Jazztronica

Afro Cello

Afro Cello (Super Full Moon Rework)

Saudade: a mysterious and unique Portuguese folk culture word for a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent. In this case, parties.

Saudade Da Festa

Black Space Jazz

Vision 9 (Melé Mix & Dub)

Vision 9 (Melé Mix)

Undertones

📀 Vinyl Pre-Order

Glimlip x Yasper x cocabona - Houseboat Party (feat. Soul Food Horns)

Moves EP

Moves (feat. Eliza Rose)

Half-Bloom is the first track to be released on Asta Hiroki's own Folded Music imprint. Download is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp with profits being donated to reforestation. 

Download: https://astahiroki.bandcamp.com/track/half-bloom
Stream: https://ffm.to/halfbloom

Half-Bloom

Talk About It

Amaya's Voyage

Label mainstays Potatohead People are coming through with some future jazz heat for the second single ahead of the ‘20 Years of Bastard Jazz’ anniversary compilation. “Bonzai View” harkens back to the live instrumentation and technical prowess explored in last year’s outstanding ‘Mellow Fantasy’ LP, fused with a head-nodding boom-bap beat the duo is known for. The new track comes hot off some major releases for Potatohead People, including a DJ Jazzy Jeff & Kaidi Tatham remix of the group’s De La Soul collaboration, and production credits on a song from Phife Dawg’s critically acclaimed posthumous album with Illa J, which has just seen a brand new remix featuring Redman.
 
Brooklyn’s trend-setting label Bastard Jazz is celebrating 20 years of operation with an ambitious 4xLP compilation featuring half catalogue hits, and half new material from the current roster. It’s a testament to the label’s diverse and exploratory sound that touches everything from hip-hop to funk, house, and soul, all while maintaining a concurrent sonic thread. Here’s to 20 more!

Potatohead People - Bonzai View

m.a.c.

m.a.c. (feat. Andru Dennis, Alexander Gustavo, Cotton Mom, Gino West, Thin Thicket, Tommy Lehman, John James Martin, Kevin Maxwell Smith & Nicholas Frank)

After releasing the full-length “Weekends” in 2020 (released via Wicked Wax in Amsterdam), a string of singles, collaborative projects, and EPs in 2021, Jonny Tobin releases another full-length solo album “Together” to kick off 2022. Facing isolation and loneliness (as many people in the world did throughout 2020), the album is a collection of tracks that Jonny made to channel negative feelings into something hopeful and forward-looking.

While the album was created without any other collaborators, many of the tracks on the album relate back to an experience that personally inspired Jonny, or to a connection with someone else. “Take Your Time” was an evolution of a Masego remix contest submission from the summer of 2020 (while Jonny didn’t win the contest, he received a memorable shoutout from Masego on Instagram). On “What I Didn’t Do”, Jonny features a clip from friend and fellow musician William Chernoff speaking about unrealized potential and some of the negative self-talk that can hold people back. “Vivid Dreams” also features vocals by way of a chopped lead vocal from the Jonny Tobin-produced track “Mars” by Janette King. Closing off the album is the introspective track “Leonidus”, which was born out of a beat Jonny created for Loop Sessions, a monthly beatmakers hang. The track expanded into a tribute to Jonny’s friend Leonidus Edwards who passed away suddenly in 2021.

“Together” represents Jonny’s response to all the tragedy, despair, and grief of the past 2 years - holding space for those emotions but also seeking to provide glimmers of optimism with an almost playful delight, as the compositions encapsulate his bright outlook on the world. 

credits:

all production, mixing - Jonny Tobin
album mastering - Shaquille Headley (The Drum Temple)

"What I Didn't Do" features Will Chernoff (spoken) and a sample of Thad Bailey-Mai playing rhodes from Will Chernoff's song "Reliable Friend".

"Vivid Dreams" features a vocal sample from Janette King's song "Mars".

"Leonidus" features spoken words from Leonidus Edwards in some of our final conversations before his passing. Love you and miss you my brother.

Crystal Clouds

Skybox

Gravity

All Around (Renegades Of Jazz Remix)

Tin Tin Deo

Tin Tin Deo (NerdStar Remix)

The edbl x Kazuki Sessions

Worldwide

Blue To Red

Blue To Red (Photay Remix)

XPBTTMS.MMBL

XPBTTMS.MMBL (feat. Thin Thicket & Damon Soulful Samurai Poole)

"The Banquet" is the 4th single of the upcoming album "Twelve Chapters" by Glimlip, Søren Søstrom and Soul Food Horns.

Artwork by Philip Lindeman

Mastered by Statinski

Twelve Chapters

The Banquet

⚡️ Stream

Glimlip x Søren Søstrom x Soul Food Horns - The Banquet (feat. Yasper)

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Instrumental version.

The Blacklight Configuration - Golden Dawn

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