Discover Weekly Archive - part 3

here's the soundtrack to my late late nights... 

hope you like it.

sunny x



Young Holt Unlimited

Lovers on the Bridge

Only Us Tonight

Smooth Jazz Volume 1 is the first collection in a brand-new series from KJD Music, offering listeners an hour of warm, relaxing jazz pulled straight from our private vault. These tracks have never been released on streaming platforms and are available here exclusively for our SoundCloud audience.

Since sharing our catalog for the first time in November, KJD Music has reached over 100,000 listeners across more than 50 countries — a global wave of support that inspired this new vault series. This album captures the mellow side of our sound: soft grooves, gentle melodies, and late-night textures designed to help you unwind, focus, reflect, or simply enjoy the moment.

Every track in Smooth Jazz Volume 1 comes from sessions that shaped the early identity of KJD Music. Some were polished, some experimental, all of them created with the same love for smooth, soulful jazz that continues to guide our work today. Whether you’re discovering us for the first time or you’ve been following our journey from the beginning, this collection is meant to feel like a personal invitation into our creative world.

Thank you for listening, sharing, and supporting independent music. Your plays help us release even more from the vault — new projects, old sessions, and the jazz stories that haven’t been heard until now.

Press play, relax, and enjoy the smooth side of KJD Music.

Jakarta

Available from http://www.mrbongo.com/collections/ebo-taylor/products/ebo-taylor-my-love-and-music

Originally released in 1975 on Gapophone Records, George Prah’s label, hailing from Ghana. Only available in very limited quantity (reportedly 500 copies) due to the musical vacuum imposed by the military dictatorship in the country at the time.

Laid back, lush, highlife vibrations from start to finish, with noticeable reggae influences throughout.

Ebo Taylor - My Love And Music

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

As This Moment Slips Away

Make the Road By Walking

Home Again

The Olympians

Venus

Sirens of Jupiter

The Budos Band

Ghost Walk

An exchange between the cyclical and the linear.

Vocals by Surrenity

The Circuit

The Jazz Harpist (Remastered)

Aeolian Groove

"Tightly thundering funk from the Oz scene" - DUSTY GROOVES, USA
"Infectiously funky sounds... Haptics is destined to be a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - triple j HOME & HOSED
"Dangerously funky" - INPRESS
"Super dope instrumental funk" - Chris Gill, NORTHSIDE RECORDS / 3RRR
"The soul revival is alive & well in Melbourne & The Cactus Channel are its newest, youngest champions" - BEAT

Hear that sound? Raw, loose and nasty funk, recorded straight to analog tape. It’s just like the old days, but so new it’s sporting a badass teenage moustache. Now that Melbourne funk sensation The Cactus Channel have graduated high school, they’re taking their own brand of high-octane, instrumental car chase funk and smooth soundtrack soul to the people with their debut, Haptics. On the road and on the airwaves, 2012 is the year The Cactus Channel come of age. 

Back in 2009, the founding members of The Cactus Channel were already jamming on some classic soul feels, tripping on Eddie Bo, James Brown and their contemporaries, and using words like “Boss” and “Cat” while trying make it through year 10 in 21st Century Australia. What began as experimentation in Junior Stage Band developed into outright insubordination in Senior Jazz Ensemble and by 2011 The Cactus Channel were an out of control ten piece funk orchestra with the momentum of a runaway train who could count The Dap Kings’ Tom Brenneck and soul legend Charles Walker as fans. 

How did members of the iTunes generation get on to those rare and deep seventies sounds at the age of 14? The internet, of course! Also, who really cares? It works! No matter what year it is, or sounds like it is, these records are great. From triple j Unearthed to FatBeats Records in NYC, people all over the place love this band.  

The Cactus Channel deliver on all their precocious promise with this super heavy full length debut LP. Haptics is chock full of deep funk, jazzed-up soul and boogaloo hits, all informed by a canny sense of soundtrack-ready drama, loaded with tight, hard grooves and one strong track after another. The Cactus Channel is ready to roll! 

Melbourne launch party: Saturday Aug 4 @ The Toff w/ The PutBacks + DJ Chris Gill. Tickets $12+BF.
The Cactus Channel touring nationally September / October.


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The Cactus Channel - The Colour of Don Don

Return To The 37th Chamber

Tearz

Venus

The Olympians

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