Death Podcast Ashgate Hospice’ or by clicking the link.

March was a busy month on The People’s Party with Afrodeutsche, broadcasting every Friday night from 7-9pm on BBC Radio 6 Music. 

Kicking off the month was musician, DJ, and Producer Quantic, AKA Will Holland. Following the release of his latest EP ‘Heaven or Hell’, Quantic stopped by to take on the Unmixable challenge, combining two listener-selected tracks that are total opposites. Watch this for a behind the scenes insight into how he mixed the tracks.

This month, BBC Radio 6 Music celebrated 20 years of broadcasting on the airwaves. In celebration, The People’s Party threw it back to 2002 for some much appreciated noughties nostalgia. We were so excited that German electronic DJ, Ellen Allien, was in the mix for The Phones Down Finale with a selection of early noughties dance tunes to get us ready for the weekend.

The 23rd March marked 18 years since the release of Madlib and MF Doom’s iconic ‘Madvillainy’ album so this month we had a samples special, celebrating the most iconic samples and the best to ever sample them. Hip Hop turntablist and samples maestro, DJ Yoda, stopped by to attempt the Unmixable challenge with two tracks that featured iconic samples. Mixing M.I.A’s ‘Paper Planes’ (sampling The Clash) and The Sugarhill Gang’s ‘Rappers Delight (sampling Chic), DJ Yoda blew us away with his attempt. And all of you agreed. 

To celebrate our samples extravaganza, we were also joined by Brooklyn artist Stas Thee Boss. She selected some of the finest sampled tracks of all time for The Phones Down Finale Mix.

And finally, this month, Italian Producer and Paul Simon collaborator, Clap! Clap!, took on the Unmixable challenge. This was a hard one for you to judge since we may have slipped in a ‘Venga Boys’ track on 6 music with this challenge. Listen back to see how he got on!

Recap and listen back to all of the guests we’ve had over the month of March, and listen Fridays from 7pm!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0011g3g