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UK remastered reissue of 1992 debut album. Mixing groovy 60s Hammond organ instrumentals with loungecore tracks & Swinging London/spy soundtrack spoofs. The album was produced by the band with Acid Jazz founder Eddie Piller. Highlights included 'E-Type' (their very first recording) & 'Harry Palmer',...

The recently revived Stax label initiates its first release of new music with the appropriately named Soulive. The band's fifth studio effort, and first with a full-time vocalist, both solidifies and scatters the group's sound. By not utilizing high-profile guest vocalists, the focus is back on song...

"All over the place, swinging through dark pop, atmospheric instrumentals, and demented circus music ... unique music with great personality." -- Pitchfork [7.5] "This is it ... he's finally treated the faithful to a masterpiece." -- All Music Guide [HHHH ½] "Original, unique, and packed full of...

It's possible to admire Medeski Martin and Wood's craft and guile in pushing against stylistic restraints while recognizing that their music isn't quite as much fun as it once was--or that this hugely popular trio may think it is. Full of shaggy cross-textures, plummy grooves, and spooky electronic ...

Nuyorican Soul...

San Francisco-based Mark Farina cut his DJ teeth in the Chicago house-music scene. In Mushroom Jazz, Vol. 2 his house roots flavor a seamless mix of laidback acid-jazz tracks. Farina doesn't mix the songs by the conventional tricks of the trade, such as slowing the bpm of one song to match the next ...

The irresistible combination of smoky bossa nova textures and velvety electronic beats has already been successfully mined by Brazilian divas such as Bebel Gilberto and Cibelle. But in the hands of Italian DJ Nicola Conte, the electro-bossa recipe continues to surprise with its wide-eyed innocence,...

Hybrid Honey...

INCOGNITO return with their 11th studio album, which features 11 tracks, and they are now working live as an 11-piece band. Hence the new album title is Eleven. Most of the vocalists from the last album Adventures In Black Sunshine are again featured - Maysa is vocalist on three tracks, with Imaani ...

The Brooklyn-based Groove Collective deserves to be at the forefront of acid-jazz, that indefinable genre that here mixes postbop improvisation into a cauldron of emphatic rhythms, all the while avoiding the bland surfaces and mechanical production that usually develop when jazz gets this close to p...