G Mateus

08/28/2026

This Friday, In the Pocket comes to you from up in the Catskills for what's likely the final "Upstate Vibin'" broadcast of the summer — next week we're back home in Bushwick, so consider this the season closer. The set spans continents and decades: township jazz drifting into Venezuelan Afro-Latin sounds, deep Brazilian soul, golden-era Lagos Afrobeat, Arabic synth-funk, Southern spiritual jazz, a dedicated trio built around Al Green — two covers and one original, back to back — and a quiet nod to Dolly Parton along the way. One last one from the mountains before we head back to the city — soul, funk, jazz, and diaspora sounds from the global underground.

🎙 In the Pocket with G Mateus
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🗓 Friday 12–2pm EST / 5–7pm BST
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08/19/2026

This Friday, In the Pocket continues its Upstate Vibin' summer series, broadcasting live from the Great Northern Catskills.

Expect a wide-ranging set of fresh 2026 heat: Soul Supreme's samba-flipped tribute marking GAMM's 200th release, Coflo's Afro-Cuban house edits, a Balearic reunion from Kiko Navarro, DJ Pippi and Willie Graff on Afroterraneo Music, and Ed Motta's first Portuguese-language material in thirteen years off his upcoming Toc-Toc album (Dwitza/MPS). There's a brand new Sam Pounds and Family Company cut on Death Row Records, a Fred Everything and Teuteu deep house session landing on Winding Road Records this very week, and plenty more woven through Afrobeat, Brazilian, broken beat and soul.

🎙 In the Pocket with G Mateus
📻 The Face Radio
🗓 Friday 12–2pm EST / 5–7pm BST
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🔴 Mixcloud Live: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/thefaceradiobk/
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08/16/2026

A quick heads up for listeners outside the UK:

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Same show, same time either way — Mondays 9–11am EST / 2–4pm GMT. See you there.

08/14/2026

This Friday, In the Pocket is broadcasting live from Norton Hill, NY, as part of our summer Upstate Vibin' season. We're moving wide — hushed neo-soul, deep New York salsa and guaguancó rooted in the Nuyorican diaspora, a swing through Miami's Latin-funk underground, Brazilian jazz fusion, and a pocket of 1970s smooth jazz out of Western New York, Buffalo and Rochester's own — a personal nod to where it all started.

🎙 In the Pocket with G Mateus
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🗓 Friday 12–2pm EST / 5–7pm BST
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07/27/2026

This week's Rough Mix sits in that space where breakbeat, Afrobeat and dusty American soul all feel like the same language. Tony Allen and Francis Bebey bring the Lagos and Accra end of things, Trussell and a handful of sharp reworks and edits carry the funk and disco thread, and Willie Colón and Quantic Soul Orchestra anchor a deep run through Latin and reggae territory.

As ever, genre lines don't mean much here — it's geography, the dig, and the through-line between records that were never meant to sit together.

The Rough Mix with G Mateus airs every Monday, 9–11am EST / 2–4pm GMT, on Totally Wired Radio.

07/24/2026

In the Pocket is Upstate Vibin' again this Friday — broadcasting live from the Catskills instead of Bushwick, with clear skies and not a wildfire, tornado, or heatwave in sight. We'll take it wide: funk edits and salsa deep cuts, a run of soul and boogie, Balearic disco drifting through, Ethio-jazz energy, and a rare slice of Nigerian groove. Fresh music too — Ed Motta returns with his first Portuguese-language single in thirteen years, Christian Prommer gets reworked by Crackazat, and Louis Baker previews a track from his forthcoming album. Same pocket, elevated frequencies.

🎙 In the Pocket with G Mateus
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🗓 Today, Friday 12–2pm EST / 5–7pm BST
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07/17/2026

This Friday, In the Pocket keeps rolling with the Upstate Vibin' summer series — broadcasting live from the Great Northern Catskills.
This one moves wide. Fresh Brazilian boogie and MPB from Curió Curió ahead of their debut on Mr Bongo, a new Berlin-meets-Bristol collaboration from Clara Hill and Crackazat via Sonar Kollektiv, and brand new material from Bruno Berle on Far Out Recordings. Jeff Dynamite steps out with a cinematic soul cut off his new album for Mighty Eye Records, Nao Yoshioka previews two sides of her forthcoming Sweet Soul Records release, and Manchester's The 7:45s bring their disco-soul via LRK Records.
We also dig deep into the crates for a long-lost 1972 session from Dollar Brand and Don Cherry, only now getting its first release outside Japan. Layer in Afro-Cuban electronics, South African jazz-funk, Ghanaian afro-fusion, Nubian retro-pop, rare Tokyo city pop, and a little Arabic disco dug up from a Paris B-side, and that's the shape of the show — global, unhurried, still deep in the pocket.
🎙 In the Pocket with G Mateus
📻 The Face Radio
🗓 Fridays 12–2pm EST / 5–7pm BST
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07/13/2026

The Rough Mix is still Upstate Vibin' — broadcasting remotely from the Great Northern Catskills, where the mornings are green and the records sound even better.
This week's show moves like a road trip: classic funk and Britfunk swagger giving way to São Paulo samba rock, Trinidadian soca-dub, and Kingston lovers rock, before the back half goes wide — Afro-Colombian hip-hop, Brooklyn Latin dub, Havana bass weight by way of South London, Ghanaian highlife reworked in Hackney, and a long Cape Verdean goodbye. Along the way: Chaka Khan, Gregory Isaacs, Tony Allen, Les Nubians, Ernest Ranglin, and a gospel-tinged tribute to the late, great D'Angelo.
As always, it's a show built on edits, reworks, and the deep end of the crate — the records behind the records.
🎧 G Mateus | The Rough Mix
📻 Mondays 9–11am EST / 2–4pm GMT on Totally Wired Radio — stream live at totallywiredradio.com

07/06/2026

today!

This week on The Rough Mix, we're tracing a wide arc through library funk, roots reggae, and edit culture — starting with warm Italian and Brazilian grooves, moving into Jamaican rocksteady, digital dancehall, and dub, then landing in Cuban salsa and Parisian disco reworks. Classics from Curtis Mayfield, Eddie Palmieri, and Gil Scott-Heron sit alongside sharp new edits and reworks from today's most inventive crate-diggers — a set built equally for close listening and the dancefloor. Catch it Mondays 9–11am EST / 2–4pm GMT on Totally Wired Radio.

07/06/2026

This week on The Rough Mix, we're tracing a wide arc through library funk, roots reggae, and edit culture — starting with warm Italian and Brazilian grooves, moving into Jamaican rocksteady, digital dancehall, and dub, then landing in Cuban salsa and Parisian disco reworks. Classics from Curtis Mayfield, Eddie Palmieri, and Gil Scott-Heron sit alongside sharp new edits and reworks from today's most inventive crate-diggers — a set built equally for close listening and the dancefloor. Catch it Mondays 9–11am EST / 2–4pm GMT on Totally Wired Radio.