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2026, 12″ compilation LP, Bastard Jazz Recordings.
In US label Bastard Jazz’s own words, this 10-track compilation features an array of international artists from the worlds of “jazz, soul, electronic and beat-driven music”. That’s quite a broad remit, so don’t be surprised to find Rachel Kitchlew & Dough’s harp jazz nestling up alongside Korovo’s 80s synth-pop stylings, Birocratic’s dense, dusty Balearica going head-to-head with the lavish, cinematic luxuriance of Sholto & David Bardon’s ‘Electric Soup’, or Pimenta Caseira’s shimmering disco-pop sharing space with Simon Mavin’s fragile piano piece Persimmon Blues’, while on Lapgan’s ‘Against All Odds’ you’ll find twitchy electronic minimalism colliding with tropicalia and muzak in a single track. Expect to be surprised often, unsettled occasionally and delighted more than once.
