I first learnt about the great Italian soundtrack composer the late Piero Umiliani with the “Musicaelettronica” compilations featuring his proto-electronique synth music. That posthumous compilation was so-so yet it was enough to spark interest in hunting down one of his best soundtrack work, “Cinque Bambole.” A hell of a composer on the seminal Right Tempo/Easy [...]

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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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Making covers of well known stuff are almost always a good catch. However getting to do a cover album of the greatest electronic anthems ever straight on is a mammoth task. Simply for the fact that these are really the biggest electronic anthems ever and you don’t have the chance to go wrong. Decide to [...]

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Another reissue by the lovely Tiliqua Records on their “Oriental Erotic Sunshine” series that we’ve been enjoying for some time is Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds’ 1970 album “Kokotsu / Ecstasy”. Originally released by Columbia Records in 1970, “ Kokotsu” sees the 70’s Japanese obsession with vintage bossa & Latin music coupled with sexploitation [...]

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Gosh, this has been by far the busiest month in my whole life. Been to London and back while we’re still in the process of re-opening the music lounge I’ve started working for. I’ve told it about 10 times that I was gonna keep up with the radioshows but it seems I won’t [...]

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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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They’re both Japanese. Let’s just get that fact out of our way at once. Why oh why are japanese so good with jazz?
It’s probably the same as electronics. They take revenge from the western world by doing the things they take from westerners better than the west. Yes, don’t be fooled by their smiling [...]

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