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Chris Hawkins fires up Thursday with the biggest tunes and future classics.

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Music Played

  • Sampha

    Suspended

    • Young.

  • Blood Orange

    Vivid Light

    • RCA.

  • Elastica

    Line Up

    • Deceptive Records.

  • Ailbhe Reddy

    That Girl

  • De La Soul

    The Package

    • Mass Appeal.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Messages

    • Virgin.

  • This Is Lorelei

    SF & GG

    • Double Double Whammy.

  • Shirley Ellis

    The Clapping Song

    • The Complete Congress Recordings.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Cameron Winter

    Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)

    • Partisan.

  • Ashaye

    Dreaming (Jungle Mix)

    • Dreaming.
    • Numero Group.
    • 1.

  • Bloc Party

    Banquet

    • Wichita.

  • TTSSFU

    Upstairs

    • Partisan.

  • Oneohtrix Point Never

    Rodl Glide

    • Warp Records.

  • Brian Eno

    On Some Faraway Beach

  • Sharon Van Etten

    Mistakes

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Dove Ellis

    Heaven Has No Wings

    • Black Butter Records.

  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

    • EMI.

  • The Folk Drama

    A Lesson In Letting Go

  • Mount Palomar

    Little Fractures (feat. Pip Blom)

    • Nice Swan Electronic.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Silver

    • Korova.

  • Lambrini Girls

    God's Country (6 Music Session, 16 Apr 2024)

  • Mac DeMarco

    The Way You'd Love Her

    • Captured Tracks.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Everyday People

    • Nectar.

  • Nas & DJ Premier

    My Life is Real

    • Mass Appeal.

  • Lykke Li

    I Follow Rivers

    • LL Recordings.

  • Robyn

    Talk To Me

    • Konnichiwa / Young.

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • Rude Boy Arrival.
    • TELSTAR.

  • Smerz

    You got time and I got money

    • Escho.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Thursday05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music