Matthew Reate
Playlists

Record Collector Cocktail Hour

For the first drinks, while the room wakes up.

Recorded live, February 2026.

People are still finding each other, so it’s groove first, with a few records you’ll know. Enough to nod to, not to dance to yet. It gets a little bigger as the room gets louder.

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Tracklist

48 tracks, in playlist order.

  1. Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover
  2. Marvin Gaye – I Want You
  3. Sylvester – I Need Somebody To Love Tonight
  4. Punkin Machine – I Need You Tonight
  5. Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
  6. Darondo – Didn’t I
  7. The Meters – Loving You Is on My Mind
  8. Kokoroko – Sweetie
  9. Gilberto Gil – Palco
  10. Letta Mbulu – Nomalizo
  11. Lady Wray – Guilty
  12. Mina – Conversazione
  13. Say She She – Forget Me Not
  14. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Come and Be a Winner
  15. Papa Bear & His Cubs – You’re so Fine
  16. Grace Jones – La Vie en rose
  17. Feist – Inside And Out
  18. Mon Laferte – Que Sí
  19. Nohelani Cypriano – Lihue
  20. Cola Boyy – Beige 70 (Domenique Dumont Bilingual Remix)
  21. Richie Havens – Going Back to My Roots
  22. Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew
  23. mei ehara – 頬杖
  24. Anemone – Bout De Toi
  25. Gilberto Gil – Palco
  26. Unity & The Downbeats – Love Dream
  27. Pamoja – Oooh, Baby
  28. Curtis Mayfield – Tripping Out
  29. The Chi-Lites – Oh Girl
  30. Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Since I Found My Baby
  31. Isaac Hayes – Hung Up On My Baby
  32. Bill Withers – Lovely Day (Studio Rio Version)
  33. Gene Harris – Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong
  34. Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfá – Só Danço Samba
  35. The Diddys & Paige Douglas – Intergalactic Love Song
  36. NEL OLIVER – I HAVE A GOOD JOB
  37. Bobbi Humphrey – Uno Esta
  38. Michael Jackson & Lord Finesse – I Wanna Be Where You Are (Underboss Remix)
  39. Idris Muhammad – Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
  40. The Blackbyrds – Mysterious Vibes
  41. Mary J. Blige – Love No Limit (Remix)
  42. Stevens & Foster – I Want to Be Love
  43. Raw Silk – Do It to the Music (Edit)
  44. Bileo – You Can Win
  45. Lynda Dawn – Fonk Street
  46. Sylvester – Give It Up (Don’t Make Me Wait)
  47. Orquesta Harlow & Ismael Miranda – Grazin’ In The Grass
  48. The Emotions – Flowers