Space Afrika - Ambient Focus

SPACE AFRIKA - AMBIENT FOCUS 27.06.26 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th June 2026

Feel focused with this concentration inducing, ambient mix curated by Manchester-based duo Space Afrika, featuring new releases from Dedekind Cut, Fauzia, Martina Bertoni and more.

Joshua Inyang and Joshua Reid, who are also an active part of the Manchester experimental music scene, have been playing together as Space Afrika for the past two decades, creating powerful and cinematic ambient soundscapes with a dub-techno flavour. With their latest album released in 2021, Honest Labour, Space Afrika opened the door to new collaborations with other artists including Blackhaine, Bianca Scout and LA Timpa.

First broadcast in 2023.

Iceboy Violet - Not a Dream (Intro) [Fixed Abode]
Gigi Masin And Jonny Nash - Interstellar [Melody As Truth]
Patrick Belega & Jazmin Romero - Grey Eye [PAN]
Zaumne - Prairie [sferic]
Microstoria - Per Formal [Thrill Jockey]
Jonathan Bockelmann - A Flower Is Not A Flower [Squama]
Space Afrika - Version 2 [sferic]
Oliver Okkolin - Sukellus
OHYUNG - yes my weeping frame! [NNA Tapes]
Inki Taane - Invocation Of Spirit
John Bence - Gabriel, Archangel Of Yesod [Thrill Jockey]
D.K./S.K. - Burn [Melody As Truth]
Shotta Tapes - + [Shotta Tapes]
Florian T M Zeisig - iv [Enmossed]
Space Afrika - With Your Touch [Dais]
Stolen Violin - Temperate Touch [Spunk]
FAUZIA - Time [Bandcamp]
Jack Sheen - Sub Six [SN Variations]
Saroon - (the bardo)
Hainbach - The Money Loop [Bandcamp]
Richard Skelton - In The Altar Of Burnt Offerings [Aeolian]
Martina Bertoni - Hemisphere [Karlrecords]
Romance - Crying Is The Only Thing That Gets Me Through [ECSTATIC]
Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Travel With Friend [A L T E R]
Simon Scott - Ashma [Miasmah Recordings]
Peure - No Love in Our Cities
Honour - WAYOE (TTN) [PAN]
Space Afrika - Version 1 [sferic]
tibslc - Guiding Each Other [co:clear]
Dedekind Cut - 46:50
Huerco S. - Promises Of Fertility [Brain Leeds]
Celer - (06.23.17) From the doorway of the beef noodle shop, shoes on the street in the rain, outside the karate school [Bandcamp]
Vanessa Amara - Piano I [Posh Isolation]
Oxhy - And We Try [Hospital Productions]
Michael Kiwanuka - Floating Parade [Polydor]

Space Afrika - Late Junction Mixtape

SPACE AFRIKA - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 03.09.21 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 3rd September 2021

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from electronic duo Space Afrika, aka Joshua Reid and Joshua Inyang. Lifelong friends, they’ve become key players in Manchester’s experimental scene known for their genre-splicing productions. They describe their sound as being made up of overlapping moments, weaving experimental ambience with dub and techno, samples and field recordings. Their new album Honest Labour, named after a legendary patriarch from Inyang's Nigerian family tree, features hazy loops, found sounds and vocal incantations. Their exclusive mixtape for Late Junction reflects their influences, from hazy post-punk and ambient soundscapes, to early grime experimentation.

Kano - Brown Eyes [679]
Naemi - 6 (housefire)
The Golden Filter - U O K [4gn3s]
JOANNA - Holiday
Ann Margaret Hogan - Forgotten Prelude [Downwards]
Anne Guthrie - Red Wolf [Students Of Decay]
Sally Decker - Stair [NNA Tapes]
Leo - Water Features [Youth]
Eve Adams - Bathtub
Sally Decker - Endlessly [NNA Tapes]
Flying Lotus - Until The Colours Come [Warp]
Various Artists - NBA [World Music]
David Jaycock - Circus Strings
Specimens - Café 2 [First Terrace]
Frank Ocean - Wither [Def Jam Recordings]
Moor Mother & Billy Woods - Furies [Backwoodz Studioz]
L'Rain - Walk Through [Mexican Summer]
Rainy Miller - Mary Magdalene, As Home
Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta - Empty Boulevard [Recommended]
TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent 01
Dizzee Rascal - Do It! [XL Recordings]
Tarwater - The Watersample [Mute]

Intro (320kbs-m4a/10mb/4mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/3mb/1min)