The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr - Jazz, Jazz, Jazz"I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions maybe 3 4 years ago. Their album "Jazz, Jazz Jazz" ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction with the bids eventually rising daily up to a staggering 1000$. The music is a unique combination of incredible horn arrangements powerfully performed, a vigorous drummer contributing a funky backbone and Seif's vocals uniting those elements. The results range from instrumental tracks awaking memories of

That leftfield tradition continues here with so-called "goth-percussion merchants" Black Bones who travel far and wide across four hard-to-define cuts

and a team of specially assembled musicians under the banner of "The Estuary 21" - with the name of the nearby river and the year

it’s the always cranked up sound system that’s the equivalent of a mate leaning into you

we witness a noticeable evolution in her sound with BSC003

On a brighter note sans-titre (pop exp) brings some pop melodies to ease your heart from the stomping dance session

We danced again

They all respect TM Solver’s analogue zones and pitch them into the 115 to 130 BPM districts

The drummer for Brown Sugar’s anthems ‘In Love With A Dread Locks’ and ‘Black Pride’

with vocals from Lisa Tomlins

However it was Slowdive’s reunion six years later that finally made people sit up and take notice

including Leslie Butler or Paul Hurlock

taking cues not only from previous collaborators such as DJ Sneak