Local Movements

Our latest show is up!! 🎶

A deep dive into 90s house from Big Daniel, heavy on soul, groove and timeless classics. 🎧

Lock in, turn it up, and let it ride. 📻✨

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Our latest show is up! A more ambient pressure and electro-leaning club music mix for December

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Albums of the Year! 🎶🎶

Lotus – Little Simz
Lotus was created during a period of emotional reset and renewed focus. Simz approached the album as a process of growth, stripping back ego, refining her voice, and working patiently with trusted collaborators

EUSEXUA – FKA twigs
This album emerged from embodied practice: dance, movement, breath, and sensation guided the songwriting as much as melody or lyrics. Twigs developed tracks through physical rehearsal, improvisation, and club experimentation

Essex Honey – Blood Orange
Essex Honey came together as a collage rather than a linear album cycle. Dev Hynes leaned into fragmentary songwriting, capturing emotional states instead of fully resolved songs

LUX – ROSALÍA
LUX was shaped by deconstruction. Rosalia approached the studio as a laboratory, breaking down pop, flamenco, and electronic forms into textures, rhythms, and vocal gestures. The album prioritises experimentation over narrative

GOLLIWOGS – billy woods
This album was assembled slowly and deliberately, with billy woods writing in isolation and selecting beats from a close circle of collaborators.

Getting Killed – Geese
Getting Killed was made fast and loud by design. The band leaned into instinct, capturing performances before refinement could smooth out their edges

THE BPM – Sudan Archives
This album grew from rhythmic exploration. Sudan Archives built tracks by merging live violin performance with electronic production, often layering movement-driven ideas over self-programmed beats

Like A Ribbon – John Glacier
Developed over time through revision and restraint, Like A Ribbon began as fragments, spoken phrases, melodic loops, half-formed ideas. Glacier’s process centred on subtraction, allowing silence and repetition to define structure.

Through The Wall – Rochelle Jordan
Jordan experimented with layered vocals and electronic textures, refining songs gradually rather than chasing immediacy. The process prioritised emotional clarity and atmosphere, resulting in a record that unfolds slowly and deliberately

The Boy Who Played Harp – Dave
This project was written during Dave’s formative years, largely driven by self-reflection and instinct

Ensalada – Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (feat. Anderson .Paak)
This track pairs The Alchemist’s sample-rich, cinematic production with Freddie Gibbs’ precise lyricism and a guest verse from Anderson .Paak, continuing a long-standing collaborative chemistry between Gibbs and Alchemist that roots back over a decade.
bastard – Joy Orbison & Joe James
Written in a single West London studio session on a rainy day, this track emerged from a spontaneous collaboration between Joy Orbison and Joe James, recorded in one take.
Cumulus / Memory – Sampha
This track was created by revisiting an unfinished track from his LAHAI album sessions, co-writing and adding vocals with Romy (The xx), and co-producing it with El Guincho
Life (feat. Tirzah & Charlotte Day Wilson) – Blood Orange
This track features mutual creative contributions from Tirzah and Charlotte Day Wilson, reflecting Hynes’ collaborative, genre-fluid approach.
Folded – Kehlani
Unexpectedly in Miami during studio time meant for another feature; Kehlani and producers, in a relaxed, experimental vibe, stumbled upon the beat (for Wale), and the song flowed out naturally as a raw, personal artistic statement about life and q***r identity
Ace Trumpets – Clipse & Malice
This Clipse classic was built on sparse, rhythmic beats and signature Neptunes sound design, underpinning Clipse’s sharp, vernacular-rich verses from the Virginia rap duo.
Let’s Chill – 1905, Former City Records
A deep cut from producers 1905 and the Former City Records sound, samples the classis song by Guy, Let's Chill.
exhaust – Earl Sweatshirt
Primarily created with a lo-fi, skeletal instrumental produced by Navy Blue, it features background vocals from Erykah Badu.
Free – Little Simz
Originated as a poem that she wrote, which was later developed into a full song in the studio with producer Miles Clinton James
RATHER LIE (with The Weeknd) – Playboi Carti & The Weeknd
The production involved several producers like F1lthy and Mike Dean, blending experimental sounds with atmospheric textures, while Carti explored clearer-eyed lyrics.

Our latest monthly Subtle FM show is live ✨️🎶

25/11/2025

Moon Presence came through with a powerful selection of deep club heaters, emotional rollers, percussive pressure, and those late-night gems we love. If you’ve been waiting for something fresh to reset your week, this is it.

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Catch us live with special guest .MOYO This Saturday 13/12/25

Reintroducing .Moyo our next special guest

Belinda Zhawi (b. Zimbabwe) is a literary & sound artist & experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. Her literary & sound works have been featured on various platforms including The White Review, Vogue, NTS, Boiler Room & BBC Radio. Her debut album, a collaboration with Duncan Bellamy (Portico Quartet) was released under the moniker BZDB on AD93 Records (November 2024). Her debut solo EP was released by Accidental Meetings (2025) and she’s currently working on her first full collection of poems. Belinda’s the co-founder of literary arts platform .ldn

Our September show - Big Daniel's - Quiet Storm Special 🍂

Some slow-burn soul, lush R&B, and classic quiet storm grooves for autumn. Featuring classics from Bobby Caldwell, Teena Marie, Anita Baker, Sade and more, this set moves through, longing and sultry warmth.

A soulful wind-down from Big D. Music for when the weather gets colder through the seasons 🎶

Moon Presence returned to Subtle Radio for our July show with a deep, shapeshifting set. With cuts from Actress and Villalobos to Digital Mystikz and Sun Ra. Listen back to his hypnotic blend

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Our most recent broadcasts are currently available on Soundcloud for your listening pleasure. We will be progressively uploading them throughout the week, along with their respective tracklists. Please feel free to relax, enjoy the content, and explore the music selections curated by Local Movements on Subtle Radio

🎶 Songs of the Month 🎶

For April's Songs of the Month, we're excited to introduce Big Daniel's playlist as the next feature in our playlist series. One of the co-founders at Local Movements, Daniel is a London-based DJ, community builder, and music lover with a passion for bringing people together on the dance floor. Known for his infectious energy, deep musical knowledge, and ability to read the room, Daniel's sets move effortlessly from soulful grooves to high-energy bangers. His selections reflect not just great taste but a genuine love for creating moments of connection, joy, and release through music. Get ready for a playlist showcasing a bit of personality from our co-founding selector

🎶 Songs of the Month 🎶

For April's Songs of the Month, we're excited to introduce Big Daniel's playlist as the next feature in our playlist series. One of the co-founders at Local Movements, Daniel is a London-based DJ, community builder, and music lover with a passion for bringing people together on the dance floor. Known for his infectious energy, deep musical knowledge, and ability to read the room, Daniel's sets move effortlessly from soulful grooves to high-energy bangers. His selections reflect not just great taste but a genuine love for creating moments of connection, joy, and release through music. Get ready for a playlist showcasing a bit of personality from our co-founding selector.