The New LoFi is an exploration in new and fresh sounding music. We exist to promote good music and the artists behind it.

Melbourne based percussionist, influenced by jazz, rhythmic architecture and the beach

Percussion is our first love. Brazil samba, Cuban, Afro, but Soul & Funk is the bomb!. Mix in steamy Jazz, 80's funk, powerful vocals, Rhodes piano and R&B. Stir and shake with House, IDM, electro and neo-soul. Pour out smooth, crunchy Soulful house, Nu-Jazz, Deep House, Broken Beat, Garage &  electronic. Season to taste. 

      Welcome to my new micro label "DOWN JAZZ".

NEW Albums & REMIX RELEASES Summer 2025!
Neo-Soul-Jazz-House-Broken Beat-Nu-Jazz

Jazz master musicians from the bands: Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross,more. 

Groovy soulful jazzy & chill tracks. Dance remixes from Uk & US dance divas: Jimpster, DJ Spinna, Kai Alce, Dance Regular crew.  Follow DownJazz.com Stay in the loop.


Rocket Love  Dance Remix Album 2024
UK DJ Nu-funk, Neo-soul tracks! JIMPSTER, KAIDI TATHAM, EVM128, Sean McCabe.

Funk releases!! 

Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure. Starring the musicians from Parliament Funkadelic, recorded live at UNITED SOUND Studios Detroit. This is where Motown was born! Guest stars from P-Funk, Prince, Lady, Gaga, Mary J Blige, Public Enemy  & many more! 


HUGE 3 year project! Plus P-Funk remixes: House, Disco, Vaporwave, Nu-Disco, Future Funk. Starring David Lee-Sean McCab ( Z Records UK), Kaidi Tatham, (Bugz in the Attic, Co-op presents Selectors Assemble UK. Mitch Moses (Mad Moses Acid Jazz US)and many more...

Remixed into: house, broken beat, deep house, soul house, disco.

Lots of groovy projects underway. Please tell your friends and sign up for the funkateer mailing list!
downjazz.com

Lunar Island Music copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,2023, 2024,2025
email: downjazzrecords@gmail.com

fyi: Gato Ritmo means Rhythm Cat in Portuguese

Drummer/producer/wizard Nick Martyn creates odd beats, bent harmonies and lush vocals as Las Mar. World music, post-rock, electronica and psychedelia mesh together seamlessly in punchy, soulful, multi-layered songs.

Music and Arts Publicity, Radio Servicing, Programming and Marketing agency based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Website: https://thismuchtalentau.com/

Musical Journeys of Geo Seato, New Zealand based

Bandcamp - https://geoseato.bandcamp.com/track/geo-seato-paule-arapito

JESSE WITNEY 

Jesse Witney was one of those young kids you see on groovy parents shoulders at festivals. His family has a strong musical pedigree, with both his parents being musicians and festival producers of the Imbil Folk festival for over 15 years. His older brother Matty Witney, who he performed with in the Brothers Witney, is currently a Chicago resident musician. Jesse started singing at an early age, with an obvious talent. At 13 years he picked up a bass guitar and helped form the punk band, ‘Better than Britney’, by 16 years old he was winning music competitions, including the “George Hoya Tribute Award’, and getting a name for himself in the surf-music scene. He moved to Lismore to study guitar performance at Southern Cross University with Jim Kelly. One day Doug de Vries, the leading exponent of Brazilian guitar in Australia,  gave a lecture about Brazilian guitar music and “a light came on” and he began to study Brazilian music with a passion. By 20 years old he had learnt the language. And by 21 years  years old was in Brazil, gigging as much as possible across the country as a whole, and recording with a plethora of Brazilian talents, including Producer - Marcelo Müller. His deep appreciation and immersion into the Brazilian tradition has been a constant in his musical journey, and infuses his music with a spicy edge. He also performs under the moniker ‘My Bossa Nova Baby’ performing the traditional samba-folk of Brazil. His forthcoming album of originals, Animal Cities is due out in November 2022.

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