Earl Jeffers returns to his own Mélange imprint with a massive splash. Two soulful house heaters and an alternative mix. But the first of these dancefloor destroyers features the ever-prolific Kaidi Tatham on flute and guitar. 

If you’re not familiar with Cariff’s Earl Jeffers, there’s an ocean of brilliant music to catch up on. Stacks of releases under his own name, and aliases Chesus and Metabeats, on labels like MCDE, Fat City, and Local Talk. Not forgetting his own label, Mélange Records.

Earl has jumped confidently from house to hip hop, jungle, jazz. library music and more, collaborating on the way with artists such as Byron The Aquarius, Action Bronson, Kamaal Williams and K15. Moreover, as one half of Darkhouse Family with Don Leisure, Earl fuses hip hop production sensibilities with live soul & jazz and yet more notable collaborators. 

Better-known for his keyboard wizardry and highest quality broken jazz productions, don’t sleep on Kaidi Tatham on the flute OR guitar. On both he lays it down with the same finesse and feel for what the song needs. As Earl adds, “pleasure to once again work with one of the best to do it! Mr Kaidi Tatham”. 

Artwork is provided by frequent collaborator and good friend of Earl’s, Ral Duke. Ral has been behind artwork for the likes of Griselda Records (Westside Gunn, Conway, Benny the Butcher), Alchemist, and Ghostface Killah, among many others.

On the flip we find title track “Higher”, featuring vocals from Lloyd Everitt, alongside an alternative mix of the same. ‘Higher’ is released on June 12.

Exclusive Premiere: Earl Jeffers Ft. Kaidi Tatham "The Essence"

Betty Lou Landreth feat Emmanuel Riggins -  'Emmanuel's Way'

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Joel Holmes – Into The Abyss (Kryptox 2023)
Once known as a techno city, Berlin has quietly become the capital for jazz bands in recent years. While the queues in front of the techno clubs become shorter and shorter, the city is slowly converting into a melting pot for all sorts of musicians and artists with amazing instrumentalists, producers and bands from all over the world moving to the German capital to create a new scene. As a result, Berlin has come out with some of the craziest, non-conformist types of music. Toy Tonics sister label Kryptox has started to establish itself as a key platform for this new scene.
One of the protagonists of this scene is Joel Holmes, the former band leader of Carl Craig's synthesizer ensemble and keyboarder of (Grammy-nominated) cult band Roy Hargrove. Joel Holmes’ new album ‘Into The Abyss’ is a perfect capturing of the current moment in Berlin. The album features other main players of its new scene such as Ziggy Zeitgeist from Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, as well as tapping into international talent such as acclaimed flutist Tenderlonious from London.
Few people bridge the gap between jazz and electronic music as successfully as Holmes. Over the past years, he’s been working with some of jazz’s most relevant artists, incl. Roy Hargrove, Curtis Fuller, Javon Jackson, Nnenna Freelon, Curtis Lundy and Jimmy Cobb. Once tapped into electronic music too, he made records with legends such as Carl Craig. Working with techno artists made him curious about the new dance scene, resulting in his moved to Berlin, where he quickly started making music with the likes of Cody Currie and Kapote.
Joel describes the album in his own words as follows: "The next album "Into the Abyss" is the first time I recorded music through the lens of different landscapes and on 2 different continents reflecting the times of today’s music that is mirroring what is happening in our communities and worlds today. From dark colors to light, music is so diverse, and I tried to reflect this in my album. This is also the first time I have had this many special guests on an album. So I’m excited about this.“

Album release: 05.04.23

Joel Holmes - Broken Styles (feat. Tenderlonious and Roberto Manzin)

Close Counters - SOULACOASTA II
Release Date: Wednesday 15th February 2023
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A1) Papercuts
A2) Rhino
A3) Coconutgrinder (with Rasho T)

B1) Deephouse-Track des Jahres (Vocal Mix) (with Max Graef)
B2) Igor
B3) Bright Moments
B4) Plej for Errrbody

After the killer debut, Money Sex returns with another jaw-droppingly good selection, this time from IMYRMIND. Another triumphant tapestry of sample sources, reinvented and ramped up into an effortlessly effective 6 pack.

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Sacred Pulse

 *UNDERWORD TRANAMITION*
 it’s a descent.
A raw continuation of a sound in constant mutation, this album is a deeper broadcast from the same underground signal you’ve been transmitting all along.

Built from broken circuits, glitched voices, and rave devotion, this record merges **techno intensity**, **trance mysticism**, and **industrial dreamscapes** into one body-moving, soul-scratching transmission.

Where the last journey ended, this one picks up — beneath the concrete, inside the feedback loop, lost between the strobes.

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### 🔊 Sound & Atmosphere

* Heavy kick pressure, granular textures
* Pulses that flicker between ecstasy and collapse
* Spoken fragments from the underlayer
* Melodies like corrupted memories

Every track is a **signal fragment**, a ritual looped into eternity.

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### 💬 Artist Statement

> “This album isn’t the next chapter.
> It’s the echo of something we already lived… distorted, refracted, and reborn.”

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### 🧬 Tags

**#techno #trance #glitchrave #darkambient #spokenword #rave**

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### 🔻 For fans of

**Underworld**, **Voiski**, **Blawan**, **Floating Points**,
**Illegal nights**, **Boiler Room rituals**, **Broken signal beauty**

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Late Night Cadence

Electric Intrigue (ext mmx 4) (rmstr1)

Henry Wu aka Kamaal Williams of "Yussef Kamaal", returns to EGLO Records following on from his joint EP with "K15". 
"Deep In The Mudd" is a heavy weight 6 track EP which journeys through Broken Beat, House, Hip Hop and Jazz. The previously released ‘Negotiate’ ft. Simeon Jones, which originally came out on EGLO sister label "Hotep", gets a 2017 remix courtesy of the legendary Kaidi Tatham and UK funky OG Hardhouse Banton joins Wu on title track ‘Deep In The Mudd’ and ‘Century’.

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Preorder the album here https://sgjazz.lnk.to/SGJAZZ
Dr. Dundiff (done different, @dr-dundiff) is a Hip-Hop/Neo-Soul producer based out of Louisville, KY. Producing music since 2010, most known for his collabos with Otis Junior with whom he released an EP and two albums. After last year’s  “Cool” with Otis Junior and his hip hop instrumental project “Muneybeats”, Dr. Dundiff and Jakarta team up once again for SGJAZZ, a supergroup formed by Louisville’s finest musicians. The 2nd single 'Like Glue' is an upbeat instrumental joint from the album making your head nod.

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SGJAZZ - Like Glue

Naarm/Melbourne-based Close Counters’ diverse soundscape sits at the crossroads of house, neo-soul, broken beat and disco. Their 2023 Music Victoria Award-winning album, ‘SOULACOASTA II’ secured their spot as one of the top talents in their class, with the duo tirelessly sourcing niche samples from films and records on trips across the globe. The LP was touted by tastemakers Gilles Peterson, Folamour, Jamz Supernova and landed Album Features with Australian stations Double J, 3RRR, PBS and 2SER. Breakout singles from the pack were originally released by Melvo Baptiste’s The Remedy Project, an imprint of Defected Records.

Their collab 'Rollout' with Young Franco, Scrufizzer and Jay Prince, won over fans across the globe and was added to the Official Soundtrack for acclaimed video game FIFA 23, and have been synced for Apple’s recent iPhone campaign. In the past year the band have also performed for triple j, 3RRR, Defected Radio, FBi Radio, Soho Radio NYC, Baked, and interviewed on BBC Radio 1Xtra on tour recently, and when hotly tipped as their ‘After Dark Discovery’ and ‘EP of the Week’ (‘FLUX’, 2022).

The duo expands up to a 7-piece tour-de-force with live-mapped visuals, dancers and featured musicians and vocalists from their wider collective and they’ve continuously sold out their hometown Naarm/Melbourne dates, notching impressive shows at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, sold out dates at 170 Russell, Corner Hotel, The Night Cat, and packed-out rooms across Australia’s east coast. Support duties have flowed from Madlib, Sofi Tukker, Crazy P Soundsystem, Tall Black Guy, to local mates Confidence Man and The Jungle Giants, betwixt bucket-list festivals Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Let Them Eat Cake, Strawberry Fields, Meredith Music Festival, MONA FOMA, Party in the Paddock and showcasing at BIGSOUND, Electronic Music Conference and three sold-out Melbourne Music Week events.

The band recently finished their UK & EU summer ticking off Lost Village Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, Defected Malta and Cabaret Sauvage. In London, they sold Ronnie Scott's, did 180 tickets at Ninety One Living Room, packed out Hootananny Brixton and landed a sold out Jazz Café support for Somewhere Soul's showcase with Cotonete. The band have also played packed sets in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Monaco, Brighton and featured behind the decks at ADE, Defected Croatia, Reflektor in Belgium with A-Trak, and are returning for Brick Lane Jazz Festival in April 2025.

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