1 (NEW) Gotan Project, Triptico - Ya Basta
Fasten your seat belt: Deep house with North African percussions with tango
Accordion with Flamenco guitar with Brazilian beats with Jazz piano solo
with gipsy violin... 8 minutes of pure pleasure.
2 St Germain, Rose Rouge - Blue Note
Nervous repetitive and envouting jazz tune. Just astounding.
3 Big Bang, Dribbling - Far Out
“Colours” has a Latin cadence with Jazz sax & drums and trip-hop sound
effects... superb.
4 Mustang, Give a Little Love - Main Squeeze
Fast upbeat breakbeat Jazz tempo contrasting with smooth soulful vocals by
Vanessa Freeman.
5 (NEW) Bossa Tres...Jazz, Limbo experience - Yellow prod.
Originally, a great and strange melody. Here smartly remixed by Tom y Joyce
and Rollercone.
6 (NEW) Ugly Duckling, I Did It Like This - Bad Magic
Talent and diversity in the art of sampling .
7 People Under The Stairs, The Cat - Om records
Smooth, funky, positive and un-macho hip hop... so rare.
8 George Benson, The Ghetto - GRP
A sparkling production combined with the famous Benson’s vocals merging into
his guitar solo.
9 (NEW) Silent Poets, Someday - Yellow prod.
Soulful R’n’B hip-hop from Japan greatly remixed.
10 (NEW) Various, Sounds Like Inertia Vol.2 sampler - Inertia
The Best of this quality-led label.
11 Mark de Clive-Lowe, Six Degrees - Universal
Jazz+hip-hop+house+Latin= remarkable groovy sonic stew.
12 Black Science Orchestra, Soul Power Music - Afro Art T.
House meets Disco meets Afro Beats meets Techno... but my favourite are the
two downbeat tracks.
13 Phil Asher, Phlash 3000 - Estereo
4 finely produced house tracks. My favourite being those deep ones.
14 Cultural Mambo, Docking - Nuphonic
Groovy Deep House as we like it.
15 Tony Allen & Africa 70, Jealousy/Accommodation/Progress/Discrimination -
Strut
Genuine Piece of Art in four chapters.
16 Sun Orchestra, Sundance ep - Straight Up
French House: not cheesy, not filtered, but Jazzy and deep.
17 Soldiers of Twilight, Take U There - Serial
The dub version is a great deep house production with garage bassline and
vocals.
18 Feature Cast, Composing Blind - Catskills
Funky tracks that sweat. Good surprise.
19 Unforscene, Remote Viewing - Kudos
A smooth and funky track with Brazilian and E-Listening samples.
20 Peter Kruder, Root Down - Compost
He’s back... with a percussive electro nu samba.
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