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Robbie Duncan is a curator of deep connection.
Not bangers, but stories — music for dancers who listen and listeners who dance. Soulful house to broken beat, Johannesburg to Oslo to Medellín.
About Robbie
Robbie Duncan is a DJ, curator and selector based between Stroud and Bristol a listener first, dancer second, and digger always. For over two decades he has built a practice rooted not in trends, but in connection: connecting records, eras, places and people across a continuous musical conversation.
His sound sits at the intersection of soulful house, deep house, disco, broken beat, jazz-funk, Afro-electronic and global grooves, held together by an ear for soul, hip-hop, Latin and downtempo textures. This isn’t a playlist of bangers. It’s a listening-first approach for rooms that want to dance and think at the same time. You’ll hear a vocal cut that stops a room, then a percussive roller that moves it again — warmth, swing, and space over peak-time pressure.
What sets Robbie apart is depth — of time and of geography. A typical set or ElecSoul selection might travel from 70s soul and jazz foundations — Isaac Hayes, Roy Ayers, Curtis Mayfield — through 80s boogie and disco touchstones like Loletta Holloway (1980), Change and Soul II Soul, into the foundational deep house languages of the 90s: the smoky, jazz-kissed French house of Soofle and St Germain (Ludovic Navarre), the raw New York swing of KenLou (Kenny Dope & Louie Vega), the emotive keys of Kings Of Tomorrow and Sandy Rivera. That lineage is then threaded directly into the present underground: Felipe Gordon bringing Latin funk from Colombia, Dwson’s deep, spiritual electronics from South Africa, Liv East and broken-beat science from the UK, Fred Everything and Kaytranada reframing soul through a Canadian lens, and a new generation of producers releasing on the fringes from 2010 to 2026.
Geography is methodology. Robbie’s crates deliberately map a world: Spirits Rejoice and Dwson from Johannesburg, Zap Mama’s Congo-via-Belgium polyphony, Quantic’s heritage of cumbia and jazz, Brazilian, West African and Afro-Cuban rhythms sitting comfortably alongside Detroit and Chicago heritage — the Glenn Underground and Theo Parrish lineage, Ron Trent’s deep spirituality, Kevin Yost’s musicality — and the distinct dialects of the UK: Bristol bass weight, South London broken beat and jazz, and the soulful continuum from Brit-funk to street soul.
Robbie Duncan
Robbie’s crates deliberately map a world
His sound sits at the intersection of soulful house, deep house, disco, broken beat, jazz-funk, Afro-electronic and global grooves, held together by an ear for soul, hip-hop, Latin and downtempo textures.
“Not bangers, but stories — music for dancers who listen and listeners who dance.”
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ElecSoul — Weekly Curation Lab
ElecSoul — Weekly Curation Lab
Now over 250 episodes deep. Not a mix series, but a research practice — vinyl to digital, 70s soul foundations to South African deep house white labels. Soulful house, disco, broken beat, jazz-funk & global grooves — music for dancers who listen and listeners who dance.
This is where I find the threads. Each week, a new story: CALMA, Tighten Up, Universal Sound — 60-90 minutes of deep digging, tracklists and artist notes included.
Listen & subscribe → djrobbieduncan.com/elecsoul
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