Another japanese producer Hideo Kobayashi plays piano from 4 and records beats from his 15. Numerous releases and DJ sessions around the world made him a name in house scene. On March 17th, japanese Apt. International released something special from Hideo with US songstress Christa. “Beautiful Moment EP” is awesome awesome awesome, smooth and sexy, beautifully vocaled and gracefully soulful. One of rare diamonds that I can’t get tired listening to. Doesn’t need any remixes.

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A small underground label Asante is back with another release from Japanese producer Yoshihisa H, the “Ressurection EP“. Three nicely jazzy instrumented cuts are: moving “Ressurection“, dreamy “A Thousand Steps” and laid-back “Comeback“. AFAIK Asante is primarily vinyl only label, so don’t expect to get it in digital soon. This is one of the cases when great music comes in classic format, already not available to every dj.

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San Francisco-based indie Fatsouls Records was launched in 2007 with the aim to release dance music with emphasis on Afrobeat, Dub, Deep House, minimal tech and other Afro rhythms. Now they grew to the 6th release, not so afro though. Filled with 3 organic jazzy and soulful tunes (Klondike, Explorations and Jazzabo), “Jazz Spectrum EP” comes from Sapporo based japanese producer and DJ Fuminori Kagajo. Teamed up with world-class musicians and bringing in live saxophone, trumpet, bass and keyboard, these tracks are really another light in this dark electrified times…

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