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Sun 27 Apr 2025

BBC Radio 6 Music - Dream Time, Sweet cosmic late-night selections… with Zakia

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Sweet cosmic late-night selections… with Zakia

Sweet cosmic late-night selections from Zakia for your weekly wind down. Plus, The Vernon Spring drops by to share a dream and some of his biggest musical inspirations.

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DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Time to clock in for your weekly visit to the world of Dream Time - 2 hours of sweet cosmic late-night selections from Zakia. There’s new music from Phi-Psonics, Trá Pháidín, Ganavya and Gabriel Brady, as well as a previously unreleased gem from the vaults of Francis Bebey and some sweet 70s goodness from Linda Perhacs, Laraaji and The Sylvers.

Plus, we hear from North London musician, composer and producer The Vernon Spring, with an exclusive track from his forthcoming record, some reflections on the magic of Curtis Mayfield, and a recent dream he had about Kendrick Lamar…

Music Played

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  The Vernon Spring

  Strength of a Young Man

  • Strength Of A Young Man.
  • Lima Limo Records.

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  Phi‐Psonics

  Love Theme From Your Life

  • Expanding to One.
  • Gondwana Records.

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  Linda Perhacs

  Morning Colors

  • Parellelograms.
  • Kapp Records.

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  Francis Bebey

  Quand Le Soleil Est La (Alternate Drum Machine Version)

  • Trésor Magnétique (Magnetic Treasure).
  • Africa Seven.

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  Keiran Francis

  From Morning (DJ Squid mix)

  • Love is the most important thing (1).
  • Plates.

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  Breath

  After-Dinner Mint

  • Slow Down.

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  Q‐Tip

  Do U Dig U

  • Kamaal the Abstract.
  • Battery Records.

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  The Vernon Spring

  Under a Familiar Sun

  • Under A Familar Sun.
  • RVNG Intl..

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  The Vernon Spring

  Norton

  • Under A Familar Sun.
  • RVNG Intl..

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  Kendrick Lamar

  Crown

  • Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.
  • Interscope.

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  SAULT

  Air

  • AIR.
  • Forever Living Originals.

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  OK Jazz

  Yeba Nameki Komeka

  • Pas Un Pas Sans... The Boleros Of O.K. Jazz 1957-77.
  • Planet Ilunga.

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  Ignacio Maria Gomez

  Ile Penaro

  • Belesia.
  • Helico Music.

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  Laraaji

  Bethlehem

  • Celestial Vibration.
  • Numero Group.

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  Trá Pháidín

  cé mo dhuine siúl sa hi-vis

  • An 424 (Expanded).
  • Hive Mind Records.

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  Ganavya

  Sees Fire

  • Nilam.
  • LEITER.

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  Gabriel Brady

  Land and Sea

  • Day-blind.
  • Tonal Union.

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  Curtis Mayfield

  The Makings Of You

  • Curtis!.
  • Curtom.

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  Hiroshi Yoshimura

  Maple Syrup Factory

  • Flora.
  • Temporal Drift.

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  Alan Graves

  Dissipating Front

  • A Possible Wind.
  • Bathysphere Records.

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  Antonina Nowacka

  Light Light

  • Sylphine Soporifera.
  • Mondoj.

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  Cole Pulice

  Fragments of a Slipstream Dream

  • Land's End Eternal.
  • LEAVING RECORDS.

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  Carl Pfeil

  Infinities

  • Dingling Dangling In The Morning And In The Evening.

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  Lamin Fofana

  Infinite-Regress Into Futures Past

  • Chromesthesia: The Colour of Sound Vol. 1.
  • Chromesthesia.

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  Maria Somerville

  October Moon

  • Luster.
  • 4AD.

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  Saito Koji

  Waiting In A Dream / Walk On Spring

  • Haruno.

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  Rindert Lammers

  Sleep Well Hiroshi Yoshimura

  • Thank You Kirin Kiki.
  • Western Vinyl.

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  The Sylvers

  Cry of a Dreamer

  • II.
  • MGM.