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We are very proud to announce the release of "Mobilisation Générale" : Protest & Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976, our (fully licensed) new jazz compilation in collaboration with Born Bad Records. This time, we have gathered some fine protest & esoteric jazz songs featuring a few big names of the french jazz scene and also a few tunes that you have probably never heard. Double lps album including : Le Collectif du Temps des Cerises, Baroque Jazz Trio, Alfred Panou, Mahjun, François Tusques, Full Moon Ensemble, Chêne Noir, Areski Belkacem & more ... Pre-order only at Diggersdigest before the official release on mid December

"MOBILISATION GENERALE" PROTEST AND SPIRIT JAZZ FROM FRANCE 1970 -1976 SNIPPETS

"Les Antilles Chéries" - A quick mix of some of my favorite caribbean songs from the late 60's to early 80's (no chronological order) ... Hope you will dig it ...
 ... 
working on new caribbean compilations with Born Bad Records & Heavenly Sweetness, I took the time to select some of my favorite tracks of the moment ...  Hope you will enjoy ! 

Peace 

LES ANTILLES CHÉRIES - HANDPICKED & COOKED BY DIGGER'S DIGEST

"Useless Plastic Plates" is an electronic post punk & industrial selection & mixed by Digger's digest for the excellent Italo Deviance Blog 

Italo Deviance  http://space-boogie.blogspot.fr/



USELESS PLASTIC PLATES - A weirdo electronic selection Mixed by DIGGER'S DIGEST

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Our Official fac-simile reissue of The ultimate iconic long time uncovered French vocal jazz funk Holy Grail is Out Now ! 

Reissue Produced by Digger's Digest & French Attack  

STRICTLY LIMITED TO 500 COPIES 

SOLD OUT / SOLD OUT / SOLD OUT 

exclusive Pre-order only at :

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& 
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RUPTURE "ISRAEL SUITE" OFFICIAL REISSUE

We are very proud to reveal a mixed soundclip of our new OFFICIAL fully licensed compilation  "KOUTÉ JAZZ" to be released on Heavenly sweetness​ ! 

Official Release date : 25/09/2015 

You can pre order the record here :
(Liens de pré commande)
Itunes : http://apple.co/1EQIV2W
CD / Vinyl : http://bit.ly/1M7Fms4
Deezer : http://bit.ly/1Ou19r6


I particulary want to thanks the great artist  Michel Buret​ who designed  35 years ago the cover of the Synchro Eclectic Music Language : Lambi by Louis Xavier. We loved so much this Lambi artwork that we asked Michel to paint the cover of our new release ! Many thanks for this beautiful painting ! 

Go to check his work on http://www.urban-graff.com/

KOUTÉ JAZZ - A COLLECTION OF JAZZ TRACKS FROM THE FRENCH WEST INDIES SELECTED BY DIGGER'S DIGEST

I was lucky to be invited by Radio Nova to play at the NOVA MIX CLUB to present KOUTÉ JAZZ and play some records from the West Indies. You can hear the quick mix here 

 

KOUTÉ JAZZ for NOVA MIX CLUB Live DJ set by DIGGER'S DIGEST @Badaboum

Ti Jan Pou Velo is a stellar gwo ka jazz fusion masterpiece recorded in 1988 by Edmony Krater, a former member of Gwakasonné (one of the most famous Gwo Ka modern group from Guadeloupe) with the help of the group Zepiss. Through this long time underrated album, Edmony pays a tribute to the heroes of traditional music from Guadeloupe, starting with Marcel Lollia better known as Vélo. With 3 tracks on each side this album strikes by the originality of the compositions, Tijan Pou Vélo the eponymous opening track is a soulful version of traditional song played in toumblak. Gwadeloup we compiled on Kouté Jazz is a uptempo groovy ballad transended by electric jazz arrangement. Crépuscule last track of side one is a kaladja (a slow rhythm) with Edmony Krater, strongly inspired by Don Cherry and Miles Davis, playing trumpet. On the B-side Chimin Spirit offers a lighter, more danceable view of the world led by the boulagyel (the traditional mouth drum that ka singers use to mark the rhythm) and silky arpeggios on the guitar, singing a message that couldn’t be any simpler: “Let’s follow nature; she will guide us!” In West Indies, Edmony Krater mixes a variety of Caribbean rhythms in with the lewoz rhythm, which is so warlike and mystical, tough and courageous. “We are all children of a common, shared history.” And this history even contains a sense of “terroir” or place, a notion that the Guadeloupian found in the work of Bernard Lubat. “That’s why I wanted to call this piece Occitan Dance. It’s a fusion based on my encounters with Bernard Lubat, with whom I share a common vision of music and its relationship to creation.” Like Lubat, Edmony Krater is incredibly open-minded to a variety of influences as well as a masterful player of numerous instruments (trumpet and drums as well as guitar and keyboards). He has managed to surround himself with a group of musicians who are well in sync with his vision: Eddy Lebouin, bassist and guitarist from Gwokasonné, the guitarist Freddy Tisseur, a childhood friend, the saxophonist Filip Augusty, the drum major Roger Raspail, the drummer Jean-Pierre Coco, the flutist Roseline Pougeol, whose brother played with Konket, and Jean-Claude Predantos on keyboards.

Reissued produced by Digger's Digest and Les Mains Noires. CD version available on Heavenly Sweetness with 2 exclusives tracks. Limited to 500 copies. Full liners note included. Pre-order now here : http://diggersdigest.com/shop/product/edmony-krater-ti-jan-pou-velo-official-reissue-1/

EDMONY KRATER & ZEPISS : OFFICIAL LIMITED REISSUE OUT 01/02/2016

Here is our new mixtape, we mean our new mix on ACTUAL cassette tape as in the good old days ... 
the 44' 03 SIDE A will be available for free download and streaming on Soundcloud.
SIDE B, lasting 41 : 44 and featuring unreleased tracks will ONLY be available on this tape released at 50 COPIES ONLY. SO SET UP YOUR BOOM BOX / WALKMAN / TAPE PLAYERS to embark in our new journey into the vast caribbean music world. This time we explored proto zouk tracks ! Mixed and selected by Digger's Digest and DR.NICO (Skliris). 

This tape is a promotional mixtape to announce our forthcoming official fully licensed compilation to be released on Heavenly Sweetness. 


DIGITAL ZANDOLI : THE MIXTAPE by DIGGER'S DIGEST & NICO SKLIRIS

First track of our official compilation DIGITAL ZANDOLI selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on HeavenlySweetness. 

O.R.E.A : Biguine Inferno with Erick Orville / Wally Badarou / Michel Alibo / Claude Vamur / Julien Constance. Composed by Erick Orville. Arranged by Wally Badarou. 

All Right Reserved-  Under licence Heavenly Sweetness 2016

OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE 8th July / PRE ORDER HERE 

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DIGITAL ZANDOLI  "Biguine Inferno" by O.R.E.A

Official Release Date 8 July 2016

PRE ORDER NOW !

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Following the acclaimed Kouté jazz, we are glad to announce our new project compilation with parisian label Heavenly Sweetness in collaboration with afro/antilles record expert Nicolas Skliris. This project, that we introduced in mid February as Digital Zandoli with a limited mixtape, aimed to gather a wide spectrum of tracks from pre zouk era in the french West Indies. We picked 12 slept on tracks amongst piles of obscure caribbean records to show a broader spectrum to the Zouk music style that is poorly defined.  These tracks reveal the merger between traditional and other rhythmic genres (funk, disco, afro-beat, Latin Brazilian …), with the addition of synthesizers and drums machine to the creative process. Original, magnetic and highly danceable.



DIGITAL ZANDOLI - Zouk & Synthetic Funk from the French West Indies - The Official Compilation

Milton: Mizik Nou from “Doudou Créole 12” (IBO Production – IBO 8403) - Compiled on Digital Zandoli. Licensed by Heavenly Sweetness - Compiled by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris. 

It is under this English-sounding pseudonym that Patrick Saint-Éloi and Jean-Claude Naimro, eminent members of the band Kassav’, made one of their finest West Indian boogie zouk numbers. Although this Mizik Nou, which benefited from the expert ear of producer Dominique Blanc-Francart and was released as an ultra-limited edition EP, is one of the most keenly sought discs by collectors of French funk, it was never properly marketed as a dance hit! This compilation ought to swiftly right that wrong.

DIGITAL ZANDOLI  "Mizik Nou" by MILTON

PRE ORDER Here http://diggersdigest.com/shop/product/digital-zandoli-mixtape-volume-2-by-diggers-digest-dr-nico-skliris/

Available for shipping 15 september 2016

After the release of DIGITAL ZANDOLI our critically acclaimed new compilation/project in collaboration with Heavenly Sweetness, we are really proud to announce the released of the 2nd volume of  DIGITAL ZANDOLI THE MIXTAPE by Digger's Digest & Dr. Nico Skliris. Another 85 minutes of boogie-zouk, carribean funk, tropical synth music. 

As on the first volume SIDE A is available for free streaming on our soundcloud. B side and full tracklist will be only available on this actual tape (Means you have to spend a few €, dig out your vintage Walkman or Ghetto Blaster to enjoy the B side). Tapes collectors be quick ! This time it is limited to 75 copies.

Artwork by Nico Motte from Check Morris

Digital Zandoli The Mixtape Volume 2

DIGITAL ZANDOLI : THE MIXTAPE Volume 2 by DIGGER'S DIGEST & NICO SKLIRIS

AVAILABLE NOW. 

Following our deep jazz reissue series we are proud to announce the release of Cossi Anatz (means "Comment ça va ? in french southern language - "How are you doing ?) 
This long awaited reissue is an overlooked french jazz album with a real singular sound mixing the North African, Arabic and Occitan music (traditional music from Southern France) with free/spiritual. Composed and partly recorded live by Michel Marre, one of the spearhead of L'Intercommunal Free Dance Orchestra (founded by François Tusques) with René Nan on drums (who also played with Marius Cultier), Jazz Afro-occitan is written on the cover and it's clearly the case when you put the needle on wax you instantly feel  that are quite obvious here, especially in the brass & percussions. 
Some brilliant tracks like the beautiful deep avant jazz Al Coltrane or the monster spiritual oriental jazz Aden Arabie with great Fender solo. One of my favorite track is Bourrée Du Céor a 8'm long deep modal jazz number with a raw live, almost rural sound ! 

Michel Marre exclusive interview here :
http://www.diggersdigest.com/blog/itw-michel-marre-of-cossi-anatz-english-version/

OffIcial reissue limited to 500 copies. 
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http://www.frenchattack.com

Cossi Anatz - Jazz Afro-Occitan - Official Reissue

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) is our latest project curated by Digger's Digest and produced by Born Bad Record and will be out the 25th June. This 13 titles compilation gathers a selection of tracks sounding like a rather unorthodox créole interpretation of the nuyorican Booglaoo, stuck between the strong Yéyé influence coming from the french Metropole and the modern latin fusion emerging from Harlem.

Order here : 
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Tracklist 

1.Maurice Alcindor - Sekirité sociale
2.Gabby Siarras - Sauvagement sexy 
3.Les Bois sirop - Je voudrais danser avec toi
4.Dany Play - Mais tu sais
5.David Martial - Jerk vidé
6.Le Ry-co Jazz - Pipi poh
7.Le Ry-co Jazz - Tu bois beaucoup
8.Joby Valente - Disque la rayé
9.Fred Aucagos - Ti Mam'zelle
10.Dany Play - Pourquoi pas
11.Les Vickings - Puchi's boogaloo
12.Monsieur X - Ou qué di moin
13.Henri Debs - Ou pas z'amis en mwen

Conception & réalisation : Julien Achard & JB Guillot

Clearance : Jb Guillot // Texte : David Commeillas // Traduction : Diane Lebel //Restauration & mastering : Norscq // Artwork : FLX


Read the story of Disque La Rayé by David Commeillas : Disque La Rayé
http://diggersdigest.com/blog/disque-la-ray%C3%A9-out-now-on-born-bad-records/

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) snippets - OUT ON Born Bad Records

"Ban Di Fwam" By Coco Fabert is the opening track of our forthcoming Digital Zandoli 2 selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on Heavenly Sweetness, the follow up of our acclaimed first volume of this compilation.

Release date : 
*CD/Digital 22nd September 2017 
*Vinyl 13th October 2017 

PRE ORDER HERE :
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Present : DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2

DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2  "Ban Di Fwam" by COCO FABERT

"Sistem" by Alex Rosa is the 2nd track we choose to reveal from the forthcoming Digital Zandoli 2 selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on Heavenly Sweetness, the follow up of our acclaimed first volume of this compilation.

Release date : 
*CD/Digital 22nd September 2017 
*Vinyl 13th October 2017 

PRE ORDER HERE :
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DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2  "Sistem" by ALEX ROSA

We recorded this 14 tracks Live mix for the Valentine's Day Special Mix for Radio Meuh. 
Mixed Selected and mixed by Digital Zandoli  Aka Nicolas Skliris and Digger's Digest.
Enjoy our freshly picked up Zouk and Caribbean Loves Songs selection of tracks
and Happy Valentine's Day with your lover. 
Tracklist soon ...

DIGITAL ZANDOLI - ZOUK & CARIBBEAN LOVE SONGS (RADIO MEUH Valentine's Day exclusive mix)

Our long awaited reissue of Caribbean Jazz Fusion masterpiece Doubout Pou Gadé by Guadeloupean musician José Manclière is now available for PRE-ORDER. 
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Co-produced by Pierre-Edouard Decimus, José has cooked a really personal & singular record with amazing experimental composition merging Gwo Ka, Jazz-Funk, Biguine with an early electronic synthetic production. This ultra rare album privately distributed in the West Indies has now reached the Holy Grail status amongst collectors. This is definitely a real masterpiece with deep tunes like Syka a fierce synthetic jazz funk hybrid with incredible clavinet, synth and trumpet solos halfway between Placebo and Fabiano Orchestra. Vini Couté E Tann' is the amazing funky biguine we choose to compile on Kouté Jazz with incredible piano and guitar solo respectively by Patrick Jean Marie & Gilbert Coco. Tipi Fanm', is another wicked tune gwo ka percussion laden jazz tune. Features the Who's Who of modern guadeloupean jazz : Patrick Jean-Marie, Ramon Pirmé, Herbert Lewis, Roger & Gilbert Coco, Germain Cédé, Philippe Dambury and even Pierre-Edouard Decimus on bass.

Limited to 500 hand numbered copies. 

Reissue from the original Master Tapes.

 PRE-ORDER Shipping date 02/05/2018

José Mancliere - Doubout Pou Gadé - Official Limited Reissue (snippets)

Imaginary Soundtrack, march 2006

Here's the first part of the dark moody jazz funk soundtrack style mix called "A previous unreleased soundtrack for Kill Bill 3" selected, edited and blended by Digger's digest & Victor Kiswell... 

DIGGER'S DIGEST meets VICTOR KISWELL : A previous unreleased soundtrack for Kill Bill 3 - Part 1

A fine french jazz selection quickly mixed by Digger's digest ... 
I have recorded this mix 2 months ago for the Jazz Meet Radio Show by Nik Weston ... 
Following the Freedom Jazz France Compilation released on Heavenly Sweetness, I have choosen more french jazz tunes that I hope you will like ... 

TRACKLIST 
Intro Paris Jazz Quartet Edit

Christian Vander, Jef Gilson : Colchique dans les Près (EDIT)
from Christian Vander Et Les 3 Jef - Palm - 1973

Guy Lafitte : K'Yapy
from Blues - Disques VEGA - 1970

Jazz Group de Bretagne : Morgat Waltz
from Jazz Côte Ouest - Private 

Cossi Anatz : Aden Arabie
from Jazz Afro-Occitan - Vendémiaire

Moravagine : Funk Seven 
from Moravagine S/T album - Promophone 1976

Jef Gilson : Blue-Blizz 
from Enfin! Disques Du Club de L'Échiquier - 1963

Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra ‎: Mar Jo Cantar No Fabia / Mazir 
from L'Inter Communal - Disques Vendémiaire - 1978 

Jc Capon / Philippe Maté / Butch Morris Serge Rahoerson : Mode De Fa (EDIT)
from Untitled album Released on Palm - 1977

Randy Weston's African Ryhtms Marakech Blues 
from African Cookbook - Polydor - 1969

Majoie Hajary : Prologue (EDIT)
from La Passion Selon Judas - CBS - 197?










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