Bridging the Gap November 19, 2025

*Thunderball: "Flippin' It On" (12 Mile High 2010) Wash. DC based trio of Sid Barcelona, Steve Raskin & Rob Myers releasing music on Eighteenth St. Lounge Music label. They later added Jon Horvath  became The Fort Knox Five.
*Tosca: "Pyjama" (J.A.C. 2005) Austrian elect./downt. duo of Richard Dorfmeister & Rupert Huber formed in 1994.
*United Future Organization: "Nica's Dream" (3rd Perspective 1996) Jap. jazz/funk project founded in 1990 by Frenchman Raphael Sebbag & Tokyo DJs Tadashi Yabe & Toshio Matsuura.

*Ursula 1000: "Le Beat Fantastique" (Esoterique 2019) U1000 is NY DJ, prod. multi-inst. Alex Gimeno. He uses electronic music, funk & disco to create his "retro/future" sound.
*Wax Poetic: "Dreamin'" (Nublu Sessions 2003) Wax Poetic is NY based Turkish trip hop comp. musician Ilhan Ersahin merging jazz with more pop sensibilities.
*The Electones: "Right Foot From Left" (If You'll Be Null, I'll Be Void 2009) Norwegian jazz, electronic & pop musicians Jans Petter Nilsen & Hallvard Hagen (Xploding Plastix) team with vocalist Rita Augestad Knudsen to create a picturesque world of jazz, folk & electronica.

*The Electric Peanut Butter Company: "The Devil feat. Shawn Lee & Adrian Quesada" (Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol. 2 2013) Multi-inst. prod. comp. Shawn Lee traded music with prod. comp. multi-inst. Adrian Quesada to create this unique collection of funk/electro gems.
*Galactic: "Running Man" (Late For The Future 2000) N.O. funk/jam band formed in 1994 playing jazz, funk, hip hop, electronic & world music.
*Gil Scott-Heron: "Not Needed" (Real Eyes 1980) Amer. /Jamaican poet, comp. activist & author GSH fused jazz, blues & soul with comp. musician Brian Jackson while exposing hypocrisy, greed & corruption in US politics & daily life.

*Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos: "Love Alarm" (This Is... 2009) Gizelle Francoise Jeanine Goblebiewski is a French sing/songwr. composer & artist. The MMs are Hamburg, Germ. funk innovators known for their old school analog approach to raw funk.
*Gemma & The Travellers: "I'm Not Perfect" (True Love 2019) Italian frontwoman Gemma Marchi leads these funksters in their 60s inspired funk, soul & r&b.
*Flevans: "Dreamer" (Say Yes-EP 2024) Flevans is Brit. multi-inst. DJ & prod. Nigel Evans shines with funk, soul & electronic music teaming with Brit. sing/songwr. Laura Vane.
*Chris Joss: "Get Off Of That Couch" (Escape Unlikely 2016) French multi-inst. prod. comp. Chris Joss suffers from misophonia, which involves repetition of everyday sounds and prevents him from performing live.

HOUR 2

*Beats Antique: "Resurrection" (A Thousand Faces: Act 2 2014) World music fusion group based in Oakland Ca with guit. David Satori drum Alex Cappel & comp. dancer Zoe Zakes. 
*Nickodemus: "Mystic Molay feat. Innov Gnawa" (A Long Engagement 2018) Nicolas DeSimone is a NY DJ & prod. who also runs Wonderwheel Recordings. He is a master at melding world cultures into danceable tracks. Innov Gnawa is a Moroccan musical group.
*Spy From Cairo: "Marseilles Noir" (Arabadub 2012) Italian electronic DJ prod. musician Moreno Visini aka The Spy From Cairo, Zeb & Organic Grooves plays oud, saz, sitar, guit. & bass as well as programming & arranging all his compositions.

*Ocote Soul Sounds: "Agua Santa" (Taurus 2011) OSS was founded by NY multi-inst. comp. prod. Martin Perna (Antibalas, Dap Kings) in 2001. Adrian Quesada joined him in 2004. This album was co-prod. by Eric Hilton (Thievery Corporation.)
*Ondatropica: "Cumbia Especial" (Ondatropica 2012) Project of Brit. multi-inst. prod. comp. Will Holland aka Quantic & Colombian comp. musician Mario Galeano bringing classic & modern styles of Colombian music together.
*Brownout: "Laredo 77" (Homenaje 2007) AQuesada & members of Grupo Fantasma formed Brownout to produce their own brand of Latin funk and pay homage to classics like Parliament & Black Sabbath.

*Bryan Ferry: "This Is Tomorrow" (In Your Mind 1977) Bryan Ferry, lead sing/songwr. of Roxy Music, solo career began in 1973.
*The English Beat: "End Of The Party" (Special Beat Service 1982) The English Beat formed in England in 1978 led by guit/vox Dave Wakeling. Originally The Beat they had to alter their name to The English Beat in the US.
*Roxy Music: "The Main Thing" (Avalon 1982) English rock band feat. Bryan Ferry (vox, keys, songwr) Graham Simpson bass, Phil Manzanera guit. Andy Mackay sax/oboe, Paul Thompson drums & Brian Eno synth.

*Tin Pan: "Flowers" (Tin Pan ) Originally Tin Pan Alley the band reformed in 2000 as Tin Pan with Haruomi Hosono bass, Shigeru Suzuki guit., & Tatsuo Hayashi drums. They were later joined by sing/
songwr. Akiko Yano.
*Aja West & Cheeba: "The Arrival" (Flash & Snowball 2005) Musician brothers Aja West & Cheeba, Paul Cheever teamed up to pay tribute to their childhood pets Flash & Snowball.
*Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight" (Expansions 2021) BRSB is a funky steel band from Hamburg Germany led by multi-inst. Bjorn Wagner who leads The Mocambo Allstars.
*Beastie Boys: "Shambala" (The In Sound From Way Out 1996) Collected inst. from previous releases by Beastie Boys Adam Yauch bass, Mike D drums & Adam Horovitz elec. guit.

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