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It’s only up for six more days, but don’t miss this one: Thom Yorke co-hosted a radio show with Kspace pal Gilles Peterson on the BBC, and it is incredible! Peterson and the Radiohead major domo go head to head, following each other with tracks that inspire them, and it’s an absolutely thrilling ride! Listening to Yorke’s selections, the listener really gets a sense of what thrills him sonically: a real thread emerges that draws a straight line into the disparate influences that go into his sound. Gaining a window into one of today’s most adventurous musical minds is a real gift, and Yorke’s taste is superb: he moves from the German abstract drum and bass of Christoph de Babalon and Madlib and Quasimoto’s fractured hip-hop to the funky krautrock of Can, Blaqstarr’s gritty Baltimore grooves and the digital riddim insanity of South Rakkas Crew. It’s all so good, it makes one think that if that whole Radiohead thing doesn’t work out, Yorke might have a future as a radio DJ!