The sound of the Black Zone Ensemble,
is a mix of the synthetics-ambient sonorities of the '70s and '80s electronic music with Latin-Jazz, Funk, Electro Bossa and the Jazz modal atmospheres. The sonorous outcome is an original and surprising mix, which can be placed only superficially in the musical category of Nu-Jazz. It's an... [+] Read More

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The music of the world converges through the productions and remixes of Algeria-born and San Francisco-based DJ Cheb I Sabbah. The producer/promoter of a now defunct world music series, 1002 Nights, Sabbah presented a diverse range of musicians including Pakistani Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and London-based Bhangra group, Bally Sagoo.... [+] Read More

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Fauna Flash is a German duo who has brought jungle to a country that is infamous for its love of hard, classic techno beats. Christian Prommer and Roland Appel make up the duo who have been admired by such jungle hierarchy as Metalheadz posse members Grooverider and Fabio. The two broke away from traditional German techno in 1992 when the band... [+] Read More

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The British dance music duo Faze Action consists of brothers Simon and Robin Lee. They grew up in Amersham, where Robin taught himself to play bass; he later studied music at Goldsmith College. Also interested in music, Simon began producing. Robin took a job as an English teacher in Osaka, Japan, and the two sent tapes back and forth to each... [+] Read More

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Berlin's Jazzanova collective formed in 1995, after DJing with one another at a club called Delicious Doughnuts. Alexander Barck, Class Brieler, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, Axel Reinemer, and Jürgen von Knoblauch shared a common goal of blending their collected inspirations together to create a new, sophisticated sound, with debts owed... [+] Read More

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The trip-hop production duo of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister has gained more fame for its stellar remixes and DJ sets than as producers of its own work. By engineering reworkings of tracks by a cast of artists ranging from William Orbit and Bomb the Bass to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and United Future Organization, the Austrian duo became one... [+] Read More

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With the Kruder & Dorfmeister collective apparently unwilling to produce a studio album as a duo, Peter Kruder debuted his Peace Orchestra alias in 1999 for a self-titled album of blissfully stoned beats and a cinematic/orchestral flair. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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Roland started playing the guitar in 1988 at the age of 14. Five years of insane practicing finally opened him the doors to Hollywood’s Musicians Institute where he studied guitar and popular music in 1993/94 and continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory up to 1996. During that time he deeply got involved with production music and has... [+] Read More

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Creator of an innovative fusion of Indian bhangra music and drum'n'bass electronica, Talvin Singh was classically trained on the tabla but rejected most of his learning when he founded the Anokha club-night at East London's Blue Note. Singh grew up in Leytonstone, and though he began playing tabla at the age of five, he also liked to breakdance... [+] Read More

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Inspired by the tracks of St.Germain's Boulevard 1-3 Series by the french inventors of jazzy deephouse and the music played at stuttgart's cult-location "Das unbekannte Tier" (my favorite club, RIP 1996 :-() the project "Vinylistics" was formed. Our jazz- und deephouse tracks are loaded with fresh stylez and soundz and lotsa improvisation on the... [+] Read More

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