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Review: For their fifth full-length excursion, Session Victim have largely sidestepped the dancefloor, instead serving up a headphones-friendly set rooted in their love of downtempo and Balearic sounds. Of course, there are some tracks that you could dance to - most notably the darkened, jazz-flecked, library music-goes-to-the-disco shuffle of 'Dweller' - but for the most part the pair effortlessly sashay between blunted hip-hop beats and moody trip-hop ('Mycelium Dub', 'Porchless', the twinkling 'Soft Landing'), pastoral-sounding folktronica ('The gorgeous, life-affirming 'The Hidden Trail' and 'One Trick Ponies', which sounds like a 21st century update of Bert Jansch's 'Avocet' album), nu-jazz ('Jazzbeat08') and library music-inspired immersive soundscapes ('Enlightenment').
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ALN 65D
03 Nov 23
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
03 Nov 23
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Ash Walker takes us on a cosmic voyage with his fourth album 'Astronaut', featuring collaborations with Lou Rhodes, Andrew Ashong, Amp Fiddler, Laville and more. The album is a dazzling showcase of Walker's eclectic sound that blends jazz, blues, soul, funk and reggae. From blissful to funky, from soulful to psychedelic, from groovy to spacey, the album spans genres and styles while keeping a consistent groove and vibe. This is an album for fans of sophisticated and adventurous music that transcends boundaries.
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ALN 67
30 Jun 23
Balearic/Downtempo
30 Jun 23
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: This second long-player from Portland's Eric Phillips is sitting in our Balearic/Downtempo section - and when we say "downtempo", we mean it! Three or four of the tracks come devoid of any drums whatsoever, and the album never gets beyond walking pace when beats ARE involved, so if you're looking for floor-fillers you'll be disappointed. But if it's strictly chill-out fare you're after then 'Without Star Or Compass' packs plenty of fluttering acoustic guitars, gently tinkling ivories, sampled birdsong etc etc - and more importantly boasts two clear standouts, in the form of the almost Dead Can Dance-like 'Northern Flight' and, best of all, the haunting, melancholic folk/soul of 'Open Air'. File under "fragile and beautiful".
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ALN 66
28 Oct 22
Balearic/Downtempo
28 Oct 22
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Owain Kimber (Owain K), Chris Coco, Pete Herbert, Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz, Andy Downtown Science, CC:DISCO!, Paul Withey // Sweetooth, Howler, DiCE_NZ, Tooli (Local Talk / Omena / 18437), Balearic Ultras, James Bright
Review: On his first album for over a decade, Ron Trent has chosen to showcase his undoubted skills as a producer and musician, offering up a collaboration-heavy set that pairs his usual warming electronics and hand percussion with band-style instrumentation (bass, drums, guitars, piano and more) and immersive, atmospheric vibe. The album was inspired by electronic/acoustic fusions of the early '80s and designed for home listening, so what you get is an inspired set of luscious downtempo cuts made in cahoots with the likes of Lars Barktkuhn, ambient hero Gigi Masin, legendary violinist Jean-Luc Ponty (on the incredible 'Sphere') and Alex Malheiros and Ivan Conti of Azymuth. As you'd expect given his track record over the last 30 years, it's a wonderfully produced and brilliantly executed album - one of Trent's strongest releases to date.
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ALN 68
24 Jun 22
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
24 Jun 22
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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ALN 5305
28 Mar 22
Deep House
28 Mar 22
Deep House
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ALN 63S
12 Oct 21
Experimental/Electronic
12 Oct 21
Experimental/Electronic
Played by: Juno Recommends Experimental
Review: Minimal, techy, percussive, melodic and vocal - that's the music of Leifur James. Emerging through Night Time Stories, James combines UK pop and vocal elements to a recipe of deeper and progressive house mixed with a harmony of post-dubstep influences and ambient inspirations. The London-based experimental producer and composer presents his second album Angel In Disguise that dives head first into fields of melodic rave that connects the dots between James Blake, Nils Frahm and Nicolas Jaar to Moderat, Mount Kimbie and Max Cooper. Find some slo-mo, piano-laden dub techno in "Black Lens" to edgier rhythm tracks in "Ritual". Deeper still is the sub-aquatic blip and underwater percussion of "Strange With You" harking back to the sounds of Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise LP or John Roberts' Glass Eights album. If it's not Dial or Erased Tapes it's Night Time Stories and Leifur James, enjoy!
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ALND 63
05 Jun 20
Experimental/Electronic
05 Jun 20
Experimental/Electronic
Played by: Jimpster, Kraak & Smaak, Juno Recommends Deep House, AFTERLIFE, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Dave Mathmos, Dealt With Records
Review: It's been three years since Session Victim's last album, the rather fine "Listen To Your Heart" on Delusions of Grandeur, so this fourth full-length excursion is definitely well overdue. As you'd expect, the music contained in it is as warm, musically rich and intricately detailed as ever, though there are fewer nods to disco, boogie and Balearica than we've come to expect. Instead, they've delivered a smoky, atmospheric and intoxicating collection of cuts that attractively shimmies between drowsy late night house, dreamy electronica, jazz-fired downtempo jams, dusty breakbeat shufflers and the kind of stoned, ultra-deep fare that used to get showcased on F Communications' ace "Mega Soft Office" compilations back in the 2000s.
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ALND 59
06 Mar 20
Deep House
06 Mar 20
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Inspired by a trip to the remote Olympic peninsula in America's Pacific North West, Eric Philips began work on "Departure", his debut album as Kennebec, way back in 2017. While it took over two years to complete, the resultant set is impressive in its scope, vision and imaginative approach to intoxicating musical fusion. Rich in live instrumentation - folksy fiddles, acoustic guitars, bittersweet pianos, fluttering flutes and languid jazz horns - but rooted in broken beat, nu-jazz and downtempo grooves, the album is so assured and well produced that you'd expect it to come from a far more experienced producer. It has the feel of a future downtempo classic to rank alongside the best sets of the nineties and noughties, and we can think of no higher praise than that.
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ALN 58
14 Feb 20
Balearic/Downtempo
14 Feb 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Last year Leifur James won plenty of plaudits for his debut album "A Louder Silence", a set that was described by one reviewer as "subtly stunning soul-jazz". As the title suggests, this six-track follow-up sees some of the album's most potent tracks get the remix treatment. Falty DL kicks things off with a shuffling, soft-focus dancefloor take on the sumptuous "Mumma Don't Tell", before Hessle Audio regular Bruce re-imagines "Osho" as an atmospheric ambient-jazz soundscape. Auntie Flo does a bang-up job teasing out the sunrise-ready beauty inherent inside "Salaniham", Coby Sey opts for skittish IDM drum programming on a decidedly wonky version of "Suns of Gold" and Oliver Coates re-creates "Red Sea" as a paranoid, analogue-heavy electronica workout.
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ALND 53RX
04 Oct 19
Deep House
04 Oct 19
Deep House
Review: On their two previous albums, Texan trio Khruangbin have explored a wide range of stylistic pastures, from funk and soul, to indie and psychedelia, to Middle and Far Eastern music. Long player #3, however, finds them largely in reggae/dub mode. There's definitely still an eclectic slant - 'How I Love', for instance, has an Afro-French feel, while 'A La Sala' sounds like ESG jamming with Talking Heads - but it's the sounds of Jamaica that are by far the overwhelming influence here, with the inclusion of a couple of dubs by the legendary Scientist underlining the point. A sofa-based delight.
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ALND 50DUB
12 Jul 19
Funk
12 Jul 19
Funk
Review: Bristol's Chaouche touches down on our digi charts with her third instalment of LateNightTales, providing you with 12 beautiful segments of electronic delight, blurring the lines between electronica and modern UK r&b. This is a mood album from start to finish, with the artist's prophetic voice reigning supreme on every single one of these tracks, making it a special treat for anyone who's in the mood to vibe and chill out. It can be nostalgic in places, and ever so euphoric in others. In short, it is an album that both strikes a chord with the romantics out there, and which fits supremely well into the label's existing emporium of sounds.
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ALNLP 47
15 Jun 18
Balearic/Downtempo
15 Jun 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: "Friday Morning" is the first single taken from Texan trio Khurangbin's second album entitled 'Con Todo El Mundo'. The track is equal parts nostalgic soul and low slung funk with an exotic ambience. Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald "DJ" Johnson on drums, their sound is 'rooted in the deepest waters of world music infused with classic soul, dub and psychedelia.' Their 2015 debut album 'The Universe Smiles Upon You' was heavily influenced by 60's and 70's Thai cassettes and the new album takes inspiration not just from South East Asia, but similarly undiscovered funk and soul of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, particularly Iran.
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ALND 5002
12 Jan 18
Balearic/Downtempo
12 Jan 18
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Inspired by the slightly unlikely collision of the Thai music of the '70s and The Shadows, Khruangbin - the name means 'aeroplane' in Thailand - are purveyors of a deliriously mellow and beguiling form of jammed-out power-trio guitar music - far removed from standard notions of psych and dreampop, partly owing to its pan-global influences, its nonetheless both psychedelic and dreamy, not to mention possessed of an unhurried, reflective and spacious lilt that renders this Texan-London outfit a rare treat in an information-saturated age, taking on delicate soul and funk with exotic atmospheres and making the journey feel both blissful and effortless.
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ALNLP 40R
10 Nov 17
Balearic/Downtempo
10 Nov 17
Balearic/Downtempo
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ALND 5001
03 Nov 17
Funk
03 Nov 17
Funk
Review: Given that Rae & Christian's collaboration with London mic man Jake Emlyn first surfaced on their Mercury Rising album back in 2013, it seems a little curious that Late Night Tales has decided to release it as a single. This is not a criticism, though, as the quality of the remixes is impressively high. Ray Mang weighs in with three excellent disco versions - an expansive, soaring, festival-friendly vocal mix, an accompanying instrumental, and a superb 'Beats' version, which turns the track into a Konk style, Latin influenced drum workout - while former Silver City man Fernando drops two bubbly nu-disco interpretations full of his usual colourful synths and rubbery bass. Best of all, though, is the Reflex Remix, a fuzzy disco-funk stomper that's nothing less than an invitation to drop all inhibitions and lose your self in the dance.
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ALND 3302
04 May 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 May 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Review: Their first material in over 10 years, Mercury Prize nominated duo Rae & Christian need very little introduction. Adding to the UK beat movement with similar weight to that of Tricky or Massive Attack, their ability to forge big grooves into actual songs is near-on matchless. And it's clear they still haven't lost this touch between them. Ranging from swaggering b-boy guitar drama ("Check The Technique") to the heady, driving folk of the Beta Band/Gruff Rhys-esque "1975" via the soul-jazz breakbeat fusion of "Dancer", they leave no stone unturned. And, crucially, they do it with a strong sense of playfulness and consistency. Let's hope they don't leave it another decade for a follow-up.
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ALND 33
20 Oct 13
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
20 Oct 13
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
