Coming off the heels of a successful fall fundraiser (a massive THANK YOU to everyone who made a gift during IN THE GROOVE) and considering today’s date being what might as well be a musical holiday, we’re starting with Roy Meriwether and continuing into tracks both modern and classic. We’ve also got Munan’s single “Disco In My Room,” which just dropped last week.

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for September 21, 2026

• “Marching Into Hell” – Roy Meriwether 
• “Together” -Misha Panfilov Sound Combo 
• “Swing Lo Magellan” – Dirty Projectors 
• “Miffed It” – Way Dynamic 
• “Disco In My Room” – Munan 
• “Blue Nile” – Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics 
• “Sunday Morning” – Amanaz 
• “A Place to Go” – DJ Day 
• “For Pete’s Sake” – Sweetwater 
• “Draft Morning” – The Byrds 
• “San Franciscan Nights” – Gabor Szabo & The California Dreamers 
• “Girl from the Mountain” – Ghetto Brothers 
• “I Wish It Didn’t Bother Me” – Getdown Services 
• “New Drug (Original)” – Matthew Dear 
• “Booger’s Bounce of Joy” – Karate Boogaloo 
• “Bicho auto” – Juana Molina 
• “Acid and Honey” – Babe Rainbow 
• “Macho” – Jaakko Eino Kalevi 
• “TOY NO” – MUGRE 
• “⁠Colour Pillow / Kologo” – Blind Yeo 
• “Brakhage” – Stereolab 
• “Ocotillo” – Ghost Funk Orchestra 
• “Seven Mile (feat. Dames Brown)” – Will Sessions & Amp Fiddler 
• “Sun Circles (John Beltran Project Remix)” – Gratts 
• “On Your Face” – Earth, Wind & Fire 
• “September” – Earth, Wind & Fire 
• “Yeah Yeah” – Will Sessions 
• “Light My Fire” – Africa 
• “Nome de Deus” – Sessa 
• “La torre (feat. Devendra Banhart)” – Gabriel Rios 
• “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yazmin Lacey)” – Ezra Collective 
• “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” – Cécile McLorin Salvant 

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