Music Policy

100% good-time vintage Black music on vinyl & shellac

Dive into the record collection of resident DJ Dr Séculaire to discover the kind of uplifting sounds you’ll hear at the Right On club night in London.

  • blues
  • soul
  • jazz
  • funk
  • boogaloo
  • salsa
  • mambo
  • cumbia
  • samba
  • merengue
  • calypso
  • spouge
  • ska
  • reggae
  • goombay
  • rumba
  • kwela
  • jive
  • highlife
  • Afrobeat

The club’s DJs will keep you dancing all night long to these and other foundational genres of vintage Black music from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and beyond.

Expect to hear a range of different tempos – from the fastest Afro-Cuban descarga and Brazilian batucada to the more relaxed rhythms of Jamaican rocksteady and Congolese rumba.

Diasporic diversity

Right On aims to showcase the diversity of African-American, Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean, and African musical traditions, while connecting the dots between them.

Depending on the DJs, other genres you may hear include benga, biguine, bomba, cha-cha-chá, compas, gospel, makossa, mento, plena, soca, son montuno, and soukous.

Highlighting women & queer artists

Dr Séculaire encourages guest DJs to highlight the talented but oft-overlooked women and queer singers, musicians, and songwriters who made their mark despite the additional barriers of sexism and queerphobia they faced in the music industry and society as a whole.

No electronic music

Right On is a celebration of non-electronic dance music from across the Black diaspora. This means there are no computerised beats added to the mix.

You won’t hear digital genres like electro, techno, house, reggaeton, drum & bass, jazztronica (nu jazz), or broken beat (bruk).