Radio High Life

About Radio High Life

DJ Doug has been DJing since the early 90s pursuing a passion for the exploration, though vinyl, of the groovy place where Latin, Caribbean and African sounds meet Disco, Funk, Soul, Jazz and Dance. He runs the ever popular Feet to the Floor nights in Totnes, as well as the sadly missed High Life parties, and is part of the RPM vintage vinyl collective. He has supported Mulatu Astatke, Seckou Keita, Orchestra Barbaro, Family Atlantica and Sona Jobarteh, & appeared at a number of festivals including Camp Bestival, Lounge on the Farm and Global Picnic, and venues across the SE: Jazz Cafe, Ronnie Scott's and many others His Radio High Life show is on SoundArt Radio, Soul Roots Radio and South Devon Sound. On SoundArt he also co-hosts Feet to the Floor bi-weekly with Georgie

Publisher

Douglas Noble

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Apr 2022

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   RadioHigh Life Ep 163-Pioneering Afro Synth, Earthbound Folk & Funky Tropical

   Radio High Life with DJ Doug from Soundart Radio; featuring South & West African 80s Afrosynth from Umoja & Nkono Teles , Brian Jackson's birthday celebration of Gill Scott Heron, Soulful Lovers Rock from Derrick Cross, vintage Caribbean & S America Latin grooves with Los Dangers & Black Sugar, Bidu's Funky orchestral Brit-Disco and beautiful Folk from Paul Giovanni & Headmix to bring us back to Earth ......and much more

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   Radio High Life Ep 162 Latin Heat, East African Songs of Love & Loss, West African Funk n' Disco

   IInternational good grooves with DJ Doug from Soul Roots Radio. Polyphonic, high-energy, contemporary and vintage, Latin Heat, swirling guitars and soulful brass lead an East African excursion into the many -splendored, and sometimes painful, essential human experience of love. A West and aSouth African Funk n' Disco freak out . Oh... and some Brazilian grooves too . Featuring Mongo Santamaria, Remmy Ongola & Orchestra Super Matimila Nakilia Mwana, Bosq Ft Kaleta, Violaaa, Rene Grand and his Combo NY, Orchestra Makassy, The Cranes, Mpharanyana & the Peddelers , Cheeba’s Latin Bros & Orch Mambo International .

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Radio High Life Ep 161 Swirling guitars and swinging horns from East Africa

   Radio High Life with DJ Doug takes an East African excursion, with fuzzy Disco Funk from Somalia, swinging sounds of Ethiopia and Sudan, swirling guitars from Tanzania and Kenya and more , There are some quality covers of Rare Groove, Disco and SynthPop classics, plus a contemportay Latin Cha Cha Cha from Leeds

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

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Social presence

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YouTube

0

Engagement

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