Born and bred in South London to lovely laid back Guyanese parents, Raggy got hooked into Jazz in the early eighties listening to radio stations like Radio Invicta, Solar Radio, Horizon, LWR and JFM. Most of his school mates ventured down the electro path following sounds like Hashim and Africa Bambaataa, but Raggy's ears were bending leftwards towards Judy Roberts, Atmosfear and Freeez!

First and foremost, Raggy is a record collector with more than 25 years of record collecting under his belt. Desperate to collect and find the records that were changing his life, Raggy squandered every available pound on cutouts and 12" singles. His tireless enthusiasm and love for jazz music from the early 80s took him into 1992 when he was introduced to the dangerously expensive and underground world of the jazz record dealer. Armed with an arsenal of the best worldwide record dealers and his unrestricted knowledge, this enhanced his continual search for those elusive, obscure rarities to add to his ever increasing record collection. He even has Turkish and Thai jazz funk lps!

After a few years of weekly radio shows on the world famous, original Solar Radio, soul24-7.com and guest shows all over the world, the Off Limits Radio Show (+ LOTS of archived shows!) can now be DOWNLOADED to your iPod on this site, just click on the PODCAST link above.

Don't forget to join the mailing list here. You'll receive the EXCLUSIVE mailout notifying you when each new show is available with full tracklisting, and we promise never to give out your details to anyone else, okay? All of the previous show tracklistings can be found here.

Check out my myspace page too: myspace.com/raggyofflimitsradio You'll find lots of cool friends on there plus lots of artist's myspace links.

Raggy's Off Limits Radio Shows are strictly only about the music. No ego's here baby, just the love and support for different sounds to help create a better musical space. There's so much creative talent out there that never gets the platform it deserves on commercial radio, this is the driving force behind our shows: we support, YOU, the edgy independent musicians & producers! There's no better feeling that we get here in the studio than listening to a record for the first time whether it's from 1968 or 2008. You'll hear everything from Pharoah Sanders to Spacek, Minnie Ripperton to Meshell Ndegeocello, Phil Ranelin to Hajime Yoshizawa, Sahib Shihab to Stereolab and beyond...

You can also listen to the Off Limits Radio Shows ON-DEMAND via our good friends across the globe on either: Giant Step Jukebox, danceandsoul, radiopellenera, radiozerogravity or Pulse Radio

The shows feature a lot of jazz: from left of centre 60s & 70s independent jazz music in all its twisted forms, abstract soul, new jazz, weird downtempo obscurities, Brazilian funk right through to offbeat folk-funk.

Raggy's Golden Ears are continually searching for the underground bands of the future and is consistently becoming a respected tastemaker for the next generation of music lovers. He also writes LP reviews for Shook and previously for the legendary global music mag Straight No Chaser.