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Isle Of Jura
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Played by: Max Essa, FINGERMAN, Pete Herbert, Juno Recommends Downtempo, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Rayko, Citizens Of Vice
Review: Having built up quite a catalogue of Balearic delights over the last few years, Kevin Griffiths AKA Jura Soundsystem has decided the time is right for others to remix it. Kevin Griffiths was keen to get Quiet Village involved, and it's easy to see why; Joel Martin and Matt Edwards' version of 'Carafe Denim' is a genuine delight - all bubbly electronic motifs, jazzy bass, heady percussion patterns, dreamy pads and spaced-our special effects. Tapes' version of 'Udaberri Blues' is a delay-laden dub-house workout complete with echoing hand percussion, while Good Block brilliant re-casts 'Linn Fun' as a shuffling, sample-rich, hip-hop break-driven ambient house workout of the type the Orb used to serve up in their sleep.
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TEMPLE 004
07 Jun 24
Balearic/Downtempo
07 Jun 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Ilija Rudman's latest offering, The Great Beyond, fonds itself delving into the realms of philosophical exploration. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of sources including Nikola Tesla, Slavoj Zizek, and Jim Morrison, Rudman weaves a narrative of the afterlife, inviting listeners to contemplate the mysteries that lie beyond mortal existence. With the ethereal voice of AI creation ERIC guiding the journey, the album's lush, analogue instrumentation creates a cinematic backdrop that feels both timeless and immersive. Rudman's dedication to analog production techniques can be felt in the tracks with their warmth and rawness here, with that exotic sound going the distance for Kevin Griffiths' Temples Of Jura sublabel; offering a poignant reflection on life, death, and the courage to confront the unknown. Or, ss ERIC aptly puts it: "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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TEMPLELP 006
03 May 24
Balearic/Downtempo
03 May 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Isle of Jura reissue a track that first saw the light of day a full 40 years ago. Escape From New York began life as Airstrip One, a Polydor-signed post-punk foursome inspired by the likes of Gang Of Four and The Pop Group, but changed their name when they opted for a more commercial synth-pop direction. 'Save Our Love' was the 1983 debut release under the new moniker and has a European, coldwave-y kinda feel, but is underpinned by a proper funk bassline; the lower tempo and robotic vox of 'Slow Beat' make it this reviewer's pick, though, while an instrumental of 'Save Our Love' is also included.
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ISLE 021
11 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Shiva were a studio outfit headed up by Hollywood soundtrack legend Ira Newborn, whose entire output consisted of a 1983 aerobics album called '20 Minute Workout' for Ronco. But two of the album's tracks featured well-known singers - soul veteran Leon Ware, and former Dylan backing vocalist Jo Ann Harris - and they're now getting a much deserved single release courtesy of Isle Of Jura. 'What Does It Take' is a fine slice of 80s soul/boogie with Ware on vocals, but the killer here is Harris's sultry performance on 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. If you dig the 'Too Slow To Disco' series, you'll fiend for this!
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ISLE 019
23 Jun 23
Funk
23 Jun 23
Funk
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: "This is all very 80s," was this reviewer's first thought - hardly surprising, given that a little digging reveals 'Exit' to have been first released way back in 1985! The 15-piece Fire Flight were, we're told, leading lights of the music scene in Trinidad & Tobago, and a big draw on the Latin carnival scene internationally at the time... which led to their recording this long-player, which blends Latin, pop and soul/R&B influences with the odd excursion into lilting reggae territory (see 'Hard Life' and 'Mornin' Lovin''). It's all very "shiny suits, shoulderpads and hi-top fades", but if you're a fan of 80s analogue drum sounds you're gonna be in heaven...
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ISLELP 008
04 Mar 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Mar 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Funk
Review: Back in the early 80s, the zeitgeist was all about reinventing old funk licks as hip-hop, but Panache, a Brooklyn-based outfit headed up by producer and multi-instrumentalist Freddie Thompson, headed in the opposite direction, taking the bassline from Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's 'The Message' and re-employing it in a slice of raw, black consciousness-raising funk with lyrics from vocalist Denise Williams. This re-release from Kevin Griffiths' Adelaide-based Isle Of Jura packs Original and Instrumental passes, plus a Special Version from Jura Soundsystem that has a slightly dubbier feel (in the Larry Levan rather than the King Tubby sense).
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ISLE 012
21 May 21
Funk
21 May 21
Funk
Played by: Chris Coco, Marcel Vogel, Pete Herbert, Juno Recommends Disco, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Rayko, Andy Buchan
Review: Earlier in the year, Isle of Jura boss Kev Griffiths offered up the first fruits of his extensive digging into the Caribbean disco-reggae scene: a new EP containing a couple of dub-infused disco-rap cuts from Norman Watson and Stanley Shaw AKA The Pearls. Here he reissues another of the pair's obscure and in-demand singles, 1980 number 'Groovy Beat'. It's another killer concoction, with Shaw rapping attractively over a hybrid disco-boogie backing track piled high with cowbells, electric piano chords and rubbery bass guitar licks. The latter elements come to the fore on the accompanying 'Dub' mix, while Griffiths stitches together the best of both versions on his attractive and dancefloor-ready Jura Sound System edit.
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ISLE 009
15 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Through digging into the turn-of-the-'80s Caribbean disco-reggae scene, Isle of Jura boss Kev Griffiths has uncovered a stash of obscure gems to reissue. To kick off the series, he's decided to offer up "On & On", quite possibly the finest hour of little-known Jamaican disco-rap and disco-reggae duo The Pearls (AKA Norman Watson and Stanley Shaw. First issued in small numbers in 1980, the track is a sparse, squelchy mixture of rubbery synth-bass, light disco instrumentation and party-starting raps. Isle of Jura's essential reissue backs the pair's main mix with the original flipside "all-star" dub mix, and a brilliant new extended edit from Waxist that successfully stitches together elements from both versions.
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ISLE 008
21 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
21 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Hot on the heels of recent Isle Of Jura label compilation 'Tales Of Jura' comes a new six-track EP from label boss Jura Soundsystem AKA Kevin Griffiths himself. Griffiths cites "dub, ambient house, leftfield disco and Balearica" as influences - a contention that's readily borne out by the grooves contained herein, with the first two tracks getting things going in a dubby kinda vein before more electronic influences start to hold sway. 'Wonder Drops' is a particular stand-out, coming on like slowed-down Chi-town house heard through a sunshine haze, while 'With You' will please the leftfield/downtempo spinners and 'Movement' could find its way into progressive or minimal sets.
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TEMPLE 003
26 Jun 20
Balearic/Downtempo
26 Jun 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Various
Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano, Les Siecles Orchestra & Francois Xavier Roth - "C Beams Glitter" - (1:59) 62 BPM
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ISLELP 006B
13 Mar 20
Experimental/Electronic
13 Mar 20
Experimental/Electronic
Review: When he's not releasing clubbier house wares from the likes of Detroit Swindle, Waze & Odyssey or The Carter Brothers, the Australian-based Kevin Griffiths can be seen releasing what he calls Eclectic Musical Magic via his Isle Of Jura label. Following a stream of releases since 2016, first up for 2020 is a reggae disco cover of "Ain't Nobody" by Jamaican artist Yvonne Archer. Originally released in 1980 (40 years ago!) this release comes packed with a Lovers Rock leaning "Checking Out The Way I Feel" with a Jura Soundsystem edit and dub of the original - stripping back guitars for newer delay techniques, washier vocals and extra groove effects for the first of two licensed releases from John Rubie that will appear on Isle Of Jura this year.
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ISLE 007
24 Jan 20
Roots/Lovers Rock
24 Jan 20
Roots/Lovers Rock
Played by: Yiannis 'Nova' Dorakis, PBR Streetgang, BEN SUN, Phat Phil Cooper, Dave Mathmos, LEGO EDIT
Review: Last year Tsuba Records and Isle of Jura founder Kevin Griffiths returned to the studio, eschewing his house and techno past to create deliciously warm, Balearic-minded grooves under the Jura Soundsystem alias. It was, it seems, a smart move, because the music contained on "Monster Skies", his first ever full-length, is undoubtedly the best he's made to date. Warm, humid and wonderfully horizontal, the album sees him fuse a variety of influences - most notably dub, turn-of-the-'90s ambient house, Italian dream house, new age, synth-boogie and those hard-to-define mid 1980s cuts that turn up on Music From Memory compilations - in a myriad of colourful, saucer-eyed ways. The results are uniformly superb, making "Monster Skies" a superb, must-check set.
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TEMPLE 002
22 Mar 19
Deep House
22 Mar 19
Deep House
Various
Played by: Chris Coco, Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz, Juno Recommends Downtempo, D-Funk, RSS Disco, LEGO EDIT
Review: The first in a series of compilations by Jura Soundsystem which blends dub, ambient, downtempo, boogie and proto house with a focus on previously unreleased music, out of print titles and some special versions edited specifically for the album. According to label boss Kevin Griffiths, the intention of this project was to delve deeper into the reissue pond and unearth some lesser known tracks and artists. Light one up and swagger to the sunkissed groove of Astral Engineering's "Seashore Dub", submit to the sweet steel drums and cosmo-dub vibes of Ken Dang's "Born In Borneo" (Jura Soundsystem Edit) or get down to the boogie-down vibe of Tabou Combo Superstars' "Ooh La La" (Jura Soundsystem Edit). The end of the album includes some soothing ambient tools.
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ISLELP 003
17 Aug 18
Balearic/Downtempo
17 Aug 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Having excelled via a series of mind-blowing reissues, the Isle of Jura label has given birth to a new offshoot focusing on fresh material, Temple of Jura. The sub-label's debut EP is a notably dub-wise affair, featuring killer cuts from Melbourne man Len Leise and Adelaide-based overlords Jura Soundsystem. Liese's picturesque and breezy "Dear Adrian" is a perfectly pitched tribute to Adrian Sherwood's 1980s peak with a glistening Balearic sheen. It's very good, of course, but it's the three versions of Jura Soundsystem's "Udaberri Blues" that have really set our pulses racing. The rootsy, floor-friendly original version comes accompanied by a heavyweight, breakbeat-driven Dub straight from the top drawer, and a blissfully brilliant Space Mix that sounds like a long lost, undiscovered relic from the ambient house era.
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TEMPLE 001
03 Aug 18
Balearic/Downtempo
03 Aug 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: A sweet reissue of an underground classic from 1982 here, bootlegged badly in recent years, but Isle of Jura does it right with this remaster by Matt Colton. Q were a one hit wonder (if you could even call them that!), responsible for "The Voice Of Q". Comprised of American producers Bruce Weeden & Michael Forte with their revolving cast of musicians - this electro funk/disco project is finally getting paid its dues. Deep, funked-up and spacey disco, complete with vocoder - it almost seems familiar! A true spirit of the times. Then features a previously unreleased track, "Keep It Strong" (unreleased dub edit) which is a balearic tinged number that's equally as good.
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ISLE 005
06 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Isle of Jura's latest deep dive into electronic music's margins focuses on an obscure, previously cassette-only release from 1993. Champagne in Mozambique was the debut release from Ingleton Falls - AKA lesser-known producers Andy Eardley and Andy Seymour - and remains a laidback, saucer-eyed delight. Typical of the chill-out movement of the period, the mini album's five tracks effortlessly join the dots between ambient dub, psychedelic late night techno, drowsy downtempo grooves and horizontal instrumental synth-pop, with the duo peppering each production with trippy or amusing spoken word samples, intricate melodies and copies amounts of dub delay. It's a fine example of a necessary reissue: without Isle of Jura's intervention, few would be able to revel in its hazy, early morning charms.
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ISLELP 002
23 Feb 18
Balearic/Downtempo
23 Feb 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: In Flagranti
Review: Isle Of Jura is an Adelaide based record label from Kevin Griffiths (Tsuba) focusing on reissues of forgotten musical gems with occasional releases from today's artists. For the next official reissue, the label goes back to 1976 to resurrect "Anambra", the jewel in the crown of dub, soul and funk outfit Ozo. The track is is something of a classic: a unique song that's slow, ritualistic and spiritual, mixing African & Nyabinghi drumming with a Buddhist Sanskrit mantra. There are three versions featured here, including an alternate version named "Anambra River" which appears for the first time. Completely re-mastered for 2017. Other reissues in 2017 have come courtesy of British trance innovators Holy Ghost Inc, the Belgian new beat of Chayell and Brian Bennett: best known as the drummer of the UK band The Shadows.
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ISLE 004
05 Jan 18
Balearic/Downtempo
05 Jan 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Originally released back in 1990, on their own, self-titled label, Holy Ghost Inc's second record has long been a collector's item. Faced with spiraling prices on the second hand market, Australian label Isle of Jura has done the sensible thing and reissued it. They deserve props for including the Sun & Moon Mix: with its ponderous bass and dubbed out effects, it has long been a crossover for house, ambient and even trance fans. At the other end of the spectrum, the Amphibious Carbine version is a classic 90s trance-y house groove. The label also deserves extra praise for including two previously unreleased dub mixes that alternate between ebbing and flowing effortlessly or tripping the light fantastic - on both occasions against a backdrop of subtle break beats.
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ISLE 003
15 Sep 17
Minimal/Tech House
15 Sep 17
Minimal/Tech House
Review: Escape From New York's 1984 cut "Fire In My Heart" has long been considered something of a Balearic classic. Original copies of the Rollerball Records release 12" are hard to come by, though, so this digital version is more than welcome. The original version - all slo-mo electro drums, rubbery dub bass, exotic melodies and intoxicating vocals - is joined by the now infamous Instrumental Dub version, which has been a staple in Balearic DJs' sets for more than 30 years. If that wasn't enough, there's also a chance to savour to woozy, dub-influenced synth-pop of original bonus cut "Won't Be Your Fool".
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ISLE 001
12 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
