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)