Bird York - Wicked Little High (2006)

Personnel include: Bird York (vocals, electric guitar, gopichan); Thom Russo (various instruments, programming); Larry Klein (guitar, keyboards, bass instrument, programming); Rick Musallam (guitar, bass instrument); Michael Becker (piano, drums).

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Sk Invitational (2006)

S.K.Invitational- means 15 musicians shifting the border of live music a step further. The combination of bigband sound, pumping beats and deep bass lines brings a new flavour to your eardrum. The musicians energy, their musical skills create a stunning sound, a monumental storm of unheard-of tunes ranging from HipHop, Dancehall and Drum n Bass to Jazz. On its debut album S.K.Invitational features artists such Nils Wogram, Flip (of Texta), Lylit, Rufus and others. www.myspace.com/skinvitational

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Jet Set Productions - Bitter Sweet (2001)

Jet Set Productions is the solo project of Señor Suzuki of Shizuoka. His music began as the vocal/sax in ska band 'Mustang A.K.A' Making their major debut in 1990, their sound slowly morphed into electric dub under the influence of names such as Masssive Attack and Beats International, then in 1995 he started producing his own tracks as well as continuing as sax player for live band 'Reggae Disco Rockers' before being completely sucked into drum'n'bass on first listen in 1996, and even when playing live, it's still the live drum'n'bass 'session' which forms the basis for Jet Set Productions.

'Bitter Sweet' is a transformation as to seem to be from a different artist altogether. There are no 'pure' drum'n'bass tracks, but instead everything from deep house, live jazzy breaks, Afro-latin crossover tracks, rich, stringy vocal jazz, abstract dub and Afro-bossa-edged dubby reggae, every track presenting a different world, uniting and mixing many styles,yet without confusing them.

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Seven Eleven - The Come Out (1996)

With the help of guitarist and producer Menace (USA), the group released their debut album The Come Out in 1996. This record received outstanding acclaims and after their successful evening-packed full-o-funk tour with Menace as special guest, Seven Eleven was the European version of funk-artists such as George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. No deep lyrics, just plain butt-shaking grooves, loaded wah-wah guitar, soulful lead vocals, energetic raps and heavy keyboards supplemented by a thick layer of thumb-slapping bass and groove-in-da-pocket drums.

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Grüvis Malt - Sound Soldiers (2000)

Funkier, goofier, hip hoppier, jazzier early Gruvis Malt sound. Grüvis Malt is known for their blending of genres (progressive rock, hip hop, jazz, and funk) and intense songwriting. They are the self-proclaimed founders of the "futurock" genre, which features a blending of irregular time signatures (like math rock), unconventional chord progressions, and abnormal song structure.

The group stopped touring in 2005, after the release of their last album, Maximum Unicorn, in order to pursue solo projects and tangible income.

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Shu - Shusic (2005)

Born in Kenya, educated at Harvard and Oxford, and based in Brooklyn, Shu plays funky stew of head-nodding soul and urban R&B rhythms.

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Funk This! - Size Does Matter (2005)

Funk This! Is a music project forged out of the friendships of three individuals, Chris Clermont, Brian Ogawa, and Henrik Engquist who were schoolmates some 22 years ago. Brian and Chris went on to tour and or record with the likes of, Barry White, Shalamar, MC Hammer Dr Dre, Maxine Nightingale, Rod Stewart, Brian Auger, Steve Tyrell, and many others, while Henrik Engquist achieved fame and success in Denmark (his last CD featured, Robben Ford, Frank Gambale, Jimmy Haslip, from the Yellow Jackets, and David Garfield). The CD also features Alex Acuna (Weather Report) on percussion and Ellis Hall from Tower of Power on vocals and keyboards and it runs the gambit from jazz-funk to neo-soul.

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Count Basic - Bigger & Brighter (2002)

The story of this band began with the song "All Time High," a radio hit of the '90s and was originally a project by Austrian guitarist Peter Legat . Though their songs give away a range of influences – from Galliano and Incognito to the Brand New Heavies – they definitely brought something new to acid jazz.

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The Mighty BOP feat. Duncan Roy (2003)

The Mighty BOP is another pseudonym from DJ, producer Christophe Le Friant; this name often used when he produces downtempo, nu jazz, hip-hop music. His other known pseudonyms are Bob Sinclar (house) and Réminiscence Quartet (acid jazz).

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Twinset - Lifestyle (2005)

New Zealand organ-fuelled jazz trio Twinset's fourth album. The Twinset are twin brothers Christopher and Daniel Yeabsley, organ and saxophone respectively, and Paul K. Hoskin drums and they play music reminiscence of Lou Donaldson and John patton but with a distinctive lighter minimalistic sound. With 9 original compositions, Life style covers a range of styles within the Jazz idiom. From boogaloo, bossa nova, straight ahead (Minor Glue) and ballad (Wont you weep for me).

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Gabrielle Chiararo - Jazz Schema (2006)

Half-French, half-American, Gabrielle has lived in Paris (where she was born), New York (where she worked behind the scenes at ABC's OLTL), London (where she attended drama school), and Florence (where she studied Italian cinema and literature). She has acted in short films and various theatres, in Italian and English. Having made her home in Rome, she also does multilingual dubbing and voice over work, as well as adapting screenplays into English. Her love of singing began early, listening to such artists as Aznavour, Cocciante, Julien Clerc, Peter, Paul and Mary, the BeachBoys, and the Beatles. JAZZ SCHEMA is her first solo album of Nu-Jazz/Lounge music produced by Giacomo Bondi of GBMUSIC (www.gbmusic.it).

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Afternoons In Stereo - Aural Pleasure (2004)

Afternoons In Stereo is a project conceived by Greg Vickers of Hamilton, Canada. It produces music in the nujazz/downtempo/Chill-out categories blending elements of jazz, funk, latin and breakbeat in its tunes. To date it has independently released 3 full-length albums, 'Aural Pleasure (2004)', 'Leaves of Brass (2006)' and 'The City is Sleeping (2008)'.

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Isabelle Antena - More Acid Than Jazz (1994)

Isabelle loves for music starts in early childhood, by 19 she left Paris for London to be an au pair with the family of Yes Keyboard player Rick Wakeman. There she learned two things fluent english and understanding that it was possible for her to make a living from music. She has since quietly sold more than a million albums. From Camino Del Sol (1982) to Toujours Du Soleil (2006), her cool latin, bossa, jazz and funk vibes have delighted ears and feet worldwide. She was featured on Buscemi's album Camino Real, and released her first "best of", titled L'alphabet Du Plaisir. 'More Acid Than Jazz' contains remixes that she and husband Denis Moulin put together.

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Mono - Formica Blues (1997)

Formica Blues was the only album from what now become the one-hit wonder UK trip hop duo Mono. It was first released in the UK in 1997. Four singles were released from the album, of which the lead single, “Life in Mono”, was the most successful followed by Silicone. The duo Mono formed around vocalist Siobhan De Maré and producer Martin Virgo, a one-time member of Nellee Hooper's production team which worked on Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" as well as Björk's Debut.

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Karizma - A Mind Of Its Own (2007)

Karizma first full-length album released in 2007; an album that was eagerly anticipated as his releases in EP's, 12"s, singles and compilations have been scorching the scene. Karizma had been a member of the popular house collective The Basement Boys, and has released a number of house hits with DJ Spen. A follow up of this debut was recently released - A Mind Of Its Own V2.0 - The Here

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Mr. Electric Triangle

I. Kosmosis Of The Heart (1995)

Mr. Electric Triangle is another alias of Chris Bangs, the perrenial acid Jazz, underground dance producer/DJ (Soundscape UK, Quiet Boys, Yada Yada, Galliano among others).

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II. Kosmosis in Dub (1996)



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The Black Mighty Orchestra - To The Sky (2000)

A project conceived by Cesare 'Black Mighty Wax' Cera of the Irma Label, teaming up with some of the producers and musicians that have contributed to develop the label's profile over the years. Such as Ohm Guru, Gazzara, Be Noir, vocalist Elise and many others. 18 tracks in all was meant to show Cesare's wide musical experiences: from his early Funk days all the way through, via House music, to his take on Soul and Jazz sounds.

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Monodeluxe - Silk Grooves Vol.1 (2007)

" Monodeluxe is Italian Alessandro Oliviero, living in Switzerland. Born in 1968 and to spend his teenage years with Disco and P-Funk music of the time, getting involved in several music styles of the period. In those days he recognized that his favoured sound was R&B and Funky music rather than pop music etc. So he grew up with the very best artists such as George Clinton, Sos Band, Fadback etc. Monodeluxe’s style is bounded to the very essence of Funk and R&B sounds melted with modern NuJazz and Cooltempo. He loves to be Deep and his favourite styles are Deep House & Jazzhouse with some futuristic sound-touch, Nujazz & Nusoul, 70’s Funk and also brazilian nubossa breaks. " (last FM)

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Yukihiro Fukutomi - Love Each Other

'Love Each Other' was a follow up to the 2001's 'Timeless', and by this time Yukihiro had already received widespread recognition and respect via the stellar e.p's and mixes that being played through out the club scene the world over and appeared in various quality compilations.

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Southern Energy Ensemble (1976)

Southern Energy Ensemble had been an overlooked band for a while or maybe still is as they released only one album the 1976 eponymously named LP. It only makes one to wonder why the band is not promoted by the label Black Fire Records, the record company that Plunky Branch and Jimmy Gray started in 1975. The band also have members of the Juju extended family, keyboardist Nathaniel Lee and Judy Spears in their line up. The original pressing was a much sought collector item and this is the japanese reissued version released in 2003 .

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The Landrus Project - True Colors (2003)

The Landrus Project was formed in year of 2000 by Brian Landrus who is a woodwind specialist, composer/arranger, and educator. He somehow managed to bring some talented and experienced musicians to play in this rather eclectic ensemble. This multi-flavored ensemble features a core of eight musicians, but sometimes has as many as 14 playing on stage together. The diversity comes across more clearly in True Colors, the group’s second release. The album heaviest overtone is Jazz , as Landrus himself used to play in a Jazz quartet, but it isn’t that jazz that we expect to hear from any jazz outfit. The band borrows features from soul, funk, big band, hip-hop and classical--in other words, whatever they like. There's a gritty female vocals from Sheherezade Stone , flaming scratch work from DJ Ecto One and of course Landrus’ woodwind work . It should be noted that the band members have all played individually with ‘heavy cats’ in the entertainment and jazz worlds or with world-class talent at UNR competitions and here they play very well together. Landrus writes a majority of the tracks, sometimes up to three a week. He brings the skeleton of a melody or a progression to the band, and they have an inspiration free-for-all. The end product the album's 18 tracks in all, glide through easily , not a difficult listen as the different sounds blend nicely.

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Paprika Soul - Into The Light (2002)

Paprika Soul was created by Alan Barnes and Andy Spiller in 1993 as part of a production outlet for their production house Soft Sugar Productions. Musically Paprika Soul is a close cousin to Count Basic or Incognito playing contemporary jazz though their sound is leaning toward the lighter and smoother side of acid jazz . 'Into the light' was their second outing with guitarist Malcolm MacFarlane, Vocal Jaqui Hicks, Sax Paul Coussee and percussionist Mark Claydon.

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Blue Tofu - Blue Tofu (2005)

Blue Tofu are vocalist Andrea Mathews and multi instrumentalist Tim Story. Tim is already known for his enigmatic, haunting electro-acoustic instrumental music. In addition to nine solo albums and dozens of compilation appearances, Story's work has appeared on numerous television and film soundtracks, including the original score for the popular NPR documentary “In Search of Angels” (1994), and “Caravan” (2005). He was nominated for a Grammy award for his musical score of 1988's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". While a debutante Andrea provides her talent as the evocative lyricist and her distinctinly sultry voice.

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Urban Species - Blanket (1998)

"Formed in Tottenham, London, England, in the late 80s, Urban Species were tipped as the next potential breakthrough in UK hip-hop. They originally comprised lead rapper Mint (Peter Akinrinola) and DJ Renegade (b. Winston Small). Toaster Slim (b. Rodney Green) later joined. The trio started to produce small runs of white labels, distributing them under the names of either Mint or Renegade. This earned them a reputation among both pirate radio stations and clubs. Even the hip New York stations Kiss and WBLS picked up on one of their tracks, "It's My Thing", but they were hamstrung by finances and unable to capitalize.They came to the attention of Talkin" Loud Records boss Gilles Peterson, who signed them in 1991." (Discogs)

It's been a while we never heard anything from them. This is their last release and it's dating back to 1998. Some young talents were featured in this 1998 album among others Imogen Heap, Elizabeth Troy, and Jeffery Darnell. Imogen Heap appeared on the title track and this was way before Frou Frou or Speak For Yourself.

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James Taylor Quartet - Whole Lotta Live (1998)

JTQ have been riding high at the time this live album was recorded; sell-out shows, international tours, own label JTI Records, scoring the theme tune to Austin Powers' movie are among the higlights of their career at that time, not to mention collaboration with artists such as Tom Jones, Manic Street Preachers, The Pogues and U2 as the acid jazz craze was still in effect. The album was recorded Live before a sell out crowds at the Manchester Academy , England. and it was nominated for the Mobo Award.

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Sindikaat - See (2006)

Sindikaat is a jazz funk band from Germany formed in 1998 with six members: Tilman Schneider - Trombone, Lutz Streun - Saxophone,Jakob Storm - Guitar, Robert Niegl - Keys, Fender Rhodes, Philipp Gosch - Bass, and Christian Nink - Drums. http://www.myspace.com/sindikaat

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Up, Bustle and Out - The Breeze Was Mellow (1997)

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Ceux Qui Marchent Debout - The Jackpot (2007)

Ceux Qui Marchent Debout (-Those who walk upright-), is a Parisian funk brass outfits that has been around since 1993. The seven member band is known for their raucous live shows and they have been busy touring the world over. They play with various influences from funk, soul, reggae, ska, and rock. 'The Jackpot' is their eight release. http://www.cqmd.net.

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