Out Of Body Pop began as my Edinburgh student radio show in 2016, inspired by artists like FKA Twigs and Frank Ocean whose music feels accessibly human, but also a bit alien, using modern sounds to portray complex emotions.

The show has been broadcasting on Tottenham’s Threads Radio since 2019, exploring that therapeutic sound and the feelings attached to it via spoken word interludes, conversations and, in once case, a spontaneous freestyle from Foreign Beggars’s PAV4N (who had just performed downstairs at the Cause, and wondered into the Threads studio looking for a quiet place to chill).

You can check out the show’s episodes and tracklists below, or browse through them all on mixcloud. Feel free to also enjoy this huge playlist gathering a 302 songs that have been played on the show since it landed in London, if you want!

This City Needs A Hero – Murkage Dave

Giants – Anzola

Awful Things (Ft. Caroline Polachek) – Murkage Dave

Bad Advice – Murkage Dave

It’s Been A Whole – Self Esteem

Palm Leaves – Lyle

Us Lot – Murkage Dave

The world I want to live in – Murkage Dave

F**kin Sound – Lucky Daye

Pure Imagination – Peyton

A4 – C.Y.

I Don’t Do Love Songs – Murkage Dave

Tracklist:

Tracklist:

Tracklist:

A4 – C.Y.

Crying In Public – Chairlift

Fall – Oklou

Flight- Mansur Brown

Sunset – The xx

Wow – 1010 Benja SL

End of the World Pt. 2 – Scratcha DVA

Hey Ma – Bon Iver

I Need Some Sleep – Eels

Unearth Me – Oklou

Daniel (Bat For Lashes cover) – Seye

Get Yourself Together – Young Disciples

and a bit of hope – Airhead

Wngs – NxWorries

Abrazos – Anzola

Anyway the wind blows – Sara Bareilles

Dear April – Frank Ocean

The Light 3000 – Schneider TM & Kptmichigan

Hopeless Mediator – McGregor

Self Doubt (Leaving the club early) – Lorraine James

Strangers – Koreless

Ben Franklin – Snail Mail

Romeo – Chairlift

Tracklist:

Give It Up 2 Me – Ojerime

Grind & Hustle – Droeloe 

Flowers – Elkka 

Bunny is a Rider – Caroline Polachek 

Oooops Oh My (Hudson Mohawke remix) – Tweet 

Next Level Charli – Charli XCX

Soul II Stro – Stro Elliot

W – Koffee

Diskother – Bastien Carrara

The Weekend (Calvin Harris Remix) – SZA

Oooo Lala – Blue Lab Beats

We Talk All The Time – The Japanese House

Them Changes – Thundercat

Roll (Burbank Funk) – The Internet

Matty Went Running (unreleased) – Angus

Melon – Handbook 

First Responders – Dinner Party

Number 1 – Patrice Rushen

Get Into It (Yuh) – Doja Cat

Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz 

Controlla (Pepé Remix) – Drake

You Could Be – Anz

Final Credits – Midland 

Tracklist:

Message From A Meteorite – Mad Professor & Mafia & Fluxy
LOST – Swindle & Loyle Carner & Kojey Radical & JNR Williams
Black And Blue – Miike Snow
U Belong To Me – Y U QT
Summerlude – Benny Sings
Friendly Pressure (Into The Sunshine Edit) – Jhelisa & Sunship
Thief In The Night – Hans Glader & DJ Q
Wildfire – SBTRKT & Drake
Space Cadet – Flume & Autre Ne Veut & Ghostface Killah
Pull Up The People – M.I.A.
Dem Nah Want It – Kouslin & Riko Dan
Rishikesh – Jayda G
Cold Blooded – Gary Clarke Jr.
If (Kaytranada Remix) – Janet Jackson
Fine Girl – Rocks FOE
Murder On The Dancefloor – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Give It Up 2 Me – Ojerime
Every Colour Of You – Olivia McShane
Renegade – Big Red Machine & Taylor Swift
Hahaha Part 2 – Kishi Bashi
On A Mountain – Danny L Harle & DJ Danny
Agree To Disagree – Hackman
Only Human – KH aka Four Tet
Szikira – Kornél Korvács
So Far Away – Airhead
Leave (Get Out) – JoJo

Tracklist:

Dusky – Skin Deep (Global Communication Remix)
Infinite Loops – Wave Hunt Eternal
Maya Jane Coles – Not Listening
Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away With Me
Neana – Nightshade
Roisín Murphy – Shellfish Mademoiselle (Paul Woodford remix)
Casey MQ – Candyboy (Angus Edit)
Sam Gellaitry – Waiting So Long
Melé – Ambience
L-Vis 1990, Gaika & Mista Silva – Sunlight (Roska remix)
Kelela – Enemy (Total Freedom remix)
Livin’ Joy – Dreamer
Y U QT – You Belong To Me
Madonna – Celebration
Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers

Tracklist:

Drown in pale light – Andreas Vollenweider

Great Expectations (Outro) – Mabel

Clarity – Flava D

Contrails – Christian Jay

Habit – Still Woozy

Rachael’s Little Brother – Stormzy

Cigarettes – Tash Sultana

Delete Forever – Grimes

Disco Man – Remi Wolf

Lost – Frank Ocean

Neon Forest – Fayzz

Street Lights – Trell Daniels

Carbonated – Mount Kimbie

don’t be afraid – Knxwledge

Seven – Taylor Swift

Feels Like Summer – Childish Gambino

Falling – Haim

Shower – Becky G

No Road Without a Turn – Mano Le Tough

hot-hot-day-post-Nay’s-roof – Angus

Away – Oxlade

Palmas – K-Lone

All Eyez On Me – Bo Burnham

Damages – Tems

Tracklist:

Free Mind – Tems

Equinamity (unreleased) – Trevelyan

Sweet Talk – Jessie Ware

Your Power – Billie Eilish

Sherman’s Groove – Lack

Cheap Queen – King Princess

Drown In The Pale Light (slowed down) – Andreas Vollenweider

Kiss Me More – Doja Cat & SZA

crank dat -moow

Wildfires – Sault

Dejame vivir – Jarabe de Palo

So Blue It’s Black – Tommy Guerrero

Lovin’ Me – Kid Cudi & Phoebe Bridgers

W – Koffee

a new cat in the home (unreleased) – Angus

(Half-light Of) The Cadinium Moon – Andrew Wasylyk

Good Time – Erika De Casier

Skies Of Tomorrow – Mechatok

A New Dawn – Sam Gellaitry

For Today I Am A Boy (live) – Antony & the Johnsons

Umi No Ue Kara – Yasuaki Shimizu

Hail – Ryan Hemsworth

Best To You – Blood Orange

Tracklist:

Tides – Nitin Sawhney

Korg Back – Guido

People, I’ve Been Sad- Christine And The Queens

Make Time- Mr Mitch & Duval Timothy

Blue Shit- Mica Levi

Angel Flash- Drew Lustman

Same Damn Luck- Nilüfer Yanya

Crash- Nilüfer Yanya

Like A Good Old Friend – Vegyn

Il Re Delle Mandrole – SSIEGE

Cómo (Esa’s Havana Synth Mix) – Daymé Arocena

Every Star Has Its Own Story – Yu Su

Lose My Cool – Amber Mark

Bags (lo fi lounge) – Arlo Parks

Even If It Hurts – Tei Shi & Blood Orange

Crazy – Seal

Too Late – Washed Out

Bellyache – Billie Eilish

Renditions – Bruised Skies

Outside – Tops

Playing Love – Ennio Morricone

Rise – Nightmares On Wax

RASCAL – RMR

Tracklist:

Notice Me – Julia Star
Sleepwalkin’ (Daydreamin’ Version) – Better Oblivion Community Center
Strung Up – Shanti Celeste
Midnight – Coldplay
Time Will Let Us Go Ft. Merryn Jeann – Slim.
The Garden – Gould x RudeManners
Girls (On A Break) feat. Lil Peep – Elissa Suckdog
U BELONG 2 ME – Y U QT
早歩き [haya_aruki] – Hinako Omori
S.O.S. – SHEEFY MCFLY
Ghost Town – Greentea Peng
Sexopolis – Jean Pierre Mirouze
Love for That – Mura Masa feat. Shura
What’s A Girl To Do (B.Traits Edit) – Fatima Yamaha
went to meet her (intro) – The Japanese House
EU (Emotionally Unavailable) – Nérija
Forgiveness – Lauryn
The Midas Touch (Hell Interface Remix) – Midnight Star
crank dat – moow
consent (Pepe’s Black Leather Leash Edit) – dj safeword
SUMMER FIENDS ft Bran Mazz – LCY
Elegancia Transparente – Natureboy Flako
Lod’s Tribe – Yak
They Don’t Wanna Know – Violet
Cinnamon – Fatima
You Always Ring Me When I’m Busy – Murkage Dave
Candid – Kllo
A Visit to Lolita – MJ Cole
Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) – Ola Gjielo
Sleep – McGregor

Tracklist:

Hold On – Popcaan
Sunbreather – Akasha System
LA – Ty Dolla $ign
Scribbles – Celiiine (aka Jossy Mitsu)
Luv U- Dinner Party
Toilet Brushes – Nils Frahm
Lovin Me – Kid Cudi & Phoebe Bridgers
Clarity – Flava D
(demo) – Angus
Every Mouth Teeth Missing – Call Super
Drown in pale light – Andreas Vollenweider
Last Christmas – Tinashe
To Be Alone With You – Sufjan Stevens
Madre Dormida – Javier Bergia
Last Chance To Dance – Ekkah
You – Sir Froderick
Obsession Romantica – Maddi Maia
Are You Wid It This Christmas – Ariana Grande
I’ll Take Care of you – Gil Scott Heron & Makaya McCraven
Eyes Like Sky – Frank Ocean
Sure Thing – Miguel
Shower – Becky G
Donde Una Amapola Blanca Reviente – Javier Bergia
Don’t Be Afraid – Knxwledge
Wingssss – Celine
W – Koffee
Nation – Giraffi Dog
Yelli – K-Lone
Gaunt – Kiasmos

Tracklist:

Tracklist:

Tracklist:

Meet Me In The Hallway – Harry Styles
The Bells – K-lone
So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth – Grimes
Delete Forever – Grimes
How To Fly – Sticky Fingers
Friends Crush – Friends
Universal Glow – Shanti Celeste
Small Hours – John Martyn
Riot Van – Arctic Monkeys
Vehl – Kidnap Kid
Submarine Life – Teleman
Sketch For Summer – The Durutti Column
Something Blue – Hiroshi Yoshimura
Down To The Moon – Andreas Vollenweider
Preludio (Orchestra) – Maria Callas
Introvert – Duval Timothy
Drown In Pale Light – Andreas Vollenweider
Demo – Angus
Dans La Nuit – Horror Inc.
Unknown Plunderer – Andrew Weatherall
The Age Of Compassion (House Mix) – Tevo Howard
Lightyears From You – McGregor
Ak-Do 5 – Robag Wruhme
Aether (Give It 2 Me) – Jet§am
As A Child (ft. Machinedrum) – Lone
Wrong (Todd Terry Remix) – Everything But The Girl
Nuits Sonores – Floating Points
Silicon Valley – Anderson Paak
Bags – Clairo
Soft – Lemon Jelly
Postcards From Italy – Beirut

Also features excerpts from Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus by Tobias Jones and Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

Tracklist:

Plastic Love – Mariya Takeichi

Elevator (Masters At Work remix) – Jaffa

Ykwtfgo – Budgie

Spontaneity – Bahamadia

Me & Those Dreamin Eyes of Mine – D’angelo

After Noon – The Slow Attack Ensemble

Ready For Your Love – Fern Kinney

Xpander (Max Cooper Remix) – Sasha

Xpander – Sasha

Find Our Way (Muthafunkaz Found A Voc) – Key To Life Ft. Kathleen

Clarity – Flava D

C0NTRO0LL4 – Pépe 

Hey (NTS Mix) – Nilüfer Yanya & Jazzi Bobbi

Get You (Ft. Kali Uchis) – Daniel Caesar

Moon – Shanti Celeste

Fake Loathe – Blue Iverson

Godess – Banks

Pass Dat (Remix ft. Chance the Rapper, The Weekend & Young Thug) – Jeremih

And It’s All Right (Nils Frahm Remix) – Peter Broderick

Demo – Angus

Greenleaf – Duke Hugh

White Gloves – Khruangbin

Pristine – Snail Mail

W – Koffee

My Love – Budgie

Love Me Right – Amber Mark

Threat 2 Society – 2 Chainz

Gat Damn – Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

Skyline – Brent Faiyaz

Rushes To – Frank Ocean

Love Lockdown/Reckoner – Kanye West VS Radiohead

Contrains excerpts from Svetlana Boym’s The Future Of Nostalgia and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout

Tracklist:
The OA (theme) – Rostam
Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
Anasickmodular – Floating Points
Sunbreather – Akasha System
Suny – Biig Piig
ViRGO – CHLOBOCOP
Shine – Madison Mcferrin
Bullet From A Gun – Skepta
Safe Ground – Bea1991
Summer Til Done – Maximum Joy
Softness As A Weapon- Kindness
Soundtrack To My Life – Kid Cudi
Watch The World Unfold – Gaelynn Lea
Wake Up Feel Good – Steve Spacek
Pompidou – Portico Quartet
Yaskool – Bobbing
Distant Lands – Madlib
Torn – Ednaswap
Watching Him Fade Away – Mac Demarco
Someday We’ll Linger In The Sun – Gaelynn Lea
Cherish The Day – Sade

Contains excerpts from Jia Tolentino’s interview on The Guardian’s Today In Focus podcast.

Tracklist:

Tracklist:

Best One (remix) – Nxworries
New Shapes – Octavian & Diplo
Light#1 – Nosaj Thing
Bum Bum Bum – Cass Mccombs
Lisboa – Brolin
With Me – dvsn
Hadron Collider – Blood Orange
Rise – Gabrielle
My Boy My Town (Shura remix) – Mabel
For Marmish – Floating Points
Weight Of The Planets – Aldous Harding
The Hostess – E Ruscha V
Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel Remix) – Cocteau Twins
Sincerity Is Scary – The 1975
Voodoo – Frank Ocean
Souvenir – boygenius
Throwaway – Sg Lewis
Vale – Maribou State
4422 – Drake & Sampha
Carry On – Norah Jones
Aware – Fennesz, Sakamoto
Otis (live) – The Durutti Column
Roads – Westerman
Flea Market – Tierra Whack
Went To Meet Her (Intro) – The Japanese House
Tonight You Belong To Me (The Jerk Soundtrack) – Steve Martin
Rising Water (A.K.Paul Remix) – James Vincent Mcmorrow
You Can’t Save Me – SiR
Don’t Panic – Coldplay
Love With Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover) – Nerina Pallott
You’re The Best – Wet
Senseless – Maya Jane Coles
Multiply (In A Minor Key) (piano by Gonzales) – Jamie Lidell
Cliffs [#1] – Aphex Twin
Honey – Robyn

Contains excerpts from Instructions and Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman, my dream diary and some of my own instructions, and Robyn’s guest episode of Song Exploder (towards the end).

Tracklist:

Maybe – Kettenkarussell
Gat Damn – Freddie Gibbs, Madlib
Hungry Hippo – Tierra Whack
Amazing Grace – Rick Ross
Longing For Your Love – Ady Suleiman
Plantasy – Resavoir
Demo – Angus
In A Little While (I’ll Be On My Way) – Art Garfunkel
On My Mind (acoustic) – Jorja Smith & Preditah
Fork & Knife – Brand New
Soft – Lemon Jelly
You Always Start It – Xxxy
We Can’t Be Friends – Dream Koala
Tenderness – Jay Som
Hide And Seek – Imogen Heap
The Last High – The Dandy Warhols
Only Trying 2 Tell U – Puma Blue
Tether – Duck House
Mine – Beyonce & Drake
Lindisfarne II – James Blake
AK – D. Tiffany
So In Love With You – Duke
Held Apart – Arca
Introduction (Mirror’s Edge Soundtrack) – Solar Fields
Chesapeake – Evenings
Miss D.D. – Mary Lou Williams
Misty Morning (feat Wendy Rae Fowler) – Maya Jane Coles
Goodbye World – Carl Craig
Hold On Be Strong – Outkast
Interlude – The Blaze
American Angel – George Michael
Get To You – A Boogie wit da Hoodie
You – Jacquees
Love Like This – Faith Evans

Includes excerpts from Just Kids by Patty Smith & this NPR article about Mary Lou Williams,

Tracklist:

I’m In Love With a German Filmstar – The Passions
Infamous Mister – Cado Belle
Hot Destinations For A Cooler You – Telephones
Hard Rain – Lykke Li
Hard Rain – Tenderlonious
Jethro – Thundercat
Drown In It – Syd
Post 525 Croydon [unreleased demo] – Angus
The Unordained – Nilüfer Yanya
You Wish You Knew – Zayn
Eclipse – Nujabes
M.B.P (Frankie Knuckles paradise ballroom remix) – Womack & Womack
Nitrous – Nick Mulvey
Advent (feat. Lysann Zander) – Robag Wruhme
Me & My Dog – boygenius
Controlla (Pepe remix) – Drake
Chupendi – Ketama

Includes an excerpt from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

Tracklist:

Habbit – Still Woozy
The Revenant Main Theme – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Hey (NTS Session) – Nilufer Yanya
Crank Dat – Moow
Stranger / Lover – Ibeyi
Impatient (ft. Ty Dolla $ign) – Jeremih
U & Me – Budgie
Electrical Encounters – Ciel
Climax (ft. DELPHINE) [unreleased cover] – Lyle
Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes – D’angelo
Piscina – Don Sinini
Manhattan – Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks
Opened Once – Jeff Buckley
Starlight – Maya Jane Coles
Motion Sickness – Phoebe Bridgers
Dorsia – Zero Days
We Did It When We Were Young – The Gaslight Anthem
That Was The Worst Christmas Ever – Sufjan Stevens
Safe – Young Thug
Goodnight and Go – Imogen Heap

Includes an excerpt from the first article from The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper (if you want another amazing collection of bro-swerving music writing, check out The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw), and a clip from Fleabag, starring and written by Phoebe Wallers-Bridge.

Tracklist:

Answer – Connie Constance
Post QT Video [unreleased] – Angus
Okinawa Fantastia – Martin Glass
Sketch For Summer (live at Brighton Zapp Club, 1984) – The Durutti Column
Cruel Twirl – Ssion & Roisin Murphy
New & Physical [ur] – Angus
Hoot hoot – Gila
3am Can’t Sleep [ur] – Angus
Back and Forth – Contours
It did Not Feel Right – Deadboy
Eternal Huron Shadows – Flora FM
Oh My Own – Shanti Celeste
The End – Shlohmo
Imagine – Ariana Grande
Djansa – Anthony Waples
Exotica – Parcels
Your daddy Loves You – Gil Scott-Heron
May Leave [ur] – Lyle
January Stars – George Winston
Warm Water – Banks
Swingin’ Party – Kindness
Bbyill – Bizarre Silk
Crossfire / So Into You – Nai Palm
So Into You – Tamia
Pas Comme Les Autes – Tryphème
Faulty – Alunageorge
Tell Me I’m Crazy – Lyle, Don Sinini & Nabihah Iqbal
Piscina – Don Sinini
Fake Loathe – Blue Iverson
Skies Of Tomorrow – Mechatok
Leaving Myself – boyDrama
Now At Last – Blossom Dearie
God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty – Mac Miller & Kendrick Lamar
Happiness Is Easy – Talk Talk
Jade Visions – Bill Evans

Includes excerpts from More Brilliant Than the Sun by Kodwo Eshun (the reissue is supposed to be out next year, but they said that back in 2017, you can read it for free here) and Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran, my favourite book (it’s amazing buy it buy it buy it)