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Lui Mafuta presents This Ain’t Jazz, a boundary-pushing new EP that fuses live musicianship
with electronic sensibility—an exploration of jazz influence through a deeply personal and
collaborative lens. 
The release is available on digital platforms and as a limited vinyl edition.
At the heart of This Ain’t Jazz is a long-gestating idea: to bridge electronic music with an
organic, band - oriented aesthetic. 

Lui Mafuta reunited with four longtime friends and collaborators - Paul Janoschka, Felix Roos, Jonas Esser, and Benedikt Jäckle - who all studied music together in Mannheim before scattering across the globe. Under the loose collective named Weiller, they came together once again to create a sound that lives between genres.

The EP is a globe-spanning production. Piano was recorded on Paul Janoschka’s Steinway in his Frankfurt apartment; trumpet and clarinet were tracked in a rural French studio with Felix Roos; drums came from New York via Jonas Esser; and saxophone was laid down in Lui’s own studio in Mannheim alongside Benedikt Jäckle. All elements were finally assembled and shaped into a cohesive vision back in Mannheim.

“There’s less synth work on this one than usual,” Lui says. “Most of the textures come from the instruments themselves and a lot of sample mangling. I wanted it to feel raw, human, and alive.”

Despite its title, This Ain’t Jazz is a love letter to jazz’s influence. “I called it that just to be safe,” Lui jokes. “It isn’t jazz—but it’s coming from that space.” The project also serves as a reconnection to his roots: two of the four featured musicians are teenage friends from his earliest days making music.

Lui Mafuta - The Long Lost Story of Tony H (Jacob Groening Remix)

After Dark

Where rhythm meets feeling — deep, warm basslines and melodies that speak to the soul. Float through waves of emotion, late-night reflections, and love that lingers in every note.
For the nights you can’t sleep — emotional deep house that feels like memory and moonlight. Every drop, every synth, every breath tells a story you once lived.

Silver Nightfall

Boy King

Big Cat

A remix pack is nothing more than the universe experiencing its own dance music subjectively. With this in mind, we took Ecuadorian sound-seer Nicola Cruz’s latest audiovisions and refracted them through the minds of some of the world’s hottest young cultural interpreters. To provide you with the best possible approximation of what the results feel like, we then sent an intern to loiter outside a local Heart-Opening Ceremony to get people’s unfiltered reactions just moments after they awakened to their new place in the universal order. This package features remixes from the likes of Simple Symmetry, Jaja, Uji, Multi Culti's labelboss Thomas Von Party and Yor Kultura here premiered. Pre-order it there : https://nicolacruz.bandcamp.com/album/visiones-mc031

Cantos de Vision (Remixed)

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Nicola Cruz - Tzantza (Yør Kultura Remix)

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Artist: @oh_why
Remixers: @keraladust | @iorie | @genii-music
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UYSR058 - O/Y - Die Entwicklung der Menschheit - release 2018-07-19 (14day Beatport excl)

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