Ok, here’s a mix by Cenk Akyol, which was for the Valentine’s, yet I forgot to publish it as always.

“I decided to upload a selection of mellow tunes from past and present. File under easy listening although more focused on jazz and bossa nova. Enjoy the most sentimental moments…”

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In this not so new-but one of the most highly acclaimed albums of this summer so far, Jimi plays the sweet surprise factor as always. I don’t know if it’s because of his broad friend circle of Finnish jazz musicians or the fact that he enjoys dressing like Zeki Müren, or simply because he’s a [...]

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A few days ago something incredible happened to us, the prominent collective mp3blog Motel de Moka tagged us as one of the 5 blogs that made them think with a meme originated by The Thinking Blog. It’s our first ever tag and it makes us proud to be tagged specifically by this meme that’s about our favourite organ. Yeah the gray matter up there!.

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As promised a few posts ago here’s the spanking new new LP from Benedic Lamdin aka Nostalgia 77. It’s a shame I haven’t listened to his previous efforts, nor have I heard that he has won the Jazz Album Of The Year at the BBC Radio One Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards. I first heard of [...]

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Here we are with part 2 of the Downtempo Selection. First up is a song by guitarist Duminie DePorres on Sound Signature and features powerful social commentary by Last Poet, Umar Bin Hassan over Duminie’s guitar soloing in the distance. Next up is Mamaluke’s “The Pant“, from the highly respected Mezzanine De L’Alcazar series, (also [...]

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I can’t take the whole credit for this, thanks to my sucky mixing skills and an occasional bad apple. Not to bore you with our petty in-house dynamics, mersenne corrected my poor excuse for fade outs and squeezed in a song from his own vault. This time the set’s more moodier than usual (at least [...]

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Welcome to the wooorlld of tomorrooww!! I wonder if it would be something like a Futurama episode if Matthew Herbert actually met Duke Ellington. Recently i stumbled upon both the 80 Drums exotica and the quite fine Marsalis version of “Caravan“, a Duke Ellington classic and probably one of the most covered songs from the [...]

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(from his 2005 EP on Hi-Fi Terapi)

Mr. Horne is a talented musicman from Bergen, Norway and this song is off his debut release on the yummy Norwegian label Hi-Fi Terapi. Espen is not a newcomer in the scene though, he has released many records on the ever-successful Stereo Deluxe label as Bobby Hughes and on [...]

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