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Hazy, diverse beatcraft from Twit One & Hulk Hodn, aka Testiculo Y Uno -- a nice start to a new series from the good people at Melting Pot Music! Hi Hat Club Vol 1 is solid set of beats and atmosphere, some in kind of a laidback hip hop instrumentals mode of soul beats and insistent bass ...

Collection of early Detroit Tecno from the late 80s, with a couple of Chicago tracks too. Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May are all represented here, and there's some classic cuts, like "Beyond the Dance" by Rhythim is Rhythim, "Tranzistor" by the Force, "Yeah ...

Really unique work from this hip Japanese combo -- the brainchild of keyboardist Kensuke Saito, who plays some really wonderful electric piano and synth on the set! Although contemporary, the record's got a spacious, soulful feel that takes us back to some of our favorite 70s fusion -- ...

An incredible meeting of talents -- one we never would have expected in a million years, but which comes off beautifully throughout! The spacey genius of Amp Fiddler meets the Jamaican grooves of Sly & Robbie -- in a blend that's breathtaking -- one that takes all of Amp's crackling energy, ...

The long-awaited second album from The Five Corners Quintet -- easily one of the greatest groups going on the global groove scene! As with their debut, the sound here is highly jazzy -- played by a core combo that features Timo Lassy on reeds and Jukka Eskola on trumpet and flugelhorn -- with ...

Anthony Joseph really blows the roof off with this one -- sounding better than ever before, thanks to some massively righteous grooves from the Spasm Band! The music's a compelling mix of spiritual jazz, funky rhythms, and hip recitations from Joseph -- who's mostly speaking on the set, but also ...

Great stuff from the early days of the New York Giant Steps/8 Ball/acid jazz scene! Despite the title, most of the track have house music at the base -- but in keeping with the New York approach to acid jazz in the early 90s, most of the cuts are seasoned with a very healthy dose of real ...

Jazz, milk, and plenty of breaks -- a really great little set that almost blows away the previous entries in the series! All tunes here have some roots in older grooves -- modal, Latin, or soul jazz -- but the execution of the music is definitely contemporary -- hip production and a few dancefloor ...

An incredible full length debut from vocalist Mario Biondi -- a jazz singer we'd rank right up there with the legendary Mark Murphy -- supported here with great backings from the High Five Quintet! The grooves here are in a soaring, tightly-stepping style -- very much the best club jazz mode of ...

Eric Lau steps into some definite new territory here -- building off his production work for Dudley Perkins, Lupe Fiasco, and others -- and emerging strongly as a lead artist on his own! Lau's got plenty of great help on the set -- an array of London-based singers who help flesh out his ...

Incredible work from Nicola Conte -- Schema records maestro making his Blue Note debut with this set -- and giving the label one of their best new albums of the 21st Century! The record's quite different than Nicola's programmed dancefloor work for Schema -- and is much more of an organic jazz-base ...

Cosmic hip hop, moody keyboard funk, tripped out bits of strings, brass, rubbery bass grooves and gritty beats from Sa-Ra's uber creative partner Shafiq -- and a record that rivals the best work of Sa-Ra proper! We long suspected that En'A Freek Ka would be a gem, and it does not dissappoint -- ...

Not a 4 Hero album, exactly, but a great set of "extensions" of their musical genius -- one that has a host of other like-minded artists serving up their own version of 4 Hero tunes! The whole thing's completely sublime -- every bit as cosmic, righteous, and joyous as some of 4 Hero's ...

Sharp-edged grooves from Israel -- deep funk at the core, but also cut up with a fair bit of turntable work too! The combo are heavy on the horns -- trumpet, tenor, trombone, and baritone sax -- laid out in full funky frenzy over some very driving drum work on the bottom. These grooves would be ...

Cosmic synth grooves from the duo of Michael Kirkman and Alan James, aka Subway -- home recorded electronic soundscapes working in hypnotic from of the 70s Krautrock innovators, and the more effervescent sounds of avant garde dance music of 80s Detroit and the European scene in almost equal measure! ...

The first full length effort from Bay Area beats and atmosphere sound sculptor Cosiner -- a warm and often jazzy blend of beats, bass, keys -- from low and rumbling rawness that revolves around the drum and bass, to more of a live sounding hip hop jazz vibe with piano and horns, to more of a DJ ...

Sparse, arresting songwriting and hypnotic electronic flourishes from Fink -- who has been evolving wonderfully as a songwriter over the past few releases -- and really finding moody comfort zone on Sort Of Revolution. One of the things that we admire most about this phase of Fink's recorded ...

Buoyant, spacey funk beatcraft and sputtering synthy atmospherics blended intricately with more soulful and and jazzy touches courtesy of the Clonious -- a deft mix of heavy funk beatcraft and more hallucinatory soundscapes! Clonious proves to have an impeccable ear for far reaching dynamics, ...

A nice blend of dubby rhythms, rootsy instrumentation, organic and programmed elements from the UK & Brazilian cross-continental roots & reggae combo Dubkasm! Key members live a world away -- Digistep in Brazil and DJ Stryda in Bristol -- but they manage to do a pretty great job of making ...

The second album from label owner and genius compiler of sound library and otherwise groovy obscurities -- whose in work with diverse beats, sampler soundscapes and in turns playful and moody aural errata pretty wonderful, too! Scrapbook is an assembly of scraps of music Jonny created in fits and ...

An incredible collaboration between Mark De Clive-Lowe and Bembe Seque -- and a project that seems to soar even higher than any of their previous individual work! Politik have a righteously cosmic groove that's right in step with the 21st Century soul generation -- a post-4Hero vibe that's built ...

Funky rhythms and modal grooves -- all held together nicely by the raspy vocals of JJ Vianello! The record's got echoes of other recent work from Italy -- particularly some of the Mario Biondi recordings, in its mix of well-chosen modes from the 60s! But JJ's also got a bent that's more soul than ...

Aural hypnosis, blissful beats and natural atmospherics from Kona Triangle -- the collaborative union of UK sound stylists Keaver and Brause! The organic sounds that float over and slide another the synth tones and lightly thumping beats sound like genuine nature -- giving the groove and lively ...

Stuttering, thumping and unpredictable beats, bumps, and beeps from the Koushik -- a wild ride on two sides, from sparse atmospherics to full on beathead freak funk! The record features 30 brief untitled "beeps", but what we're loving about it his how approachable and flat out fun it is - ...

Cosmic hip hop soul from Om'Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn & Taz Arnold -- a long awaited proper full length from the Sa-Ra Creative Partners -- and an excellent one! Sa-Ra's signature spacey funk & beatcraft, hypnotic and boundless grooves have been critical behind the scenes for some of their ...

Spacey soul, propulsive club grooves, thumping beats and more laidback elements from Karizma -- a diverse set of remixed and alternate material from his stellar Mind Of Its Own album -- more than worthy of fresh perspective! Karizma defies easy categorization, and that's they we like it -- with ...

Funky club soul from Chin Chin -- definitely a different vibe for the Def Jux label -- on a record that combines a synthy dancefloor bounce with more of a group soul sound! There's a spacey groove here that's pretty loveable -- and it's really surprisingly sophisticated, to boot -- even treading a ...

Completely compelling work from Fleur Earth Experiment -- a German soul outfit with a really unique groove! The Fleur Earth sound is built up beautifully from crispy beats, spacey keyboards, and funky production -- all very much in the best spirit of the Melting Pot Music label the group calls ...

A hypnotic batch of atmospherics and cosmic sounds from Carlos Nino & friends -- a nice blend of found sounds and field recordings of both natural soundscapes and some of the talented musicians in his circle of friends! Carlos is really one of the more diverse ...

Diplo & Switch's full length debut as Major Lazer -- a heady, thumping set that's steeped in dancehall and pulsating club sounds, often with clean, laser guided sound bits searing through -- with appearances by Mr Lex & Santigold, Mr Vegas & Jovi Rockwell, Jah Dan, Future Trouble, ...

A massively beautiful little record from Nostalgia 77 -- one that really knocked our socks off, and that's saying a lot, because we really liked their last album too! The sound here is much jazzier than before -- strung out over some funky beats and samples, but played by a larger group that ...

Fractured avant funk, raw leftfield soul, and jittery, unpredictable bits of electronics on the outer edges -- all with a human heartbeat and real depth of emotion -- the best stuff yet from East Bay groover Nino Moschella! Nino is combining off kilter sound washes and true blue funk & soul ...

Dense, oddly catchy glitch grooves from Daedelus -- ear candy and avant pop that's as instantly gratifying as anything we've heard from Daedelus! There's a number of guest vocalists on the record who do a really nice job with their parts, but the heart and soul of the record is the synth toned ...

Great grooves from S-Tone -- the best album so far from Stefano Tirone, thanks to a range of great singers and musicians on the set! There's a warmly acoustic vibe here -- one that's rooted in bossa, but which also has some of the club jazz elements you'd expect from Schema Records -- a mix of ...

The best work so far from Rosalia De Souza -- a session that features production and guitar from bossa legend Roberto Menescal, and a sound that's deeper and even more classic than any of Rosalia's other work! Most of the instrumentation here is in an older acoustic mode -- piano, percussion, and ...

A far reaching mix of material put together by Henrik Schwarz/Ame/Dixon -- from the minimalist electronic experimentalists, to hypnotic film score bits, to sparsely furnished house and club sounds of more recent years -- a deeply diverse tapestry of beats and sounds from the past 50 years! The ...

The Berlin wall's been down for over a decade, but it's taken years for the western club scene to finally notice the great grooves coming out of the Eastern Block scene! For years now, artists in nations formerly locked off from more familiar European circuits have been dabbling in styles that not ...

Spacey soul from Fleur Earth -- a completely compelling artist described by the label as "Minnie meets Madlib in Cologne" -- with a sound that's pretty darn close to that description! Crunchy beats are mixed with lovely female vocals -- mostly sung in German, which gives them a weird ...

The evocative title of this set is extremely well-placed -- as Micatone take on a deeper, rootsier style than ever before! Gone are the simple downtempo lines of previous records -- and in their place is a stronger sense of personality and poetry -- one that uses acoustic instrumentation as ...

A brilliant album of cosmic jazz from this up and coming German group! Hipnosis work in a territory that's half 70s fusion, and half underground club jazz -- in a style that kind of feels like what would have happened if Herbie Hancock recorded for Compost Records! The group boasts some excellent ...

Don't pass these guys up -- because they're a really great little group -- especially if you enjoy the jazzy soul of some of the recent releases on Sonar Kollektiv! Like the best SK groups, these guys work in a mode that combines soulful vocals, jazzy riffing, and a bit of electronics into a ...

These guys have a name like an eyeglass store, but a sound that's richly soulful -- way more than you might expect from their name or the cover -- and a groove that's filled with classic influences from the 60s and 70s! The style isn't quite the same as the usual retro soul album -- as the ...

Crackling piano trio work from LTC -- a groovy Italian combo who burn things up nicely with this club jazz set for the Ricky Tick label! There's a tightness here that takes us back to some of the best European piano sets of the 60s -- influences from soul jazz, modal jazz, and a bit of bossa -- ...

An amazing new version of the United Legends by Shuya Okino -- one that has the record completely recorded with jazz backings from Sleep Walker -- all in a sound that's even better than the original! The album's almost a Sleep Walker album at heart -- with tremendous sax and modal piano lines -- ...

As the title states, a compilation celebrating the landmark release from Om Records. 16 tracks over 3 LPs, including "Salutation" by King Kooba, "Afro Loft Theme" by Fred Everything, "All Right" by Soulstice, "La Playa" by J Boogie's Dubtronic Science, " ...

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The 8th volume in this perennially popular series -- mostly featuring heavily mixed/sequenced instrumental tunes, built up off of jazzy riffs and samples, in that early 90s New York mode. Titles include: "Jazzy Flute" by Bread & Butter, "KMW" by The Prunes, "Nite ...

A collection of groovers from London and New York. Tracks include "Revival" by Martine Girault, "Prince Of Peace (12 inch mix)" by Galliano, "Beware" by Vivienne McKone, "Don't Throw My Love Around" by Cooly's Hot Box, "Part Of The Masterplan 92-Live ...

An assortment of Nujazz, downtempo, and electronic tracks from Germany -- pulled together by the folks at Spinning Wheel Records, who we love for their collections of older groovy bits! The set features many exclusive tracks and previously unissued numbers -- and it fits nicely with a Compost or G- ...