Category: Music
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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 […]
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The More Things Stay The Same album – Dego
Listen to The More Things Stay The Same, Dennis ‘Dego’ McFarlane sophomore album that spans boogie, broken beats, jazz funk and neo soul Dennis ‘Dego’ McFarlane, one half of esteemed strings ‘n’ bass duo 4hero, has released a follow-up to his superb (an oddly entitled) album A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?. On the strength of […]
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Vein Melter EP – Jesse Fischer & Sly5thAve
New York musos Jesse Fischer and Sly5thAve release the Vein Melter EP, a tribute to Herbie Hancock’s seminal jazz fusion album Head Hunters New York musos Jesse Fischer and Sly5thAve have joined forces to produce Vein Melter. The title gives a heavy hint of what this is all about. Vein Melter is the fourth track […]
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Jazz Re:freshed Scrapbook – book and album
Promoters Adam “Rock” Moses and Justin “TopRock” McKenzie release Jazz Re:freshed Scrapbook, a publication (and free CD) celebrating 11 years of their live jazz night in London The promoters behind the live music night Jazz Re:freshed are marking 11 years of running the London jazz club with a celebratory book and accompanying CD. The Jazz […]
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AKA Series Volume Three compilation – Domu (Dominic Stanton)
With little fanfare, Dominic Stanton – aka Domu – has released AKA Series Volume Three, an eight-track compilation comprising broken beats, house and soulful electronica Dominic Stanton – aka Domu – retired from music making in 2009, but tentatively returned five years later with the short drum ‘n’ bass outing Unreleased And Remastered. Back then, […]