“Club Noir” is a very successful and balanced Lounge CD: There is more passion Chill Out, Down Beat with a French flair, a harmonious blend of slow electronic music. 16 plays wisely pieces that develop a calm, gentle flow. Speed & direction remain similar and create a harmonic density....
In 1998, they released their first album [Table Talk] and the next year,their second album [June Fool].
In these albums,they performed their own music style called “nouvelle pop music”, which was influenced by French pop, Jazz, Bossa Nova and film....
2010 solo release from the Australian vocalist best known for her work with Zero 7. The album features contributions from Strokes guitarist, Nick Valensi, and Inara George from The Bird And The Bee. The album is notably more upbeat than her previous work, which she partly attributes to her relationship with JD Samson as well as her childhood influences Cyndi Lauper and Madonna....
‘The Express’ has arrived – and Belleruche are sounding better than ever on their second album. The Express is guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of their existing fans and win over the uninitiated in style.
When Belleruche burst onto the scene in July 2007 with their debut LP ‘Turntable Soul Music’, their unique, refreshing sound won them a dedicated fan base and it rapidly became the fastest-selling debut on Tru Thoughts to date, with sales of well over 15,000 and counting. Acclaim and support flooded in from Daddy G (Massive Attack), Norman Jay and many other music luminaries around the world. ...
Jojo Effect was founded in November 2005 by the German producers and multi instrumentalists Jaycay (Color Blind, Expo’s Jazz & Joy, Makoma) and Maxim Illion (Club des Belugas), and the two fantastic vocalists of Anne Schnell and Brenda Boykin....
Hip-hop’s influence spread far and wide during the ’80s, as witnessed by the growth of the international scene during the following decade. Standing beside brilliant DJs from Japan (Krush) and France (Cam), Russia’s DJ Vadim has proved to be the most popular advocate of hip-hop to come out of the former Soviet bloc, triggered mostly by the fact that he moved to Britain early in life. Upon arrival, he set up his own Jazz Fudge Records later that year to issue a demo he called Derelicts of Conformity (by Son of Seth). He finally released the recordings early in 1995, as DJ Vadim’s Abstract Hallucinating Gases EP. Britain’s top hip-hop and acid jazz DJs began playing the record and, after being scouted by several labels, Vadim signed a contract with Ninja Tune. Several EPs released during 1995-1996 showed him to be quite an experimentalist, working heavily with static and noise, never content to let his ideas meander past the two- or three-minute point. His first LP, U.S.S.R. Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality), was released in late 1996....
Si*Sé is a downtempo and electronic group from New York City. The main members of the band are Carol C (vocals, DJ) and Cliff Cristofaro (producer). Other members of the band include Ryan Farley (drums), Neil Ochoa (percussion) and Morgan Phillips (Bass). Jeannie Oliver was the viola player during the first two albums, but left the band in 2005....
Bitter:Sweet is an electronic/trip-hop duo with jazz-like qualities from Los Angeles. The band is composed of Shana Halligan, who provides vocals and lyrics and composes the songs, and Kiran Shahani, who produces and composes the songs....
Sharon Robinson
Cassandra Wilson
Diana Krall
Deborah Cox 
Quincy Jones
