Tag: Sonar Kollektiv
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Make It Good by The White Lamp – free music download
Download the free nu jazz track Make It Good by UK duo The White Lamp, a song that featured on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Bubblers Nine compilation Berlin-based label Sonar Kollektiv is giving away the radio edit (which is slightly shorter) of Make It Good by The White Lamp. Who are The White Lamp? Well, they’re […]
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The New Continent album review – Lars Bartkuhn
Some say material on this album sounds a bit like Pat Metheny. They’re mistaken. There’s material on this album that sounds a lot like Pat Metheny. All those “eee yaaahs” and “bah deee baaahs” can be heard on late ’80s Metheny LPs like Still Life (Talking) and Letter From Home. If you own them, buy The New Continent. You […]
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Guaranteed Niceness album review – Sonar Kollektiv Orchester
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, jazzy Berlin label Sonar Kollektiv has released a collection of old tunes that sound remarkably new. A lush blanket of strings and horns transform songs that were once enveloped in electronic wizardry. Jazzanova faves No Use and Run have been stripped of their club-friendly oomph and replaced with a live, […]
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Junkyard Gods album review – Two Banks Of Four
There wouldn’t be a broken beat or nu-jazz scene without the likes of Earl Zinger and Demus (of Galliano and the Young Disciples fame, respectively). Both were trailblazers of acid jazz, a genre that spawned numerous soulful incarnations. Intriguingly, this CD stirs up memories of those heydays. Maybe it’s the waltzy backdrop of Queen Of […]
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…mixing album review – various artists (4hero)
The aim of this compilation is to “investigate the musical influences” of 4hero (aka Marc Mac and Dego) through an expansive selection of songs that spans J Dilla’s hip-hop breaks, the P-funk of Bootsy Collins, not to mention a smattering of retro electro and a dab of dub. For completist or new fans unfamiliar with […]