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Sublime future jazz from Alex Attias – one of the key forces in the cosmic London scene of the 21st Century, stepping out here in a long-awaited full-length set that served up the full complement of his talents! As you'd expect from Alex, there's plenty of snapping beats and spacey keys on... read more

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Another masterful set from Beanfield – an even better album than their great Human Patterns, if you can believe that – and one with much more of an adventurous soul feel than we've heard from the boys before! The fractured electronics and broken beats feel that the group made sound so... read more

One of the coolest Compost sets we've heard in a long time – a stunning batch of work that really lives up to its title! While there's a bit of jazz here, the overall style is more cinematic than anything else – with strong echoes of 60s and 70s European soundtrack modes, served up... read more

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Prepare to meet your new favorite soul singer! Victor Davies is an incredible talent – with a warm soulful voice that has slight folksy touches, in a manner that reminds us a lot of classic work by singers like Terry Callier or Jon Lucien. This debut album is incredible – an instant... read more

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Compost Records are very firmly back in business with this one – a wonderful full-length debut from Eddy Meets Yannah, a group we've been digging for their work on singles for the past few years! The session's got a warmth and depth that really gets past much of the too-electric work we've... read more

Remixes of tracks from Fauna Flash's tasty Fusion album – served up in a host of different styles that really expands the group's sound! The set features some of the best tunes from the album – handled by artists and producers who are very sympathetic to the Compost Records sound... read more

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These guys might better be named as General Eclectics – given the quirky and playful feel of the set – a nicely personal batch of keys and beats that are occasionally augmented by vocals – sometimes spaced out and really layered into the mix, other times stepping out a bit more... read more

An incredible album from Intuit – not only for the solid work by the group itself, but even more so for the wonderful range of guest stars that includes Doug Carn, Flora Purim, Airto, and Andy Bey! There's a cosmic vibe here that's really amazing – dipping back into the headiest days... read more

One of our favorite albums of the past decade – remixed! Waltz For Koop was an amazing debut for Koop – a set of tunes that drew heavily from real jazz of the 60s and 70s, and which fit perfectly in a tradition of modal jazz grooves that stretched back to the glory days of the European... read more

An amazing record from Kyoto Jazz Massive – and about time, too! The Japanese collective has been bubbling under for years – doing some of the most groundbreaking production, remix, and single work of the current Japanese scene – and this album is really their first true full-leng... read more

2 tasty remixes from the new album by Les Gammas! "All Of Me" is a remake of the old standard, done in a mellow jazz funk vocal style on the original version – and punctuated nicely on the remix by Beanfield, given a popping jazzy drum n bass vibe that's similar to the work on... read more

One of the most interesting albums we've ever heard on the always-interesting Compost label! Les Gammas take the groove way past some of the other Compost outings, into a sophisticated mix of jazz, soul, and soundscapes that recalls some of our favorite moments of the mid 90s London scene that... read more

Joseph Malik really knocks us out with this one – and takes off with a sound that's well deserving of the "directions in music" tag in the title! At its core, the record has a similar feel to the spacey soul of Joseph's first set for Compost – lots of warm songwriting with... read more

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4 sparkling tracks from one of the hippest artists on Compost! The single features the great jazzy house track "Badman & Throbbin" – plus the "Amalgamation Of Soundz Out Of Mind mix" and "Tiny Trendies Cultural Mambo Dub" mixes of "Snowblind", and... read more

It's been a long long time since we last heard from Minus 8, but the wait's definitely been worthwhile – as this album's one of the most soulful they've ever done! There's loads and loads of great keyboards on the record – lots of Fender Rhodes, bubbling in beautifully between mellow... read more

A soundtrack for the 21st Century – original film tunes written and scored by il maestro Morricone, re-mixed and re-done by the Compost Records collective! Compost isn't normally as into the soundtrack bag as some of their other contemporaries on the European scene – which is why this... read more

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A stunning debut from Rima – one of the most exciting acts in years on the always-exciting Compost Records! The group have a sound that's nicely jazzy – clearly steeped in influences from 70s fusion, but also done with the free-thinking sound of the current European underground. ... read more

One of the funkiest albums ever to be issued by Compost – and a killer batch of instrumental grooves with a very 70s feel! Syrup have a stone funky instrumental groove that's part Kool and the Gang, part blacksploitation soundtrack – with lots of fuzzy funky wah wah guitar, hard heavy... read more

Rainer Truby and Trio are one of the best groups on the German Compost label, and this tight little jazzy e.p. is probably the best introduction to their work! The record features a nice groover called "Galicia" that mixes classic Superfly-esque scoring with a tight jazzy dancefloor beat.... read more

The first full length album from the Truby Trio – one of the most important musical forces on the European scene of the past few years! Rainer Truby and his trio have bubbled under for quite a while – doing remixes, releasing a few well-chosen singles, but never stepping out in a full-l... read more

The first full length album from the Truby Trio – one of the most important musical forces on the European scene of the past few years! Rainer Truby and his trio have bubbled under for quite a while – doing remixes, releasing a few well-chosen singles, but never stepping out in a full-l... read more

Tracks by Rainer Truby Trio, A Forest Mighty Black, Fauna Flash, Beanfield, Move D, Taran, and more.... read more

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Possibly the tightest of recent volumes of this great series of downtempo grooves and abstract beats! This volume's got a nice compressed set of tracks – featuring 11 moder groovers, about half of which are unreleased. Rainer Truby helped compile the set, and titles include "Vertigo&quo... read more

The latest (and perhaps greatest) entry into this always-wonderful series! As with the earlier volumes, this one's an amazing transformation of Brazilian grooves into a hyper-modern European idiom – featuring core acoustic beats and riffs remade into lush jazzy grooves by some of the... read more

A really unique little set – older classics, all hand-chosen by an assortment of DJs associated with the Compost crew! The package differs from other Compost sets in that most of these tunes are not from the Compost label – but from far-flung sources that dip back into the 60s, 70s,... read more

A faultless compilation of funk, reggae, and early-to-mid school hip hop – compiled by venerable DJ Florian Keller! Kell collects 14 tracks here that have little adherence to a particular theme, other than being trademark numbers of the individual eras. You get the classic dancehall rocker... read more