Rogall & the Electric Circus Sideshow

Rogall & the Electric Circus Sideshow - headman Rogall from Berlin, Germany, accumulated a wild crowd: Earl Zinger(Galliano), Farda P ( Rockers Hi Fi),  Hugo Race (co-founder of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds), Steve Moss ("Sax-Legend") AND: Henry Rollins
Their vision is to create a spooky and dreamy, a groovy and weird melange: Rock, Pop, Dub, Reggae, HipHop-Jazz, Blues and Bluegrass, arabic Oud-Harmonies,oriental Funk and cool electronica  

Listen to their only album release at soundcloud 

There are few videos on youtube, not really worth to see....just listen and enjoy

Flevans

Flevans is Nigel Evans, a British electronic musician and DJ based in Brighton.
He combines funk with cut and paste sampling sensibilities and infectious basslines, for his album "27 Devils" he swapped his samples for purely instrumental sound.

Listen at discogs and at soundcloud including remixes done from Flevans for artists like The Bamboos, Lack of Afro, Belleruche and many more

Slackwax

Slackwax is Peter Hoppe and Bernd Batke from Nurnberg, Germany.


Their music is a blend of styles, that have their roots in traditional genres like Bossa, Country, Jazz, Blues and R&B - in contrast the production is hyper-modern and involves electronica, deep hip-hop and leftfield-downbeats.


Listen - mainly to their latest 6 track EP "Slackwax reworks Mousse T." - at soundcloud ; more tracks at beatport and at djtunes.com

The Black Keys

The Black Keys is an American rock duo: Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums)

Hailing from Akron, OH, they harness a close-to-the-bone, raw blues-rock sound to create tracks "where a dark groove is laid down" like Auerbach said.

Listening (and some downloads) at soundcloud

Una Mas Trio

Una Mas Trio are Christian Schilgen and Fab DJ Sammy (founder of The Juju Orchestra).
Based on a blend of traditional south American styles meeting contemporary club music they construct their true latin, boogaloo and brasil funk tracks.

Listen  full lenght to the tracks of their debut album at  agogo-records;
listen to many tracks and fine remixes (and find a few downloads) at soundcloud

The Juju Orchestra

The Juju Orchestra are rare groove nerd Fab DJ Sammy and producer/sound engineer Oliver Belz (based in Braunschweig / Germany).
In some words: contemporary Soul, Jazz and Latin music with a vintage sound; a mean cocktail of styles with great hooks and irresistible beats.

Some more info at agogo-records ;
listen to their 8-track -album "Bossa is Not a Crime",  also to some very fine remixes previously released in Japan (and some downloads for sure...) at soundcloud

Ancient Astronauts

The Ancient Astronauts are Kabanjak and Dogu, a  production and DJ duo from Cologne, Germany,
already known for their remixes and collaborations with Fort Knox Five, Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde, Issa Bagayogo,  Kid Loco, Zion Train, Tippa Irie and many more

Genre: Downtempo/Funk/HipHop, but "the cross-pollination and mash-up of ideas, sounds, styles, and a collaborative spirit are their modus operandi"

A lot of listening (albums and many DJ-Mixes) at their homepage
and for sure at soundcloud (also many downloads here)

On may 1st 2012 ESL- Music will release their new album “The Orion Nebula Remixes” (ESL 197)

[also check out their former labels website Switchstance Recordings]                  
 

Kira Neris

Kira Neris is Hervé Poudoulec from  Strasbourg based in Lyon/France -
his music pondering from Rock to House, Dance and Jazz, amassing over 4000 samples, while eventually experiencing The Cinematic Orchestra’s ‘Motion‘ - helping to align his own sound, found deep within.
Kira Neris effortlessly strides from downtempo and jazzy affairs to voluptuous, dance vibes with an earnest underlining.

Listen to two full lenght albums, Dj-mixes und some unreleased tracks at soundcloud

Deela

Deela, brainchild of Ingo Moell from Germany (known for remixes for Mo´ Horizons, Issa Bagayogo, etc and one half of the recently ESL Music-signed duo Ancient Astronauts), brings us heavy Funk, Afro, Dopebeats, Reggae and Downtempo tunes.
Very organic grooving music with lots of live instruments (bass, guitar, flute, sax, piano, melodica, double-bass, keys) and spanish, jamaican and polish vocalists.

Listen to "Everything Counts" (EP) and "Ruhrfahrt" (EP)  at bandcamp
full length album "Mano Mano" at  soundcloud

[Check their labes website Switchstance Recordings]

LTJ X-Perience

Luca LTJ Trevisi (LTJ Xperience) began his DJ / Producer career in the 80s. As Resident DJ in two of the most famous Italian clubs of the time, Kinky in Bologna and Cap Creus in Imola, he was one of the first Italian jocks to spin House and to re-propose those black music, jazz and latin-bossa classics from the 70s that at the end of the same decade would have given birth to the Acid Jazz and Rare Groove movements (from irmarecords)

A lot of sets and tracks to listen and download at soundcloud

New album out 23.4.12 " I don't want this groove to ever end" - listen to samples at junorecords

Update: new LTJ mix set (30. April 2012), listen or download "Can You Get It"_Mix"  here

 

Colour Haze

Colour Haze is a stoner/psychedelic group from Munich, Germany. Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits, and have since then become one of the flagships of the German stoner rock scene.

Many songs to listen and download at soundcloud
Also check out their labels website elektrohasch.de

Jadell

Producer and DJ Jadell (aka Jamie Odell) from East London blends together jazz,soul, funk and rock all mixed up with some hip-hop beats thrown over the top - sometimes reminding of DJ Shadow and Groove Armada with a laid back and funky hip-hop attitude tuned with some great bass-lines

Aydio

Aydio is Adam Harper, a London-based musician, producer, DJ and visual artist -
 Downtempo electronica, with hip-hop, dub, rock and jazz influences always some kind of dreamy...

Listen at soundcloud,
Check out his  homepage with several free downloads
Free download of  Borneo Function  at bandcamp

Cayetano

Giorgos "Cayetano" Bratanis from Thessaloniki / Athens and his 8-headed live band gives us a unique and colorful blend of  nu-jazz, break and dub grooves with their albums, collaborations and  numerous remixes...

Listen to 5 albums at soundcloud,
download his best remixes at his homepage: cayetanomusic.com,
check out facebook/CayetanoMusic

Chapter and the Verse

In 1991 Gerald Simpson, the founder of Acid Jazz Legend A Guy called Gerald teamed up with production crew members Thorpe and Cousins to form Chapter and the Verse
--> Two albums: Great Western Street (1991) and Renewed Testament (1992)
A nostalgic look back to some Grandad’s of Acid Jazz and Deep House


Any idea where to find links to hear the complete albums?

Souleance

Souleance is the result of the partnership between DJ Soulist (What The Funk) and producer Fulgeance based in Paris/Caen, France -
devastating beats, hypnotic and electronic Hip Hop combined with an obsession for Disco, Soul, Funk and Latin

Listen to their full length debut album La Belle Vie at bandcamp
their 4 EPs can be heard at soundcloud

[also highly recommended:  firstwordrecords.com]

Dirty Beatniks

Dirty Beatniks (Wall of Sound) was formed by Neil Higgins and Rory Carille - a raw, grubby big beat act who filter influences from acid house and old-school rap through all breakbeat facets

Discography at discogs , Info's at wall of sound , listening and few downloads at soundcloud

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill ft. Umberto Echo

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, Switzerland’s dub heroes have teamed up on their new project "Too Big To Fail" ( ECHO BEACH) with Munich- based mix master Umberto Echo - let's describe it with one of their track titles: The Clashification of Dub

Download "Live Concert at Exile Club (CH)" and a new track ("The World is Dub Enough") at their homepage
One free track each release at tonspion
and - for sure, not to miss - soundcloud

The Echocentrics

The Echocentrics is a new band from Austin-based two-time Grammy nominated producer Adrian Quesada, a member of Grupo Fantasma, and one of the minds behind bands Ocote Soul Sounds and Brownout.
Teaming up with Argentinean singer Natalia Clavier and Brazil-based Tita Lima, he has carved out a southern-fried, laid back, and psychedelic-tinged sound.

Listen and download selected tracks at soundcloud

FOXAPET

Foxapet is a 7headed band from Dammarie Les Lys, France - Groove, soul, dancefloor-jazz and
obscure french funk from parisian suburbs -  this is a tribute to old school funk classics.
Free download at jamendo

Ocote Soul Sounds

Ocote Soul Sounds is Martín Perna (Antibalas) and Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout), their music is a dynamic mix of pan-Latin flavor, conscious political attitude, afrobeat and hip-hop rhythms.
Their fourth studio albumTaurus was produced by Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation and features vocal collaborations with fellow ESL Music regulars Natalia Clavier, Sitali, Verny Varela and Chico Mann.

Listening and a lot of free downloads at soundcloud

The Burhorn

Jazz trumpeter (Thomas Burhorn) and hip hop producer (Michael Paetz) come together to make an album - jazzy trip hop with an eye for details, the warm sound of real instruments and the nostalgic crackle of long forgotten samples.
The idea to fuse jazz with different styles isn’t new, yet The Burhorn create an independent, contemporary sound which convinces through its’ authenticity. Jazz listeners who want to hear strong bass drum and hip hop fans, who can differ a bass clarinet from a hookah will be more than satisfied (Mole Listening Pearls)

Some songs to listen and download at soundcloud
Infos and listening-samples here

MOTOWN-REMIXED PART1

Motown Remixed seems to be a big story - there are so many artists and there are so many remixes...

Let's start with the highly recommended official site Motown remixed where you can listen to the complete remixes of a bounce of artists  known from the '60's to today on the official Motown Label

Besides I found some groovy remixes of songs I really like:

Ball of Confusion             - Dean Smith's Deep Down Dub
Papa was a Rolling Stone - T-Rek Bootleg (House-Dub) or The Pioneers (Funky Kingston Reggae Version)
or more than 200 versions of this song  (some really goood) at soundcloud

TO BE CONTINUED... 

dDub

dDub are one of New Zealand’s best loved live acts. Engaging and uplifting, the dDub crew propel their way seamlessly through a powerful and non-stop reggae/roots explosion. Horns, harmonies, and hands- high dDub tunes combine to create an elevating musical experience not to be missed (facebook.com/dDub.nz/info)

Listen to their whole discography full length at bandcamp.com
and download a new song ("Send it on Back)  for free at ddub2.bandcamp.com/

Hazmat Modine

Hazmat Modine is a six headed blues/folk/world/ fusion/jazz musical group from New York.
Performing music from the '20s through the early '60s, including genres such as swing, klezmer, hokum jug band, blues, rocksteady, and more, the dual harmonica-fronted band has earned a reputation as fearless world music alchemists.

View their homepage,  listen to some songs at  soundcloud

Grant Phabao

Grant Phabao (aka Fabien Preaux) whose aptly hyped 1999 release, the "Tub EP", a mix of funk-house, dub, downtempo, smooth bass and throbbing beats, is credited as a pioneering force in the evolution of funk-house.
There are so many links and credits towards him and his music/remixes but I still don't know who he is, where he comes from and what else we like to know....

But: there is a lot of music
Listen at soundcloud, take a look to his website and his homepage (what exactly is the difference per definition?)
and most for all listen to his masterfull remixes:

FROOTFUL

Frootful, is the name musician and illustrator, Nick Radford works under. The debut Frootful LP, Colours (produced by Lack of Afro) out on Freestyle Records, combines timeless influences into a totally fresh and vibrant mixture from R&B to soul, with hand-clapping, foot-stomping grooves in a jazz-dance style.

Listen to the complete album "Colors" at soundcloud

Congo Sanchez

Introducing Congo Sanchez, the backbeat of the Washington DC party scene. His contributions to The Empresarios Bestia EP, Funk Ark’s From the Rooftops and Thievery Corporation’s Culture of Fear stand out with distinct character. He finally steps out on his own with his solo debut, Congo Sanchez, Vol. 1, out April 17, 2012 on ESL Music.


Listen and download an exclusive preview track at soundcloud
Some very fine mixes of his musical influence to listen to at mixcloud 
A short video-artist-introduction at allaboutjazz

The Empresarios

Hailing from the Washington DC area, the Empresarios are adept at mixing diverse cultures and sounds together. This eight man collective bring their own personal style to every track and their influences, from downtempo, dub, Latin, house, trip-hop and reggaeton can all be heard in their definitive, eclectic sound.

Infos about shows, releases and more at empresariosmusic.com, here you can listen e.g. to Bestia EP and after subscription there are also FREE DOWNLOADS - also soundcloud  offers a wide range of songs

CLUB BANGAHS

Club Bangahs (Marc Steinmeier and Michael „!BAZZ“ Jackson) guide the listener through black music history, incorporating moods and shades of Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul and Funk, combined with the Stacks sound and Motown flavor.

Infos at Mole Listening Pearls

Found only obscure sites to listen to their album "Headless".  Most tracks you'll find with youtube

See-I

The two brothers Rootz and Zeebo Steele, now based in Washington DC and associated with Eighteenth Street Lounge (Thievery Corp.) create a very juicy groove out of funky Breaks, Reggae, Global Bass and Hip Hop.

Check out See-I's homepage
Listen to their albums at soundcloud
Free downloads (3 tracks) at reverbnation.com

Digital Alkemist

Digital Alkemist, Costantinos "Costas" Chrysogelos from Athens/Greece, gives us exquisite electronic productions in a groovy downtempo electronic style, combining analog and digital instrumentation with mellow voices.....

Homepage digitalalkemist.com  (after registration you find 2 tracks and a mixtape for download)
Listen at soundcloud
Check out MOLE LISTENING PEARLS for more infos (website in english & german)

Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor is a British artist, who came to recognition as one of the primary lead female vocalists for Faithless
Her solo music projects has been described as a blend of 'folking soul' and 'urban campfire blues'

Listen at the unavoidable soundcloud

Nona Hendryx

Nona Hendryx, New Jersey is an American musician (and much more) known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle (not her best call). Her music has ranged from soul, funk, dance and R&B to hard and art rock and World music. (wiki)

Listen at soundcloud

AkerUi

AkerUi are RakaMer (Vocals, Songwriter, Dancer) JawaRa (Producer, Keyboardist, Percussionist, Songwriter).based in Brooklyn, N.Y. (?) - Genre: Reggae, CPhunk, Instrumental, Dub, R&B

Very very cool music - but I didn't find more infos - any  ideas??

Free download of the the complete album (supporting the artist is possible) at jamendo 

Duboniks

Living somewhere between the future jazz of (mostly electronic) artists like Amon Tobin and James Hardaway and the groovy vibe of more mainstream acid jazz, Duboniks find themselves chillin' on a very hep street. Propelled by (of course) fast 'n' fluid vibe playing as well as flute, horns, keys, and a liquid rhythm section, Duboniks also lay on well-placed samples, sultry vocals, and limber percussive touches. Remarkably fresh and forward looking, Duboniks are crossing genres with astonishing deftness and precision. Best of all, they're keeping it funky. --S. Duda

Where do they come from - Nowhere to listen to? 

 

disJam

disJam is/was an originally five headed electro-rock, acid-jazz, trip-hop and jazz-funk band from Hamburg, Germany.

After 6 album-releases only two songs at soundcloud... some more at allmusic.com and at yomusic.com

The Funk Ark

Washington DC’s The Funk Ark present their second release after "From the Rooftops", the band’s explosive debut, named "High Noon", out April 3, 2012.
The Funk Ark is a world funk ensemble based in Washington DC. The group draws on influences from the African and Latin funk/dance music scenes of the 1960s and 70s and the result is a gritty and soulful mix of inspired afrobeat and big band funk (reverbnation.com)


Check out  eslmusic, listen to at soundcloud  

Medras

The name MEDRAS was created after mixing the letters of the word "DREAMS". Chris from Athens, Greece, starts an exploration into instrumental paths under the influence of funky breaks and uplifting samples (Timewarp Music) 


Listen at soundcloud and  kraakrecords,  especially ""Swim in Snow"