Another bumper edition of Crucial Material with some killer releases across the board.
Here are our favorite EP’s, Albums and Reissues of the past week. As always we encourage you to buy digital or physical releases if you discover a release you love. Support artists and labels!
[infobox title=’Jump to Music Genres’]Jazz // Soul & Funk // Electronic & Club Sounds // Leftfield & Experimental // Global Sounds [/infobox]JAZZ
Menahan Street Band — The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band
The return of this majestic ensemble is as hard hitting and melodically sumptuous as expected. After almost a decade they have not missed a beat and continue to define their lane and provide sonical excellence
— Selected by ASMA
Various — J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan
BBE Music releases the third volume of their phenomenal ‘J Jazz’ compilation series, continuing to shed light on some of the most essential and obscure modern Japanese jazz recordings from the 1960s through the 1980s
— Selected by TJ Gorton
Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella — People Need People
Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella release a brilliant uplifting and collaborative album that fuses together Afro jazz, house, electronic sounds, disco and more
— Selected by TJ Gorton
Sam Gendel — Fresh Bread
Sitting at the nexus of jazz-newage-experimental-beats, here is a 52 track mega mega album from this talented musician on the rise from Los Angeles out of the Leaving Records camp.
— Selected by Lexis
Henryk Debich — Monika b/w Zabawa w ciemności
Killer, unreleased (till now) orchestral jazz funk from Polands’ Henryk Debich and the Łódź Orchestra. Essential purchase for jazz, funk & library fans
— Selected by Oli Brunetti
ELECTRONIC
Enayet — Chokkor
Warped and distorted cerebral bass/techno ear-drum ticklers with progressive structures that could shatter any club.
— Selected by dileta
DJ Durbin — And You Told Me EP
These heavily textured snappy technoid bass abstractions could each be individual feature films
— Selected by dileta