Bridging the Gap September 17, 2025

*Yppah: "Where We Are Safe" (Tiny Pause 2015) Amer. multi-inst. comp. prod. Joe Corrales Jr. is Yppah.  He plays electronic, rock & psychedelic soul influenced music.
*Baby Mammoth: "The Devil Lies" (Best Foot Forward 2000) Baby Mammoth is UK duo Mark Blissenden & Andrew Burdall playing instrumental hip hop & acid jazz.
*Blue States: "Alight Here" (Restless Spheres 2016) Blue States is an Eng. downt. electronica project from multi-inst. prod. comp. Andy Dragazis.

*Blundetto: "My One Girl feat. Lateef The Truthspeaker(Gogo Remix)" (Bad Bad Things 2010) Blundetto is French DJ sing. comp. Max Guiguet playing electro, funk, soul, reggae, dub & world music.
*Linton Kwesi Johnson: "Loraine" (Bass Culture 1980) Brit. based author & dub poet LKJ was born in Jamaica & moved to the UK at age 9. He released his first album "Dread Beat an' Blood in 1978. He is one of only 3 living poets, and the only black artist published by Penguin Modern Classics series.
*The Lions: "Thin Man Skank" (Jungle Struttin' 2008) LA Ca based reggae band made up of members from other bands feat. prod. Dan Ubick on guit. & various singers incl. Malik Moore & Black Shakespeare.

*The Mighty Mocambos: Take On The World feat. Gizelle Smith" (2066 2019) The MM out of Hamburg Germany formed as a jam band while still in high school. They became spearheads of the contemporary modern funk movement and have collaborated with a who's who of modern soul & hip hop artists. GS is a UK funk & soul sing/songwr.
*Beta Hector: "Creepin' feat. Dionne Charles" (Payback/Creepin'-Single 2010) The man behind Beta Hector is multi-inst., prod. & DJ Simon Hill. feat. UK soul queen Dionne Charles.
*Alice Russell: "Two Steps" (Pot Of Gold 2008) UK soul, funk & nu jazz sing. Alice Russell was influenced by the gospel & soul of Aretha Franklin & Stevie Wonder. She has collabed with Quantic, TM Juke & Nostalgia 77 among many others.

*Alan Evans Trio: "Book It" (Elephant Head 2021) Amer. prod. drummer & founding member of Soulive, Alan Evans is a prolific prod. & collaborator. He's got his own band & his record label Vintage League Music.
*Aja West & Friends: "Wattstax" (Total Recall 2012 2007) Seattle R&B, funk, jazz & Neo-soul icon Aja West recorded this "solo" album with assorted friends incl. Reggie Watts, Money Mark & Skerik.
*Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale: "Woo Doo" (Funkcronomic-EP 2016) Amer. bassist, prod. Bill Laswell, Amer. keys, prod. comp. Bernie Worrell & Amer. of Indian descent perc. Karsh Kale collab. on this funk/soul masterpiece.
*Clutchy Hopkins & Fat Albert Einstein: "Pre Vintage" (High Desert Low Tide 2017) Multi-inst. comp. prod. Christopher Vagnoni is FAE. No one, supposedly. knows who Clutchy Hopkins is!

HOUR 2

*De-Phazz: "My Society" (Days Of Twang 2007) De-Phazz is led by Germ./Austrian sound painter prod. Pit Baumgartner assisted by sing/songwr. Pat Appleton who wrote & sings this song.
*Club Des Belugas: "Full Crazy feat. Brenda Boykin" (Nine 2016) German nu jazz from Maxim Ilion (Martin Kratzenstein) & Kitty The Bill (Katrin Stoefel.) Brenda Boykin is an Amer. jazz & blues sing.
*Belleruche: "Bird Mess" (Turntable Soul Music 2007) Three piece UK electro soul band active from 2005 through 2013 feat. Kathrin DeBoer on vox.

*Abelardo Carbono: "Muevela" (Quantic Presents Tropical Funk Experience) Abelardo Carbono was a Colombian sing. guit. & comp. He formed a band with his two brothers Jafeth bass & Abel lead guit.
*Juaneco Y Su Combo: "Mujer Hilandera" (Leyenda Amazonica 2016) From Pucallpa, Peru J Y Su Combo were known for their "cumbia selvatica"or cumbia from the jungle.
*Money Chicha: "Pacifico" (Chicha Summit 2021) Austin TX chicha band influenced by 60s & 70s sounds of Peru & Columbia feat. members of Grupo Fantasma & Brownout.

*Mondo Grosso: "Kemuri (Retune) feat. Rhyme" (Attune/Detune 2018) MG is the alias of Jap. prod. musician Shinichi Osawa. He was in a band called Mondo Grosso (Big World in Ital.) & kept the name when they disbanded. Rhyme is an Australian sing/songwr. living in Japan.
*Parov Stelar: "Walk Away feat. Anna F." (The Demon Diaries 2015) Austrian DJ & electronic music prod. Marcus Fureder is Parov Stelar founded Etage Noir Records. Anna F. (Anna Wappel) is an Austrian sing/songwr. & actress.
*Pit Baumgartner & Joo Kraus: "Jumped Or Pushed feat. Helena Paul" (Low Sky Sketches 2014) Germ. Austrian sound painter PB founded De-Phazz. Joo Kraus is a German trumpeter & keys. Helena Paul is a Germ.  sing/songwr.

*Tin Pan: "Queer Notions" (Tin Pan ) Jap. group feat. Haruomi Hosono vox/bass/guit. Shigeru Suzuki guit. Tatsuo Hayashi drums & Masataka Matsutoya keys comp arr. & prod. & musician/sing/ Akiko Yano.
*Xploding Plastix: "Behind The Eightball" (Behind The Eightball-EP 2001) Norwegian electrofunk jazz duo of Hallvard Hagen & Jens Petter Nilsen.
*Fila Brazillia: "Lullaby Berkowitz" (Dicks 2004) Brit. duo David McSherry & Steve Cobby are Fila Brazillia playing electronic, trip hop, ambient & downt.
*Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra: "Greekout" (Miles Of Styles 2008) Shawn Lee is an Amer. multi-inst. prod. comp. living in London.

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