Meshell Ndegeocello

Meshell Ndegeocello (Michelle Lynn Johnson, born 1969 in Berlin) is an US-American singer, rapper, bassist and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul. hiphop, reggae, blues, rock and jazz.
She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, including ten Grammy Award  nominations.

Cool  homepage, news and free downloads at laut.de  (sorry, only in german),  many songs and more downloads at soundcloud

The Diplomats of Solid Sound

The Diplomats of Solid Sound are a funk and soul group from Iowa City and have been mining America's vast deposits of soul music to create a sound all their own -- a spare-but-spicy groove sired equally by progenitors such as Booker T., James Brown and The Funk Brothers -  a dance party in a jewel box, guaranteed to groove its way into your head and your ass -- and get both moving fast (parts from myspace)

Check their labels site recordkicks  for infos and a release overview (including full lenght listening),
soundcloud  for more tracks and some downloads

NU - Jo Ke

Who is Nu / Who is Jo Ke?
Nu is a german DJ
cool sounds - stupid choice of names!

Anyone who wants to be recognized selects a name clearly identifiable- search google for "Nu"  oder "Jo Ke" - seems to be be a "jo ke"....- only the music-junky justalittlebeat , collecting and kind of promoting this nerds, may provide information: I'm waiting for an answer...

Meanwhile: crass mucke - soundcloud knows Nu-Jo Ke; listen, download and enjoy

Alcohol Jazz

This band seems to be from Madrid, Spain, playing music from Jazz to Funk, "going through groovies, lunch (?) and ambient sounds that are always guided to the dance floor" (from their record label site, see below)
- sorry, I can't speak spanish and there are some difficulties:
their  myspace- site is only in spanish and their record-label site at subterfuge is ...ummm-lets say, interesting in the english version

What ever - cool music: tracks and downloads from  soundcloud (you'll have to select a bit between the incorrect "alcohol" and "jazz"  mismatches)

Dojo Cuts ft. Roxie Ray

Raw, loud and hottest heavy Funk from Sidney - Dojo Cuts featuring Roxie Ray "leave the international funk and soul scene abuzz."(Gabriel Roth - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings)

Overview and song snippets from every release at recordkicks, many tracks and downloads from soundcloud  

Update: Jenova 7 / Nicolas Jarr

New release of Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods - Time Travellers LP
Free download from dustedwax

Free download of 2 releases by sound wizard Nicolas Jarr from tonspion        ( and - reminding - "Edits"  from wolflambmusic)

Alien Trick

Alien Trick is a side project from Francesco Farias, producer of Jestofunk (Bolognia, Italy) - deep groove


Some tracks at soundcloud

 

Smoove & Turrell

Smoove & Turrell (Steven Moove and John Turrell) create music in the northern soul genre - Latin, Jazz and of course Funk.
Until now two album releases: Antique Soul (2009) and Eccentric Audio in 2011 and many singles and remixes

Visit  jalapeno and their homepage; many tracks, sets and downloads at soundcloud

The Q4

The Q4 is a  three headed Dutch producers/musicians collaboration from Amsterdam.
To name it their sound is a TripHop-jazzy-HipHop collage of hundreds of dusty little samples and percussion hits taken when ever possible from vinyl, of  a wide range of musical influences

Homepage theq4, many tracks at soundcloud  , uploaded by artsthebeatdoctor a member of The Q4 - and (more tidy) at bandcamp

Sola Rosa

Lead by musical mastermind Andrew Spraggon, Sola Rosa are New Zealand’s finest purveyors of a special Kiwi Soul encompassing the best of hip hop, reggae, jazz, latin, soul  funk and downbeat-electronica

Official website solarosa.com  -  Listen to all releases full length at amplifier.co.nz

Free downloads at bandcamp here and here , many tracks and some more downloads at soundcloud

Kokolo

Kokolo, also known as the Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra, is an American Afrobeat band from the Lower East Side of New York City, formed in 2001 by songwriter/producer Ray Lugo
The band's name was taken from a 1970's term used in Spanish Harlem and parts of the Caribbean, often as a pejorative, to describe Latinos of african descent who were fans of Afro music. Kokolo aimed to invert the negative connotation of the term through the positivity in their music

Discography and track-snippets of all releases at discogs,  many tracks and downloads at soundcloud

RAY LUGO

Ray Lugo is known for his punky afro grooves as leader and singer of New York powerhouse Kokolo.
In 2009 Lugo began to expand the range of his musical output under the moniker L.E.S. Express - 'cause of the enthusiastic response to that formation he eventually formed Ray Lugo & The Boogaloo Destroyers (album release "Mi Watusi") followed now by his first solo album, “We Walk Around Like This”, welcoming the sounds of Bahia, Lagos, Kingston, San Juan, and Harlem all under one umbrella and echoing Lugo’s eclectic tastes.

Discography overview including many remixes and presenting downloads of DJ Mixes and Podcasts at raylugo.org;
many tracks and downloads at soundcloud

[ Roxie Ray is the australien born singer of Dojo Cuts - as one of the soul revival’s brightest stars appearing on several international record releases ]

BadboE

BadboE is a truecore musichead born in Denmark. His music inspirations come from the oldskool funk productions from the late 60s and the 70s. Like many other breakbeat artists, this musical legacy is where BadboE dig in to bring new life by cutting and mixing the pieces into new danceable songs. The specialty has become sophisticated mixing of old funk samples with 80s rap vocals and hooks, funky breaks, pumpin' beats and trippy lounge breaks

In 2006 BadboE formed his own digital recordlabel together with his fellow musician Wiccatron called Breakbeat Paradise Recordings (BBP Recordings): badboe.com

Many many tracks, remixes and downloads at soundcloud

Serafim Tsotsonis

Serafim Tsotsonis is an electronic musician/producer from Athens, Greece.
He has composed music for films, plays, documentaries and video-art while he has also remixed songs for a variety of artists.
A balearic electronic listening-trip with elements  from deep techno, cosmic-psychedelia, folk, classic, jazz and dubstep

Discography at discogs, many songs and some downloads on soundcloud 

Quincy Jointz

Dirk Schafer from Freiburg, Germany, aka Quincy Jointz is one of the leading producers of funky Brekabeat, Downbeat and NuFunk-music in the world.
He is releasing own music and remixes under his project-names Quincy Jointz and “Geriba” (together with Jorn Disch), published by the best labels of NuFunk and similar sounds like Funk Weapons Rec. (USA),Aniligital Music (USA), Timewarp Music (Greece),  Eighteen Street Lounge and many more (from: timewarpmusic)

Infos and album overview at timewarpmusic with selected tracks from every release; many tracks and downloads on soundcloud

Mo Wax

Mo' Wax was a UK-based record label owned and founded by James Lavelle (later head of UNKLE).
The label came to recognition for being at the forefront of trip hop, turntablism and alternative rap during the mid-90s. - with signed artists like DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Attica Blues, UNKLE, Andreas Parker to name just a few.


Discography at discogs, a lot of tracks at soundcloud

Highly recommended: Mo Wax radio at morewax.com  run by a real MoWax-music-freak, playing randomly over 1000 tracks all from MoWax-artists

Lack of Afro

Lack of Afro actually is Adam Gibbons, a producer and multi-instrumentalist one man band

Lovers of funk, beats and soulful production should not be a stranger to his tracks he builds around original samples of old soul bands, adding his own funky drums, guitar and horns to the mix, making any song he touches vibrant with organic soul & deep bass.

View his homepage  for infos about gigs, future releases and discography, listen to a large amount of tracks and albums at soundcloud including his newest work released in 2012 One Way: Remixes & Rarities

Black Science Orchestra

Black Science Orchestra was a musical project headed chiefly by the British DJ and producer Ashley Beedle who used the BSO moniker to release tracks sampled and inspired from rare groove & soul records reworked into acid jazz, house, disco and also downtempo

Listen at deejay.de and at soundcloud  (some downloads here too)

Marden Hill

Mark Daniels and Christopher Bemand first teamed up in 1994 as part of the seminal British acid jazz band, Marden Hill. Their provocative first single, "Come On" was also included on the band's debut album, Blown Away (re-released one year later in the United States as Hijacked). The album earned strong critical appraisals, and spawned, as a description for the music, perhaps one of the most influential terms of the mid-'90s music scene: trip-hop.
(Ashley Beedle came up with the word Trip Hop describing a Marden Hill track he was remixing saying - 'This is fucked up, it's Hip Hop but it's trippy. It's Trip Hop!") 

Discography at discogs ( also an overview to releases of their very interesting label On Delancey Street) but found only one song at soundcloud, track.snippets of their albums can be heard at allmusic

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: a collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes; Jeffs and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members throughout Jeffs life and a number of other musicians joined as the band grew and developed.
Not easy to categorize: ethnic music, particularly African styles, merged with more traditional Western sounds, kind of "modern semi-acoustic chamber music".

Complete discography including listening to the 6 releases of the original lineout  at allmusic
and at discogs, a lot of tracks at soundcloud

13 years on from Simon Jeffes dead his son Arthur started playing this music again - a new chapter to be followed on penguincafe.com

Belleruche

Belleruche is a three-piece band from London, UK, currently signed on the Brighton based Tru Thoughts label, playing an eclectic mixture of hip-hop-soul-blues-trip-hop-electronica - and surely always kind of groovy.
Jukebox with nearly everything the band has recorded yet (full length)  at belleruche.com,
a lot of tracks and sets including their new album "Rollerchain" (05-2012) at soundcloud

Trotter

Rodrigo Ulson  a.k.a. Trotter is maybe the most prominent name of the Brazilian groove scene.
He creates and combines tropical vibes with nuJazz, funk and kind of disco with powerful beats, mesmerizing grooves and is also often driven to laid back downbeat grooves.
Over 60 releases on several label’s as Timewarp Music, Super Hi-Fi Recordings, Home Breakin Records and many songs remixed by names like all Good Funk Alliance, Timewarp Inc, Quasamodo, Umbo, Afternoon in Stereo and many more.

Overview to his many releases, infos and more at his homepage
his up-to-date DJ-Charts at junodownload
a lot of tracks, remixes and some downloads at soundcloud

The Sabres of Paradise

The Sabres of Paradise was a British experimental group formed in London, England in 1992.  

Although their roots were in the acid house scene, they later became mainly known as a dub-influenced leftfield electronic trio comprising Andrew Weatherall, Gary Burns, and Jagz Kooner. 
(Later Weatherall went on to form Two Lone Swordsmen with Keith Tenniswood while Kooner and Burns carried on working with The Aloof, and Jagz has also kept a consistent remix career.)

Many tracks and downloads at soundcloud

Zamali

Belgian dj/producer Zamali made a name for himself on both the internet/blog scene and in the DJ community for his trademark soulful & funky boots with Motown flavor.
Zamali's now produced some own tracks & remixes for people such as Tal M Klein, Timewarp inc., Umbo,
Quincy Jointz, Basement Freaks and many more (from his facebook - page)

Listen to tracks, mixes and remixes (including some downloads) at soundcloud

Monkey Mafia (aka Jon Carter)

The British DJ Jon Carter originally started using the pseudonym Monkey Mafia for his dub and dancehall-inspired music productions. 
By the time Monkey Mafia had expanded into a full band, including Douge Reuben on vocals, Dan Peppe on bass, Tom Symmons on drums, DJ Krash Slaughta (aka Paul Smith) on turntables, and Carter himself on samplers and keyboard programming. 
With their then new form of electronic dance music (now known as big beat) with its mix of rock, indie and breakbeats as well as dance and hypnotic instrumental tracks, the band toured supporting Roni Size and Massive Attack. 

In 2012 there is the "return of the band that blew the styles out in the 90's that became big beat and dubstep"

"Like this" at facebook  and download  SPOTIFY-Client to listen to eclusive tracks
Releases overview and track-snippets at discogs
More tracks and downloads at soundcloud

 

Dengue Fever

Brothers Ethan (keyboards) and Zac (guitar) Holtzman started Dengue Fever in 2001 when they discovered they shared a love for the Cambodian pop music of the 60s. 
After adding sax man David Ralicke (Beck/Brazzaville), drummer Paul Smith and bassist Senon Williams, they went looking for a Cambodian singer. Enter Chhom Nimol, who performed regularly for the King and Queen of Cambodia . Her powerful singing, marked by a luminous vibrato that adds exotic ornamentations to her vocal lines, and hypnotic stage moves based on traditional dances, complimented the band's driving Cambodian/American sound (from facebook)

Interesting infos and interview here
Many tracks at soundcloud

Red Snapper

Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar).

The band plays a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass,  often joined by various guest-artists.

Discography overview at redsnapperofficial.com and at discogs

Free download of their newest EP "Scale" at bandcamp

A lot of original tracks and remixes to listen and for download at soundcloud

The Aloof

The Aloof were a four-headed British alternative –pop-electronica supergroup, starting with straight-ahead rock but went for mixing electronic and dance elements with dub influences to create a special kind of  downtempo/electronic Trip-hop, available at  four released studio albums.  

Dean Thatcher played keyboards, two members - Burns and Kooner - were also members of The Sabres of Paradise, their drummer Richard Thair went on to join the band Red Snapper.

Many tracks to listen and for download at soundcloud

Still active at  facebook sharing links to interesting music  

Nick Pride and the Pimptones

Nick Pride and the Pimptones are a funk / jazz / soul band based in Newcastle, formed in 2007 .
Their record label Record Kicks describes them as "a deep funk / jazz-dance outfit playing original material in the style of The Meters, JTQ and Charlie Hunter - heavy dancefloor grooves, big breaks and sophisticated jazz numbers"

Listen full length to their three LP-releases:

"It's the Pimptones" at bandcamp /  "Midnight Feast of Jazz" at  recordkicks /  "Remixed Feast of Jazz" also at recordkicks;

many original tracks, more remixes and some downloads at soundcloud