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Soul Jazz Records’ new album ‘Kaleidoscope – New Spirits Known and Unknown’ brings together many of the ground-breaking artists involved in the new jazz scene that has developed in the UK over the last few years.

This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, ‘A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music’ (The Guardian).

Soul Jazz Records new ‘Two Synths, A Guitar (and) A Drum Machine’ is a new collection of current D-I-Y post-punk bands shaped by the mutant sounds of no wave, punk funk and New York Noise bands from the late 70s and early 80s that collided with the world of underground dance music found at the Paradise Garage, Mudd Club in New York City (ESG, Arthur Russell, Bush Tetras, Talking Heads, Suicide, Liquid Liquid).

Limited Edition, Orange / White Swirl. What do you get when you combine the best hip-hop producer in Boston with one of the best upcoming lyricists in NY? Well Done. This is an album couldn’t have a better fitting title, as it will surely fill the void hip-hop fans around the world have been yearning to fill. In the style of classic producer & MC albums, Statik & Bronson deliver intricate rhymes and head-nodding beats on this noteworthy release.

After the very successful EP releases of quickly, quickly's "Over Skies" in mid 2018 (27m spotify-streams) and Please Wait's "Black & White" in late 2019 (6,4m spotify-streams to this day) Jakarta Records and Ta-ku take their joint label to the next level presenting 823's very 1st longplayer - a compilation feat. an international line-up of already established as well as up & coming Lo-Fi producers, handpicked and curated by none other than 823 label-head Ta-ku himself.

38 Spesh and Flee Lord both have deafening buzz right now, so what better way to satisfy their hungry fans than to do a joint album? The two have put together their brands, Trust Comes First and Loyalty Or Death, to create the must-have project of the Summer, Loyalty + Trust. It’s Rochester meets Far Rockaway and the game will never be the same again. The lead single, “Perfect Plate,” exemplifies the duo’s synergy as Flee speaks his mind over Spesh’s Golden Era sound.

LIT is a snapshot of Bluestaeb und JuJu Rogers' musical endeavors in Fall 2016. Both had a successful 2015 & 2016 with highly acclaimed albums and a European support tour of Oddisee for JuJu Roogers. With regard to content, JuJu's raps on the project deals with the important questions of our time. The trend word „lit“ becomes „LIT“, an abbreviation for "lost in translation" and a metaphor for the disconnection from trends of our society in general and hip hop especially. Racism, police brutality, gangsta rapper turning activists while still following a pattern of hate and destruction. Bluestaeb’s productions fluctuates from soulful and smooth to raw and gritty without sounding redundant or interchangeable. 

A lynchpin of the East Coast sound and widely renowned as one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, Pete Rock delivers the third instalment in his ‘PeteStrumentals’ series. Over these dozen tracks, the beats that Rock lays down are re-interpreted by his talented backing band The Soul Brothers into a patchwork of funk, jazz, soul and hip-hop.

Following The Highly Acclaimed Volume I, Dig Further Into The Wamono Sound - The Cream Of The Japanese Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rare Groove And Disco Music Developed Throughout The Years Since The End Of The Sixties In Japan! Tracks Selection By Japanese Super Diggers And Wamono Specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite And Chintam. After many years working as a record buyer for several stores, DJ Chintam opened his own blow up shop in 2018 in Tokyo's Shibuya district. A member of the Dayjam Crew and a specialist of soul, funk, rare groove and disco music, Chintam is also an expert of the home-brewed Wamono grooves. He supervised and wrote the Wamono A to Z records guide book together with Yoshizawa.

Funk and jazz band Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) released their sophomore studio album Groove Is King, an aural kaleidoscope that mashes up funk, rock, dance, electronica, jazz and R&B into 14 original tracks and 2 covers full of space, texture, and virtuoso musicianship. owered by a lineup of world-renowned players, the group came together for the sheer fun of making music—and a mutual love of genre-blurring grooves, they are:  album producer Tal Bergman (drums), Joe Bonamassa (guitar), Ron DeJesus (guitar), and Mike Merritt (bass). Groove Is King pulls away from the jazz-funk sounds of the first album into a modern sound, with focused compositions and arrangements and a slick production. “This time around, the concept was less jazz and more modern dance with layered grooves. The rhythm section laid the foundation and then we’d add in strings, synths and an incredible horn section, all while keeping it funky,” says DeJesus.