Forty years ago, in August 1983, jazz keyboard legend Herbie Hancock decided to step into the future, taking the music industry — and, incidentally, global...
Tag:
Jazz
Features
Forty years ago, in August 1983, jazz keyboard legend Herbie Hancock released 'Future Shock', a genre-defying album that introduced audiences around the world to vinyl scratching, hip-hop beats and sampling. It ushered in a new era of production techniques and studio exploration, and laid a blueprint for the following decade's hip-hop explosion. Here, Marke Bieschke explores the record's incredible legacy
News
Features
Part of the sprawling EFG London Jazz Festival’s 30th anniversary, a recent showcase at the Barbican Centre celebrated the work of Chicago label International Anthem and London venue Total Refreshment Centre in building boundary-pushing artistic connections. Sam Walton learns the story of this link up, and speaks to those involved about its resonance
Features
With a new album, ‘Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam’, out now, and a gripping and psychedelic live show touring the world, experimental jazz outfit The Comet Is Coming are back in full futuristic force. Ben Hindle speaks to them after their recent London show to learn more
News
News
News
Featuring Underground Resistance (Live), VTSS, SHERELLE, Shanti Celeste, India Jordan, Jeff Mills, Marcel Dettmann and more
The first names set to play next year's Maiden Voyage festival have been announced.
Run by the team behind Camden's Jazz Cafe, the festival -...
Features
A trained jazz musician, bandleader and DJ, Emma-Jean Thackray couldn’t find a home for herself and her music in more established jazz spaces, so she...
Features
Something’s happening on the peripheries of jazz, but what do we call it? Alanna Henry delves in to find out
Features
In this first instalment of Spice Rack, a new bi-monthly column on underground music from South Asia and its diaspora, Dhruva Balram looks at the...
News
Nubya Garcia launches the new series, My Process, curated by Benji B and AIAIAI
A new short film series from audio design company AIAIAI and DJ Benji B aims to give insight into artists’ creative process.
The series, titled...
Watch
COURSES, SOFTWARE DEALS, FREEBIES & MORE
Over the last decade, Korean pop, a.k.a. K-Pop, has taken the Western world by storm. K-Pop draws influences from numerous genres from around the globe such as...
Features
When it was released in 1995, ‘Boulevard’ consummated the union between house music and jazz, whilst clearing the path for a wave of French house...
‘Boulevard’, the 1995 debut album from Parisian producer Ludovic Navarre — aka St Germain — was by no means the first time jazz had mixed with house. Larry...
News
Three jazz tracks from 1978 will launch the imprint
Gilles Peterson is starting a new label, Arc Records. Set to launch in the new year, it will focus on "curiosities and gems from the...
Music
Bristol outfit Ishmael Ensemble will release their debut LP, ‘A State of Flow’ on 3rd May. Hear ‘Full Circle feat. Holysseus Fly’ now...
Bristol contemporary jazz and electronic outfit Ishmael Ensemble will release their debut LP, ‘A State of Flow’ on 3rd May.
Following a banner year in...
Features
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From rollicking tech-house, fierce techno and melodic grooves to leftfield experimentalism and jazz, here's...
NASSER BAKER
California-born, New Jersey-based Nasser Baker has been under the tutelage of US house legend Dennis Ferrer for almost a decade. That is a...
Music
Emerging producer GMG steps up on Thirty Year Records with the ‘30+ EP’. ‘5PM Pluto’ is a shuffling, jazz-based house gem...
Emerging Berlin-based producer GMG will release their ‘30+ EP’ via Thirty Year Records on 30th November.
The elusive producer’s training in jazz music shines through...
News
The exhibitionist tells it like it is...
Jeff Mills has spoken about the difference between techno in the 1990s and the genre today in a recent interview with Telekom Electronic Beats, which...
Music
Yazz Ahmed enlists three top notch producers for her 'La Saboteuse Remixed' EP. DJ Khalab’s rework of ‘Jamil Jamal’ gives frantic, electronic verve to the...
Bahrani-British experimental jazz artist Yazz Ahmed left us stunned last year with her stunning LP on Naim Records. In ‘La Saboteuse’ the composer, trumpeter and...
.jpge8ac.webp)
Features
The "two man house band" Session Victim deliver a succinct mix of smooth, jazz infused house, atmospheric balearic groove and soulful hip hop – We...
Session Victim have just left a party in L.A. It was shut down by the police, but it was “wonderful” while it lasted, they say...