Join me for a special Saturday schedule of music documentaries – covering soul, hip hop and electronic music. Tunes make you breathe more easily:

16:00 – Startup and music

16:10 – FILM: Soul Power (2008)
\ Absorbing cinematic documentary consisting of footage of the Zaire 74 music festival – an odyssey of black music devised to coincide with the 1974 Rumble In The Jungle boxing match in Kinshasa. Contains concert and behind the scenes footage with James Brown, Bill Withers, The Crusaders, Manu Dibango and many more.

17:45 – The making of Firestarter
\ Short home video film documenting the filming of the unmistakeable video for Firestarter by The Prodigy. Filmed in abandoned tube tunnels at the defunct Aldwych underground station in 1996, witness Keith in his pants and Leeroy’s Worzel Gummidge impression.

18:05 – FILM: The Man From Mo’Wax (2016)
\ British cinematic docu-film about the founder of the Mo’Wax record label, James Lavelle. Mo’Wax is a hip-hop label that has been home to artists such as UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Luke Vibert, DJ Krush, Money Mark and Dr Octagon.

20:05 – De La Soul Is Not Dead
\ Compact but fully-featured documentary covering the inception and rise of hip hop group De La Soul, packed with new interviews with the group and all involved.

20:35 – FILM: Modulations – Cinema for the Ear (1998)
\ Evocative docu-film covering the manifold delights, attitudes and methodologies in the world of electronic dance music, circa the latter half of the 1990s. Contributors include Robert Moog, Rob Playford, Giorgio Moroder, Genesis P-Orridge, Carl Cox, Afrika Bambaataa, Derrick May, Karlheinz Stockhausen and many more.

21:50 – Clink St – Where’s Your Child?
\ Superbly heady half-hour film compiled from footage and audio of RIP at Clink Street – a series of acid house parties in London SE1 throughout the Summer of 1988, said to be the epicentre of acid house’s detonation in Britain.

22:20 – Land of the Rising Sound: A Roland Retrospective
\ Very well made and researched documentary covering the chronological history of manufacturer Roland and their range of synthesizers, drum machines and electronic instruments – all of which have shaped the sound of electronic dance music as we know it, and all are lovingly demonstrated here.

Bonus music and items of musical interest throughout – wear your dancing trainers.

Timings subject to shuffle