Hailing from Mumbai, Kumail is a new name that we are adding to our weekly discoveries. Via the incredible collaboration in “Same Shit” with Pink Siifu (currently one of our favorite hip hop artists), we were magnetically invited to delve into his last project: Yasmin.
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Impressionistic, emotional and romantic, Milton’s creative process is here represented heavily - on songs without lyrics as well as evocative vocalizing and choruses, heavy experimentations with Afro-Brazilian percussion and taped jungle sounds.
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Surprise Chef are an instrumental soul quartet from Melbourne, Australia. Crossing the group’s unconventional jazz-funk sound, All News Is Good News is a mysterious piece, with a distinct cinematic taste to it, playing with shades of light and dark, tension and release.
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These Days fuses traditional jazz sounds into modern compositions, boiling in a specific political and cultural landscape across its twelve tracks. With Casimir playing with a passion and a power that resonates throughout each composition, Hirst has space to deliver not only her music but also her perspective of herself as an artist.
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Kolja Gerstenberg joins Lumberjacks in Hell, the home of a soulful family around Marcel Vogel, to drop the Anna Melara EP - a funky four track lo fi house and disco project, that is going on in loop over here.
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Following Big Fan Of The Sesh Vol. 1 and a World Without Snooze Vol. 2, Biig Piig’s very personal trilogy comes to an end with No Place For Patience Vol. 3. A more of self-reflective project, facing hard truths and taking all the good and bad from them, rapping, singing, storytelling, en dos idiomas.
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Debuting in style, the Hamburg/Berlin duo Douniah and High John release their debut LP through Melting Pot: Dream Baby. John's warm, lo-fi beats and Douniah’s rich, soul-soaked voice interact in a very natural way, combining almost organically 90’s urban music with the timbre and themes of our times.
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New releases floating by our coast constantly. An eclectic playlist of 60 tracks summarizes all those inputs coming from all over the world. Different paces, moods and rhythms. Plenty of jazz and hip hop, plenty of dancefloor bangers and deep melodies.
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Flying through time, the musical movement of the early 80s in Africa has in Eric Kol’s Today album one of its prodigious releases. This extremely rare boogie classic, that almost never appears for sale, is reissued for the first time by BBE.
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Coming together in the most natural, organic way, Michele Manzo’s different influences are reflected in his new LP All Rise, released through Darker Than Wax. While jazz and funk are at the core of Manzo’s musical foundation, the Italian artist crosses styles with ease, delivering high-levels of groove consistently.
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Hector Plimmer is a multi-faceted producer, composer and DJ whose sound is drenched in tribal rhythms and beautifully crafted bass. His second album, Next To Nothing, was released last week, showcasing once again the artist’s ability to create an ocean of sounds for us to dive in and explore.
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Fluid Motion - released with the prestigious Rhythm Section stamp on it - is 30/70 Collective’s third album and might be their most accomplished too, result of the constant exploration of its members within their influences.
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The Far Out Recordings in-house producer Daniel Maunick presents his first LP. Connecting Rio de Janeiro and East London, Macumba Quebrada blends deep house stompers and broken-beat bangers littered with Brazilian rhythms.
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Scott Moncrieff, a.k.a. Thatmanmonkz is an internationally acclaimed DJ, recording artist, producer, and also the label boss at SWAT, Hot Peas N Butter and Shadeleaf Music. Through Shadeleaf he follows the highly praised Columbusing with another project that fuses a mash up of broken-beat, hip hop, deep house and, maybe, everything else there is.
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The Budapest-based trio Jazzbois smoothly delivers one of the best debuts in 2019. The project entitled Jazzbois Goes Blunt flows effortlessly between jazz and hip hop genres, with bass, keys and drums tuned together through an 11-track trip.
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After four EP’s of VA projects, the French imprint Broken District releases its first mini LP: South Side, by SofaTalk, an Italian producer that has been under our radar for a while, as one of the best new acts in the broken-beat, jazz-house scene.
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“I think therefore I jam”. Cogito Ergo Jam, released by Social Joy, is the first LP from the Natural Lateral quintet, drawing inspirations from jazz, through electronic, with deep grooves and mesmerizing psych-synth melodies.
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Joining the Berlin-based Toy Tonics label, jazz pianist Joel Holmes and stylized producer Cody Currie are preparing the release of a couple of EP’s. The first one, New Chapter, is a delicious 4-track ode to the neo-jazz spirit.
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Starts Again is Tawiah’s creative reset of-sorts. Her debut album, a decade on from her first EP, is a triumphant 10-piece composition of avant-garde soul music, blending the artist’s sensibilities with low-slung beats and layered harmonies.
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Bernie Says is Jake Milliner’s definite step into the spotlight. The South Londoner debut album, released through Melting Pot, is his transition from beatmaker/producer to a fully fledged artist mode. Having produced tracks for artists like Barney Artist, Hawk House, Musiq Soulchild or T-3, his background prior to this project speaks for itself.
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