Featured Episodes

Kaidi Tatham

Sounds Familiar is celebrating a decade in dance music by releasing 3 LP’s throughout 2023. Titled “Familiar Sounds”, after...

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Kid Kenobi

We’re back.. and with a few changes.. The game changed.. We’re no longer bound to a radio station –...

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The Allergies

On this show, the Allergies stop back in for a quick chat in between tour dates promoting their brilliant...

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Laroye

On this week’s show, we’ve got some serious house and disco vibes with another bomb producer stopping in for...

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Masta Ace

It’s a Hip Hop special with a fascinating conversation with the legend Masta Ace and deep dive into his...

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Cerrone

Today on the program OB and I are truly in the company of greatness as French disco legend CERRONE...

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Yuksek

French super producer Yuksek joins us on this episode. He drops in for a chat and a mix –...

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Shep Pettibone Mastermix Special

On this week’s show, OB goes in deep with a Shep Pettibone mastermix that covers all eras from this...

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Steve Mill

This week we chat with Greek born artist Steve Mill who lives between Berlin and Thessaloniki, and has been...

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Dam Swindle

Joining Shan and OB this week is Maarten Smeets, one half of Dutch house outfit Dam Swindle (Heist Recordings). Since the...

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Georg Levin

German producer Georg Levin describes himself as a rock/soul artist, but his music is mainly known in the dance...

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Alma Negra

Alma Negra are Basel-based twins Dersu and Diego Figueira and they have been spinning funk, house, disco, latin, boogie and African...

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Fouk / Outplay Records

Dutch production outfit Fouk are the duo behind Outplay Records, the label known for its special blend of infectious house...

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JKriv

Shan & OB speak with the man behind the Razor N Tape record label, JKriv. This Brooklyn-based producer, DJ,...

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Mad Mats

Hailing from Stockholm, Mad Mats provides a proper history lesson about broken beat, funk, latin, breaks, house music and hiphop in a...

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Crackazat

There are few artists to have emerged in the last decade or so who’ve made a more indelible mark...

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Sam Redmore

Sam Redmore signed to Jalapeno Records a couple of years back and has since dropped single after single of...

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Mr Lob

OB invites one of his best mates to host the entire show with him and it’s a strictly 45’s...

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DiCE_NZ

New Zealand’s DiCE_NZ has been making waves for quite a long time producing jam after jam on labels like...

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Freq Nasty

Born in Fiji, raised in New Zealand and formed musically in the dance music revolution of London in the...

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Brian Auger

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Shan & OB welcome legendary British songwriter and Hammond organ maestro, Brian Auger, onto the show! With a career...

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Kevin Saunderson & Inner City

It’s not every day that one of the godfathers of a musical genre stops into The Low End Theory,...

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Randa & The Soul Kingdom

This week, Shan and OB welcome Australian soul-sensations Randa & The Soul Kingdom onto the show. Over and under...

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Azymuth

Shan & OB keep their run of massive guests going with Ivan Conti from Brazilian jazz-funk legends, Azymuth, stopping...

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Freddy Fresh

Shan & OB welcome another legend onto their show with Freddy Fresh stopping in for a chat. The name...

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Jazzanova & DJ Amir

Shan and OB go deep with Berlin-based production collective Jazzanova and DJ Amir about their upcoming release on BBE...

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The Freestylers

With a career spanning from the ’90s to now championing all styles of the breakbeat, the Freestylers really need...

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Mtume

With the recent passing of percussionist/songwriter James Mtume, we lay all tracks from his legendary funk/soul/boogie supergroup, including all...

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Picks of 2021

If you love your bass, hiphop, reggae, dancehall, disco, soul, funk, house and beats of the upbeat variety then...

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Tall Black Guy

For those that are uninitiated with the Tall Black Guy story, after being raised on a steady diet of...

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Janette Beckman

In case you were unaware, Janette has been shooting music, fashion, portraiture and documentary work since the mid-seventies, celebrating...

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Krafty Kuts

One of the key pioneers in the UK breakbeat and bass movement since he first started dropping records in...

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DJ DSK

With a fascinating history living in China for close to 20 years, UK DJ DSK is a b-boy’s b-boy....

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DJ Nu-Mark

DJ Nu–Mark. Long considered a musical pioneer due to his innovative songwriting over many years as part of hiphop icons...

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The Return of the Allergies

Shan and OB welcome back the UK’s finest, The Allergies, to join them on air. DJ’s Moneyshot and Rackabeat...

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Shlomo Sonnenfeld

We chat with one of the golden era of Hip Hop’s greatest studio engineers. Shlomo was the man on...

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Tush

Shan and OB chat with a Canadian duo making some of the most innovative dance music in the world...

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Kokane & Kool Rock Ski

Shan and OB welcome some hiphop royalty onto the show – and by royalty we mean the extra-prolific (and...

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Misbehaviour

That time at Mobile Mondays Young Guru was buggin' out to Shan's Tuff Crew 45.....

This week, Shan and OB welcome NYC-based, DJ Misbehaviour. This legendary DJ purchased her first record at the age...

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MF Robots

We chat with MF Robots. Effortlessly dismantling the barriers between R&B, soul, funk, disco and jazz sounds, MF Robots...

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Izo Fitzroy

Known as a singer/songwriter with raw soul power and an extremely big voice, Izo Fitzroy is on that line...

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Fort Knox Five

Shan & OB welcome Steve Raskin, the founder of The Fort Knox Five. Based originally out of Washington-DC, Steve started...

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Dr Packer

After winning DJ competitions in the late 80’s, helping create Perth club culture throughout the 90’s and releasing quality...

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The Seven Ups

Shan & OB speak to Trent Sterling, the guitarist for The Seven Ups. Blending influences from 1970’s underground funk and...

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Ghostnotes

Shan & OB invited in their Juke Joints brother-in-arms, DJ Ghostnotes, to chat about scratching on the debut release...

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Platurn

Shan and OB welcome onboard a 26-year veteran of the music industry, DJ Platurn. As the founder of both...

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Shan & OB

On this week’s episode  we celebrate a bit of a milestone show. Even though we’re way over 50 radio...

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The Nextmen

Shan and OB take it up a notch with UK production/songwriting/DJ duo, The Nextmen, stopping onto the show this...

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DJ Format

DJ Format drops into show this week to hype his new album, Devils Workshop. It’s a change of pace...

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Inkswel

Shan & OB hype the new release from production maestro and friend of the show, Inkswell. London, Amsterdam, Berlin,...

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Jim Sharp

Shan & OB chat with Toronto ex-pat and now UK resident, Jim Sharp. Jim has made quite a name...

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Jim Baron (Crazy P)

Jim Baron (aka Ron Basejam) from Crazy P stops in to chat with Shan & OB about his new...

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Derek Yaniger

We chat with artist Derek Yaniger, whose visual universe is populated by Beatniks, Polynesian Tiki statues, hula dancers, saucy...

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Alan Evans (Soulive)

On this week’s episode of The Low End Theory, Shan & OB chat with multi-instrumentalist Alan Evans. As one of...

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Mr Benn

Shan & OB chat with Mr Benn (Nice Up! Records) about his long career championing bass, reggae and dancehall...

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The Bamboos

Shan & OB chat with Lance Ferguson and Kylie Auldist from The Bamboos. As Australia’s undisputed kings of funk...

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Made & Femi Kuti

When it comes to Afrobeat, it doesn’t get much bigger than Femi & Made Kuti. The son and grandson...

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Keith Sweat

This week, we go deep with Keith Sweat, an absolute legend of hiphop, RNB and Nu Jack Swing. As...

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Mr Doris & D-Funk

Mr Doris & D-Funk give us a world exclusive drop of their new joint with UK rapper MysDiggi. These...

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Robert Smith & Merse (Slick Walk)

On today’s show, Shan & OB were back with their first interview of the year and had Germany’s finest,...

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Tribute to Phil Asher

This week we pay homage to a true legend of the deep house and broken beat scene, Phil Asher,...

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Tribute to Duke Bootee

Shan & OB are back for a new season of The Low End Theory. We’ve got some pretty huge...

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The Best of 2020

It’s all about giving thanks and looking back on what made the show this year, as we go back...

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The Star Wars Holiday Special

DJ’s J-Red & Mathmatics, two of the coolest Star Wars geeks in the universe join us on the show...

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Paris & Peril

We were joined by legendary Australian duo Paris & Peril for an in-depth look into the history of hiphop...

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Marc Hype & Naughty NMX (Dusty Donuts)

This week, Shan and OB are joined by the undisputed kings of block rockin’ 45’s, Marc Hype and Naughty...

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Flevans

This week, we have the super-eclectic, multi-instrumentalist and all-round top bloke, Flevans, in to wax lyrical with Shan &...

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Resin Dogs

This week, Shan and OB are joined by the legendary Resin Dogs (out of Brisbane, Australia). Since the mid-90’s, this...

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Monkey Marc

This week, Shan and OB are joined on the show by Melbourne’s, Monkey Marc. You may know this longtime reggae/dancehall producer from his early work with Combat Wombat, his internationally recognized solar powered recording studio, the fact he throws renegade protest parties that support Aboriginal...

This week, Shan and OB are joined on the show by Melbourne’s, Monkey Marc. You may know this longtime...

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DJ Vadim

This week, we welcome a legend onto the show with DJ Vadim in to chat about his long career and reputation as one of the world’s top independent producers, performers and all-round purveyor of all that is good about music. Dubbed as the "John Coltrane of hip hop", Vadim has bec...

This week, we welcome a legend onto the show with DJ Vadim in to chat about his long career...

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Boca 45

It’s an “all Boca” show as the original master of the 7 inch, one half of Dynamo Productions and all-round party rocking (and in-demand) DJ, Boca 45, is our special guest on this week’s episode of The Low End Theory. Seriously, Scott Hendy has had his hands in just about anything and everyth...

It’s an “all Boca” show as the original master of the 7 inch, one half of Dynamo Productions and...

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OB & Shan play some joints

So we decided to take another breather and instead drop a huge stack of reggae, dancehall, hiphop, funk and boogie on this one. You trainspotters will notice an advance copy of the new Taggy Matcher, the brand new jam from New Zealand’s very-own, Skinni and also some new bombs from Sugahspank, ...

So we decided to take another breather and instead drop a huge stack of reggae, dancehall, hiphop, funk and...

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Professor Daddy-O (Stetsasonic)

Professor Daddy O (of legendary supergroup Stetsasonic) stops in to The Low End Theory this week. As a major label record executive and producer after years working with hiphop icon Prince Paul on the seminal Stetsasonic releases in the late eighties and early nineties, Daddy O was behind plenty of ...

Professor Daddy O (of legendary supergroup Stetsasonic) stops in to The Low End Theory this week. As a major...

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Kylie Auldist

Kylie Auldist, Melbourne’s high-priestess of soul, is our special guest on this week's episode of The Low End Theory. Having toured the world playing every major festival as the main vocalist for heavyweight deep funk act The Bamboos, achieving commercial success ...

Kylie Auldist, Melbourne’s high-priestess of soul, is our special guest on this week’s episode of The Low End Theory....

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Andy Cooper

This week, we chat with legendary hiphop MC Andy Cooper (Ugly Duckling/The Allergies). In an extremely funny interview, he waxes lyrical with us about what it was like recording and playing with one of the most revered alternative hiphop groups of a...

This week, we chat with legendary hiphop MC Andy Cooper (Ugly Duckling/The Allergies). In an extremely funny interview, he...

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Ras Kass

This week, hiphop heavyweight Ras Kass stops in. You may know him from the work he’s put in with...

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DJ Regal (The Wiseguys / Bronx Dogs)

This week, we welcome UK producer, DJ Regal, onto the show to talk about his lengthy career playing broken,...

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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

This week, OB and Shan talk with Brooklyn native Ali Shaheed Muhammad (legendary founder and member of A Tribe...

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DJ Bacon

This week, OB and Shan talk with Brisbane’s DJ Bacon about the hugely slept on albums he’s released as...

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Double Dee & Steinski

This week Shan and OB chat to true hiphop royalty with legends Steinski & Double Dee in to chat...

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OB & Shan play some joints

On this show, the boys keep it locked to the decks so they can cram in as many tunes...

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Ransom

On this show, the boys chat to and get a set from one of Australia’s most respected and renowned...

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Lack of Afro

This week, OB and Shan talk with Lack of Afro, aka Adam Gibbons, a producer, multi-instrumentalist and chief party...

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J-Felix

On this show, the boys speak to multi-instrumentalist groove maestro Joe F. Newman aka J-Felix, whose new album ‘Whole...

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The Haggis Horns

Another great show this week with the extremely talented and super cool dude Atholl Ransome (from the supreme funk...

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The Allergies

We chat with DJ Moneyshot and DJ Rackabeat from UK duo The Allergies. They just released a new album...

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Choi Records

Special guest CHOI from Cookin On 3 Burners and THE TRAFFIC joins us for an amazing chat & mix. Highlights...

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Groovescooter

We were thrilled to have our buddies from Groovescooter join us on the show this week. It starts off...

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OB & Shan play some joints

After a week off of playing due to the previous week’s 45’s Special, the boys take a week off...

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The 45s Episode

Shan takes the week off, so OB decided to throw a house party and invited 25ThC, Mr Lob, Fib,...

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Smoove

If you know funk, then you know who the boys have in on the show for this one. Legendary...

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OB & Shan play some joints

On this one, the boys drop a stack of quality funk, soul, disco n boogie. As well, OB agrees to shave his entire body, then he shares some painful stories about both ears and nipples being pierced before immigration stories are discussed. Another Battle of the Blends ends with another drop into the ...

On this show, the boys continue with their funk, boogie, house, disco, hiphop and club vibes to keep your...

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Thomas Rock

Our album of the week by Flevans gets plenty of spins in between a bit of bass, dancehall, funk and plenty of boogie vibes. We also welcome in our first ever guest, Thomas Rock (of Def Wish Cast fame and also the longtime host of Hardcore Classic on Sydney's 2SER FM). In between some general banter ...

On this week’s show, the boys continue with their funk, boogie, house, disco, hiphop and club vibes to keep...

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OB & Shan play some joints

On this show the boys open with some serious New Orleans funky vibes before a stack of hiphop, soul,...

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OB & Shan play some joints

On their second official show, the boys drop some classic and not-so classic hiphop, club, reggae, funk and bass...

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OB & Shan play some joints

Well, the boys got the OK after their trial episode the week before so decided to drop some drum’n’bass...

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The pilot episode

Imagine this: Lockdown was in full-effect in both NZ & Australia so a call went out for folks to...

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The Hosts

OB

Show Host

Obliveus is a party beat specialist. The one thing you can say about his style is that he’s hard to define; yet always plays to the crowd and will pull out whatever it takes to get the room jumping. He’s held down the wheels of steel just about everywhere and continues to rock dance floors digitally and with 45’s.

Shan

Show Host

DJ Shan has been around the block more than a few times. He’s got over thirty years of experience behind him, a record collection that will make any deejay envious, and a concrete reputation as one of Australia’s most trusted party rockers.

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