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The Heliocentrics are primarily an instrumental group, which operates out of their vintage analogue studio in East London, called the Quatermass Sound Lab. For their fourth album, they brought in a young Slovakian singer named Barbora Patkova. Rooted in far-reaching psych-funk grooves, this is..

The Heliocentrics are primarily an instrumental group, which operates out of their vintage analogue studio in East London, called the Quatermass Sound Lab. For their fourth album, they brought in a young Slovakian singer named Barbora Patkova. Rooted in far-reaching psych-funk grooves, this is cosmi..

The Robert Glasper Experiment, and Robert Glasper himself, have a pretty impressive career and produce some of the most exciting contemporary jazz music.On ArtScience, the Experiment - sax man and vocalist Casey Benjamin, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Mark Colenburg and Glasper on piano - weaves ja..

The Robert Glasper Experiment, and Robert Glasper himself, have a pretty impressive career and produce some of the most exciting contemporary jazz music.On ArtScience, the Experiment - sax man and vocalist Casey Benjamin, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Mark Colenburg and Glasper on piano - weaves ja..

The duo of Yussef Kamaal is one of the figureheads in the current London jazz scene.As their American contemporaries who have given a new (and welcome!) breath to jazz by infusing it with hip-hop sounds (and rhetoric), Kamaal Williams and Yussef Dayes formulated a typically London-based self-taught ..

The duo of Yussef Kamaal is one of the figureheads in the London jazz scene.As their American contemporaries who have given a new (and welcome!) breath to jazz by infusing it with hip-hop sounds (and rhetoric), Kamaal Williams and Yussef Dayes formulated a typically London-based self-taught jazz, th..

Drunk, the third full length studio album from singer-bassist-producer Stephen Bruner, AKA Thundercat, is a bold project of 23 tracks spread over four 10-inch discs, featuring several guest acolytes including Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Michael McDonald's, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington..

A landmark in soul music.Isaac Hayes’ second studio album Hot Buttered Soul released in 1969 is recognized as a landmark in soul music.Hot Buttered Soul was sonically revolutionary, embraced by not only soul music lovers, (it sold over three million copies) but with its extended jams, lavish arrange..

Kokoroko is a young collective of musicians, based in London, fusing contempory jazz, deep grooves  and West African influences, notably the Ghanaian Highlife style of Ebo Taylor and the Afrobeat of Tony Allen and Fela Kuti.Kokoroko is composed of eight members. Led by trumpeter and visual arti..

One of New Orleans R & B predominant figuresHaving written and produced a good number of successful records for other artists - from Lee Dorsey's "Ya Ya," to Dr. John's album In the Right Place, including brass arrangements for The Band, Allen Toussaint is one of New Orleans R & B predominan..

Sampha is a singer, keyboardist and producer originally from South London in the UK, widely known for his collaborative work with international artists such as SBTRKT, FKA twigs, Jessie Ware, Drake, Kanye West, Koreless, Lil Silva, Katy B among others. More recently, he has collaborated on Solange's..

Superfly - A classic soundtrack of the  blaxploitation genre... Singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, Curtis Mayfield is truly one of the greats; a pioneer in socially aware R&B and funk. He reached a certain high with the soundtrack of Gordon Parks' film, Super Fly, a classic of the ..

Talking Book - One of Stevie Wonder's great albums! Includes classics such as “Superstition,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)”Tracklist   A1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life   A2. Maybe Your Baby   A3. You And I&nbs..

Original score and soundtrack for Cosmo Feilding-Mellen's documentary film, The Sunshine Makers (a documentary about LSD evangelists/ manufacturers Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully), the soundtrack is an exciting blend of psychedelic rock, hypnotic funk and hip-hop beats and trippy jazz.The UK ensemble ..

To Pimp A Butterfly, a monumental album, follows the praised and excellent good kid, m.A.A.d city from Kendrick Lamar.Dense, charged in content  and extremely varied in musical styles and sounds, the new album features an impressive list of guests such as Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Bilal, George..