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Jalapeno Records is at the epicentre of the UK’s funkiest labels. Formed in the late 90’s, Jalapeno is a label that has encompassed many genres from soul to funk, hip hop to blues, jazz to breakbeat, disco to house with one proviso – it’s got to be funky. Jalapeno is home to artists such as: The Allergies, Smoove & Turrell, Izo FitzRoy, Flevans, Sam Redmore, Dr Rubberfunk, Soopasoul, Skeewiff, Gizelle Smith, ephemerals, Kraak & Smaak and many more.
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Stand Tall
Stand TallPREORDER
Rekindle - (3:50) 51 BPM
Every Little Bit Of Love - (4:39) 59 BPM
Impossible - (3:36) 108 BPM
Flevans & Laura Vane - "Say Yes" - (4:24) 60 BPM
Carry Them - (3:50) 60 BPM
Wild Shadows - (3:00) 90 BPM
Dreamer - (3:52) 60 BPM
Where I Hide - (4:31) 60 BPM
By Your Side - (3:51) 59 BPM
What We Do - (3:54) 88 BPM
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JAL 451
21 Jun 24
Experimental/Electronic
Dreamer
Dreamer - (3:52) 120 BPM Hot
Carry Them - (3:50) 120 BPM
Where I Hide - (4:31) 120 BPM
Review: A typically varied three-tracker here from Flevans, whose output has spanned breaks, nu disco, soul and more. The EP opens with 'Dreamer', which brings the authentically 70s-sounding disco vibes. Next up is 'Carry Them', a sweeping, dramatic but hard-to-pigeonhole concoction made up mostly of breakbeats and delicate pianos that comes topped with a soulful male vocal. And then finally there's 'Where I Hide', which again has a piano front and centre but this time in much more sprightly fashion, accompanied by a female vocal and underpinned by a solid but unassuming 4/4 kick. 'Dreamer' takes the gold for yours truly.
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JAL 458
12 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Carry Them
Carry Them - (3:50) 60 BPM Hot
Where I Hide - (4:31) 60 BPM
Played by: Jayl Funk
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JAL 447
01 Mar 24
Experimental/Electronic
Where I Hide
Where I Hide - (4:31) 120 BPM
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JAL 446
12 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Wild Shadows
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JAL 445
08 Dec 23
Balearic/Downtempo
A Short Distance To Fall
A Short Distance To Fall - (2:02) 60 BPM
In Shadows - (3:46) 105 BPM
It Takes The Whole Day - (3:04) 108 BPM
Parasol - (4:17) 107 BPM
For A While - (3:09) 112 BPM
Legacy Spiral - (4:08) 60 BPM
Heartaches - (4:04) 88 BPM
We Walk Alone - (3:25) 104 BPM
Digits - (3:49) 56 BPM
I Got Soul - (4:00) 58 BPM Hot
This Troubled Earth - (3:18) 98 BPM
Wings - (2:52) 69 BPM
Review: If we've counted correctly then this is the fifth long-player from Jalapeno regular Nigel Evans, AKA Flevans. As such, fans should have a pretty good idea what to expect already, and while this album may not serve up much in the way of surprises, it's fair to say they're unlikely to be disappointed, as the Brighton-based producer serves up 12 tracks that blend funk, soul, jazz, downtempo and hip-hop influences into 42 minutes of very pleasant listening. If it's floor-burners you're after, start with 'Parasol' or the irresistibly infectious 'I Got Soul', though the standouts for yours truly are actually 'Digits' (check that jazz-funk geetar) and 'For A While' (always been a sucker for a chipmunk'd vocal).
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JAL 387
25 Nov 22
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Digits / We Walk Alone
Digits - (3:49) 113 BPM Hot
We Walk Alone - (3:25) 104 BPM
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JAL 386
11 Nov 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
I Got Soul / Get To It
I Got Soul - (4:00) 116 BPM Hot
Get To It - (3:32) 116 BPM
Review: Veteran Brighton funkateer Flevans returns with two contrasting but complementary cuts, either of which'll please disco and funk lovers for sure. 'I Got Soul' is an energetic, uptempo roller featuring drawn-out female vocal samples, some truly euphoric brass and layers of crowd noise. 'Get To It', meanwhile, is a quirkier affair with a looped female vocal that's got a distinctly 60s cocktail bar kinda feel, which it places atop an equally quirky, jerky backdrop before adding a second, male vocal later on. Both are cool but the latter edges it for this reviewer, despite being perhaps one more for the bar than the nightclub.
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JAL 385
07 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
It Takes The Whole Day / In Shadows
It Takes The Whole Day - (3:04) 108 BPM
In Shadows - (3:46) 105 BPM Hot
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JAL 384
02 Sep 22
Experimental/Electronic
Starting Points
Starting Points - (5:27) 124 BPM
Biznizz - (5:38) 123 BPM Hot
I Wanted You To Stay - (5:51) 122 BPM
Review: Brighton-based DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist Flevans (known as Nigel Evans in real life) has been steadily turning out funk- and soul-inspired beats, breaks n' grooves for the past 20 years, working mostly on the Tru Thoughts and Jalapeno labels. Here, he returns to the latter stable clutching three new tracks: 'Starting Points' is quite overtly disco-fied by Flevans' standards, 'Biznizz' is a little bit more down n' dirty but still upbeat, while the stripped n' looped 'I Wanted You To Stay' is the housiest of the three and wouldn't actually have sounded out of place on a 'Disco Kandi' compilation.
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JAL 357
09 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
I'm Over Here
I'm Over Here - (6:08) 121 BPM Hot
Uptight - (4:48) 121 BPM
Fade - (6:15) 121 BPM
Review: 2020 might have been a "dumpster fire" of a year (as our American cousins might say), but somehow Nigel Evans AKA Flevans has managed to remain positive. His new EP - the former Tru Thoughts stalwart's first of 2020 - is led by one of the funkiest, and most celebratory tracks he's ever made, the R&B vocal-sampling, disco and electrofunk revivalism of 'I'm Over Here'. With its' killer bassline, Chic-style guitars, bustling beats and squelchy synths, it sounds like a future peak-time anthem. He explores similar sonic pastures on the more shuffling, synth-heavy 'Uptight', before offering up a slightly deeper (but no less funky) take on early '80s disco via similarly superb closing cut 'Fade'.
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JAL 337
06 Nov 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Accumulate (Remixed)
Speculate (Saison remix) - (7:00) 121 BPM Hot
Ambition Like Cream (feat Scooby Jones - Flevans Disco Revision) - (5:57) 122 BPM
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JAL 329
10 Jul 20
Funky/Club House
Realisation (Remixes)
Realisation (Re-Tide remix) - (5:49) 120 BPM
Realisation (Lonely Boy's Isolation mix) - (4:36) 123 BPM Hot
Realisation (Supermini remix) - (5:48) 123 BPM
Realisation (Supermini remix radio edit) - (3:52) 120 BPM
Review: We were rather impressed by Flevans recent album "Accumlate" - his fifth in total over a career spanning almost two decades - and in particular its inherent funkiness and effortlessly soulful flavour. Here one of the LP standouts, "Realisation" with vocalist Laura Vane, is given the remix treatment. The EP-opening "Re-Tide Mix" brilliantly joins the dots between funk-fuelled disco-house and colourful, synth-heavy boogie, while Lonely Boy's "Isolation Mix" is a deliciously loose-limbed breakbeat revision that gives due prevalence to track's insanely funky bassline and jaunty Rhodes keys. You'll also find full-length and radio versions of Supermini's hot-to-trot remix, which may well be the funkiest and freshest of the lot.
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JAL 344
12 Jun 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Accumulate (Explicit)
Moving On - (3:14) 121 BPM
Hold Your Hands Up (feat Laura Vane) - (3:26) 121 BPM
Ambition Like Cream (feat Scooby Jones) - (5:30) 105 BPM
Realisation (feat Laura Vane) - (3:39) 120 BPM
Power Rocks You - (4:03) 118 BPM
Mr Right (feat Laura Vane) - (2:56) 51 BPM
Silly Games (feat John Turrell) - (4:08) 59 BPM
Oh Bernice (feat Scooby Jones) - (3:51) 76 BPM
Ten Feet Tall (feat Laura Vane) - (3:28) 106 BPM
Speculate - (3:34) 121 BPM Hot
Fireblanket (feat Laura Vane) - (4:27) 105 BPM
Review: Jalapeno regular Flevans returns with an 11-track album that won't disappoint lovers of the label's trademark funk-breaks-soul sound one iota. It's actually his fifth, reflecting the fact that Flevans does this stuff better than most; if there's a criticism, it's that the album perhaps tries a little too hard to please everyone. Where cuts like 'Power Rocks You' have an authentic 60s/70s 'deep funk' feel, others such as 'Ambition Like Cream' (feat Scooby Jones) opt for a more commercial approach and end up in Radio 2-friendly pop territory. But even if you do find yourself hitting the Skip button once or twice, there's still much to enjoy here.
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JAL 327
01 May 20
Funk
Ambition Like Cream
Ambition Like Cream - (5:30) 105 BPM
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JAL 326
03 Apr 20
Soul
Realisation
Realisation (Explicit) - (3:39) 120 BPM
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JAL 322
21 Feb 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Mr Right
Mr Right (feat Laura Vane) - (2:56) 51 BPM Hot
Speculate - (3:34) 121 BPM
Review: Nigel Evans, or Flevans as he's more widely known, returns with his first new material since the 'Part-Time Millionnaire' long-player (his fourth) dropped earlier this year, also on Jalapeno. 'Mr Right' itself fuses a chunky 'new old' funk-soul groove with a more contemporary-style R&B vocal from Laura Vane, making for a cut that in a perfect world would be following the likes of 'Happy', 'I Need A Dollar' and 'Uptown Funk' into the pop charts. The accompanying 'Speculate', meanwhile, is a more stripped-back and percussive affair that'll suit the jazz-dancers and b-boys down to the ground - quite literally!
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JAL 316
15 Nov 19
Funk
Part Time Millionaire (Remixed)
Invisible (feat Laura Vane - Flevans' Back To The 80's remix) - (3:46) 105 BPM Hot
Invisible (feat Laura Vane - Basement Freaks remix) - (3:53) 54 BPM
Right On Top (Asta Hiroki remix) - (2:22) 98 BPM
Review: Three remixes here of two tracks from Brighton boy Flevans' fifth studio album 'Part Time Millionnaire', which dropped back in March, with the Laura Vane-vocalled 'Invisible' getting the treatment twice. Flevans' own Back To The 80s Mix finds us in upbeat, accessible neo-soul/R&B territory, and as such crossover success certainly shouldn't be ruled out - though for more underground, squelchy nu-funk thrills the Basement Freaks Remix is the one. Completing the EP is Asta Hiroki's re-rub of 'Right On Time', a sparse trip-hop affair comprising ambient sounds, sampled spoken vox and clipped percussion - definitely one for the late-night herbalists.
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JAL 314
11 Oct 19
Funk
It Just Goes (Ray Mang Remix)
It Just Goes (Ray Mang remix) - (3:16) 120 BPM
It Just Goes (Ray Mang extended mix) - (7:24) 120 BPM Hot
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JAL 305
17 May 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Who's Got Me (Art Of Tones Remix)
Who's Got Me (Art Of Tones extended remix) - (7:22) 118 BPM Hot
Who's Got Me (Art Of Tones dub mix) - (7:08) 118 BPM
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JAL 304D
29 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Part Time Millionaire
Right On Top - (1:36) 89 BPM
Invisible (feat Laura Vane) - (3:32) 105 BPM Hot
It Just Goes (feat Sarah Scott) - (5:23) 120 BPM
15,000 Words (feat Elliott Cole) - (4:06) 77 BPM
Part Time Millionaire - (2:40) 87 BPM
Who's Got Me (feat Laura Vane) - (3:56) 116 BPM
Two Steps (feat Elliott Cole) - (3:27) 95 BPM
Take Your Money - (3:29) 121 BPM
Ex-Factor (feat Laura Vane) - (4:09) 85 BPM
Some Day (feat Izo FitzRoy) - (4:01) 70 BPM
The Wheel (feat Laura Vane) - (4:18) 90 BPM
Review: Funk, breaks and broken beat specialist Flevans returns with his fourth studio album, and his first for Jalapeno. This time around, straight-up nostalgic/retro grooves are the order of the day - if you dig the likes of The Dap Kings, Smoove & Turrell, Speedometer or Stone Foundation you'll find much to enjoy here. Vocals are supplied by Laura Vane and several other guests, and across tracks ranging from blistering jazz-dancer 'Take Your Money' to raw soul ballad 'Some Day' to the more pop /R&B-inflected 'Who's Got Me' you'll find all the scorching Hammonds, slap bass, soaring sax and wukka-wukking geetars you could possibly ask for.
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JAL 282
15 Mar 19
Funk
15,000 Words
15,000 Words - (4:06) 77 BPM
Played by: Flevans
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JAL 293
01 Mar 19
Soul
Invisible
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JAL 291
25 Jan 19
Funk
A Distant View
The Comeback Kid - (3:39) 67 BPM
I Don't Know Why - (3:46) 94 BPM Hot
Wise Men Say - (3:36) 135 BPM
Stripped - (4:06) 80 BPM
Higher Places - (3:57) 101 BPM
A Distant View - (4:29) 90 BPM
The Sound That Man Made - (4:17) 58 BPM
Reach Out - (4:32) 125 BPM
Trials - (4:53) 85 BPM
For Olli, For Eliisa - (3:37) 156 BPM
Be There - (4:18) 106 BPM
One For The Road - (5:20) 140 BPM
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JAL 302
19 Dec 18
Funk
It Just Goes/Ex-Factor
It Just Goes (feat Sarah Scott) - (5:23) 120 BPM Hot
Ex-Factor (feat Laura Vane) - (4:09) 85 BPM
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JAL 288
23 Nov 18
Funk
Who's Got Me
Who's Got Me (feat Laura Vane) - (3:56) 116 BPM Hot
Take Your Money - (3:29) 121 BPM
Review: Jalapeno regular Flevans (AKA Nigel Evans) paves the way for album #6 with this new release. The first track features a full soulful vocal from Laura Vane (known for her work with MJ Cole and Robbie Rivera, as well as her own band The Vipertones) and would slot into a DJ set neatly somewhere between Crazy P and The Dap Kings, while the 2nd track "Take Your Money" Evans looks to the deep organ-fuelled funk of the 60s for inspiration but chucks in some 70s funk geetar for good measure, then tops the lot with a suitably raw n' scratchy sampled vocal.
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JAL 281
21 Sep 18
Funk
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