dr. rubberfunk - come back breaker
simons - j dilladude (simon’s extended edit)
jukka eskola quintet - gibraltar
tal - turntables turnpike
jet set sweden - sicilian clan
noze - you have to dance
max romeo - tacko
horace andy - got to be sure
leroy smart - i love jah rastafari
raphael saadiq - staying in love
keith mansfield - exclusive blend
methusalem - robotism
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Here’s two cover songs for you today, both found on an excellent compilation called Jazz and Flowers. One is a sorta dnb remix of Karen Aoki’s cover of Smooth Operator and the other is a remake of Gangsta’s Paradise by UK’s Sunlightsquare, called Pastime Square, with a dancehall beat and great lyrics. Check the links [...]

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Ok, first up, I’m in the process of redesigning & adding functions to undomondo, i’ve been planning to do it for a few months (well, more than a few), but as I’m not really skilled in designing & busy most of the time, I couldn’t. This results in less frequent updates as well, because the [...]

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Here’s the coolest lounge jazz album I’ve ever heard in a long time, from a little known sixties band The Stance Brothers. Teppo “Teddy Rok” Mäkynen the drummer of The Five Corners Quintet and its leader on stage and also sideman for Jukka Eskola and Timo Lassy is also an established producer. The awarded drummer [...]

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Waldeck - Ballroom Stories (Dope Noir) : Monsieur Waldeck’s latest installment of noir jazz & downtempo music. Past review on undomondo
Radio Luxembourg - Diwrnod Efo’r Anifeiliaid : Short but irresistably cute guitar lead pop songs and English & Welsh hybrid lyrics. Past review on undomondo .

Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis (Krecs) : [...]

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I’ve started listening to downtempo & nujazz music around 98/99 after slowing down from listening to d’n’b all the time, that was an interesting era with acts like K&D, Tosca, Beanfield, Minus 8, Rainer Trüby, and German labels like Mole and Compost getting increasingly visible and G-Stoned establishing the Vienna nujazz Scene. De-phazz was also [...]

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I’ve hinted you last week that there was an exceptional new Metropolitan Jazz Affair CD released on Infracom the label that gave us acts like Marschmellows, Aromabar, [Re:Jazz]. I had heard praises for their eponymous debut yet haven’t been able to listen to it, so I didn’t miss the second chance. The quartet featuring Benjamin [...]

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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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Gotan Project’s new album Lunatico is upon us, and it’s a charming sophomore album after the marvellous 2001 debut “La Revancha del Tango“. The production and sound quality is top-notch and their Tango-fused Latin American sound has surely got richer. Lunatico was recorded in Buenos Aires with local session musicians; a complete string section, two [...]

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