Happy New Year to all my followers and here's to 2025.

New mix recorded at Lady Libertine - all styles and tempos, as per the norm.

Listen, share and enjoy x

Scott Proper : Happy To See You Back

2025-02-07 Live At Fellice Records Invites Nico Lahs @ Paloma (Berlin)

Hailing from Kagiso, a township in South Africa whose name means "Peace," BNinjas is a deep house producer whose work embodies both a unique creativity and authenticity. 

Over the years, South Africa has emerged as a hub for deep house talent, and BNinjas is one of the standout artists shaping its future.An underground House music enthusiast from the west side of Johannesburg, BNinjas has developed a core style that combines muted Deep House with soft, rounded edges,leaning toward minimalism without ever becoming monotonous. 

His music is defined by a raw yet refined blend of minimalist, floor-moving rhythms, with swinging MPC-driven drums that give his tracks a unique pulse. Drawing influence from artists like Max Graef and Glenn Astro, his sound balances subtle complexity with deep, danceable grooves, setting him apart in the underground House scene.

@bninjas-bninjas

SlothBoogie Guestmix #461 - BNinjas

Lev Loves To Boogie (015)

Watch Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tQtMP0SLQ&t=2382s&ab_channel=EverybodyLovesToBoogie

Lev Loves To Boogie

Live recording by Guest DJ, Admin, from the third night of our July 2025 residency @Cafe1001 in London

Daydream Disco - Only Sounds Soulful - (Admin) LIVE @ Café 1001 - 19.07.2025

Format: CD, Download | Releasedate: 09.10.2015

It is only natural and consistent for Pete Josef to release his debut album on Berlin based label Sonar Kollektiv, since it is the very same imprint he has been featured on in numerous productions over the last three years – as a singer and as a songwriter.  The close link with Sonar Kollektiv took it's course when in autumn 2012 label manager Oliver Glage signed “Make It Good” by The White Lamp (Josef's project together with Ex-Underworld member Darren Emerson), for the label.  From there, he has made contributions to Alex Barck's album “Reunion”, to tracks with Paskal & Urban Absolutes and Marlow, and to “Broken Connection” off the debut album by ComixXx released just recently.  

The young Brit, inspired over the years by such collaborations, and socialized in the lively Bristol scene, has come up with an 11-track strong masterpiece of modern pop music.  In the opening track, “Spring At Last”, he and singer Marie Lister, accompanied by Justin “Captain” Fellow's industrious drumming and a host of Bristol String and Horn players, praise the thrill of anticipation of all the things to come.  For instance, a powerful pinch of dance grooves and soul/Jazz elements – always connected to the here and now without making any retro references at any point along the course.

“Mistress”, with screaming guitars and yet more powerful horn arrangements, reminiscent of Donny Hathaway’s “Voices Inside”, could almost be a new Stevie Wonder record.  In “Move On” Josef's Jazzpop turns Country-Ska, most notably thanks to his West African style claw-hammer guitar playing and some inspired drumming from Greg Freeman.  And on “Night Gospel” it is the piano that surfaces, over a lilting programmed, club-compliant beat.  Variety is guaranteed in every respect.. “Live Your Life” is a downright Afro-Jazz anthem complete with scat singing, off-beat double bass from Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge, and the mantra-like repeated chorus: “live your life, live it well”.  Whilst the Neo-Soul ambience of Running in series and Many Signs lament lost and broken love, new love is later expressed clearly as Josef carols.. “feeling the new; feeling cupids smile descend” on the buoyant, summery “Something Good”. 

The production of “The Travelling Song” has just a hint of the legendary Steely Dan productions, albeit with a modern almost hip-hop slant, and builds to put the listener into a firmly euphoric space with a Samba-funk rhythm section crafted by the virtuoso percussionist Rory Francis.  In short, “Colour” is every shade of the rainbow, from bright light, to contemplative dark.  “Hope” has all the colours in one, with lyrical positivity set against almost mournful Afrobeat ballad accompanied.  It is a setting of the poem by Emily Dickinson (“hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul”), and features a glorious improvised solo by free-Jazz trumpeter, Nick Malcolm; in which he virtually embodies the bird described in the verse through his fluttering expressive melodies.  In closing, as the album's finale, we are treated to the title track “Colour” ..and it is here where Pete Josef reveals where much of his inspiration, his optimism and his balance of mind springs from: it is his love of nature, in all it’s wondrous colour that is subtly expressed throughout his music.  Therefore not only the song “Colour”, but the whole album is de facto an ode to nature, together with the shades of emotion we all experience in our lives.  No surprise here then that Mr. Josef recently settled in a cottage in rural Somerset amid forests, meadows, and close to the natural world he loves so much.


Colour

Spring At Last

01 - Pete Josef - Spring At Last

JAZZANOVA MIX NOTES
Tracklist and Notes
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- L.O.V.E. And You & I - Jazzanova - In Between
- No Use (featuring Clara Hill) - Jazzanova Live - In Between Revisited
- Keep Falling (Forms Mix) - Jazzanova - Jazzanova Remixed
- ??? - ???
- Lost My Love - Strata Reocrds: The Sounds of Detroit as Re-Interpreted by Jazzanova
- Scorpio’s Child - Strata Reocrds: The Sounds of Detroit as Re-Interpreted by Jazzanova
- Morning Scapes (featuring Bembe Segue) - Jazzanova - Of All the Things
- Little Bird (featuring Jose James) - Jazzanova - Of All The things 
- Carajillo (Jazzanova Remix) - Trüby Trio
- Days To Come (Afro Remix) - Jazzanova 
- That Night (featuring Vikter Duplaix) - Jazzanova 
- Let It Go (Jazzanova Remix) - Shaun Escoffery
- Everything I Wanted (featuring Charolette) - Jazzanova - The Pool
- Follow Your Feet (featuring Pete Josef) - Jazzanova - The Pool
- Ordinary Guy featuring Joe Bataan (Jazznova Rework) - Jazzanova The Remixes: 2006-2016
- Songs of Will (Jazzanova Rhythm Hpapening) - Eddie Gale - Jazzanova The Remixes: 2002-2005
- Coffee Talk (Yukihiro Fukutomi Mix) - Jazzanova - Reworks From Japan EP  
- Lullaby (Jazzanova Remix) - The Free Design - Jazzanova The Remixes: 2002-2005
- L.O.V.E. And You & I - Jazzanova Live - In Between Revisited  

For 30 years, the six-member DJ and production collective, Jazzanova, has been highly influential, artfully bridging the worlds of jazz, soul, and world into a fusion of modern sounds that have delighted ears and feet through the years. 

My first introduction was listening to “Coffee Talk,” a downtempo tune whose debut on Los Angeles radio station KCRW was the start of a music trajectory that would see the group through many top-notch remixes, several studio albums, a number of special music projects, and, now, coming full circle with a live version of its 2001 debut, “In Between.” “In Between Revisited” finds Jazzanova in a live session, with an intimate audience, surfacing ack to the tunes from its 2001 album, but giving it an updated flair. 

To celebrate “IN Between Revisited,” I did an early July all-vinyl set at Jan’s Vinyl Bar in San Luis Obispo, where the owners are fans too and where I spin about 1-2 times monthly. It was an honor to do so, and so great to pull out vinyl from my radio show days, when the music was fresh. It stands up very well today.

With that, I hope you enjoy the mix that I have for you: two hours of Jazzanova, along with friends, from vocalists to producers remixing Jazzanova. There was only so much that two hours could fit in, but here it is. 

I hope you enjoy it; do share it with your friends and others. 

Velanche
September 15, 2025
@velanchedj (Instagram)

Velanche's Jazzanova 2025 All-Vinyl Tribute

This show is a window into my inner world - moving from jazz and cinematic moods to Brazilian grooves, Anatolian psychedelia, and a touch of house. It’s music that I truly care about, made by artists with real spirit and talent.

This radio episode is not a reflection of my dancefloor sets - it’s more like what I play at home, in my headphones, when I want to listen deeply. Soon, I’ll be sharing new house music mixes too, but for now it’s about slowing down, discovering, and giving attention to sounds that deserve it.

Rustam Ospanoff - Jazzystan on Soho Radio London (Sep 20th 2025)

Charif Megarbane feat. Sven Wunder - Helia 
Finn Rees & Sholto - Love In Memory
Finn Rees & Sholto - Bluebell
Eero Koivistoinen, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra - Kaamos 
Irie - Fuck This Rap Shit
Phylipe Nunes Araújo - Bixin
Zé Ibarra - Infinito em nós
Comb Versions - Firme na Palavra
Rogê - Road to Nowhere 
The Circling Sun - Constellation
The Circling Sun - Mizu
Durand Jones & The Indications, Durand Jones - Lovers' Holiday
Rita Satch - Give It All (Palm Trees)
Vula - Want Ur Love
El Michels Affair feat. Shintaro Sakamoto - Indifference
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Cool Hand
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Hop Bico
Kutiman - Haraka
SIEMBRA TUS SUEÑOS – CIRUELA
Mon Rivera Y Su Orquesta ‎– Lluvia Con Nieve
The Mantecas - Milestones
Kotoa - Zombie
Sugar Bomb - Dance Tune
Tommaso Cappellato - Introvert Universe
Osamu Shoji - Stayin Alive
Slowly - Caveman Boogie
Sipho Gumede - Something to Say (Opolopo Rework)
DFRA Experience Jazz Band - The Human Discard
Roni Size, Reprazent, Nuyorican Soul - Watching Windows 
MUSCLECARS & TORIBIO - That's My Story feat. Roland Clark

JAZZYSTAN on SOHO RADIO – Live From New York (Sep 20th 2025)

My latest show for Echobox Radio called Earth Virbrations. You can also listen via their website

https://www.echobox.radio/shows/marcel-vogel


A. Billi Free & Uncle El - Satisfied
Meera -  Music For Humans
Anouska - Nothing Really Is Cool
Axel Booman - Twinkle Twinkle
Melchyor - All Of My Days
Oliver Night ft Kaya Fyah - Friends
Ronald Christoph, Orlando - Take Off
Oliver Night - Something In The Air
Afronaught -  Voi (Naut’s l8 nite bruk mix)
Melonyx- Solar Power (Tyler Daley Remix)
Jerk Boy, Marcel Vogel, Million Miles - Real Love (Oliver Night House Remix)
Bluestaeb Melodiesinfonie TTT
Jon Dixon - Bridgehouse
Musclecars, Toribio ft Roland Clark - That’s My Story
Alexander Flood vibrac- a
Melchyor A it’s over 
Axner GMAYL (Al Kent remix)
Annie & the Caldwells - I made it ( a Rahaan production )
Magic Number - Better
Greg Foat - Kushiro River
Yussuf Dates ft Tom Misch - Dust
The Internet - Look what You started
Charmer - movin on
Payfone - I feel you Mudd remix
Marcel Vogel, LYMA - Easy

Earth Vibrations #2 (ECHOBOX RADIO) 24-09-25

Here's the full 4 hours of our KEEP ON 2nd birthday party on Sunday 21st September 2025 at La Cheetah Club in Glasgow. Songs from the heart, from us to you x

KEEP ON 2nd Birthday Party Full Live Recording

Spiral

Sonar Kollektiv is an independent label from Berlin, founded by Jazzanova in 1997. Known for its eclectic blend of jazz, soul, electronica, and beyond, the label has released 600+ genre-defying tracks from artists like Âme, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Benny Sings, Modha, Feiertag, Pete Josef, Jono McCleery, The KBCS, RAH & The Ruffcats, Magro, WAAN, and TTeo. From and for music lovers.