45 Live with guest JOHN STAPLETON - 2nd Sept 2022

[Greg Belson]

Join us, Friday 2nd September 2022 on @dublab at 8pm US PDT (4am UK GMT), celebrating the 7" single like no other radio session across the globe.

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We're hurtling headlong into September, more powerful than a speeding locomotive...we're taking a trip to the West Country UK, specifically Bristol, where we find one of its favorite musical sons;

JOHN STAPLETON

John Stapleton has been DJing and promoting gigs and clubnights in his home town of Bristol for over three decades – from mod nights in the 1980s to hip hop and rare groove, acid house, acid jazz, breakbeat, funk, and Northern Soul.

He has shared a stage with artists as diverse as Roy Ayers, GOAT, Charles Bradley, and Femi Kuti; He’s DJed around the world from Iceland to Australia, and played regularly at festivals: Glastonbury, WOMAD and Shambala amongst others.

He compiled the groundbreaking ‘Dope on Plastic’ LPs for React Music (selling over 250,000 copies), and also 8 LPs for the Harmless label.

For the last few years, he’s concentrated more and more on collecting and playing the heaviest Afrobeat and Afrofunk records in their original releases – strictly vinyl, no reissues or bootlegs… Since 2009, he’s also co-run Bristol’s finest vintage record shop – Wanted Records.

And now he's slangin' the rarities here just for you.

Your host Greg Belson bookends the set as ever with his well stacked racks of quality business, and this week....it's a headlong dive into uptempo tunes, future club spins and what not, from the deeper side of the valley.

This is 45 Live!

Rinse your e-dials for the hot heaters on 7" wax!