April’s playlist contains 55 tracks, that summarize the artists we’ve showcased during this month. Blend of live music with electronic approaches, groovy basslines and infectious percussion, club moments and home meditations. Almost everything is new.
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Dego’s 2000BLACK label releases have accustomed us to a certain music standard. Project X, presumably created by the minds of Dego, Kaidi Tatham, Mr. Mensah and Matt Lord, is the label’s latest work - an organic trip through the fusion of soul, electronic and broken beat elements.
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Sharing a lot of the same influences, Alfa Mist and Richard Spaven create a cross-genre canvas where they freely explore hip hop, jazz, soul and broken beat aesthetics.
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Deeply rooted in in brutal hip hop grooves and loosely inspired by the sound of the ‘90s, Błoto’s music is somehow dirty and uncompromising, flying through the rawness of its drums and bass.
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JK Group, led by saxophonist Josh Kelly are a powerhouse nu-jazz band, creating organic music blending raw, live jazz and electronic/dance productions. The Young Ones LP, their debut, is a another golden chapter of the Melbourne sound we are currently living, appreciating.
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Alfa Mist and Emmavie are two of the most successful artists that emerged from the music movement that bloomed in the UK over the past few years. So we go back to 2014 to listen for the first time to their collaborative album Epoch, now remastered and re-released via Sekito Records.
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The success of both Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol. 1 and the band’s first live show saw further show requests, plus a tour through Australia in 2019. The Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol. 2 was bound to happen and now it’s here, dropping this week via Middle Name Records.
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Bringing an atmospheric jazz-hop to the table Athletic Progression is a head nodding album, inviting us to sit and appreciate life in peace. Groovy bass lines and deep drums are all over this, while the keys add a mysterious and mesmerizing texture.
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Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange synthesizes dance music in human form providing a live band experience in the club-influenced work they present. Their second album ZFEX Vol.II blends synths, flutes, jazz drums and the raw energy of classic broken beat and house records.
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March ‘20 playlist is composed by 50 tracks summarizing many different releases and artists we’ve showcased here. The quality is very high. Every each one of these artists have something real to tell you.
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Connection Paris-Northeastern Brazil to present Camarão Orkestra’s Nação África, founded in the rhythms of candomblé, in the drums of enslaved Africans, in a ritual that invokes numerous deities.
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In 2010 the São Paulo-based collective Mental Abstrato releases its first album: Pure Essence. With the Goon Trax stamp on it the record got great international reviews, becoming a classic of underground jazz rap, from Brazil to the world.
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Emma Jean-Thackray kind of does it all. Hailing from the explosive UK jazz scene she is one of its prodigous daughters. The composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, bandleader and DJ presents her new EP Rain Dance, released via her brand new label Movementt.
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February went by on the waves of some of the best new releases on Electronic, Jazz, Hip Hop realms. Eclectic as usual, 41 tracks to feed body, soul and mind, always introducing new stuff, new approaches.
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Karmasound has his fantastic debut album coming out tomorrow through Phuture Shock Musik. La Búsqueda delves into jazz - particularly of the 70’s Latin fusion/funk variety – as a key source of its inspiration, yet with a contemporary electronic-infused spin and loosely within a broken beat context. From A to Z, an album full of magnificent details.
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Having spent many years playing drums alongside some of New Zealand’s most talented musicians in the revered Wellington jam session scene Clear Path Ensemble is an amalgamation of the energy & spirit that the new Wellington scene encompasses.
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Throughout the last four years Moses Boyd broadened his stylistic horizons even further, leading to his new album Dark Matter, released last week. Tempestuous blend of MIDI sequences, warm acoustics, and curated vocal features.
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Yes Doctor is the debut LP from Henry Hicks a.k.a. Horatio Luna. The eclectic Melbourne shape-shifter solidifies his place within ‘house music’ on Yes Doctor as Dub, Jazz & Bruk bleed into one another. Influences from all over.
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Nick Walters returns with his second project for 22a - a free and spiritual journey into avant-garde jazz, named Active Imagination. Joining a talented group musicians for a day in the studio, he leads with his trumpet on a session with minimal rehearsal.
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2020 started with a couple of golden releases that shaped what we featured during this month. The selection of 40 tracks includes, as usual, a “best of” selection of the best we’ve heard in January, opening the last section of the playlist to some of the things that influence our taste.
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