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Issue 1000

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ZEEP: ZEEP

ZEEP: ZEEP

Influences range from Brazilian pop, rock, soul and jazz, and the album skips from folky ballads to breezy R&B sambas, contemporary bossas and plain good pop tunes. But it's beat of Brazil that gives this album its drive and its identity...

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Mesmer

TOM ARTHURS AND RICHARD FAIRHURST: Mesmer

Like a conversation, a game of chess or a debate in tongues that is comic and melancholy in equal measure...

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Little Tokyo

HIROSHIMA: Little Tokyo

Their music has always been about blending Western approaches with Asian sensitivities...

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Patti Austin

PATTI AUSTIN: Avant Gershwin

Possessing a voice that’s as smooth and sensuous as the finest quality silk...

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Jazz

NILS KROGH: Things We Do

As you’d expect, it’s divine...

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Jazz

LADY ALMA: The Pressure EP

Her infectious and rousing vocal lifts any track into the upper echelons of sonic beauty...

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Jazz

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80: Think Africa

Backed by Fela’s own band, the Egypt 80, and blessed with their support, Seun is updating the afrobeat sound...

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Jazz

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS: Beggin’

A spine-tingling frenzy of a track...

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DJ Tools

SEIJI: Dj Tools

This LP contains a various and diverse collection of dance floor orientated instrumental tracks...

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For Sentimental Reasons

BOBBY HUTCHERSON: FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS

An album with plenty of beautiful love ballads...

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Featured Club

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THROWBACK @ Chase, (every Tuesday, 10pm-2am) Sunderland

Tuesday nights are a notoriously difficult one to get right in clubland. But life does tend to made easier in towns with large student populations, as students do love to party!

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Featured Club

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BODY MUSIC @ Plan B, (monthly Saturdays, 9pm-5am) London

With a past guest line-up including such names as Quentin Harris, Kerri Chandler, DJ Spinna and Louis Benedetti, it’s clear that London’s Body Music crew have friends in high places, and don’t mess about when it comes to supplying

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