Ill Mondo is a hip-hop production duo based in the SF bay area. Consisting of JRK (Wide Hive Records) and Johnny Red (One Little Indian Records), Ill Mondo takes as much influence and inspiration from 70’s rock and soul as they do from 90’s hip-hop. Last year, Ill Mondo released their debut album: a collaboration with LA rapper Neal Rames, featuring legendary guests like Percee P, Sean Price, and Prince Po. The album received high critical praise and stayed at #9 on the CMJ Hip-Hop charts for 2 weeks.
Soul Jazz are issuing this super-rare deep jazz album from the Lloyd McNeill Quartet. This album was originally released by flute player Lloyd McNeill on his own private-press Asha Recording Company in Washington, DC in 1969 (30 years ago!) and only 1000 copies were ever pressed and ‘Asha’ has been a serious collector’s deep jazz album ever since. African-American flute player Lloyd McNeill’s self-distributed record label ran from 1968 – 73. Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist – a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher.
Giano comes back to Alphabet with a hot disco number, 'Stella In The Starlight', that embodies the 90’s 'French House' movement. The main mix is just what you need to pick the floor up and throw them into a blend of disco and jazzy bliss. The male and female vocals play off each other perfectly. Sleazy McQueen takes things in a more serious and mature direction that walks along the border of 'Cosmic Disco' and 'Deep New York'. If Danny Krivit and Metro Area hooked up and had a baby, this might be just the type of thing their offspring would compose. Dave Allison, label boss of Kinjo Music, follows a slo-mo deep disco vibe that really pulls the whole single together. Like Sleazy, a more mature sound with lush filter sweeps and an infectious deep groove prevail.
The French percussionist and drummer Tony Match was influenced by the famous jazzmen and jazz labels. He created his own style from Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop and Jazzbreakbeats. He started his music lessons at 7 and at the age of 18 he received his College state music Diploma. Close to the Hip Hop & electronic culture, this multi-talent artist decided to dedicate his skills to the music production. Since 1998 he worked together with DJ and Producer Soul G, well known through his engagement with one of the best French Hip-Hop bands "La Rumeur". With him he released the longplayer “Pineapple Corner”, whereof they sold over 10.000 copies, and “Round Trip 2 Tokyo” on Mole Listening Pearls. Furthermore he worked with artists like Dynamax (USA), db Clifford (Canada), Beth Hirsch (USA), Mozez from Zero7 (UK), Sol (Spain/Argentina), Kaori Kaneko (Japan), Neelam (India) and some more. Tony Match produced and mixed more than 100 tracks on major companies & leading independent labels. Together with Soul G he did the new sounddesign for the website of Air France and worked for Pepsi and Peugeot, just to name a few.
Jazz, Nu-jazz & Funk
Ill Mondo is a hip-hop production duo based in the SF bay area. Consisting of JRK (Wide Hive Records) and Johnny Red (One Little Indian Records), Ill Mondo takes as much influence and inspiration from 70’s rock and soul as they do from 90’s hip-hop. Last year, Ill Mondo released their debut album: a collaboration with LA rapper Neal Rames, featuring legendary guests like Percee P, Sean Price, and Prince Po. The album received high critical praise and stayed at #9 on the CMJ Hip-Hop charts for 2 weeks.
Soul Jazz are issuing this super-rare deep jazz album from the Lloyd McNeill Quartet. This album was originally released by flute player Lloyd McNeill on his own private-press Asha Recording Company in Washington, DC in 1969 (30 years ago!) and only 1000 copies were ever pressed and ‘Asha’ has been a serious collector’s deep jazz album ever since. African-American flute player Lloyd McNeill’s self-distributed record label ran from 1968 – 73. Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist – a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher.
Giano comes back to Alphabet with a hot disco number, 'Stella In The Starlight', that embodies the 90’s 'French House' movement. The main mix is just what you need to pick the floor up and throw them into a blend of disco and jazzy bliss. The male and female vocals play off each other perfectly. Sleazy McQueen takes things in a more serious and mature direction that walks along the border of 'Cosmic Disco' and 'Deep New York'. If Danny Krivit and Metro Area hooked up and had a baby, this might be just the type of thing their offspring would compose. Dave Allison, label boss of Kinjo Music, follows a slo-mo deep disco vibe that really pulls the whole single together. Like Sleazy, a more mature sound with lush filter sweeps and an infectious deep groove prevail.
The French percussionist and drummer Tony Match was influenced by the famous jazzmen and jazz labels. He created his own style from Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop and Jazzbreakbeats. He started his music lessons at 7 and at the age of 18 he received his College state music Diploma. Close to the Hip Hop & electronic culture, this multi-talent artist decided to dedicate his skills to the music production. Since 1998 he worked together with DJ and Producer Soul G, well known through his engagement with one of the best French Hip-Hop bands "La Rumeur". With him he released the longplayer “Pineapple Corner”, whereof they sold over 10.000 copies, and “Round Trip 2 Tokyo” on Mole Listening Pearls. Furthermore he worked with artists like Dynamax (USA), db Clifford (Canada), Beth Hirsch (USA), Mozez from Zero7 (UK), Sol (Spain/Argentina), Kaori Kaneko (Japan), Neelam (India) and some more. Tony Match produced and mixed more than 100 tracks on major companies & leading independent labels. Together with Soul G he did the new sounddesign for the website of Air France and worked for Pepsi and Peugeot, just to name a few.