Fabulous rocking Saharan trance from this band — five women and four men — formed in a refugee camp during the Tuareg uprising of the early nineteeen-nineties. Via the team behind Congotronics.

Basic primer; excellent film.

Soulful American folk: a gorgeous, heart-stopping mixture of the longing you get in saudade — singers like Cesaria Evora and Joao Gilberto — and political protest. Will Oldham’s in there; so is Dionne Warwick.

A set of four Jammys dub-plates, courtesy of Dub Store, Tokyo.

Tough NYC digi excursion on the E20 rhythm.

Love Punaany Bad — a tale of hard times in New York City, with a nice steelpan sample; and a badman Admiral Bailey.

Ain’t no house like Waterhouse for Black Crucial, Anthony Johnson, Junior Reid and co.