DJ Cam Quartet - Diggin'

Parisian hip-hop devotee Laurent Daumail (DJ Cam) is one of a few but growing number of French artists updating hip-hop for the chill-out crowd. Here, he collaborates with other great artists to create this brilliant album. The quartet comprises of DJ Cam on scratches, strings, drums and programming; Alexandre Tassel on the Bugle; Christian Brun plays guitar and Jerome Regard is on bass. Excellent nu-jazz/chillout/hip-hop. Highly recommended!

Artist: DJ Cam Quartet
Album: Diggin'
Year: 2009
Genre: chillout, nu-jazz, jazz, hip-hop

Tracks:
1. Nebulosa
2. Montara
3. Everybody Loves The Sunshine (feat. Inlove)
4. Boss Guitar
5. Think Twice
6. Little Sunflower (A Tribute To Freddie) (feat. Inlove)
7. Quincy
8. Mystic View
9. Climax (feat. Fillet Of Soul)
10. You’ve Got To Have Freedom (feat. Inlove)
11. Inside My Love (For Minnie)

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Parov Stelar - Coco

Parov Stelar is an amazing artist from Austria. I posted his debut, "Rough Cuts", here. This is his most recent album, released in 2009. Fantastic fusion of electronica, jazz, electro-swing etc. Highly recommended!

Artist: Parov Stelar
Album: Coco
Year: 2009
Genre: nu-jazz, electro-swing, electronica

Tracks:
CD1
1. Coco (feat. Lilja Bloom)
2. Hurt
3. For Rose
4. True Romance (feat. Lilja Bloom)
5. Distance (feat. Lylith)
6. Wake Up Sister
7. Let's Roll (feat. Blaktroniks)
8. Sunny Bunny Blues (feat. Veda 36)
9. Dandy (feat. Yola B.)
10. Your Man
11. Promises (feat. Klaus Hainy)
12. Letoile (feat. Max the Sax)
13. You And Me (feat. Lilja Bloom)

CD2
1. The Mojo Radio Gang (Club Version)
2. The Mojo Radio Gang (Radio Version)
3. Silent Snow (Original Version)
4. Ragtime (feat. Lilja Bloom)
5. Libella Swing
6. Catgroove
7. Matilda
8. The Flame
9. Fleur de Lille
10. Hotel Axos
11. Monster (Original Version)
12. Nosferatu (Original Version)
13. Starlight (Clubversion)

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St. Germain - Tourist

St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician whose style merges jazzy house music with acid jazz. His first album Boulevard was released in 1995 and has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. Tourist, released in 2000, is an intriguing collage of jazz for the DJ culture - a mixture of sampled rhythms and live musicians. Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool & The Gang are among Ludovic’s early influences. He composed his first work under the name of Sub System with friend Guy Rabiller. He has released EPs under a number of aliases, among them Deepside, LN’s, Modus Vivendi, Hexagone, Nuages and Soofle. Excellent album! Get it now!

Artist: St. Germain
Album: Tourist
Year: 2000
Genre: nu-jazz, chillout, jazz, electronica

Tracks:
1. Rose Rouge
2. Montego Bay Spleen
3. So Flute
4. Land Of...
5. Latin Note
6. Sure Thing
7. Pont Des Arts
8. La Goutte D'Or
9. What You Think About...

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Caravan Palace - Caravan Palace

Caravan Palace is a French electro-swing band based in Paris. It all started in 2005 after three of the band members were hired by a film production company to provide the soundtrack to silent pornographic movies. They are now six members in the group playing instruments like violin, trombone and clarinet. The band's influences include Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Lionel Hampton and Daft Punk. An amazing fusion of swing, electronica, jazz, punk and gypsy music. Caravan Palace is to swing what the Gotan Project is to tango. This is their debut studio album released on the Wagram label in October 2008. Highly recommended!

Artist: Caravan Palace
Album: Caravan Palace
Year: 2008
Genre: electro-swing, jazz, nu-jazz, electronica

Tracks:
1. Dragons
2. Star scat
3. Ended with the night
4. Jolie coquine
5. Chill out
6. Suzy
7. Je m'amuse
8. La valse
9. Brotherswing
10. L'envol
11. Oooh
12. Bambous
13. Lazy place
14. We can dance
15. La Caravane

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Andrew J & Kaltenecker - Melodies

An interesting project of two young and gifted musicians: piano player Zsolt Kaltenecker and turntablist Andrew J - both from Budapest, Hungary. Their music combines elements from jazz, chillout, nu-jazz and downtempo. Excellent album!

Artist: Andrew J & Kaltenecker
Album: Melodies
Year: 2002
Genre: nu-jazz, electronica, downtempo

Tracks:
1. Melodies
2. Inch
3. Fresh
4. Come On
5. Rock On Part 1
6. Rock On Part 2
7. The Thief
8. Funqui Beet
9. At First Sight
10. Metamorph
11. Interlude
12. Melodies Reprise

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Contemporary Noise Quartet - Theatre Play Music

A couple of months ago I posted this Polish band's debut album. This is another great album released in 2008. Extremely beautiful jazz, post-jazz, nu-jazz music. Highly recommended.

Artist: Contemporary Noise Quartet
Album: Theatre Play Music
Year: 2008
Genre: jazz, instrumental, nu-jazz
Similar: Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside The Gentleman

Tracks:
1 Main Tune
2 Bitches Tune
3 Tango Lesson
4 Main Tune II
5 Gramophone
6 Chinese Customer
7 Chilly Tango
8 Bitches Tune II
9 Main Tune (Waltz Version)

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Nils Petter Molvær - Khmer

Nils Petter Molvær is a Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, who connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. He is considered a pioneer in nu-jazz and especially the fusion of jazz and electronic music. Khmer is his debut album, released in 1997, an amazing blend of improvisation and hypnotically spinning beats. Get it now!

Artist: Nils Petter Molvær
Album: Khmer
Year: 1997
Genre: nu-jazz, jazz, electronica

Tracks:
1. Khmer
2. Tløn
3. Access/Song of Sand
4. On Stream
5. Platonic Years
6. Phum
7. Song of Sand II
8. Exit

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Xploding Plastix - Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents

Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian two-man band playing acid-jazz/nu-jazz music. Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian black metal band Kvist) formed the group in early 1999, and submitted their first demotape in 2000. This is their debut full-length album released in 2001. Really good!

Artist: Xploding Plastix
Album: Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents
Year: 2001
Genre: nu-jazz, electronica, jazz

Tracks:
1. Sports, Not Heavy Crime
2. Funnybones & Lazylegs
3. 6 Hours Starlight
4. Behind the Eightball
5. Single Stroke Ruffs
6. Treat Me Mean, I Need the Reputation
7. Relieved Beyond Repair
8. Tinntinnamputation
9. More Power to Yah
10. Having Smarter Babies
11. Far-flung Tonic
12. Happy Jizz Girls
13. Doubletalk Gets Through to You
14. Comatose Luck

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Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside The Gentleman

Contemporary Noise Quintet (now Sextet) is a group from Poland. Their music can be described as energetic jazz with elements of film music. However, the variety of sounds does not allow pigeon-holing their music style unambiguously. This is their debut album released in 2006. Awesome!

Artist: Contemporary Noise Quintet
Album: Pig Inside The Gentleman
Year: 2006
Genre: jazz, instrumental, nu-jazz
Similar: Contemporary Noise Quartet - Theatre Play Music

Tracks:
1. Million Faces
2. Army of the Sun
3. A Coin Perfectly Spinning
4. Goodbye Monster
5. Walking Sun
6. Even Cats Dream About Flying
7. Evil Melody
8. Invisible Train
9. P.I.G.
10. Sophie

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Parov Stelar - Rough Cuts

Parov Stelar, aka Marcus Füreder, is an Austrian artist that creates beautiful nu-jazz/electronic music. This is his first album, free jazz combined with the groove of house and breakbeat. Parov Stelar is the head of Etage Noir Recordings. Highly recommended album!

Artist: Parov Stelar
Album: Rough Cuts
Year: 2004
Genre: nu-jazz, electronica

Tracks:
1. Sometimes
2. Tell Me
3. For All We Know
4. Odessa
5. Psychedelic Jazz
6. Kisskiss
7. Red Haired Woman
9. I Hold You
10. The Fusion

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Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Cicadidae

Kammerflimmer Kollektief ("Ventricular Fibrillation Collective") is a German experimental jazz-electronica group characterised by soothing, throbbing soundscapes accented with disjointed sounds played by instruments such as the saxophone. Although the fragile rhythms draw heavily from free-jazz improvisation the final overall effect is closer to ambient electronica. This is their fourth album. Great band!

Artist: Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Album: Cicadidae
Year: 2003
Genre: electronica, jazz

Tracks:
1. Neumond Inselhin
2. Sie Tranken Regen
3. Über Die Wasserscheide
4. Blood
5. …Denn Nacht Ist Jetzt Schon Bald!
6. Sie Tranken Regen [version]
7. Mantra
8. Eiderdaunen (Gerupft)
9. Irgendwann: Frühling
10. There’s a Weight on You, But You Can’t Feel It

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Tied & Tickled Trio - Aelita

Artist: Tied & Tickled Trio
Album: Aelita
Year: 2007
Genre: electronica

Tracks:
1. Aelita 1
2. You Said Tomorrow Yesterday
3. Tamaghis
4. Aelita 2
5. A Rocket Debris Cloud Drifts
6. Chlebnikov
7. Other Voices Other Rooms
8. Aelita 3

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