Crucial Material – Best Releases Of The Week (November 19th, 2019)
You know we don’t follow or obey categories here. We just follow our ears and hearts and present you strictly with the crucial picks! As always we hope you make some nice discoveries and feel free to encourage these artists/labels if you do! Enjoy and have a great week. NEW …
Crucial Material – Best Releases Of The Week (October 14th, 2019)
We skipped last week so we’re back at it with a double dose of extended selection Crucial Material as picked by our team of passionate music heads. As always we hope you make some nice discoveries and feel free to encourage these artists/labels if you do! Enjoy and have a …
Crucial Material – Best Releases Of The Week (July 29th, 2019)
It the wise words of LL Cool J “Don’t Call It A Comeback…” We’ve been away for a few months but it certainly wasn’t for lack of great music being release. The steady stream of new albums, EP’s and reissue projects never stops! We simply needed a breather and regroup …
BALANCE – Show #546 (Hosted by Spacewalker)
As we turn the corner into spring, Spacewalker delivers the fresh goods on the latest edition of Balance! Featuring music from Melodiesinfonie, Scrimshire, Anderson .Paak, Shafiq Husayn, Azymuth & a whole lot more! Dedicated to Dominic Jacobson aka Modaji TRACKLIST Azymuth – Juntos Mais Uma Vez | Far Out less.people …
Angel Bat Dawid “The Oracle”
Incredibly special cassette/digital album from the Chicago-based “composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer”. A project full of warmth, experimentation and emotion, recorded solo for the most part, at home in Chicago or impromptu on tour in London & Capetown, straight to cell phone. Melodious clarinet riffing, pianos, overdubbing, singing …
Crucial Material – Best Releases Of The Week (February 10th, 2019)
Too much music too little time. Thankfully, our Crucial Material is slowly but surely becoming one of the best weekly recaps in the world scanning the hundreds of new releases and sharing only the cream of the crop. Technical difficulties (Lexis dropping an espresso on his Macbook keyboard) forced us …
Crucial Material – Best Releases Of The Week (January 12th, 2019)
Time to turn the page on 2018, musically a truly outstanding year on so many fronts. From Jazz, Rap, Experimental to more Club-driven Sounds the amount of incredible music was staggering! Thankfully, our Crucial Material is slowly but surely becoming one of the best weekly recaps in the world scanning …
BALANCE – Show #543 (Hosted by Spacewalker)
No words, just music on the last “regular” Balance before the end of year round-up! Starting off the show with Dam Funk under the Garrett moniker followed by new music from Dreamcast, Abase & Jack Wolff, a little something from the brilliant Makaya McCraven & Noname LPs, forthcoming music from …
BOOM MUSIC – Show #47 (Hosted by Colectivo Futuro)
We managed to record one last show for the year capturing some of our favorite new or previously unreleased, on vinyl at least, music to come out in the last 12 months. There’s music by Emanative, Allysha Joy, Sean Khan, Meridian Brothers, Rodrigo Tavares, and Ben Lamar Gay. As well …
Crucial Material – Best Releases of the Week (October 26th, 2018)
Every single week our minds are blown at the number of good releases that get put out. As always, you can trust us to distill the hundreds of weekly new releases and boil them down to the best. So here you go, another serving of Crucial Material. Open your ears, …
BOOM MUSIC – Show #45 (Hosted by Colectivo Futuro)
After a brief break, Colectivo Futuro are back with the first new Boom Music of the summer! With so much new music to share it was a daunting task narrowing it down, whilst trying to fit in some rediscoveries and a classic or two. There’s a couple of tracks from …
Album of the Week: Makaya McCraven “Where We Come From” (ChicagoxLondon Mixtape)
“I just met these wonderful people” says Chicago’s Makaya McCraven in the opening moments of the album/mixtape, referring to the fact he is on a stage playing with some of London’s finest young Jazz musicians whilst meeting them for the first time. Over the course of the two day ChicagoxLondon …