Category: Music archive
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Church Remixed album – Mark de Clive-Lowe
Producers spanning the globe remix the 2014 album by Los Angeles-based keyboardist Mark de Clive-Lowe If Mark de Clive-Lowe’s original 2014 album Church was a little too avant-garde for some, then Church Remixed quashes those qualms because it has far broader appeal. Jazz was front and centre on Church, whereas Remix revolves around the dancefloor. […]
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Break Reform mix by DJ Simon S – free music download
Free download of jazzy mid-tempo grooves by DJ Simon S, boss of soul-jazz label Futuristica Music Simon S is a UK DJ who’s been spinning soul, jazz, hip hop and all the genres in between for a couple of decades, rising to prominence alongside the likes of DJ Gilles Peterson. Between 2000 to 2005, he […]
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Simplify (Rootickal Re Twist) – Omar
Shimmy up to a loved one and gyrate to some rootsy melodies from the king of British neo soul This two-track release from Omar, the king of British neo soul, features something old and something new(ish). The new(ish) is a reggae reworking of Simplify by DJ and MC Scratch Professer. This opening track from Omar’s […]
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City album – Stuart McCallum
Listen to City, a jazzy eight-track album from the former Cinematic Orchestra guitarist, which marries acoustic artistry with electronic flourishes Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum is best known for his work with The Cinematic Orchestra. But unlike the latter’s brand of jazzy and (often) folksy goings-on, McCallum’s solo effort is a little more ethereal and oblique. […]
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Guess What EP – various artists
Listen to this four-track EP featuring dance-flavoured reworkings from the likes of OL and Tommy Rawson The enigmatic title of this EP from In-Beat-Ween Music, the label that released Lay-Far’s So Many Ways Remixed, is enigmatic for a reason. The original identity of these dance-flavoured reworkings has not been revealed; all we’re told is that […]
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Ego Death album – The Internet
Luxuriate in the warm baselines and jazz-skewed melodies of The Internet’s neo soul album Ego Death Purple Naked Ladies, the debut album by LA-based outfit The Internet, didn’t set the world alight, but their follow-up Feel Good certainly did. Of the latter, reviewers were “blown away” by an “undeniably impressive” LP that was a “delicate […]
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So Many Ways Remixed album – Lay-Far
Listen to the likes of Atjazz, Ashley Beedle and Phil Asher remix Lay-Far’s superb 2013 album So Many Ways It’s odd that albums that are the best candidates for remix projects tend to be mediocre ones. It allows a remixer the chance to pluck the most striking grooves or vocals of an otherwise ordinary tune […]
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Fakin The Funk by Panax – free music download
What do we know about Panax? He’s Canadian, used to be called Dmac and, as his SoundCloud page rightly states, “he raps well”. Fakin The Funk is two and a half minutes of jazzy, soulful hip hop produced by AstroLogical, one half of Potatohead People, a duo that released the rather fine Big Luxury album […]
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EP2 – Dego & Kaidi
Fans of jazzy “broken house and boogie” will relish EP2, the follow-up to Dego and Kaidi Tatham’s 2014 EP Last year 4hero co-founder Dennis “Dego” McFarlane and Kaidi Tatham put out EP, a release that should win a prize for having the world’s least pretentious title. So in keeping with the pair’s unfussy naming convention, […]
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Choose Your Weapon album – Hiatus Kaiyote
For geeky music fans who may possess a rudimentary grasp of chords, scales and rhythms, Choose Your Weapon is a revelation. The Australian quartet toy with tempos, switch melodies and hijack genres with scholarly precision. It’s scary at times. Take Jekyll – it appears to be a conventional neo-soul outing until, two minutes into the […]