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Collette – Orange Moon (Erykah Badu cover)

it takes some moxie to touch it and some serious talent to pull it off. Enter South Carolina’s Collette, who jumped on the scene in 2008 and has been keeping it thorough ever since. Her version is completely different than the original, uptempo and with a hip hop feel, but still somehow evokes the same feeling

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Ebo Taylor – Peace On Earth

Ebo acknowledges the influence of US jazz rockers Blood Sweat & Tears and – less obviously, perhaps – Deep Purple on this easy going mid-tempo piece, written a few years before it was recorded, when Osibisa and various ‘blaxploitation’ themes were hip. “I was trying to fuse rock and jazz together with highlife,” Ebo recalls. “This kind of music was ahead of its time – not very popular when we recorded it

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Deep88 – Italo82 feat The Huge (DJ Edit)

Italian DJ and producer Deep88’s Italo82, with its elements of disco and early house, is three minutes or retro modern goodness. The track gets its name, Italo82, in honour of the vintage synthesizers, samplers and drum machines which were used to give the track the groovy sound that both Deep88 and The Huge love.

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Nicky Lars – the jamiroquai beat tape (Download)

Here’s a real gem from the French West Indian Nicky Lars. Released in November 2010, the producer/emcee transforms the Space Cowboy’s tunes into beats and sometimes songs with vocal accompaniment or rhymes. It’s completely FREE so download now and thank us in the comments! Download HERE

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