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Album: Raul Midón - State Of Mind (Manhattan)

Album: Broadcite Unplugged: Volume One – New Beginnings (Broadcite)

Album: Flowriders - Starcraft (4 Lux / Creative Vibes)

Album Reviews: Hip Hop Round-up June 2005

Album: Mark de Clive-Lowe - Tide's Arising (Abb)

Album: V/A - The Real Thing (Mind)

Album: Nu Tropic - Voce Sabe (Comet)

Album: V/A - Africa Remix (Milan)

Album: M.I.A. - Arular (XL)

Album: Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P (Ubiquity)

Album: DJ Marky - Bingo Sessions Volume 2 (Bingo Beats)

Album: Jazztronik - Samurai (Pantone)

Album: V/A - Simply Good Music Volume 2 (Giant Step)

Album: Josh One - Narrow Path (Silverline)

Album: Silhouette Brown - Silhouette Brown (Ether)

Album: V/A - Nickodemus presents Coney Island Love (Wonderwheel)

Album: Jeremy Ellis - Lotus Blooms (Ubiquity)

Album: Kutmasta Kurt - Redneck Olympics (Waxploitation)

Album: Various - Rewind! 4 (Ubiquity)

Album: Automato - Automato (Labels UK)

Album: V/A - Turntables On The Hudson - Fifth Anniversary Edition (Giant Step)

Album: Azymuth - Brazilian Soul (Far Out)

Album: Us3 - Questions (Us3)

Album: Jean Grae - This Week (Babygrande)

Album: Ali Shaheed Muhammed - Shaheedulla and Stereotypes (Penalty)

Album: As One - Out Of The Darkness (Ubiquity)

Album: Plantlife - The Return Of Jack Splash (Gut/Counterflow)

Album: Fertile Ground - Black Is (Blackout Studios)

Album: Is What?! You Figure It Out (Hyena/Sin-Drome)

Album: Bugz In The Attic - Got The Bug: Remixes Collection (V2)

Album: V/A - Brazilika (Far Out)

Album: Estelle - The 18th Day (V2)

Album: DJ Krush - Jaku (Sony)

Album: Ivana Santilli - Corduroy Boogie (Brown Records)

Album: Earl Zinger Speaker Stack Commandments (!K7)

Album: Roy Davis Jr. - Chicago Forever (Ubiquity)

Album: 7L & Esoteric - Bars Of Death (Babygrande)

Album: Jill Scott - Beautifully Human Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (Epic/Sony)

Album: Jazzanova - ...Mixing (Sonar Kollektiv)

Album: Alison Crockett - On Becoming a Woman (Sol Image)

Album: Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada - El Niño Y El Sol (Aire Sol)

Album: V/A - Nu Brazil Vol. 2 (Manteca)

Album: Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind (Far Out)

Album: Rhian Sheehan - Paradigm Shift (LOOP Recordings)

Album: Build An Ark - Peace With Every Step (Kindred Spirits / P-Vine)

Album: Karl Hinds - Have Patience (Ill Flava)

Album: Tajai - Power Movement (Hieroglyphics / Red Urban)

Album: Bling Free 3 mixed by DJ Grafitti (Bling Free)

Album: V/A - Essential Latin Flavas Dos (Stimulus)

Album: Vast Aire - Look Mom, No Hands (Chocolate Industries)

Album: Otto - Sem Gravidade (Beleza)

Album: Vanessa Freeman - Shades (Chillifunk)

Album: V/A - Gilles Peterson In Brazil (Ether)

Album: Sound Providers - An Evening with the Sound Providers (ABB Records)

Album: Grupo Fantasma - Movimiento Popular (Aire Sol)

Album: Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions (Ubiquity)

Album: NSM - Turn It Up (Virgin)

Album: billy woods - The Chalice (Backwoodz Studioz)

Album: V/A - Blue Note Revisited (Blue Note)

Album: Skalpel - Skalpel (Ninja Tune)

Album: V/A - Brazilian Love Affair 5 (Far Out)

Album: Milton Nascimento - Maria Maria / Ultimo Tem (Far Out)

Album: 4 Hero - The Remix Album (Raw Canvas)

Album: Vikter Duplaix - Singles (Prelude To The Future) (!K7)

Album: Encore - Layover (Hieroglyphics)

Album: V/A - Essential Brazilian Flavas (Outcaste)

Album: V/A - Brazilian Love Songs (Outcaste)

Album: Greyboy - Soul Mosaic (Ubiquity)

Albums: Jay Dee and Wajeed - Instrumentals (Bling47)

Album: V/A - ZEN CD (Ninja Tune)

Album: V/A - ZEN RMX (Ninja Tune)

DVD: V/A - ZEN tv DVD (Ninja Tune)

Album: John Beltran In Full Color (Ubiquity)

Album: Francisco Aguabella - Ochimini (Cubop)

Album: V/A - [Re:jazz] (Re:mix) (INFRAcom!)

Album: Billy Woods - Camouflage (Backwoodz Studioz)

Album: The Streets - All Got Our Runnins (Vice Recordings)

Album: Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Big Shots (Stones Throw)

Album: Ghislain Poirier - Beats As Politics (Chocolate Industries)

Album: V/A - Rewind! 3 (Ubiquity)

Album: Gerardo Frisina - Hi Note (Schema)

Album: V/A - Urban Renewal Program Supp. 1.5 (Chocolate Industries)

Album: DJ Anomaly - Mountains Rise (Tocdim)

Album: V/A - Tokyo Dawn Records: Practice Avoiding Mistakes (Tokyo Dawn)

Album: V/A - LOOP Select 004 (LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa)

Album: V/A - Nik Weston Presents Sakura Aural Bliss (Kriztal)

Album: V/A - Late Night Tales - Jamiroquai (Azuli)

Album: Lotek Hi-Fi - Lotek Hi-Fi (Big Dada)

Album: Jaylib - Champion Sound (Stones Throw)

Album: Da Lata - Serious (Palm Beats)

Album: V/A - Africa: The Essential Album (Union Square Music)

Album: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - A Sufi Supreme (Manteca)

Album: V/A - Nova Bossa Nova (Manteca)

Album: Stark Reality - 1969 (Now-Again / Stones Throw)

Album: Jazzinho - Jazzinho (Ecco.Chamber)

Album: V/A - Off The Wall: 10 Years Of Wall of Sound (Wall Of Sound)

Albums: Blue Note Records Round-up featuring Terrence Blanchard, Cassandra Wilson, Jason Moran, and Joe Lovano Nonet

Album: Non-Prophets - Hope (Lex)

Album: Atmosphere - Seven's Travels (Rhymesayers/Epitaph)

Album: Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement (Lex)

Album: Black Panther - The Darkest Night Ever (Third Earth)

Album: Babu - Duck Season Vol. 2 (Sequence)

Album: Diverse - One A.M. (Chocolate Industries)

Album: Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Definitive Jux)

Album: Two Banks Of Four - Three Street Worlds (Red Egyptian Jazz)

Album: Lonesome Echo Production - Silver Ocean (Disorient)

Album: Sidewinder - Resolution (Fenetik)

Album: JOL - Moody AOW (April)

Album: King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader (Big Dada)

Album: Agent K - Feed The Cat (Giant Step)

Album: Madlib - Shades Of Blue (Blue Note)

Album: Trüby Trio - Elevator Music (Compost)

Album: The Matthew Herbert Big Band – Goodbye Swingtime (Accidental)

Album: V/A - Sambaloco Brazilian Drum’n’Bass Classics (Sambaloco)

Album: V/A - Brazilian Beats 4 (Mr. Bongo)

Album: Paula Lima - Diva Paulista (Mr. Bongo)

Album: V/A - Scattered Snares (Twisted Funk)

Album: Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs - the Anthology' (Stateside)

Album: Thievery Corporation 'The Richest Man In Babylon' (ESL)

Album: Jazzanova - 'In Between' (Compost)

Album: V/A - Black Rio (Strut)




Music Events

Concert: Amp Fiddler - Astoria, London - Thursday 24 October 2004

Concert: N'Dambi - Jazz Cafe, London - Thursday 29 July 2004

Concert: Ed Motta - Jazz Cafe, London - Thursday 22 July 2004

Club Night: Theo Parrish album releases party - APT., NYC - Thursday 24 June 2004

Club Night: Gilles Peterson In Brazil Album Launch Party - Rouge, London - Friday 21 May 2004

Concert: Fred Hammond + Donnie McClurkin - Wembley Arena, London - Saturday 17 April 2004

Concert: NSM - Jazz Cafe, London - Wednesday 21 April 2004

Concert: Eddie Palmieri - Ocean, London - Friday 2 April 2004

Concert: Sergent Garcia - Cargo, London - Monday 5 April 2004

Concert: Kate Rogers - The Spitz, London - Tuesday 2 March 2004

Concert: Eduardo Niebla - Purcell Room, London - Saturday 6 March 2004

Concert: Dwele - Jazz Cafe, London - Tuesday 10 February 2004

Club Night: Show Some Love - Ruby Lo, London - Wednesday 21 January 2004

Concert: Lautrec / Dahu Mumagi's DuKru - The Spitz, London - Saturday 22 November 2003

Concert Review: Forever Samba: Alcione and Paula Santoro - The Forum, London - Friday 7th November 2003

Concert: Amp Fiddler - Discotheque, NYC - Wednesday 29 October 2003

Club Night / Performances: The Shrine - Cargo, London - Saturday 25 October 2003

Concert: Make It Happen / Jade Fox - Jazz Cafe, London - Friday 24 October 2003

Club Night / Performances: BopGun @ Ruby Lo - Wednesday 8 October 2003

Performances: PUSH Gets Lazy @ The Light (London) - Sunday 5 October 2003

Club Night: Red Alert @ Herbal (London) - Friday 3 October 2003

Concert: Mark de Clive-Lowe @ Jazz Cafe (London) - Friday 15 August 2003

Club Night: Carl Craig / Rude Movements @ APT (NYC) - Tuesday 12 August 2003

Concert: Donnie @ Prospect Park (NYC) - Saturday 2 August 2003

Concert: The Songs of Bob Marley and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry @ Royal Festival Hall (South Bank, London) - Saturday 14 June

Concert: Ravi and Anoushka Shankar @ Barbican (London), Sunday 18 May 2003

Concert: Bembe Segue @ Jazz Cafe (Camden, London), Sunday 9 March 2003

Concert: El-P, Mr. Lif + DJ Phakts One @ ICA (The Mall, London), Monday 11 November 2002

Dance: UK B-Boy Championships 2002 @ Brixton Academy (Brixton, London), Sunday 6 October 2002

Music Event: DMC/Technics World DJ Championships @ Brixton Academy (Brixton, London), Sunday 15 September 2002

Concert: Izzi Dunn @ The Jazz Cafe (Camden, London), Sunday 1 September 2002

Concert: Earl Zinger @ Cargo (Shoreditch, London), Sunday 30 June 2002

Concert: Jorge Ben Jor @ Somerset House (The Strand, London), Monday 24 June 2002

Club Night/Concert: Verve Remixed Album Launch @ Cargo (Shoreditch, London), Saturday 15 June 2002

Concert: Koop @ The Jazz Cafe (Camden, London), Monday 27 May 2002




And the rest...

Book: Graffiti World by Nicholas Ganz (Thames & Hudson)

DVD: Tom Dowd - The Language of Music

Book: World Press Photo 2004 edited by Kari Lundelinby (Thames & Hudson)

Book: Street Logos by Tristan Manco (Thames & Hudson)

Book: American Music by Annie Leibovitz (Jonathan Cape)

Book: Valaida by Candace Allen (Virago Press)

Art: Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - February 2004

Book: Gunshots in my Cook-Up - Bits And Bites From A Hip-Hop Caribbean Life by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Atria Books)

Art: Olafur Eliason: The Weather Project - Tate Modern, London

Theatre: 13 Mics and The Pugilist - The Lyric Studio, London - Thursday 23 October 2003

Art: Black Belt - The Studio Museum Of Harlem, NYC - Saturday 18 October 2003

Theatre: Topdog/Underdog @ Royal Court Theatre (London) - Wednesday 6 August 2003

Book: Cuban Music by Maya Roy (Latin America Bureau)

Dance: Tocororo - A Cuban Tale @ Sadler's Wells (Holborn, London) - Monday 21 July 2003

Film: Breath Control - The History of the Human Beat Box

Film: The Hulk

Art Exhibition: Days Like These @ Tate Britain (Pimlico, London)

Film: Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time

Art Exhibition: Pierre Bismuth Collages Fit For General Audiences @ Lisson Gallery (Marylebone, London)

Film Festival: RESFEST 2002 @ various cinemas, London – 14-19 November 2002

Exhibition: The Brixton Graffic Show @ Fridge Gallery (Brixton, London), 19-28 September 2002

Art Exhibition: Chris Ofili @ Victoria Miro Gallery (Old Street area, London)




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