If you know Wavypack Radio, you already know what this is. New Currency is the next chapter, a weekly show built around the same philosophy that made the original worth listening to in the first place. No genre walls. No rigid format. Just a curatorial instinct that moves the way good taste does, fluidly, following feeling rather than category.
The debut episode sets the tone immediately. It opens with Rema and closes with Chase Shakur, and everything in between operates on a frequency that is difficult to name but easy to recognize. This is music for the hours that belong to you. Late evenings, slow mornings, the kind of drive where you stop noticing the road. The sonics are warm and deliberate throughout, pulling from Afrobeats, amapiano, R&B, soul, and something that resists all of those labels at once.
wavypack® Radio 020 – The Place Called Home
Sade appears twice, which tells you something about the show’s center of gravity. A Lorkestra edit of Kiss Of Life sits near the end like a exhale, while an earlier cut of I Couldn’t Love You More arrives reshaped by Quinoa James and Pherris into something that feels both classic and entirely present. J. Cole’s No Role Modelz gets an amapiano rework from Arthur Tan that shouldn’t work as well as it does. A Don Toliver Deep In The Water edit comes through and hits harder than the original. Whitney Houston reimagined by TRVE HILL lands somewhere between reverence and reinvention.
The South African contingent runs deep through the middle of the episode. Shaunmusiq shows up twice, once alongside CarterIV and once with Makhanj, both cuts carrying that specific emotional weight that amapiano does better than almost anything else right now. Felo Le Tee and ShakaMan YKTV bring SABC 5 into the mix, and Tumi Musiq’s Thixo Bawo, featuring Jay Sax, is the kind of record that makes the whole room go quiet in the best possible way. Elsewhere, TOBi and Kojey Radical connect on Ego Slide, Juls and Sango bring Angele Ni Fie, and Jitwam and Marie Bashiru’s Diamonds floats through the mix like it was always supposed to be there.
New Currency is back every week. This is only the beginning.
