“From the soul-jazz of “Music Takes Me Up” (featuring the golden lungs of Alice Russell), through the cartoonish tail-swishing of “Donkey Ride”, on into the monstrous bass parps of “Whiplash,” past a superb cameo from Roots Manuva (“Nice Up The Function,”) and across the bit where the bass comes back and is Stronger And More […]

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Fat Jon (of Five Deez) has been releasing wonderfully unique instrumental hip-hop albums. Japan appreciates his music. Released on Libyus Records (of Japan), “Hundred Eight Stars” by Fat Jon is another excellent instrumental hip-hop album. This one actually compiles many instrumentals that were previously released on vinyl. Such songs include “Outreach 5″ (an instrumental version […]

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There aren’t enough natural resources on planet Earth to keep us going. And there are insufficient amounts of love, hospitality or, indeed, humane warmth. That’s all a given. But what is not lacking in any way, shape or form on our madly spinning orb, is - instrumental hip hop.Not that this bothers Fat Jon. Beat […]

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“hurry” is the first single from the long awaited upcoming naked music album, “recreation”, celebrating 10 years of the label’s timeless sounds. naked music co-founder and producer jay denes has written a sophisticated piece of urban soul, returning to the deep groove sensibility that got so many people hooked on the naked music sound in […]

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Artist: Naked Music
Title: Re-Creation
Released: July 2008
Format: Unmixed Audio CD, 320 kbps / 44,1kHz
Label: Naked Music
Genre: Deep House, Nu Soul & Funk, Groove
Re-Creation is the latest offering from Jay Denes (aka Blue Six) of eleven brand new songs celebrating the 10th anniversary.This is a stylistic journey through the moods and sounds for which the legendary imprint […]

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Berlin label Sonar Kollektiv celebrate their tenth birthday by becoming a 15-member supergroup for a new album ‘Guaranteed Niceness’.
The SKO features various artists from the label fronted by a core group of six vocalists including Esther Cowens from Greenissimo, Wilson Michaels, Georg Levin from Wahoo, Lisa Bassenge from Nylon and Micatone, Sascha Gottschalk from Thief […]

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The third studio album Camino Real includes all the best Buscemi-ingredients we already experienced: stylish house music with a classy french funky touch, intelligent Brazilian flavored beats and deeply skinned Latin vibes.
The album features contributions from french bossa diva Isabelle Antena, Spearhead songsmith Michael Franti and Blurts cult saxophone player Ted Milton.
French singer Isabelle Antena […]

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Helicopter Girl is the stage name of Jackie Joyce, a musician from Perth, Scotland. Her first album was 2000’s How to Steal the World, which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. It did not win, and Joyce took an extended break from the business following the exposure. Her second album, Voodoo Chic (featuring the […]

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Little Dragon “Twice”

Little Dragon are four school-friends from Gothenburg who play sparse, quirky, genre-bending music around singer Yukimi Nagano’s eerie yet heartfelt tones. This is sure to lead to comparisons with Bjork, as well as Kate Bush, but there is also a soul element to their sound (the progressive end, like Shuggie Otis or Prince; […]

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St.Germain - Sure thing
St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musician. His album Boulevard was released in July 1995 and has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. His United States debut, Tourist, was released in 2000 and sold 200,000 copies. Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Miles Davis […]

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