Plug One is CoOp Presents’ highly awaited double-album compilation featuring a plethora of global talent from in and around the world of broken beat and beyond. The 17 tracks that compose it range from cosmic psych jazz, to classic UKG tweaks, to thought-provoking vibes, and to a veritable who’s who of 2020 bruk talent.
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Born out of lockdown and remote collaboration, Vivid expresses Wahh’s internal dialogue - speaking to herself and the world at large -, and its talented expansion in melodies. From inspired action to bittersweet realizations, from London to New York, from jazz to house, to back home in Manila.
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Curated by Melting Pot Music label, The Silhouettes Project is an exciting community project that serves as a platform for up and coming hip hop, soul and jazz artists from the UK. The full LP comes with 15 brand new tracks that are the perfect portrait of Great Britain’s new generation of hip hop artists.
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Sacbé and their eponymous LP is another Favorite Recording’s exclusive reissue, and is a Mexican jazz fusion masterpiece from 1977, uniquely and beautifully recorded, similar to what bands like Azymuth were doing at the same time.
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Back to the 1990’s to present a true classic reissued by Berlin-based 90s Tapes - I’ll Meet You In Greenwich by the Chicago duo The Primeridian is a 21-track opus of tight productions paired with smooth back and forth rhymes.
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Sankofa Season takes both artists to new heights as they seamlessly complement each other’s musical language. In six tracks, Ashong and Tatham criss-cross jazzy broken beats, neo soul and funky moments, crossing as well time, moving into their own distinct lane.
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Cherry picking a tree full of influences - from golden age hip hop, ‘90s House to leftfield jazzy sounds - Bonfim presents six sample based tracks, each one of them with its unique texture, representing in a perfect way the duo’s eclectic tastes.
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Jneiro Jarel’s work is distinctive, forward thinking, diverse in its influencing forces, with a special love for Afro-Latin-Brazilian rhythms. After A Thousand Years is a perfect fit into Far Out Recordings’ catalog, collecting and organizing those life-long ‘inspirations’.
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One of the leaders on the wave of musical talent coming from Italy, Vito Loperfido (a.k.a. Twovi) is not afraid of using inspiration from different sources. Panama, released via the Stockholm-based Omena Records, blends jazzy house vibes with intricate afro-latin-infused drum patterns into a very natural soundscape.
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Mellow Fantasy is the fantastic third album from Vancouver-based duo Potatohead People - widening the frame of Nick Wisdom and AstroLogical progressive musical vision and delivering a far-reaching yet approachable set of moods and grooves.
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Via Astigmatic Records the revered Polish instrumental-jazz-hip-hop collective EABS recreates some of the magical compositions made by the legend of Sun Ra between 1957 and 1979. Result of the preparations for a special concert related to this release, and of the deep reflections on astral meanings, the ideas for Discipline of Sun Ra took shape.
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"Not average, not nothing for the norm. This is for my true party people, my true club heads... that just wanna dance and jack. You know? Specially in…
What Up?"
Dedicated to those that…
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The navigation through o sótão’s October is easier through the month’s playlist, summarizing a high-karat-gold selection of the artists and projects we’ve showcased. The usual 50 tracks explore a variety of approaches to music, showcasing young promise’s magic and well-established virtuosity.
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The Jazz Is Dead project, curated by the legendary duo composed by Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, has been presenting a very intimate and smooth perspective on great names of jazz music. Following a Various Artists’ compilation, Roy Ayers and Marcos Valle, Azymuth are in charge of the fourth installment of the series.
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Y Su Descarga Internacional picks up where 2018’s Love & Resistance left off, filled with disco and funk steeped in Afro Latin rhythms and influences, finding more genre defying dance floor amalgamations.
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Dreamweavers is a special record for the electro-jazz heads. The master Mark de Clive-Lowe is joined by the creative partnership of bass player Andrea Lombardini and drummer Tommaso Cappellato, two Italian musicians that have been a consistent presence on Mark de Clive-Lowe’s European tours for several years now.
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Joined by a fantastic band in La Noche de los Dioses, Tino Contreras presents a sonic gift; a kaleidoscope of evolving and shifting spiritual rumination about life and humanity. The sounds, the rhythms, are expansive, hypnotic and mystical.
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Rooted in jazz, soul music and r&b, LTDBLBL008 carries a an ultra-super-smooth stamp on it, representing both artists’ vision of a sound shifting from classic to modern influences.
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Misunderstood is Georgie Sweet’s fantastic debut, curated by the UK's pioneering future soul label, Futuristica Music. Counting with productions from Marc Rapson, Simon S, K15 and Mecca:83, the 20 year old natural talent from the UK has the perfect canvas to present herself as one of the most exciting acts to explore right now.
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Recorded over a Spring weekend in Surprise Chef's DIY analogue studio (dubbed The College Of Knowledge), Daylight Savings expands on the dramatic 1970’s cinematic soul sound established in their previous project.
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