From his earlier work with pioneering London production outfits like Bugz In The Attic, DKD, Silhouette Brown, Blakai, Likwid Biskit, Neon Phusion and Agent K, to his recent releases and collaborations with Dego and the extended 2000black family, Kaidi Tatham is one of the most quietly influential British artists of his time.

2008's 'In Search of Hope' is the second solo album from Tatham and the ...

Born in Paris, raised in Vienna, resident in Ibiza, saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann embodies the borderless, pan-continental energies of contemporary European jazz. Her music emerges from the lineage of European jazz that's absorbed the progressive music of Coltrane, Dolphy and Sanders. Today, she cites players such as Illinois Jacquet and Lester Young in the same breath as the masters of the avant-garde...

The opening track 'Mourning' juxtaposes floating scalic passages with harsh arpeggio sforzandos, before a resting point is found in 'Memory Edits', which is based around the idea of build up and then sudden change. The third track 'Silhouette' consists entirely of arpeggios, picking up the pace before leading in to 'Intention' which offers further restlessness. The fifth track 'Fall' begins with a softly played pa...

Brock Van Wey, aka bvdub, is undoubtedly among the greatest and most prolific artists in the world, whose music directly affects the heart, soul, and human mind. His soundscapes spread in the air as if they were delicate and slow movements of the northern lights, or the wind that blows on the flowers of the trees in spring. There is something divine in bvdub's music, and Glacial Movements is more than honored to w...

ATA Records is pleased to announce the release of Early Works: Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities From The Archive, a compilation of tracks that were recorded at the very outset of the label and haven't been available since the initial limited run (Released as Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities: An Introduction To ATA Records on Here and Now Recordings) sold out 5 years ago.

Since 2013 la...

Raash Records (RR) proudly presents "The Last Shall Be First" by

Meira Asher (Voice, Electronics) and Eran Sachs (No-input Mixer).

Recorded live and in the studio in 2017-18, TLSBF utilises extreme sonic and emotional gestures in order to explore radical thought and action, inspired by Frantz Fanon,

Bobby Sands, Dareen Tatour and Antonin Artaud.

The r...

Tiff's Joints are delighted to have ex-video game avatar and protean DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist Romaal Kultan at the helm for their seventh release, which has already seen early support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Bradley Zero and Volcov. Everlasting Romance follows last year's stellar Off Grid EP on YAM Records an...

London's Kylin Tyce teams up with the Tessellate crew to release four slick, 2-step tracks including a remix from Moodswing label boss Perception.

London based Kylin Tyce is a new artist on the circuit with an ear for ambient soundscapes, rolling beats and intricate percussion. His sound takes inspiration from the realms of early UK Garage paired with forward thinking House & Techno which ...

Les Cooles De Ville is an Amsterdam based alternative Hip-Hop group creating soulful music using elements of Jazz, Bossa Nova and Pop. Recording and performing with live instrumentation and a mixture of samples and electronics they bring a unique, international vibe to the musical landscape quirky colourful, laidback and romantic they deliver a sound reminiscent of contemporaries like The Internet and Tom Misch. S...

The impact and influence of music of (Afro) Cuban origin has spread from Cuba to the far corners of the world. Its fingerprint can be found through salsa, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop and everything in between. Cuba has an incredibly rich culture of music and dance which is ingrained in its people from birth. With this release we celebrate two compositions by one of Cuba's finest songwriters: Silvest...

After their brilliant debut on Resense, SoulBrigada returns with two new cuts. Following the proven formula, two classic Funk & Soul joints get the SoulBrigada treatment to fire up the dancefloors again.

'Help' is a Northern Soul gem from the midwest - from 1969. The raw & funky sound of the song follows with great perfection a JB style, which is complemented by the sweet soul voice of the singer. Th...

MORTON SUBOTNICK's truly visionary electronic master piece "Silver Apples Of The Moon" on an audiophile 180gr LP, especially mastered for vinyl.

As composer, musician and initiator of the San Francisco Tape Music Center which he co-founded with PAULINE OLIVEROS and RAMON SENDER in 1961, MORTON SUBOTNICK (born 1933) has propelled the progress of electronic music in several significant...

João Pais Filipe (drums) and Burnt Friedman (electronics) ultimately hypnotize their audience by activating cosmic mechanics. Both refer to it as 'automatic music', yet their focus is on playing and exploring rare rhythmic modes; in Friedman's terms: "We organize pressure mediation according to mother nature."

Friedman & Pais left behind the consensus–artificial–paradise of cultural musical idioms,...

Recorded in his studio during tense and hot sessions over the summer, these 2 tracks (3 on the digital version) harness tribal and voodoo-spiritual energy. Grooves and riffs conjured by drum machines and synths, esoteric didjeridoo insertions, ecstatic ritual percussions. The music of Riccardo "Kakofonico" Biffi is all about rhythmic explorations and structure exploitation.

Kreggo supplies a tech remix to ...

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Sydney space funk trio, The Goods, are Badmandela, Rosario & Black Tree. With the help of some friends, The Goods capture the energy of jamming and improvisation to create music that transports the listeners to a moment in time shared together on their new album 'II'.

Musically and lyrically 'II' is about living in the...

Textures, dynamics, an immaculate definition of a 70's freq spectrum & the most outstanding musicianship, all blended in such a precise detail for the cut of one of the most precious LCO gems to date... "Fly Away"

Jazz Funk Guru and good LCO friend: Xantone Blacq takes it to the keys and vocals with his very uplifting style, all blended through that very distinctive LCO sound which ...

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Traibal / Balearic / Electronic

'Objet Melodie' is a combination of real instruments, synthesizers, drum machines and samples, involving genres from different countries of the world.

It's...

C. Lavender is a New York based sound artist and sound healing practitioner whose third full-length album explores meditative physical rituals of sound with binaural recordings from inside a geodesic dome in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
"The future is a choice between utopia and oblivion," noted architect, futurist and geodesic dome theorist Buckminster Fuller. Myth of Equilibrium delves into these div...

Second outing from Jaeger and O'Rourke following the release Wakes on Cerulean on Editions Mego in 2017. Covering a vast terrain with delicacy and poise this new release unveils a spectral showcase for all manner of deep abstraction. The first side positions itself somewhere between stoned komische synth and more nuanced electroacoustic tactics, all weighted by a melancholic undertow. The second side builds on the...

One of the many highlights of the compilation album "PRAISE POEMS 7 - A journey into soulful jazz and funk from the 1970s" is certainly the opening track by Marva Josie. It is most likely one of the finest vocal jazz recordings ever put on wax and it was high time for a 45RPM single release. Here you have it, backed with the equally great "Scarborough Fair". Any s...