There’s an unspoken affinity that comes with being a music fan, something that was more than apparent when Thom Yorke spent the evening co-presenting Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Show. Peterson is a tastemaker of great renown, but the Radiohead front man more than held his own when the pair went back to back during the two-hour show.

One of his first selections came from hotly tipped producer Floating Points, also known as Sam Shepherd. Shepherd first came to the attention of the Capital’s beat making fraternity through the CDR Sessions, a monthly night at one of London’s best loved basement clubs Plastic People. The sessions were set up by Tony Nwachukwu of Attica Blues and were an outlet for producers, both established and up-and-coming, to air their unreleased work on a top end sound system in front of an appreciative crowd. Floating Points has gone from strength to strength and he’ll be unveiling his full live band at Peterson’s Worldwide Awards in February.

Yorke and bandmate Johnny Greenwood regularly post playlists on Radiohead blog, and anyone who’s paid attention will know already that the singer is a massive supporter of the UK’s burgeoning Dub Step scene, particularly favouring the more abstract and meditative aspects of the genre that in some respects mirror Radiohead’s more recent albums. Proving themselves to be both in time and in tune, Yorke and Peterson played tunes by Pangaea, on Leeds based label Hessle Audio, and Darkstar, the latest artists on the revered Hyperdub label to cause a stir amongst fans of future music. The Darkstar track ‘Need You’ was the soundtrack to one of Yorke’s recent trips to the States

As well as all the upfront selections, Gilles and Thom found time to look back in to the archives, playing music by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Can and Joao Gilberto. During a chat Yorke spoke about the band he recently put together to play the songs of his ‘Eraser’ album and even spilled the beans on Radiohead’s current recording sessions.

“Radiohead is still doing stuff. In fact, we’re starting another session for a month in two days. And the Eraser band that I got together, we’re going to do something, hopefully in April, but I think that’s just more gigs. And then maybe that’ll lead somewhere, as well. There’s lots of stuff going on, but not enough coming out yet…My biggest trouble at the moment is trying to keep up, but I prefer it that way.”

You can listen back to the show on BBC iPlayer until Wednesday 27^th January.