Renegades Of Jazz – Hip To The Jive
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Breakbeat, Downtempo, Nu Jazz
Renegades Of Jazz with their debut-album “Hip To the Jive”. Hip To The Jive album is a journey through heavy Big Band Jazz swing, an onslaught of massive break beats, exotic samples, wild and wonderful bass tones, B-Boy breaks and beautiful downbeat rhythms. Twelve raw tracks packed tight with energy and heavy production skills.
Played by the likes of Craig Charles (BB6 Music) and Pete Isaac (Jelly Jazz) the Renegades Of Jazz sound has found a lot love and support worldwide. Through the huge success, Renegades Of Jazz is already taking shape to become a nine-piece live band set to take to the stage in 2012.
For more info and buy check: www.renegadesofjazz.com
Tracklist
01. Hooked On Swing
02. Karabine
03. Get A Wiggle On
04. Blow Your Horn
05. Voodoo Juju
06. Cascade
07. Black Milk
08. Jitterbug
09. Apple Sauce
10. Hip To The Jive
11. Solitaire
12. You Better Run
40 Winks Albums!
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, Discography, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop, Instrumental, Jazz Hop
40 Winks is an instrumental hip hop group made up of two producers – padmo’ and weedy – from Antwerp, Belgium.
40 Winks hit the scene in 2002, with a whole slew of laidback beats. Eager to share their sound with the world, they released a couple of albums independently. The attention they got from this, allowed them to build with people from around the world.
One of these independently released albums, More Than Loops, got reissued in Japan on Swamp Records, after that the ball kept rolling. On their first worldwide release, Extended Pleasure on Escapism Records (2005), they reached listeners well beyond the (instrumental) hip hop community with the song “melancholia”. After appearances on compilations, like Weapons of Hope on Little-D (2006), they got a chance to do their thing on the renowned label, Merck Records with Sound Puzzle (2007). All this led them back to Europe, where the German based Project: Mooncircle welcomed them with a spot on the compilation Heart on the right spot (2007) and a full album The Lucid Effect (2008). In 2009 they took some time off, doing solo stuff and remixes. In 2011 40 Winks is back with a double LP called It’s The Trip (2011) on Project: Mooncircle.
For more info and buy check: www.40winksmusic.com
2002 – April To July
Tracklist
01. Trashcan Pt.1 (Skit)
02. Interludes
03. Trashcan Pt.2 (Skit)
04. On The Set
05. Trashcan Pt.3 (Skit)
06. Drums and Samples
07. Trashcan Pt.4 (Skit)
08. Instrumental Fruit
09. Krewcial – Devoted (Remix, Late Night Version)
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2002 – Hit the Hay
Tracklist
01. What We Want – Intro
02. Fresh Out The Box – Interlude
03. Society Pressure
04. Low Budget Style
05. High On Moondust – Interlude
06. From Dusty Vinyl Till Dawn
07. Bassjunkie feat. Leander
08. JustGelakAsDaGast feat. Nag
09. Sleepytown
10. Shout – Interlude
11. Sampling Vs Live Instruments – Skit
12. Mary Sings
13. Wassupwithfortywinks?!
14. Insomniac’s Hideout – Intro
15. That Ain’t Hip Hop
16. Cloudy Performance
17. Niks Te Doen feat. Twan
18. Traveller – Interlude
19. Take Your Time
20. At The Nightshop – Interlude
21. Flashback
22. Cry For No Reason
23. Primal Drums – Interlude
24. Harm Reduction
25. Musical Breeze
26. Hit The Hay – Outro
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2005 – More Than Loops
Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Are You Comfortable?
03. Come Back To Bed
04. City Dweller
05. Flirtations
06. Do Me a Flavour (Prelude)
07. Do Me a Flavour
08. How To Make It In Showbiz (Interlude)
09. Glamour and Glitz
10. Thinking About Nothing (Interlude)
11. Wanna Try Something New?
12. Deep Relaxation Break
13. Night In Antwerp
14. Elevation Through Music (Interlude)
15. Destination, My Imagination
16. Snatching Pieces Of Time
17. The Way You Love Me
18. Escapism (Prelude)
19. Escapism
20. Vibed Out Feeling
21. Sound Illusion (Outro)
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2005 – Extended Pleasure
Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Producers Beware
03. The Nightowl’s Theme
04. City Dweller Pt.2
05. Melancholia
06. Wishing Upon a Beat
07. Melancholia – Outro
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40 Winks & Manifest – I Manifest EP
Tracklist
01. Hold Your Ground
02. Like This (Interlude)
03. Headnodders
04. Raw (Interlude)
05. Worrierblues
06. Try (Interlude)
07. Walk The Talk
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2007 – Sound Puzzle
Tracklist
01. Goodmorning (Intro)
02. New Day (Introlude)
03. Sketch
04. Go Ahead Bobby (Interlude)
05. Progress
06. Welcome To Paradise Island (Interlude)
07. For The Traveller
08. Egyptian Love Poems
09. It’s Here
10. You (Interlude)
11. I Bring You Dreams
12. Divine Intervention (Interlude)
13. Planet Anvers
14. Picture This
15. Soulful Sensitivity
16. Mind Lost (Interlude)
17. One Button
18. Old Train
19. Way Past Bedtime (Outro)
20. Melancholia (Bonus)
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2008 – The Lucid Effect
Tracklist
01. Sleep Rock
02. Wise Up
03. Wizardry
04. Input A
05. Rap About That (Smoke and Mirrors)
06. Highwaves
07. I Heart U On Drums (Interlude)
08. Winks Jazz
09. One Way Ticket
10. Hazy Notion
11. Distorted Reception
12. Keep On
13. Sleep Ritual (Outro)
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2011 – It’s The Trip
Tracklist
01. Entrée
02. Outside The Box
03. Tribal Recipe
04. The Day Breaks
05. The Journey (Interlude)
06. Sun Spots
07. Malicious Choir
08. Sales Over Soul (Interlude)
09. Subtle Piece
10. Kodak
11. Mood Adapter (Prelude)
12. Mood Adapter
13. Tinnitus
14. Winkz Waltz
15. Vocal Play (Interlude)
16. 40 Layers
17. Badwill
18. Not The Destination
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Young Montana? – Limerence
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Downtempo, Electronic
Limerence is the debut album by Young Montana?, the 20 year-old producer who was plucked from obscurity out of Coventry, UK when Mary Anne Hobbs of the BBC Radio 1 anointed him as her “Favorite Unsigned Artist of 2010.”
Playful yet complex, the controlled chaos of Limerence displays Young Montana?’s pristine sense of sonic exploration. Showing remarkable skill with sample collage work, Young Montana? is running circles around anyone else attempting this sort of beat fusion right now.
A breathless and body-moving ride, Limerence has a completely new sound and is the fresh slap to the face you’ve been waiting for.
for more info and buy check: www.alphapuprecords.com
Tracklist
01. In Finite
02. Sacre Cool
03. Suchbeats (feat. Stainless Steele)
04. Dreamhome
05. Bad.day
06. Mynnd
07. Hot Heathrr
08. Legwrap
09. Midnight Snacks
10. Repetition
11. Connct
40 Winks – It’s The Trip
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
No hay banda! (“there is no band”, Mulholland Dr. 2001) pretty much sums up where 40 Winks aims to go with its instrumental hip hop: meticulously chop and paste samples together, to create an atmosphere of beats and vibes which steps beyond unimaginative loops. “Join 40 Winks on a road trip to anywhere. Bring your music player and tell your honey you won’t be home for dinner. It’s the trip, not the destination.“
for more info and buy check: www.projectmooncircle.com
Tracklist
01. Entrée
02. Outside The Box
03. Tribal Recipe
04. The Day Breaks
05. The Journey (Interlude)
06. Sun Spots
07. Malicious Choir
08. Sales Over Soul (Interlude)
09. Subtle Piece
10. Kodak
11. Mood Adapter (Prelude)
12. Mood Adapter
13. Tinnitus
14. Winkz Waltz
15. Vocal Play (Interlude)
16. 40 Layers
17. Badwill
18. Not The Destination
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Taylor McFerrin – Place In My Heart EP
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Downtempo
Place in My Heart feat. RYAT is the debut single off of Taylor McFerrin’s full length LP Early Riser, due out on Brainfeeder in 2011. The song represents a style that many haven’t previously heard from the Brooklyn based producer. Leaning heavily on layered guitars and dense swirling effects, the music is dark and soulful, with a tone somewhere between beauty and pain. A fitting match for the subject matter of RYAT’s lyrics, which are a letter to a loved one contemplating suicide. RYAT is a Philadelphia based Singer/Producer, who’s album Avant Gold sparked Taylor’s desire to collaborate on the track, which he felt was a perfect match for her distinct vocals. If Place in My Heart represents one thing listeners can expect from the Early Riser LP as a whole, it’s that McFerrin is more than willing to expand his sound in all directions. The tune was recently selected as an “All Year Winner” on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Radio show on BBC 1 and remains on heavy rotation. The music video, directed by Simon Benjamin, stars Taylor’s brother Jevon McFerrin and actress Stephanie De Latour, and is a perfect visualization of the story and emotion of the single.
for more info and buy check: www.brainfeedersite.com
Tracklist
01. Place In My Heart feat. RYAT
02. Done For
03. Awake To You
La Funk Mob – Tribulations Extra Sensorielles
Posted by dOk | Filed under 1994, Downtempo, Electronic
Although MC Solaar was the only French rapper of note during the ’90s, several hip-hop production crews made inroads in the quintessentially American style, including DJ Cam, the Mighty Bop, and La Funk Mob. The latter team was formed by Boom Bass and Philippe Zdar in the early ’90s, though Boom Bass had worked with Solaar on his first two solo albums, weaving samples from Black Sheep to Serge Gainsbourg. The act debuted with a track on the 1993 compilation album Jimmy Jay Présente ‘Les Cool Sessions’ and signed to Britain’s seminal Mo’Wax for two 1994 EPs, Tribulations Extra Sensorielles and Casse les Frontieres, Fou les Têtes en L’air (“Breaking Boundaries, Messing Up Heads”). Little was heard from the duo during 1997-1998, though two side-projects (Motorbass and L’homme Qui Valait 3 Milliard) saw release, and Boom Bass again provided production work for MC Solaar on his third album, Paradisiaque. The duo resurfaced as Cassius in 1999 for the purpose of French progressive house.
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Tracklist
01. La Doctoresse
02. Motorbass Get Phunked
03. Suspense
04. Ravers Suck Our Sound And Get Fuck
05. 357 Magnum Force
06. Blunt Konnection
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Skalpel – Konfusion
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2005, Downtempo, Electronic, Future Jazz
Polish duo Skalpel return with their second album for Ninja Tune and it’s a deeper, darker, more satisfying journey into the roots of Eastern European jazz and breaks than they have ever managed before. Very much one for jazzers, beat heads and strong cigarette smokers, “Konfusion” is an album to soundtrack your espresso breaks and to play so that you don’t have to read Jean Paul Sartre. These boys are celebrities in their mother country, which suggests that the Poles have slightly better taste than we do.
for more info and buy check. www.ninjatune.net
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Tracklist
01. Shivers
02. Flying Officer
03. Long Distance Call
04. Hiperbole
05. Beep Breath
06. Konfusion
07. Test Drive
08. Wooden Toy
09. Split
10. Seaweed
Urbs & Cutex – Breaks of Dawn
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2001, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
Urbs & Cutex are long time Hip Hop DJs and producers out of Vienna, and when they say HipHop they mean the deep and funky way it should be. Well known for various releases on Uptight Records, they know offer us this great puristic record of 10 moving tracks, all arranged around jazzy and soulful loops. “Breks Of Dawn” doesn’t sound modern, you could say it sounds oldschool, but at the end it just sounds timeless!
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Tracklist
01. Breaks Of Dawn Tourguide
02. Huh ?!
03. Up & Down
04. Keinkind (w/Intro)
05. Mad Intro
06. Cruel
07. Interlude 1
08. In The Morningtime
09. On & On
10. Banana Joe
11. Interlude 2
12. Back In The Days
13. Wont Stop
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Mr. Scruff – Mrs Cruff
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2005, Downtempo, Electronic
Mrs Cruff is a 2005 re-release of Mr. Scruff’s earliest material. Reissued by Ninja Tune, the album, while quite basic by his later standards, shows the evolution of his sound through dub inflected trip-hop punctuated with ethnic beats and jazzy trumpet, and introduced his penchant for wacky song titles, such as the single ‘Chicken In A Box’.
for more info and buy check: www.ninjatune.net
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Tracklist
01. Sea Mammal
02. Tubby Mechanical Friend
03. Brass Baby
04. Bonce
05. Chicken In A Box
06. Night Time
07. After Time
08. Limbic Funk
09. Bobbys Jazz Pony
10. Jazz Potato
11. Crips
12. Wail
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Ammoncontact – With Voices
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2006, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
Carlos Niño and Fabian Ammon have long been fulcrums of LA Black music, perfectly poised between the jazz crowd centered around Dwight Trible and classic group’s like the Army of Healers and Build An Ark, the underground hip hop scene which grew from the Good Life and Project Blowed collectives and the heavy soul-beat sound of the likes of Sa Ra and Madlib. “With Voices” is the album that Ammoncontact have been waiting to make – the point where the duo’s own loping, deep production style could be melded, as the title has it, with the voices around them. The results are scinitillating, a hip hop album bursting with spirituality and positivity and a unique ambience.
Tracklist
01. Children Of The Sun (featuring Dwight Trible and members of Build An Ark)
02. One For Ayler
03. Into 777 (featuring Sach)
04. Like This (featuring Lil Sci)
05. A Zillion Tambourines (featuring Kamau Daaood)
06. Elevation
07. With Voices (featuring Lil Sci)
08. Drum Riders (featuring Brother J and Cut Chemist)
09. Ropepe (featuring Najite)
10. Through The Pauses (featuring Sach)
11. Beautiful Flowers (featuring Prince Po, Yusef Lateef and Dwight Trible)
12. Earth’s Children (featuring Mia Doi Todd)
13. Sleep Stasis (featuring Daedelus)
14. Worth It (featuring Abstract Rude)
15. Love Needs No Destination To Have Made It (featuring Imiuswi)
16. Life Force Contact
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Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2010, Downtempo, Neo Soul
The widely hyped debut album from Ninja Tune’s latest rising star, Andreya Triana, Lost Where I Belong is a jazzy, noir-ish soul album that gives a full introduction to a vocal talent who’s previously worked with Flying Lotus, Theo Parrish and Mr Scruff, among others. The production and arrangements here ooze class (if, indeed, class can be a commodity that lends itself to the act of oozing) and that’s surely thanks to Bonobo’s Simon Green who man’s the controls on Lost Where I Belong. You may recall Triana gracing the latest Bonobo LP, supplying vocals to several tracks on the Black Sands tracklist, and the results on that occasion proved that these two certainly know how to bring the best out of one another. This time around, the musical accompaniment is considerably more subdued and organic, leaving Triana’s arresting vocal to take the central role. ‘Draw The Stars’ sets the scene with its ethereal plucked strings and woody rhythms, calling upon a flourish of orchestration when the moment comes. The remainder of the album is similarly well poised and resourceful, capturing a glazed over, downbeat feel that adds a little extra muscle and nuance to what might otherwise have come perilously close to a Morcheeba-esque exercise in trip-hop easy listening. Triana’s talents as a vocalist are what really come through clearest on this release though, and she proves suitably spellbinding whether she’s fronting uptempo, edgy soul numbers like ‘A Town Called Obsolete’ or the haunting chamber-folk of closer ‘X’.
for more info and buy: ninjatune.net/andreyatriana
Tracklist
01. Draw The Stars
02. Lost Where i Belong
03. A Town Called Obsolete
04. Darker Than Blue
05. Dyadreamers
06. Far Closer
07. Something In The Silence
08. Up In Fire
09. X
Cosiner And Capital – Haunt
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2005, Ambient, Downtempo, Hip Hop
A blend of atmospheric beats and percussion, and guitars a nice blend of spacey and organic grooves! Producer Cosiner has a fresh approach to the all around dynamic, with ranges from spooky to soothing, and the guitars often have an jazzy improvisational feel, but in a disciplined way that accents, or counterbalances the other elements, depending on the mood.
Tracklist
01. Introducing The Haunt
02. 19
03. Chasing
04. Time Lapse In This City
05. Wests Theme
06. Anything Yet
07. Pearl
08. Night Is A Child
09. Late Opening
10. Ride Home
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TM Juke – Maps From The Wilderness
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2003, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
A cohesion of beautiful melodies and rugged beats, “Maps from the Wilderness” is an accomplished album that should earn TM Juke the same accolades as fellow Tru Thoughts album acts Quantic, Jon Kennedy and Bonobo (who now record for Grand Central and Ninja Tune respectively). Having recorded various songs for Tru Thoughts under the guise of Al Stylus, TM Juke took it upon himself to adopt a name suitable for styles and sounds he wished to explore with this album. The styles are varied and they seem to span the full orchestral range; rolling timpani drums underpin hazy beats whilst delicate guitars flitter amongst intricate strings. As a producer, TM Juke draws on funk, soul, hip-hop and jazz influences, but adds a greater depth and maturity with immaculate arrangements that belie his twenty three years and give “Maps of the Wilderness” a strikingly original yet strangely familiar feel.
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Tracklist
01. Knee Deep feat. Alice Russell & Jim Oxborough
02. Just For A Day (Sunday)
03. Get It Together feat. Bread & Water
04. Fast Asleep
05. Playground Games feat. Alice Russell
06. Interlude
07. Map Two
08. Wilderness Kids feat. Rup
09. In The Twilight
10. Form To Follow feat. Kelster
11. Remember 99
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Cappablack – The State Of The Night
Posted by dOk | Filed under 1998, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
Cappablack is a duo comprised of iLLEVEN (programming) and Hashim B. (programming & scratching). Influenced by the raw hiphop sound of groups such as Mobb Deep, Cappablack released their debut album “the state of the night” in1997 from soup-disk, which combined experimental beats and noir soundscapes. This album became a classic instrumental album in the Japanese hiphop scene.
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Tracklist
01. Intro… Life
02. Yakantousou
03. Niji’s Hierograffiti
04. In Jazz
05. Meian
06. Drops & Vibes
07. The State Of The Night
08. Vanishing Point (Instrumental)
09. Ishoudoumu
10. Astral Jam
11. White Out [Don't Sleep]
12. The Crossing
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Flanger – Outer Space/Inner Space
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2001, Downtempo, Electronic, Future Jazz
Flanger is the piss-take version of the Compost Records thing – Germans with samplers appropriating jazz. Not only do Burnt Friedman (Drome, Nonplace Urban Field) and Uwe Schmidt (Atom(tm)) do their wanking while wearing smirks – humor being a very rare commodity among Teutonic jazzbos – they don’t shy away from the conceptual implications of what they do either (pontificating is another no-no for cool studio cats). The liner notes, for instance, claim that the title is inspired by a J.G. Ballard essay, and offer a rambling, half-bullshit/half-on-to-something critical analysis of the album’s music in a marvelous spoof of real jazz sleeve commentary.
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Tracklist
01. Outer Space/Inner Space
02. Galak
03. The Mne Who Fell From Earth
04. Inner Spacesuit
05. Le Dernier Combat
06. Unosietecero
07. It Ain’t Rocket Science
08. Hirnflug
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Comfort Fit – Never Look Back EP
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2007, Downtempo, Hip Hop
On this seven track ep you will find a broad perspective of sounds and flavours ranging from hip hop, street soul, beats to nu- jazz, with exellent vocal contributions by Mercury Waters (spitkickers.com), Blaktroniks and Nicole Hadfield. These cripsy beats are ripe with thumping funk and jazz influences, sample wizardry and daring shuffles. Composed with the help of unique sound plugins which were especially programmed to measure Comfort Fit’s needs and wishes, we think the chances aren’t bad that you’ll fall for the unique sound signature, bounce and elegance of this tight hip hop production. Like the best mixtapes this thing plays even strongly as a whole – no matter if it’s about classic jazz impressions like Miles of Smiles, scarily deep intergalactic grooves as in Astro Dancin´or the hip hop bomb State of Mind, all the tracks are locked together closely. The Never Look Back EP is more than just beat fodder for your next mixtape, “it’s a very personal diary of mine. I feel music is my natural form of expression, not words”, as Comfort Fit says. “It is very important for me to escape from the noise pollution of the cities and from the media hypes going on. I’d rather create my own”. This is the perfect masterpeice for the leftfield, opendminded dj´s and music conaisseurs.
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Tracklist
01. Stafe Of Mind feat. Mercury Waters
02. Go On Take It Further
03. In Simple Words feat. Nicole Hadfield
04. Astro Dancin’
05. Something To Do Blaktroniks
06. Sorry
07. Miles Of Smiles
Noorda – Noorda
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2002, Downtempo
A Swiss typical studiò between the mountains. This is the first approach of Noorda to listeners, an image even before sounds setting the mood that seems to belong to northern Europe instead of a Latin country. This confers to Noorda’s music an accessible picture for listeners able to benift from the warmth the album seems to give off, both physically and mentally.
This album finds its own place in the world of electronic music creating a soundtrack to ponder with your emotions, thoughts and states of mind. They achieve this generally starting from a simple voice or a plain guitar proving that in music less can be best. Quite particular is the constant reboiling sensation at the core of the whole sound; melodic and profound yet weaved with strong elements that sometimes find a brief second to emerge and then disappear again.
for more info and buy check: www.ishtar.it
Tracklist
01. Camminando
02. Ville Noire
03. Things I Don’t Imagine
04. Touch Of Evil
05. Save The Vinyl
06. Jazz Dub #1
07. Il Mare e Le Onde
08. 4 A.M. Eternal
09. Western Side Story
10. Untitled Blues
11. Una Sera Con Te
12. Les Amants De Paris
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Urbs & Cutex – Peace Talks
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2003, Downtempo, Electronic, Hip Hop
Paul Nawrata and David Schuller, better known as Urbs & Cutex, Urbs & Cutex are two scientists on their own mission, leaving trends and hypes behind, to focus on what’s most important: the music. “Peace Talks!” takes the listener on a journey, discovering a whole new sound universe. Deeply rooted in mid 90´s Hip Hop, their sound has matured since “Breaks of Dawn”. While their minimalistic debut was more of a DJ Tool (still being a pure pleasure for homelistening sessions) the “Peace Talks” tracks are more structured, reminding us of classical songwriting. Paul and David are taking us back into a time when MPC 60´s and SP 1200´s were the instruments of choice, before the 303´s and Triton´s took over Hip Hop. Back into a time when rap records consisted of loops, before soul was replaced by cold electronic bleep sounds and being ‘jiggy’ was all that. But don’t be mistaken, Urbs & Cutex are not retro or strictly Hip Hop. These guys have the gift to capture the “mid 90´s New York flavour” and combine it with the state of the art sound that we all love listening to nowadaysIt’s all about the magic of a loop!
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Tracklist
01. The Thing
02. Interlude 1
03. Jolly Joint
04. Sound Of Joy
05. Interlude 2
06. Right Where?!
07. No Escape
08. Interlude 3
09. Ra Reform feat. Syntax
10. Is feat. Geri Schuller
11. Interlude 4
12. Song For R.
13. Outro
Skalpel – 1958 Breaks
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2005, Downtempo, Nu Jazz
Skalpel are nu jazz DJs and musicians, Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudło, from Wrocław in Poland. Their musical style is a distinctive blend of hip hop beats, laced with samples lifted from the rich seam of Polish jazz records of the 1960s and 1970s. This CD is practically a compilation of two previously released singles: Break Out (ZEN12 158) and 1958 (ZEN12 151) from their debut album, plus one unreleased track, enjoy!
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Tracklist
01. Break In (Backini Remix)
02. 1958 (Quantic Remix)
03. Break In (Dr. Rubberfunk ‘Live @No. 10A’ Remix)
04. 1958 (Skalpel Remix)
05. Break In (JS Remix)
06. Break Out (Skalpel Remix)
07. Low
08. Low (Reconstruction By The Amalgamation Of Soundz)
09. Brek In (Pradowski Remix)
10. 1958 (Extended Version)
11. Laboratorium
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Diferenz – Jazz Workshop
Posted by dOk | Filed under 1994, Acid Jazz, Downtempo, Hip Hop
A mostly uptempo fusion of jazz and hip-hop, lots of funky basslines and ample use of various instruments such as the saxophone, flute, trumpet, and electric piano. enjoy!
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Tracklist
01. Mind Movement
02. Fly Away
03. Jazz Workshop
04. Deep Thoughts
05. Shadowrun
06. The Workshop at 7 P.M.
07. Mother Earth
08. Cold Blood
09. Acid Funk
10. Morning In The Sub Basement
11. Night Watch
12. Jazz Workshop (Remix)
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