One of jazz’s hottest talents, Gizmo, releases The Middle EP with Okayplayer Records and Revive Music. The term “jazz fusion” has never meant as much as it does when it comes to Gizmo. The 22-year old bassist has been welding multiple genres together with ease and his debut shot his name and music to the top …
A triple threat 3+ hour soul/jazz/disco mix from Floating Points, Red Greg and Underground Paris is free to download. Plastic People played host to a “celebration of late ’70s soul/jazz and emerging disco sounds”. The practitioners of this joyous occasion were Floating Points, Red Greg and Underground Paris and their combined set (called “You’re A …
Gizmo gives a unique and wonderful rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Before Gizmo drops his new EP, “The Middle” on Okayplayer Records/Revive Music, the Boston musician has released his cover of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun. We loved his last album Red Balloon and having heard this cover, we’re excited …
Japan’s Bugseed releases Old Seeds, a collection of beats from 2008-2010. A mere month after dropping his goldfish ep, Bugseed raided his beat vault, selected some beats dated from 2008-2010 and put them together to create Old Seeds. There are plenty of jazzy loops and breaks, from the frantic sounding “dance on concrete” to laid …
Sweden’s JHAS threw some “unfinished” beats together into a gritty 8-track EP called Random Selection. Having a bunch of beats on your computer just sitting there with no real purpose is something I can identify with. They could have been made for a scrapped project or just for the sake of it. JHAS from Stockholm …
Blue Note’s Gregory Porter has given fans a first listen of his upcoming album, Liquid Spirit, on NPR and Spotify.
US producer All These Fingers brings out “Rhodes Collection EP”, a release dedicated to the famous Fender Rhodes electric piano. Bandcamp’s favourite cave dweller All These Fingers has returned with his tenth release of the year. On “Rhodes Collection EP”, the producer puts together a selection of eight beats including two bonus outtakes, as homages …
Turns out some of our favourite producers (LAKIM, Elaquent and Handbook) remixed The Robert Digweed Collective’s First Impressions.
It’s been nearly a year since The Robert Digweed Collective released First Impressions but it’s still as mellow as ever.
We pay tribute to George Duke, who passed away at 67 last night, with some of his sampled tracks.