These days i'm listening to
- ELECTRIC CONVERSATION + CHAMADE BEAT + NU TROPIC + PATCHWORKS + STEPPAH HUNTAH + L'AROYE + BEAUTY AND THE BEAT (French modern Soul scene - also called Broken Beat, Futuristic Soul etc...)
- RASIYAH (Bitasweet Records) - Soulful voice on electro, broken and hip-hop beats
- OWUSU/HANNIBAL - Blue Jay (Electro Soul - Gilles Peterson loves it !)
- ABD AL MALIK - Gibraltar (after Grands Corps Malade France presents its second leading slammer - way better...)
- NNEKA - Hip-hop soul with a little reggae touch - very great female voice (from Germany but english lyrics)
- STRANGE FRUIT PROJECT - The Healing (Hip-hop tainted of Soul & Jazz influences)
- BUGZ IN THE ATTIC - Back in the doghouse (Broken Beat leaders - the album at last!)
- AYO - Down on my knees (Soul & Folk - accoustic)
- OMAR - Sing if you want it (New album from this Soul, Acid-Jazz and Broken Beat icon)
- SEISME + ENZ + KOHNDO + BUNZEN + CRIS PROLIFIC + LA TRIBU DU CHEF GUIDA + REEL CARTER + DAJZOELSKI + SPECKO + JR EAKEE (Real french Hip-hop : at last!)
- GRACE (Soul, Folk, Guitar and Charm)
- THE PROCUSSIONS (accoustic Hip-hop)
- FINK - Pretty little thing (Soul, Folk, Guitar)
- SILHOUETTE BROWN (Soul + Electro + Broken Beats + kind of Hip-hop)
- LTA - Morphine (Ambient Electro Soul)
- GEORGE LEVIN - Inside (Rima remix)
- PLANTLIFE/4HERO - When She Smiles She Lights The Sky (Broken Soulfunk)
- DANGER DOOM - MF Doom + Danger Mouse (strange Hip-hop)
- BLACKALICIOUS - The Craft (Classic but modern Hip-hop)
- RAUL MIDON - Sunshine (Sunshinin' Brasilian Soul)
- FRANK BIYONG - Power brain
- MARK DE CLIVE LOWE - Tide's arising (One of the best Broken Soul album)
- KEV BROWN - ? (King of Hip-hop Soul - Jazzy Jeff Team)
- RIMA - This world (Atomic Broken Beat)
- STEVE SPACEK - Dollar (prod J. Dilla : Soul, Hip-hop)
- ALICE RUSSEL - My favorite letters (Soul, Broken Beat...)
- DOMU - Let it be - Mark De Clive Lowe remix (Broken Beat)
- SLOPE - There's no friendship after love
- DAZ I KUE - Move (Broken Beat)
- ONE SELF - Chlidren of possibility (Hip-hop, Soul, Electro)
- BUGZ IN THE ATTIC - Booty la la (Broken Beat, Nu Funk)
- JOOS - Take it further (Broken Beat)
- ELECTRODELUXE - Stardown (Electro-Jazz, Hip-Hop, Soul)
- BEAT ASSAILANT - Hard Twelve (Hip-hop with some Soul and Funky horns)
Flavourite singles
- D'ANGELO - Spanish joint
- D'ANGELO - Shit, damn, motherfucker
- COMMON - Doin'it
- ERYKAH BADU - Cleva
- ERYKAH BADU - Apple tree
- THE ROOTS - Do you want more ?
- DUDLEY PERKINS - Flowers
- JAY DEE - You know what love is
- REDMAN - Pick it up
- SLUM VILLAGE - Untitled
- HARVEY MASON - Hop scotch
- HERBIE HANCOCK - Hang up your hang ups
- BEADY BELLE - Moderation
- L'AROYE - The one
- SCHOOLZ OF THOUGHT - World wide MCs
- JAY DEE (remix of Four Tet) - As serious as your life
- DE LA SOUL - Baby phat
- JURASSIC 5 - In the flesh
- SOULIVE + TALIB KWELI - Bridge to Bama
- SOUIVE + JURASSIC 5 + MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO - Doin' something remix
- DECLAIME - Move it
- PLANET ASIA + TALIB KWELI - D'ont let up
- MINNIE RIPPERTON - Inside my love
- JAZZLIBERATORZ (ft. Declaime) - Music makes this world go round
- SINCLAIR - Le fonk
- MADVILLAIN (ft. Viktor Vaughn) - Fancy clown
- PETE ROCK (ft. Grap Luva) - Collector's item
- FOUR TET - As serious as you life (Jay Dee remix ft. Guilty Simpson)
- SOULIVE (+ Meshell Ndegeocello + J5) - Doin' something
- THIRD WORLD - 96 degress in the shade
- STRETCH - Why did you do it ?
- KARDINAL OFFISHALL - Ol' time killin'
- ROY AYERS - Love will bring us back together
- ROY AYERS - Everybody loves the sunshine
- OPUS AKOBEN - EPO
- JAZZYFATNASTEES - All up in my face
- MICHEL CAMILLO - One more once
- GIL SCOTT HERON - Grandma's hands
- JOHNNY HAMMOND SMITH - Soul talk 70
- 4 HERO (Jazzanova mix) - We who are not as others
- PATRICE - Everyday good
- JUNIOR KELLY - Love so nice
- AFU-RA (feat. Ky Mani Marley) - Equality
- SHAWN PHILLIPS - We came to say goodbye (part 1)
- MILES DAVIS - So what
- MINNIE RIPPETON - I am the black gold of the sun (+ 4HERO and MAW remixes)
- RAUL MIDON - Sunshine
Flavourite albums
- ONE SELF - Children of possibility
- SILHOUETTE BROWN - Silhouette Brown
- DECLAIME - Andsoitisaid
- COMMON - Like water for chocolate
- D'ANGELO - Brown sugar & Voodoo
- ERYKAH BADU - Baduizm
- BIG CHEESE ALL STARS - Cheese Omelette
- THE HEADHUNTERS - The headhunters
- DJ JAZZY JEFF - The magnificent
- REDMAN - Muddy waters
- THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
- MOKA ONLY - Flood
- THE ROOTS - Do you want more ??!!?!
- 4 HERO - Remixes
- MILES DAVIS - Kind of blue
- SLUM VILLAGE - Fantastic volume 2
- JULIEN LOURAU - City boum boum
- ATRIBE CALLED QUEST - Beats, rhymes and life
- BILLY COBHAM - A funky thide of sings
- ELECTRODELUXE - Stardown
- THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES - BNH
- INCOGNITO - 100° and rising
- ERIK TRUFFAZ - The dawn
- MICHEL CAMILO - One more once
- THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT - The Philadelphia experiment
- MARK DE CLIVE LOWE - Tide's arising
- MARVIN GAYE - What's going on
- THE RH FACTOR - Hard groove
- THE PHARCYDE - Labcabincalifornia
- JURASSIC 5 - First album
- GANGSTAR - The ownerz
- GRAND MOTHER'S FUNCK - Please baby please baby baby please
- THE WIZARDS OF OOZE - First album
I've heard about
- KWAME
- JAZZ KINGS (oldschool and future Jazz compilation mixed by Jazzanova & Gilles Peterson on the great label BBE)
- GRAND CORP MALADE (Spoken Word revival in french)
- LES GRANDES GUEULES (Vocal music from Montpellier : hip-hop + electro + jazz)
- JNEIRO JAREL - Three piece puzzle (Hip-hop Soul, Hip-hop Jazz)
- CARMEN RODGERS - Free (Nu Soul)
- HEAVY - Meltin' Soul, Jazz, Rock and Hip-hop
- LIFE STYLES - A Soul-Funk-Jazz selection by Bugz in the Attic
- THE ART OF ONE MIND - Album by BBE (Hip-hop - Soul)
- LAWLESS ELEMENT - Album by Okay Player (Phat Hip-hop with some Jazz and Soul)
- IZELL BROTHERS - Best of by Giant Step (top 70's Jazzfunk and Soul producers)
- LITTLE BROTHER - New abum by Okay Player (Hip-hop and Soul)
- DIGABLE PLANETS - Forthcoming album by Giant Step (Hip-hop with Jazz and Soul)
- NU TROPIC (French Broken Beat)
- STEPPAH HUNTAH (Broken Beat)
- THREE THIRTEEN (Hip-hop - Soul)
- K-OS (Hip-hop - Soul)
- UNDERGROUND CLASSICS Vol.2 (The New York & Detroit House Music Anthology)
- LAROY (Broken Beat)
- SPACEK (Electro Soul)
- SLOPE (Broken Beat)
- NSM (Broken Beat)
- PREFUSE 73 (Hip-hop and a little Electro)
- SILICONE SOUL (Broken Beat)
- MARSCHMELLOWS (Broken Beat)
- WISE (Electro-Jazz)
- SILHOUETTE BROWN (Broken Soul)
- VANESSA FREEMAN (Broken Soul)
- DJ MITSU THE BEATS (Broken Beat)
- BAKURA (Broken Beat)
- NUTMEG (Broken Beat)
- DEGO & KAIDI (Broken Beat)
- DJ RELS (Madlib's making some Broken)
- DKD - Future rage (4 Hero + Bugz together)
- FREEDOM SOUNDS - Live you life - Feat Vanessa Freeman (Broken Soul)
- LITTLE BEAVER (Soul Funk 70's)
- ALLEN HOIST - With love remix (Broken Beat)
- FRANCK BIYONG - Power Of Brain (Broken - Soul - Afro)
- MARC DE CLIVE LOWE - Tide's Arising (Broken Beat)
- JNEIRO JAREL - Three Piece Puzzle (Hip-hop - Electro)
- IVANA SANTILLI - Breathe Inn (Broken Soul)
- LINN & FREDDIE - Wonderlust EP (Broken - Nu-Soul - Nu-Jazz)
